skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't. That is the point. Uber follows the law.

Read this part of the article:

"Uber made a particular effort to deploy the tool in cities where it faced opposition from local regulators or rival taxi and transportation companies. One of those cities was Portland."

NYC did not bow to pressure from rival taxi companies and they did follow the law cooperating with NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission (again, unlike AirBnB which directly broke NY City and NY State laws and was sued by the NY State Attorney General). Uber was never in trouble with the law in NYC nor NYS and the only time it has trouble are with entities that try to block competition from the regulated monopoly.
I can just imagine how pissed Tim Cook is right now. For years he's enjoyed his lunches for free, too. But now the spotlight will be on the accounting department.

As a side note, when I watched this last night I really enjoyed Scott's story telling. Specifically when this bit was told I laughed out loud. Don't think I've done that to an internet video for quite some time.
"I'll allow it."
tl;dr: Verizon owns Yahoo now, so it owns Tumblr too.
> The use of "literally" is only necessary in contexts where it is in question whether the meaning is literal or not.

The use of literally with its meaning of “not figurative” is only necessary in those contexts where it is unclear without the additional term whether a use is figurative or literal.

The use of it with its meaning as an intensifier of a figurative statement is only necessary (or appropriate) when it is already clear from context that the use is figurative and cannot be literal.
Actually people with $500k are hardly considered wealthy in Beijing. A typical 100 m^2 flat within 4th ring road worth well over $1M. EB5 seems so easy here...
Tricle-down economics doesn't work. The only people who get empowered to get richer when rich people get rich, are the rich people themselves.
Technically, they could provide a self-hosted version. But that may not be a very profitable business. Also, screen scraping needs continuous updating as the bank's interface changes.
Is chroot a security feature? (2003)
I want the opposite. Draw a block diagram on paper, scan it, and get a super swank omnigraffle-style diagram from it (or a top-notch ASCII art diagram).
I’m reading the “Deep Learning” book written by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville. Also "Intercom on staring up"
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It depends on the work category, salary level, and the province. Canada is making a real effort to lead in AI and that helps.
I like the analogy to Napster. Napster was a fundamentally illegal business that people accepted because of its' innovation. When it was shut down, things didn't go back to the old model for music sales. Instead the old model was replaced with companies that were innovative and legal.
This (polyglot persistence in Fowler-speak) is typical in situations when you have access patterns that aren't well-solved by a single data store.

It will likely introduce some serious consistency issues that need to be attended to, but that pain might be better than the alternatives.
This heavily depends on the judge, which court, and where. All of my cases which have been heard by a court I've been awarded money for my time.
Because there was no Amazon to compare to at the time. Walmart's reach never once approached modern AZ's.
Right, that makes sense.

So that definition of "meaning" would be purely subjective meaning. It's meaning that is self-determined.

In your example, maybe an extra-universal future being might be able to read an echo of our impression on the timeline.

That's dreaming of an idea that might make a hint at a sense of purpose.

But that is what I don't find that fulfilling at all.

What I deeply desire is evidence-based objective meaning, and knowing that you and I and everyone else is truly important and valuable and that the choices we make shape eternal reality.

So that is what I see as the qualititative difference between subjective meaning (meaning purely determined by the subject) and existential meaning (one's existence having an eternal value).

Also, yes the dog would have existential value because it would contribute to the eternal effect. In fact, if there is an Eternal One then love and respect for everything he has designed becomes very important and things made from atoms would carry existential value beyond the physics alone.

As a side note, if there is an Eternal One who cares to be known, then he would have to communicate himself and provide evidence for his existence. (And Yes, I do believe that evidence actually exists and I believe it is very good: it fills my heart with hope and deep meaning as I face the problems of this temporary life.)

Anyway, I appreciate the dialog and I hope it is somehow useful for you.

Thank you for taking the time to think through it with me.
Looked at the Twist mac app and looks all native, using Swift. Unlike Slack which is an Electron webapp.
That's a solid upvote from me. But then again I had the good luck to be born in Norway, a country where education, health care and all is truly an equal opportunity (ie disregarding family wealth) prospect.
Interesting. I like rust, and struggle with the borrow system, but what i'm looking for is a garbage-collected Rust!
> Also these rental services/configurations will hardly be free. So the cost of the car/maintenance isn't eliminated entirely. For my situation, given that I've been driving the same car for the last 11 years, and it was ~16k when I bought it, plus maybe an average $1200 a year in insurance, and maybe an average of $300 a year in maintenance that means I've spent an average of $2,954.54/year over the last 11 years on car ownership. And that number is only going to get smaller unless I buy another car.

