skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that's precisely why I made awscurl "easy way to make calls to AWS".

I can be easily tested with AWS Elasticsearch.
Officials at airports might run your info through a criminal database
I don't think this is true, because generally people who earn lots of money are in a better position to prevent the taking of that money, via having the capital to pool with other ultra-rich to lobby against taxes, pay accountants to find tax loopholes, etc.
Public Lab announces new open source DIY kite and balloon mapping kits
You don't know many teachers. The system consumes a little bit of teacher's altruism as a raw material, converting it to extra money for those other things mentioned. Too much and turnover becomes too high so they seem to carefully feel out to edge. You can shear sheep over and over but skin them only once.

Every public school teacher I've ever known (including the several in my family), from rich districts to poor, end up buying basic supplys for their students because they can't get the district to provide them. Its all very 20th century soviet. I've know teachers who waited six months for light bulbs before finally going to Home Depot and buying them themselves.
AMD RX Vega GPU Release Date Will Be Announced at SIGGRAPH 2017
There is a huge amount of software using those APIs including ones written by one-person-teams so the situation can't be too bad.
Birth rates go down with income. You don't have to reason you way to that from first principles, because it's an empirically observable fact.
Not font related, but I'm imagining this -- http://hackaday.com/2010/10/15/window-curtain-moves-to-scree...
>What, exactly, do landlords contribute to society?

Efficient allocation of resources to property development. Although that's just a technical distinction, you can get rid of it by separating out the improved vs unimproved value of land (the former is much less problematic than the latter).

>All money means is that you convinced someone else to give you money at some point in life.

Presumably, the convincing is because giving you money is better than the alternatives.
Doesn't work all the time, but my approach to this is to pad rates 10% beforehand, then offer a 10% discount on any invoice that follows one that was paid NET10. Whatever bean counter is pushing for NET45 or worse usually sees the benefit of going to NET10.

Discounting only the single invoice that follows one paid on time keeps them honest. Short or late pay me, and the next invoice gets no discount.
> C++ name mangling is not standardized and so every compiler can implement its own scheme.

That's right, and the D compiler deals with that by customizing the C++ mangling for every platform.
Actually, the normal Yellow Cab rates are so high in NYC that Uber can still charge rates twice that of Chicago Uber and come out ahead (NYC $1.75 per mile, Chicago $0.90 -- twice the amount).
Congrats on the new hires. At this point, it would be useful to have a web page with all the partners and their bio. (maybe there is and I am missing it?)
A Day in the Life of a High-Growth CEO
The Alto was introduced in 1973, but was still available in the early 80s, so there is every possibility that someone wrote a Mandelbrot generator on it since it was discovered in 1980. However it is more likely that this happened on the Xerox Star which was around from 1981 and also after 1985 when the first popular Scientific American article about the set appeared...
When you say 1 Mil easy-to-get, do you mean visas that cost $1M (those exist), or 1 million count of visas?
I think that may be a picture of phone lines when they were point to point i.e. each connection had a dedicated line rather than going through a switch. I don't think it had anything to do with thousands of telecom companies.
For searches containing multiple words, code or error messages I resort to google as ddg doesn't find the relevant pages.
Other than that it's a lot better than before.
Build something that people are already paying for.
Well a 1001 ways to die now.
I actually completely agree, which is why I am a big fan of IQ testing for immigrants.
Yes, it's not that I didn't read the page. But even in case of corporations, it's not really possible to gauge what t's available to them, because they don't share everything.

Well on the other hand whatever is available publicly, they have at least that. So maybe the whole research does make some sense in this context.
If you read the legislation (?) you will see that they are actually very vague in how the banks will provide access. I think it is already a great success that they (fingers crossed) will manage to force the banks to provide access to the data in any form and gave them little wiggle room for justifications to get out of it.

There are however some inititives for open API standards that might be accepted by a majority of the banks.
Interesting they are not discussing Marissa Mayer. She is free after Yahoo.
>it is the view of some senior bank people that I speak to that PSD2 will make such clauses in banking terms illegal

If that is close to explicitly as you have stated then either 1) The senior bank people you talked to are lying to you 2) the senior bank people you talked to really don't know anything about PSD2 3) They mistated to you how PSD2 changes will affect this 4) You misunderstood what they mentioned about PSD2 changes.

If a bank mentions in its clauses as per PSD2, that only authorized persons/firms are use an API and their acccess, they are authorized to negate any liability if it was given/accessed by an unauthorized party. Banks are required to make API's available (not same as accessible) to any SaaS or other developer as long as it is authorized by the bank.

