skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The silent erroneous elision you make is that you take as an axiom that at least in Uber's case, at least "broadly speaking" perhaps, "breaking the law benefits everyone."

The silent proposition is that there is some body of law and regulation which benefits no one, or which benefits some in an unjust way (e.g. protecting markets from new entrants).

That is certainly true but it's the crux of the entire debate, and reasonable position IMO is that if there are laws and regulations overdue for overhaul or discard, that is a debate we have first using established mechanisms.

There can not realistically be any gray area here. The law and regulation cannot in a civil society be "opt in" and adherence be left in effect a matter of discretion on the part of those e.g. seeking to "disrupt" the status quo.

There are always costs and benefits and extant law and regulation represents the state of play in our society as to which arguments (rightly or wrongly) have prevailed. There are mechanisms however painfully slow (from the perspective of would-be disruptors) for moving the lines.

But maintaining collective complete commitment to consensus respect of those lines whatever they are despite personal preference or benefit is the very foundation of the rule of law.

As an aside it's worth commenting that the overwhelming evidence is that transgression is inevitably to the disproportionate benefit of a few, with the costs disproportionately "externalized" on to the commons or the powerless.

Uber's behavior has been one demonstration of that after another.
I've got a yearly angry tweet that it's totally ridiculous that in $YEAR we do not have an easy, maybe just read-only, way to access our transaction data from banks. (This is for the Netherlands.)

At this point I'd take the enterprisey German API over nothing.

I'd love our government or the EU stepping in.
It's a bit of a stretch to cast corporate funding as a negative, especially when the direction of Swift/Rust/Go are all mostly directed by community consensus rather than the corporate middlemen signing the paychecks (see the Swift community's rejection of SE-0110, the Rust's community's rejection of struct inheritance, and the Go community's rejection of aliases). Given the opportunity I'm sure that D would delight in having a corporate sponsor; financial security of D development and infrastructure was a large part of the impetus for the D Language Foundation, after all. Casting sponsorship as "life support" when all three of these languages have thriving communities simply comes across as petty.
I would also be up for some reading regarding optimizations/architecture choices for a 10:1::write:read setup.
Found it: https://teller.io/developer/beta

It is UK only.
Lowering standards of living? Lolwhat?

As a previous comment pointed out, Uber created a consumer surplus of almost $7 billion in 2015 alone.
Most likely the year Linux on the phone gets replaced by Fuchsia.
This article was confusing, and I didn't understand exactly what I was reading until I noticed the Amazon link at the bottom.
Fuck that, I do, and it'd be pretty goddamn cheap. Likely benefits are training / practice, unlikely benefits are deeper anthropological and jungle-life (why those plants?) understanding, and the Pascal's Mugger benefit is "huh magic...?". And then there's the weird side-benefit of encouraging scientific investigation of all things.

Seriously, the biggest expense is going to be shipping the researchers.
That EPA link says nothing about the embodied carbon footprint of manufacturing vehicles.

The Guardian article is very deceptive:

"... the emissions from the manufacture of a top-of-the-range Land Rover Discovery ... may be as much as four times higher than the tailpipe emissions of a Citroen C1."

Did you see the trick they pulled there?

They took carbon emissions from manufacture of a large vehicle (Land Rover Discovery), and divided it by the tailpipe emissions of a very efficient small vehicle (Citroen C1) in order to concoct a large-sounding, but ultimately meaningless comparison "4 times higher". You may as well compare the manufacturing emissions of the Land Rover to the tailpipe emissions of a cow.

But even assuming your point about manufacturing emissions, while you don't buy a new vehicle yourself because of your use of ride services, the cars used for ride services will be replaced more often, because they are more heavily utilized, and hence will have to be replaced more often.
Can you describe how domain knowledge has given you an edge?

