skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah- maybe i should try reading the article :/
Decimal, because it's straightforward. I prefer to err on the side of minimizing computations and manipulations involving price, and simple things are easier to add complexity to later if the need arises compared to the other way around.

+ https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/fixed-point-types.ht...

>The DECIMAL and NUMERIC types store exact numeric data values. These types are used when it is important to preserve exact precision, for example with monetary data. In MySQL, NUMERIC is implemented as DECIMAL, so the following remarks about DECIMAL apply equally to NUMERIC.
It's worth emphasizing that Sarah ended up hiring body guards for the weekend following the comments on the advice of others.

There was definitely more to it than just an idea
Well, its not like building tiny homes are going to make most people who would normally purchase a normal/large size home switch to a tiny home. It would probably net increase the amount of construction work because you've now expanded the available market (lower income people can now purchase a home).
Increases costs dramatically. 2.5x the data.
"Regardless of whether anyone else did it, do you think these are examples of Uber making the world a better place and breaking rules that shouldn't exist?"

You're not really asking a question, you know that anti-competitive behavior is not making the world a better place, it's fighting for market share and dominance.

Anti-competitive behavior is often rewarded in our society with higher profits, valuations, and market dominance. For example, Microsoft forcing PC makers to use Windows 95, or Microsoft using Windows to push IE crush Netscape. Look at Google pushing Chrome via all its products to take 70% market share, much of it from Mozilla, or Google downranking Yelp to push its own products.
Ur so dumb geez, you obviously should eat only kale.
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Linus Torvalds Explains How Linux Still Surprises and Motivates Him
Right, it's "just" Java, C and C++ for now but we are planning to extend our available languages as soon as possible!
This link may be of interest to you:

https://mathoverflow.net/a/30694
There doesn't seem to be a vscode plugin for Sourcetrail. Could be a worthwhile addition?
anyone try bubble.is? Love to get a comparison on how this is better / different.
what a bullshit. I read to "as popular support in the country has pulled toward NATO and the European Union" and stopped. The supporters of the opposite politics actually have been silenced with artillery and secret police. I'm a ukrainian citizen from Kharkov
These articles are so cringe worthy.

On an unrelated note, how safe does facebook feel if they're advertising this?

> “Facebook will market you your future before you’ve even gotten there, they’ll use predictive algorithms to figure out what’s your likely future and then try to make that even more likely. They’ll get better at programming you – they’ll reduce your spontaneity. “ Douglas Rushkoff

Edit: After looking a bit more, is this put out by a third party? That would make more sense.
Yup back in the day Mitsubishi pills were the new standard in purity, then every pill became a Mitsubishi.
The Voegelin Enigma
So basically Disney's original vision for Epcot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWgKEI7Tfa8
I'm glad this is happening to Uber.

I do not want such a company to thrive with these type of practices.

I thought they were going to win against Lyft with all these shady practices. And so I just shrug it off and chalk it up for those dirty companies stepping on people.

Glad that the public have been more empathic and a conscious on these disgusting practices. Gives me hope for the future in term of businesses and higher standards.
For a recent practical example of their usefulness:

This paper presents the Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) 4.0 research design for
updating the database from 2002-2010. By using global search parameters and fifteen
international news sources, we collected a set of over 1.74 million documents from LexisNexis.
Care was taken to create an all-inclusive set of search parameters as well as a
sufficient and unbiased list of news sources. We classify these documents with two types
of support vector machines (SVMs). Using inductive SVMs and a single training set,
we remove 90.2% of documents from our initial set. Then, using year-specific training
sets and transductive SVMs, we further reduce the number of human-coded stories by an
additional 21.6%. The resulting classifications contain anywhere from 10,215 to 19,834
documents per year.

http://steventlandis.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/1/4/12144932/dor...
We store them in a separate section in the source file, which is hidden by default when editing. So a bare .luna file is a readable text file, containing some metadata at the bottom, which is not shown when editing with our editor. This way we achieve clear representation and full portability of the source files.
Actually we did not run into problems with syntax! The syntax we were presenting last time has changed only slightly. I'd be happy to chat more about it! You can grab me here or message me directly at wojciech at luna-lang.org :)
I doubt you could ever get something like this working for Ruby, which is where it is actually badly needed.
Is this related to the luna programming language experiment by TJ Holowaychuk?

https://github.com/tj/luna
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I figure they just think I am too stupid to know the show was made well before debit cards were a thing.

Ha! Fooled you! I'm not even a real blonde.
So a business that requires bulk advertising to recruit both drivers and riders (in the U.K. Driver recruitment is one of the most common radio adverts on commercial stations) could survive without advertising..

