skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a first look, it looks amazing. This is actually what I've always imagined "graphical" programming to look like.
Moreover, restricting voluntary economic interactions behind a wall of regulatory licensing schemes, like hotel licenses and taxi licenses, exacerbates income inequality

Airbnb was valued at $31bn after its last round. As of market close today, that's about more than the market caps of Hilton & Intercontinental combined.

Despite what the astroturfing campaigns of Airbnb et al would have you believe, regulations are meant to, in part, protect competition. If we're unsatisfied with them, we ought to use elections to change them. But allowing private firms to engage in Uber's brand of regulatory arbitrage severely undermines gov't institutions.
I doubt you can pigeonhole everyone who supports travis into a single category. Some might not want any change at uber but I think more of them just like Travis and see the many positive things he's done for them, some think changes can be made with him still on top, some are just virtue signalling to the remaining management who are still Travis's people or for Travis himself if/when he returns.
No company can hire as fast as Uber and remain good. No company ever has and no company ever will.

His mistake was not being technical or creative enough to scale the company's service without scaling the headcount.

The specific symptoms are not particularly interesting or novel. In fact they were entirely predictable and the company is surprisingly good for how poorly it was built.

There are a number of major pitfalls every company must avoid. He failed to avoid a fatal one.
Not for many people. Look at the stats for how many people are running old android versions to get an idea of what percentage of users are getting by with 1-2gb of memory.
Sure, every company is made up of people. Comcast just happens to be made up of a lot of people lacking integrity. It's part of the company culture, trickling down from the top.
Interesting to see how all the positive evaluations of him come from his contributions to the company. Nobody defends his character or his moral decisions.

Does working hard absolve you of misdeeds?
This is just anecdata but after being on a low carb diet for 2 weeks, I felt that the "brain fog" I have on some days have disappeared.
Another thing, this example wouldn't type check unless it is verifiably a list of non blank strings:

print [s for s in lst if s.head != '_']

The section about dependent typing says `lst.head` would be a compile time error in some cases.
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I _am_ on topic, we are discussing air pollution, and most people I talk to around here are mistakenly under the impression that SF is this paragon of air quality, so mine is a pretty high entropy post sharing an interesting and not commonly known fact that often surprises people.

Meanwhile, you're attaching unfounded emotion to my post through projection (I've been sitting here the whole time with a perfectly chillaxed and even slightly amused attitude); my post has had a non-negative score its entire lifetime -- only one person downvoted it (you?), so I'm more inclined to believe that somebody else that is not me is the problem here.
What makes a sport a sport?
I spent a while talking to the Datadog guys at the AWS Sydney summit in April and while the product was compelling, nobody could give me a straight answer on pricing for lambda - all the pricing is given in terms of per host. So I'd have to say the main thing I'm after is pricing transparency...
I think the parent's comment still stands if you're comparing the cost of memory relative to processing power. Most devices have more memory than most people need, but there is never enough processing power. So, given the tradeoff of having Chrome (or whatever other program) use more memory in exchange for speed, I would take it.
Unless the drivers are allowed to sleep while the truck is driving, then they can't operate any more hours than they operate now.
Everything else aside, and there's a lot to set aside, Uber should have focused on turning a profit with their core business model (difficult) rather than, oh look! a shiny object: automated cars. I give them no credit for growing big and unprofitable.
Where this breaks down is the massive difference in those humans, both intellectually and economically.

A human without means to create any industry -- an ivy league pedigree (which still matters, no matter how much we'd like to believe otherwise), a VC connection, a rich uncle -- they're not going to create shit. At most, they're going to invent a product for themselves to sell that will hopefully get them out of their financial situation and into a better one. That's economics, but it's also not responsible for the massive job growth associated with industry.

On the flipside, you have the unintelligent people that make up most of the world. It's not too politically correct to point this out, but most people are pretty dumb. I'm no exception, having acted in some dumb ways myself. But if you're not capable of being smart when it counts, then you're again not going to be creating very much. Not when it comes to job growth.

So what does that leave? Ah yes, the thing we've all been dancing around. Classism. There are already three distinct castes of people: those that create jobs, those that work, and those that have no jobs. That middle class is going to dwindle as automation renders them useless. And it's naive to think that the latter caste will become the former.

I think this idea meets with so much resistance because we'd all like to believe that everything will be ok. Everything will work out, right? It always has.

Let's put it this way: Things will work out one way or another. But that "other" route is not a pleasant one.
I am ok with that. Greenpeace needs janitors too and there's no shame in being a janitor. I'm content being a microscopic cog in a non-catastrophic plan. As long as I'm involved in good, honest work, I'm content.
A massive unprofitable company. Anyone can do that. Anyone.
> I have no clue how it works with blockchain thingies

This has nothing to do with blockchains. All exchange transactions that I know of happen off-chain. (This is not a criticism of anything you said; rather, it's a confirmation that your experience and knowledge do transfer to this situation.)
That's the language design/philosophy, not specific details of how it was implemented.
PFSense runs PHP as root. Let that just sink in for a second, does that sound like a recipe for security?

