skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snapchat just update for me today and they rolled a new feature that I'm assuming incorporates what Zenly did. You can now share your location with friends and see public/shared locations and stories. I can now zoom around the map looking at snap stories of specific locations without waiting for Snapchat to show it to me. It also shows a heatmap over your map so you can see areas with heavy activity. You can't click on the "hot" areas, it's just info.

Edit:
Official Snapchat post:
https://www.snap.com/en-US/news/post/introducing-the-snap-ma...
The last two responses in this thread - industry applications (operating theatre) and medical use (double vision) - are the things Google should have focused on all along.

A tiny floating screen in the corner of your eye is most useful when:

1. You can't readily access the screens that are in your pocket or desk.

2. You need to look at a screen and the world around you at the same time. The screen may possibly overlay on the world around you.
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You would use it over PostgreSQL because it's a drop-in replacement for MySQL. PostgreSQL is not.

If you're not using MySQL in the first place, why would you care?
Looks like grandparent could use a copy of Vigen's _Spurious Correlations_:

https://www.amazon.com/Spurious-Correlations-Tyler-Vigen/dp/...

I think it'd make a lovely coffee table book.
Yeah, mine suddenly started working again. It got stuck in a weird loop a few months ago. I don't think I have an update but I think they fixed an oauth bug.
Even addon-items. I'd gladly pay extra to ship them. But no, gotta force me to buy 30 dollars of junk I don't need all for a little box of paperclips.
Bad or good is just perspective. I'm just saying the parent comment isn't so right anymore.
As they do all day every day http://m.nasdaq.com/symbol/etsy
Yeah Trump didn't drive a women off a bridge and leave her dead like your previous leader Ted Kennedy.

I personally support third party but damn the left loves to ignore how dirtball their own party is. Add Mel Reynolds, Robert KKK Byrd and others to the mix and it's laughable the party is any more a champion for anything. I honestly don't understand how either side can wage an ethics war on the other.

Someone makes a point about how dirtball politicians are in general and then it turns into criticism about the current powers that be as if the opposition is angelic. They both suck. Why can't we agree on that?
I don't mean that the internet will create unbounded prosperity for authors or creators. We can see that its effect is in fact the opposite (large companies are only somewhat isolated from this by their massive legal war chests and latent political clout, derived from employing a significant portion of a representative's constituency).

I mean that culture prospers more by allowing people to create and publish whatever iteration, derivation, or alteration they want than by ensuring a small group of well-moneyed "idea owners" can utilize the force of the state to monopolize significant cultural icons and stop people from going "too far" in their cultural iterations (that is, too likely to win the favor of the public as compared to the "owner's" offering; being too desirable and competitive).

The viability of establishing a revenue stream from this cultural lather is separate from the value or existence of a fertile culture itself. Creation will always occur. Copyright is just a matter of how far those creations are allowed to grow and/or spread before they get crushed by someone else's bank account (which can have chilling effects on the back-end, preventing the incubation of certain ideas due to uncomfortable legal risk, but it won't stop the ideas from germinating).

Culture is in a bad state when disseminating the wrong ideas in the wrong medium can result in the complete forfeiture of all earthly freedoms. If you sell T-shirts bearing Mickey Mouse's image without the permission of the "owner" of that cultural icon, you may very well find yourself not only deprived of your possessions through a costly legal battle (which you have lost before you begin), but potentially also deprived of your liberty when you're jailed for criminal copyright infringement. All because our concern for an active "culture" somehow translates into preventing derivatives, iterations, or improvements, blocking normal feedback and optimization processes and hopelessly distorting the market.

Fanfic authors have been sued for getting too close to the "owner's" trademarks. It's an entirely unnatural state of affairs and it stifles our cultural maturity.

Personally, I would suggest that people stop expecting passive IP-based revenue streams to cover them, because I don't think there is a lot of money in that down the road (because the internet makes it impossible to practically enforce copyright). You'll have to create a need for an ongoing service, paid for in small units, to get people to part with their money. Software vendors like Adobe have already accepted this.
>>Basically, what is the point in running a business under which such conditions are the norm?

As usual : 'Value'. All these affordable iPhones and seamless Amazon deliveries happen because they have a work culture that optimizes for every single $. I agree with your premise that these are not for everyone. But this is precisely why we have freedom. Nobody should sign up for a job they think is too hard for them.

