skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hasn't the same thing been said about Walmart?

I completely agree with it.

My hometown's retail business all goes to the Walmart super store on the outskirts of town. It's weird to be living in a Bruce Springsteen song.
I worked on a project where the architect wanted to use Lambdas for the entire solution. This was a bad choice.

Lambdas have a lot of benefits - for occasional tasks they are essentially free, the simple programming model makes them easy to understand in teams, you get Amazon's scaling and there's decent integration with caching and logging.

However, especially since I had to use them for whole solution, I ran into a ton of limitations. Since they are so simple, you have to pull in a lot of dependencies which negate a lot of the ease of understanding I mentioned before. The dependencies are things like Amazon's API Gateway, AWS Step Functions, and AWS CLI itself, which is pretty low-level. So now, the application logic is pretty easy, but now you are dealing with a lot of integration devops. There's API Gateway is pretty clunky and surprisingly slow. Lambdas shut themselves down, and restarting is slow. The Step Functions have a relatively small payload limit that needs to be worked around. Etc. So use them sparingly!
The regulations by and large were simply there to protect incumbents that wanted to keep out competition which offered higher customer value (by offering lower cost, more responsive, less greenhouse gas) service.

Unlike AirBnB which does break NY City and NY State laws, Uber has been following regulations that are imposed by the NYC Taxi & Limousine commission (e.g., screening drivers, etc.).
Ancient Egyptian “billboard” could rewrite history of hieroglyphs
Is it really that hard to not sexually harass workers at your place of business?
I welcome the discussion.
That's pretty much how I did it on my NAS. My top level is basically "fiction", "non-fiction", "music", "pictures", "software" - then it just goes from there.

But it has problems. For instance, I like to collect information about robotics and artificial intelligence. In many cases I have papers with titles like "Using Computer Vision to Control a Robot Arm via a CNN". Do I put it under "robotics/sensors/vision" or "ai-ml/anns/cnn" or "robotics/motion-control/platform/arm"...or...? It can technically fit into any and all of those categories!

That's a problem with hierarchical category structures; when something can fit into multiple categories, you can either duplicate the information (not good - unless your system has some way of using pointer refs or such to prevent data duplication - which most file systems don't), cross-link the information (put it in a canonical spot and symlink to it), or just say "f-it" and stick it someplace, and hope you can find it later (which sometimes you can't).

What I wish I had, instead, was a simple means to search my filesystem in a very quick fashion. Ideally, it would be something like the old Google Search Appliance, which could spider and index my filesystem, read each file (and any metadata stored in the file, such as in the case of videos and images) and build up an index that can be quickly and easily searched. It would also keep this index up-to-date as files are added, removed, or changed.

Unfortunately, I've yet to find a low-cost (ideally free) open-source solution to this problem, that was also easy to set up and maintain. I've found more than a few solutions (or partials) which given enough admin and configuration (plus maintenance and/or glue code) could potentially become the system I want, but none of them were "turnkey" - install, simple setup (nothing more complex than a NAS or WiFi Router, for instance), and "let it go". They were all very "enterprise-y" and required more than a bit of effort to install and maintain. It isn't that I couldn't do that, I just don't have the time to dedicate to such a task. But it might be something I just have to bite the bullet for.

Maybe what I need to do is research the latest offering of FreeNAS - maybe they've (since the last time I used it) implemented a decent search engine module (or some third party plugin has been created) to handle this issue?
Anomalous mummified humanoid with elongated head unearthed in Peru
If you have plentiful access to salt water, it might be worth it to use that for "black water" (sewage).
Etsy Cuts Another 15% of Workforce
Because it used words like "immoral monster" and "devour the economy" without actually backing any of it up with evidence.
It didn't work when I wanted to take a cab from Logan Square to work. Called the dispatcher. The cab showed up somewhere between 15 and 60 minutes later.
Citation doubly required because if the net miles driven actually increases due to increased use of cars over public transit (very likely), and increased availability of transportation services overall, the greenhouse gas emissions would go _up_ if anything.

There are situations where ride services would encourage public transit utilization (last mile services), but I'd guess those are far from the dominant use case.
And the third step after dispatch, cab finds another rider on the way and dispatch doesn't call back to tell you your cab isn't coming.
Have you ever used Uber pool? Two different customers sharing the same vehicle, lowering greenhouse gas.
So why Lyft get none of the protests? I think you are mixing unrelated subjects.

Uber final product is good for society. And other companies can provide the same product (in my city, São Paulo, there are other 3 good companies in the same space).

Uber practices as a company are toxic for its employees and some of the toxicity leak to society.

If such calculation was possible, I believe it would show a net positive impact in society. But a company with good practices and the same product would have an even larger net positive impact.

