skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After all the same headline could be written about MacDonalds stores and nobody considers them to be augering.

I don't think this is true. It's just that Uber generates more clicks right now. When the $15 minimum wage becomes a hot topic again McDonald's will be vilified by the media (again).
Springer.js –  a spring that generates realistic easing functions
Where I live Uber drivers often use it as a loss leader. They chat people up, and if they strike up a rapport they suggest customers contact them directly, cutting out the middle man. They can even undercut Uber, and still make more money than they do with Uber.

This especially makes sense for people who have a regular commute to the airport etc. I've experienced the same thing with Airbnb: first stay via the platform, and further stays booked directly. With Airbnb you miss out on the platform's protections. But with Uber, as the drivers are getting paid less and less, it seems easier to slide into direct contact.

It can be useful to have a private car driver you know and trust, without the anxiety of the wait, or of drivers calling you to ask where you're going, only to cancel the ride. (This happens to me regularly at the airport).
>>Not compared with the loads of stories of people who worked hard, improved themselves, and still don't earn anywhere near $1M/yr.

Not earn. I think the point is most people can save up that kind of money until retirement.

Most of these people would have made great sacrifices over the years.

Its not easy to control your urges to purchase and enjoy a million things a capitalistic society tempts you with especially if your peers are doing it all the time.

Basically start early, invest and keep a strong financial discipline. $1M at retirement is doable.
Weissman Score Calculators Migrate Online, but Metric Needs Some Improvements
It's Google's preferred way: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en of verification it seems.
Deploying a Phoenix 1.3 Umbrella App to Heroku
I'm not sure this is true and, even if it is, it may be completely missing the point.

A big benefit about Uber is it allows people to generate income from an asset many of them already have ie a car. What's more, they can do it in a flexible way.

I've spoken to a few Uber drivers and a common story has been that they started doing it between jobs. Some kept doing it. I'm sure others finally got jobs.

As far as Lyft goes, I just don't buy that Lyft has some moral high ground here. They're playing a desperate catch up game and playing the "good guy" card is cheap marketing.

I see a lot of their ads on TV actually. Some of them are done quite well but, for me, they can also miss the point. Like they tout the ability to tip as a plus. Lots of people hate tipping, myself included. It's a big reason why I use Uber rather than Lyft, possibly the only reason.

What's so wrong with transparency of pricing?
And has more than just not collapsed. Public education is an advancement just as important as any other I can think of. "The public school is the greatest discovery made by man." - Horace Mann. Possibly an exaggeration, but I'm not convinced the importance of public education to our society can be overstated. Everyone alive today is benefiting from a society rooted in public education.
>That means that if you live in a more impoverished neighborhood, you're stuck with whatever school you're assigned to instead of being able to shop around, and for a lot of impoverished neighborhoods, that means schools with bad teachers and administrators, and there is no way out of it. This is a huge problem in black communities, and one area where the right legislation could make a significant impact.

Fuck us for wanting to fix those impoverished schools, right?
I don't mind banner ads. I don't like the privacy-sucking invasiveness of online tracking they come with. If someone could craft a banner ad that did not have this problem, I'd whitelist their site in my ad blocker.
> they were able to calculate how rapidly sea level is rising with respect to the coastal wetland surface

Your link doesn't support your claim. It says region has a higher-than-average relative change. The sea doesn't rise locally, but the ground can sink downward locally.
Additionally- I personally find that analysing plot elements as hints of genre is very unproductive because their classification can only be subjective. That sort of thing is how we end up with sub-categories like Space Opera that are completely pointless, bagging together Star Wars, Dune and Consider Phlebas, as if they were the same kind of thing.
> attention ... the local governments ... may not want

Having lived on the west bank, south of New Orleans, if there is anything I expect from Louisiana politicians, it's a keen pursuit of their personal, short-term self-interest. If they can each make $50,000 by dumping 50B in the Gulf, they vote "yea" before their sclerotic arteries see another hypertensive heartbeat.
> The person I replied to basically said (paraphrasing) "compilers which optimize based on undefined behavior and follow the standards are written by idiots"

That's not what I said, it's not what I meant, and I don't think a reasonable person reading my statement would interpret it that way.

That you think I'm stupid simply because you didn't understand what I meant, is a common programmer trait, and I don't think it's a good one.
Not essentially, everyone registers as Delaware for tax benefits. So did we but we're situated in Toronto.

Also you could be sarcastic, hard to tell.
Indian computer scientist built an alternative programming language in Bengaluru
You're talking 1% of Australia's population. But, hey, let's assume that counts as "common." What I'm hearing is "since outcome X is commonly found happening for people, then outcome X must be attributable to some action taken by those people." I'm not sure how you are concluding this.