Nope, but they will be commoditized. If you have a car that all you have to do is pass it an API key and a location, there's not much value a ride sharing service can add to that -- which means there will probably be a bunch of them. Which means that the price to the consumer should be something close to [ (marginal cost of ride) + (depreciation cost of ride) ] * 1.03. And the cost side of that will benefit from scale for the business, but not the consumer.

Basically, once it's commoditized, it will cost you more to do it yourself than to pay someone to do it for you. Just like with currently commoditized services like AWS, there can still be good reasons to do it yourself -- but those tend to be special cases rather than the norm.

> But in this scenario I'm losing a minimum 90 hours per year on the margin.

Err, I'll play along. If you were in an autonomous car (or even a current ride-share), you could just work while en route rather than drive. I'm willing to bet you spend more hours sitting in traffic today than you ever would waiting on a car to arrive.
Then lets be blatant and straightforward then.

"If you're rich and willing to spend, we want you. If you're average or poor, fuck you."
If I use my bank's mobile app to transfer money to a friend, would Apple demand a 30% of that as well?
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Not certain why downvoted and no explanation provided for providing a fact. I think most would agree that Lyft charging surge pricing during a non-surge time is ridiculous. Uber to their credit did not try to rip me and other customers off.
How to get a negative 294% tax rate
Should I use moondraw with a wacom tablet, or just the trackpad?
Whoever wins (spoilers: Amazon), big business wins! Story of America.
Same way engineering colleges should prepare students of startups: promote co-ops and internships. Forge ties with industry to ensure that such gigs are actually substantiative, i.e. the intern works on something that's more than drudge work.
Net neutrality makes internet more expensive for everybody so Torrent and Netflix users can be subsidized.

It looks right, but it is WRONG to "defend" it using law and force.
Things have changed. What was "street hailing" is now pretty much equivalent to "app hailing" because it's so frictionless.
How on earth does "IQ testing" and "consideration to fellow countrymen" even relate? I cannot fathom the connection.
You can't (and they don't promise) encryption such that AWS can't see everything, if they were in fact malicious. This is true of every cloud.

That said, it's not illegal for them to see that xxx vendor increased their storage costs/bandwidth costs by $yyy every month, and that you could look into it - without using one piece of encrypted data.

Disclosure: Former AWS
So it was something similar to today's ProductHunt?
Without a company sponsoring and providing support, it is effectively dead for any serious commercial use.
I wonder what the cost of the government bureaucracy which evaluates that criteria will be.
> If OpenSSL wasn't the de facto king of OSS crypto libraries for so long (partly because it was the only one for so long),

Netscape released the NSS library in 1998, and as far as I can tell it hasn't even changed its ABI incompatibly since 2000, but perhaps this is too recent for programmers to take notice.
I have a feeder I put about two pounds of seed in a day. Doves, red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, house finches and house sparrows all get their share. The sparrows aren't "swarming" anyone out. If anything the red-winged blackbirds are the bullies.

I have a bird house with a pair of sparrows. About 20" above that is a nest of breeding Robins that like a spot on the underside of my deck. The sparrows have never messed with the Robin nest in any way. There are eastern bluebirds nearby and the sparrows have caused no trouble for them either, despite the suitability of the house.

This "HOSP" hate is misplaced. Please don't hate on these birds. There are a couple pages on the Internet about the awful depredations of the terrible HOSP and so hating on them has become a fad.
Please believe women when they report harassment in the workplace

One of the problems with this unilateral statement is that if this becomes the new norm, then women can just level accusations and be believed. Men get fired or have other consequences.

It is never a good idea to have a policy of sweepingly and uncritically believing some category of people over another. That is actually the problem we currently have, only it is generally white men who get believed, no matter what they say, while women and poc get ignored, dismissed, etc. Consider how poorly that is currently serving women and poc and maybe stop to wonder if you would want to be on the receiving end of that.

Your remarks make it clear that you have enormous privilege and you imagine you cannot lose that advantage. Consider the possibility of losing it. Just as a thought experiment. Your smugness is deeply rooted in your assumption that you will always be privileged. And I don't even know where to begin here in telling you how sick and twisted that is.

In a weird way, it deeply reinforces the current sick system. And if you did get your way, you could well lose the thing you currently cannot imagine losing.

I am not for having a Lord of the Flies social order and simply shuffling around who the default victims are. I would like to treat everyone better, not simply make the current victims the next generation of abusive tyrants.
Erhm, you can't be addicted to cheap goods if cheap goods don't exist. People weren't any less materialistic in the 60's they just had less cheap stuff to buy. Business push prices down to make more money not because they have to satiate rabid consumers.
Show HN: Syntactor – (JSON-)editor that prevents syntax errors
Who's "We"? From the context it seems clear you must be talking about US citizens and not non-American HN readers, but aside from that it's not clear. Do you mean Donald Trump, the US Federal Government, individual states, parents of children, or someone else?
I wonder if there is an arbitrage opportunity: invest in real estate and office space north of Seattle and south of Vancouver, just over the border.

