skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll ship Alexa out of the box but we're open to other speech services as well. Here is a quick overview of the dev platform (still work in progress): developers.senic.com
This seems like the obvious rebuttal. Kalanick could have resisted any simple vote to remove, so this isn't a case of liking the results but not the methods. If Uber had strong financial footing, Kalanick would have been able to stay (and there would have been less interest in removing him).
Normally I only read on HN, but you got me logging in, upvoting and commenting! Probably most people just don't know about the standard. (As it is probably with most standards).

Anyways, thanks for your hint.
Somehow this does not add up with the PTSN era of the internet and with the current options to be billed on your ISP bill such as internet+[1].

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet+ http://internetplus.fr/
Why Doist is betting against group chat: https://blog.doist.com/why-were-betting-against-real-time-te...
I wish this was feasible, but in our house the water takes 5 minutes to get to the shower from the water heater, and if you turn it off for more than a minute, you'll get wild temperature fluctuations over the next 5 minutes while it re-achieves a stable mix. I think this is just one more reason to install an on-demand water heater rather than have a giant monolith in your garage.
> CRISPR - s/shitty gene sequence/perfect gene sequence/g That's insane.

It's also false: http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2017/05/30/crispr-gen...
> That's a historically ignorant characterization. De jure discrimination existed long after slavery ended. Had Bill Gates been born a black kid in the south, he likely would've gone to a segregated school.

This is an ignorant reply that overlooks what I have said in my full comment. I was referring to slavery explicitly and I did say at the end of my comment that education is still the biggest problem.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

> Here, that's likely north of $300 billion per year (assuming all of the black-white wage gap is explained by discrimination).

You only have to pay it out once and then everyone could move on with their lives.

> That's like saying you don't fix an infection by cutting out the infected tissue

No, it's like saying, you don't fix an infection by infecting something else.

> Or that you don't fix cancer by collaterally poisoning a bunch of perfectly healthy non-cancerous cells. That's exactly how you fix disease!

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-texas-sharpshooter

> The idea that the harms caused by federal and state governments' laws protecting slavery and segregation will go away simply because you get rid of those laws is like believing that a paperclip will unbend itself. Fantastically naive.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

I suggest actually reading and understanding my points. You are not going to convince anyone with verbal gymnastics.
I remember living a month in Tokyo back in 2006 (or was it 2007). The house I shared had this toilet where the wash basin drained into the toilet tank. The faucet is activated when you flush the toilet. So once you're done with your #1 or #2, you wash your hands and the grey water is used to fill the tank. It was quite clever.
As an Indian working in one of these companies, they treat employees different depending on where they come from. You get better treatment if you are an American. The next level is those who were hired from USA. At the bottom is the h1b folks who come from India. Managers and HE will treat them as disposables and will have no problem showing them that. You have a problem, go back to India. I have seen first hand this difference in treatment multiple times.
He sure has an unusual way of holding his grudge -- by porting his company's application to the company he holds the grudge against. With enemies like that, who needs friends?
Coinbase Ethererum outage continues to Day 2
Didn't they stop stocking those things because they wouldn't run Amazon Prime by defaults or something?
Ask HN: Building a service to track Saas subscription usage
Companies are overloaded with Saas subscriptions most of which get renewed automatically. Often times the original user(s) have either stopped using the Saas or using it less than originally thought etc...

I'm trying to figure out if it is feasible to build a service (for perhaps accounting) to monitor usage, due dates, pricing changes etc..

Monitoring IP addrs is one way - but it may be a hard sell for the admins to grant access to logs etc.

A more practical approach I am thinking of is

1. Compile and share a list of all Saas services, with pricing, known users and expiration dates etc..
2. Periodically generate VERY short surveys based on info gathered in #1
3. Monitor mentions of a given service on Slack

There are a bunch of others methods, but I first want to see how this problem is tackled currently (ad hoc I assume) and if this is a legit pain point, any ideas?
Thanks
A company I used to work for did a project once, deploying a lot of home automation for someone with mobility issues. It's been a few years ago, and the tech has probably changed a lot since then, but they used OpenRemote[1] heavily as part of the project. It might be worth looking into.

[1]: http://www.openremote.com/
It's not actually half as fast, because these chips run a AVX at the full clock speed, rather than down clocking as Intel does.
Beside the usual `Images`, `Videos`, `code` directory, the single most important directory on my system is `~/flash` (as in : flash memory). This is where my browser downloads files and where I create "daily" files, which I quickly remove.

This is a directory that can be emptied at any moment without the fear of losing anything important, and which help me keeping the rest of my fs clean. Basically `/tmp` for user.
Definitely read that title as "Ebay will match Amazon’s, Walmart’s and others’ prices on over $50K items" or put another way "Ebay will match Amazon’s, Walmart’s and others’ prices on items over $50K".

