skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterexample: Taxi companies in Stockholm developed hailing apps before Uber. Most of them already had location services for mobile phones so you could call their voice system, and there was an option to get a cab to your current location if you were calling from mobile. I presume there was a cooperation between the mobile carriers and the taxi systems so they could pull that info.

Their first hailing apps was simply an extension of this, but it used the phone's gps, and you would press a button in the app for "a taxi, now, here", but the underlying systems were at least already there.

After Uber entered the market, they made their apps better, and you can now attach a payment method to pay through the app, and there's gps tracking of the car you're waiting on, same as Uber and similar.

But Stockholm never had a medallion system or other caps, and there's no monopoly, but there is some sort of oligopoly where some companies get better access to major taxi destinations such as airports and train stations. As usual, healthy competition is the key. :)
Inconsistencies to report.

Page 2:

• scarcity (stock pointers) +2.9% uplift
• urgency (countdown timers) +2.3% uplift
• social proof (informing users of others’ behaviour) +1.5% uplift

Page 6 table 2.2:

scarcity 2.9%
social proof 2.3%
urgency 1.5%
This is a pretty strange line of logic. Uber has consistently been in the media for YEARS about corrupt things they've done. I think the public decided they were bad because of those many things, not by some stroke of luck...
Fedora 26 beta finally rolls out
If a word has two definitions that have opposite meanings, then the word literally doesn't have any meaning at all.

> What you think is pretty much irrelevant if everyone else disagrees with you.

You don't think I can find a single other person who agrees with me?
Maybe! But I liked separating it from type-checking for the sake of the title.
Glad to hear it!

Is there any way I can sign up to be notified when you add support for it?
>Before my hot sauce set a record on Kickstarter

I would've liked to know more about this relevant detail.
Very cool. I'm seeing a future where fonts are stored as a series of transformations rather than a bunch of bitmaps/glyphs/vectors. A client could have specifications for adapting any font to make it more readable for their particular set of eyes while letting the font maintain a unique "look".
Sounds like Elm! :-D
Some of us measure worth in things more than dollars, and some are the more impoverished for not doing so.
Nice they finally added auto-scaling. It seems to function pretty similarly to the tool we built, with the same (documented) limitations.

DAX would have definitely addressed many of our issues, had it been available at the time. Glad they added that.
The Apollo astronauts must continue to tell their story while they still can
Here are all the rumors about Apple's next iPhone
Though it conflicts with other desirable principles, I think that without Uber, almost all of the innovation benefits from ride sharing would not have been pursued by the existing taxi industry. Customers have benefited directly and indirectly from the presence of Uber.

While one does need to maintain a "rule of law" to maintain society, but I would argue that the application of that is not wholly a precise mathematical or computational execution of laws. There needs to be a human-based fuzzy medium in that rule, the binary and complete enforcement of the laws as the definition of "rule of law" is both an unattainable standard and a terrifying goal. That little human buffer isn't 'anarchy', it's a needed degree of freedom needed to prevent tyranny becoming a friction that grinds up the entire machine of our society.
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This is not a battle that Apple can win. Removing WeChat from the AppStore would cost Apple far more than it would cost Tencent and they both know it, so that is no credible threat.
I would assume that's because most people right now picture UBI as benefitting only lazy people etc. Once there is a UBI, they'll realize that they're also getting paid, and they'll be more likely to vote against people who want to cut it.
Bullets cannot be stopped by culture. They're the same everywhere.

The closest explanation I'd allow of how this bullet-proofing is supposed to work is that the smell is so bad the attackers get confused. Really, that would be my first hypothesis if it could be shown that the ingredients matter.
Google Cloud Platform Launches in Sydney
IIRC not from humans, but some Minds still did abuse their power in Excession.
> I'm not really sure that they target C++ or aim to replace it, unlike D.

The evolution of both Go's and Rust's strategies as "replacement" languages is actually pretty interesting.

While Go's official marketing no longer calls it a systems language, the use of that phrase when Go was originally released does indicate that that they envisioned Go to be a "better C" in a sense (perhaps specifically in the sense of being used for userspace "system" utilities in the same vein as the Rob Pike's C-like Alef on Plan 9). At the same time, much of the public rationale given for Go was obviously to avoid the pitfalls of using C++ at Google-like scales (e.g. an aversion to junior-dev footguns and a fanatical focus on fast compilation), which implies that they saw some potential for replacing C++, though they later acknowledged that very little of Go's growth appeared to be coming from C++ programmers (see https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti... : "Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby. Very few come from C++.").

