skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His username is "douche".
Coworking space and Community
Pulling a chunk off a freelist and maintaining that free list is most definitely not free.
Hence my description of the move as pragmatic.

The thing you leave out is that inflicting the inconvenience on the users would have increased the chances of the users understanding what Uber had been doing.
The dominant company might not have agreed to decent terms. After all, they own the market so they can starve a startup out. Though you are right, you'd think they would want to sell an improved syringe at huge margins.
Ds talk a better game, but they rarely walk that talk. Take just your first example. W's first year in office, he wanted to standardize "civil unions" that would have entailed all the same rights as "traditional marriages". Of course, lots of "conservatives" were against that, so W reached across the aisle. Crickets. Ds decided they wanted to preserve that issue's political value, so it was more than a decade before gay and lesbian couples in conservative states had access to these rights.
Super impressive!

I played a good chunk of the demo level and only noticed a few glitches (e.g. bear getting stuck in the wall, some non-optimal camera movement - but maybe that matches the original?).

One error that I hit a good way through the level (in the room with the disconnected stairs and pool in the middle) is a JS stack overflow:

exceeded,RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:113674)
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:118632)
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:118632)
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:118632)
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:118632)
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:118632)
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:118632)
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:118632)
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:118632)
at Bi (http://xproger.info/projects/OpenLara/OpenLara.js:5:118632)
Similar things are happening in germany. Most people I talk to feel like the 2 major parties have lost their grit, their profile, and they have become mostly the same. However, in germany, this just gives new parties chances to rise. I think that's a sign of a healthy democray - if the old parties stop representing the people, voters will replace them.
This is a somewhat relevant read - https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-slow-decay-of-americas...

Basically discussed shift from discussion in politics about democracy to economics.
The main product I work on is written in C++, so I spend most of my day looking at\writing C++ and also learning as much C++ as I can. I do use other languages for some minor tasks (python and c# for some automated test stuff and devopsish kind of work), but i dont use those languages as much as C++ nor do I invest as much effort into learning the ins and outs of those languages. So I consider myself a C++ programmer because its what I put effort into
After reading the entire article everyone but one person declined comment. That person remained unnamed.
It's a 20 question scale so on it's own it means nothing. But yes when combined with a lot of other evidence it vaguely hints to contractor.
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Thanks for the in-depth reply!

> That is of course, if they'll have me!

Go ahead and apply. You don't have to actually purchase the company, just because you applied. We already got accepted and can now go ahead, if we want to, at any point. Also, I don't think they are too picky. We got accepted within 2 business days.

> I have this same view for the LLC. The only issue I have so far, is dealing with long distance calls. Some vendors are happy to talk on Skype which is great. But the majority always want you to call them.

Yeah makes sense since most of your customers are US based. Good point, didn't think about that.

My first concerns were more towards dealing with lawyers, accountants and potential lawsuits as well as taxes in the US. Lawsuits are way more common their and taxes are quite complex due to federal/state/city laws, compared to the kindergarden-level flat tax in the UK... But yeah, I guess that's why people have accountants.

> My mindset is, if something happens. Just deal with it and move on. No point worrying about it.

That sounds quite british :) Good luck then! Do you have a blog already, so I can subscribe or something, to see the post once you release it?
Awesome. Do you actually have to sell telegram services?
> He was a malignant narcissist as that term is defined[ * ]

From that page on Wikipedia:

"as a hypothetical syndrome, it would have..."

And a history full of anonymous edits, and people banned for abusing single purpose accounts.

You and your friends are not psychiatrists, however much you play one on the Internet, citing pages on Wikipedia that refer to this that do not exist by their own admission, and which I would be wholly unsurprised to learn if it's was shown that you had a notable role in its creation and/or content.
I'm not sure I follow you, but std::list implementation stores object data inside node, so it's only a single allocation per node, as it should be.
Sad but understandable. I certainly recognise the divergance he mentions between the goal of it being a high-scale web computing platform, versus the ZFS storage server that many people (myself included) actually use it for. I suspect most people using an Illumos distro to do the former are running Joyent's SmartOS instead, and this leaves the OmniTI folks in a difficult position - how much time and resource ought they devote to (for example) integrating Joyent's work on running Linux containers, and to what end?
You got it backwards. The Java snippet will print "Lassie". In Java, object names are references to objects, and passing them to functions copies the references, so of course modifying the formal parameter (d from replaceDogWithToby()) doesn't modify the actual parameter (d from main()).
As someone who has had to deal with Assembly in the 80s for development projects, Java sounds and works great!

