skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But note that Uber doesn't become superprofitable from SDCs unless they're the only ones with them; otherwise, they have to cut prices in line with the other SDC-ride-hailing apps.

Even under an optimistic scenario, might have a two-year SDC monopoly, after which others can offer the same product. That's still not nearly long enough to justify the valuation.
it's dead because users have left and eyeballs look the other way.

To me flickr died when it made it a pain to download pictures that were displayed right in front of me in my browser, breaking a basic web feature. Never came back.
please, let me know what you think...
>The people that say that are generally conservatives (or a subset of conservatives). Liberals generally don't complain about the mainstream media being biased.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bubb...
I think it would be interesting to compare an image shot in the daylight with the one created with this processing scheme in the same daylight. I expect the normal exposure shot to be better than the processed one, but it would be interesting to observe the difference in quality.
To call Saddleback a bigger mountain is somewhat of a misnomer... they're never been very popular, despite being a hell of a mountain. Blame the location.

And while I'm not too certain on the prospects of Sugarloaf, I can't see it struggling too badly. They have held high profile events consistently, and they're owned by Boyne who have a consistent track record of running resorts. They're a strong operator in the industry.
Not a very literate and informed reply I'm having here, but just from friendly conversations with a few South Koreans, what I'm getting is that the current generation, many of which haven't grown up in an active war situation, have a much smaller appetite for reunification than their elders may have had. And while they have plans in place (there's a Ministry of Unification) I doubt it that South Korea has money set aside for the real cost of unification (since those amounts would be so tremendous that it'd probably be economically and politically irresponsible to withdraw that much money from the active economy for this long). But then, I'm as little an economic expert as I am an expert on Korea's reunification...
Federal standards for car spedometers allow 10% error. Because of liability, cars are not sold with spedometers that read low.

If you are less than 10% over, the cops would need to prove that you knew it. This would involve testing your car. Nobody wants to bother with that, so you normally get an extra 10%.
The obvious scenario is firearms.

I can take concealed firearms into a public space start firing into the air with no intention of hurting people, and so long as I don't accidentally hurt anyone, the law is powerless to stop me.

No one wants to let me into their store? Ok. I'll just walk down the street and shoot into the air!
This is so depressing. Shame on you, Uber.
Alameda CA has all of that too. 25MPH speed limit over most of the city, heavy enforcement of traffic laws, narrow lanes, wide bike lanes, walk buttons with flashers, raised crosswalks for visibility. People still speed but much less so that in neighboring cities
Other cities might be different, but small (and some no-so-small) streets in Munich streets have a 30km/h limit (note to Americans, that's less that 20 mile/h). I never saw many cars obeying those limits.

As far as I can see those limits exist to make the politicians responsible for them look concerned about safety.
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> "let's steal from others"

Where do you think all that hoarded money come from in the first place?

I'm not saying the idea would work though.
Church in India uses its influence to pass "Bible compliant" laws.

Christians in India caused a riot because government proposed reservation for women. (Local christian community believes women should remain at home).
My meal plan is very simple. I follow zerocarb (meat and eggs only, no vegetation of any kind) and eat once a day only. Meals are always 3 or 4 eggs with 1 kg of steak, lamb, goat, or duck. I only drink water or Perrier. And before you ask, no, I do not get bored with a rare ribeye and eggs 4 nights a week.

I realize this approach is "out there" for most people, but over the last year it has produced great results in reaching my body fat percentage goal and increasing my lifts (Greyskull LP). I have no sugar cravings, no glucose crashes, and no hunger during the day.

It was difficult on two fronts: weaning myself off a carb rich diet, and then switching to 2 meals a day, and eventually 1 meal a day.

To be clear, I'm not recommending anyone switch to intermittent fasting or zerocarb without reading the rationale and critique of those two approaches. I have spent considerable time reading and experimenting over several years, and this is where I ended. I have put my parents on the same regime, and in the last six months their health considerably improved. They miss fruit, but my father is near diabetic and cannot tolerate any sugar, even "natural" sugars from fruit.

And contrary to popular belief, fiber is not required if you eat meat only. It is probably recommended if you eat vegetables, but I have consumed pretty much zero fiber for almost a year now and it works fine. Once again, don't take my word, but rather read the origins of why fiber is considered important, and then a critique of that assessment.
I disagree with the author.

>The first thing you learn in any infosec class is to reject invalid inputs, and check return values for errors, even if there’s no obvious exploit in sight. Doing this is sometimes called “defense in depth” or “best practice”.

Rejected invalid inputs is often a good idea, but it isn't defense in depth and it isn't automatically best practice. Always doing something because you "learned it an infosec class" is dogmatic.