It's somewhat subtle and kind of hard to articulate. And I'm still working on developing that domain knowledge myself. But from looking at what's going on here, it's clear that the people who truly understand this system at the highest levels, are the people who understand how it's actually used by customers, and what this stuff means to them. As opposed to the folks who know 'just enough' to write code, but are operating in a bit of a vacuum.

Are there other doors it opens?

Based on my experience here, I'd say that the people who become tech leads, architects, offering managers, etc., are expected to have strong domain knowledge.

Do you ever do online courses?

I do, but most of the ones I've done have been more on the technology side (a lot of data science, math, and machine learning stuff).

I've been working through one on FutureLearn about antibiotic resistant bacteria, and rather enjoying it.

That sounds pretty interesting. I may just check it out.
JavaScript for Microcontrollers and IoT: Part 1
I think the ideas are similar, but does Redux have the statically checked component? That's the killer here.
Necessary is a loaded word....

None the less, let's not pretend yellow cab other taxi livery companies never mistreated any of their employees (male, female, lgbtq, etc.)

Mistreatment is not an uber only specialty.
> You clearly don't live in NYC.

I very clearly do.

Rather than respond to the anecdotes, I'll point out that I was rebutting the original claim: that Uber was cheaper because it (unlike medallion cabs) does not have to pay for licensing fees. Uber does pay for licensing fees, just under a different classification. More importantly, that's exactly who Uber's competition is on the drivers' side, which is exactly what OP was talking about. Uber drivers are generally people who have driven livery cabs for years and either split their time between Uber and other livery cab services, or have switched over to Uber for livery cab driving.

When talking about the price, it's more accurate to compare Uber to other livery cabs, and to say that Uber has caused the share of livery cabs in the overall cab market in NYC to increase, rather than to look narrowly at the medallion market, and ignore the regulatory field that they are in, ignore the costs of that regulation, and ignore all of the direct competition on the supplier side.
EDIT: Deleted. This was an unfinished draft of my reply that I accidentally posted in the middle of writing it. Please look at my sibling comment.
It's a realistic concern. For example, a lot of elderly people are targeted for scams because they A.) Are often little easier to trick and B.) Tend to have more money. Comes up in the news a lot. They don't get it back.
I'm assuming parent meant IBM's "relatively" recent demise. IBM lost many billions in the early 90s and was close to disaster, at the same time Microsoft (originally an IBM supplier!) was surging.
Have you used Shiny? It is so dead simple compared to other solutions I have seen. Biased but I love R.
I also sell 3D printed items and they did the exact same thing to my account. I just emailed them and they had me send pictures of my workspace and process to prove my items are "handmade" and my account was restored within 48 hours.
The pitfalls aren't really any different than C++... either use some kind of smart pointer, or use caution not to escape references to stack memory (very easy mistake to make in D) or slice up the object by value (very difficult to do in D) and you'll be fine.

The built-in `scope` syntax is deprecated (though making a comeback recently as more stuff gets implemented around it), but you can also do a library type fairly easily, just slightly heavier in syntax (you need to prepare the memory and construct the object in two separate lines) or prep work (write a struct which does both).
Yup yup. Our consistent advice to clients:

- By the time you reach the limits of a Postgres setup, you will either be making so much money that porting it is a couch-cushions deal or your company is a smoking crater in a hillside.

- SPAs are fine. SPAs plus server rendering is often a pain in the rear. Walk, then run.

- If you can't express concretely why you want a container fleet, you don't want a container fleet. Your cloud provider's autoscaling will suffice. (This advice is different for non-cloud clients, but the overhead of leaving space in a container fleet for new deploys or for scaling is deadweight and turning around a container in thirty seconds is probably not as important as the blogs you read tell you it is.)
In support of the above post. I made ceremonial investments in GWPH PHOT TRTC and TRXC. All down between 60% and 30%
The paper takes the example from jsonETN. The first letter is the data type.

s: StringNode
n: NumberNode
a: ArrayNode
o: ObjectNode
b: BooleanNode
j: OtherNode

I just posted the repo here if you're curious. https://github.com/breck7/jsonetn

It used to pass every test, but I haven't touched it in a while and seems like a few lines need to be updated to bring it up to date with TN 4.0 (it's on 3.8 now). Handles the tricky JSON edge cases fine.

