skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one would think the people securing our finances has the technical capability to provide modern apis... one would think
It's a good thing you would never do that for text you wanted someone to read, and would only do it to show what you can do with the font.
Not really. You framed it as if anyone can (and should?) do as you do, which is incorrect.
You know, if Uber employees started going to jail when they lied to the government, the culture would probably change pretty fast.
Growth, baby, growth!
Its amazing anyone thought it feasible to risk life and limb at the vagaries of the wind. Unpowered flight is fundamentally dangerous.
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> Although if you can do well at that, you're wasting your time giving the results to Numerai.

This is the fundamental break down in proposals like this (Numerai, Quantopian, etc).

For anyone who can consistently generate alpha, why bother with a crowdsourced model? They can just go join any one of the hedge funds that will pay half to several million each year in compensation for that acumen.
I was looking for my ride history from Uber a while back, as I have been a rider since pretty close to their inception date in SF.

I sent an email to support asking for my full ride history, and I asked what was the date which I created my account as I wanted to know how close to the birth of Uber I signed up...

I was told that I couldn't have any of that info as it was a violation of privacy.

I found this bizarre as it was my account info I was seeking.

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When Uber had the "party" thing happen, I thought it was going to be an interesting lottery to attend an Uber corporate as a user.

Turned out it was simply a ploy to measure how many people they could get to tap on the lottery button, then deliver them to Harlot, a club in SF which typically charges a cover to enter, but there was no cover - the bar was still full price and at the end of the lame party, everyone was just standing on the corner like any other schlepp.

I was amazed that Uber had arranged this "secret party lottery" where the driver only knew the location and would pick you up and drop you at the party... but they didn't arrange for any pickups from the party to take you back home.

I had asked some Uber party planners that were there at the time if they intended on sharing any of the user behavior data gathered from this experiment, they laughed and said "not a chance"

It was the lamest secret party ever - and given that they didn't even cover Uber rides home after taking people free to a bar, I thought it was very poor on their part.
There is no ICO. Coin goes directly to competing data scientists. And that coin can be used to increase earnings of the data scientist depending on the consistency of their model.
Some locations do, and some locations don't. Fortunately, you can check ahead of time by asking the Coinstar website which locations offer a specific gift card.

http://www.coinstar.com/KioskFinder?element=Partner&parmName...
I'd be really interested in creating full disk images and then cloning to another disk.
If that is a use case (I think I skimmed the post correctly) it could be very useful and performant over dd and similar disk cloning tools.
We, at oko, do more extensive summaries, maybe you will find it interesting. Check our demo at https://app.oko.ai/ycdemo
I didn't even think this was debateable any longer. It absolutely happens on their retail side.

I don't think anyone will have a confirmed example of it happening to AWS customers - but if they are completely willing to destroy smaller vendors on the retail side with their own branded products, I can't imagine them saying AWS is where they draw the ethics line in the sand.

You could make a case for Netflix being an example on the AWS side, but I'd bet more on coincidence.

Amazon would be amazingly and utterly stupid if they were not analyzing their AWS service usage/traffic/spends by market vertical, and I'd imagine must more granular than that. That's simply to sell to people. It's not much of a leap to start using that data to direct internal development and identify unexpected areas of growth.
"I block HTML and your site doesnt load for me, defective site!"

I know JS isnt HTML, but at this point, it basically is. Complaining that a site is broken because you choose to break it is just astounding.
FYI Open Banking API was announced to have personal customer transaction data on a read-only basis at the beginning of 2018, and the full scope, including business, customer and transactional data, reached by 2019.
That was actually specific to the IE 5.5 feature set and that era's Microsoft in general. Microsoft has been doing some amazing stuff in the last years, with many of them being open source and community-driven.
I'm all for being cynical and weary of mob hating. However, the article shows many times Uber is not trying to do anything.

The driver seemingly didn't get reprimanded or properly investigated by Uber. We don't know this for sure, but based on what went down, this seems to be the case. Uber lied to the police. Uber tried to turn it around against the victim for having so much evidence. When the victim was incredibly lucky to have a few of his evidence items (like photo on plane and security camera).

The victim (and police) were never able to get in contact with the driver. Shouldn't Uber have some sort of way for a customer of a driver to get into contact with said driver? The current way made it far too easy for the driver to get away with robbing the victim. This is possibly most damning against Uber -- they don't seem to be doing anything to change things. Perhaps they are. Changes don't happen overnight and they don't have to be transparent if they are trying to better things. So I'll definitely be humbled and retract my assumptions that Uber isn't trying to better things if they do in the coming months.
True, except if it has an uncontrollable effect on the overall steering of the system.

Drag will vary greatly based on weather and wind, so it is likely not something one would want to count on.
That's what many said about Facebook when they had their crazy valuation. The same was said of Google before they figured out ads.