>The point of Diffie-Hellman is that both key shares should equally contribute to the shared secret, so that the protocol doesn’t allow key control, a desirable attribute of any authenticated key agreement protocol, as discussed in this MQV paper. If the protocol allows a peer to force the shared secret to be zero, or more generally to lie in a subgroup, then the said peer can surreptitiously weaken the protocol’s security (objection: “but why would a peer be malicious?”).

This point was refuted earlier in the article. "If a peer is malicious, than they can do much worse than sending invalid keys".

> It’s costless: adding a zero check is ten lines of code tops, which is unlikely to introduce new vulnerabilities nor to hurt performance.

Ten lines of code isn't costless, it is low cost. Even if it were costless, it would still be better to not do it unless there is a compelling reason to do it.

> It reduces the risk of non-obvious attacks. Take Signal’s protocol, for example. If Alice generates all-zero prekeys and identity key, and pushes them to the Signal’s servers, then all the peers who initiate a new session with Alice will encrypt their first message with the same key, derived from all-zero shared secrets—essentially, the first message will be in the clear for an eavesdropper. Alice can deny being malicious, arguing that her PRNG failed. That’s just an example scenario—granted, far-fetched—but there might be others, and checking for invalid keys is probably easier than proving that they will never be exploited.

Not only is this not a "non-obvious attack", this is the only possible attack. The only thing that adding a check to prevent a zero key can do is prevent someone from using a zero key. By the way, this attack gains nothing. Any malicious user already has the ability to publicize any messages sent to them.
In case you missed it, the theory behind the EM Drive is also being used to explain galaxy rotation:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313580454_Low-accel...
I'm pretty sure the majority on the planet does not have a phone number.

Anyways do you think it is a sound business practice to refuse minorities because they are minorities ? Long tail says otherwise.

After a few years of having my own internet access I got rid of the now irrelevant phone number, in the recent years it started to become a requirement for surveillance capitalism reasons and services that provide phone numbers for registration or verification started popping up right and left.
And Linus taking glibc devs to task for them breaking Adobe Flash Player, due to a bug in Flash's use of memcpy():

https://lwn.net/Articles/414467/
The article does not answer the ultimate question : Why should one ever care to be successful in a job?
Meta but relevant: 57 points in 35 minutes with no heated debates in comments, but not top story, suggesting high number of flags by users if I remember correctly about HN ranking algorithm.

Edit: Apparently this was a repost of the story, initially posted 15 hours ago (and 8 hours ago again):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194112

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14198372

Edit again: Now this submission has also been marked as dupe after 1 hour of front-page. Looks like mods don't really want this story to get too much attention.
Bollards 3, bozos 0. [1]

The Sidney Harbor Tunnel had a serious problem with oversized trucks getting wedged in the tunnel. Watch a truck drive past two sets of giant flashing overhead warning signs. They stop only when they reach the final sign at the tunnel mouth, a water curtain with a giant STOP sign projected on it.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Cw0QJU8ro
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRKA7m-tbqM
I just broke down and finally got a 2015 5k iMac. At some point I just need to get work done instead of waiting for the latest and greatest and the 2015 iMac is powerful enough. I got a good deal on a refurbished one too, so I'm pretty happy with it.

There's only so much of the hardware rat race worth keeping up with anymore at the desktop level. I just pray that external GPUs will become supported on MacOS. That's the final piece for many people, I think.
Phone number requirements is a very effective tool of surveillance and surveillance capitalism but it's also incredibly effective at keeping potential users out of your business.

Have a look at the popularity of online services providing phone numbers for verification purpose.
This is kind of ridiculous. My condolences to the bereaved and all that, but come on. High-paying jobs can often times be extremely stressful, and whenever I have worked in a pressure cooker environment I have often found myself questioning whether or not it is worth it to continue working there. Sometimes, the answer has been no, at which point I figured out my exit strategy. What I have not found myself questioning is whether or not I should take my own life.

Obviously, quitting is a much better solution than immediately jumping to suicide. Of course depression doesn't work logically like that, but unless he was being systematically bullied or hazed it seems completely unfair to blame the employer in a situation like this rather than his own psychological makeup.

I'm not saying that an incident like this shouldn't be alarming and merit internal investigation and rethinking of cultural norms. Sure, and I'm sure they did that. But I don't think it's a good precedent for an employer to be held responsible every time an employee self-harms. They aren't your parents; it is after all "At Will" employment.
Wording is important. And I intentionally worded my OP to convey my concern that US economic policy is indistinguishable from GS wishes. It's just a little artistic expression, and it was clearly effective since you apparently knew exactly what I meant. I'm not writing an article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics here. When US economic policy is indistinguishable from the wishes of GS, GS may as well have an economic policy.
I know someone who left after 6 months for similar reasons, fortunately things didn't go as far for them as this poor man. I was warned off joining the company by that engineer and often think about how lucky I am to have dodged such a toxic place.
There seems to be a trend where anything negative against a major company (most often microsoft, apple and google) is flagged rather quickly. My guess is that they realise how important HN is for public perception by tech people and run PR teams here.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll take a look at integrations and see if they can be added. LiveForm has a webhook which can be integrated with any apps that are supported by Zapier, so that should support a lot of use cases.

