skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I feel the majority of road accidents fall into category 1. As long as you are very careful and aware of your surroundings you can avoid a huge number of accidents. This is probably why experienced drivers get huge discounts on car insurance. I've managed to actively avoid many more accidents than I have been involved in and I've never caused an accident (beyond giving a car a scrape while parking just after getting my permit). Sometimes there's no winning though. Like waiting at a stop sign and someone rear ends the truck behind you (so you can't see anything behind the large truck) hard enough to send the truck into your car and almost send you into speeding cross traffic. When that happened it really freaked me out. That was definitely a category 2 event.
Good to reference Black Swan, but Taleb would call these events gray swans, not black swans.

A true black swan is something that's basically inconceivable before it occurs. It is outside the mental model used to evaluate outcome probabilities. Black swan events include things like:

---Your enemy in a war invents the nuclear bomb and drops it on your cities (this happened to Japan in 1945)

---You are a turkey. The farmer comes, as he does every day. Instead of feeding you, he slaughters you (something which you've got no experience or conception of).

---It's 1994 and you own Blockbuster Video, a solid earning company. Then someone invents the Internet...

Biological warfare attacks are quite well-known as a concept, making them gray swans. Also in the gray swan category are asteroid strikes, supervolcanoes, etc etc.

I try to spread this distinction because if we start calling gray swans black swans, that will hide from us the most important part of Taleb's argument, which is that true black swans are the most important events. The idea of the black swan is hard to keep in your mind (how do you keep in mind the inconceivable?) so it's very easy for a pretender concept to sneak in and steal the label.
Just think for moment, only 50 years ago people had no idea about internet, smart phone, cell phone cd Rom, MP3, app, social media, YouTube, web page, pvr, Netflix, amazon and so one and so forth... after another 50 years, the world could be a very different place...
> problems tend to get less complicated over time as they get more automated/well known. Easier to solve == cheaper to hire for.

To the extent that better tools and more capable junior developers are complements to senior developers, problems getting easier to solve should mean higher compensation at the high end:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

The number of Internet users is only increasing, so the value of being the winner in winner-take-all markets keeps going up. And especially as the amount of money you need to raise goes down, that means more of the pie going to labor and less to capital.
Thanks, I read the book some time ago. This is an excellent summary.
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You'd probably enjoy Greg Egan's work then.
It's bizarre to think that, according to most countries' justice, a guy behind a computer is as dangerous to society as a serial killer.
Could always dump fuel on the way back.
Wow, something like this was in the second latest to episode of Silicon Valley, titled "Blood Boy"
It has a nice looking Github page mostly is my guess.
He did pay for murders. It doesn't matter if it was behind a computer or not.
Counter example India, Lyft can now never come here. Soon it will be one of Uber's biggest market.
You could say they lost an Otto.
Mojang is particularly aggravating about this. They spent like a year completely reworking The End and adding hang-gliders or whatever, and meanwhile furnace carts have been broken for like three years, and the fix is apparently like a dozen lines of code or something. In fact the entire mine cart and track system should be overhauled if they're really serious about improving the game - but instead they just keep adding more stupid shit nobody asked for.

Not to mention a lot of the good mods are still on like 1.6 or something because obviously no one is going to diligently update their mod over the course of ten years or however long Mojang wants to keep this up.
Landing weights are usually a bit lower than take off weights due to the extra shock on landing.

for example the a340-600 has a MTOW of 380 tons but a Max landing weight of 265 tons. Just a bit of a difference.
I think the hole in many SAAS products is the assumption that the end-user has a development team, or that every other SAAS company is going to integrate with their API.

At the end of the day, a small business has much larger fish to fry than trying to figure out how to plug product A into product B, though it is a massive problem for every small business. This isn't solved by hiring programmers, but by downloading data and inserting into macro-enabled Excel sheets. You can hire 5 Excel gurus for the same price as you can a Jr Developer (a typical SMB isn't able to figure out if said dev is worth anything).

The fact is, the end-user really doesn't give a care about "who" but "does it work?" Integrating all the pieces and parts is a very complicated and time-consuming thing for small businesses to deal with.

What comes post-SAAS? A fully integrated suite of products that does what the end-user wants. SMBs would be super stoked to have a product that does inventory, label-printing, CRM, market analysis, sales channels, etc, and pay that to one company. I think that there ought to be an in-between layer. If a some companies could offer a solution that integrate all of the SAAS products needed to run a business, packaged in one place, entire industries would end up toppling. The price differential wouldn't even have to be that high. The company would save the end-user months of research and time-wasting presentations.
True, but Uber does know, and they probably have teams of data scientists and economists optimizing the fare charge to maximize revenue. My guess is that if Uber could eliminate their losses and suffer no decrease in fares by raising rates 6%, then they would have.
Exactly. I'm in Australia and have no idea how Uber and taxi prices compare. I use Uber because of the quality of their product.