Meanwhile, given that Mozilla intended to write a browser engine in Rust, old versions of Rust absolutely intended to replace C++. Like D and Go, ancient pre-0.1 Rust was willing to impose a runtime by default in order to guarantee memory safety (originally intending for both green threads and a garbage collector to be baked into the language), until years of experimentation proved that its static checks were capable of providing memory safety without a runtime, which is the pivotal moment in Rust history (actually a series of pivotal moments, but let me be romantic). Nowadays, rather than market itself as a C++ replacement exclusively, Rust tends to position itself outside of the traditional spectrum of languages as simply a zero-overhead memory-safe systems language. While it's still true Rust competes with C++, is inspired by C++, and can be used to replace C++ (e.g. its usage at Dropbox and in Firefox), Rust also intends to compete directly with C, e.g. for system utilities (e.g. ripgrep), reusable low-level libraries (e.g. librsvg), and extending high-level languages (e.g. Helix).
What's funny is the poster is upset Uber wouldn't give up the information when simply asked for when that is just how the world works, you can't get a judge to look at your evidence unless you hire an expensive lawyer. It was an ok guide on what to do but the blame game is just strange.
Huh? Musk gave away the idea, never said he was himself going to do it.

But in spite of that, technically, Musk has already built a subscale Hyperloop nearly a mile long at the SpaceX campus in Hawthorne including an electric sled used for student competitions:
(epilepsy warning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moeI8DxQR5Q
What a helpful comment, thank you!

> I guess I just want to point out that while syntax is certainly super important, these data-semantics are not all that novel.

I agree! The data structures and semantics aren't novel at all. Nothing there that Lisp doesn't have.

> On the flip-side, S-expressions have certainly changed the world computing-wise...

Agreed!

> with slightly better syntax that you have fundamentally changed computing beyond what they already innovated for you.

It's a great point, and that's what I think the debate will be about. What's new is the matching of the syntax with the semantics, via geometry. The "\n" and " " are arbitrary, really what's going on is the YIndent and XIndent. In my plane, the x indent is " " and shifts a node right by 1, and the y indent is "\n" and shifts a node down by one, but that is arbitrary and just because English goes in that direction. I believe there will be many tricks that will now be borrowed from geometry to augment programmers in new ways.

> But, if you want to start a new smallish programming language and see where it goes, this means that a lot of that way is already cleared out for you; feel free to translate Scheme[1] into your new syntax and you will be able to do some things that you are not even dreaming about yet, like macro expansion.

A SchemeETN would be great! I've played around with macros in ETNs and there are some really interesting things you can do.
As a person not familiar with common lisp, I'm curious: why would somebody choose a CLISP instead of Clojure to target JVM?
site looks clean and nice.
but it's hard to consume that amount of information.
plus it's not possible to always understand what inside the link if article title is misleading
AI and machine learning offer new possibilities for IoT security
Not exactly. What people pay for water should be uniform and proportional to the cost of providing it. I am not a fan of influencing behavior through taxation and subsidy. That is itself wasteful and inefficient.

You don't even need to have bracketed, progressively higher rates for water use. It would be enough to just stop subsidizing those who use the most.

Less than 1% of human-used freshwater in the US goes through toilets.

Personally, I don't bother to optimize code unless the profiler says it is heavily used. I am probably not going to mess with a routine that only accounts for 1% of execution until well after I have optimized the hell out of the two functions that collectively account for 80% of CPU time. (Analogy-wise, that's power plants and irrigation.)

Of course, given enough developers, someone will eventually have to optimize out at the edges. There's no reason to say we can't tackle toilets at the same time as pivot irrigators; it's just that any work done on them will be inherently less valuable. You're not going to need your best people on it. And any gains will be small.

It isn't entirely about improving performance at that point. Anything I do to shave microseconds from that 1%-used function is likely to introduce additional bugs into the code--such as failures in one of the two major use cases for it. (Poop remains in the bowl after I flush.) That's not so bad if I set up unit tests beforehand, because I then know when I have broken something.

But where are your unit tests for toilet flushing, Mr. Legislator? Nowhere. They don't bother with the profiler or with unit tests. So they end up with shitty code.
To the extent it owns land, yes.
Shoot me an email at justin@cleverdeck.com with your email address and I'll make sure you get notified :)
Human psychology, probably not. Western psychology, most definitely. People don't even ask who your family is or where do you live anymore. The first question is always, what do you do?
Ask HN: Has Duckduckgo gotten worse recently?
In the last 3 or 4 months, I've been noticing that search results from Duckduckgo, which I've been using and loving for years, have gotten much, much worse. There are many fewer results in my queries, and I often have to resort to searching Google via !g and wind up getting many more results.

Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it just me?

Has anything changed at DDG that might account for this?
Seems as if this is a reasonable request, which is being framed as an unreasonable one.