But I don't buy on Amazon only because of price. I buy for 2-day shipping, peace of mind on returns, and a consistent experience across the app and website.
Allow me to add. I have loaned people money in the past who never paid it back, but I also have a few friends who I will loan money because they always pay it back.

But those people and I have strong trust relationships, ones that are very hard to build, and require the right circumstances to exist. These relationships truly are rare and I am lucky to have even one.

So, in support of grardb's point, if you don't already have a trust relationship with this person, your offerings to pay for them and also help them learn will most likely end in failure and a loss of cash from you (OP).
Almost exactly the same, came to mind when I read that also.

I suppose there's some tipping point of "very valuable" and "not that badly behaved" where the argument is actually valid (see: all the Steve Jobs references in this thread). But at that point I guess the ethical solution is to make it very clear what new hires are in for, and pay a healthy "dealing with this person" bonus (see: Steve Jobs, again).
Social justice would require them to pay their drivers more, not to add tipping as an option.
He doesn't have any educational background in AI or it's underpinnings. Running open AI doesn't instantly make him an expert. The above comment is from an expert with experience in the self driving space.
Forest Man: An islander planted a forest larger than Central Park NYC [video]
Most of my files stay in the download folder. If I think I will need them at a later stage against I upload them to my Google Drive. Google is quite good at searching stuff - for me that also works for personal files. I have probably 100 e-books that are on my reading list and will never get read by me...
Theres a lot of little and big costs associated with living in the middle of fuck all nowhere that are offset by hunting (and fishing but I'm pretty sure felons are allowed fishing poles). I dunno Montana but Alaska, Yukon, Nunavut: a lot of people are reliant reliant on wildlife.
Why not just use `/tmp`?
I have my files pseudo-organized, meaning I kind of try to keep them where they should be logically, but since this varies a lot - they're not really organized.
The thing is - I use "everything" a free instant file search tool from voidtools.
It is blazingly fast, just start typing and it finds files while you type.
It uses the ntfs file system (windows only, sorry everyone else) existing index to perform instant searches, it is hands down the ultimate most fast file search tool I have ever encountered - files literally are found while you type their names, without waiting for even a milli second.

So, no organization (the ocd part of me hates this) but i always find my files in an instant, no matter where i left them.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14601085 and marked it off-topic.
Fair enough. If I can choose between a shop that uses A vs B, where A is something I like and B is yet another link in the toolchain that gives me more trouble that it solves, I will choose the former rather than the latter.

And no: unlike someone else suggested down here, I won't suggest you move away from a technology just because I don't like it. If you like it, keep it. If it's needed, I will adapt like I always did.

Just to put things into perspective, I recently had to do maintenance on an accounting app written in Visual FoxPro, which is another cobbled up piece of absolute shit. I hate it, and yet I did it. I can do and did the same with CoffeeScript, but if I can help it I will gladly avoid it.
Ed25519 support and Ed25519 TLS support have been merged to OpenSSL master
I don't understand your confusion? Neither Snowflake Computing or Microsoft are competitors.
It's good. We're using it for a ton of automation of various developer tasks that normally would get run once in a while (think acceptance environment spinup, staging database load, etc.).

It fails once in a while and the experience is bad, but that's mostly due to our tooling around failure states instead of the platform itself.
Great research with lots of data and tangible results.

I'm missing 'authority' as way to improve conversion. Funny that they use it themselves in two ways: letting PWC check the results and, in a milder form, using a scientific way of communicating the results (LaTeX, article layout etc). The impact would have been less if it was just a blog post :-). I'm curious about results on authority, maybe someone from qubit can give us some insights on that?

At my company[0] we offer a solution to sites to implement these strategies through notifications/nudges. Having said that: we firmly believe in A/B testing but we believe even more in recognizing (we do that through machine learning) what technique works best on a personal level. This means that a site can have, for example, two strategies and that we apply none, either one or both on the visitor. That way you can reach higher uplifts.

[0] https://www.conversify.com
ah that seems likely! Thanks
recoll has worked great for a document index.

