skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may also simply be that they're slowing down and actually waiting to respond to problems instead of trying to get things to work as fast or easily as possible.

Traffic manages to flow quite smoothly at the speed limit when a police officer is just standing around somewhere... (but there's usually a major bottleneck right upstream of that observation point as everyone panics and straightens up their focus).

Similarly, it is amazing how disruptive something worthy of gawking at can be. A curve in the road, a car safely on the shoulder, flashing lights that scream "PAY ATTENTION TO ME": all of those things seem to result in gawker-block.

Self driving cars really can't save us quickly enough.
> will replace the items back in

Via reprinting? Because if so I may be sold.
Because it meant that the narrative at the first trial was that he was making it up. "Awfully fishy how you have all this evidence of the existence of something and then it was immediately stolen", "and we don't even have a record of a trip or driver matching that".

Which lead to them only being found 50% liable the first time.
I would like to contact Go's "official marketing" department and tell them they have done a horrible job at marketing, because most of the lauding for go comes from developers I know that love getting work done with it!

In any case, I will +1 you on coming from python and ruby, and add another major bucket go developers come from is node js.
Sure, but you can't always optimize your life for 100% operational productivity/efficiency.

Sometimes it really is the principle of the thing. Also it's good to have this data point out there for people to see how Uber operates behind the scenes.
Wow, what a cynical viewpoint for a very cool, useful technology that we've been begging for for quite a while. Maybe you're confusing the demo with practical applications, but this is a demo.
Haha, you could be right! Ah well, life is short! Also, I have to admit that discovering Well's paper and prediction, gave me the courage to just go for it, because he was taking a chance, and I'm sure knew it, and as it turns out was wrong (at least, by his timeframe), but went for it anyway. Thank you to him, whoever he is.
I don't have a USB-C Mac, but but Apple's $80 MagSafe chargers aren't actually very good. They don't have basic strain relief sleeves on the cables, so they get kinked at the ends and fray/melt/stop working after a year or two of regular use.

This has been a problem for more than 10 years and Apple's never done anything about it. I can only imagine it's because they think the strain relief is ugly, which is one of those random bits of belligerent incompetence that's really frustrating as a Mac fan.
I have been using g! much more for programming.

I was hoping to build an extension for DDG a few months back, but things seemed to have changed in the forum.

This could explain why we are seeing changes.
My bet: WeChat will accept Apple requirements.
We call it a horse in Lithuanian, because it's always in front of the carriage.

And no, we don't use horses anymore.
Wait WHAT! How could that happen lol
Ask HN: Need advise on re-negotiating contract rate
A bit of background:

I was hired on a contract position for 3 months, last fall. The team was strugling, so they asked to extend my contract by 6 months, which I agreed to. This is now coming to an end and I've been asked to extend it further 6 months. My initial goal was to stay for 3-6 months and then move on. I'm relatively new to contracting, so I want to try different things. I am quite senior and have good network - getting jobs seems to be very easy.

I am currently charging a fair, probably slightly high rate (judging from what I hear when speaking to other contractors). The project is a very important project for the client, a major stock-listed company. Management are clueless and have not been able to hire skilled developers. In fact, they have lost several over the last couple of months. I have managed to stay clear of all politics and eveyone loves me (developers and management alike). I'm not misserable, but it's also a slightly depressing place to work, so my thoughts were to move on at the end of the contract. I have an offer for a new contract at another place, which sounds like much more fun.

My dilemma now is that I am certain that it would be a near disaster for the project if I don't agree to prolong my stay. I know money are aplenty. So naturally I'm considering to offer to stay, but at a higher rate. To make it worthwhile for me, this would have to be substantial. But how much is reasonable? Is double rate crazy? I don't want to be unprofessional, OTOH I never offered to stay and the mismanagement isn't my fault.
It never happened, but we actually did see S3 errors sometimes where it would just fail to read an object. The higher level application logic was built to retry (with back-off) in situations like that. So if Redis choked, it'd be handled the same.
Could be. I don't know the specifics. I do know that the bar is pretty high, in general, before gcc will commit. I think that simply goes with the territory with such a large project where a lot of people depend on it to just work.

For example, an acquaintance plays (at least used to) a large role in the AVR (8 bit) back-end. He went to a gcc summit to lobby for avr-gcc being upgraded to a support tier where functional (not performance) regressions would be release show-stoppers. His argument: Over a million downloads per month. It took that much to get the gcc steering committee to even consider it. gcc is a big project, they can't afford to make commitments lightly.
Hey, I've heard Chess players tell me a "bad beat" story after losing to me.
I think it would be important to tie UBI to key economic indicators and put any direct adjustments under the control of economists. We will need to limit politicians control of the purse strings.
Paying people lowers the birth rate.
Some shlub in accounting probably set things up so this went through under "contractor expenses", or something of that type.

