skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some regulations are fine. Like requiring that your drivers have insurance. Or even requiring that your drivers pass some sort of test which demonstrates that they are actually skilled drivers, if you want. But I actually don't like any of the regulations you mentioned.

The most egregious is this one:

cab drivers from city A may drive passengers to city B, but not pick up passengers in city B. Once again, this is not just to protect taxi drivers in city B (because the meter in taxi A may have lower tariffs), but also to ensure a competent driver for passengers in city B.

This is almost always a rule to protect cab drivers in city B. And it's horribly inefficient as it means the cab spends 50% of its time empty. If driving between cities is common, fares have to be much, much higher to compensate drivers for this.

Knowledge of local roads is close to ok, it ties into being a good driver. The other items on your list are nice-to-haves, but at what cost? If tourists really want all this stuff, they can take the cab at the stand outside their hotel or at the airport instead of calling an Uber. But, speaking for myself, I'd prefer to save 10-20 euro on a trip from the airport.

Disclaimer: the closest I have come to Germany is flying through the airports. So feel free to critique my lack of local knowledge.
I don't think so - a cancer patient is probably taking/doing so many things for treatment that they wouldn't think to attribute it to cancer.

It could explain people eating healthy to get rid of cancer instead of chemo or traditional treatments - maybe they take aspirin too.

I know I wouldn't give aspirin a second thought if I had cancer.
How Nylas built an API empire from open-source roots
I can think of a couple of reasons:
safety, attr access by .<thing> means you knew what you wanted at write-time, so it's reasonable to assume that you're gonna want to know if it doesn't exist, and not just want to roll the dice on passing a null along.
language concision, it seems counterintuitive but attrs vs items gives you two options for one class: . access and [] access, which it's very reasonable give different results, so your default mode of writing classes has a "I think this should be here/nondynamic" mode of access and a 'wonder if this is here'/dynamic mode of access. I think that there are benefits to that. If you don't eventually do some dynamic attribute access I think you throw away an advantage of dynamic languages, but it's nice to me that there's this by default soft line between less and more dynamic code
Developer ergonomics does not (always) mean "preventing effort".

If that were true, there would be no type systems.
If everyone agreed this was "of course", Ether would be more than $100 today.
German Military, Islamic Organization DITIB ′winners′ of 2017 Big Brother Awards
Hotels Plan Lobbying Push Over Priceline-Expedia ‘Monopoly’
Running multiple containers on a single core or hyper-thread (which seems to be the primary way that containers are used), will obviously have a lot of non-cooperative context-switching, and will therefore have a very significant overhead compared to a solution that takes advantage of cooperative multitasking and cooperative context-switching.
if you use redux-actions your reducer can use an action reference directly- not its "type" string. developing this way I don't need to store references to these "constants" and they're only ever relevant when logging.
People who dare to dream out loud about interesting unsolved riddles in the universe are fine, but all too often in these articles, what we get is an unjustified claim that the riddle has been solved (or that a whole class of possible answers are ruled out), resting on little but straw-man arguments, appeals to intuition dressed up as objective facts, and attempts to rule issues out of consideration by definition, through wordplay. This is not the way to a true understanding. Of the authors I have read on the subject, Scott Aaronson stands out as someone who tries to (and succeeds in) avoiding this form of argumentation.
How easy it is to try this stuff out now? I remember when google first came out with the deep dream stuff I could never get it working.
How exactly did Apple and Microsoft create a product which they knew ahead of time would attract specific software developers? Or are you suggesting that third party suppliers turned Microsoft/Apple's offerings into differentiated products over time?

And Redhat, one of the main software offerings of a 2 billion dollar public company, can't run the software that 98% of computers can, but they aren't an example of differentiation? It sounds like you don't understand differentiation and are using the term literally, as if it just means 'different'.
You're comparing something with unit sales in the millions to something more in the range of several-to-hundreds.

While Patek is probably among the worst offenders in that regard, a very reasonable consideration is that the stratospherically high-end watches are supply-constrained (partly due to there being so few people in the world capable of making them–I'm not taking about your $5K Rolex or even your $25K Patek, but the most complicated and finely-finished ones that can take a watchmaker months to years to produce just one example), and it's reasonable to sell them to known individuals who aren't just buying to immediately flip them at auction.