https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

I also recommend calibre for e-books, but I never got to the "document store" stage that I think some people have.
Is USA More Respected Now, or Was It During Obama's Reign?
As far as I've read or watched the news from any foreign media, I've majorly encountered that they extraordinarily appreciated President Obama and disparaged President Trump using terms like a bozo and a national disrespect. Try Google searching for Trump toons England, or France, or Germany, or Japan, or any other nation you can consider and see what comes up.
By this, some of the Trump supporters might be thinking - 'Oh shut-up! that's how it goes, famous people always face criticism so does Trump.' Well, well, dear followers! As I see there's just the opposite case which is obvious from the present President's tweets.
During Obama's reign: The world saw a resurgence in economy and peace as it recuperated from Bush-era banking "deregulation" and militarism which, as anyone might expect, just profited USA weapon ventures.
During Trump's reign so far: Australia's hatred. Mexico? - Oh! We're an open joke now. Russia? Trump is the BEST outcome comprehensible to bring relevance back to Russia and to destabilize NATO and the western power base that has checked Russia since WW2.
Like these, there exist so many ups & downs that the country has faced during the rule of President Obama & Trump and the ways they both have dealt with the pitfalls.
Let's try and figure it out.
I've hit enough sites that refuse to accept a + in email addresses that I gave up using it, on the basis that I couldn't remember whether or not I was using it, per site. Standard it may be, but so many sites have bad email address validation.
I created a Chrome extension called Hands Free for Chrome which allows near-total control of the browser with your voice.

It occasionally has to be reset by hand if the voice recognition locks up, which is the only barrier. But I'm fairly certain it's the best option available for people in your father's situation.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hands-free-for-chr...
You are contradicting yourself. Being an A player is your reputation. No one is going to hire your into a senior level role without you first having a good reputation.
just when I have everything migrated to slack...
This is what drives me nuts about AWS, but is genius on their part - they've got you to spend more $$ on ElasticSearch and Lambda to overcome the fact that one of their other products just doesn't work very well.
Roughly this scheme:

~/dev for any personal project work

~/$COMPANY for any professional work I do for $COMPANY

~/teaching for teaching stuff

~/research for academic research (it's a big mess unfortunately)

~/icl for school related projects (where "icl" is Imperial College London)

For my PDFs I use Mendeley to organize them and have them available everywhere along with my annotations.

I store my books in iBooks and on Google Drive in a scheme roughly like: /books/$topic/$subtopic

Usually organizing your files is usually just commitment, move files off ~/Downloads as soon as you can :-)
Kubernetes health checks in Django
Three.js r86 released
This. While OSI may not have been successful in getting an official trademark on the phrase "Open Source", in practice almost everybody treats "Open Source" or "open source" as meaning what the Open Source Definition states. Other "source available" approaches are more correctly termed "shared source" or something.
Because it's already a mess, and because I don't want to take the risk of deleting sockets when I want a purge.
The situation sure changed a lot. I'd blindly disagree if you say that Windows Server (or azure) development has more and better docs than Linux.

And MSDN platform performs very poorly imo compared with "comparable" OSS platforms like Github, Linux development, GNU development.
OK. Should "anything go", or is there a limit to how low the burden of proof should go?
True. Consider those as placeholder terms for whatever stack OP is going to teach.
I'm guessing tipping is only available in NYC for Uber. I didn't see that option here in the Washington DC area.
I was hired a year ago without a computer science background into a position as a data analyst (I know data), but needed to learn how to code. I've been using a lot of online resources on my journey of coding. Feel free to reach out if you'd like some of these, I can help you figure out what would work best for the languages and concepts you'll need help with!
Certainly Uber is more places but in the past 2 weeks I've spent time in "cities" of sizes around 50-60k people and almost all have had both services. Often Lyft will have less cars on the road but I did not struggle to find a Lyft.
Ummm... how many cheap cars have: adaptive cruise control or lane assist? Both technologies have been available for expensive cars for what now? 15 years?

Really cheap cars don't even have automatic gearboxes (or they are bought without them 90% of the time, outside of the US).

By "cheap car" I mean something cheaper than $20000 and "really cheap" would be below $12-15000.
Dump everything on desktop or downloads folder then use Void Tools Everything to find what I need.
If you want to address this to Wal-mart Corp it might be better. They made a decision about some vendors using AWS, and there might be a very good reason behind it in relation to the comment above this. There may also be be a snotty CEO decision behind it. Who really knows?
Anything goes, as long as your bike doesn't look like it's the most expensive bike in the rack.

Some people, particularly teenagers and students, can be quite creative in dirtying up their bike. A friend in school had glued sand to her bike, and then painted it. Quite a unique look. But it got stolen anyway, and when she found it, the thief had scraped all the sand off.

But there are many reasons why a bike might look ratty. The owner really could have had that bike for a long time, it could be second-hand (or more likely fifth-hand or something), it could have been stolen, it could have been found in the trash and refurbished, it could have been ratty'd up to prevent it from getting stolen, or it might be someone's artistic expression.

But in big cities it's certainly not unusual that the lock is the most expensive part of a bike.
Bots used to bias online political chats
Action Jack Barker to step in? I think the only thing that can save Uber now is the conjoined triangles of success.
Also immoral. I didn't think I would be accused of a pro-Walmart stance in a post that lead off with "It is bad WM can do this."
I would be surprised. At least in New York, people use taxis very often, and thus use Uber very often. I'd wager the vast majority of Uber usage is in people's home towns/cities.