Those who can go back and forth and take meetings on both sides. People are within commuting distance of these large metro areas.
Could be some middle ground. That video doesn't really help his case to me. He knows the car is in the middle of the street, and not parked. The driver does start rolling while the passenger is clearly very close to the car. Even if you assume he didn't notice the car leaving, it seems to speak to the drivers intent. If the driver was intending to steal something, why risk pulling away when the owner of the bag is so close?

It's plausible to me that the driver didn't hear, or didn't pay full attention to the request to wait, and just pulled away...and that the bag was taken by a later passenger.

I would have been happy to get the money, and probably would have skipped the blog post.
You brought a smile to my face. I came here to post this same point.

The piece is kind of making a basic fundamental mistake in measurement, assuming that all variability is meaningful variability.

There are ways of making the argument they're trying to make, but they're not doing that.

Also, sometimes a single overall score is useful. A better analogy than the cockpit analogy they use is clothing sizing. Yes, tailored shirts, based on detailed measurements of all your body parts, fit awesome, but for many people, small, medium, large, x-large, and so forth suffice.

I think there's a lesson here about reinventing the wheel.

I appreciate the goals of the company and wish them the best, but they need a psychometrician or assessment psychologist on board.
It is not trickle down economics. It is optimizing for the highest amount of tax dollars.

If you have 2 people, one which will contribute >30K a year in taxes, and another that will contribute 10k a year in taxes, that is free money on the table that we are losing out on, if we don't accept person 1.
Still cheaper than SF

Here's an analysis of residential rental prices: http://quantitativerhetoric.com/monthly-rental-report-may-20...
I keep hearing the opposite.

When was the last time you checked (no sarcasm), and how did you check?
Windows Internals 7th Ed.

Seveneves, Neal Stephenson

Astrophysics for people in a hurry, Neil De Grasse Tyson
You are correct. They ABSOLUTELY monitor customer spend usage, without using one iota of personally identifiable information.
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Oi, I suppose archiving Tumblr is this weekend's project.
How Can You Tell Someone Has True Leadership Skills? Look for This 1 Rare Sign
Yup. But (at least according to Wikipedia's article about the ST) the pattern was around -- in art -- centuries before Sierpiński!
Do you really think so? I think in practice, if every website you visited made you click 10-50 pop ups the first time you went to the site, people would start to blindly click without reading, and it would be even easier to slip a malicious pop up request by a user.

While you might want to believe that a user would actually think about what they are accepting, reality is almost all don't. Even the more security minded people among us will start to get numb to the requests. Only the most paranoid would pay attention to all of them, and those people are probably already doing things that would make that sort of pop up redundant.

I think this is a very common trap we fall into, where we want to provide MORE warnings to people and let them use their judgement. However, there is such a thing as 'alert fatigue'.

In California, companies that produce carcinogens took advantage of this aspect of human nature; when California wanted to place warning signs about cancer causing substances, they realized they couldn't win the fight against the warnings. Instead, they fought for MORE warnings; they wanted warning signs for even very slight risk carcinogens. They knew that if the signs were EVERYWHERE, people would stop paying attention to them.

It worked. Basically every building in California has a warning that 'substances known to cause cancer or birth defects are present'. Since every building has the same warning, I have no way of knowing which ones are ACTUALLY dangerous.
This has existed via the EDI standard for VISA net for decades. Nothing new here.
And more of a spiritual successor than an actual one.

You probably won't be writing kernels with it.
Just making a profit isn't enough; they need to make a big profit. Kalanick could probably turn a profit if he fired the whole company and drove a cab himself, but that's not gonna placate the investors who sunk hundreds of millions into it.
Symbolic Logic with Truth Tables
> While Go's official marketing no longer calls it a systems language, the use of that phrase when Go was originally released does indicate that that they envisioned Go to be a "better C" in a sense

Rob Pike uses the phrase within the first 5 minutes or so of the very first presentation video announcing Go, and explicitly mentions that they mean "systems" in the sense of webservers and the like. Since then, Go being a systems language has endlessly (and often maliciously) been misrepresented, so under these circumstances, it's only understandable why this phrase was dropped, even though it was absolutely appropriate since its first use gave plenty of context.
I'm currently working through this struggle in Hawaii. I'm currently an adult student pursuing concurrent degrees in CS and Entrepreneurship at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and trying to find ways to bring the two programs closer in ways that reflect my self-study on SV-style tech entrepreneurship and my experience in the professional workforce...and it's not easy.