Rather than relying on hearsay or in conversation on crucial regulatory changes , might I suggest this: https://www.createspace.com/5772402
I will say that their management of internal culture isn't something I have any sympathy for, and I hope that doesn't end up being where boundaries are pushed. There is certainly a tendency for armchair kneejerking in today's culture wars, but Uber's personnel issues go beyond the gray area in my opinion.
> But once price expectations are set, the expectation that they're always going to go down, that you're going to get more for less, is also set. That's just how markets and human nature work.

I'd offer counter-examples of houses, and stocks. Not everything goes down in price, only things that people don't borrow for.
It's a big world out there. Would you ever imagine that D would be taking market share from... Extended Pascal? But there's a naval architect who designs great big ships with a 500k sloc codebase he is exploring porting to D. Web guys get the attention but enterprise users are a much bigger world than just that.

If something is growing very quickly then saying it hasn't yet dethroned C, so it won't ever be significant seems to me to be a bit brittle thinking. Compound growth and the passage of time - thats what has been underway for some time now.

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was. I'll give that link a read as it seems we're somewhat on the same page in this area.

With respect the the housing affordability crisis: One symptom of capital accumulation is that competes with regular people for housing. Capital accumulation hurts housing prices to the extent that parking capital in housing that is being used by no one, or being used to just own housing and provide landlord income with a low positive benefit to society. As long is it's cheaper to buy existing houses and rent them vs deploying that same capital to building houses and selling them we will have an affordable housing crisis. And that is just one aspect of stagnant capital accumulation.
> D is arguably in the same bucket as Swift, and partly as Go. I don't think it's very useful to compare and contrast it against Rust.

It is easy to claim how things "arguably" are, but without providing any justification that is not a very meaningful statement to make.

D very much matches your definition of "low-level, zero-overhead (no GC) etc nature and powerful metaprogramming facilities" – the GC can be avoided easily enough. It can certainly claim to be a "better C++" in this sense. For instance, Weka.IO (a storage startup founded on D) heavily relies on D to offer exactly that, in order to implement a distributed file system with sub-100µs latency.

The fact that you can also write Python-esque code during prototyping (playing fast and loose with the GC, etc.) doesn't detract from the core identity of the language as a tool for systems programming with zero-cost abstractions.
iPhone hailing to me and many others at least, is effectively street hailing. Not certain what your beef is with Uber. Service and costs have dramatically improved since they and Uber/Via/Gett/Juno came, even in Manhattan.
Damn.

We might actually have to start investing equally in US children of all socioeconomic classes to ensure we have enough entrepreneurs and bright minds to compete in the global economy.

EDIT: WOW, didn't think such an obvious comment would be so controversial (points are swinging up and down cyclically).

Do ya'll think we are extremely efficient at turning potential into value from all of our current citizens? Do you NOT want to do anything but fail if Trump severely fucks up immigration and our economy?

Or does it hurt your feelings to think that everything you've achieved in life wasn't 100% through your own hard work?

I'm confused.
> We have done well over the years despite that (or maybe because of it?)

It helps that your graduate schools and corporations are full of people educated in other countries. Immigration is great.
If anyone is interested. Software Engineering Daily did a podcast about Numerai not too long ago, with one of their employees.
If you're running Windows, you can use Everything [1] to instantly find files on your computer just by knowing their name.

1. https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/
> I was formerly a UBI proponent but I think, at least, in the near to medium term, it's too much of a cultural shift about the role of work in life. That's why these days I'm more a fan of a negative income tax coupled with a repeal of the minimum wage.

As usually defined, negative income tax (in an otherwise progressive income tax system) is the same as UBI in a progressive income tax system, but possibly with a range of regressive treatment (the simple credit form is isomorphic to UBI, the more common “deduction with proportional refund of unused deduction, usually at a high fraction like 50%”, has the regressiveness feature.

Unless the credited (or refundable proportion of the deduction) amount is greater than the annualized pre-policy-chnage minimum wage, it's also a decrease in the wage+credit income floor for full-time employed workers, so you risk pitting the unemployed against the working poor with this approach. A better approach, IMO, at plausibly-viable initial levels of the credit (effectively, the UBI level) is to index minimum wage to inflation, but reduce it, as an hourly wage (after applying the index) by the amount of the credit, divided by 2000.

(I'd also prefer tying the credit to a defined calculation based on a revenue stream, preferably a capital-income-heavy one, so it doesn't get reduced with automation, with a ratchet to prevent cuts in recessions.)

What you actually describe is progressive system where the bottom marginal rate is a large negative value, which isn't a typical NIT, but sort of like a super-EITC. This provides no benefit to those absolutely displaced from work, but maximum benefit to those employed at a rate which exactly exhausts the negative marginal rate brackets.
Other companies wouldn't be able to randomly remove popular functionality.
Funniest comment I've ever read on HN, well done.

