skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idiotic play by Apple.

First, Apple's losing market share in the Chinese smartphone market and it's not simply due to cheaper phones. Apple was/is primarily a status brand, but what's the status advantage in having an $800 iPhone vs an $800 Samsung? There isn't one and everyone is starting to recognizes that.

Second, WeChat runs everything in China. Every. Thing. It's your WhatsApp, your Skype, your Yelp, your OpenTable, your Venmo, etc. Every cent that Apple tries to take out of WeChat "tips" is not a cent that it's snatched from another faceless corporation, it's a cent out of the hands of individuals who rely on those tips. It's money leaving the hands of individuals and going into the largest market-cap company in the world. Is it a surprise that people are going to be pissed?

Apple should be careful not to overplay its hand. China has already banished major American companies (Google + Facebook) for not playing by its rules and it could easily position itself to do the same to Apple.
> It's just a blatant fact that Kalanick wasn't axed because of his inability to turn a profit.

No one is suggesting that. When people say "this is capitalist of the board to do" they're talking about the individual board member profiting from a successful exit. Put more simply - investor puts $1 in Uber on day 0 and expects to make $100 on day 1,000 and makes a $99 profit. They're axing TK because they want to make their $99 return on investment.
Downloads

└─Filename preserved, ordered by date or grouped in arbitrary functional folders

Drivers

├─Video

├─Sound

└─MB

Music

└─Primary Artist

└─YYYY.AlbumName (Keeps albums in date order)

└─AlbumName Track# Title.mp3 (truncates sensibly on a car stereo)

Pictures

└─YYYY-MM-DD.Event Description (DD is optional)

Projects

├─scripts - reusable across clients

│ └─language

│ └─purpose

└─clientname

├─source code

└─documents

Utils (single-executable files that don't require an install)

I use Beyond Compare as my primary file manager at home and work. Folder comparison is the easiest way to know if a file copy fully completed. Multi-threaded move/copy is nice too.
When I said "change of fate" I meant reversal of fortunes. Not very often the #1 dominant company in an industry sinks and the #2 takes over, which is the scenario I was discussing. Not just a top company declining, but their direct competitor ascending as well.
I do agree that applying psychometrics would be great, but it's not as simple as it sounds -- the vast majority of work is on multiple choice questions, or binary correct/incorrect. There is some on free response, but much less.

We aren't trying to make a rigorous statement here -- we're trying to draw attention to the fact that the most common metrics do not give much insight into what a student has actually shown mastery of. This is especially important when you consider that the weightings of particular questions are often fairly arbitrary.

I certainly agree that all variability is not meaningful variability, but I'd push back a bit and say that there's meaningful variability in what's shown here. We'll go into more depth and hopefully have something interesting to report.

I've also seen a fair number of comments stating that this is not a surprising result. I'd agree (if you've thought about it), but if you look at what's happening in practice, it's clear that either many people would be surprised by this, or are at least unable to act on it. We're hoping to help with the latter.
The problem is that most people (ie voters) have not seen things get better. Wages are not keeping up with cost of living. Things are stabilized for the upper echelons of America, but the lower income/wealth individuals (a majority of Americans) are getting left behind. By both parties. So you're always going to have a huge portion during each election that just wants a "change" in the hope it will finally make things better for them. Spoiler alert, it won't.
Windows really needs a Monodraw.
>giving the founder the right to buy back the company/brand at a fixed price

Selling a call does not allow the buyer to hedge. Buying a put would but not selling a call. You are describing selling a call.
The question you're missing is - why does a livable wage have to be so high?

(It's because capitalists have stolen all the property and are renting it back to you.)
Start small, with a Vuejs project, and put away React.
This is exactly what we think is a fairly common attitude -- thanks for stating it so clearly! It has ramifications both within a single class and when you think about how prerequisite and dependent classes are structured.
Do you care to elaborate why? FYI: I haven't read this book.
As an MBA from a long time ago, I think it is important to point out that an MBA has the most impact on your career trajectory within the first five years. In my own cohort, some people leverage their MBA to get on fast tracks, some people chose careers that they did not stick with. If you recently got an MBA a lot of people will hire you for your pedigree and education. If you got an MBA ten years ago, people care about your most recent job experience. Employers will always screen for college graduates, but once you get to a certain point in your career they care less about an MBA and more about experience.
We do not necessarily need the best to "come" here from somewhere else, we just need to (again) invest in our own children (like China?) to make sure we remain the best and the most powerful.
Contrary to a torrent, a dat can be updated. I just pulled your latest changes and the dat's content updated simultaneously.
I've recently had such an experience though not in gaming.
Or to be more precise, making as much money for other people as soon as possible.