It also makes sense to reward those most loyal to the brand rather than allow something to be bought by the nouveau riche who will quickly move on to the next flavor of the month. That's how you alienate lifelong customers.
Thanks for the good explanations. Cheers.
Everyone is obsessed with being a software engineer who writes code but I love QA and all it represents. I started off as a QA and now write code but the experience made me a better engineer than virtually everyone who did not start off with QA. Trying to get a code writing job from a QA background is really hard. The developers who interview you tend to have this air of arrogance like people who started off in QA must be there because they could not write code. Actually, since I was not writing code all day I never grew tired of it and was more inspired to write programs on my own free time than them. I feel like this poor little QA with his feelings of inadequacy let the other elitist developers get to him.
Everyone has been waiting for newer Java versions forever. The companies on the community board keep waffling around and trying to add more bloat to a spec that's already wildly late.
You might find this useful if you use Firefox:

- shift+f2

- screenshot urcodiaz.png --fullpage
"Internet of Agreements" we hope to stand up as a series of conferences, and then a trade association a bit like a more participatory "Internet of Things." Remember that Linux, Ethereum, Internet of Things are all trademarks. It's very much how the world works: if you want to build a commons, first you have to have something to share.
> The companies appear busy concoting marketing features and not with improving the functionality and experience.

Really?? I feel Google and partners are introducing great new things and polishing existing stuff on a daily basis.

Windows phone on the other hand is doing the exact opposite :(
I lived in Germany in the mid 80s (military brat) and I also have always been told that I can't donate because of that.
People have to come to that realization on their own.

There's a new sucker born every minute, and the way you target those suckers has to adapt to regulations.

The way I realized it was when I went through ten year old yahoo finance message boards, and compared consensus arguments on stocks with what happened in those stocks. It was 100% uncorrelated.
What do you think I'm missing about ETH?

Insufficient political radicalism?
Definitely need it for sales forecasting, and for figuring out what a brand-new click to a website will most likely do.
If the situation in China is similar to the situation in Brazil, then it is not a surprise Apple products aren't successful there.
Apple services here are very poorly supported and localized, and Apple products are too expensive compared to the relative benefit we would receive.

Why would you purchase a significantly more expensive device, with worse features, that sometimes don't work at all?

We still haven't gotten turn by turn directions in Apple Maps, for example.
>Not if you keep pumping in water to run a steam turbine.

Are you being serious? In terms of known capabilities the Kola borehole shows that even with older tech we can drill down to over 12km in depth, and there have been decades [1,2,3] of efforts drill all the way through the Mohorovičić discontinuity into the mantle (20+km minimum from a continental starting point, 5-10+km from ocean). Lithosphere/mantle boundary tends to be defined by temperature, in that around 1800°F is when the weakest common mineral (olivine) begins to exhibit viscosity. Well before that it'd reach the point where the amount of pressurized water we could pump through it wouldn't be able to keep up with new thermal load. So yeah, at some depth the rock is always extremely hot.

In terms of economics though of course there is some set of balance points for a given level of tech and economics between cost of drilling to a given depth, gains in lifetime/power density, maintenance costs, costs/losses of actually moving working fluid from heat point to generator, reliability advantages, etc etc. Presumably experts go through and consider all of this, it should be tractable within some set of risk bars. If an experienced power company is actually putting down millions on doing a project after evaluation, I see no reason to doubt that they've done the math to their/their investors' satisfaction to a level sufficient for a pilot project.

1. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decades-long-qu...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiky%C5%AB

3. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/247370-drill-baby-drill-...
Obstruction of justice generally require more active behavior than simply refusing service to someone you believe is investigating you. Most obstruction of justice statutes I found and read in 5 minutes of google searching required specific acts like destroying records you know to be part of an ongoing investigation or making false statements to officials, not simply any act intended to avoid the attention of law enforcement.
Okay, I'm glad you're aware of the broader context. I didn't have ready-to-hand a good online explainer of the context, hence the rather specific link I dropped.

I retain the criticism that within the essay, you should have located the symbol within the broader context of symbolisms of the time.

But given your explanation, it is definitely a point to be drawn out from the paintings: the addictions etc being presented within the monkey as signifier.
Cloudflare also has an added appeal to sites such as The Daily Stormer. It turns over to the hate sites the personal information of people who criticize their content. For instance, when a reader figures out that Cloudflare is the internet company serving sites like The Daily Stormer, they sometimes write to the company to protest. Cloudflare, per its policy, then relays the name and email address of the person complaining to the hate site, often to the surprise and regret of those complaining.

This has led to campaigns of harassment against those writing in to protest the offensive material. People have been threatened and harassed.

Really, Cloudflare? It's one thing to provide a CDN service for these these sites; turning over this information is completely different.
not really, and it's been done (not entirely successfully though).

https://twitter.com/CotullaCode/status/352176812194922496

I worked with Cotulla in the HD2 community during the htc-linux days and we had iOS 5.x booting on the device up till springboard, there were definitely issues but not "impossible".
Russian Mystery Planes at SFO
Slack Social Media Marketers Group
Invite to a slack social media markets groups for founders, growth hackers, SMM's, technology enthusiast etc.

