skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tweet from Calacanis. I think he invested in Uber. I have no idea. Guess is that they are a recently public tech company that is an app w/ network Dynamics.
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Only because it's new and relatively unsaturated...every new medium was the same way. When radio, TV and the internet each started running ads you could say the same thing.
Last quarter people drew attention to the different accounting methods used for pool versus other uber services, with pool booking the entire price of the ride as revenue rather than just uber's take. Does anyone have a sense of how much of the increase in revenue is due to increased ridership versus a shift in demand towards pool? Do flat fares use the same methodology?
Kafka is much harder to operate in a production environment, I would only start there if you have a specific reason to.
It's really hard to look at ride sharing apps without being clouded by your own experience. There are likely other people in your town/city who would say most people use uber and 80% of the drivers only drive for uber. It's a weirdly personal experience so its hard to see other peoples point of view which is why we have to rely on statistics like this one that show what's going on without personal experience getting in the way.
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Eenie meenie minie mo / Catch a tiger by the toe / If he hollers, let him go / My mother said to pick this one

(with the last line being the most common variant I remember, although I think it was common to strategically append things like 'and you are not it')
Where do road accidents fall? Do you just avoid being on roads?
Yeah I should have. But the staff shake up didn't really make the headlines enough to get my attention. I didn't know it occurred until weeks later.
speculation is running rampant, so market caps don't tell you that much. What is more interesting are transactions (e.g. of the non-speculative type), end user products that solve actual problems. I agree that there's a lot of promise in these various Blockchain technologies, but real world impact remains minimal.
> But whenever you shine, you inspire those close to you to shine too, a little bit sooner than they otherwise would have. And those close to you, in turn, inspire those close to them.

This is adaptation to input disruption on a network of brain impulses. Fascinating that so much correlates with our own perception and technologies.

Really great interactive post both informative and engaging.
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Would you mind sharing the digests of the apps you discovered, only ten are visible and it looks like there are multiple steps to set up a mixrank account
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I don't find the title misleading, but I think it's worth noting that the message isn't very R- or ecology-specific. The message is something like "if you do science, you should use scriptable data processing tools."

edit: I guess the message I described is on top of the more specific message that R, specifically, works well for ecology, specifically.
You might be right.

Most people who got into gov. gigs know this but the upside always been a cushy retirement, sweet pension and a Cadillac health care plan in retirement.

"Unfunded government liabilities" are now always on the chopping block and those people that took those low paying jobs for a better long term payout in the end are now getting screwed, royally. Government jobs are no longer the sweet gig people think they are and I think they have to start being more competitive with the larger markets.
It's because of what dyarosla pointed out in their comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14452832#14456254
There are pretty ample examples of societies destabilized by drug abuse. See eg. the Opium Wars in China or the usage of methamphetamines in Nazi Germany.
Drug abuse isn't that hard. See the Qing dynasty.
Actually: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
Slow your mind down.

I meditate, or sometimes listen to music 800% slower, so a song takes 30 to 40 minutes, I guess this is a meditation of sorts too..

When I start to meditate, the hardest part is about 3-4 minutes in, when some impatient part of my mind says "Hurry up this is a waste of time" - don't try and prevent this through self dialog, just let it pass, then the rest is a gradual unfolding / de-cluttering
$1,500,000 per hour in revenue sounds great.

Spending $1,872,000 per hour to bring in $1,500,000 per hour sounds less great.

I understand that it takes money to make money, but this is one of the most extreme cases in a business.
People tend to talk about Kafka in the same conversations as messaging systems because it can support messaging use cases, but that leads to a mental model of what Kafka is (and conversely what messaging systems tend to be) that is incorrect.

Its better to think of Kafka as a distributed log service than a messaging broker. When described this way, don't think log as in "the things humans look at to debug applications coming out of stdout" but "the things machines look at as a storage data structure". Think the write ahead log in a database and not printf statements.

What this means is that under the covers Kafka is a bunch of ordered files being written to by producers. Consumers can specify where in the log they want to start consuming from and then "tail" the log once they are caught up. The architecture is also such that consumers are very light weight (a tcp/ip connection and an offset in the log). This also makes trivial things like the "late joiner" problem in messaging systems and durability. Kafka then layers on high availability and consistency configurations that mean that you can be sure that your published log entries are 1) stored on multiple machines and 2) ordered the same for everyone. The combination of those 2 things is very powerful and makes reasoning about distributed systems application data much simpler. There are also certain classes of problems that need to be solved with those promises, namely things that are not idempotent.