Net neutrality is supposed to help small- to medium-sized internet companies do better. Taking a stand on net neutrality is therefore not incompabitible with maximizing profit in the long term. It is, however, usually incompatible with maxmimizing quarterly returns for myopic investors.
It is quite a puzzle. I have spent some time thinking about it however the only solution I reach seems conspiratorial.

To me, it seems obvious that every financially successful (through merit or otherwise) and well educated person you can draw into your country, the better. If such a person makes your country home, the likely-hood of them contributing to the economy is high.

Despite this, emigrating to the US from Western Europe is extremely arduous. Either you are transferred via a multinational facing high competition for the place or you enter the lottery alongside others who won't necessarily contribute as much as you are able to.

The incentive for a nation such as the US seems perfectly apparent from the outside. Grab the best and brightest from countries with excellent education and similar cultural backgrounds in exchange for citizenship. When there is so much demand, why not? Seems to only be a win.

I cannot help but think that western nations have entered some sort of pact (as many SV companies did) in regards to non poaching. Each country wants to keep their best, so some agreement (formal or otherwise) is reached to prevent mass exodus to one.
Well hey if it somehow costs less than then I spend on car ownership in a year, then sure! All just depends on how much my time's worth/how much these services charge if/when they come around. But right now the sum total of rides per year, whatever the cost model, would basically have to be sub $1000 per year to make sense for me. Cheaper if I end up making more money as time goes on. If scale and commoditization can accomplish that then I'll happily embrace a new golden age of transportation.

As for the rest, keep in mind we're comparing renting an autonomous car vs owning an autonomous car, not renting an autonomous car vs driving. So the actual rides are equivalent. The time difference is me getting in my car and telling it where to go vs me hailing a car, waiting 5-10 minutes for it to arrive (where my capacity to do any meaningful work is basically nil) and then tell it where to go, a minimum of 3 times a day. Maybe up to 12 times a day on a busy day. That's not an insignificant time loss over the medium/long term.

Granted it's all hypothetical and the actual value of the time lost would be highly situational, but it would be one of those small daily time-sucking inefficiencies, like walking into the other room to get paper towels as opposed to just putting a roll in the kitchen. When you do them every day, those add up.
This is what happens with you don't account for human nature in corporate spreadsheets. This is a situation where even a 0.0001% apple tax would have caused great harm since people would object to that on principle alone.
And OpenType Variable Fonts: https://medium.com/@tiro/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-o...
That would be referred to the competition commission and could be blocked.
It's also a nightmare if/when you sell your domain, because you have to go clean up all those accounts. You can get one email forwarded by the new owner, but N is a no-go.
> Did I say it is? I said that one concern is "whether this is fair criticism or talking shit"

You said "whether this is fair criticism or talking shit about a dead person", which can easily be interpreted as saying you think people that are dead deserve an extra level of respect simply for being dead.

Obviously your message has been misinterpreted by multiple people.
Initializing your stack buffer probably does count as something useful, but in case it doesn't, try memset_s(3).
To he able to deeply understand a science and be credentialed makes me internationally valuable, as opposed to having limits in just a single market. Sure I could just hop over to a big corp, but long term wise, I’m not sure if it’s sustainable building credible expertise from just working up the chain, that lifestyle could also disappear from the marketplace like tenured jobs; additionally I would love to be a top expert chosen to contribute to national policy or economical mattters. My model of financial success for the future depends on impact, specialization, incisive & collaborative science and a recognizable brand.
Russian freight service Deliver closes seed round of $8M, with European plans
I've recently wrote yet another ddg API wrapper for python https://github.com/alvations/rubberduck. I'm loving how I can browse the web in jupyter notebook. Oh the irony of having jupyter on a browser and calling an API to get search results
Naturally aborting a foetus due to genetic errors found in growth stagrs after combining with foreign DNA in your balls then shutting down the process and re-extract the germline cells is easy?

Why bother going to all that trouble when you can move the DNA to a new body and let the old one fall apart?

For it to have been worth it, a longer reproductive career has to pay off more than the opportunity cost of spending effort on other strategies eg aquiring more mates or investing more in your kids.

The most optimal balance is of course the DNA running around today.
Credential storing is a big risk.

