skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for argument's sake, lets say all of it is true

It is :)

> If Uber's big innovation was being able to order a car via an app

That's like saying that it would be trivial to set up a rival to the post office or a rival airline industry.

> its neither that protectable or even all that innovative

Correct, which is why the medallion industry had to get in bed with local politicians to protect itself. Once this was in place (the protection) innovation was irrelevant as anyone who has ridden in a medallion cab pre-Uber can attest.

> Given that each of Uber's rides is significantly subsidized by VCs, it remains unclear if such a service could ever be profitable.

Are you expressing doubt about whether people will need taxi style transit? I'd say it's one of the most proven business models in the world. The "subsidy" you mention allows Uber to grow more quickly than it otherwise would, but late stage investors are not stupid and would not pour money in if the economics were not sound.

I don't actually care whether Uber ends up profitable in the long term or not. I'm not an investor, though I am a happy customer. But I do want a fair fight, and the DOJ picking on Uber is a major misallocation of resources.

> Are you suggesting that no matter what Uber & its execs do, folks are supposed to be loyal to Uber

Not at all. I myself am not "loyal". A few months ago I made a post on HN in which I reached the conclusion that Travis probably ought to go. But making that argument does not mean I don't have tremendous respect for the company he built and the obstacles he overcame to make it happen. Travis is clearly an amazingly talented person who seems to have some blind spots as a manager. But let's not pretend someone like Eric Schmidt would ever start a company like Uber.

Seasoned, wise managers are relevant when a company has generally plateaued. This does not justify the harm caused by bad HR practices and poor judgment in dealing with the treatment of women at Uber, but let's not forget that one of the problematic hires (perhaps scapegoats) at Uber had come from Schmidt's google where he'd had many years of success but had not disclosed the disciplinary circumstances of his departure from Google.

> Uber disappeared, do you really think their competitors would suddenly stop using apps

This is farfetched, and not what I was arguing. My point is that Uber came up with a way to fight against one of the most entrenched industries in the world and win. This is generally what startups are supposed to do... create Schumpeterian growth which leaves a trail of destruction of the old edifices of power.

It may be that Uber simply won the first round of battles but that the war will eventually be won by the cronies and insiders who cozy up to local politicians and held the taxi industry hostage for so long. They have not given up easily. In some cities they are still strong and don't plan to go anywhere.

Before you decide to jump on the bandwagon against Uber, think about the many areas of life in which entrenched and backward systems oppress us and hold back progress. You are helping them drag us back into the darkness.
In that case, I hope that Uber in Guatemala is run as a subsidiary that survives should it's corporate parent cease to exist.
By this logic you can sue the clothing company that provided them with clothes during their felony
Both NGINX and HAProxy will hang around for as long as the connection is open (up to the timeout). It's actually quite an issue when you're rapidly reloading either proxy (you can run out of memory reasonably easily), but most services that have long lived TCP connections also handle resets reasonably well so you can typically just kill the old proxies and it'll be ok.
Not a valid comparison? It's the exact comparison. What about suing the truck manufacturers when that terrorist ran over a bunch of people, or Boeing for 9/11, etc. Just because they are a manufacturer of firearms doesnt excuse them from this ideology.
I'm wondering why not sue the ISPs and the utilities that provide electricity or the power generating nuclear reactors / coal power plants? Without any of these, it'd be impossible for ISIS to spread.
The laws Uber is accused of facilitating the violation of are themselves tyrannical abridgements of personal liberty. The entire exercise, from the local laws to punish Uber drivers, to the DOJ's prosecution of Uber for helping its drivers evade economic persecution, are a disgusting exercise in majority supported tyranny.
You are missing the the magic word "deep" in the title. I was looking at Nvidias GPU conference session lineup recently, it was hilarious how many talks had the words "deep learning" in the title.
i just bought a Volkswagen, which comes with Car-Net, which apparently relays telemetry to Verizon Telematics via a 3G connection. oh and there's a gps reciever and an in-car microphone.

their privacy policy is scary.

https://carnet.vw.com/web/vwcwp/privacy-policy

dealer refuses to disable or remove this carnet module. their "solution" is to tell me just not to sign up for the services. ummm..lol no. needless to say i'm taking matters into my own hands via vw message boards and:

http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/

may have to physically remove the module and/or neuter the antenna.
A browser extension helps measure readings not just as a dictionary
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14269708
This isn't about a corporation's free speech. It's about people exercising their free speech using products built by companies.
I interpreted that as a question about energy harvesting, not propulsion.

Sounds plausible to me. A sort of, cosmic ray greenhouse effect working on a dense insulated target, producing a heat gradient to a (cosmic ray transparent) radiator.