NSQ is a much more traditional buffered messaging system. It has file durability but only as a) an optimization to prevent message loss once memory runs out and b) as a consumer archive. But a hard loss of a node means that those messages that have not been delivered can be lost as there is no promise they are published somewhere else. Further, there is no promise that the order of messages published to a topic and channel is the order of messages received by the consumer. Dealing with late joiners is an application level concern as is archive and replication.

That said, Kafka is complicated. I think its complicated because its solving a complicated problem not because its poorly factored (though I'd love it if they built the consensus stuff in directly and removed the zookeeper dependency).

NSQ isn't complicated and is easy to operate. If your problem set falls into a more traditional messaging domain that fits the NSQ model, you are almost certainly better off with it, but you can likely use Kafka also. If your problem set falls into the write ahead log model, you can't use NSQ (without massive application level logic) but you can use Kafka.
This is an interesting approach

https://www.rosieleizrowice.com/blog/5minutejournal
I think maybe you didn't read the top-level comment in this branch of the thread?
But terrorists are people, not natural events. IMO this is a dangerous line of thinking, since there exist ways to kill millions of people at a time.
Thing is, it's "dekm" in proto-Indo-European - and for a word that simple and basic, it's likely that it was already well-established as a direct derivative in Celtic before Latin had a chance to influence it. Most other IE languages also inherited it directly - e.g "deka" in Greek, "deset" in Slavic, "dasa" in Sanskrit etc (the s/k difference is satem/centum). It would be weird if Celtic was special.
My father worked on that dam.

One of my favorite photos looks down on him running a small horizontal drill rig into a cliff while suspended on a rope several hundred feet above the river. Just a rope knotted around his waist, no harness.

Definitely would not pass today's construction safety regulations.

I agree about the relic-feeling. I guess there were giants in those days.
That's funny, since opium, amphetamines, and LSD are all very useful drugs and shouldn't be outlawed.
The internal path is probably winding and not guaranteed. Also if you're good at your job as SRE you won't likely become the CTO, you're too valuable as SRE. The people I've seen do it move around or leave to start their own thing, appoint themselves CTO or CEO, if the business succeeds, they sell the business and then can join some place next time as CTO because they've clearly already been one. If the business fails same thing.
escape velocity is calculated from the surface.
Opoid issues get quite a bit of press in midwestern newspapers. In my experience it gets more press than terrorism.

How can you prevent crazy people?

I'm asking because I often wonder what price we're willing to pay to make to make the chances of killed by another person 0%. Is there anyway to acheive that without creating a police state with zero privacy and zero possibility of dissent? If we start editing people's genes so they aren't "crazy" who decides what the legalized normative behaviour is?
This is incredible. Context: wsj allows clicks from facebook to view the content without paid subscription.
How would you characterize US commercial law?
even the way time passes faster on The planet with tidal waves is complete bullshit. It does not match any of the assumptions aT all and is just used as a stupid trope.
> Now, I only use Lyft - as do most of the people.

Nope.
So Uber made 612M more in revenue and lost 283M less money, in 17Q1 than 16Q4.

Naively, that seems like a good sign (for Uber), but it could also just be that they stopped growth spending or are hiding losses in unreported figures.

Does anyone have more insight in to what could have caused it?
An irrelevant percent of people will choose to take the bus because their $10 ride is now $10.50.

I agree that they are competing against Lyft on price, but they will both sooner or later have to reach break-even; neither will run at a loss forever. Rides will shift between them, but the rideshare market as a whole will shrink trivially when it does.
Correct.
If we as a society could somehow "get used to terrorism" it would be no more of a threat than falling vending machines, as pointed out above.

Plus, we'd save billions of dollars and countless hours of productivity.

Not that I'm expecting this to happen, but one can imagine...
"An example of the former is how easy dragnet surveillance is today. An example of the latter is how easy cryptographically secure communication is today. That's the entire essay."

This is the common claim. It's also super simplistic given elites control the law, the Internet backbone, the entertainment industry, copyright/patent system, and often venture capital that decides which tech will dominate next. That's why most people are on Windows, iMessage, Android, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. The incentives for and ambitions of startup founders also mean they will not likely make the system more equal with their next innovation since their goal is getting as far ahead of everyone else as possible.

The percentage that have influence over markets, are aimed at improved equality/privacy/security, and setup to stay that way are so small they make successful startups look common. Tech can help change the situation but overall a tiny part of doing so. It will take legal, political, or other muscle targeted right at the elites and their control structures.
Here are some interesting ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch
It helps illustrate that this is a recurring phenomenon and I found it interesting that it, too, was initially promoted by '...physicians, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals...'.
I suspect it's still minified and obfuscated, in which case we're basically calling binary data open source.
I didn't disagree, but it isn't fair to compare only deaths. Terror can destroy the economy suddenly. Cause huge societal shifts. Opoid epidemic is a horrible and slow wasting. There is a definite "terror isn't a big deal, barely kills anyone" bias on HN. I do agree it is very hard to quantify and endlessly used to abuse authority and gain new authority that doesn't solve real terror problems. And there are real problems. They just get co-opted by politicians.