Nevermind the community, when it comes to vaguely complex things like IPTV and similar, support is either legacy or gone.

At this point OpenWRT is the only sane choice, at least it doesn't run everything as root and isn't going to shove off Multicast UDP packet forwarding support in the next year or two.
Handling technical/scientific/numeric programming well is rather a hard nut to crack, and that is where the developers of Julia wanted a better solution for their own "greedy" programming needs, but Jeff Bezanson has been clear that it is also for general purpose programming (which is what I use it for). Many Julians are working to improve Julia for places that hadn't yet gotten as much attention (such as database access). I think in a couple of years, the canard of it being a "niche" language will be laid to rest.
Even worse though,is to have your personal identity tied up in the language you work in. If you are actually Brendan Eich, then I get you taking it personally, otherwise, who cares?
People says this for literally every company and it's getting fairly annoying that so many people can't see how a global operations-heavy company that does business in 200+ countries and develops an incredibly complex product can require a lot of resources....it's almost like people who ask this question have never worked on scaling a real business before.

I mean theres everything from marketing, to customer support, to ground operations, to engineering, to site reliability, to infrastructure, to product, to internationalization to partnerships to HR to design to recruiting to leadership to driver onboarding to Uber Eats to self-driving...there are A LOT of moving parts in A LOT of different countries.

It is incredibly difficult to scale an operation like Uber and it takes a lot of people, time, and money.

There is a big difference between running a global business and a toy side project that someone pushed up to Heroku...and no..."b..b..but I can just add more servers" is not a valid scaling strategy for a business.

I know my comment is a bit more harsh than necessary but it's borne out of a pent up frustration after seeing a 100 of these same comments directed at every company in existence.
It's a ten thousand dollar printer and isn't out yet. The OP probably doesn't have access to one.
You know what the difference is between a which hunt and the public reaction to Uber's bad behavior? Witches don't exist.
> Wow, I seem to be rambling.

Funny, I was just noting how much I enjoy the way you explain things.

> Locals don't want to hire military spouses because they know you are going to move again when the military member gets assigned elsewhere.

I'm curious - how would they know?
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Ask HN: How to get my application security audited?
I'm an independent developer looking to have a security audit done on my application. Mainly the cryptography aspect.

It's very hard to find any small companies online that offer this service. The only results I find are billion dollar companies, which obviously I am too small of a client for.

Where do I get started in seeking a small or independent security consultant firm or person?
Nice work, may want to update the copyright on the website - says 2016 still
Uber is not just like every other company. That's seriously some "boys will be boys" type thinking to excuse the messed up behavior of a certain few.
>there is no heritable diversity trait.

What about mutation and recombination?
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Your argument is invalid. Ad hominem. Attacking the source doesn't make the reported 17 tons of CO2 per battery incorrect.
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> But every proposed replacement for CSS I've seen (e.g. Cassowary) has made the complexity problem worse.

Hi, what other proposed replacements for CSS do you know about? I'm interested in seeing what problems they ran into.

I need to go look at Cassowary again. IIRC it's a solver, so sometimes the layout won't be what you expected, and it's very hard to know what to change such that it does what you want.
There are more ways to spell the name, maybe one of them doesn't trigger that association?
If you're talking about how well a national regulatory regime works, nationwide or statewide averages are probably more relevant data points than anecdotes about specific cities.
How do I find clients that need an app created from scratch
I'm a really good iOS app creator. I've been helping people to create apps from scratch for 15 years. From problem led design based around lean methodologies. UX making best use of the platform ui technologies. And development using a pragmatic approach that gives a good balance between scalability, maintenance and time to develop.
I'll be honest I do only want greenfield projects as that's where my strengths are. Working close with a founder or CTO to build a product that's useful and awesome. Working together is what is important to me. As that's the best way to make this work with a feedback loop that saves wasted time and the disappointment of misunderstandings.

If anyone knows or needs someone with my skills please pass this on or take a look at my website.

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My previous high end clients include

Hotels.com, Huawei, Thales, tomtom, Samsung, Sony, Nokia, jpmorgan, UBS and about 30 small startups.
Some of us think that the similarities Uber has to other tech companies in this area is an indictment of these other companies, not an excuse for Uber.

Also, this is as much a witch hunt as Uber is a paragon of feminism.
Hey, excuse the late reply on this. Someone answered for me though: "Build something that people are already paying for".