Tencent has the power to singlehandedly kill off Apple in China, as a Chinese, I really wish they had the balls to do it.
Is it really a fun read? I skimmed through the first few paragraphs and it seemed he mentioned dota, his dad, his old job, how his flight was...
Uber Pool has 2 or more unrelated passengers using the same car for transit hence less greenhouse gas compared with using separate vehicles. Elementary!
I think that will be the tasting necessary to prove this pudding.

I would also point out that you do have parse errors in your scheme (incorrect indentation errors) and that parse errors are not actually a bad thing (if you think about static analysis tools, they can only work under the assumption that not every bytestring is a valid, useful program, and they get better the sparser that valid, useful programs become).
I thought the Columbia Startup Lab had an interesting approach: if you form a team consisting of one MBA and one Engineering M.S., they will provide $50K and 6 months residency. Networking events, alumni contacts, seminars, city government resources and much more are all available. But for the most part, they get out of the way and let the team figure things out.
The article failed to address one of the most critical problem with Uber - it's bully culture internally specially against women and other employees who were not bullies themselves. It starts straight from the top if anyone had any doubt.
Having convinced someone else to give you money is usually the result of demonstrated value.

Effective asset management is valuable, just as ineffective asset management destroys value.
I was just thinking that. It should go both ways :D
you may allocate some very large data on the stack and not write or read anything in that buffer

We had to deal with something very similar to this when I was working on REALbasic. When targeting Windows, if the compiler happened to generate a function prolog which would allocate more than one page of stack space for local variables, we had to generate extra instructions which would touch each intermediate page, in order, or the kernel would trap the first access beyond the guard page as out-of-bounds. It was an interesting bit of semi-security.
How disgusting.
Which is why you have treaties and laws that protect people.

By your argument, actual slavery should have never been made illegal because it would just hurt the us in the marketplace. After all, anybody could have paid more for non slave produced cotton, if they chose.
I wouldn't necessarily put it that way. The top tier business schools teach a good amount of universally applicable soft skills like negotiation, conflict resolution/deescalation, performance management, etc. You just need to enroll. And those skills are applicable regardless of where you go.

Having seen friends go through business school, the real value is without a question the network you build during those two years. That's also applicable regardless of where you go.

I personally applaud Harvard's new combined major, especially because it supports the thesis that business leaders should also pay more dues than they currently do as technical practitioners.
A good example of having the right yeast is sourdough bread from San Francisco.

Boudin Bakery was founded in San Francisco, and used a french baking process with fermented dough. All of their bread has continued to be made with the same starter dough and yeast from 1849. It even survived the great SF earthquake and fires of 1906, as Louise Boudin threw some starter dough in a bucket and got the hell out of town.

The particular yeast and lactobacilli they use interacts with the environment of the SF bay and produces a bread unique to that starter and that area. Making beer is a bit like baking bread in this way, but has more complex steps to achieve different results, so controlling the brewing environment is necessary for consistent results.
Wow, I completely forgot about ReiserFS. That takes me back. I was a huge fan of it.
Food and clothes are more needed than health products. You'll literally die in less than one week without any of them, yet they're cheap and plenty.

And make no mistake: when the state intervened those markets people died like flies from starvation. Just look at Venezuela, that was a rich country 20 years ago.

If you want to learn something about state protection in the drug market, see "Dallas buyers club" movie.
> Earning a lot of money is a pretty damn good proxy for contributing to society.

What a weird reality tunnel you inhabit.
the immediate cancel yearly subscription approach is the move...
As per PG:

Two Types: I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds. They're the limiting reagents in the reaction that produces startups, because they're the only ones present when startups get started. Everyone else will move.

I guess that could be a good clue onto what to teach. And I'm not sure this is enough actually. For example, you probably need rule of law. My guess, you also need ethics, trust, culture of working handshake agreements. Remove it, have a kind of people to which it doesn't apply, and this would ruin the valley. I would suggest to anyone who is organizing programs of training entrepreneurs to add business ethics as a cornerstone of the program. Please, think long term.
Because ultimately most people won't care enough to stop going with the cheaper option, especially when all you can point to is negative effects for vendors. It's not like Amazon is going around creating spurious libel lawsuits against people for publishing criticism of their business practices, or paying for people to muddy the waters with counter-articles. It's just that the information largely fall on deaf ears. I'm not sure what a judge or moderator would do when there's no real back and forth.

A lot of conduct unbecoming like this becomes public (Intel is a good example). How many people stopped buying their products even with literal judges finding them guilty of some particularly nasty anti-competitive practices?
That I'm not sure about but a 10X Engineer is for real :)
Show HN: Queued Events – Windows events with IOCP scheduling characteristics
Well, there's always the 74181, a 4 bit ALU[0] as used in the Alto[1] among others like the NOVA and VAX 11/780.