As we talk there are doctors who are training by the clock, sleeplessly working towards becoming surgeons. This is necessary for various reasons. If it were any easy, people would become bad doctors with less training. This is bad for society. The fact that work conditions are harsh- that isn't wrong or discrimination or even harassment. The very demands of the job are such.

The top percentage of any profession are this way. That comes with the job. You just don't go and say why don't they make it easy to me to be the next Zakir Hussain. Mr Hussain has set pretty high practice benchmarks practicing his instrument pretty much his whole life. Was it worth for his to have undergone all that pain and punishment to get there? May be that fits into his value system.

If you want to beat Jeff Bezos you have to at least perform at his level or higher. You just have to chose your mission based on the mileage you think you have.
Yet another man-in-the-middle collecting a fee from each transaction?
There's lots of bad business in lots of industries that goes unpunished, especially if we only include punishment due to economic forces/social pressure. Want to take any bets on whether Kalanick (who holds a voting majority) would have been ousted if Uber was profitable and not depending on future funding rounds to merely survive?
Is sid0 still rewriting hg server with rust? Is there a chance to convince him to use D instead ;-)
Instagram was financially a steal for FB, in retrospect. And no, you can't just say "they paid this much for download, that is dumb". There is a lot of nuance, for example:

- Does the company need it to survive or succeed?

- Can the acquiring company better monetize or grow the asset?

- Are the growth trends exponential, such that a huge amount of other people may soon be using the product?

- Is there some strategic advantage to the team - or product category expertise?

- Is the product easily defensible? (e.g., strong network effects)

I can't speak to this particular acquisition, but there are a number of examples where heavily "overpaying" may actually be a steal in the long term (and of course, the opposite).
I was much more excited about this before I read the article.
Sigh. Arguing logic of proper behavior on these matters on HN always results in apologists making excuses as to how it should have been handled.
Wall St has deeply and thoroughly captured all of the regulatory agencies charged with overseeing it, as well as most of the powerful organs of government, and thus sits comfortably above the law.
"your leader"? "your party"? "ethics war"?

you're making a lot of assumptions for a wed evening, no?
I bet Travis will ultimately be back. They are parking him for 1-2 years (and he's willing) because there is such a negative culture in the place it pervades everything.

Putting in some stability for a while makes sense, but a some point they will probably want to start running hard again.
Rent inflation is abating: Supply slowly catches up with demand
M&A is the new R&D.
I'm fairly sure it's safe to say the C/Algol derivative syntax is more familiar to programmers as the most popular and used programming language in the world uses it.

Don't worry, we can fix it.
We shouldn't give them a pass either. That's a non sequitur.
Nobody reads the whole thing. It's not really for that, and it's thousands of pages of fairly math-heavy stuff. It's more of a reference to dip into as needed (and it's not frequently needed).
>>We as a society do not take the view that business success overrides all soft concerns, especially with regard to their employees.

This is obviously wrong. Have you ever bought a iPhone? Or any other Apple product. Have you ever ordered anything from Amazon.

How do you think Walmarts and Targets of the world can sell you things for so cheap? Behind all this there is some guy being sent through some real hard ships.

As a consumer you have already made that choice.
Interesting, I totally can tap any "hotzone" I want and Snapchat will serve me random videos from that approximate location. It's very interesting to watch sporting events.
Yes, if only because LibreSSL is still a working drop-in replacement (which is nice to have as a first step of adoption), and because in LibreSSL they threw away lots of legacy code.

This throwing away of legacy code should not be underestimated. There were quite a lot of recent OpenSSL security issues from which LibreSSL had just a fraction, simply because the vulnerable code is no longer present at all in LibreSSL.
Hawaii Becomes the First State to Pass a Bill Supporting Universal Basic Income
Three years later and I still find the idea obnoxious and pandering to the unseen apparatus of encroaching social control.
If you're a low-quality poster, you'll have to work on downholding your unstandards. You've had some good comments in the past day or so, at least.

The war between truth and various forms of confirmation bias is an old and long one.
THIS. A million times this. Go ask pmarca too.
Well, no. I specifically pointed out that perhaps it should be criminal. I felt it worth noting not for pedantry, but because we have a fair number of readers that might wonder why nobody was being prosecuted if it is indeed a crime.
You didn't deny it so I'm probably right.
One nitpick. I browse without JS by default and could not click on any of your links. If you're already using <a> tags, you should always fill out the href value so the links work no matter what. Use the web as it was intended.
Tips on using it if you already have a vocab of 2000 or 3000 words in a target language?
B-Corp seems to be one option.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
> Nothing personal, but we don't need you here as much as you've been led to believe we do.