Cancer is common, too--much more common than becoming a millionaire. Is a cancer diagnosis attributable to someone's actions or is it just chance? Sometimes it is, sometimes it is not.
I saw them when they were new and they really did blow my mind. I was ~12 when they came out. I remember I was very excited for that future. Still, am :)
How we achieved 100% uptime on AWS
It is all anecdotal, and completely misses a couple of things.

Firstly, that the direction of causality is not established. Nor is it likely to be an arrow, but rather merely a connection that has a feedback loop.

What I mean by feedback is that poor decisions often beget other poor decisions. Consider in a completely deterministic world such as chess. A poor move often leaves you only with other poor moves to make. The later into the game where you have played poorly, the more amazing you have to be playing at the end to still have a shot. (Any other sport shows this, too. You can always win with time on the clock. But it is harder the more you are behind.)

Secondly, don't neglect that your attitude and interactions will also lead to some of the outcomes you are seeing in discussions. You may think "they mostly realize this." It could just as likely be that they dont' get fired up about it with you.
And being tall doesn't mean you'll be a great basketball player, but it makes it way fucking easier.
> Just because the chain of causation isn't clear doesn't mean A doesn't cause B.

Yes, that's true, but science isn't based on what can't be excluded, it's based on what the evidence supports. If this were not true, any claim that couldn't be disproven would ipso facto become true.

Some have said it this way -- to a pseudoscientist, things are assumed to be true until they're disproven. To a scientist, things are assumed to be false until evidence supports them (the null hypothesis).

> That doesn't mean you can't make causal inferences.

Yes, you can do that, but it's not science. In science, it's not about inference, it's about evidence.

Before publication, any sort of speculation is the norm, it's part of the creative process. But when the science gets published and the title contradicts the article, something went wrong.
The more confusing thing is what will happen when the userbase finds out Ethereum "smart contracts" aren't good for anything except online gambling which certainly will not be allowed on the TokenBrowser app. Also, I shook my head when I saw your screenshot, that is certainly not a good first impression.
Markets require liquidity so that buyers stand a reasonable chance of finding what they are seeking and sellers stand a reasonable chance of selling what they want to sell. Typically, this is achieved at least initially with market makers -- super buyers and super sellers (who can be the same entity).

Now if I think about the intersection of an IP marketplace with super-buyers and super-sellers, the obvious candidates would be businesses in the patent portfolios business. That's probably the place to begin research into existing markets and values and players.
> or even get adequate performance under other than a single limited use case.

Hmm?

From the article: " In the core HPC market, Lustre has 75 of the Top 100 systems on the Top 500 rankings, and is used on nine of the top ten systems."

That is a strong argument for it being performant. That 'single limited use case' you mention is... high performance computing.
If anything, the Indian outsourcing companies such as TCS, Wipro, Infosys violated the principles of trade, to begin with. They have abused the H-1B visa loophole for many years. Real highly skilled workers from other countries with even PhD's cannot get any H-1B visa at all.
Reading the comment thinking...I wonder if I know this guy...check username...yup :)

How goes it?
Nothing is inherently wrong with kid rock. I think the source of that quote was arguing that a lot of bandwidth is being given to a story about a luxury appliance whereas other stories are likely more deserving of that bandwidth.
I'm not talking about whether it is effective or not. If you want a maximally effective system, do away with ethical considerations altogether.
Then he is going to get rekt. As the DAO debacle demonstrated, the attack surface is utterly baroque, and governance is for shite. Buterin literally said "Turing completeness is a red herring". Smartest thing I ever heard him say.
Wells Fargo login is not case sensitive
It ignores the case of the password. Corresponding reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/66n4li/i_just_discovered_that_wells_fargo_account_login/
Mindfulness meditation helps women but not men, first study suggests
Oh please, you're propping up a strawman. You don't need to be an "ubermensch" to survive, and that's not at all what I'm saying. I'm saying you can't expect to be lazy and make bad choices and also expect to have as much as someone who works hard and makes smart choices. That was my point regarding evolutionary history and nature.

Farmers that worked hard and planned ahead did better than those who did nothing. Those that bought crop insurance or fastidiously watched the weather were in a better position to succeed than those who didn't. Similar scenarios abound for your other examples.

No matter how much you wish otherwise, nature (and our society) is set up for certain kind of animals/people to succeed - and if you wilfully choose to ignore the system that's fine, but don't be mad when it doesn't work out great for you.
Disappointing, I thought this was about making renal calculus...

(joke)
The fact that there is a global average sea level rise to compare it against does.