Personally, I use other apps when in NYC, but fall back to Uber when I'm somewhere else and can't find a local app.
But AWS can't control Slacks security practices.

AWS also has many compliance certifications (HIPAA, FedRAMP etc), sending data outside your organisation may be a no-go from a compliance perspective.
Yes. I believe Windows requires you to specify a maximum reserved stack size in the program executable. That's...not going to happen for e.g. Linux.
But we don't have photos in the profiles
Except you're imagining power in entirely the wrong place. It is the consumers who hold all the power within a free economy. Corporations only become large and profitable in a free economy when they meet the ever increasing demands of the consumers. To quote Ludwig von Mises:

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. They, by their buying and by their abstention from buying, decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor.

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

The consumers are no easy bosses. They are full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. They do not care a whit for past merit. As soon as something is offered to them that they like better or that is cheaper, they desert their old purveyors. With them nothing counts more than their own satisfaction. They bother neither about the vested interests of capitalists nor about the fate of the workers who lose their jobs if as consumers they no longer buy what they used to buy.
I like Rust, but I hate with a passion the borrow system. So I was looking for an unsafe-by-default Rust and I found D, thanks to the suggestion of a kind HN user. I must admit that I love it!
> I'd ask them how married they were to CS and if moving off of it was doable.

See, that's something I would never do. I dislike your tech stack, and if I can I will stay away from you. Why would I want to ask you to change it?

The tools one uses are one of the countless factors that influence their happiness. Therefore, if I think CoffeeScript and Angular suck balls, I will at least try to stay as far away from them as I possibly can.

It's not a matter of being "so fulfilled in their lives", it's just that I like to work with tools that have a higher chance of making me happier.
Long-term memories made with meaningful information
Home directory is served over NFS (at work). Layout is as follows:

phireal@pc ~$ ls -1
Box/ - work nextcloud
Cloud/ - personal nextcloud
Code/ - source code I'm working on
Data@ - data sources (I'm a scientist)
Desktop/ - ...
Documents/ - anything I've written (presentations, papers, reports)
Local@ - symlink to my internal spinning hard drive and SSD
Maildir/ - mutt Mail directory
Models/ - I do hydrodynamic modelling, so this is where all that lives
Remote/ - sshfs mounts, mostly
Scratch/ - space for stuff I don't need to keep
Software/ - installed software (models, utilities etc.)

At home, my main storage looks like:

phireal@server store$ ls -1
archive - archived backups of old machines
audiobooks - audio books
bin - scripts, binaries, programs I've written/used
books - eBooks
docs - docs (personal, mostly)
films - films
kids - kids films
misc - mostly old images I keep but for no particular reason
music - music
pictures - photos, organised YYYY/MM-$month/YYYY-MM-DD
radio - podcasts and BBC radio episodes
src - source code for things I use
tmp - stuff that can be deleted and probably should
tv_shows - TV episodes, organised show/series #
urbackup - UrBackup storage directory
web - backups of websites
work - stuff related to work (software, data, outputs etc.)
Ah thanks, I've seen that, but right now it's only me making server.js. If there was a big enough sponsorship I'd open a non-profit, otherwise it doesn't really make sense so I'd either try to get the sponsorship as an individual or with my LTD (depending on what the sponsor is up to).
Why the Next Generation of SaaS Will Look Like Facebook
Modeling the Future of Regulatory Risk
Cisco to use ML to detect malware sigs in encrypted traffic
where is that pressure represented in this chart? AWS total revenue is less than a year's growth. Wal-Mart showing signs of desperation does not imply amazon's defeat.

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56abe654c08a80431d8...
It can certainly help to look at a parser-combinatory as a more rigorous, less artisanal/home-cooked recursive-descent parser. Good parser-combinators offer a lot more than just recursive-descent ways of looking at the parsing world, but if you are familiar with how you might do things in a recursive-descent way I think that familiarity can help in learning a parser-combinatory library.

For similar reasons, too, I think PEG-style grammars are more often conceptually closer than BNF grammars for early learning/thinking in parser-combinators. But again a good parser-combinator library will have power beyond what you might consider the possibility space afforded by just PEG-style grammars, especially as you start to get into higher order combinators.
How much interest does he actually control right now?
> Also, it's so disappointing to see so many people buy into the cult of personality of the Startup Founder. There's a lot of half-baked reasoning going on on why Uber's fate should be inexorable tied to Travis. So far, the two main arguments I've seen are "because Steve Jobs" and "he raised so much money for them". Neither one of these are compelling in explaining why Uber's survival prospects should be further damaged by a change at the top.

It's such a strange idea--that out of the seven billion people on the planet, only one is capable of leading [Company X]. Who really believes this?