I'm not sure if the material requirements work out, or if it's worth it's mass to bring along.
> But what if those two are busy right now?

Then he'll have to look up some that he can't name off the top of his head? I can't name any Java consultancies, but I'm nonetheless confident that there are plenty...

With regard to Haskell, there are a lot of people interested in Haskell work compared to the number of positions presently available.
Part of why they like working for Lyft more is that it gives them a bigger cut. Paying workers better is a positive mark in my book.
This is not a valid comparison because there is literally a federal law protecting gun manufacturers. There is not a similar law protecting twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...
Here is his post about why he closed source the PySornar and RubySonar: http://www.yinwang.org/blog-cn/2017/04/18/close-source
Yea many take their "cue" from a few popular designers and sort of use it to justify their design decisions. Often I feel its newer designers who may not feel comfortable taking a more assertive role in the process. I also notice the same sort of trend in concept art where many look like they use the same "photoshop" technique.
> use your product fraudulently

If a LEO lies to you during the course of an investigation, do you think that you will be able to successfully claim that as fraud?
Those were all civil, not criminal.
No, the exact comparison would be a similar suit against the gun manufacturers for the San Bernardino shooting.
> I've always found it weird how everyone I know seems much more cautious about phone usage than me

I wouldn't say I'm cautious, it's simply that if it were important, why would you call?

I basically consider phone calls as unimportant as paper letters. Check in on them every few weeks.
Terrorism seeks to change our way of life...

That sounds like the "they attacked us because of our freedom".

No, pal. Terrorists are pissed off because of what your govt is doing overseas. They're really not interested in your way of life or your freedom.
I disagree. I contend that most of the time folks ignore the evaluation strategy for eagerly evaluated languages because they're simply easier to reason about. That strikes me as objectively true on its face and I believe most Haskellers would concede that point.

The only time I can think of where that's not the case is when microoptimizing for performance, where the exact instructions being produced and their impact on pipelining and cache behaviour matter. But that's in general far more rare than one encounters space leaks in idiomatic Haskell.

Heck, one just needs to read about two of the most common Haskell functions to hit concerns about space leaks: foldl and foldr. It's just part of the way of life for a Haskeller.

There's simply no analog that I can think of in the world of eagerly evaluated languages that a) requires as much in-depth knowledge of the language implementation, and b) is so commonly encountered.

The closest thing I can come up with in a common, eager language might be space leaks in GC'd languages, but they're pretty rare unless you're doing something odd (e.g. keeping references to objects from a static variable).
What is a Terminal server
> All the judgement would sure help.

Being judged isn't supposed to help you any more than being thrown in jail is.
What is a Terminal server
dedicated server

USA dedicated server provider

The server and the terminal are short based on the network environment, and it is usually served by various computers.
Terminal server is the client all the load are added to the server side, so the processing capacity of the server has certain requirements, the processor must carry a certain number of concurrent requests to provide fast response speed, if the processing capacity is not enough, likely to cause the server Slow response, software running error or even downtime. High-speed large-capacity memory can improve the response speed of the terminal server, but also to enhance the overall performance of one of the necessary conditions.
Customers who use Terminal Server can access the server in a remote graphical interface, and can invoke applications, components, services, and so on in the server.
I read that as the free speech of others, not the "speech" of the companies.

The whole "companies are people" is nonsense. They are simply machines like any other human invention, and can't reasonably be held to have objectives or speech of their own any more than an automobile can.
Terrorism is less likely to remain a low-probability event because it contains the intention of death spurred by a toxic ideology that wishes to spread.

The comparisons given are accidents and happen through negligence or plain bad luck.
I think we should sue the chemical companies for not polluting enough to kill off the shooters.
Note the Supreme Court has explicitly expressed reluctance to apply RICO if it could be interpreted as a weapon against civil disobedience: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/us/supreme-court-voids...
Depends on the terrorist. Some organizations want to bring about the end of western influence in the middle east, some are delusional and think they will rule the world.
You are going to get downvoted to hell here but you are right.

The Indian Army just shutdown social media for a month in Kashmir.

Not because they are scared of the cat videos, but they have no way to control the spread of misinformation (and subsequent violence) every time a terrorist attack happens. Lots of times its just a bunch of kids egging on a bunch of kids.
It's supposed to be an archive when I download it, but it's an application. When I double click it I get "The application “Visual Studio Code” can’t be opened.".

It won't open in Archive Utility because it's an app. I can run Electron from within it's package, and it opens VS Code, but that seems janky.
I think the guy was wearing underwear at the time, so Hanes? can be sued too.
> I think dmix hit on a very important point when he mentioned that its hard for politicians to sell a future thats not all rosy and prosperous for everyone.