0. https://mil.ufl.edu/4712/docs/74LS181.pdf

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74181#Computers
Juventus' Juan Cuadrado on Milan Radar
Donny boy should spend more time seeking advice from foreign leaders and less time pushing and arm-wrestling them, one them being French president, who apparently "gets it" when it comes to the role of government in technology and innovation. France's visa programmes for tech workers and startup founders were launched this year.

http://visa.lafrenchtech.com/
Average is just a statistical concept - in reality there is no average.
> Having convinced someone else to give you money is usually(^) the result of demonstrated value.

^ Except in the case of inherited assets (and titles). There is a reason the term is "land lord" after all...
I'm about to go to bed so I only skimmed through the first 10-11 paragraphs, but how is your dad calling you, and what you used to do before, and how comfy your flight was, relevant to the story? Maybe it was, and hey, it's your story, but my thought was "Damn, he got off on a tangent, on a tangent!"
It's just a blatant fact that Kalanick wasn't axed because of his inability to turn a profit. That card has been left on the table for quite some time by board inertia in the vain hope that this unicorn would grow wings. Instead, Uber lost $2.8B last year. That isn't rational.

Your only concern may be what happens after an investment but you'd be foolhardy not to take past performance into account. Undervalued (Apple in 1997, return of Steve) is one thing. Throwing good money after bad is another.

$2.8B is just a ton of money to lose and for a startup it's insane (thinking of Amazon but Uber's losses dwarf Amazon's early losses). Frankly, I think the board is using this as an excuse to do now what they should have done a couple of years back. Boards are human. They aren't homo economicus incarnate. Ascribing rationality to the outcome of a board meeting because capitalism makes no sense. Really, they lost $2.8B last year.
One of the problems is that average house size has more than doubled since the 1950s. Meanwhile, average number of people living in houses has shrunk, from about 3.5 to about 2.5, iirc. We also eliminated a lot of SROs and other housing well suited to single adults and childless couples. This occurred at a time when such housing wasn't really needed, but it was not brought back as demographics changed.
I wonder how much of this is related to the whole ”beards make better soldiers" thing. Something like combat effectiveness strikes me as extremely difficult to understand and incredibly dependent on people's particular psychology, as well as group Dynamics, so much so that ”magic”
(a.k.a. placebo effect) is as good an explanation as we are going to get for a while.

http://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/study-shows-combat-eff...
You can buy a laptop that just runs Chrome and get most desktop tasks done on it. The Chromebook has been fairly popular.
iOS app to exchange paper books with people nearby
The reservation is not particularly relevant though.
I don’t know what you mean by ‘it’, but you don’t need to take the word of ‘the MSM’ for it that Russia was trying to influence the election. Basically everyone in any high-level intelligence role has said they think Russia spent a good deal of time and effort on screwing around with the process.
Integrating Google’s AutoDraw AI API with Angular
A discussion with former iPhone team members and Scott Forstall
Initially, with Jobs, there were no apps for iPhone, the web was to be a medium.
Unlikely to happen. based on both, our history of good intentions and poor execution, and the current secretary of education who's working on funneling more folks into religious schools.
64-Bit architectures and GPUs are totally different beasts requiring MMU's and OS's and whole development teams.

My last project used a 14 pin processor with 195 lines of bare metal C code compiling to 486 bytes of Flash memory and running on an internal 32Khz clock. This is more the target 8051 market though I must admit some cortex M0 processors are getting as cheap to use here.

The Propeller Chip is awesome (no interrupts and 8 processors is a really cool concept) but at $8 it is going against the big boys (Freescale/ST/Microchip) with their more flexible memory, power management and rich peripheral sets. I would love for one of the big players to licence the propeller core but it wont happen.
Vancouver, anyone?

I live in Seattle and I'm about ready to drive two hours north for my next startup. To hire the Russian programmers I'm already working with, or the folks on Kaggle I'd love to hire. The US has a completely broken scheme for visas.
You could say I'm a Postgres fanboy, but even to me he did not sound convincing.

The guy did not seem to know what he was talking about. Almost felt like he picked Postgres by throwing darts at possible options. Yes, he picked the right choice :), but I feel like he will misuse it[1] and few months later write article how bad it was.

[1] Heh, I've seen Postgres tables that had 4 columns:

- id

- date added

- date updated

- thrift encoded blob containing the data (that was before JSONB, but even then the data was highly relational and that was silly)
Ask HN: What books are you reading?
I thought it was time for a usual book check-up. I am currently reading The Insect Farm. What about you?