Given that I saw my first tv advert for uber last weekend (focused on rider recruitment) I suspect that instead of cutting advertising costs uber will have no choice but to continually increase them over the years
Why Creativity is more important than the Design Tool
> A lot of work in robotics involves software that maps to this style well (functional-ish, where data is being pushed through computational pipelines / graphs), and I think this could be a killer development environment for things like control systems, sensor fusion software, image processing / computer vision, etc.

LabVIEW
I really don't know if SDCs would become commoditized, lots of startups doing it are more indicative that they're all trying to win rather than be a small player in a large industry. VCs in the area are probably betting on acquisitions, I think it'll be incredibly hard for that space to be more than two or three top players.
Are you guys going to release something describing your concept of "category oriented programming" any time soon?
How's the performance on a large codebase?

North of 500k lines, few thousand cpp/h files, 40+mb
Can we build homes of sheet metal with this?
The NABirds dataset: http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/nabirds.

But it's North American birds, not sure if you specifically want to cover birds that show up in Finland or if that was just your inspiration.

There are a couple apps that do what you're talking about, but they're both North American birds only as well.

http://www.birdsnap.com/ (I was involved in this one)

http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
My complaint about the 48fps (after going in hyped to see this Spiffy New Format) was that everyone looked like they were speed-walking all the time, which was really distracting. It was like a sped-up silent film. Nothing else I've seen in higher framerates has had that problem, though—just The Hobbit.
5 years isn't a recent example. my impression is that deep nets ate everyone's lunch (including svm).
It sounds like it wont compile to C or use LLVM, you have some kind of custom VM?
This sounds somewhat similar to the polite fiction of Japanese Pachinko parlors [1].

"Taniguchi swapped the tray of thousands of winning silver balls for a receipt, which in turn was swappable for alcohol, toys or other prizes. To get money, you need to ask for the “special prize” tokens. These are plastic gold-coloured tokens that can be swapped for cash -- but not within the pachinko parlour. Instead, they are cashed in at TUC shops that are always located nearby and exist as a legal loophole enabling you to win money in a country that technically forbids gambling."

1 - http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20120815-the-big-business-of...
> I guess. The question is why should I have to work around Unity?

When shipping a production-quality game there's almost always going to be something you have to customize or work-around with any engine. What often happens with home-grown engines is that the cost of tools friction or engine implementation is not properly accounted for, because it's kind of fun although it's unproductive.

> But that is not every game and every team.

Agree, but I'm fed up with the amount of FUD around Unity. I've watched teams burn money rather than putting up with some annoyances. I'm an older dev (40+), so I've seen many iterations of devs refusing to use existing tool X in favour of supposedly more convenient but less battle-tested tool Y. This is in game development, and software development, more generally.

There are also holistic benefits to Unity, like 1-2 second recompiles. This is a game-changer in terms of debugging and allowing you to try more iterations of things.

> We don't have to compare Unity to utopian engines and tool chains when we can compare it to its competitors like Unreal.

I think Unreal is a great engine, and I'm admittedly less familiar and therefore productive with it than with Unity.

That said, I would say that for mobile or small-footprint games Unity still has an edge. This is based on the experiences of several studios / devs that I've talked to. They make great headway with Unreal, but then the project bogs down when it's time to actually ship. That said, this could be Unreal FUD from developers who are new to that engine.

To get the benefits of Blueprints in Unity, just buy PlayMaker. It's $65 dollars a seat, and you'll never write another Finite State Machine.
You don't need a fulltime sysadmin to handle this. If you can't set up the servers yourself, you can set up a contract with a sysadmin for initial setup and ongoing support, which can be billed hourly.
Do all YC startups use Clerky and have the same style of terms in offer letters?
I just received an employment offer to join a YC startup. We negotiated the offer and reached an agreement in a few terms verbally (which includes the benefits and visa/GreenCard sponsorship). I am requesting the employer to include what has been agreed to the offer, which is a reasonable request to me. The employer mentions that the offer is generated through Clerky and standard and all YC startups uses the same standard offer for hiring; as he doesn't have an option to include new agreed terms in Clerky, he has to pay thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer to include the terms and he is not willing to do so.

I don't see my request as a lack of trust to the employer but to have a clear contract which reflects the terms agreed and I think it's better for both sides. However, the employer thinks otherwise and sees this as a clear lack of trust from my side.

My questions:

Is my request unreasonable?

Do really all YC startups use Clerky for legal documents and the documents are standard and fixed and cannot be amended?

Is the employer reasonable in saying that my request to include the agreed upon terms in the offer indicates the lack of trust from my side (while personally my request doesn't arise from a lack of trust)?
We would not rewrite anything again soon :) We decided to rewrite it because of all the gains we gather from it (including both features as well as much increased speed of development) and it already (almost) payed off.
Yes, you can put all kinds of encumbering conditions on your sale. However, the hard part is getting the buyers/investors to agree to that - especially if they are VCs with an explicit goal of getting an exit, i.e., re-selling the company somehow.