In the world of software, there's almost always room for better so I'd change that slightly to "build a better version of something that people are already paying for".

You can find out what 'better' means by studying the product that people are already paying for, seeing what those people complain about, and resolving those complaints.

That's a good place to start.
The landing page tells me nothing about what you do, and your FAQ only a hint of it. And honestly it doesn't nothing to convince me that you actually provide value. It's not even clear that you have an 'algorithm' versus simply having parsed some financial statements.

First and foremost, an investor wants to know whether your algorithm works. Have you backtested it with price history, and then what are the performance metrics?

And if it works, then the obvious question is: why do you need to sell your service?

The other thing that I'd worry about as an investor is that oftentimes value stocks are cheap for a reason. It's one of the last places I'd want to algo trade.
This isn't about helping law enforcement. Here's the tell:

Faced with the extended delays under the MLAT process, some countries are
now asserting that their laws apply to companies and individuals outside of
their borders. Countries asserting extraterritorial authority potentially
put companies in an untenable situation where we risk violating either the
law of the requesting country or the law of the country where we are
headquartered.
[...]
We are also seeing various proposals to require companies to store data
within local borders as a means to gain easier access.

It's about two things:

1 - Google doesn't want to be in the middle of Country X and the US where the laws conflict;

2 - More worryingly, countries are requiring data be kept within their borders and hence subject to their laws. This complicates google's business of monetizing people's data.
I don't really see you point. When you pay "NYC rent" that money of course ends up somewhere. Some of your work hours becomes their margin. It's pretty obvious if you manage to find cheap accommodations or work remotely. Suddenly your income to expense ratio might be something like 6 to 1. Meaning you only _have to_ work two months a year.

The whole idea of the "real world" in contrast to "everything should be free" seem more like an example of western society than reality.
> Better than working fast food, but on average seems to pay about the same

There are quite a few people who play from places where living costs are low(er) like Costa Rica or Mexico or, for that matter, Hungary and make -- compared to the locals -- an astonishing amount of money. Istvan Ratkai, who wrote a few successful text adventure games in the eighties have been one of the most well known Hungarian video poker players. He said he played about 3-4 hours a day and made 50-70% more than the minimal wage -- the full time minimal wage, that is. He had an ordinary programmer job as well so this as a secondary was quite a nice haul.
If you are housed on base, your address can be a dead giveaway. If you are an American living in a foreign country with an American base, the odds are good that you are a military spouse. If it is a small town near a base, newcomers tend to be military dependents. They want to sell to you, but they don't want to hire you.

They sometimes just frame it as "We are looking for people who will stay with the company long term." and ask a question concerning how long you hope to stay with the company. If you are honest and tell them that you expect to move again within 3 years, sorry, we don't want you.
Somehow it seems less polished of a command line tool that way, but it was perfect for my needs. I actually ran it over night to pack a model of a deer, packing 8 of them together. It produced this histogram of scores: http://i.imgur.com/VENTeIa.png So it could easily find arrangements that scored around 65% while the best it found was like 52% (lower is better and basically anything under 100% is better than naive packing).
Does BT have cable, or just DSL and fiber?
I would argue that 60FPS will never be "good" for visual media like film. Video games benefit greatly from 60FPS, but when I'm on YouTube and I see something in 60FPS that has a person in it, I generally turn it off unless I'm really incentivized to watch it, because it looks terrible (the exception is soap operas, which I don't watch).
> Sourcegraph also supports a bunch of other languages: https://sourcegraph.com/help/languages.

That's an interesting link. It only works when you go to "Help -> Language features".
It's not some dramatic "bailing out of an entire project". A more realistic scenario would be:

> "Oh here, that link sounds interesting."

> "Hmm, another visual programing system, I wonder how it works."

> Read for a few minutes, then clicks link to the about page

> Reads part about hating javascript. "Huh.. I wonder why they hate it so much"

> Gets distracted, makes some coffee

> Comes back, and without really thinking about it, closes tab, and goes back to previous task

In this scenario, they might have possibly investigated further and checked the project out. Overall, most people probably won't care, but I would guess the statement is slightly net negative.

Taking a step back, this entire sub-thread is a fairly ridiculous bikeshedding, and I do feel a little bad about participating in it, heh.
Thanks for catching it! We'l be releasing a new website shortly so it will be fixed soon! :)
Well - you will get downvotes for making a technical claim, but not explaining the reason...
Here's the actual whitepaper, which goes into more detail of exactly what Google is proposing here: https://blog.google/documents/2/CrossBorderLawEnforcementReq...
>No gene that decides how much butterfly wing splotches vary?

