skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't say I'm shocked to see Uber's dishonesty here. From all the other claims against them (Lyft and sexual harassment) it seems like this type of behavior is standard operating procedure.

This culture is set from the top. It's only a matter of time that Travis will step down. Sooner the better so they can start working on improving integrity throughout the organization.

In the 90's, Microsoft was skewered for a lot less.
Taibbi on the New Book That Brutalizes the Clinton Campaign – Rolling Stone
I'm currently using Google Cloud Storage for storing and archiving data. Using regional storage has helped us while running production jobs which ingest this data. Once the data is processed, we move to coldline storage for archiving.
To the point!

What I don't get: Why don't they use at least a customized case which doesn't look like a typical PC case (such as Apple does with the Mac Pro)?
No, it just makes sense to have a fast and safe HTTP server at the same time.

Go is ona average 3x slower than C according to bechmarks, and it's hard to get rid of this issue because of how the language is architected. I just don't see Caddy as a possible long term replacement for nginx.
Really? You think it's astroturfing that makes people dislike a name with "Cockroach" in it? Do you think there are many people think "cockroach" has positive connotations?

The name is one thing that anyone can have an opinion about, the average person can't really speak to the internals of the database, but anyone can look at the name and say "I don't like it and wouldn't want to say I have 'cockroachdb' in my stack".

The very fact that it comes up every time there's a story about the database should be a pretty strong sign that the name is overshadowing the product. If it was named after an animal that doesn't have nearly universal disdain like "Koala-db" or "dragonfly-db", or even "ant-db", then I doubt people would be bringing up the name every time it's mentioned
The Romans would put civil engineers underneath newly-built bridges, then march the army over. Very few low-quality bridges were built, and nobody built more than one low-quality bridge.

This sort of thing works for planes too.
I think it depends on what modern means. If modern means more or less the system architecture basics from the 80s that our current systems pretend to be, C is a pretty straightforward mapping; but if modern means Intel kaby lake/amd ryzen, there's a lot of things going on that C or even assembly don't really address.
The Apple Watch Series 3 could include a much better micro-LED display
Nim performance tuning for the uninitiated
Four factors. You forgot subsidence and compaction.
All I knew about Sussman prior to reading that quote was that he was an author of SICP. Now I'll think of him as a tedious and arrogant curmudgeon. Can someone give me a nice quote by him to make that go away?
> D is just basically C++ with optional garbage collection and better syntax for meta programming, but without the vast Universe of existing C++ libraries to leverage.

Phobos, the D standard library, makes C++ standard library look very small.
C++14 standard library still can't do "ls", "execvp", "socket" in a portable way (but we finally got std::thread and std::function!).
Phobos can do all of this, and also haves support for md5, gzip, diff, sort, getopt, json, xml, ...

Thus the need for an external library is a lot less likely than it is in C or C++, and you almost never spend time rewrapping native stuff: it's already done by Phobos.

And in the end, if you need to use some specialized library, D can call C and C++ functions with zero overhead (I have D projects that use CGAL and SDL).
I hadn't seen this before. This is amazing, and well presented. I looked at some of his other videos like making programs that can also be ascii text.

Insane! Why solve such insane problems? I feel like the constraints are the kinds of things you come up with at a party with people you work with at 2am while drunk.
I meant the latter. It's used to signal that an employer will prefer to hire an ethnic Chinese person. Another phrase used is "Chinese working environment".

There's some discussion here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/3bp5ql/the_stupi...
Try Chilly Gonzales - Solo Piano (first one). Then try Erik Satie and John Cage. Then maybe Goldmund and Yann Tiersen (Amelie soundtrack). Then give up and go back to Richard.
Quora engineering recruitment challenges
When we were kids the Amiga was for quite some time the center of our life.

When it was launched there were PC clones with EGA graphics (16 colours), the Atari ST just launched which was a good computer and we were also outgrowing our 8-bit computers (C64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum). Then, the Amiga was gem-like compared to the alternatives and I remember I was so in love reading colorful Amiga ads over and over: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ce/8a/49/ce8a...