I couldn't find where he made that exact point, if he did, I would reply to it by saying that what politicians sell and what they actually do are two completely different things. Both sides of the aisle have been selling rosy futures and working towards the exact opposite for decades. I'd say that Bernie & Trump were evidence that the message "your future isn't all that rosy unless we change substantially" resonated this election.

dmix and I agree globalization is here to stay. I was just a little irritated by his implication that the way we need to respond is by "developing new industries" and "adapting to the global marketplace" and all that jargon. I'd say the S&P has adapted just fine to the global marketplace. The problem is that the median American is worse off anyway. Your second paragraph is apt about some potential solutions.
Works nicely in the Windows hosts file too.
This sounds like a case of someone not reading the fine print, not doing their due diligence, and then complaining about their outcome.

What if you bought some food at a restaurant listed under "Vegan" with large letters, then a second later you read the smaller print saying that it contains animal byproducts? I wouldn't think very highly of that restaurant. Then, if I were running a food ordering website and found that one of the restaurants was doing this, I might want to have a word with that restaurant.
> In fact, there's no real difference between the requirement to experimentally validate results and the requirement to have a hypothesis 'work' on both halves of a partitioned dataset.

This would be correct in the absence of investigator malfeasance. Unfortunately, investigator malfeasance is the problem we're trying to solve, so assuming it away is unwise. The requirement to collect new data imposes pretty strict limits on how many hypotheses you can test. The requirement to find a hypothesis along with a division of your existing data set such that the hypothesis holds in both halves is much more generous; it can be automated just as easily as finding a hypothesis that works in the unified data set can.
Why the cursor flashover occurs to the variable frequency power supply?
I edited for clarity
"... You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it."
I mean, yeah, but you're just starting where those projects started -- rolling your own with a different idea of what "simple" means. If you actually build a business around something like this, it'll become more like the systems you mention or you'll end up switching to one of them anyway...
So the Charlie Hebdo attack was in response to the editors and their... what taking oil from somewhere??
Sure. I publish to deb repos all the time.

(I've found Bintray to be the easiest.)
I would hope the drivers always sit up front!
let me be more specific since I think you're misinterpreting me because I wasn't specific enough.

hedge-funds that execute a strategy based entirely on leveraging HFT as a means to take advantage of information arbitrage (such as they kind that a fund taking trade orders from its clients would have) are predicated on having that information advantage "front-running".

HFT in different contexts is just machine execution of trade orders and isn't what I was asking about.
What happened in 2008?
> Even if alcohol consumption is stopped immediately [after noticing you're pregnant], fetal alcohol syndrome spectrum disorder can still occur in the child

Technically can, but this is unlikely in the extreme. (Source: my mother, a practicing obstetrician.)
We started this mess. Recall that we were told that after we get rid of Saddam, that Iraq will become a shinning example for the rest of the ME, and the world. That the guy was such a bad guy that the world will be a far better place without him.
In this case, not necessarily. For example, here's a de/re-compiled version of Starcraft for the ARM/Linux-based OpenPandora, with no help from Blizzard:

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/starcraft.73844/
I'm not so sure every engineer needs to know that. I think the important thing is for everyone to have some understanding of the core business.

If you're Stripe, that's coding, APIs, and finance/payments (that last is the bit engineers should be taught).

If you're Google, that's ads and ad-buying - hence the company practice of giving engineers (and maybe other employees?) some free ad credits so they can see what the customer perspective looks like.
LEO interacting with an app is not same as if it was a person. LEO is not conducting an interview with Uber when he uses the app. UX is not legally accountable response.

To whom even Miranda warning will apply to ?
The Rise of Data Breach Cases
Ironically relevant XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/504/
Lack of a federal law doesn't necessarily make that comparison invalid; perhaps there should even be an analogous law protecting "free speech platforms" that is rooted in the first amendment, similar to how the law you cite it ostensibly rooted in the second.
You're taking issue with material that is covered in every haskell 101 course worth it's salt (how to understand the properties of foldl and foldr).

We typically don't evaluate the efficacy of a language contingent on someone who is missing fundamental, well-known concepts about the language.

Also, I don't think folks "ignore the evaluation strategy for eagerly evaluated languages". They simply learn it early in in their programming experience.
That's true, but relatives killed by Western powers make the survivors fairly ripe for recruitment into anything that feels like retribution.
Except they used illegally modified guns that were against the law to own in California (and many other states without the proper license).
> It wouldn't be profitable otherwise.

This is absolutely not the case. The advantage it is predicated on is getting there first.
If you want to feel better about your life choices, you're welcome to watch reality television, instead of reading my hypothetical medical record.
Array.fromList?
Same here, canceled my Prime and now am doing my shopping at target/staples/lowes/nordstroms/newegg

Only hard part is making an account, but that only takes a few seconds and much more efficient than sorting through whatever Amazon calls it's search and filtering system.
This is an incredibly narrow view of the situation. What you're describing is only one of several factors fueling the recent surge of violent Islamist attacks.