Anyway, I have direct familial experience with relatives becoming addicted to prescription painkillers, so I don't need to be convinced, I grew up in the deep south, and have seen the impact first hand. Folks go from opiods to alcohol and meth. Their body is cooked by 40. It breaks families and is a quietly suffered epidemic. Terror is flashy and in your face. No one cares if your uncle died when you were 15 addicted to alcohol and meth. You get all sorts of patriotic platitudes about heroism if your relative is killed by a terrorist.

Edit: It informs life choices in interesting ways. When that tough on his luck guy comes over, smelling like a still at 11am, I can relate to where that guy is. So I let him pet my dog on our walk and treat him with kindness, because not many others will. It is about as hopeless a problem as you can find when a family member is in deep. Anyway, we do other things, but everyone has a hard go at it in life, some people just have it harder and deserve compassion. We do other things to help, but everyone loves petting dogs.
It's not mentioned in the article, but were the people who are addicted initially prescribed opioids for pain relief? Or did they initially try them recreationally?
> or drug abuse.

I'm no expert but isn't China known for having suffered from opium for a long time? If so it's quite relevant here since we're precisely talking about opioids.
Not so much as a mention of bitcoin or virtual currency.
I'm so grateful that Uber exists, precisely for those places where those alternatives don't really exist, and so the choices are trying to bum a ride, or god forbid, driving drunk.
> Yes and no, they are in a space which is extremely price competitive. I literally am watching Uber take a dramatic hit in my area right now.

You are 'literally' watching Uber take a 'dramatic' hit. Okay.

Extremely price competitive market, yet you only mention Lyft.

> Lyft came to town and probably 80% of the drivers solely use them now, driving up the Uber prices.

Where did you get your numbers from? Just making stuff up as you go?

> Now, I only use Lyft - as do most of the people.

I only use Uber - as do most of the people. See how this generic mud-slinging like commentary works?

> Plus, most of the Uber drivers are shady here

Making blanket statements with words like 'shady' and 'here' is cheap.

You did not mention a single, verifiable fact. I can apply this kind of narrative to pretty much anything.

> I honestly still don't see them making it out of their situation.

Wrap it up with a cliche 'honesty...'. I do not understand comments like this; how much is Lyft paying you?
What are you talking about? We have successfully gone after numerous companies/industries who knowingly sold products they knew were dangerous and said were safe. Examples include tobacco, lead paint and asbestos. Last time I checked it was pretty hard to install asbestos in your house...
Anybody have a link to an emulator version? I'd like to port it for Android.
It is from the comment you were replying to when I originally replied to you.
NATS does not support replication (or really any high availability settings) currently. Which is a major missing feature when comparing it to Kafka.
Here are the slides from 2011:

https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-tren...

I just went through them, the trouble is that most of the trends are so vague (e.g. "Advertising - Lookin' Good") that you can't really grade them on their predictive accuracy. It's not even clear to me whether she's calling out economic drivers (since she's an investor) or if she's just picking 10 trends at random cross sections. I don't know what her intent is with these, but I judged them on the rubric that "if her 2011 report was perfect, her 2017 report would be an exact copy with updated numbers", admittedly not knowing if that was her rubric.

She does consistently mention tech globalization (mostly regarding China/India) and the US's increasingly large debt, the economic trends seem pretty consistently and accurate. But she misses out on some huge industry trends like the critical role that data plays today or the overtaking of traditional industries over the last ten years via "software eating the world" (even up to 2014).* She's also consistent and mostly correct about mobile being a dominant trend (up until now), but everything else like "Re-imagining Messaging" and "Content Creation - Changed Forever" sounds like it was just the flavor of the year.

* http://www.kpcb.com/blog/2014-internet-trends
> If you can't frame your B2B company's value propositions as "This will save $X" or "This will make $X", you won't sell.

I've seen multi-million dollar software deals where the "make or break" feature is themeing it to corporate colors. I've also seen some terrible software bought because the sales team takes the manager out to a nice lunch.