A vast majority of us (H1B visa applicants and holders) don't believe we are special or that there is a severe shortage of skilled tech workers. Most of us were/are aware that this Visa is abused and it's just a way for Companies in both countries to hire cheap labor and exploit us.

Just that it's the easiest LEGAL way for educated engineers to arrive at -- and later immigrate into -- the United States.

When I came on the H1b visa, I was making 40% less than my American co-worker (we dated briefly, that's how I came to know of her compensation) for the same exact Job Title, Job Description and Primary Job Duties. My Indian "bodyshopper" (that's what the companies that petition H1bs are called in India) refused to give me a raise for 2 years, despite my American manager raving about my performance and telling them to keep me "happy".

Because the other "caveat" with the employer-based immigration in the United States is that if you lose your job, then your Green Card / Permanent residency application goes back to the very beginning with your new employer. So you can potentially lose years of time on the green card processing if you 1) get laid off or 2) you get fired.

Everybody knows this, so they kept us suppressed on the low wages. It's a sort of rite-of-passage. Every Indian, Pakistani and Chinese immigrant I know has gone through this.
> It's a bit like saying finding the maximum integer in a sorted list is actually order NN because... what if the N ints are all BIGNUMS WITH N bits, huh?

I'm not sure I follow. Why would finding the max integer in a sorted list be anything other than the time to copy the last (or first, depending on sort order) element of the list?

Certainly a valid point, though, that this isn't a common use case, so that's just not how experts in this field think about this problem.

> there are only O(N^(2M)) possible final places where those back-references could match for a single match... huge but if M fixed, not polynomial).

Sure, that buys you a pseudo-polynomial algorithm. I just don't like the idea of calling something like that polynomial -- if we did that across the board, then we'd have a poly solution for knapsack (and consequently demonstrate P = NP).
Drivers did get shafted. Imagine if tomorrow somebody comes with some model which flushes 10x the current number of programmers into the market.

Your wages will dilute to a point it will be hard for you to make a decent living.
I was just wishing for the same thing myself.
James Orlin Grabbe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe

His Digital Monetary Trusts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Monetary_Trust

The End of Ordinary Money
https://www.memresearch.org/grabbe/money1.htm

Cyc
an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.

The project was started in 1984 by Douglas Lenat at MCC and is developed by the Cycorp company. Parts of the project are released as OpenCyc, which provides an API, RDF endpoint, and data dump under an open source license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

Prolog, Backward chaining, forward chaining, opportunisitic reasoning.
German isn't "gibberish" to some of us, so I would not describe it that way. It's a German banking API after all. A functional API that is being used is better than no API at all.
This appears to be very similar to scope highlighting like what's used in BlueJ [1] and EditBox [2], but manipulable

[1]: https://www.bluej.org/about.html

[2]: http://editbox.sourceforge.net/
Funny that you say that; there's a project out there aiming to do just that (their last effort was a modern motherboard for an X61; this new one is for the T60).

You can find it here (translated link): https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=y&p...
I wrapped libcurl as a port https://github.com/puzza007/katipo. It would be interesting to see how much faster it could be made as a NIF.
Maybe Google Wave arrived too early to the scene. These new generation chat apps all reminds me the features of Wave.
The claim was not about popularity or even familiarity, it was that Lisp syntax is so utterly alien, it's the primary thing that stands in the way of lisp adoption.

I'm not worried but I appreciate the concern, I guess.
Don't see why.

Imagine someone born in China who moved to canada when young, and grew up there until after university, then went back to china to take advantage of their western education with their Chinese heritage.

Is that person Canadian or Chinese? The answer is likely both.
Translate Bros Anki deck for USMLE into cleverdeck, alongside pathoma and pharm - you'll have every med student in the country signing up annually.
Why would it stop until Lyft has achieved market dominance?
Actually, I think TK responded to the letter from the investors by saying "you want me out, fine, kick Gurley to the curb and I'm gone", knowing full well he can vote himself back in when he wants to.
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How nice of trump to throw his base a bone that after taking away their health insurance the rurals can still consult webMD
Only bad players who don't understand variance.
> more assumptions.
Yes, it's arguable. :)

(curmudgeon)A well-formed program is "defined" as what the compiler expects. Like literate programming, this hides from me what's being presented to the compiler, and sets me adrift from what the program actually is.(/curmudgeon)

It also reminds me vaguely of writing with Framemaker.
You can add this as a bookmark to circumvent the paywall (remove the parentheses in https though, works with WSJ/NYT/etc.):

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He didnt feel an iota of moral responsibility for the rape victim in India whose medical records were obtained by an uber exec and were shown to Travis. I find it hard to have sympathy for someone who couldnt do the same for another human being.
I assume you were downvoted for leaving out /s, thus your comment was not "obviously" sarcastic.