This reinforces a suspicion I've had for a while, which is that at the billionaire level things happen magically around you. Many mundane problems simply disappear because there are people looking after them for you - but you have no idea who they are, what they do, or even that they exist.
some people argue that cats are decimating urban bird population (that is utter garbage of course), so bringing in more predators (who would hunt much higher proportion of healthy vs. ill birds than the cats) may not sit well with such heads.
I think the point is that D targets the same set of scenarios as Go, but it's better at it for all the reasons that you've listed.
Your reply is likely attached to the wrong comment, as you did not address the main thrust of what CPLX is saying.
A more descriptive title would be nice. Something about Apple demanding 30% of within-app revenue from WeChat.
I did "computer vision" work using punched cards. I had an image of dolphins on punched cards (pixel by pixel) that took two boxes of cards to read. The machine room operators hated me. ... If you go back a few years before that we used to use a "patch board" to program the card handling machines... wire up the board to sequence the card machine. Oh, and don't forget paper tape, especially paper tape libraries that took forever to load and had to be loaded in multiple passes. Fun times.
I certainly hope by 'one party' you don't mean the Democrat Party- they've promised nothing of the sort.

If you mean a third party, well than that comes down to lack of trust in that party's ability to execute.
Nice approach – we don't separate between the that many accounts and it is harder to automatically track the spendings afterwards.
I believe that variability would be the domain of the control system and launch/recovery parameters to handle no matter what the fin design. The shorthand way to think about it is that the fin should not add any variability that the control system does not have the authority to overcome (and by some margin above that) - else one would not choose that combination of design elements; apoligies if im retreading something you already know...
Sightseeing in Samarkand
I've often wandered about spreading all species as widely as possible. Kudzu can't survive everywhere and maybe the new North American kangaroos and elephants would like it.
Not looking forward to Chinese backdoors in my driver assisted and remotely updated car. So I guess Ford will be on my personal blacklist when purchasing a new car in the future.
Could there be a compiler flag to flip the default to @safe,so it doesn't have to be added to each file?
uber could have gotten much worse if they were charged with obstruction of justice. Their employee accused the victim of trying to play a scam on them (why do you have a picture of yourself etc.). How do you classify this behaviour?
An average US citizen eats about 3500kcal daily. Half of those calories are from fatty animal foods, half are from refined sugar.

Why is everyone demonizing fatty foods, or sugar, when that 3500 number is screaming at us from afar?!

US citizens eat way to much and move way too little. The side effect is diabetes T2, heart attacks and all sorts of issues.

US citizens also do not know how to eat, their capitalism has failed them, the whole food business is subsidized insanely. So they are "forced" to buy highly caloric foods that kills them (because that food is cheap), and foods with high nutrient to calories ratio are too expensive. Sodie pops and milk cheaper than water, meat cheaper than vegetables, insane.
Another Bubble About to Burst?
It seems to have a nice mobile app as well – cool!
This pill may be a cure for radiation poisoning (2015)
Android Trojan controlled via Telegram spies on Iranian users
> I'm curious how far this line goes, too. If I go to Subway and a worker stabs me, does Subway owe me millions? I'm really confused how Uber is responsible here.. it just seems, odd, to me.

They could be. It depends on the process involved in hiring said worker. If there are little to no checks you could argue Subway was at fault (at least partially) for not properly vetting people being brought in.

Another item is you may have missed the part where Uber obstructed justice by initially lying to the police and not correcting it until it was the primary reason they were going back to court.

It's a nuanced and contextual issue, not a "how far the line goes".
It doesn't have to be a git repo :)

But a github-like setup, project package, issues, branches, PRs.

> So, running apt-get source on your machine is too hard?!

Where is the web ui? I honestly feel like these commands are magic because I don't know what they clone from.
(and I have to be on debian)

> As for IRC, what would you consider a more user friendly tool?

slack or similar...

> So, running reportbug on your machine is too hard?!

This assumes on a debian machine. Sometimes I find a bug searching on google, it'll be something like this:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304373

How do you subscribe, comment, propose a PR, where do you find the source.

I have used some of the debian tools like apt-get source, but it takes a long time to learn these things, and I forget them.
A github-like system is much more intuitive.

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Note:
I'm not criticizing the debian project, many open source projects have old infrastructure, that's hard to use. And I fully understand how that infrastructure came to be, and why migrating away is super hard.

My point is: github-like development flow have dramatically better usability and, hence, lowered the bar for participation. I wish more of the big open source projects would embrace the importance of these advancements in usability.
One practical anthropological explanation I've heard about early beer recipes is that they were basically a way to preserve their ingredients a little longer than they might have otherwise lasted. By that logic, the beverage would change with the ingredients at hand.
Maybe they should pay local people fairer wages for the work to make it more appealing hmm?
If Comcast sent a contractor over to your house, to hook up cable, and the tech stole your TV, is Comcast liable for this?