Not a big fan of Uber as a company though. If Lyft of another viable competitor set up shop here then I'd be open to switching.
But terror attacks aren't out of your control.

For example, on a policy level, Japan never has them. They just don't immigrate any of the religious group who might commit terrorist attacks. So it's a non-issue.

And on a personal level, you can mitigate terror attack risks. Just avoid gatherings of people, basically. You can go as far as you want with this - living off-grid in the forest makes you pretty much fully insulated from terrorist attacks.

So the only question remaining on a personal and policy level is what the cost/benefit is for various things you could do to prevent terrorist attacks.

This is a common mistake. People like to think that some options are impossible, or some gains are free. Thinking this way makes decisions easier; it makes you feel more secure in your opinions. In reality, everything is possible, and everything costs.
I know most people hate on uber, but it has impacted my life a lot. I think the model they've demonstrated is a legit model, and the ruthlessness with which they pursue it should not take anything away from the company's value. In fact, it should add. I want companies to show a giant middle finger to monopolistic city laws that harm citizens.
I'm personally trying to fix the habit of constant checking of HN so that I don't miss out on the good stuff with a weekly email that I can review once a week. [1] Admittedly, breaking the habit of checking HN throughout the day is a bit harder to break than subscribing to the newsletter, but in theory it would be an excellent solution. :)

1. http://www.hackernewsletter.com
Most of my family and friends exclusively use Uber because of Travis and his values.
that looks very cool and well controlled.

since the rotors are at fixed positions some of the thrust be in opposition to other rotors. isn't that wasteful?
That's a shame, so young and entire life ahead of him. Would he have had a shorter sentence if he dealt only in narcotics? The article implies Silk Road was narcotics-only, but didn't it deal in other more immoral areas?
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That's sad :(

But it was an effective proof of concept, and nobody can take that from him.
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I have a friend who lives in Columbus, going to Ohio State University. He regularly "regales" us of stories of the social and economic blight there. It's hard to imagine from the west coast.

Last week, he posted a picture of the Columbus Dispatch (the local newspaper), which featured a full-front-page ad for painkillers.

Seriously.

Of course, the newspaper isn't what it used to be, and has been recently sold due to lagging sales by the private family that owned it.

And when I shared this NPR article with this, he added "well maybe things got better, there are no longer overflow trailers in front of the City Morgue. But maybe they just moved them out back, I didn't search for them". And: https://coroner.franklincountyohio.gov/opiate-crisis-summit/...
Desert Bus - a work of genius - is the actual worst video game of all time
There were better murders. He's paying for all the drug trade he facilitated. Given the current opiod crisis, maybe he deserves it. Maybe a few drug company ceos deserve it too.
I'm not going to argue Ulbricht shouldn't be serving a serious sentence, assuming legitimacy of the evidence of his murder-by-hire attempt.

However, he wasn't convicted on those charges. He was convicted of 'conspiracy to traffic narcotics', money laundering, and 'computer hacking'. The 'hacking' and laundering were only necessities of the narcotics trafficking business, so it really does boil down to him being convicted to a life sentence for the drug distribution business.

I'd take no issue with a life sentence for procuring murder, but see it as an absolute travesty that drugs are demonized to the point where a life sentence for trafficking is even a possibility.
that's incorrect. $3.4B is their gross revenue (gross bookings) and out of that they probably paid 70% to drivers ($2.4B). i say probably because that assumes a single revenue source, no diffential payments to drivers and no other direct costs (COGS).

so indeed, they would need revenues to go up by ~20% to break even. that in turn means a 20% rise in average prices to break even (again assuming a single revenue source).
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I doubt that it would have made much difference. The US has quite a thing about illicit drugs.
One of my favorite underappreciated tv shows, is Code Monkeys, which had a great episode about the ET game

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dailymotion.com/vide...
That's what really kicked this epidemic into high gear. The government decided to "crack down" on pills and now all the people who were hooked switched to heroin, which is harder to gauge dosage because it doesn't say right on the bottle.

I don't think our government is humble enough to admit the mistake, so many more people will die.
Are you also doing self driving car research from the money?
This theme of slow technological advancement echos with a recent NPR podcast. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/19/529178937/episo...