But to be honest, I don't get why people still stick to it nowadays.
Breaking bonds requires input energy, rather than producing energy. Once the bonds are broken, you have free floating hydrogen and carbon. These can then form new bonds with oxygen, releasing energy as they do.
I'm pretty sure that's what they meant. But actually, converting methane into H2 is a serious proposal for essentially eliminating CO2 emissions from NG usage. The idea is that you do this at centralised facilities, using various iterations on Steam Methane Reforming (SMR); this method takes CH4 and H2O as input and produces separated H2 and CO2 as output.

SMR is already being done at large scale for H2 production (IIRC we would only have to scale it up by 100x), but currently the CO2 is mainly released back to the atmosphere. If instead one would store the CO2 permanently underground in old gas reservoirs and saline aquifers, NG would give us a mostly clean energy source. I really hope we will see this happen, but it depends a lot on government action...
Ask HN: Why search bar on Google doesn't have any placeholder?
e.g. "Input your search query here"
e.g. "To start searching, enter a query here"
e.g. "Start typing to search"
I thought they were calling themselves Czechia now but it looks like the announced name change hasn't really caught on yet.
Monster Truck Robot Transform
This is brilliant. And if companies are going to be so resistant this is the obvious solution.
Theoretically, yes. In reality, not so much.

I blocked the install of systemd way back. Recently I tried to upgrade postgres+postgis. Turned out that postgis had a dependency on a package with had a dependency on a package which had a dependency on another package which had a dependency on systemd.

So I tried compiling it myself. One of te build dependencies had a dependency on a package which had a dependency on a package which, you guessed it, had a dependency on systemd.

I finally gave up and moved the database over to a jail on my freebsd box.
I'd say Waterloo, getting office rentals are cheaper and overall living costs are cheaper in Waterloo. You also get access to UW and Velocity (shout-out to Jay Shah!).

Toronto has MARS and DMZ and 111 Richmond are a few places to start off. I'd rather take Waterloo over that any day. The real-estate in Toronto is just insane.

Neither Toronto nor Waterloo has the VC's of Sand Hill Road, so if you're on the fund raising track, Waterloo being an hour away makes no difference.

So yea, I'd still opt for Waterloo, just my opinion, others will likely disagree.
Wow, surely that's got to be one of the biggest false dichotomies I've seen in years. No-one is arguing Germany would be better off if they kept their nuclear powerplants and didn't invest in solar and wind. Rather, the argument is Germany should have kept nuclear while also pivoting to solar and wind; that would indisputably have given a much bigger positive effect than the current version of Energiewende.
> created ShinySDR out of dissatisfaction with the user interface of other SDR applications that were available to me.

No pictures/live demo/simulator available.

:(
it could be put in a different repository though...
Dear god that is an absolutely insane amount of 3rd party tracking. You would think Disqus would aggregate all the tracking into one service they control and then distribute it out (and also, it would only be one thing that needs to be blocked with uBlock Origin. Two problems solved!)
Most wood energy schemes are a 'disaster' for climate change
This is absurd. The creation of subtitles is illegal?
Stack Editor: rethink files and syntax in programming [video]
In the past year have we ever gone a single month without hearing about malfeasance, exploitation or sexual harassment within that company?

April alone has tabloid month!

Perhaps Uber's CEO should resign so the company can get some breathing room and reboot their brand.
I see Uber as our generation's Groupon. Wildly overvalued slowly heading to a cliff.
LA too, and it has an effect on the movies shot there:
https://gizmodo.com/led-streetlights-will-change-hollywood-a...
Nothing to be embarrassed about. This stuff is very "use it or lose it" so unless you're really using it regularly, it fades from mind very easily. Heck, I've taken College Algebra like 3 times over the years, and I still keep going back to Khan Academy or watching various Youtube videos and the like, for a refresher here and there. And that's just to keep the basic algebra stuff in mind.
A strong argument can be made against revealing your name when disclosing information like this - especially if you're dealing with banks (often litigious and technically illiterate) and even more so if you're in the United States. If I was the OP I would've found a way of reporting this information to the bank anonymously. Possibly followed up with a promise of media disclosure if not fixed in a timely manner.
The creation of unlicensed derivative works or translations is prohibited by copyright law, sure.