This is why the consumption of a variety of sources of information on a topic coupled with the application of careful thought and reason is crucial. Dogma helps no one, particularly not when discussing this topic.
> Your last paragraph is it. If you see someone that might be a cop and you hide your weapons, is that an additional crime?

Technically the law breakers are the Uber drivers, no? If so, then Uber is aiding them avoiding the cops.
"... is silly, there are better ways."

I see this usage often where it seems like

grep pattern1 | grep -v pattern2

can be replaced by

sed -n '/pattern1/d;/pattern2/p'

or at least

sed '/pattern1/!d' | sed '/pattern2/d'

or

sed -n 's/pattern1pattern2//g;/pattern2/p'

But I must be missing something obvious.

For example look at the "grep -v" usage here:

https://github.com/thomwiggers/qhasm/raw/master/qhasm-arm

Is there something wrong with using

sed '/^op:livefloat80:/d'

Moreover, in the last line, why not use

sed 's/\$/#/g'

instead of

tr '$' '#'

Apologies if I am missing the obvious.
Because they have an axe to grind and a throwaway to burn?
That's a good point, I must have skimmed that part.
The mess was started a long time age when the Allies stuffed up the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement

It is, of course, easy to be wise long after the event.
You sound awful to work with. It makes me appreciate how lucky I am to work someplace where everyone has good attitudes towards each other and their workplace.
You know - initially my reaction was "You're crazy!", but then I thought - "You actually make a good point".

Anecdotal case in point: I am really trying a self imposed exile from Twitter these days, especially in view of the current US political climate. If I go to a right centric Twitter stream, I am confronted with a deluge of hyperbole, rage, anger, memes, whatever. And it is EXACTLY the same if I visit a left centric stream too.

Anyone who spends an inordinate amount of time in one or the other, can easily start to believe that what is within the respective bubble is the reality of the world.

"If you gaze long enough into the abyss, then the abyss gazes into you..."

I don't know what the solution is here. Perhaps social media companies have to be more hardline about cracking down on "fake news" and hate speech and cutting it off before it can spread? Not sure that is possible at all?!
New letters shed light on Hemingway’s unrequited love and early life
I drew the analogy I did for a reason. Do you really think we imprison people so that we can feel better about ourselves?
the great recession.

he/she is talking about bankers.
Did you build Slackpass? I was under the impression that Show HN's were more for something you built, as opposed to creating a social resource on a service.
There's also agda and coq, at various points on the spectrum between programming language and theorem prover.
> But if the health inspector never says he's the health inspector

If you look up his Facebook profile, find out that he's a health inspector, and deny him on the basis that he is a health inspector, what then?
That's pretty much the point the GP was trying to make.
Self driving cars will fundamentally change society. By the time we figure out self driving cars, we'll have enough tech for autonomous drones, trucks, planes, mail delivery bots, fork lifts, tractors.

I bet whoever capitalizes on this will end up becoming the world's most valuable company. This is a horse-> horseless transformation again.
I'm guessing financial crisis precipitated by corporate crime/fraud on massive scale, going unpunished?
Maybe... I'm not convinced the semantics would feel as good in that setting.
Lyft isn't facing a DOJ investigation
And if they were installed from a gem how long do you think it would take for security patches to be applied for every install? Image magick is a popular gem plugin on look at the vulnerabilities:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1749...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7489605
Lyft isn't facing a federal criminal probe
Are you arguing that if you have a patent you shouldn't be able to get royalties on it, or arguing that patents aren't even necessary? I don't understand your argument. Facebook can do whatever they want with their patents, including license any patents related to the specific software, just like they could sue other companies for patent infringement.

You assume that I am making Acme out to be a victim, which isn't true. I'm arguing that Facebook should give a patent license that's more specific to the software they are licensing, e.g. React, Prepack, rather than a blanket license for any patents they ever get. For example, read the Apache 2 license, which is my preference for licenses that need a patent grant, as it's much more specific. You also assume that the strategy of getting patents is to use them to sue, which isn't true. You can get patents without suing, and the likely only reason you'd sue is if a company is willfully infringing upon a patent (e.g. won't license the patent).
If our options (as they are in this bill) are between people who live extremely healthily subsidizing those who don't live healthily AND those who were born sick vs. people who live extremely healthily helping neither then I'll take the first one any day of the week.
Why would that be hilarious?

NVIDIA GPUs are the primary platform where Deep Learning training and inference is being done. Not only that, NVIDIA is making that the core of what they do