Basically they say that productivity growth is sporadic, rather than continuous. I took this as a cautionary tale that we shouldn't be too hyped about the future. Keep your feet down to the earth, etc.
As a counter-example, Japan is one of the best in the world at infrastructure while at the same time being incredibly thorough about safety and external impacts. They can do a complete overhaul of the busiest train station in the world with zero downtime and solid walls around all construction.
People are standing in line.
Which machinelearning APIs are you using?
It's arguable that killing people was the FBI's idea. It's a standard tactic for them.

Edit: I should have said "LEA's".
I really disagree with the judicial concept of "making an example out of somebody."
66 years from the invention of the airplane, we landed a man on the moon. 50 years later, we regularly fly from New York to Tokyo in 3 hours via supersonic upper-atmosphere aircr—wait a second, that's not how that turned out at all.

Same thing is already happening with technology. Progress in the last 10 years has been comparatively minimal, and it's definitely not speeding up. But at least we have IoT lightbulbs.
> Plus, most of the Uber drivers are shady here and the people think Ubers a snaky company.

I bet you'll think that you're not a racist or a bigot, and yet you're making the exact same connection a racist or bigot would. Just because someone drives for Uber, they are shady? That's a terrible stereotype to be propagating, just like our esteemed president saying "Most illegal immigrants are rapists."
Yes, that's why you usually don't use unpacking for a namedtuple. This works just fine without me adding additional 3rd party packages:

> from collections import namedtuple

> Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y'])

> points = [Point(3,4), Point(5,2)]

> for p in points:

> print(p.x, p.y)
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I would disagree. The IoT despite being the latest fad has true possibility to change the world. We don't see this change in English speaking countries though. Why not? We are comfortable. If you go to an advanced Asian country they are just now gaining traction into the world and will leap frog this innovation. (Think Europe in the 1890s-1935.)
I haven't been following this closely. Was he actually charged for anything murder related?
I think I can, so I'll try. I have nothing to lose. Worst case, I'll use it to improve my skills and to land a job.
Everyone keeps forgetting that Lyft has first-mover advantage. Lyft basically created ride-sharing, Uber was a black-car company and had to play catch-up to Lyft.
How about averaging the number of deaths over the past 2 decades instead? I bet you'd get a different result [0].

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/31/terrorists-vs-chairs-a...
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Ok, we'll split the difference and call it 2014.
We had a local competitior backed by soft bank. They are in bad shape. All because of execution. I don't see any other company able to match that ruthlessness.
If Lowtax's "Gaming Garbage" YouTube channel has taught me one thing, it's that there's no single worst video game in the world, but rather a seemingly endless stream of them.

That said, the worst game of all time has to be Beestmeel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVUjVqKKmoI
For your own sake, you need to work with the employer to define the parameters which would trigger you getting hired.
Noted. I get psyched out thinking 'they are already at 25k followers and I have 0'. But when I stop and look closer, they could buy followers because their content is not that original or powerful to have that many followers organically.
> Skylake is enough of a jump

Can you give more details about this?
I wonder if the reason Japan doesn't have terror attacks is because their military does not deploy outside of their own country (other than UN peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts) and therefore doesn't create terrorist level animosity towards their country and people?
First thing is, people worried about terrorism aren't really worried about terrorism as it is now. They're really worried about what terrorism and ethnic conflict will be like in a few decades when, for example, Muslims are majority in some European countries. Muslim majorities are predicted in several major European countries, using basic conservative demographic projections, this century. How will that be to live in? For a prototype of that, you can look to Lebanon, or how Christians have been faring in Egypt in recent decades.

Here you have to make the distinction between the steady problem and the unlimited-growth problem.

The steady problem is "homegrown" terrorism. While there is always some level of terrorism coming from all groups, that should be addressed with the usual deradicalization and politics programs. Those approaches solved the issue with, for example, IRA terrorism. Which is a good thing, because we have to live with our own people.

The real issue is the one that will grow without limit due to ongoing demographic replacement in the West by Muslims. That's what people are worried about, because people understand that unlike homegrown terrorism, the Islamic terrorism problem can become infinitely bad, and you can end up like the Christians in Egypt. No magical historical force prevents French or Germans or British from ending up living under such deadly tyranny. Sadly, the only real way to stop this is to cease Muslim immigration until some of these data [1] start looking a lot more promising (which will take a century at least). There's certainly no shortage of people wanting to move West from places like India and China, so I see no problem with choosing immigrants who will create better outcomes (and we do that anyway).