I'm surprised anyone is surprised by this.
There are fixed arrays in Julia too, for those who absolutely must eke out that last 1% gain in performance
Yeah, this is going to really screw up a lot of circadian rhythms, especially with all that blue light coming in through people's windows.
If you're interested in this approach, I wrote about using GitHub issues as the basis for your blog, and not just comments - http://ebarnouflant.com/posts/4-turn-your-github-issues-into...
VRML – 3D for web (1994)
I don't get the hype around palantir. It's a regular consulting shop like any other. Same as SAP, IBM, HP, etc. but a lot cheaper because their labor is a lot cheaper.

So what does it mean it no longer works for the NSA? Like they stopped taking government contracts? Of course not. They still work for big banks and big corporations and they still have government contracts. Whether the contract is with NSA or CIA or FBI I don't think makes a difference.
Mishima by Philip Glass (Kronos Quartet plays Philip Glass would be a good bet). The album Asperities by Julia Kent, just out last year, is pretty phenomenal. Systems/Layers by Rachels and Vulnicura Strings by Björk might work. Soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream.

Note that there's an album of classical versions of Aphex songs by Alarm Will Sound which is very good (their Avril 14th is inferior though)
Hilfinger also liked to give people enough rope to hang themselves many times over with.
So basically what's needed is a place to send these notices anonymously and a place to anonymously publish the exploit after responsible disclosure - at least for countries where legislation works like you describe.

I still hope this is not the case in most places outside the US - that is, I hope the responsible disclosure is complete proof you are in fact not hacking anyone.
I wouldn't say it's not discussed - in fact, it's probably the single most common argument people bring up against UBI.

I personally disagree with it and I don't feel it. Sense of purpose from contributing something useful to society? Yes. Sense of purpose for doing random pointless shit I don't like for a master I don't like, so the master gives me currency I need to not starve? Not really, more like modern slavery.

I realize that some people find purpose in what I just described as modern slavery; I know such people personally. I respect that, even if it smells like Stockholm syndrome to me. Still, the future is either UBI or endless invention of utterly nonsense jobs (dig a hole, fill it up, dig a hole, fill it up...) just to keep people employed.

The coal story illustrates the point perfectly. I'm grateful for centuries of miners and engineers (and their supporting families), who together ushered us to an era of ever more advanced technology. But today, their job is done. In XXI century, using coal for energy is wrong for many reasons, and those jobs need to disappear - keeping coal would be irresponsible for a society.

That's why we need the "dole". Because some jobs no longer make sense, and if people (and communities) need to retrain, "find new purpose", then it's dole or die.
>Geez, what a world.

*America
Manfaat Daun Kelor Untuk Kecantikan Alami – Info Kesehatan Keluarga
Since ejection wouldn't be feasible, wonder if an undercarriage airbag, perhaps like bumper rails to keep weight down and work around landing gear, would be effective in a crash?
SmartFood – Machine Learning Android App to Make You Meals
Tor-Powered Decentralized DNS for Tor Onion Services [pdf]
It's better than coal but in terms of CO2 it's the same.l (a factor .5 according to the article - which isn't insignificant)

Gas can be extracted from renewable sources too, and that gas works in the same infrastructure so hopefully biogas will displace more of the NG production in the future.
While the news makes sensationalist headlines and online outrage, sadly it doesn't seem like consumers care about Uber's behavior.
Thanks. Hoping architects start planning for it then :-)
Because I want my grandchildren to be free humans, to live out their lives in productive, peaceful harmony (and yours). Debt-based currency and monitored, controlled transaction systems are fundamentally incompatible with this goal.
61A gave me my entire background to programming and computer science. I had never programmed a computer before, and I think I was better for it.