It would be great if someone wanted to maintain a solid JsonETN! I'm on to the Turing Complete ETNs nowadays, but a JSON ETN would be great and would let you use ETN tools to work with JSON.

Package.json for NPM should eventually switch to an ETN. Would provide noticeable benefits.
Get your todo list done or get spammed
neptune is 3.86 earth diameters, based on the wikipedia values.
So all that matters to you is investor value?

Maybe some things matter more, like, not fostering an environment where sexual harassment is tolerated.
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Part of what we are learning, in AI/ML, is the number of problems where the ML is relevant and where it is not. (Or, to put it another way, where we can find statistical relevance between features and targets).

So I think you need some kind of "meta-metric" that measures the growth of the taxonomy itself. And perhaps some kind of weighting for the impact of the solution.

There is also an interaction effect (for instance, Natural Language Processing is powerful, and "common sense reasoning" is powerful, but put them together and you have a knockout), but I don't know how to go about measuring that.
I wish there was better discovery in Erlang sources. I'd really love to see something like Mozilla DXR for Erlang code. That way I can see what's going on in more mature Erlang sources. Grep and GitHub leave much to be desired searching through Erlang code.

It would also be nice to have a way to infer--without actually running the app--the supervision tree from the source and then graph it.
I agree with him in many contexts that there is a profoundly racist tilt to American culture, and there is a profoundly racist tilt to "tech" culture as well.

But that's not what was being referred to here, no.
Fascinating.

One of the interesting open questions in human history is the prevalence of extirpation due to human hunting pressure. I think the theories range from a "blitzkrieg" of human impact as sapiens hit the cultural milestones of the paleolithic revolution to gradually mounting impact starting in pre-sapien times or even having started relatively recently (with prehistorical extirpations attributed to other factors).

I bet type of dynamics you're talking about go back a long time. Humans are very culturally driven. What & how people hunt or eat is all very culturally driven. Hunting cultures still exist today. There are still living traditions of hunter gatherer cultures. There are people who fish. There are brits on horses. All of them have cultural norms that seem counterintuitively random. For example, fish considered edible by fisherman are almost always a much smaller subset than blind palatability test would estimate. When I visited the states (florida) I caught some "mudfish" which I looked up online, then ate (tastes good). The locals told me "we don't eat them, but some black people do." This is not unusual. The English eat different fish than the French. It's true of gamebirds and it's true in traditional cultures too.

...Anyway, hunting practices can have big effects on local ecology. It seems likely that cultures with beneficial rites, spread or spread those rites.
IoT protocols List behind the next technological revolution
You're both right. Long-term benefit certainly should be the guiding policy, but as Keynes observed 'in the long run we are all dead.' Because many people are selfish and because political systems are relatively easy to game, short-term self-serving strategies often prevail.

It's the same thing in dictatorships. Many dictators could use their highly concentrated authority to undertake large projects that would benefit their population significantly and leave a great legacy. But most of them don't because it's easier and more predictable to just maintain an iron grip on power and enjoy a life of luxury while suppressing any opposition.

Strategically, many people prefer to be a big fish in a small pond than the reverse.
Perceived as at least pretending to give a shit, then. Her policy agenda might have offered some real solutions for working-class problems - and it might not have; I no longer recall in enough detail to speak confidently without a refresher, but neoliberals have not traditionally been effective in this regard - but what played was "deplorables".
How does multi-master replication solve write scalability issues? I'm not familiar with the postgres implementation, but don't all writes have to happen on all servers? And if all writes need to happen on all servers, how does that improve write scalability as the load write load on each server is the same as it would be without multi-master replication.
In theory you could call for a cab. In practice, you couldn't.
Namaste from your Google Assistant
(Story about CDC, not Taco bells)
I think the purpose is so people can create their own variations of the available fonts, not to make animated text.
This is the correct answer. What a vapid, devoid-of-content article.
A few points in refutation. I see Amazon as far ahead of Walmart in all ways that promise growth:

1) Walmart may be the biggest retailer in the US, but they don't have half of the US homes as subscribers. Amazon Prime does. I doubt Walmart.com attracts any where near as many e-tail visitors as Amazon, and I suspect the gap is widening.