Tesla has a brand value higher than any other car. It's not an app that can be easily replicated. The dynamics are not the same as Uber.
Good points.

The port number typically indicates a service that is publicly known and repeatable. This is leaked information, as each service will have a unique port number. The IP protocol of 99 is used for all communications so no differentiation of network traffic can be made using this information.

SYN cookies can be a solution, but it has limitations, and to overcome those limitations requires changes to the TCP protocol. It is also preferable not to use TCP for controls in order to avoid the coupling caused by connections. The network between components may also be unreliable thus causing the need for regular reconnections.

Replay attacks protection by TLS, etc uses sequence numbers which expects a continuous connection. There is the setup phase that must be taken into account and then the entire series of packets from that point on can be replayed. The goal is to run on unreliable networks so connections would constantly need to be reestablished.

We consider DOS attacks to be attacks on the network rather than the component.

The number of packets/sec that the daemon can handle is computer resource determined. But, >1000/sec is typical in our testing on commodity H/W. It has never failed due to load in thousands of hours of testing.

If a client (first peer) is compromised then it can send any message it wants to the second peer with which it is configured to communicate. But, only properly formed, valid range messages will be accepted. Let’s say that the receiving component controls a motor that has a valid engineering range of 0 -1000 RPM. If a nefarious command came in to spin to 2000 RPM that would be rejected. The server (second peer) is not connection based so it will handle whatever packet arrive at the rate it can, and drop the rest on the floor.

So, overall we believe it is simpler and less error prone to use our protocol then set up all these complicated extra configurations.
I wonder -- with a company culture on the lookout for loopholes and exploits in order to enter markets, do they tend to see that by default in the behavior of others? This guy got accused of deliberately leaving his bag in the car. There was also that incident with the rape, and the executive who brought back confidential files to discuss whether that was a fraud.

It is as if, "I think you are trying to commit fraud here ... because that is what I can imagine trying to pull off myself."
11 paragraphs of self-promotion before getting to the meat.
While it is true they have been in the media for years for various reasons... Over the past few months it seemed to be accelerating.

Perhaps the lesson here is that if you set out to disrupt powerful interests across the world, you better have your own house in order, otherwise they will disrupt you.
I think I know what the author is trying to say, but don't think it's actually as big of issue as the author puts on. Funding, aside from the occasional very big project, usually goes to the "diversity" people.
My file layout is quite uninteresting. The most noteworthy thing is that I have an additional toplevel directory /x/ where I keep all the stuff that would otherwise be in $HOME, but which I don't want to put in $HOME because it doesn't need to be backed up.

- /x/src contains all Git repos that are pushed somewhere. Structure is the same as wanted by Go (i.e., GOPATH=/x/). I have a helper script and accompanying shell function `cg` (cd to git repo) where I give a Git repo URL and it puts me in the repo directory below /x/src, possibly cloning the repo from that URL if I don't have it locally yet.

$ pwd
/home/username
$ cg gh:foo/bar # understands Git URL aliases, too
$ pwd
/x/src/github.com/foo/bar

As I said, that's not in the backup, but my helper script maintains an index of checked-out repos in my home directory, so that I can quickly restore all checkouts if I ever have to reinstall.

- /x/bin is $GOBIN, i.e. where `go install` puts things, and thus also in my PATH. Similar role to /usr/local/bin, but user-writable.

- /x/steam has my Steam library.

- /x/build is a location where CMake can put build artifacts when it does an out-of-source build. It mimics the structure of the filesystem, but with /x/build prefixed. For example, if I have a source tree that uses CMake checked out at /home/username/foo/bar, then the build directory will be at /x/build/home/username/foo/bar. I have a `cd` hook that sets $B to the build directory for $PWD, and $S to the source directory for $PWD whenever I change directories, so I can flip between source and build directory with `cd $B` and `cd $S`.

- /x/scratch contains random junk that programs expect to be in my $HOME, but which I don't want to backup. For example, many programs use ~/.cache, but I don't want to backup that, so ~/.cache is a symlink to the directory /x/scratch/.cache here.
I forward abuse@, security@, postmaster@, hostmaster@, webmaster@, info@ and dns-admin@ for my main domain, and actually mostly don't get any spam to any of them except from dns-admin@, which I have listed as contact in WHOIS for some of my domains.
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Weird shift to Trump at the end of that article. I don't get it.
I don't think you have a clear understanding what it's like to live in extreme poverty. It's not just a different way of living. It's awful.

Children routinely die due to easily preventable diseases or starvation. Simple infections are life threatening for adults. Hunger is constant. Exposure to extreme elements is common. Life expectancies are short. Individuals lack meaningful control over their own lives and have little or no ability to improve their situation in the world.
Off as in "The alarm went off" is another great example. You can tell the state changed, but not if it started or stopped.
Underground Storage of Energy Carriers – Brine and Salt Extraction [pdf]
> Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with organized information.

