skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Limiting taxis is an inefficient way to control congestion. Taxis efficiently utilise roads. (App-hailed cars more so, since the time spent searching for a hail is traded for more time transporting people.) Contrast that with streetside-parked cars. If New York City cared about congestion, we'd approve congestion charging. Medallions are a racket.
It's specifically because high level language semantics often mask the underlying implementation that knowing that implementation is necessary for truly understanding what's happening. The situation you describe is call by reference, where the value passed on the stack or in a register is a reference to a customer object. You could pass a customer object by value (in languages that allow it, such as C++) by copying the structure verbatim onto the stack and addressing it there.
Business model analysis
If they sell your receipt data to Uber, who else might they sell it to? An insurance company? A hedge fund? Your bank?
> How are you better?

It's a valid question to ask but I don't think anyone has to think that through and really have a good answer before creating!
OpenSPARC suffers from the same problem as most of the other alternate chips: I cannot buy a motherboard for a PC case and start going. Dev boards are cool but $1,000 motherboards[1] is not going to fly. When these alternate architectures get to the point I can buy a motherboard at a $500 or below price, I'll believe they are golden.

I really want it to succeed, but PowerPC and POWER have left their scars.

1) Talos™ Mainboard for $3,700 for a POWER 8
A one-liner in Awk is almost certainly also a one-liner in Perl.
Namespaces are a honking great idea, let's do more of those!

Alternatively there's always the option of using something like sh[0] and just shelling out to the existing utilities, if you don't mind the portability loss.

[0] https://amoffat.github.io/sh/
Announcing Azure Time Series Insights
About 20 years ago, I took after my father-in-law in addressing correspondence to unknown persons with (literally) TWIMC:
True, but blackbox pentesting is pretty common. If a company is informed of a flaw in their XYZ service with details of how the flaw operates, it would probably be enough.
All audophiles eventually will reach the stage where my hearing aid is better than yours :)
To offer a counterpoint though, translations are important for the older generations. I notice that, compared to many other European countries, we have far fewer computer/technology users that are older, say 60+. Latvians in that age group typically know no English whatsoever, so their only chance of using software is if it has a reasonable translation. Even an iPad isn't that easy to use if you don't understand a word!
I certainly think these records are quite dubious, even for innocent reasons.

But FWIW: when I started intermittent fasting I didn't even eat much on my non-fast days. It was part of an OCD phase on life tracking so I fetishistically measured and recorded everything I ate or drank[+]. I was working from home so wouldn't eat outside the house.

And even I didn't believe my myfitnesspal records. Except that since I was only eating what was in the house it was pretty clear that I really had only eaten one egg: there were the other 11 in the box.

But wow, without the OCD attitude I don't think it's possible.

[+] And what a waste of effort. A lot of work, little insight. It wasn't just food (and I changed my diet to things I could more tightly control in terms of macros) but weight and sleep and what I bought and how much I spent...a lot of work for very very little insight.
The article doesn't mention type annotations described in PEP484 and added to CPython since Python 3.5.

It is possible to add annotations to your code like

class Foo:
x: int
# ...

and then run type checks using `mypy`, so that for the annotated code probability of the "passes the checks => won't crash the runtime" case is much larger.
While you're right that a lot of FinTech applications do use fingerprinting, it is absolutely against the rules. It's rather annoying from a mobile security perspective but given the rampant abuse of persistent device identifiers on Android, I understand and appreciate Apple's stance here.
It's been this way literally forever.
The confusion comes from the difference between references in Python and C++. In Python you can reassign a reference to a different object any time you want. In C++ you can't, and any attempt to do so modifies the referenced object instead. That fundamental difference makes it hard to understand the mechanics of Python using the terminology of C++.
Picture Poems, Socks on a wire
You know all those memory sloshing around does create a different sound stage, rippling contextual frequencies affecting DACs and such?
"I started a manufacturing company in Little Elm, about 35 miles north of Dallas, to produce the first-ever automatically retracting syringe to eliminate the risk of nurses contracting HIV through accidental needle sticks. The syringe received rave reviews from nurses, hospital executives and public health officials, a major grant from the National Institutes of Health and robust private investment. But when my partners and I tried to sell it to hospitals, we were told time and time again that even though it was a better product — a lifesaving product — they weren’t able to purchase it. The primary supplier of syringes, which controlled 80 percent of the market, structured an arrangement with a vast network of hospitals that essentially closed our industry to new firms for good."

A market in which buyers are not free to choose better products is not a free market.

A market in which new entrants cannot compete fairly against established players is not a free market.

A market in which innovators have to get permission and pay established players for "access" (think ISPs) is not a free market.

And yes, a market in which economic and political power is concentrated in large corporations geographically clustered in a handful of giant metropolitan areas... is also not a free market.