I guess it depends on your experience, attitude and point of view.
Multiple other comments in here about this particular niche that the subject of the story went into (medical supplies), but what came to mind to me was a similar story about how it's a similar situation with the golf ball market [1] and from many other stories with eyeglasses (Luxottica artificially dominates the market).

These are both cases where it's not so much anti-merger/monopoly law that's the culprit, but the general structure of the legal system that favors those with the larger pockets and forces out upstart manufacturers.

1 - http://www.golfdigest.com/story/ball-wars-costco-files-lawsu...
Looking for something similar for .pdf academic papers in my field but nothing really useful to automatise the extraction process exists, so the best path is still to extract data manually, homogenise data in a standard protocol, fed ML algos. Once a data protocol becomes a widespread standard and maybe a ISO or similar, there is a chance automated extraction will work at the finest level, as necessary for complex information.
You think that Uber is a service that people need? This sounds like exactly the kind of company that should be held to a high standard.
Indeed, it makes sense to be interested in nutrition. What's funny is that most people commenting here on HN are out of their depths and talk about nutrition, supplements, bizarre shakes, fad diets, keto, calorie restriction or whatnot with the same pseudoscientific beliefs as other non-HN people discuss astrology ("but it really works!"). They "don't know that they don't know" and believe the most bizarre things. That's very relevant to the article and also to the OP's comment at the top of this subthread :)

PS: lest I sound too arrogant, nutrition is not my particular blind spot (I'm aware I don't know much about it), but I'm sure I have other blind spots I'm not aware of!
> I don't think you can support a ridesharing company that by design treats employees as contractors and also be socially conscious

You state that like it's a proven fact, when it's anything but. I personally think it's farcical to treat Uber drivers as employees. They have no set schedule, location, or expectations. They're constantly making ad-hoc decisions on which rides to accept.

The closest analogue is traditional taxi drivers, who also aren't employees.
>Do people seriously only use a single language these days!?

Yes. In what bizarro world would one assume it's not so? By thinking that all development in the world resembles the company/work they do?

Tons of programmers only write C# or Java on Windows, and don't touch any shell scripting at all.

Tons of front-end developers only write Javascript.

Tons of statistics people only use R or 1-2 other statistics packages.

Tons of systems, drivers, embedded and OS people only C or C++.

Tons of game devs only write C++.

Tons of native mobile devs only write Swift, Objective-C or Java.

Some of them do occasional need to write some script to get something done, but it's hardly like the juggle between multiple languages.

And of course larger companies have specialized programmers for different domains, not some guy doing C++ AND admin stuff in shell AND some front-end JS etc.
Type hints can catch most of these mistakes.
We'll need Signal to beep after every sentence to indicate that it was signed with the supposed person's key.
One needn't always trot out an extreme to try to discredit a point. I've watched my home county wither and die over the last 20 years as increasingly they have been undercut by goods produced under conditions that would be illegal in this country. If you want to regulate industries to make them incredibly safe, you have to penalize other countries that are willing to cut those corners, or all you have done is extinguish your industries.
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"

I couldn't resist.
I'm usually in favor of replacing "flashy" titles, but this is a good one. The analogy fits.
Atlassian has the same pricing structure all users have to pay for all installed plugins.

If gitlab could figure out a way to be more granular without customers having to go through hoops of talking to sales team, gitlab would probably benefit greatly by converting more sale opportunities.

I can see many teams, rather than grabbing a hand-full of EE licenses would just stick with CE or maybe even just slap/integrate something on top to get what they want.
There are solutions for this: flowtype for js or mypy for python (preferably with python3.5+).
Does anyone else think that nearly all huge companies exist due to monopolies or near-monopolies? MS has monopoly on desktops. Apple on cell phones and tablets. Facebook on social networking. Google on search. I think any market without at least 3-4 strong competitors will devolve into one dominant player who can milk more from the customer base.
I got personal access to the Windows source along with many others via the MS MVP program.

And it's unlikely that even if MS was secretive that the USG cannot get multiple people working at MS with access.
> That's the thing though, that is exactly what a late stage "free market" looks like.