I'm the co-founder of https://www.fwdeveryone.com, which implements the same sort of functionality on top of email. This way you can capture both the knowledge created within your organization, and also conversations between your coworkers and people outside your business. There is no new client to adopt, and your data already comes pre-exported into your gmail or google apps account. And if you have a conversation you'd like to share publicly then we provide tools, like requesting permission and redacting sensitive info, to make this easy also, e.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/Connecticut/comments/65kbok/good_hi...

Wikis are great, but maintaining them is basically a full time job, which is why they tend to be terrible and out of date. And even in cases where you have a PM maintaining your wiki full time, the majority of organizational knowledge is still locked up in email. Given that the amount of personal non-spam email sent every day is something like 100x the total size of Wikipedia, it seems unlikely that chat programs, email replacement solutions, or wikis can ever really be a complete solution.

Also, everyone already knows how to write or respond to an email, but many people within organizations don't know how to do simple things like making an account on a website. It sounds like a trivial problem, but we've found that having a system where everyone can contribute without having to learn anything new is actually a big win.
Yes, for many existing parts of the job. This has been going on for 20 years.
I was pleased to see that C++ finally gave up on trigraphs.
This with Phoenix as backend and Vuejs for frontend would be the killer. Thanks anyway for this very nice publication!
Yes, I also believe that, in the US at least, the social pressure distorts the signal that the tip sends so it's meaningless. There is such a huge stigma associated with not tipping (or tipping poorly), that most people will tip a decent amount even for poor service.

Granted, the rating system is no better, even if for different reasons: since Uber/Lyft will deactivate drivers if their rating falls below what I'd consider to be a fairly high value (something above 4), most people (where I live, at least) give 5 stars unless there was something seriously wrong with the ride, so a mediocre driver will get the same rating as an exemplary driver.
Generally: it's a way to tweak a font family for use in a specific design context. Obvious parameters would be weight and width, but others could be imagined as well.

In the case of Prototypo, it looks like you tweak things upstream, and then generate concrete font files for each variant you want; those are what you then use in your project.

This still has the downside though of having to distribute multiple fonts, though, even if they're related.

Looking into the future, I wonder if it will ever make sense to push that downstream, and distribute one parametric font to clients. You could then use some styling language on the client end to have the client render the variants you want...
I had a tetrahedral kite growing up. That thing was amazing. It would lift off in a light breeze. And boy did it pull when the wind picked up. Great fun.
All else being equal, schools with substantial numbers of special needs students will have much higher expenditure per pupil because they are so disproportionately expensive.

Of course funding per pupil isn't correlated to outcomes. Funding per pupil normalized to their levels of needs and preparedness might be.
Did you consider asking the police to file a criminal complaint against Uber for theft?
And who said maintenance can't be automated?
Ah, I see! Not sure if you're the same user as the ones above, but the Compute Module 3 doesn't come with networking chips, so it's a no-starter for Android Things.
How is the coin value jumpstarted, then? Who do the scientists sell the tokens to for real money?
Maybe only shamelessly plug once per thread :)
Writing thin clients that serve data to browsers for charting/tabling purposes is one of my favourite pastimes. So I'm thrilled there's another tool for this job, especially one that abstracts many of the boring aspects of the job. Well done, I look forward to playing with it.
Yeah that part is a shaky construct, I agree. Which is kind of what got me started on this line of thought. The whole idea of 'restoration' that I used to espouse, rests on getting things back to a "natural" state, meaning a state without or before humans. So there's your separation right there.

I started thinking like, well too late, humans have been here. But just for fun let's pretend they instantaneously stopped being here; what would the "natural," "human-free" world look like then? It would look like what humans have made it into, plus whatever latent conditions we also caused but might be holding back by e.g. controlling rat populations or whatnot, plus whatever areas/systems/ecologies are and were always outside our influence.
I'm well aware of that and acknowledged I was only talking about the US, which is where Uber is (at least initially) rolling out this mis-feature.
I've bought cars that came with plates and I've bought cars where they had to mail them to me. I think it varies.
This is sad to hear, and while I don't use Uber anymore, I did have one great experience - my phone slipped out of my pocket into the car as I was getting out, and the car drove off as I got out and did not carry anything there. I was able to contact the last driver by logging into the app from a hotel employee's phone and arrange a pickup not too long later.

I gave her a generous cash tip and many thanks for doing the right thing, as I was far away from my home in the Bay Area (was in Savannah for a race).
Thank you for your answers and thanks so much for open sourcing Dash!

I'll be definitely testing these examples with our data. Plotly seems to have grown leaps and bounds from when I last tried it year or so ago.