The common phrase was that you should be made to take 61A as your first class and as your last. You really dont fully comprehend it until you get wider exposure, but you need that initial exposure so your brain can begin to knit things together as you see them.

Meta-Circular Evaluator RIP. You will be missed.
> If you only have one of TryParse or Parse you cannot judge the intention.

Sure you can. To take Java as an example, if you only have one parse method and it returns an `Optional`, you can indicate the intention by whether or not you call `get` directly or call something like `isPresent` or `orElse` first/instead. Yes, you can get that wrong, but you can get the choice between `TryParse` and `Parse` just as wrong.
And notice how many flame wars there are in programming forums. It's almost like the programmers forget that the tools they use are just tools and that they are a means to an end instead of an end in and of themselves. The focus shifts from solving problems and people start comparing the relative merits of one tool against another instead of discussing the best way to go about solving a problem.

In programming I think we substitute the language for the problem space and forget that the problem space is primary and the language is secondary.
Both suck at it for many reasons.
A Comprehensive Structure and Privacy Analysis of Tor Hidden Services [pdf]
List of YCombinator companies: http://yclist.com/
Surprised not to see reference to Walter Bright's excellent article from Dr. Dobb's, "So you want to write your own language?" [1]

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/240165488
I think Disqus also just has a lot of UI issues. For sites that I visit which used to implement their own comment system and switched, it has only been for the worse. You could argue that the opposite should be true since comments are Disqus's job and they can focus on doing just that thing well. But sites where people regularly comment are communities. Each wants things to work a little differently to match how the community functions. But besides that there are more basic things it simply doesn't handle well like paging and collapsing.
Well that's a compelling argument, I'm sold.
Waymo urges judge to bar Uber engineer from Robocar project
I'm a bit confused — has anything developed since the lawsuit was filed in late February[0]?

[0]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3474305-1-Main.html
good content, except jquery
Sorry, the arrogance is on me for believing I can think like Grothendieck. I didn't mean to describe him as arrogant.
The Metacircular Evaluator should be a prime example of why Scheme matters. It completely loses focus into a mess of parsing and loses the idea that code and data are the same thing. Also that whole tail-recursion thing is kind of important.
Sorry, the arrogance is on me for believing I can think like Grothendieck. I didn't mean to describe him as arrogant.

I'm always the latest, because I search for the structure that yield the largest and simplest encoding of solutions.
They do have revenue, but not profit, lost $3B last year despite seeing growth in revenue . The business goal (the product itself) is 10000x times better than Groupon. Car service is more direct. Groupon isn't a bad idea either, but the experience isn't as direct and as Uber. You see, emailing me / texting me offers is great, but I don't have time to scroll down and read the same kind of email everyday. If instead at checkout coupon/promote code is added that would have been great. I have Target, Walgreen apps on my phone. When I visit the store, I clip the coupon onto my account and then checkout. This still requires me to search on the app, but at least it's at my fingertip. It would be better off if I get the promotion regardless. The use of Uber is also in the user's hand, but spontaneous.

Anyway, I think Uber will stay, but I suspect Uber may have to scale back its global expansion. Perhaps I am short-sighted. It would be interesting to see the revenue and spending geographically.
Pretty sad honestly. We used SICP and Scheme in the first computer science class I ever took and that is the most fun that I ever had programming. I remember I couldn't wait for new homework assignments to be released so that I could solve the fun puzzles.
Google and partners try to block the march of ad-blockers
because of Peter[0], otherwise you're right. Unless there's something else non-American like me cannot see :p

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
That made a really interesting Saturday morning read! Thanks for writing it up
One big improvement they have had is just getting air-con in the bus terminuses and hubs. Even in January any time outside means dripping sweat. They used to be open-air.

Rather then the government lead (and miss) why not have the government act more as an even-distributor of things which are already gaining traction.