Not mentioned in the video are a couple factors that probably influence the process in invisible and important ways:

1) At UH (and other universities I've checked on), the different departments are run as different business units, so trying to run mixed classes runs into the typical corporate politics of how funds are allocated, who gets credit, etc. We do have a video game design class that combines CS and creative media majors into one crossover class at the undergrad level, so I'm trying to gain insight on how that works at a pedagogical and administrative level.

2) Talking to the curriculum manager of our MBA program, he expressed that he didn't have any professors who would want to teach a multidisciplinary class, and he didn't have anyone he felt comfortable assigning to it anyway. When I asked him why, he said that business academia heavily discouraged multidisciplinary research, and publish-or-die culture has resulted in extremely "pointy" professors who are stellar single business discipline, but essentially worthless outside their skill silo. Because of this, he felt that a silo-breaker class would be either resource-intensive or ineffective.

We do have a couple "entrepreneurship" centers on campus, one oriented around tech (with a former technical SV-type manager), and one oriented around business. Sadly, they seem to be mutually exclusive for the most part, but I've been working on trying to build the connective tissue.

I do completely agree that business and engineering need each other, because I always see product without strategy or strategy that completely misunderstands the magical business properties of pure tech--and that's if the business kids are pitching tech at all. These two disciplines, at least at my school, are utterly ignorant of each other and it shows in the ideas they have. When it comes to preparing students for any kind of entrepreneurship, you need to have practitioners and managers mingling for it to work, and I doubt I'd ever go to a business masters that wasn't multidisciplinary. To this end, very happy I'm seeing things like Harvard's MBA/CS and the Stanford interdisciplinary programs pop up.

I doubt I'll get UH to see the light, but wish me luck. Hopefully the insights I got from administrators help someone look at the problem differently.
This might seem weird but I've never heard of someone getting a job via Linkedin. I mostly get recruiter spam. Do you work in tech? I've heard outside of tech the site is indispensable. Care to share any tips on how to use it for job hunting?
Very often, if not almost always, there is no competition between security and accessibility. I'm not sure how you get this impression. The two can also go hand in hand, building features that render server-side with security in mind in addition to the existing client-side functionality.
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But at a very minimum, you can agree that if someone makes more money, then they will pay more in taxes?

Why shouldn't the government optimize for letting people into the country that are going to give it a lot of tax dollars? We could then use those extra tax dollars to do things that society wants.
Hey all - co-founder of Plaid[0]. Congrats to Steve - great to see some innovation across the pond!

There were a bunch of questions about Plaid and the difference. The obvious one is that Teller is UK only and supports the top couple banks, Plaid is US only and supports thousands of financial institutions. If you need both UK and US coverage - since we both have pretty developer friendly APIs - it seems like a nice combo! Steve/Teller have also taken a bit of an antagonistic approach and has not worked with the banks - time will see if this proves successful, but we've taken the approach to work directly with the banks (as investors, clients, data-partners etc.).

Hope that helps and if you have any other questions/comments feel free to shoot me an email at william [at] plaid.com

[0] https://plaid.com
>IQ testing

Excuse me for saying, but this alone suffices to reveal your character. IQ is an unscientific measure, full of holes, doesn't correlate in any meaningful way to success, let alone worth to society. IQ testing, really? Not success, not merit, not services to society, f*cking IQ testing. I mean, I take it you would rather have a 170 IQ shut-in doing nothing productive with his talents than a hardworking labourer or a celebrated NGO founder in your country?

I would venture further. If I had to wager I would say you got praised a lot for being smart when you were a child, maybe even got a good score in IQ testing at some point in your life. It skewed your view of things and now you reduce everything to that. But maybe I'm wrong.
Stephen Hawking: Humans Need to Leave Earth
Maybe, but it's not like "Sierpinski's" triangle was unknown before him. It appears far, far back in human history.
Indeed. Often the CC machines in black cabs are "broken", forcing you to pay in cash.
Yep, bingo. I would definitely put some time into learning Kafka if I were to rebuild this type of architecture again.
I can only guess that it come from the game "Duck, Duck, Goose", which is really easy to remember if you played it as a child.
The detective in charge of my case sent me the police report. She had contacted the official law enforcement department of Uber to get more information. She gave Uber the date and time of the ride, as well as the license plate of the vehicle and name of the driver.

The Uber department responded that they had no record of a trip from the vehicle with that license plate on December 5th, 2016, just after 11 PM, and the driver had not driven with them for 2 years.

Funny, I came here to rant that Uber shouldn't really be responsible for that and the OP should have sued the driver instead, but if this is their response then they totally deserved everything they got and more.

How is it even possible to get away with lying to the police like that? They should be in serious trouble for this alone.