How would you know? We haven't had anything approaching a free market since the early 20th century, even if we ignore government-granted monopolies via restricted land grants and patents.
Hello HN, Eventn founder here. I have been working on the platform for a little over a year and pleased to announce a public beta. Feedback, thoughts, comments very welcome. Ben.
The ad agency couldn't afford different developers for the various systems?
Vague moralistic teachings combined with dietary restrictions are hallmarks of religions across time and space.
Cloudron, sandstorm, yunohost are the usual suspects.
I was thinking this created great plausible deniability for the NSA.
Legally, I don't think so. But we did build a little Raspberry Pi based machine with a telegraph key. It needs some more work, but there are people who are legitimately wanting to buy the service.
Thanks for the note, I will get that fixed so it renders better on mobile.
"Hmm, 90% of this anonymous guy rides start/end at this residential address which the public property deed says it's registered to Mr. John Smith, I wonder who this anonymous guy could be."
The cell carrier oligopoly companies are cheap, and would rather use their scarce and immensely valuable resources (bandwidth) to provide new services and open new revenue streams, not boost the quality of existing services which pretty much everyone already pays for.
Noticed this as well...
It's a thing, at least in the US. Perhaps try a few countries with a VPN.
What you're describing is a fair market, not a free one.
Why would most users care that Uber was slightly evading some privacy rules to prevent drivers from executing fraudulent rides?
The same bundling dynamics can play out between manufacturer and vendor as play out between vendor and hospital.
Plus, many packages dynamically add members, stomp named parameters by wrapping stuff with kwargs, etc.
Yeah, this. And also I didn't say it would always be the case, just that it's the case now. (And I'm only even advancing that as a hypothesis.)
Rural America is primarily responsible for electing Trump.

Let them rot.
Heh, well go back to 1978-1982 and tell my English teachers that. I got dinged enough times on improper use of "them/they" that I actually learned the lesson and it still catches my eye like a flashing red light whenever I see the singular usage.
True, but very popular packages are usually battle tested and type errors are very rare in practice in those packages. Most bugs I've seen are not because of the lack of a static type system.
Your heuristic sounds interesting. Can you say a little more about which entities and how to determine their relationship? Thanks.
> only shows me anti-Trump pieces (along with ads and other spam), some of which are astoundingly blatant in their bias.

That's how radicalization essentially happens. In this case it's self radicalization + Facebook/Google AI bias. Nobody is taking them and placing them in Madrasa with a cleric preaching terrorism and such but it ends up with a similar setup at its core.

I've seen what I considered rational, educated people, including college professors go off the deep end with anti-Trump conspiracies, calling for assassinations, the Russian puppet narrative and so on. And from their point of view it kind of makes sense, their news feeds and circle of friends is telling them those things every day.

People wonder how does a young end up believing blowing themselves up will lead to virgins in heaven and it seems crazy, but this is not too far from it as well. It's essentially the same process.
Or specifically to his example,

from typing import Dict
Foo = Dict[int:str]
def __init__(self, name:str, balance=0.0):
"""Construct a Klass."""
self.myfoos = {} # type: Foo

I _think_ that's right... close anyway
At least to me it looks like making the market more "free" by means of deregulation would only exacerbate the problems mentioned above.
OmniOS currently does support lxzones

https://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/LXZones
We have evidence that the NSA has no idea from where or through whom it's leaking.

The general consensus seems to be that Russia was the source of the leaks. The US government knows this, and everyone involved knows who is leaking what, and why. If so, then this is a political move. Is there evidence to contradict this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/us/shadow-brokers-leak-ra...
> Honestly, my programs tend to be simple enough that logic errors are reasonably rare

That says more about the particular programs you write than about the language, frankly. Writing trivial bug-free programs is easy in any language. The trick is writing complex bug-free programs.

> println debugging

This is something you should only need to do if you have a wretched debugger of if you're working on a bug where the presence of the debugger alters its behavior.
100kW is the likely cruise power for that aircraft at 300kmph. It's likely many times that for VTOL
STL maps are pretty slow and can be beat without too much effort.
Hack the Planet!
Have you ever read HN on a mobile device?
He can't false equivalency is a common tactic used by conservatives to gaslight non-conservatives. You're not crazy, they just lie and don't feel bad about it.
That is compiler and OS specific behavior.
USA Today has the highest circulation in traditional newspapers. Not really sure why that is, but my guess would be that they have some enduring relationships with hotel/motel chains. It's definitely a brand that resonates.

Source: https://www.infoplease.com/arts-entertainment/newspapers-and...
For print magazines like The Atlantic, why not subscribe?
Very cool! I've been working on getting the short wave radio working on my boat and one of the stations I've been excited to tune has been radio Slovak, neat to see their headquarters here. reminds me somewhat of this building near IAD airport - http://bit.ly/2oBIzpK
They probably don't.