WalMart has asked a Data-Warehousing service (via its customer) to please not do what it does - data-warehouse internal information about sales, revenue, etc - on their retail-competitor's servers. Data which could give Amazon sensitive inside information on WalMart's operations and financials..

I dono if they've made other less-reasonable requests, but the example provided in the article is completely reasonable.

I always find it a ironic when I've interacted with startups which have a plan to bring some disruptive thing to market that potentially competes with Amazon or Google, and yet route all their data and communication through these platforms. :)
> german-language-only

Ah the horror. Last week it was bleating that German laws are written in German, this week it's bleating that German bank documentation is written in German.
http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/10102/2016/EN/SW... - see page 32 (ARRPU). Operators in different countries have different profits per user (obvious). If you have someone like T-Mobile or Orange, they'll use the proceeds from say... France, to finance their operations in say... Poland. This will put pressure on other national operators to further lower prices. Lower prices mean lower profit margins, mean lower dividends, lower company valuation, being less attractive to investors, etc. After a while their value will decline by so much, they'll be willing to sell themselves at the current going price of their infrastructure. Orange buys them, and kills off competition.
>We should not be employing people in jobs that can be automated. We should try and automate everything.

Suppose that automation can be automated. Not that implausible, really. Will we just sit in a corner waiting through eternity on the machines to appear on their own?

I like theorizing too, but we've gotta live in the meantime.
It's also cut off at 2560x1440 on a Chrome web browser. Dunno how anybody can get excited about a font by Google that even Google can't figure out how to layout properly in a Google browser.
`make menuconfig` still works fine, I use it to configure kernels for use on Android. Since I build those on a server somewhere on the 'net - actually it sits under the stairs but for all intents and purposes it could have been on the other side of the world - it is handy to be able to use a console-based method.

I do prefer `menuconfig` (combined with `oldconfig`) in any case, possibly out of habit but also because this type of text-based user interface often is much faster to use than its graphical equivalent.
IANAL, but he should have revised his damages for the second case to account for his expenses, including time. He probably could have won closer to $6000 without a problem.

The author comes off as deeply uninformed about how legal proceedings in the U.S. work, for example talking about how he had to refute arguments in court and such, which is just not how things work at all at that level. Some basic Googleing would have taught him all he needed to know about defending himself in small claims court without stress.
So does that address all your issues?
Yeah I wasn't going to include it until I verified the title and URL both include that. I'll clarify in my post.
It's taken from Ohayo, the ETN editor. It's a rendered view of the Fire program. Sorry, I'm responding to some really helpful feedback and comments now, but will get back to Ohayo shortly and get it out today.
> I'm not sure Uber's reluctance to paying you 4000 dollars because a driver stole your backpack qualifies as corruption.

I honestly can't imagine what else you would call it, except maybe "belligerent incompetence".
> Pay people to not breed.

Wealthy people are already much less likely to procreate [1], although I'm not going to act as if that was planned.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility/#the-richer-the-people-...
My sons and I were talking the other day about how George Jetson of The Jetsons had some job akin to this and was constantly being yelled at by his psycho boss for falling asleep at his desk. He also apparently had no life. He walked his dog on a treadmill. He seemed to have no hobbies, no friends, etc.
I mean, to what extent of maintenance are they talking about? At some point, someone has to fix the machines that fix the machines, right?
> A stipend which covers food, shelter, clothing, catastrophic healthcare, reasonable water access, and unlimited data.

I agree with this as a laudable goal, but what happens after a population free from work and want doubles and then doubles again?
Actually because I use NoScript, nothing at all shows up when I visit that URL.

Empty white page.

Defective site design.
The great thing for me is that there are great materials for lesser studied languages - I've used it for both Turkish and Persian, which ive really struggled to find.
Cybikos?
I call this the "pace car" when driving. You can do anything the pace car does because he'll get caught first - he sets the pace.

Uber is the pace car and the police pulled him over, Lyft saw this and applied their brakes.
It's much easier with a taxi. Taxi receipts helpfully include the taxi cab number, as required by law in most big cities. Taxi drivers usually have more downtime between rides, especially in hotel/airport queues, so they are more likely to discover left-behind items that would otherwise be found and taken by the next Uber/lyft passenger. And finally, taxi companies also have centralized locations for storing lost items.
I agree with your point, that the average likely misses important factors (and think the tagging you guys are implementing looks really cool!).

However, I'd say that the issue is more than having a non-rigorous analysis. It's the wrong analysis for the question your article tries to answer. In the language often used in the analysis of tests, your analyses are essentially examining reliability (how much do student's scores vary on different test items due to "noise"), rather than validity (e.g. how many underlying skills did we test). Or rather, they don't try to separate the two, so cannot make clear conclusions.