At best, adding such conditions will mean you getting less money for more dilution in every funding round. At worst, at some point near the end of a runway you'll get an ultimatum to drop the condition or not get the next funding round at all.
As far as I am aware, the smallest available odor sensor is a trained bee or wasp. The hymenopterans are classically conditioned to extend their tongues when exposed to a particular chemical or odor profile. Then they are restrained inside a plastic cartridge, such that whenever they extend their tongues, a tiny button is pressed.

The cartridge is then loaded into a handheld device that lights an LED whenever the insect detects the odor.

Much cheaper than trained dogs, and the purely electronic detectors are not quite as robust [yet]. The downside is that you can't exactly buy it once and keep using it for the next 10 years.

Sniffer insects have been used to detect bombs, fungal blight, cancer, diabetes, pregnancy, contraband drugs, and uranium.
The argument is that since a child can't work on their own and emancipation laws prevent a child from claiming independence until they can work on their own , children are stuck in abusive homes where they would otherwise work a full time job to get themselves out of the abuse.

Note I don't really agree with this sentiment as abusing children is fairly illegal and it should be up to the justice system to prosecute the abusive households and also help the children find better homes, but we know that's inadequate in implementation right now.
Do they have a similar Pre-Production requirements doc?
Pretty bad name, I thought it was a typo for Lua.
Hmmm. I'm not quite sure I see your point.

Arianna Huffington: <Some female-positive remark>
David Bonderman: <Some female-negative remark>

Why do you look at this and conclude that Bonderman's comment reflects "Uber's true culture" rather than Huffington's? I don't see Huffington resigning in disgrace.
This was the original tweet: https://twitter.com/asemota/status/875497242987307008. He explains it better than I could.
But not above the ire of the media. The media is just as money-corruptible as every other business enterprise and it found a shiny new toy to play with with Uber. There are likely orders of magnitude more workplace culture issues in finance, yet the media has largely moved past lambasting financial firms for that because it doesn't earn them enough eyeballs. Uber is only getting more attention for something many many many businesses are guilty of (and to a far greater degree) because no other company is as lucrative to write about.
Why implement a new language rather than a GUI on top of Idris, PureScript or similar?

(That aside, very excited!)
Can you please share the roadmap for adding new language support?
I think this visual stuff is perfect for functional (math based) programming as composed expressions aren't easily readable as english.

I find language to be better suited for imperative procedures. Think about it, I have a list of tasks, do I write that list in ordered English bullet points or do I draw a diagram?
Admittedly it's been a while since I was in Pittsburgh, but to the best of my recollection, it'd have been easier to report places where the air didn't smell bad...
Come ask questions to the Azure Database for PostgreSQL team
This is very important, because it removes some of the most prevalent criticisms about Freenet. If you don't agree with some content (re: legality or any reason you wish), don't access it/share it. Freenet doesn't give you that choice, but IPFS does.
Are there some examples available for this? I would love to replace some of my PhantomJS stuff
Yes, that's on the list as well.
Self-driving is an engineering problem so I think a good guess is that a strong engineering company will get it to market first: Google. If that happens, wouldn't Google just start their own ride-sharing service, and drop it right into google maps so customers never even try uber?
Uber will live on.

Just talk to the drivers - you will get it.

Uber can continue churning their workforce for at least 15+ years as automation continues to whittle down the blue collar workforce.
Only uncompressed. Especially when there's not a ton of motion.
Not necessarily 2.5x. Video compression is a thing.
Notions of solidarity have been around as long as human civilization existed. Thus you see a lot of cultures where the leaders/elite of their society were discouraged from ostentatious displays of their wealth. And you can see this today as well with a lot of very wealthy people choosing to not exercise their wealth (e.g. Warren Buffett still lives in his old home at Omaha).
> Step 3: Move it off of there when traffic is low or overnight if system doesn't go offline overnight.

Where are you moving it to? You think that even if you manage to hack into a "supercomputing center" that nobody's going to notice 1PB of storage filled with GIFs?
That's a pretty good analogy. Film is attempting to portray a 3D world in 2D. Even if everything looks really good, it's still fake and 4K at 60fps just draws attention to that fakeness. For sports, news, even documentaries this isn't a huge deal because you are not trying to get people to suspend their disbelief. But for narrative cinema, it can take you right out of the picture.
Some usenet indexers and pay-for-join torrent sites use similar fronts to be able to accept PayPal.
Hence "in the future" when people feel less strongly about that.
We have been working on that for the past few month. Right now the performance is pretty good for C++ projects up to around 2 million lines of code. For C projects the performance is even better! If you want to test it, just download the pre-indexed clang project (900k loc) from our website (https://www.sourcetrail.com/downloads#extra). Indexing the project took 12 minutes on a 5 year old laptop.
I haven't tested it yet but i mind if this is possible to make microservice with this ?