2) Amazon is decades ahead of Walmart in the online shopper experience. I grit my teeth each time I visit Walmart's website. It's slow and ugly and very clumsy to navigate or search. And it hasn't gotten better after years of this.

3) Walmart's products are mostly middle-to-down-market, even online, and that doesn't seem to have changed all that much even as they've grown their e-tail efforts. Try buying a nice watch or high-end stereo equipment there. No such ceiling applies to Amazon, probably because Amazon welcomes re-sellers (which can span all market niches), while Walmart doesn't.

So I think Walmart has a long way to go to compete equally with Amazon, and isn't a comparable threat as an all 'round monopoly.

And personally, I don't hate Amazon enough to object to a monopoly threat from them the way I do Walmart. I think ill-will does matter when it comes to federal action on anti-competition. If Microsoft were as despised as AT&T was in 1984, they would be in pieces today.
Home robot Kuri can now recognize pets, see and stream in HD
If you work in a good place with one huge flaw, and management assures you they will address the flaw, then you blow up one day because they haven't addressed it yet and quit, that's an impetuous decision for a good reason.

It's not necessarily rash, foolhardy or reckless, since those are synonyms. In this case they are similar, but not exactly the same.
Marriott Is on an Expansion Binge as It Fends Off Airbnb
It's satire imitating real life 2013: https://coffitivity.com/
In this particular case, yes, because banks tend to deny all liability for fraudulent transactions that result from credentials sharing, so the user is entirely liable for whatever loss that occurs.
RockSolid Labs Aims to Improve Container Security with BitVessel
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX): Speed Up DynamoDB Response Times
Neptune radius: 24,622 km

Earth radius: 6,371 km

That's your 4 times the size measure.
They probably felt comfortable taking a loss while they expanded more on these subsidized prices. As long as they don't get involved in harassment claims and theft of a competitors IP they should be in a strong position to start raising prices....
That reversal is not instantaneous, and by no means is it a guarantee that you'll ever get the whole amount back when overdraft fees, third-party bounced check fees, and all of the other non-monetary impacts are taken into account.

Depending on the scope of your accounts with the financial company that you're banking with it's possible that beyond your day-to-day operating funds and your mid-term savings accounts that you may also have access to your investments and other long-term stores of value. They aren't as liquid, and it would be harder for a thief to shift them into something that can be transferred out of your account, but it certainly is possible for it to happen if sales of stocks/bonds/etc. are conducted without your knowledge and then the funds are wired out.
“For instance, on a cluster of five m3.large nodes, an even mixture of processes performing single-row inserts and selects over a few hundred rows pushed ~40 inserts and ~20 reads per second (steady-state).”

If someone can explains those abysmal low numbers ...
Reason #516 why people should only send plain text e-mail.
Sure, which is why Uber has invested so much in driver acquisition in expanding it's territories. But once those territories are established they should be able to spend far less. If driver times start to become longer, it means existing drivers have a higher utilization and will make more money, drawing more drivers to drive for uber, and solving the problem in a virtuous circle.
Used to work across the street from a high-rise with a peregrine nest. Loved watching them chow down on their prey outside my window!
For ebooks I created folders for main-categories and some sub-categories (inspired by Amazon.com or some other ebook shop structure).

For photos folders per device/year/month.