Group is designed to help supports others posts on various forms of social media such as, Reddit, Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube.

https://join.slack.com/smhackers/shared_invite/MTc4MzE4MjYzNTM3LTE0OTM5MjA4NjMtM2U2ODZiMTg1ZA
The article discusses an actual partial prefix match.

> we tested out a case in which only a portion of the correct response hash is sent to the AMT web server. To our surprise, authentication succeeded!

> Next, we reduced the response hash to one hex digit and authentication still worked.

This doesn't imply that "no password" - an empty password would still result in a non-empty HTTP Authorization Digest response hash, which would not allow you to login. An empty/truncated digest response hash is not the same thing as an empty/truncated password.
It doesn't need to be nitrocellulose, you can impregnate ordinary paper with military high explosive using an appropriate solvent. But I doubt that is the purpose here because that could be handled by normal explosive detection mechanisms.
I never understood the need for the JCP to build a whole new standard for modularization. Why didn't they rubber stamp the OSGi spec which is used everywhere, is extremely solid, has multiple great implementations and provides stuff that this standard not even has (like runtime updating of modules, versioning and more). Felt to me like politics/not invented here syndrome from the start, no wonder there is so much pushback from the community about this standard.
Branding isn't the sole reason for Apple's success. But it is probably an important one.

As for the general power of branding: many commodity like products make lots of money through branding, be in the fields of luxury or fashion.
SiFive launches RISC-V processors, reveals pricing
Bigger computers equals faster search, which we could explain to non techies as buying more lottery tickets. I try never to explain mining to a general audience. It's too low level for a clean semantic mapping between what they want to know about, and how it all really works.
The Rust Libs Blitz
Please don't violate the guidelines with unsubstantive, gratuitously negative comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If the TSA was shutdown entirely leading to terrorists blew up 10 planes a year in the US, flying would still be as safe as it was in the 1960s.

http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/U-S-commercial-airlines...
I have 878 unique libraries shared between currently running processes on my Linux laptop at this moment, with the amount of processes sharing a library ranging from 2 processes to 820. Most may have few in common, but there are a lot of them, and the mean is 62, mode is 4.

As far as the botched update argument: When does anybody botch an update of a shared library? When they're forcing something to install, or they don't know what they're doing. On the other hand, mis-matches in applications using different versions of the same code causes silent, unexpected, difficult to debug errors.

I'd also be interested in seeing actual "RAM and disk footprint" numbers as a comparison for the same applications and libraries, because that doesn't really make sense. Even if applications only copy a couple small functions each, they add up, whereas the shared library only has one copy.

I can't speak to the speed differences (again, I would like to see numbers) but certainly different versions could lead to competing cache and code path hits.

And a static application has nothing to do with portability. Just because I can run a Windows 95 application in Windows 10 doesn't mean it's going to work right, and just because FreeBSD has a Linux binary compatibility layer doesn't mean the app is going to work. Portability requires making it portable first. You can copy shared libraries with a dynamic executable and run it as reliably as a static app.
A Motorola G5 Plus has the same CPU, same storage, but more RAM, 1920x1080 vs 1620x1080 display, etc.

It's substantially lower in price, at $229.99

I'm no phone expert, but the premium for the keyboard plus a slightly larger battery seems off to me.
I thought the same, and even had a post written... But then found a counter-example:

What about people in Nazi Germany hiding others? They were of course very secretive about it -- not being secretive certainly meant you and your charges being sent to a camp, and possibly outright death. Similar things happened with the underground railroad in the US. I would still gladly classify those people as civil disobedients.

Maybe there's a difference when you're protecting others? You can't risk being discovered, because then those who depend on you will also likely be discovered, and you won't be available to continue helping.
I don't think the description as minimal was intended in any formal way. It's informally minimal in the sense that it features less complexity than more well known languages like C or Fortran.

A formal notion of a minimal language/machine gets messy anyway and is of limited utility even in a purely academic context, as far as I know.
Snap seems like the solution to your woes: http://snap.berkeley.edu/about.html

It's Javascript and extensible.
Physics and science is basically a description of what we perceive through consciousness.
I think cash is already detectable.
Just finished my article that includes speed comparisons. http://www.codecalamity.com/python-box-3-the-reddit-release/...

Basically it's faster on standard soft creation as it converts on lookup. (And most use cases don't call for referencing every single key)
Take a break from it. Go for a walk. Ride my bike.

Walks in the woods are great for thinking and problem solving.
> Stating that Microsoft Surface and Samsung S8 are not competitors of Apple just because their products don't run Mac OS/iOS is pure fanaticism at the very least.