This lead several presumably cash-loving individuals to take offense at your remark.

And to demonstrate protest at the insinuation of the obsolescence of fiat currency, they clicked the little minus.

I found your comment entertaining and it ranks 1/1 stars from my karma bucket.
I think you drastically underestimate the importance of wechat to the average Chinese citizen, and the amount of leverage tencent holds.

If they dropped support of iOS, iPhone sales in China would drop so low as to be effectively 0.
oops should have been "unsorted list". Or order(NlgN) in a sorted list.

The point is that number of back-references are not typically something that varies as part of a regex workload, so this proof derives something that is correct in itself, but not applicable to the way most people view regex. This has led to a meme that "all regex with backtracking is NP-hard".

My rather labored analogy is that people view comparison of two numbers as O(1) and would be nonplussed if someone demanded to know if they'd considered O(N) sized bignums... it isn't what most people are talking about when they talk about the cost of doing arithmetic operations. Similarly, arbitrarily expanding regexes is not what most people are talking about when they talk about the cost of doing regex.
It's unclear if Gurley actually wants to leave the board. Part of me thinks that he knows something really bad is coming down the pipes (e.g. potential criminal liability re: Otto, etc) and he wants to distance himself now. It's half a conspiracy theory, but makes you think ...
Yeah, and that's not even remarkable. 70-90% of employees in a modern manufacturing facility will be in maintenance or support roles.
The reaction when we had one at work was "well this is kinda crap, doesn't do much, and there's no way to wear it without looking like an asshole".

It was clever, but it was basically the worst possible experience at everything it did for most people.

I don't doubt the utility of it for niche tasks or users but as a general consumer product it was never going to take off
I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. It depends on scale and the skills available to you. Yes, amazon and co do a good job of pushing down cloud costs, but you still need people to manage these services.

Also it depends WHEN you build things. Redshift for example is now pretty viable and potentially more cost effective than what Etsy does. 2-3 years ago that very likely wasn't the case.

I'm not saying Etsy doesn't have somewhat higher system costs than others but I doubt it's the cause of their issues.
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> as long as immigrants have all the same workplace protections as American citizens.

The contrary is called Social Dumping:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dumping

That's, for instance, what Margaret Thatcher did during the 80' in the UK when the working class people asked for better conditions.
It could be sarcasm likening Kalanick to Sculley.
Every American steel mill I've been in or heard about has cages that people have to stay inside if they are near the part of the line where this can happen. (Presumably an OSHA requirement, but I'm not 100% on that.)
Why do you say I think "everything" has already happened?

I think it's likely one of these screen-scraping sites that store bank passwords has been breached, and any losses as a result have simply not been attributed to it.

I say this having experience in infosec and seeing how comically little companies who should care about security actually do. Often there's not even a single person with infosec experience. And they make every mistake you'd passively learn not to by casually reading HN comments.

That's not to say some companies don't get it right. Some (including my current employer) do an extraordinary job. But even teams with solid infosec staff get broken in to. The odds that a site storing large numbers of bank passwords with only a handful of engineers not getting popped sooner rather than later is slim.
And this, surely, is the end game. We're now working on autonomous vehicles; there's no reason to think drivers will be required beyond maybe ten years hence. So, they're on the scrapheap. Store assistants, fast food cooks? Same deal, maybe another few years for legal assurances (hot oil can be unfriendly).

How many professions do you come in contact with who seem unlikely to be candidates for automation?

At some point - and we're unfortunately rather a long way from that societally - we need to take stock, and consider: who, exactly, is all of this for?
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Evidence of problems, yes. Evidence of "one of the most insanely hostile work environments in living memory, where flouting not just the law, but also basic standards of human decency, was not only accepted but encouraged at all levels of the company"?
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"Illegal" and "criminal" are not the same thing.
As far as I can tell, Spectral is listed in Google Fonts:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Spectral

Beyond that, there doesn't seem to be a connection.