Like defining an port (like 80) an input (a json like {"example":0} make an operation an return a value by the same port and json.

It could be an nice way to include micro service into a larger eco system or make people collaborate using luna in larger project.

For python you may use hug or flask

That s an interesting idea btw

good job and good luck
> abysmal investment in the native populace.

Yes, that's absolutely true. I'm not much of an expert in that policy area, although it does seem the Bureau of Indian Affairs isn't working out well in some ways.
It would only take a handful of users at one phone manufacturer to get a JRE on millions of devices. It was this sort of "billions of devices!" claim years ago that sort of rubbed me the wrong way. Going back to early/mid 2000s, that hype was all over the place, but could you install your own code on those devices? Generally not. Having a JRE on 500 million set-top boxes does very little for the Java developer population's ability to deploy code - it only help(s|ed) the developers employed at the set-top box company.
"Reuters examination has found" => we called the help desk and they said "yea, we don't sell anything, we're a front you dummy"
My guess is that it makes sense considering the colonization history, at least for Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
> Uber's (slimy, IMO, but significant nonetheless) major savings is pushing vehicle maintenance and deprecation costs onto their drivers.

This is fallacious. The end-user pays for vehicle maintenance and depreciation. There cannot be any savings by pushing around which party writes the cheque as the only source of income to pay that cheque can be the end-user.
Farmers and Apple Fight Over the Toolbox
I didn't think 1 based arrays would be a big deal, but whenever I try to port code from Julia to almost any other environment (C++, python/numpy, scala, JS), it becomes one of the hardest things to reason about quickly and correctly.
It also takes a bit longer to start up IIRC, but xvfb + chrome driver on Jenkins definitely works for running tests.
Correction:

> Wells Fargo employee is a

scapegoat
I agree that the entire Levandowski mess is completely Kalanick's fault. He was in completely control when he hired him, and presumably overincentivized him with a $250 million pay package.

But that's a completely different issue than the original point. The point is that there was no conspiracy to steal Waymo's trade secrets. There was no conspiracy to use Waymo's technologies in Uber self-driving cars, who already had hundreds of engineers and professors working on it for years.

We don't know what the full conversation was between the two of them, but we do know from the article that once Kalanick knew that Levandowski had some sort of files, he told him to destroy it immediately and that he didn't want that to be used by Uber. I think that part is very clear.
if you're using templates for compile time computations it's maybe time for c++14 or even c++17 simpler constexpr functions (if possible and available, and if allowed to, ofc.)
*ten-part

It's still going: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/06/can-uber-ever-deliver...
Does anyone use Clojurescript as a webapp backend instead of Clojure?
Mark Zuckerberg explains why he just changed Facebook's mission
Seiko.
In that book he actually describes how he can't manipulate the market even though he was blamed for it i real life. The moral is that the market cannot be forced into submission and you need to just accept that fact and take what it gives you.
Yes, dynamically typed languages are much harder to tackle :/
Then what about Unity leads everyone who uses it to allocate dynamically, somehow, on every platform but Windows?

If everybody makes the same coding problem, and the common denominator is one of their dependencies, it makes you wonder what's wrong with the dependency.
Mozilla and NSF offer $2M prize to decentralize the web
Need to use the thumbnail flag with imagemagick. Gives it a huge performance boost and strips the metadata out of the file.
It's not. That is just a name clash, but in our early days TJ was so kind as to pass the ownership of luna organization on GitHub to us :).
Thanks for chiming in! Hopefully it works out for you guys! :)
Ok who here hasn't ordered "something" from Europe that showed up on your credit card to some ecommerce site selling overpriced ipods? Let this be a lesson to you kids, try anything unscrupulous and the feds will catch up to you in a couple of decades.
Eight months ago, I would have absolutely agreed. Heck, even a few months ago when Travis Kalanick started recruting a COO, I would have agreed that the company is trying to rush to a liquidity event. Today though, I think that rushing to an IPO would be completely irrational and end with Uber trading at a small fraction of their most recent private valuation.

Right now, there is a huge vacuum at the CEO/COO/CFO troika. That, combined with the sordid Waymo lawsuit, would give any institutional investor pause before buying a strong position. Consequently, I would argue that Uber needs some strong leadership at the top, and some sort of resolution on the Waymo lawsuit before they can consider going public.

I wouldn't be surprised if Uber was acquired, but I would be very surprised if Uber goes public in the next two years.
First of all, we originate from Open Source community and we believe in it so strong, that we set it as a backbone for our business. We also believe in Open Adoption Software model: https://www.slideshare.net/AccelPartners/the-rise-of-open-ad... .

Answering the question more directly, we will be providing payed support and hosted computing environment with automatic scalability in the future, however now we will be focusing on building community and helping everyone gain from what Luna has to offer, keeping Luna completely open source and free.

Did I answered your question deep enough? :)