Those corporations have both strong incentives and the means to change the rules of competition to their advantage.
Highly relevant: Matt Stoller in The Atlantic:

"How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-dem...
Hahaha, welcome to the future ...
>anonymized

It would be much bigger news if they were selling data that could be used against the consumers on an individual basis.
Might be an interesting twist on the somewhat common fraud tactic on submitting bogus invoices via email. Follow up the email with a convincing urgent voice mail from the CEO. "Jim, these guys are personal friends of board member XYZ, can we get them paid ASAP?"
For the record, the official Netflix client for PS2 (only legitimately released in some South American countries) was discontinued and is unsupported. I'm guessing they moved exclusively to H.264 at some point (no idea what codec they served prior to that point, but to be playable on the PS2 it would have either had to be MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 ASP/Xvid)
TriFusion: Streamlining phylogenomic data gathering processing and visualization
Official documentation is the one users should checkout first and by default., Anyways i will add it.

Thank you.
They actually override all DNS lookups if I remember rightly. It's not my connection, so I can't change that fact - I just think it's a naughty thing to do.

But it's a bit off topic!
Or make it profitable to build shit in this country again. If you taxed the hell out of manufactured imports, and loosened up the regulations that are choking US businesses to death, you'd have less meth-and-fentanyl scourged abandoned mill towns.
> For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app from Apple’s engineers. The reason? So Apple would not find out that Uber had secretly been tracking iPhones even after its app had been deleted from the devices, violating Apple’s privacy guidelines.

How could they track iPhones after the app was deleted?
In a classic call-by-reference, changes you make to the passed parameter are seen by the caller when the function returns. That doesn't happen consistently with Python.
Sure, but most python code isn't annotated, right?

So this might be helpful for code you wrote, but not anywhere it interfaces with other peoples' code (which, in my opinion, is probably the most important place to check for type errors).
It's an issue of comprehensibility, not any current performance metric.
Sheryl Sandberg Finds Comfort for Herself and Offers It to Others
From their own site: "Unroll.Me is a free service", emphasis added.

If it's free for you, you're the product.
Sounds like a plan -- for you -- a protected buying experience if you have a back-up there or contacts. For the typical shopper, that is not the case. In my case, I need to go through intermediaries i.e. Amazon, a big-box store where my money is protected and there is some quality assurance. That is what the price difference pays for between what you would pay directly buying in China and what I would pay for the same item through Amazon.com. If I get free shipping with Amazon, then that is an added value -- bonus.

As I have an associate who ships internationally thru an online store portal, I am aware of how a typical $1 - $2 per order overage on shipping costs can add up in bottom-line revenues year-over-year. Even so since I do not buy enough to justify paying for the Amazon free shipping service, their prices are generally a good buy.

An exception everywhere now in my experience is clothing made in China by Chinese designers that has yet to reach the quality standards I will pay full price for in women's apparel. The problem I have read in Comments and have experienced is the difference in size between American and Chinese or Asian women.

That's where for me Ross for Less, Marshal's etc. come into the picture. Sometimes I buy quality through trusted online sellers (J.W. Crew, Land's End, Eddie Bauer, L.L. Bean, etc.). But even then the quality of workmanship and fabric can be wildly varied despite the price of the item.

The global economy does have its challenges. The current state of the consumer economy has forced me, therefore, to buy less, and to make what I have last longer through care and cautious use, as well as periodic maintenance where appropriate.
processors and architectures have nothing to do with this. This is a matter of semantics. The prolem stems from different communities appropriating the same english word to mean subtly different things, hence my clarification "in C++ lingo ..."
Halliburton (34.0.0.0) and Ford (19.0.0.0) too.
What is a "C++ programmer?"

On any given day, I poop you not, I'm writing either c#, java, c++ or any number of scrpting languages (perl, bash, python, JavaScript).

Do people seriously only use a single language these days!?
Ask HN: Is it worth to learn Haskell?
Hi HN,

I'm seeing the statement like "Haskell is best for functional programming" etc on the internet, I'm wondering whether its really a worth in learning this language?
I'm confused as you why you find this remarkable. Slice is up front about this also (click on intelligence): https://www.slice.com/about.
Have you requested a variance to the sqft requirements? How much would it cost to add a kitchen?
It see your dilemma, paying $2k+ per month for something only 6 people will use doesn't make sense.

We looked at increasing the granularity of the licensed userbase (have some CE users, some EES users, and some EEP users on the same installation). This is something established players like Salesforce and Zendesk don't do, probably for a good reason. We now have to make this granularity for GitLab.com (which is running GitLab EE). But we're very afraid of selling this since it will likely greatly complicate the sales process.

We also looked at increasing the granularity of the licenses. You used to be able to pay per feature instead of having to make a bigger jump. This didn't work since it increased the complexity too much.