As a society, I believe we should not settle for bad companies making good products, that's why I believe all the protests are legit.
In which way does quantum mechanics disprove determinism?
I agree. Conceptually Amazon has competitors in every field. They just don't seem to be denting Amazon's growing control.
Right off the bat, this has much better performance on my laptop than Slack; Slack really spins the fans. Also, that extra layer of organization provided by the thread column was needed badly. I personally was hoping for tags and tag-groups in Slack, but this should also do nicely.

We have been using Slack as a UI for our backend services, for example, and it is a great way to present reports and alerts, and offer basic controls to the relevant person. For me, whether or not I actually adopt Twist will depend on how easily I can interact with it from my own software.

I would suggest making the integrations page easier to find - I had to troll through the Zendesk archive to find it, even though it is a core feature. Also, a link to the API docs on the help page would be nice. (Edit: Didn't realize until now that integrations are at the channel level, not the top level.)

API docs: https://doist.gitbooks.io/twist-api/content/
Wal-Mart have always been pure bastards to their supply chain.

My family had a small manufacturing business that went bankrupt years ago. At one point we were making a part that ultimately ended up on a WM product. Periodically WM's folks would come around and do a strong arm routine trying to renegotiate the contract. It got bad enough my dad adopted the habit of bringing a couple of the very burly folks that worked in the fabrication shop to sit in on meetings and reduce the intimidation BS.

They are a ruthlessly scummy business and have been for a very long time.
Maybe something like Will Smith's car in I,Robot movie is what I imagined while reading this. Faster than a bullet train and automated.
>Tesla will try to ship a self-driving system before [...] People will die because of this.

On the other hand pushing the envelope on self driving technology using cheap sensors will probably help reduce the world's 1m annual auto deaths earlier than otherwise. Thousands of people will not die because of this.
Exactly the same scenario in Hong Kong. And Government still dont realize what is wrong with the current Taxi system.
It is not fair to the consumers, because they are not getting any decent services out of it. It is not fair to the taxi drivers, because their earning only barely manage to lease the car.
And it is only what called the Medallions owner that actually profits.
I think is looking good and gaining momentum.

The acid test will be the jump from the legacy image (15.04) to the 16.04 LTS one.

Fingers crossed.
yes had the same question: https://www.gitbook.com/book/doist/twist-api

it looks a bit more complicated than the Slack one, because of the thread/comment difference, but the "Automatic URL Report" and "Loop in" email based input looks very powerful as well.
If you can figure that out, let me know and maybe I'll loop you in on the billions generated :)

Seriously though, most people could not conceive of what the internet of today would have looked like 20 years ago, so I'm thinking it's going to be something similar for crypto. Remember that some, like ethereum specifically, are applications platforms for running arbitrary code in a distributed way. Exactly what applications will come of that I really don't know, but I'm sure they will be figured out, and by that time the value will be obvious.
They didn't before faced with an existential crisis.
I don't think so. I'd much rather pay the cost of ownership than rental every time I wanted to move about.

By definition rental is going to be more expensive than ownership.

I don't doubt that companies will have fleets of cars for their employees, etc, but personal vehicles are not going to go away.
Glad to hear from authors!

Question 1: So how is your solution better than UDP/QUIC or TCP/TLS? Yes, you have to properly tune and use protocols, by padding the data properly, and by setting up DDOS mitigations. Still, it will be much less work that writing a new protocol from scratch, and it will be better than your protocol in every single aspect.

Question 2: What do you mean "highly successful"? I did not see anything in the whitepaper (but I have not read it very carefully), and the website has two quotes from hilariously incompetent pentesters. Do you have any other evidence of success?
That's... Not... That's not how human cooperation and society work.
Gustaf is awesome and has been a great help at my startup YesGraph. YC is lucky to have him!
Eh, it's a Pavlovian instinct. See the word "culture" in any context, shout "Racism!"

If it doesn't make sense, and people point this out, just double down and shout the same thing but louder.

Yawn.
Exclusive streaming deals are bad. E3 proved that Twitch has trouble with high viewer counts. YouTube had higher viewer counts on just about all major conferences at E3 and had no network problems.
Perhaps https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/110/ ?

Convenience for You is Independence for Me

Why design apps with accessibility? Meet Todd Stabelfeldt, founder of C4 Consulting, who has lived with quadriplegia since the age of 8. Over his decades-long struggle for increased independence in both his personal and professional lives, Todd has become a noted expert in technologies for persons with disabilities, which he has found can offer not only a level of autonomy but also empowerment and dignity to the mobility impaired. Leading by example, Todd runs a successful business but his real passion lies elsewhere. Hear how apps designed well with accessibility in mind have changed his life as a husband, father and as owner of the “Quadthedral“, his family's HomeKit-enabled smart home.