Years ago during Japan's go-go years, they have renderings and future plans for completely redesigned megacities made up of multiple semi-self-contained smaller hyper integrated neighborhoods --sometimes a neighborhood would be gigantic pyramidal buildings of capable of being self-sustaining in terms of labor, housing, recreation, food production, etc. but then the economy tanked and pop growth flatlined and we have relative slow decline and forgotten are those grand dreams of the future.
Thanks for the additional information :) agreed, it's pretty phenomenal stuff..!
I didn't work with emacs.(Sorry there)
For code editing, vagrant mounts volumes from the host machine, so you can edit the code from the host machine and it will update in the box too.

Suggestion: Almost the same thing you can achieve with Docker(containers). Because you have a Mac, you need to check the permissions to files that need to be written from both the host and the container.

Good luck.

P.S.: Not a DevOps, these are my 2 cents.
P.P.S.: Don't kill me.
Nothing to do with"westerners".

Yellow is summer, warm Sun, early autumn, fire, warmth, life.

It's just a human/animal thing to like all that, feels right and safe, feels home.

Now, winters, are cold and blue.
What culture are you from that you consider "westerners" liking too much orange?
Probably no one is checking results here anymore, but I got 486. Wish I knew how many total turns it took!
Is AI Progressing Faster Than We Think?
Windows Anti-Debug Reference (2007)
Somebody already thought of that one! https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb

proprietary auto sharting algorithm makes me laugh every time.
When I lived in Montana, I would regularly hike trails that clearly hadn't seen someone in at least a year, sometimes several, and this was only a little ways outside of Bozeman. I am unfamiliar with the road-building/true wilderness definition, but I can confidently say that there is plenty of wild to be found in the lower 48, by any reasonable assessment.
I'm using Facebook comments for a new project I'm starting, but I would really prefer to be using reddit. Has anyone seen a way to embed reddit comments onto a web page that isn't too hacky? -iframes, etc. I have a subreddit created for my site already, but I really don't want to just link to the discussion pages like you're doing.

I could have sworn I had seen a few articles a couple of years back saying reddit was getting into the embedded comments game like Facebook and Disqus, but I haven't seen them around anywhere.
Operating in Obscurity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-nFSUXcuM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo#Other_uses

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-22286
Just a quick question, how good is the S3 compatibility layer? Can I switch, say, a Rails app to use Swift easily?
By default, rust's panics _do_ unwind the stack. However, you can also set a flag to compile them as an abort instead. Stack traces are still useful in that case.
Galaxy Vega Construction Updates 2017, Galaxy Vega – Noida Extension
Where are you filling your matrix from?
Galaxy Vega Possession, Noida Exten. Ready to Move Update Possession
It strikes me as the simple intersection of the fact that tech people as a group are significantly more introverted and solitude-seeking than the population at large, and that solitude is most easily achieved away from civilization.

(Not to imply any judgement. I unashamedly fit the stereotype in this respect to a T.)
< half of all households in the US have a Prime membership at roughly $99/yr.

Back of the envelope - of 300 deliveries ~45 are prime (15%) and 2 are Amazon Fresh (0.7%)

The prime patrons are addicts of prime and online in general.

But still the most in one day I have ever seen is 25 parcels for one person. One is the norm. Two once in a while.

Imo cell carriers taught people "free" (free long distance) and Amazon was smart to use that already popular notion of "free" free shipping - you just have to pay once annually.
> Unless there's something else non-American like me cannot see :p

there is -- palantir is a privately held company. in his interview with charlie rose, alex karp mentions that being a private company is essential to palantir, though he doesn't specify why. at a minimum, it means they have no obligation to shareholders and they can take whatever contract they want without public scrutiny.
"gloomy" is quite subjective...

I've never observed street light color making driving at night annoying; for the 3-5 second interval the yellow is on.

Just curious, have you ever been tested for color blindness?
I don't really like the idea of "exploiting" GitHub issues for blog comments.

This is obviously not a designed feature of GitHub API and it feels like an abuse of GitHub service.