Do you have any other feedback on improving LiveForm or SimpleForm? I'd love to hear if you've had any pain points.
If you and another person are arguing over what's for dinner and the other person's position is "lets eat tires" - there is no compromise possible.

At some point, it's pretty easy to see that the anti-unionists simply want to destroy all unions and collective wage-bargaining. End of story.
The solution using double ended queue is often referred to as monotonic queue, because queue content will be monotonic sequence.
you mean this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAxoo6JLmgg

or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoGgE55qNBA

and this is just a L2 system...come on brah come harder
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There's a lot of talk about fake news. Am I the only one who is noticing that Uber is being bullied a hell of a lot by the media? Don't get me wrong. Uber have some major faults. However, compared to other companies, are they really that bad? Under Marissa Mayer, Yahoo reportedly sacked most of their senior male staff and the media didn't even blink. That was one of those jaw-dropping things that the media collectively ignored and continues to ignore.

We talk about media collusion. We talk about media integrity. I've got a strong feeling that there is some serious collusion going on against Uber.

I have no vested interest in Uber. I do not defend anything Uber has done. I even posted a negative review of Uber based on my limited experience with them. I am simply asking if I am reading too much into potential industry-wide collusion by the media as I am seeing too many coincidences.

I recently read about the media's secret jList - where the media supposedly don't collude, but, I keep on seeing themes across the media spring up out of nowhere. The negative focus on Uber might just be one more coincidence.
Yes. Seems like drunk driving is a key contributor to that:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/10/hit-an...
Does it really succeed though ? There is a hilariously cynical account of Japan here,

http://japaneseruleof7.com/are-japanese-people-retarded/
There is barely any human on this planet without an agenda. Not sure what your point is. Is it that we should stop trying new experiments with news because some humans are involved?
X-posting my comment from the other post because I think it's worth discussing:

> Uber denied the benefits claim through its insurance carrier.

That seems like an extremely terrible move, even if Uber might be technically correct. Deciding to do that makes them look awful, and I think that's what matters most, given everything else contributing to their public image right now. It could have been a great opportunity to look magnanimous.
My landline provider is using VoIP and has been for a decade.

The good news is that it protects me from having a yahoo, google, facebook or any other accounts with stupid requirements to feed surveillance capitalism.
Why would you test it in space?

I'm not sure I understand the reasoning.
So first it was:

> Worth it for what exactly? I'm not sure what tradeoff you're talking about.

Now it's:

> It's a tradeoff which makes sense for probably 99% of the users

Anyway. So lets look at your other points.

> Reliability, security, performance, ops overhead and cost make a big difference.

Right, so your suggested solution is to put a HTTPS terminating CDN in front of Google Load Balancers (which presumably means you then need a different LB config+Cert for each domain you're handling in the SNI CDN?)..

> Reliability

Adding a layer to your stack like this doesn't improve your reliability - it adds a moving part, and moving parts can break.

> security

I'll just leave this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752

> performance

Right, because a 'all things to all men, using shared resources' is always going to perform better than something you control, and thus configure to your specific needs.

> ops overhead

Yes, you need people to work on infrastructure you control.

Guess what. You still need people to work on infrastructure you don't fucking control. You find a "cloud" provider who will claim that Ops staff are not required, and I'll show you a fucking liar.

> cost

Right, because who cares if it doesn't do what you actually need and isn't really secure at what it does do, it's cheap.
If you want to end things, walk away from your life and career. Stand up from your desk, put one foot in front of the other, and proceed in this way until you tire.
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Can someone elaborate on the programmer's perspective? I understood the first and second paragraph (super helpful thanks!) but the exploratory, reloading repl escaped me.
Another issue is mobility in America. It's not uncommon for people to move across the country for work. So cities like Portland or Austin don't expect the sudden boom in population and increased traffic that entails.
I kind of agree with you but doing that would turn a a genuine question into a high school hand-in complete with a discussion of the results.

I will likely consider your opinion next time I'm tempted to point out that someone is downvoted for seemingly no good reason and with no explanation.