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Unfortunately http://asciiwwdc.com/ hasn't been updated with a searchable transcript for 2017. I'm having trouble viewing the video in a browser on my PC; the download links are under "Resources".
There was some interesting discussion regarding this here recently in the comments regarding a Rust demangling library[1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13706799
As I said in another thread, keep an eye in https://ubports.com/
+1

Sorry, couldn't resist. I got burned by this, I used it to sign up to a newsletter, and when I tried to unsubscribe, I kept putting in my actual email address with no results. Took me two weeks to think of checking the "to" field and realising I'd used a plus address
Was tipping included for Uber Eats? That's where it was definitely needed. I don't think it's a great feature for the ride service, though.
> There is always demand for Uber/Lyft just because there isn't a taxi cab nearby 24/7.

There's certainly a market for app/phone jailable cabs because there isn't one within street hail range at all times, but regular cabs have been phone hailable forever (it's the only way to get one outside of a few major urban cores) and are increasingly app hailable. Aside from regulatory supply restrictions (flouting which may not be sustainable) there's no real basis for a market for alt-taxis as anything but interchangeable competitors supplying the same substitutable commodity as regular taxis.
Suppliers are free to tell Walmart to stuff it.
Disappointed there is no route planner on Mars
Azure is a better service imho, but is it actually succeeding? I'd argue it is not, yet.
It's not a laptop but an Amazon Echo is excellent for Music, Audible books and Podcasts. Hard to beat how well the immediate voice recognition works. Home automation works but it's a try and see if it works for you type of situation. It's worth investigating for your needs. Also it's relatively inexpensive. I should add that home automation needs additional hardware and costs. But you can buy an on/off plug for a bit under $30.00.
I didn't. And I know many who don't. Though it's true that many do. Still, there's a couple of years of school before they turn 16.
Can talk only about the node.js runtime with native add-ons. Using it for various automation tasks less then 100 invocations a day where it is the most convenient solution out there for peanuts. We also use it for parsing Swagger/API Blueprint files, here we talk 200k+ invocations a day and works great once we figured out logging/monitoring/error handling and limited output (6MB). We do not use any framework because they mostly are not flexible enough but apex (http://apex.run/) and serves us well. We've hit couple of times some limits but as it is invocation per request only some calls failed and the whole service was unaffected. I see the isolation as a big benefit you get. One thing which sucks is that if it fails (and it is not your code) often you have no idea why and if anything can be done. We use it together with AWS API Gateway and the Gateway part is sub par. The gateway does not support correct HTTP like 204 always returns a body and god forbid if you want something else than application/json. To sum it up lambda is great with some minor warts and the API gateway is OK but can easily imagine it much better.
It is undeniably terrible, But welcome to fortune 500 business practices. In this world you are seen as weak if you DONT do these things.
Have you ever used Uber pool? Two different customers sharing the same vehicle, lowering greenhouse gas.

There is absolutely no proof whatsoever, that people sharing a vehicle increases greenhouse gas. Citation is required that it would.
> Some cabs took credit cards, some didn't. Some claimed to take credit cards but then "the machine was broken" so you had to pay cash.

This type of thing sounds like the usual American "let the market sort it out" that other western countries don't have. Taxis are already government controlled (via taxi licensing) so why aren't they required to accept credit cards, as they are in Australia?
More like D is a Better C.
It absolutely is possible, via conservative GC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector
Where is the clash of personalities in this case? Where was Linus "acerbic" in this case?
This is interesting but I definitely question some of the results, for instance reporting a negative impact for changing search results. Many businesses have been built on improving conversion through search result optimization.
Uh if you look at what is happening today, OBVIOUSLY Javascript was 20 years ahead of its time. You're welcome.
I'd just like to point out, Amazon forking android is probably a good thing.

You wouldn't be able to run quite a few apps like tinder without google play if it weren't for what amazon did.
If he still has good movement of his neck:

- Smartnav (if Mac you need to buy via 3rd party, but includes the software)

Fairly expensive, there are other variants that cost less/more, some gaming devices like TrackIr might work as well?
Possible that health insurance would pay for these types of devices?

I personally use Smartnav about 50% of the time I am programming, along with Dragon/Voicecode due to RSI issues.

Smartnav + Dragon might be enough for using laptop/desktop, not so much for mobile devices. If he actually programs I would recommend voicecode.

All of these technologies have a massive learning curve.

You might want to checkout the voicecode forum and slack channel, I know there are some quadriplegic programmers in that community who would have better insight than I.

- http://www.naturalpoint.com/smartnav/

- http://voicecode.io/

- http://discuss.voicecode.io/

- https://voicecode.slack.com/
This is factually incorrect. You're drawing a direct parallel between medallion taxis and Uber/Lyft rides, when they are not in fact the same at all.

The outer boroughs, and every neighborhood in the city, has had car service options for decades, where you call a phone number (or often walk to a local storefront stand) to get a ride.