For larger customers we can spend time to figure out what the value is and discount if that is appropriate. Your team is on the smaller side but feel free to reach out to sales@gitlab.com to see what we can do (please consider including a link to this comment).

Obviously a great thing would be to have the other users in the company also benefit from Enterprise Edition features so the value is higher than the cost. But your comment indicates that chance is low.

I'm sorry that I don't have a solution.
I suspect that one of the reasons people have trouble discriminating between these synthetic voices and the real thing is that they have become accustomed to hearing compression artifacts on phone calls, which sound very similar to the stitching artifacts in synthesized voices. For someone like me who grew up talking on analog phones, the synthetic voice sounds pretty obviously synthetic.
> Once we create an algorithm for something it's no longer AI, it's just an algorithm.

Yes. If we create an algorithm, what intelligence is involved: real or artificial?

Even using neural networks we're a long way from not having to give a high-level scaffold for an algorithm we've already decided upon. Present day neural networks are essentially a glorified spreadsheet "goal seek" function.

An apparently smart image recognition "AI" has really only distilled the intelligence of the humans that classified the training data, and generalized it to other images in a manner devoid of real intelligence, which is why image recognizers can report that specially-prepared TV static is 99% certain to be a peacock.
Can you share a few Guardian articles that are not opinion pieces or a journalist's personal column but still has "too much rhetoric in what should be unbiased news"?
Loads of energy - as much as two Cornish pasties a day! [1]

More seriously, i don't actually know. I think of tin as being quite cheap. Note that it's a catalyst in this reaction, so you don't need a giant supply of it.

[1] http://www.cornishpastyassociation.co.uk/about-the-pasty/his...
> Besides, erlang definitely gives you new perspective in building large scale system; supervision tree (let it crash), the actor concept, message passing, preemptive vm, built-in distributed erlang nodes, the repl, hot code swapping - any much more

Can't emphasize this enough. Programming in Erlang will enable you to build novel mental models, useful beyond Erlang/Elixir.

Moreover, Erlang is a small language, and once you get past the unusual syntax, pretty easy to learn.

I work on a large scale production system in Erlang on a day to day basis; feel free to email me if I can be helpful in any way.
Even in this case, the business is operating on an economic basis. The state has just adjusted the costs to demand a different economic outcome.
I switched to fish a bit more than a year ago. I used to have a script with shorthands of frequently used long commands because I just couldn't get to them easily enough with bash's ctrl+r.

Now with fish, I don't need that anymore. Pressing up a few times always gets what I need and I don't need to come up with names for shorthands. (If I really want to name it, I can always add a # "tag" at the end. A trick I picked up from one of the post here (I can't remember which one).)

Although sometimes I do wish there was a keyword search feature treating space as a separator for what I've already typed. One frequent case is when I'm looking for `rsync --bunch --of --options user@server:path other_path`. I remember `rsync` and I remember `user@server` (or one of the two paths) but not the rest (and I also ssh, sftp, scp, etc to the same place a lot).
It's at least easy to find out what's Google's policies are, in layman's terms: https://privacy.google.com/how-ads-work.html I don't know how well they link to this sort of thing during sign up for services.
Not the first time this story is on HN. I always wondered - why focus on selling to American hospitals which could not care less?

If the problem is universal, pitch to elite European hospitals, especially Swiss. They cater for rich patients from all around the world and if it's a good idea they'll definitely be interested. Later on, when it catches, American hospitals will come to you too.

Or maybe you will find that European hospitals has already figured this out in some way. Tough story, then.
Your optimism is refreshing. The only way Uber makes sense is if they get a monopoly. Uber has been trying to make sure no other company can be profitable by subsidizing rides to unsustainably low prices, in the hope they are the last company standing.
Monopoly says you buy 100% of your products from us at 50% discount or 99% of your products from us at full price. Now someone is offering a better product but just that one product, so even if it was free your prices go up. See Intel discounts for avoiding AMD, or Microsoft discounts for avoiding Linux, or ...

What do you do?
> If it ever leaks

We have evidence that the NSA has no idea from where or through whom it's leaking. My impulse is to say "you get so many years to use an exploit, maybe more with higher-up approval, and then you must disclose it." Unfortunately, with virtually zero independent oversight of these agencies, I have no faith such rules would be followed.
Her two examples, the medical and agriculture sectors, are two of the most regulated industries around.

A lot of these "monopolies" result because of regulation pushed by combination of well-meaning and self interested people and corporations (see bootleggers and baptists).

Her examples suggest it'd be better to focus on the marriage between corporations and government, which allows companies to focus their energy on getting gov to hassle their competitors vs improving their own product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
You haven't been a crazy cookoo conspiracy theorists since the Snowden dropped his info. Unless you've got conspiracies on other topics, then maybe.