For me they are not. I've used Android on quite a few phones ranging from HTCs to various Nexus devices. It always had weird issues

I ran into so many limitations of iOS, that I now run pure Android and have never been happier.
This is also what makes Steampunk so fascinating.
I am a fan of Ethereum but I wish they (and other alt-coins) would be honest about the fact that there is very much a central authority at work; in Ethereum's case, it's a small network of developers and mining pools. That's not necessarily bad, but let's at least be honest about it.
Admit that central authorities have a role to play (and may take many different forms). Recent events clearly reflect, to me at least, that the value of a blockchain doesn't depend upon the lack of a central authority (indeed, investors may feel safer with a steady hand on the wheel) or immutability (Ethereum violated supposed rule #1 and look at how the market has voted, i.e. ETH/ETC price variance).
That effect size, though... :/
The teenager has a job, which is a small but positive increment in the health of your community. For that, I would be willing to endure the (real) risks you mention.
I've tried hard to like Redux as I have to work with it, but I can't.

At first I was perplexed by the boilerplate and the awkward way it seemed like I had to update 5 files just to toggle a view element -- but I figured I just didn't understand yet and one day when I did it would all make sense.

Well... after about a year of working with it, I'll admit I understand it and there is some sense to it, but there really is nothing elegant or likeable about it.

I too have never felt happy working with Redux.

I've got a side project I've been working on and was planning to use Redux since that's what I use at work, but I think I'll take this as an opportunity to try out something else.
That seems like a plausible analysis, the movie becomes darker as it proceeds, though there's a false happy ending (which in some cases of ham-fisted editing is the only ending - I saw it aired on network TV in the US this way) followed by a much more somber closing.
Cloudflare is one of the worst companies there is. They weaken the security of the web. They block Tor users from using many popular websites. They host websites that offer the same DDOS services they will charge you for protection from. The day Cloudflare dies, which should have been the day Cloudbleed was discovered, will become an annual holiday for the Internet.
To be fair, BTC had a lot of problems in the early years too.

And note I'm trying to be technology agnostic as we build out the VC firm and the Internet of Agreements organisation - I am not of the opinion any of these systems are going to scale cleanly. I think we will need to go back and build it from scratch on an abstraction like pi calculus and work it up from there, not try to accelerate the Proof of Work systems by increments.

Only time will tell, though. I'm flexible on this.
Finally a consciousness-related opinion I can 100% agree with. The camera analogy is spot on. How did you develop this opinion / way of looking at things?
RISC-V cores get support, fees
BBC edited it shortly afterwards :)
I prefer the term "conjecture based on deductive reasoning." It is reasonable to presume that something is theoretically possible unless we have specific evidence that it is impossible. For example, even though it is impossible today, most people would agree that it's theoretically possible to create self sustaining colonies in other solar systems. "Faith" usually implies less, or even no, basis in reason. If you still feel "faith" is the more appropriate term, please explain your reasoning.
Personal jibes like this are not welcome on HN.
I believe the conjecture lies in the claim that there is no objective element to it. The fact that objective investigation is difficult does not make the case. BTW, your specific arguments for it being hard seem to me to border on solipsism.
I think it would be hard to see too, but I know my grandfather for example had a long-term, small dose of asprin prescribed to him as a minor 'blood thinner'. So there perhaps exists groups of patients who could form a sample to compare against a more general population.
I was one of the very first scratch users. I started using it back in 2007, so I would have been 10 years old at the time. I have a job as a graphics programmer now, which I completely attribute to the countless hours I spent building games in scratch. Discovering scratch back then was really a life changing thing for me. Its exciting to see how huge the community is now and all the kids discovering programming the same way I did.
I know everyone loves Scratch, but I think all but the youngest kids can just as easily absorb a text based language, and ultimately get more out of it. I've worked with kids in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th using Scratch, Processing, and most recently Lua (Pico-8). I didn't see any difference in the kids ability to pick up and build working programs that made them happy, but the kids who did it in Processing and Lua seemed to have a better grasp of the concepts, and be better prepared to jump into more common languages.

https://processing.org/

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
MobX is really cool, and I wouldn't try to convince anybody not to use it if it works for them. I happen to be pretty religious about immutable data, having been bitten by problems with shared mutable state so many times. I know MobX has actions which help a lot, but I still like the core simplicity of Redux, even if it means more typing.

My dream would be to have David Nolen (of ClojureScript) and Michel Weststrate (of MobX) do a panel where they discuss the essential differences and pros and cons of each approach. The philosophies seem at odds, but I think there's probably a core truth that neither side has fully reached.

Also, I think the core lacking thing of Redux is that it isn't really composable like React. I'm really curious to check out https://github.com/FormidableLabs/freactal since it aims to be a fractal (composable) alternative.

(And yes, props to Elm for having a built-in composable architecture.)
cloudflare is legally obligated, like all ISPs, to forward DMCA complaints. do you think copyright claims should be done anonymously?