If we're willing to discriminate on age and education, we can discriminate on religion - especially when a religion's core beliefs, as interpreted in all its mainstream schools of thought, explicitly opposes the basic egalatarian democratic values of our society.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/26/muslims-and-...
Ola seems to be doing fine and I think they've some sort of partnership with lyft where at some point in time you'll be able to use the lyft app and hail ola rides. This hasn't happened yet, though.
Looks more like the Pineering Spirit, a ship made from 2 hulls side by side:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneering_Spirit_(ship)

There are videos of this thing lifting an entire oil platform at once.
I do this video every night to un-wind my brain so I can sleep, only takes 3 minutes, works like a charm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0meWkcH8Ow
As impressive as that is, I doubt there's much room for RISC-V in Cortex-A's target market (phones, smart TVs, etc etc). I explicitly mentioned Cortex-M.
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It's not bizarre at all. A guy behind a computer or a guy leading a company can do so much more damage than any murderer. The "guy behind the computer" didn't hack up and at people but ruined the lives and many people, and their families. You might argue that everyone on silk road is a little guilty and that's probably true but he facilitated the ruining of lives of many spouses and children who did nothing wrong.
This makes me very sad, but it's hard to explain why. The nonviolent crime charges leading to a life sentence is part of it. The obvious inability of our modern legal system to understand technology above a basic level is part of it. Maybe I'm not separating how awful "the drug trade" might be from some kid running a darkweb network. This sentence stings in a weird way.
No, you're wrong. 3.4B is their revenue, not their gross bookings.
Commenting this uncivilly will get your account banned on HN, so please don't do that, and please in particular don't accuse other users of astroturfing just because you happen to hold a different view than they do. It's a popular internet trope but it isn't allowed here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456973 and marked it off-topic.
From internal sources, I can say with some confidence that they are profitable in most major US cities.

(I do not work for Uber, so take this for what it's worth)
I'm going to chip in here as I feel I'm qualified to do so as a recovering hard drug addict (clean almost a year).

Addiction like most human conditions is complex, to debate this article it helps to have a clearer understanding of what causes addiction. I'm going to state my beliefs as truth, they are after all my truth.

Addiction comes in many shapes, substance misuse, alcoholism, food addiction, porn addiction, consumerism and gambling to name some. They are not caused by the substance (or object etc) per se, i will paraphrase from a talk i will link to, if your grandma breaks her hip and is given medical quality opiates to relive her pain, she doesn't suddenly become a junkie.

Addiction is borne from the inate human desire to form relationships. If we cannot form relationships with people (because we are socially isolated, homeless and have no one to turn to, have issues that no one else understands for example) some people will substitute those relationship with people for relationships with "stuff". You may recognise in yourself that you do this with technology.

For some people the bonds they form are with more destructive thinks that $400 juice machines or the latest apple product, they are with substances that provide temporary feelings of acceptance but simultaneously corrode your very human-ness.

It's not strictly correct to say that one drug leads to another; shit, disconnected lives lead to substance abuse (rich and famous people can be isolated too) it's also not fully correct that medicating those people
Addicted to opiates with a controlled amount of pharma grade opiates is the answer also, that just gives them
A life sentence into opiod jail.

The answers to the problem require analysing why the problem exists.. whether you are wealthy or poor, it's clear that we are further apart as people and further isolates into the imaginary world of the internet more than ever. It's not a political question, similarly the answer is not political but sociological.

For anyone who has 15 minutes to listen to a powerful TED talk that will explain why the homeless guy and the middle class college kid both develop drug problems, watch this:

https://youtu.be/PY9DcIMGxMs

It could equip you with a completely different perspective about problems and solutions to addiction and also introduce you to the Portugal way of beating the problem.

Peace and Love (off to deanonymise)
No, he wasn't. Everyone keeps parroting the FBI's claim without any evidence. I strongly suspect the entire murder-for-hire story was either completely fabricated, or construed to kill any sympathy there may be for him in the public eye.
If I remember correctly, it banned guns and child porn. So it wasn't this lawless no-ethics zone. In my opinion it should have banned opiates too (they are just so much more likely to destroy lives than other drugs), but regardless the site clearly had a minimum bar when it came to ethics.

I only say that because I think most people don't realize that.
The nsqadmin was written in backbone, it also requires statsd and graphite which are kinda obsolete these days.
The most egregious example I recall recently was in the Flash TV show, where a character lamented that the energy required for their weapon against the main villain was more than the sun could provide. Except, of course, the writers got it wrong by orders of magnitude.

I could call Shakespeare a Jazz musician, and and still be closer to being correct than they did.
Not only that, if someone has a leg injury and works doing roofs or tiles or is a plumber, it helps them get back to work faster. We have nearly zero safety net in the US.
Charged but not convicted.
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Originally it was going to use a Falcon 5 Air, and later a Pegasus II. Both projects were cancelled.