I think it's fairly common for even someone with a cursory knowledge of security to know that backdoors are a bad idea.

The triple letters don't get their power from poor products. Those are going to be around no matter what. I'd rather this just drive a push toward more open source products throughout the network stack. The triple letters get their power, not from poor products, but because of existing oversight of the agencies has been lax in the name of fightin' terror.

When it is legal for gobs of data to be vacuumed up without any court order then they will have power, no matter how much poor software is in the wild.
Why do you jump between multiple languages all the time?
Thanks Apple, for not caving to public pressure.
> Hollywood accounting makes sure no profits are made within the company you have a contract with.

A phrase I've heard to explain this is "Every time a building burns down in Tunisia, it gets charged against Star Wars"

The guy who played Darth Vader in the original trilogy has never received any royalties, because those films never made a profit.
It's possible to pass a reference by reference.
F*ck the taxis!

Immigrants are NOT angels and are more likely to engage in illegal activity.
This superstition is the reason I only buy white lighters :) other colors seem to disappear when someone borrows one and forgets to return it. But no one forgets to return the white lighter, because they think it's unlucky! Their bad luck is my good luck.
Uber employees spray-painted a wall with the word ‘Undelete’
The admonishment is deserved; High capital requirements don't necessarily mean high burn rates, they mean that you'd better be damn sure that you have a viable business model to make returns on all that capital. The "unlimited exposure to high expenses" isn't some nit, it's a fatal flaw in their strategy.
For those (like me) who have never heard of OmniOS, it's an extension of Illumos (which is a fork of Open Solaris):

https://omnios.omniti.com
The nuclear waste problem has already been solved, at this point it's a political issue. See http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter11.html
It's quite simple - charge a much higher price than is reasonable per syringe, then offer a significant "discount" (down to reasonable price) to hospitals willing to buy from only you for the next five years.
I'm on mobile so not much time to type, but I do have a few JS projects. Some of them novel. I made a software renderer in JS that rasterizes triangles and takes JS shaders, emulating a programmable pipeline.

I hope that I would at least stand out from most JS developers with stuff like this. I don't really have an interest in making a Twitter clone with a Bootstrap UI. I'm hoping someone takes a chance at my skills with my not so typical JS projects.
What you read on the public site is the USP for the users that install the unroll.me app. They are not the economic buyers, the ones who pay for the service. Those are the people that buy the user's aggregate data. They get in-person pitches on confidential slides, because if their USP leaked to the public, nobody would install and use the app.
> The NSA needs to exploit flaws

In the current doctrine, it apparently does.
I haven't done java in a long time so I won't try to debate the specific language level semantics with you (the same is true of pascal though it has been even longer), however assuming that your examples run and behave as you describe then what is going on in the java example is that 'Dog d' is passed as a reference to a reference, and then the value pointed to by the argument, i.e. the address of "toby," is replaced with the address of "lassie."
There is something seriously wrong with our industry. How can this even be suggested as a solution?
Sad story. Digital's best idea for monetizing Altavista was to plug their server hardware to the 0.001% of users who might be in a position to buy some.

If Google truly invented something revolutionary, it was a business model.
These are called group purchasing organizations and a lot has been written about them. Here's an article that also discusses this particular syringe: http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust-2010/dirty-...
I feel you. I started a small ISP in Montana a few years ago. We're getting into laying our own duct and fiber.

Once I get the machine running, I want to focus on providing tools and information to others looking to do the same thing.

I've been running a Slack channel called ISP School for about a year now to bring together other interested people. Email me at matt@tsi.io if anybody wants an invitation.
Aurora photographers find new night sky lights and call them Steve
Uber and Lyft are cheaper because the drivers are paid substantially less and they do not properly account for the depreciation and other costs of driving. It is much cheaper for a taxi company to maintain a fleet of vehicles, and depreciation and maintenance are much more expensive than the only thing most drivers care about, gas.
Not, OP, but I've worked for an ad-agency in a software-dev role.

Their primary code base is written in Java, monitoring scripts in Python/Ruby, and tracking pixel code in JavaScript, so I would have days in which I coded in all 3, albeit for separate use-cases.
I'm sure it's buried somewhere in the Terms of Use. Contemporary terms of use are a classic dark pattern. If one would like to setup an useful ML project, take as input Terms of Use, spit out the highlights, the buried ledes, such as user data being sold.
It's violating GPLv3.
I think your statement requires some justification. After a property has changed hands, the speculative value has gone away with the seller (who was a landholder but is no longer). The new landholder paid for the cash flow at market rates and so any significant additional cost (tax) would result in a loss. The new landholder will have to increase rents to make up the loss. This will be played out across the market.