EDIT: I gave you an upvote for at least reading my source, thank you.
Nando's Chooses Auth0 to Centralize Identity Management
You can use service discovery tools like Consul or Etcd. Basic idea that on container/app boot, you register your app to service discovery service (you give it IP and current port), and it stores information about your all running apps.

After you can use consul Nginx integration (it will dynamically generate Nginx config on all updates, and will restart it).

Tyk mentioned here also have Consul service integration and much more.
Where did your source come from to say Dell EMC have been shutting down their Openstack offerings? All offerings were still there for Newton, Pike is just around the corner and I havn't seen any indication the same drivers won't be there for it too
It was in a rough time for Nim, around the transition from the old name, when the documentation was still being rewritten, and metaprogramming was a
magic few knew or used.

D and it's errors were just easier.

Not to say Nim isn't on my radar for new things, it just didn't quite fit at the time. (However, my first prototype was in Nim!)
I must be a crayfish....
The minute we collectively stopped stronger folks than you and me from beating us up and taking our stuff, we left the realm of "how nature works".

In the west, we're all living in rich enough countries that no one should need superhuman will or fire or tenacity simply to live a decent life. No one willing to work 40 hours a week should be denied access to the medical care system, face food or housing insecurity, etc.

The fact that that is the situation for many speaks to problems in the way we've arranged society (which is about as far from "how nature works" as possible), not some innate rightness in the world.
"Tremble in fear before us."
SpaceVim help many people move to vim. as I know arroud me.
We could provide people with the market means to provide student loans to the parents of promising children. Then the market will take care of it, without any compulsion, and far more effectively than a nondiscriminating blanket redistribution based solely on reported income levels.

I personally think that guaranteeing equality of opportunity will have more negative social effects than positive, by reducing incentive to produce resources in order to provide for one's own children, since one can instead be poor and let the state force other people to pay for their upbringing.
If you read the original article in the Information, 20% of people who sign up to drive Uber are approved to do so, and 20% of those are still driving after a year. Still bad, but very different from a 4% retention rate.

https://www.theinformation.com/how-uber-will-combat-rising-d...
Tech Debt Snowball – A Simple Strategy to Manage Technical Debt
yeah, I clearly misremembered the benchmark

It was slightly slower than nginx, but not enough to impact typical applications
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nb. Here is the link to the article:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

Here are the figures:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/n...

If you need a fulltext link that can be arranged, but it's not a bad idea to understand how DOIs work. Here is one:

doi:10.1038/nature22067

This is essentially a URI; the piece after the : is a URN, which is meant to uniquely identify a piece of published research (now expanded to include preprints and software).

To route it, you'll need a URL which your browser can resolve. Happily, if you visit

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature22067

you will return to the paper. It is meant to provide a durable identifier, so that even Elsevier journals can't reliably hide the identity of a publication. What this also means is that "unlocking" services like Elbakyan's can use it as a primary key. Suppose you paste the URN part of that DOI onto http://sci-hub.cc/ or http://sci-hub.bz/ to complete the URL. What do you suppose happens?

(This is left as an exercise for the reader, and of course I cannot and do not condone violations of copyright law. So don't read whatever might pop up, ok?)
My bank charges $40 + 2% forex spread for a wire transfer to Thailand. With Bitcoin I actually come out at a small profit. Bitcoin is way better at consumer level international transfers than banks.
This is clearly a contender for the Ig Nobel!
I added `cli` and `compose` repositories also now. Not sure which other ones should be added.
No, the fans are quite strong and have an effect up to a couple meters away. I think it is more like a cat sleeping on the hood of a car. The waste heat needs to go somewhere, might as well put it in my clothes.
>Global per capita GDP is roughly 10 thousand dollars per year.

Global per capita GDP counts non-earners such as children and the sick. That can't directly be compared to median income because median income doesn't account for non-earners.

>The median income in the US is 51 thousand dollars

And that is the median household income. Which is not the same as per earner wage. For instance a household with two earners would have household income of 30,000 rather than 15,000.

The BBC's analysis (linked to in my post) computes it for earners and therefore is comparable. This is also why it is higher (18,000 USD rather than 10,000 USD). I gave a range for 1-2 earners per household.

>and even if you made minimum wage (15k yearly) you'd see a 50% drop in income in a completely equitable system

Are you confusing median and mean here?
The gap between a typical musician and a superstar is much larger than the gap between a programmer and tech company founder with a successful buyout.

It is entirely possible to be a professional musician and not make ends meet, it is entirely easy to be a shitty programmer and comfortably support a family with 3 kids.