For Office documents pre-pending date using the ISO date format (2017-06-21 or 170621) works great. (for sharing with others over various channels like mail/chat/fileserver/cloud/etc)
Thank you zimbatm! These are great comments.

Your point is a great one. I could write a program in bash with 2 words that might take dozens of nodes in Python:

wget https://news.ycombinator.com/

But in reality what's happening is just the complexity is shifted from the user to the interpreter creator.

LISP programmers are used to this. ETNs are very much like Lisp, except it removes the AST parse step (and the parentheses!), leaving the resulting programs simpler than their Lisp equivalents.
Here's another look. If you have variables X_1, ..., X_n that are independent and random from normal distributions, if you want someone to be within 1 standard deviation from the mean in EACH dimension, then you are looking at a probability of that happening equal to about 0.68^n, which becomes really small for even a moderate n.
A good rule of thumb is whenever a news article's title is a question, the answer is no. Its called Betteridge's law of headlines
I looked into this issue awhile ago and may have even written about it in HN. The publishers are trying to take a larger share of the income from Amazon for eBooks over traditional publishing leaving the authors with less than before even though production costs for publishers are far lower for eBooks. Amazon was trying to work to get authors at least the same proportion of the money they get for eBooks as for hardcopy traditional books.
How is that any different than any business that has one large customer?

And if you're creating a valuable product at a good price, then you have leverage over Walmart. If you're selling a commodity, then be prepared to get squeezed. That's how it should work.
That mentality itself hasn't caused Uber's problems. It's just their inability to successfully conceal it, as other big companies do. Kalanick was likely too idealistic and didn't place adequate weight on appearing soft, which allowed the press to rake him over the coals.
Where do you get the feed for all the articles in the first place?
They might also be implying that they are paid equally but on average do equal or higher quality work. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing because companies don't typically micro-manage salaries (for a given job title) according to individual performance.
I cant wait for PSD2.
Crisis mode: What developers should do when they discover an error
I agree in a sense, but if this way of living is so attractive to the best and brightest that it takes them away from their own languages, cultures, home lands, families, etc. who can really say what is best for those people on an individual level. Are we supposed to keep these countries in the dark, and hide this way of living to essentially trick their top people into staying in the old ways for the sake of preserving the past? One solution that can help everybody is to remove some of the competitive nature and make sure that this system can actually support all the people involved in the spreading global system rather than funneling all the benefits to the best and brightest, another is to make it possible to participate in the global economy while preserving more of the old cultures, but at the end of the day the only constant is change, and these other cultures will continue evolve one way or another.
Ask HN: What do you feel about Indian equivalent of MTurk?
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This is why I always click on the comments before the link.
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Doesn't that same arrangement work out if you're paid hourly? 45 one week has 5 extra (actually 7.5) hours, so the next slow week you can elect to work only 32.5 hours and you're in exactly the same place income wise.

This means the employer gets less simple hours work from you for the same amount of money, but that's the price of overtime.
Yes - the creator of Redux, Dan Abramov, was inspired by the Elm Architecture in his design of Redux.
I would conclude that Uber is spending extra money to expand the market just as Amazon took losses to expand their market. They don't need to raise prices, but eventually reduce overhead per ride.
You're bringing into clear relief why I wasn't accepted to Stanford.
Original paper on the analysis of the beer: http://www.pnas.org/content/113/23/6444
There's a lot of overlap with Spawned Shelter, and I haven't touched it in a few months, but https://gist.github.com/macintux/6349828 is a list of free Erlang resources I try to maintain.
There already exists a company called Teller in Europe which is dealing with payment solutions.

> Nets is split up in two divisions: Nets, which manages the Danish market, and Teller, which handles all international markets. This means that Nets processes all Dankort transactions, while Teller processes all transactions by international cards.

http://www.epay.eu/acquirer-internet/nets-teller.asp

https://www.nets.eu/en/payments/

http://netseu.23video.com/secret/12342399/64f0568391b3ebaa58...

https://my.teller.com/login