If you check into a hotel, and the bellboy steals your luggage, is the hotel liable for it?

If you hired a roofing company to fix your roof, they subcontracted it to another firm, which came and set your house on fire, are the roofers also not liable? Especially after they spend a few months trying to prevent you and the police from getting in touch with the subcontractors?

This smells of criminal conspiracy.
If you're on macOS, definitely check out Monodraw [1] as a quick and easy way to create such diagrams (then copy + paste into ShakyDraw). Just remember to set your document alphabet to ASCII and you're good to go (from the inspector).

Full disclosure: I'm the developer of Monodraw. If you have any questions, happy to answer here.

[1] https://monodraw.helftone.com
I'm confused why they're complaining to bloomberg & not bothering to put ads in some nearby towns/cities.

I imagine there's no shortage of low-skill workers available in the united states, shipping people in from afar seems outrageous.
I did the switch 2 weeks ago, I'm actually enjoying it!
I think D is more evolutionary than Rust. Rust tries to radically change the way programmers reason about their code. D is much more conventional in that regard, but accumulates all the power features from other languages on top of a "C++ fast" core and with a syntax that's familiar to someone coming from C++ (or Java and C#, for that matter).
Ever heard of summer student labor? These are lame tears.
Presumably the designer is setting the constraints.

That's already a problem, modern typefaces will have 10+ weights, with 5+ variations within each weight, 50+ fonts in total.

It's quite easy for The Marketing Guy to make an ugly layout with those options, but for a skilled craftsman having that many options lets them fine tune a design. Same here.
That's a hot rolling mill. They're not making steel, just forming it. The old, messy plant next door makes the steel.

Better hot rolling mills have been mechanized for a long time. Here's a plain rebar mill in Delhi that's for sale.[1] There must be some people around somewhere, but they're not near the machinery when it's working. The machinery is huge, but not computerized.
On the other hand, here's a rolling mill in India that has lots of people handling hot metal with tongs.[2] That's about where the US was in 1935.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW0jAMxAN3Y
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-lGaC8OJGs
Amazon Will Sell Nike Shoes Directly Through Brand Registry
> I actually had it in mind to create something like this myself -- a mobile-first, nicer-designed version of Anki.

This is also my current project. Although not mobile first. I use Anki a lot and personally find the UI to be insufferable.
I noticed about a week or two ago that I was always leaning toward !g as well. I have been testing out my own instance of searx. I have yet to specify using google with it, since it already uses google results.

https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
Microsoft admits disabling anti-virus software for Windows 10 users
I'm strongly in favor of open borders and immigration, as long as immigrants have all the same workplace protections as American citizens.

But the argument that Americans won't take these jobs is and always had been bullshit. They'll take the jobs if you pay well enough. A whole lot of the American economy runs on effectively indentured servitude, either from illegal immigrants working under the table, or legal immigrants trapped in jobs because of the terms of their visa or literal prisoners or literal slave labor from sweatshops in developing countries and it depresses salaries for everyone.

We have an expectation for the price of goods and services that's based on the idea that the less privileged should do shitty backbreaking work for next to nothing.

One of the things that had lead to the rise of vile, xenophobic populists like trump has been the complete unwillingness of both parties to address this, and the unwillingness of Americans to recognize that the cheap shit they buy from Walmart and amazon has real human costs.
I agree on the oddness. In my mind, the story about a highly-tracked webapp-facilitated worker committing a crime goes something like:

Crime committed -> worker details go to police -> criminal conviction | current mechanisms for direct financial restitution from criminals to crime victims.

Or maybe in the case of no criminal conviction,

Crime committed -> (messing about with police) | John Doe lawsuit against Uber -> Driver details released -> Lawsuit against driver.

Don't get me wrong, Uber just sounds like a lunatic asylum, and their conduct in this case no worse than I'd expect. But it just seems so weird that the chain of events leads to a claim against Uber. I would honestly have expected them to have thrown the driver under a bus while staying rock solid behind their terms and conditions.
Exactly. I have seen this container hype exploding in recent years. A quick example: I worked for a stratup who spends ~60% of their AWS budget of operating Kubernetes and roughly ~40% on their own services. I asked their chief IT guy why is that and he could not justify it with anything other than Kubernetes is cool.
Certainly in California you must represent yourself. But you can consult an attorney. They will point out the counter-arguments that you need to be prepared for, which is a very valuable service.
In most (maybe all?) small claims courts you are forbidden to have a lawyer present. Companies generally send an administrative assistant or something similar. You are welcome to retain an attorney before and after the hearing, but they can not be present during.
>Now, if a predominately white company used these same reasons to explain their lack of minorities there would be an uproar.