But I am not sure of the outcome - I would like others to defend me when I am accused or picked on for no good reason. Basically I'm doing to others what I hope they would do for me.
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I know this doesn't completely address your comment, but the article mentions a Facebook message made by him:

> “The sad thing is this place (Uber) has broken me to the point where I don’t have the strength to look for another job,” Thomas wrote.
Could you elaborate why it prevents online DDL ?
How do you differentiate between:

1. Someone genuinely solving the question on the fly

2. Someone who memorized the answer, and is just pretending to solve it on the fly
One solution to parking, once the human drivers are out of the picture and fuel costs are largely removed, is in self-driving cars purposefully getting themselves stuck in traffic.
> Most people in most places will obey the left passing rule only so long as there are enough lanes that the traffic fits in lanes - 1 so one can always be open.

By that logic, that would mean at 11pm at night on US-101 between SF and San Jose, I shouldn't need to pass anyone on the right, but I guarantee you there's always drivers lingering in the left-most lane.
My heart goes out to the whole family.

A while ago, a long long friend of mine suddenly messaged me out of the blue reminiscing on old times and stuff. I could sense something was amiss. I planned an impromptu trip to see him. I didn't bring anything up...we just chatted about the good old times, cracked a few inside jokes etc. He was visibly much better when I started back after a few days. We promised to be in touch but it kinda dwindled from there.

He got back in touch again and this time told me that he was seriously contemplating the last ride and my trip made him change his mind.
Uhhh, that was solid advice until the last sentence.
Requiring mobile numbers is still a flaw.

Calculation is "make mobile phone number optional and have most of the users refuse to give it away because they know better and miss profit opportunity or make it mandatory and risk having a few fringe users use worthless numbers", so optimal profit per user is the chosen way when the company is driven by maximizing their own profit (actually shareholders) and do not care about people, communities and such.
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I believe understanding how the world really works is a must.
For that all you need to do is check the price difference between renting for a day or getting taxi for a day

There's also the burden of convenience. A taxi is an instant, summonable affair that ends completely with the trip. A hire car has to be hired and returned to a specific location, you have to stow it during your hire period and you have to fuel it. Beyond the tangible costs of fuel, parking, etc. there's also the opportunity cost. For exmaple, people will pay for convenience of a car to pick them up and take them home when drinking, and they may only need the hire car for a couple of 10 minute bursts but you can't hire a car for less than a 24 hour period. Both of those help buoy the cost of a taxi.

I'm not suggesting you're wrong, but it's not as simple as [hire car] + [driver] = [taxi] from a cost perspective.
They could've met halfway...but no, they had to do this. Despicable.
Most of us probably relate to the experiences of the people we are around the most. I've never met anyone who has told me they felt truly satisfied with their life, and I know I will never be. I thought that was one of life's virtues... What good is a cup running over if you never drink from it? And if you drink, is it still full? My point is, I need a glass of wine...
First of all, this is not ridiculous (i.e. deserving or inviting derision or mockery). Many of us are under immense pressure to provide for our families in HCOL environments, and love our families more than ourselves. From personal experience, I can say this pressure can make you feel like you have no out -- you must take care of the ones you love or else face them living an extremely hard life. This can easily drive you to feel like there is no other option but keep on working hard to support your loved ones.

Switching jobs is no guarantee you'll escape this spiral, and switching to a lower-paying career would put you in a corner. And therein lies the dilemma -- you can't quit, but you'll die (or be extremely depressed) if you stay.

Additionally, at least in the US, the government does not provide the types of social benefits to augment the pressure of the corporate workplace.

Therefore, corporations (who are often generating millions if not billions in revenue) have a social responsibility to their workers to make sure they are operating in an environment where they feel they can succeed and provide for their families, without compromise for mental health.
Bots are run against everything else, no reason to think they aren't here.
Thanks.. just tried it out with my service, beats nginx for simple http proxying pretty easily by a nice margin. Envoy supports way more features than nginx too !
So mega capitalists can maximize their profits.
> an incident like this shouldn't be alarming and merit internal investigation and rethinking of cultural norms. Sure, and I'm sure they did that.

...because if there's any employer who history has shown would undertake a thorough internal investigation and rethinking of culture in response to employee issues it's Uber.
Given Dropbox's record with Mailbox and Carousel, I'm hesitant to use them other than for their core services.
Reminds me of,

https://medium.com/@patricksherriff/how-to-write-about-japan...
That would be me. I liked it because it gave easy to understand and evidence-backed steps to improve your life.

I see a bunch of posts and comments on HN where the poster postulates (without any research or backing) some hypothesis about how to improve your life. These inevitably get hundreds of upvotes and never get questioned, even though n=1 is practically meaningless.

This is the complete opposite. Every step on here is discrete, concrete and backed by study. What more do you want, exactly? And how come no one ever calls out the n=1 case, but everyone is calling out this? What exactly is the difference?
Not sure what you're getting at there.
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