I think you're reading diversity to mean something different than the previous responses intended. Surely there are genes to control a phenotype. The issue under discussion is whether evolution selects specifically for genetic variation within a population (diversity of a population), without a more basic selection going on. My argument is that selection happens at the level of an individual and so it makes no sense to say that evolution selects for population diversity; there is no organism level selection mechanism that is the proxy for diversity at the population level, as there is in other purported population/species level selection events.
> There's a small subset of people who thrive in a toxic culture

> perhaps because they're a young white male

Really? This is such a mean generalization of 1000 people who you have never even met...
It is likely more disturbing considering that this is a shiny object in a series of shiny objects. UberChina, self-driving car, Elevate autonomous drone. From the outside it seems like attempting to cargo-cult Google except for the balance sheet.
In css sibling nodes can certainly affect the position of each other, but that might be ok. A harder problem will be siblings that "run in" to each other, and overlap in various ways.
"because you had already explored everything the game had to offer"

The value of platformers comes from level design. Crash certainly had great level designs. What youre saying is basically like "super mario sucks because all you do is jump and run the whole game"
Also, the option isn't always there; you can't downvote any direct reply to your comment, can't downvote older comments in the thread, etc.
If you're looking for a similar tool which does have a code unravel-er look at SciTools Understand[1] for C/C++/Java

My previous company used Understand on a large unfamiliar codebase, it helped greatly, but was pricey.

[1] https://scitools.com/
The problem is that there's no guarantee of stability in the IR, so either your stuck pinned to an old version of LLVM, or scrambling to keep up with each breaking change.
I’m sure there’s tons of male employees who thought the situation was overblown and wanted things to settle down. I mean, they helped enable such an awful workplace culture. Heck, I’d say select female employees may have thought it was okay, though there really wasn’t many female workers there it seems because they fled.

A couple months fear of being “witch hunted” is a small price to pay for what appears to be years of harassment women at the company had to endure.
Self-driving is not the same as autonomous, though. There is always a human present, and sometimes that's not enough to make up for the fact that a Tesla apparently can't "see" a 75 foot long, 13 1/2 foot high truck in front of it while driving down the highway.

And while highway driving generally has fewer decision points per mile than city driving, the speeds are much higher and so the effects of errors are much greater on the highway. The worst wrecks I've seen have all been on the highway, not in cities.
I live in Argentina (was born here). I've also lived in USA and other countries. It's hard to describe the situation. I'd be tempted to say that Argentina is rather safe. I've lived here for almost 30 years and I never got robbed. But I got robbed in San Francisco while on vacation for example. It really depends on what you do.

If you're walking alone at 10PM in a not-so-nice neighborhood, then Argentina is not going to be safe. If you come from a REALLY safe country where you don't have the "cautious" skills developed, then it's not going to be safe.

I know many startup founders in Argentina and Buenos Aires. If you go with the safe options: Buenos Aires city in a nice neighborhood (Palermo, Puerto Madero), then you'll be more than fine.
Why would you think this?

Lots of products have price elasticity of greater than 1.

Shipping seems like a very elastic industry. If anything, demand would increase by more than 1% for every 1% decrease in cost.

This is because shipping costs if shipping costs are low enough, then you can build something for cheap somewhere else and then ship stuff across the country to high cost of living locations.

YOU wouldn't ship stuff more, but industry would.

IE imagine if something costs 1/3 if it is made in China.

If shipping costs are more then you save, then nobody would ship it. But if shipping costs go down, now you can easy get those cost benefits of across world or across country manufacturing.
I read it as though the rotations were expensive, so they were memoized. In this case, it really could be much more than 24 times faster.
Pretty sure this is the case. Even with the tax, Vancouver prices per sqft are a bargain compared to what you would get in Hong Kong.
Lomas de Zamora and Moron are poor and crime ridden sections outside the city of buenos aires. Its like talking about Detroit or Flynt in the US(or maybe the worst parts of oakland).

Buenos aires, specially the startup area (palermo, belgrano, recoleta) do not have such a security problem. Contrary to SF where I've witnessed people shooting up drugs in the middle of market street, harassment by crazy homeless people, car vandalization, fights and police chases.

There really isnt a way to statistically answer whats going on with kidnappings, because the official numbers arent in. It is definitely not a day to day occurrence, or something people are worried about.
Dang, you're a coward and snowflake.
Here are the 8 deer by the way: http://i.imgur.com/RDwzbD8.png
I could see other heuristics for termination

Delta improvement / delta time

X minutes or y percentage

Does it parallelize?
Uruguay or Chile unless you want an experience of living in a semi-failed state. Also thousands of Argentinians go to Chile on weekends for shopping because goods in their country are overpriced or absent.
True. On another note often the bank is in on it and simply wants plausible deniability.
You are assuming that the bank isn't in on it. They often are, and simply need plausible deniability.