Well, yes, because American minorities are part of the same culture/language/economy as other Americans.
i've noticed this too and its fucking with my mind, since i end up using !g in a private window and not having the history (the whole point of being not tracked)
And I've never seen a black hole. Therefore, they don't exist.
Recently heard someone argue "If you can't afford to pay livable wages, then you can't afford to be in business". Have to say I agree with that. It's hard for me to feel sorry for businesses who rely on importing cheap labor to survive.
I've actually been working on a similarly focused product but specifically for enterprise:
http://www.progresschat.com
>I think this is the same as someone grabbing your purse from you when walking down the street.

It is not the same as someone grabbing your purse when you are walking down the street.

Unless the person who grabbed your purse was hired by you through an agency to hold your bags and walk you down the street before they ran off with your purse.
I once built a simple box kite. It was remarkable for me how easy it was and how it could somehow perform even when there seem to be no wind. It was easier to built than a diamond kite.

It was years ago and sometimes I'm thinking about building one again and placing some action camera up there. To make a few drone-like shots, but for much less money. But also because it's fun.

I built mine with a few wood slats, two shopping bags, some string and glue.
Wouldn't such a society be predicated on the idea that everyone has a basic income - and these fully automated factories with no (state?) ownership would be relegated to producing the basic consumables that come along with a society that provides all the basics for survival and hygiene and ideally health (mental and physical)

As such, a society would find value in the skills of the populous which produce things that have a "human" value for having been created by a human.

Further, it would seem that the overall population would drop significantly. Especially as technology for automation iterates, machines will care for human basic needs, and will care for maintenance and production of other machines to keep the system going.

Will AI manage the overall resource supply chain?

It would be interesting to see a critically thought out matrix of all the roles which could be done by machine/automation/AI vs that which must require a human.

What about "soft" skills required to run a civilization; politics and law for example.

Where politics is fundamentally required to ensure stability of an economy and society such that humans can survive in an ordered world, it is clearly exploitable and shouldn't we be attempting to remove as much human cruft from that process as possible - but ensuring that human empathy remains. As machines cannot have empathy. (At what point do we trust "programmed empathy" in AI?)

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While there are all these efforts on ML to get machines to "see", say, cats in a picture, are there any efforts for teaching an AI to discern emotion in any given scenario?

Then ultimately, an AI will use all this to interpret intent...
Great! The easy problem is solved. Now let's do the reverse so that I can hand-draw ditaa diagrams.
Unrelated but I wish they would rebrand already. Call it Duck, call it Go, call it something simple.

It's not an easy or memorable name at the moment, and branding matters.
It seems there's Cabify in Mexico City. I'm using them in Sao Paulo and their service is way better than Uber's.
You can read it in full on the arxiv: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.08638

And yeah. The title of the (Wired) article is a little blown out of proportion. Important but incremental is definitely correct (I'm one of the authors).
Yes. I'm very glad Rosa Parks stood up as she was told, and then stood outside the courthouse talking to passerbys while waving a sign.
I looked into Ledger when I was writing a small invoicing app (of course I wrote it from scratch – but I learnt a few things and have a small app in my portfolio).

For this project I'd argue that you need to host it yourself, you don't get powerful visualisation (charts for monthly breakdowns) and extensions (like GoogleFinance for currency conversions).

From a privacy perspective – it'd be a better choice but you are responsible for securing your server.
Ask HN: What was the internet like before search engines?
I believe search engines have changed the way we understand the internet: you ask something and you get something immediately.

What was the experience like before search engines? Does anyone have any stories?
You would probably get zilch. People think filing a suit against Uber is bad because they big and have lawyers and stuff. But at least there's a large target. Try suing a private cabman, when you discover owner of the license and the driver are completely different people, and nobody wants to talk to you, and their terms of service, which you have never seen but implicitly accepted, say they are not responsible for anything. And unlike Uber they are not concerned at all about the bad press, and if you sue them them might obstruct and delay you every way possible (or the driver might just disappear and the owner disclaim any responsibility because they just own a medallion and have no idea about what the driver does when), and even if you win they could just refuse to pay up and you'd have to figure out how to get money out of them, while living on the other end of the country.

At least Uber is a big target that can be found, forced to disclose the data that you know they always have, and if you win, you have reasonable assurance you get the money.
Why is it a disaster if you leave? Is your code difficult to learn and/or maintain?
I've just started using DynamoDB on a project. Before I made the choice, I discussed some architecture issues with a friend who works at a big fast growing unicorn start-up. They use MongoDB for the majority of the app the user sees, they use ElasticSearch for search, postgres for reporting. Data gets exported or updated in the data-sources that best suit the need of that data, rather than trying to find a single data solution that fits every use of the data.