This is the exact market segment that Uber has entered. Literally. There wasn't and still isn't a restriction on the number of TLC car service cars on the streets.

This idea that there "were no taxis" in the boroughs and now there are is ridiculous. There weren't many yellow cabs before and there still aren't. There used to be thousands of TLC cars before and there still are. Except now people use an app instead of calling Arecibo or Carmel.

Street hailing was and still is prohibited, both for Uber and for phone style car services.

The massive innovation, of course, is the use of a smartphone app for hailing, which made it technically possible to create the market that we see today. Uber, Lyft, and the other companies that built internet enabled hailing solutions certainly do deserve credit for building out that innovation, but that change was just an obvious outgrowth of the technological change to everyone having a handheld always connected small computer. It was inevitable.

The dynamic you're describing for NYC just doesn't really fit the facts. Nor does the idea that a lot more people taking a lot more rides in cars is reducing greenhouse emissions, but that's another matter.
Machine-checked explicit state: An arrow in the heart of complex web apps
Hmm. It seems that these chat applications are more and more becoming like a polished webmail system. Now they've introduced threads, it's searchable forever, you can mail erm. I mean send messages to individuals or even groups. This new technology is amazing. Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with organized information.
To hit that rate you need energy storage at your house, right?

In the context of grid power, that's an even bigger issue given cost and pollution from base load generators.
The biggest change encompasses all of the things that your talking about.

Pace, and not the pace of progress, the literal pace of people.

20 years ago when I moved to the bay area, from the east coast there was still a cadence that was much slower than the "new york minute" that I was used to.

Today everyone is rushing from one thing to the next, we all seem compelled to know and respond instantly. Almost everything you listed can be answered with some form of "faster" (smaller elapsed time) than we could have done it previously, and I think that is a big deal.
Or three systems capable of producing more than 50%.

Because infrastructure should have redundancy.
Am I the only one who noticed the vintage Macs that don't belong together the second-gen iPad next to them?
Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say, "It has been assumed that the rating system will be blind"...

- There is already a rating system for drivers, and riders, so this isn't a "will be" thing, right?

- The rating system is not currently blind, as far as I know. Certainly riders can see drivers rating, and I believe drivers can see riders rating as well.
https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html#cpp-templates

You will need to recreate the C++ function definitions in D and mark them extern(C++), but that's about it.
In Pittsburgh they upgraded the taxi system with new vehicles and app/gps integration right around the time Uber showed up to pilot driverless cars.
That's ye olde D1 though. D2 is a different beast.
And the old is new again to be sold once more.
> That makes me terrified for home values going forward. It will likely shift all the value into the land.

Houses are depreciating assets, the land already has most of the value in popular locations. (Don't believe me? Look at the resale value of mobile homes compared to "real estate".)
I like the term empath75 uses to describe this situation - 'corporate feudalism', because it really does feel like lords battling for power and influence, while an increasingly impotent state looks on doing little more than wagging its finger.
> but also cause the crap food is the only thing accessible and affordable

I hear this often, but it is much more expensive per meal to buy prepackaged garbage food, microwaveable meals, junk etc, than visiting the vegetable section along with bulk rice or beans, and meat. The difference is the latter requires 20-30 minutes of cooking and some minimal effort, whereas microwaving the package garbage meal takes 2 minutes.

Not everyone likes to cook, and many people don't want to deal with cooking after they're tired from a day at work, but it's not really about affordability until you're approaching organic foods.
Amazon has been forcing cheaper books back when it was mainly a book store. What do you do about something like that?

Back when Barnes and Noble was the big book store, same thing, they pressured better prices. What do you do, split up the book store into two companies, who still control the same market share and will both still put pressure on the book companies?

Last I read, Amazon mainly fights for cheaper kindle prices, because it's considerably cheaper to sell a 12 meg file than a 200 page physical book. Which I agree with publishers, only benefits Amazon and not entirely fair, but for the most part, not much ahs changed, most kindle copies are MAYBE a dollar less.
What I'm saying is that anyone who's judgement is so poor as to try and argue operator precedence in this discussion isn't worth bothering with.
* You had to manually partition the disk and setup swap space before you could even launch the installer.*

As of my last install of Slackware 14.1 you still have to do this.

Slackware is a wonderful distribution and keeps most important packages pretty close to up to date but Patrick seems to very much be a "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kind of developer. My first Slackware was 2.1 or 2.2 (just remember if was 1995) and other than the fact I used an ISO image of 14.1 instead of 10's of floppies the install is very much the same after all these years.
I received an email from Uber yesterday. They're slowly rolling out the tipping service, starting in a few cities at first to test it out. It will eventually be everywhere.
Have there been advances in using LIDAR in rain/fog/snow? For all the autonomous car demos this seems like too large of a use case to gloss over...
Open source social robot kit runs on Raspberry Pi and Arduino