I don't think I've ever seen software sold on a purely cost/savings basis.
Militant Islam is very useful to elites. The U.S. particularly constantly screws around in the Middle East supporting groups that later become terrorist targets of ours. The biggest offenders have the U.S. governments' hands all over them before they became that. The U.S. protects Saudi Arabia and gives military aid despite them harboring top promoters of terrorism. The media and U.S. government here constantly warn people about terrorism with the defense contractors making billions from that and powermongers getting all kinds of laws such as Patriot Act passed when people were afraid. They also like doing this with threats from drug dealers, kidnappers, and pedophiles. There's even a meme for it they do it so much on Internet side:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Thank you. The solution is, paradoxically, to increase access to opiates so nobody has to buy on the black market.
I know exactly where you got it. But you referred to the comment as "your" parent comment. Perhaps you meant something different by that from what that sounds like to me.
In New Zealand we used 'piggie'. None of us were aware that this was not the original. Mercifully.
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That is really cool.

FWIW, one could think of downvotes as kudos for thinking differently.
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It's ET for Atari 2600

There is an hour long YouTube about it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Urd9JbjLmbY

ROM: https://m.emuparadise.me/Atari_2600_ROMs/E.T._-_The_Extra-Te...

Edit: YT and ROM link
Cosmetic surgery hacked.Nude photos/data exposed dark web, patients blackmailed
A couple times I have configured multiple "remotes" for my local git repo and pushed to both, e.g. GitHub + Google Cloud Source Repository, or even just a bare repo on a VPS.
That was about money, not opium.
Or commercials for pharmaceuticals at all.
> Terrorism is closer to the threat posed by crush deaths from vending machines

This is a fallacy. In the case of terrorism "past performance is not an indicator of future results".

An attack with e.g. a biological weapon could cause, on a single day, 1000x the cumulative number of deaths we had over the past decade.

There is no possibility of the number of crush deaths from vending machines rising like that.
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I suggest you go and read FDA regulations about what drug companies can and can't say about their products.
I can't wait til this sort of thing is common in 3D.
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Our current healthcare system says, hey, if you're poor/out of work/disabled, here's some cash to buy dangerously addictive opiates that will short-term make you feel better. What could go wrong?

Here's some blog posts arguing the ACA actually increased the severity of the opioid crisis:

https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/some-stronger-e...

https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/its-opioids-not...

I'm (nevertheeless) pro-universal healthcare, but our idea of healthcare should probably not include these drugs in any but the most extreme and limited circumstances (like, I'm lying in a hospital bed). They're too dangerous.

Having doctors actively prescribe them, under incentives from pharma companies to sell them, seems to me predatory in the same way we think of street dealers stalking schoolyards as predatory.

Chris Arnade has done a great job documenting the crises at a personal level. I highly recommend checking out some of his articles and tweetstorms. It's gut-wrenching stuff (and obviously the problem goes way deeper than simple access).

But pharma/doctors/govt pushing drugs isn't helping, and is probably making it much worse.
People were saying the same thing about Twitter forever and turned out to be largely wrong. I have a feeling the company making billions of dollars in revenue has some smart people who figured out how not to mess this up.

But who knows maybe Uber will stop being the dominate taxi / self-driving car company globally over the next decade and mess it all up. Or not... but I doubt this large expenditure was done without foresight. The question is whether they can dominate for years to come in a high-growth industry, which it seems likely given the wide gap between them and the competition.
With NSQ there is a built in utility nsq_to_file which just becomes one additional consumer you'd use to archive each message topic to disk. It provides dead simple archiving of messages, but doesn't provide any native replay ability.
The comparison of terrorism to the opioid epidemic (which is both heartbreaking and underreported) or vending machines deaths breaks down when one factors in nuclear weapons, attacks on critical infrastructure, etc. Violence from terrorism has fat tails.

But, of course, multiple things can be bad at once.
I have very little confidence this will go anywhere. If anything the pharmaceutical companies will pay a small fine and agree to better inform patients and doctors, control supply chain better etc.. Nothing else is going to come out of this.

I get the feeling that this is just political showmanship. I wouldn't be surprised if the governor of Ohio is running for office in 2020. He has been making the rounds of talkshows trying to sound very concerned about people's health.
So the bit of wing that joins the two fuselages is made of carbon fibre? Are there any details on how it was constructed?

Imagine that thing, fully loaded taking off into turbulent air. Scary.
Many people don't just "happen" to be in a situation where they don't need a car, they actively put themselves in that situation by making many lifestyle choices.

I changed jobs (twice) to move closer to home. I used to have a job with a 45 - 60 minute car commute (the train was over 2 hours due to the need to make 2 connections), then took a job that was only about 10 miles away (just under an hour by bike, 12 - 30 minutes by car depending on traffic). I took a bit of a pay cut for that job, but it was worth it for saving about an hour/day commuting.

Then I moved to a job that was 2 miles away (10 minutes by bike or by car). My job also happens to be close to shops, restaurants, etc -- everything I need for daily living. And I get around 1.5 hours/day of my life back compared to when I had the original, longer commute.

But I didn't just "happen" to end up living where I don't need a car, I actively sought it out.