I am definitely with you in terms of the goal of the article, and there is a rich history in psychology examining your question (but they do not use the analyses in the article for the reasons above).
I work for a company that makes robot arms for assistive purposes (Kinova) so I have some insight to share.

1st a voice setup with Alexa or similar can really help.

With regards to phone use, some of our users have an attachment to put the phone close to their head and use their nose to "click/select" (they can move their head).

Eye tracking technology is really impressive these days (can be as fast as using a mouse). I've recently demoed a system with a Tobii sensor (https://www.tobii.com/) that was hooked up to a laptop, very impressive when combined with appropriate software (it handles scrolling, keyboard shortcuts, etc in a custom interface). I'm not sure with regards to phone/tablet use how well they integrate.

Ping me on Linkedin if you'd like to talk more.
Well said. I hate all tipping. Hallmark of a stupid society. No surprise, DeBlasio pushed to require it in NYC. That guy is a complete and utter moron.
This article has a really bad "smell test" problem for me. Mostly because the author chose to actually point out that Lyft were the original perpetrators of the illegal Rideshare ride, then swiftly shifts focus back to why Uber is the company that needs to be crucified for this sin, and has not one gram of ire for Lyft. I mean it seems a bit of a bias against Uber to me. And I'm no fan of Uber.

And let's be real, the underlying whine of this author is Lyft and Uber broke the status quo by bypassing the traditional way corporations get laws made - lobbyists, bribes framed as campaign contributions, and favors. Instead Uber put politicians in the position of having to pay for not passing legislation Uber wanted.
I hate that the part about Mandelbrot still being alive is no longer true :(
Is there much desire for moving money via API though? Seems like it would expose you to massive risk for little reward.
On descent, one might think that increased drag is something of a useful feature.
Scopio: How We Are Using UGC to Change the Game
Ask HN: How would you invest your first 10,000 dolllar?
I've just started at my first job last year and well my way to have saved up my first 10,000 dollar. Which investment vehicles are attractive for me at these quantities? What would you invest in first?
You guys are all wrong. The only requirement for this job is that you have to be a Good Boy.
Our eyes also come with our brains packed full of fancy algorithms to extract value from minimal information.

I am not sure what software does with noise from a lidar sensor but I have seen data from other noisy sensors and they are often useless.
Can we please stop excusing corruption and incompetence with "that's how the world works"? It only works that way because we let people get away with it. Giving the runaround to a paying customer who was robbed by one of your employees is not any kind of good business practice.
At the very least Lyft seems like an option
There is a ton of important work that needs to be done that gets the short shrift in our society. Taking care of our elderly and our children, teaching, cleaning up and looking after the environment, community service. There is a massive gap between the activities that our economy incentivizes and what is good for the health and happiness of our communities. Basic income doesn't have to involve useless hole digging, there is plenty of work out there that would be both useful and rewarding.
Dasher might be something worth looking into:

http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/
And you just triggered tome's law: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549
Here's the issues I have with Numerai -

1) Bullshit marketing where they advertise the usage of "homomorphic encryption". If you've looked at their datasets they are most likely taking some fundamental and pricing factors and then performing min/max scaling. Nothing too crazy... and I think it would be possible to reconstruct which stock each observation corresponded to given some effort.

2) Professional quants care a lot about the way their features are constructed. The type of data you are looking at affects the type of model you would use... e.g. some kind of GARCH process for lagged time series data vs something different for sector betas, etc.

3) Given (1) there is an insider trading opportunity to reconstruct the underlying data and then submit predictions based on unknown or illegally sourced features.
Apple really isn't in a position to negotiate or bully TenCent. They have 16% market share in China (as of Apr, 2017) and any attempt to threaten TenCent by removing WeChat from the China App Store would backfire spectacularly.
I left a DSLR in a taxi in Ballarat.

I live in New Zealand.

They couriered to me for free.

(I sent the driver a box of wine to say thanks).
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That's fine, it was the shallow reaction I was after. I've had the benefits of being in the US >20 years to observe things from multiple perspectives.

Basically what inhibits a person from Atlanta is not their legal or technical disadvantages, but those perceptual ones - large parts of society, and often police in particular, holding prior assumptions of criminal disposition and unwillingness to better themselves.

I'm Irish and we have very few Roma people but we have a similar and related ethnosocial subgroup. Imagine how difficult it would be for a 'gypsy' person to attain significant political power in our home countries, and how even if elected/appointed to a position of responsibility everything they did would be undermined by attacks on their heritage, regardless of their legal or intellectual eligibility for the role.

I noticed very soon after arrival in the US that I was assumed to have much greater potential than members of disfavored ethnosocial minorities. I say ethnosocial because I'm thinking of a former roommate from Mauritius who felt that his French accent and foreign origin gave him substantial social advantages vs American blacks whose negative qualifiers were already assumed.