Some fields just pay better. Doctors, Lawyers, Construction Managers, Programmers... will be better risks Singers, Painters, Professional Bowlers...
I like the Recurse center codewords publication https://codewords.recurse.com/
'stayin alive, stayin alive'? They've done surprisingly well transitioning to mobile & promoted their android guy to CEO, but haven't been able to diversify revenue away from ads. And people are starting to hate ads.
Business people can organize for the sake of their shared interests but workers doing it is propagandistic? We don't support their pursuit of their interests but instead indulge generations of false equivalencies and anti-union rhetoric to make people feel they are giving up something by asking for things together. The middle ground you claim to speak for is just people without lots of money being shamed out of the pursuit of their individual betterment given their economic position.
> I usually get argument (often in high peach almost screaming voice) :"You are not a lawyers, you do not know how to read a law clause".

And neither are you (the recruiter) and this bothers me.

If your working with a recruiter who isn't working for the company, your making extra work for them. But at the end of the day YOU are their ticket to a paycheck. Don't like the contract, simply say "this changes or I walk", they will work their butt off to be accommodating.

My favorite thing to say to recruiters when it is about money is this: "If you want me to take this job go back and get me another 10k, it isn't a lot of money on your bottom line, hell it is probably only a dinner out, but it is going to make me happy and take the job." Watch how quickly a final offer changes!
> There's a lot more versions. There's Server, IoT, Embedded, RT.

> A few versions more of Windows 7 and 8 doesn't seem like the huge budget breaker,

There's a lot of versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 as well. Windows 7 had at least 6 SKUs.

> I don't think they'd use a dedicated machine for each and every version, you can use the same machines and just change the drives or use NetBoot or whatever.

You're completely underestimating the scale necessary to carry out proper testing and validation.
You make it sound like it is perfectly ethical and reasonable to interfere with another sovereign state's defense systems unilaterally.

Edit: I think I have read much into the parent comment and made a strawman fallacy here.
Where did I say I thought you were stupid?
Applications of Web Data Extraction in Ecommerce
Double spends are overwhelmingly a theoretical issue. Credit card fraud, on the other hand, is pandemic.
Three vital commands every Docker magician should know
Well, they have been sued, e.g. https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/08/7634/
and they settled.

But they're not a target that you're going to collect big from, as a non-profit archive/library they're sympathetic whether or not that gives them any special legal standing, and they'll basically take down your content past and present if you ask them to.

So it will almost certainly cost you money to sue them, you won't collect much in the best case, and you can get your content taken down in about as much time as it would take you to pick a lawyer out of the phone book.
Which is the most stable Oxygen OS update for OnePlus 3 or 3T so far?
You're right - then yes, Chromium/Chrome is a great example.
Spacemacs is only good if you actually use it consistently throughout the day.

From the prompt, it is faster to open a large file in vim than emacs since you have to wait for all of the spacemacs plugins to load.
I think most people aren't terribly concerned about income/wealth inequality. The logical inverse would be that everyone should get the same share of resources regardless of their contribution to society or wealth created. I think even most on the political left would reject that idea.

Rather than inequality, I think people are more concerned about some combination of:

* Poverty - that some people don't have enough resources to meet their basic needs

* Lack of opportunity - that for too many people, working hard and making reasonable decisions is unlikely to result in a proportional gain in wealth

* Corruption - that wealth results in undue influence over the political process and control over the lives of others

* Unjust rewards - that some activities which arguably, or definitely cause a net harm to society or a reduction in total wealth are rewarded, and that some beneficial activities are not rewarded, or rewarded insufficiently
US oil reserves, OPEC intentions and the upcoming Saudi Aramco IPO
You know how twitter killed off all those nice third-party twitter clients a while ago? With this tool, even the creators of the app can't stop people from creating alternate UIs for chat/payments/etc.

You know how AWS went down a while ago and github (and a zillion other sites) stopped working? With this tool, you could log into a repo manager (several are in the works) and there is no single point of failure that can take it offline.

You know how you wanted to send money from Taiwan to the US and the bank wire was declined despite repeated attempts and without any clear explanation and your money was trapped in a bank account in Taiwan? (might not have happened to you, but is happening to me at the moment) with this tool the exact rules for how a particular currency can move around is specified ahead of time in clear turing-complete computer code.
Another blockchain governance issue... We need new social structures to make any valuable use of this new technology.
I spoke to a couple of drivers when I was visiting India in December (in Chennai), and I got nothing but praise.

In the bay area I've had mixed experiences. Drivers in the city seem to be interested in a chat. In the south bay I've taken to wearing earphones just before getting on so I don't have to hear how evil Uber is.
Disagree. If you think somebody (in this case the government) is mispricing something, it's not hypocritical to say "this is mispriced" and still take advantage of it.

Is it objectively mispriced? Probably. But we would have to have access to all of the premium received and payouts made by FEMA. https://www.fema.gov/use-flood-insurance-study-data-availabl...