Look at my first comment. I said "It'd be nice". It wasn't a comment about what would be good for Apple or bad for Uber or anything like that, it was just a remark about how I see it.
Amazon is a infested with scam storefronts. And Amazon is really compelled to do anything about it because they have no competition.

Airlines have huge market barriers: getting and maintaining huge, expensive, gas guzzling aircraft. That is not a regulation barrier.

Both telecomm and health care are intwined monopsonies backing the play of regional monopolies (cartels) backing federal congresspeople.

I just don't buy any of your comment as fact at all.
Is there a possibility of a class action lawsuit against Apple for this? They knowingly let Uber track customers after the app was removed. Isn't any user who deleted the app during that time allowed damages?
Aside from 2008-9ish where they had around 50% and Blackberry was king, Apple has had a very small share of the mobile phone market. There is a myriad of competitors. The tablet share is up there but not to facebook or ms windows levels of having almost no competition.
Thanks for these but alas - the formatting!
But can you buy (even a stolen) iPhone for USD 5?
Which C library from which C compiler?
Where are the trust-busting candidates?
So monkey patching is bad you're saying? I agree that it's possible what you're saying about kwargs, but after about 6 years of python I've never encountered that in any of the code that I've worked on.
How can I see a friend's specific comment on a popular post?
Amen. Matt Stoller is basically the playbook and on how the democrats can regain the common man. My family are multi-generational democrats and it would literally blow the mind of my lost past immigrant grandfather if knew that his party's nominee was taking bigly money from Deutsche Bank and Goldman and soliciting donations from commodities oligarchs from lawless countries. And on top of that, not seemingly giving a sh1t that median real wages had not budge in 15 years.
They have many of the same properties as being intrusive, e.g. one can write a list type that can store any type and store it directly inline next to the next/previous pointers, not needing an allocation like the common C strategy of using void*.
While it's generally true, I'm not sure that's really an excuse for deceptive behavior.
When I get bored I'll give into recruiter spam sometimes and take them up on a phone call. I'd purposely pronounce Ruby as Rubby, and similar words. My favorite was Mysqueel.
Whitehouse Background Briefing on Buy American, Hire American Executive Order
When large corporations are comfortable in their revenue side (approaching monopoly) they obsess over risk. Every contract poses a risk, including litigation risk. That's probably why. GE is obsessed with outsourcing right now, they even outsourced the mail room. A side effect is this promotes inequality as you can no longer get a job in the mailroom and work your way up to CEO. See the hbr ideacast on this
How is it possible that a 6 step procedure requiring substituting two id's is required to find a reply to a comment you that has been made?
> TCS, Infosys, Cognizant

they're also run and managed by real assholes. complete entitlement complex - definitely a sign of corruption / abuse.
I agree. Of course, most of the reticence to do anything new in medical care comes from extremely overwrought CYA policies. It's very hard to argue that these policies aren't the result of legislation particular to medicine, whether it's legally necessary (but patient-unfriendly) bureaucratization of medical care or insurance red tape brought on by legally enforced uniformity of insurance concerns.
You still have a left over population. Are you going to destroy whole species? You would need to cull all of the domesticated animals to remove their impact. Otherwise you don't solve the problem or have ferrel chickens and cows roaming about causing havoc on the environment.
I mean you have telephony via IP, and I'm sure there's an RFC to telegraphy via IP. So it's not wrong to say you're providing telegraphy. You're just choosing a very ... deep and expensive tech stack to do so.
This is a tweet that links to a tweet that links to an article. As per HN Guidelines, "please submit the original source".[1]

The original source (the NY Times article) has already been submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why are you asking that question?
They usually sell it for 1.5€ or so in Steam! At first I was afraid of advancing because I remembered the wolves x)
Uber was tracking people after they left their rides, and it's unsure if they ever stopped.

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/01/503...
Tim Cook doesn't give a flying fig what VCs think.
what i'm saying is that people doing misinformed reporting causes people to not trust the news at all. and let's cynical people (trump) label all journalism as fake news
I really need to give Reagent+React native another shot. Last I tried there where still some apparently minor, but annoying issues.

That said, even as a clojurescript fan, I wouldn't call this a solution, more like a practical workaround for a deeply flawed dev experience.
This is exactly the same argument people make in favor of socialism..
Side topic: How can the free market/enterprise work properly if there are backdoors and zero days all over the place?
Ok, so I got locked out of my account last night for 72 hours. I have no idea why. I had to upload an image of myself for their team to verify. I wasn't doing anything odd whatsoever. Still waiting for my account to be reactivated.
Android studio is based on Intellij by Jetbrains, the creator of Kotlin.
I would count on it.