I believe we could integrate our data browser's React components into or alongside with Dash. This way data could flow directly from our APIs.

We have our geographic shapes in Geoserver, so GeoJSON would be the easiest way to get them into browser or Python for Dash. I have to see what how this could be adapted. If this were Django based I'd be using GeoDjango, but Postgis should be accessible from Flask as well.
I get that big companies are not your friend, but is it really necessary to wage total war by using all possible legal advantages and issuing ultimatums? "Here is the evidence I have that you're in the wrong" can sometimes hurt you later in court, but it can avoid the entire mess by convincing the party that they will likely lose, or yield a compromise.
I've always heard it called a 'rabbit' [1], but I like 'sacrifficial jerk' and will probably use that from now on.

1. http://radartest.com/Top-5-Tips.asp
I tried reply only to relevant comments but I ended up being repetitive. My bad.
This guy took the high road - once he had the license plate and an address, this could have taken a very different turn. If you're into someone for $4,000, it's a coin flip whether they invest effort into getting it back, or invest another $4,000 for someone else to get you back. If you are going to steal from someone, always keep that in the back of your mind... you don't know what type of person you're stealing from. Maybe it's an easy mark, or maybe it's a vindictive psychopath that would love an excuse to pull your teeth out in his basement over the next 30 days. "Risk vs Reward" and all that...
Maybe as the true wealth of the world grows massively due to productivity provided by automation the check we cut people shouldn't be what current people consider a pittance enough to live a waste of a life.

We are either feel a moral duty to keep those who don't contribute in poverty or believe we need to incentivize the rest of the slackers to keep their noses to the useless grindstone.

We can either keep both the useless moralizing and the social carrot long after they cease to make sense or we can recognize that sharing the wealth of the world makes increasing sense and lift each other up in lives where we make the meaning rather than finding it in doing pointless work.
Five systems generating 33.3%, then. He's got a very valid point.
Assuming you get a receipt, which I have only ever gotten when I specifically requested one for expense purposes.
That's the thing -- it's an entirely different ballgame on the ambiguity front when they've contacted you first (versus the other way around). In that case, at least presumably they've already mulled over the potential skill gap, and (again, at least presumably) saw something in you that significantly outweighs that gap.

OTOH, if they have a big sign on the front door that says "requires 5-8 years of X,Y,Z" -- in addition to all the other randomness one has to deal with when initiating contact (Will they ever respond? And will they ask me do some silly exercise requiring 5-20 hours before proceeding pass the initial contact?) -- then of course my answer is "Meh, I think I'll pass."

And if they genuinely expect candidates to be "bold" and second-guess their stated, bold-font "must-have" requirements, then they've definitely entrusted the wrong person to edit the final copy of their job reqs -- or they're playing (some really quite silly) head games with themselves.
I had a pet starling as a kid. It fell out of its tree when it was a baby, I nursed it back to health, it got feathers and at about 1 year it started mimicking the sound of the doorbell :) All and all, a cool little bird.
> If you can't express concretely why you want a container fleet, you don't want a container fleet.

I think this applies to most relatively new (hype cycle) technologies.
"Densely informative" is the right way for a textbook to be, I think. You're not meant to read LYSE or books like it straight through; rather, each individual paragraph is dense enough with facts that after every one, you should stop and tinker with a toy example or two at the REPL to collect your thoughts and make sure you understand what's going on.

If you imagine someone teaching Erlang with LYSE serving as the actual textbook, they'd do what is done with most textbooks: split each chapter into rather small segments, and have you do exercises after each one to "interactively" absorb the knowledge.
Right. They're even parameterized, in a sense, but pretty much the only parameter available on the client side is size, right? (Unless I misunderstand how boldface is applied these days.)
> I was told that I couldn't have any of that info as it was a violation of privacy.
I found this bizarre as it was my account info I was seeking.

Does seem bizarre. Do other companies provide this information? I can't imagine Amazon or Facebook not telling you. But I've never tried. Facebook and Google have their data take our services (I know neither provide everything especially FB), but maybe that includes the info. Amazon at least shows you your entire purchase history, equivalent to ride history.

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The party stuff just seems funny in a sad way. I never heard of it before.
The Matrix wasn't about a Humanity enslaved by an AI race and fighting for their freedom, it was about a Humanity being kept from complete obsolescence, depression and death by our loving evolutionary descendants in the only way they found that worked, and our accidentally fucking it up royally.

Man, the stories we tell ourselves to justify our mistakes.
a bright future for some of us ^^
Did you report the driver? The one time that happened to me, I asked the driver and showed me that he had both cars registered in Uber and had selected the wrong one.
This is great and might interest me back to D, after many years of absence! When is inclusion expected, at which version / snapshot?