While it may be true that there hasn't been historical fraud attributed to "screen-scraping", what has been seen historically is insider fraud - you pretty much have to expect a certain rate of incidents where your own employees, included tenured ones in high trust positions, will intentionally risk jail time and attempt to steal money; in the finance industry (despite all reasonable precautions) it's not a question of if it will happen, it's a question of how often it'll happen (i.e. if it's 1 incident per annum per 100 employees or if it's 1 incident per annum per 1000 employees), how large will be the impact (most precautions don't prevent the risk as such, but limit the amounts involved), and what are you going to do about it.

E.g. the idea that your main technical administrator might sell a database of stored credentials to organized crime; (or get his/her family kidnapped in order to get access to them, that has happened as well) isn't ridiculous fiction, it's a rare but feasible scenario that's more likely to happen than e.g. a datacenter burning down, so what you're going to do in similar cases is quite relevant, not only to your own internal risk analysis but also to your customers. A bank might say "oh, we've got it covered, but if a major hack-event happens, our capital reserves and deposit insurance will still guarantee that you don't lose your savings" - an API company can't fall back on that.
Net neutrality? Don't make me laugh. Yahoo was one of the biggest PRISM benefactors.
I'm black and never had an issue with hailing a cab for the right years I lived there
I wonder if I could get a python wrapper to w3m...
You can't be forced to eat too much just because food is too cheap. Get some smaller plates.

(Milk is cheaper than water?)
We should collaborate.
Yup. For example, did you know that CK Infrastructure is buying Ista? Ista builds energy meters, and is worth... $4.5B.

http://www.reuters.com/article/deals-day-idUSL3N1JI3AN
Ok, fair enough. But only 11%? Retric's numbers suggest only 11% of education funding is for teacher salaries. Does that not sound as crazy and outrageous to you as it does to me?

Especially when the system seems to be so ... dysfunctional. I don't know a single teacher who hasn't had to personally shell out money for school supplies for their students because their school ran out of paper or something else essential.

Update: I misunderstood Retric. Teacher salaries make up 22% of total education spending. I guess that's ... better?
Except for a 17" version. The 17" MacBook Pro will never come back :(
Is there another company in history with the valuation that Uber has that went broke because of a CEO change?

My gut tells me that Uber's financial performance won't change
Roads have the limits of the infrastructure and the law, not "limits" determined by the current operator of the road (that can be bypassed with payments, and thus not limits in the same sense).

The grocery store analogy doesn't work. The road or electric grid analogies are perfectly apt.
Individuals lie to police. Corporations merely make unfortunate errors that they are only too happy to correct now that it has been brought to our attention, sir.
last i checked, republicans (and pro-trump candidates) have won every special election since trump came to power. so much for "shite" approval ratings.
Stephen King

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Wanted to read the first one before the movie came out, now I am hooked...
That's cool. I still won't buy or sell anything on ebay as long as scammers are so prevalent.

I had a sealed collector's edition of StarCraft II that I wanted to sell a few years after the game came out. I knew that there was a very significant chance that if I sold it on ebay, some scam buyer would get it, open it, redeem the codes for all the in-game loot, then file a claim saying the item was not as described and that the codes were already redeemed.

Instead, I sold it through Amazon, using their Fulfilled by Amazon service. That way, Amazon will have verified that the game was still sealed and refuse a refund. It cost me a considerable amount in fees (IIRC, I sold it for $350 but only received $300), but it was worth it for piece of mind.

Though FWIW, some people have told me I still could have gotten scammed, it just became a little less likely.
You didn't even read the submission, did you?

>IVL The Swedish Environment Institute has, on behalf of the Swedish Transport Administration and the Swedish Energy Agency, investigated the climate impact of lithium-ion batteries from a life-cycle perspective.

This is Sweden, the country that has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050.
I didn't posit that NN will increase costs; only that the onus for demonstrating otherwise lies with NN-proponents. I don't have data to support conventional wisdom; only that the conventional wisdom is reasonable given that compliance adds overhead.
all of those jobs you mentioned are all targets of automation.
You have the assumption that economic growth is what they want. Trump has a mandate to punish the rich/middle class people so the poor people can feel relatively better about themselves. Startup visas can do nothing to help the poor rural unemployed. They'll probably be happier with a weaker dollar and thus more primary/secondary industry job opportunities. They certainly don't care about unicorns.

This is a big population of severely disadvantaged people who gain nothing from GDP growth. They do matter.
My chromecast works perfectly.
I'm glad it worked out for you.

It enforces the point of the article: your experience with Uber is entirely influenced by your driver.

If you happen to have a bad one (like the author), Uber takes no responsibility (contractor contractor contractor!), and your only recourse is considerable time and effort taking them to court.
Yes we want capital and brains to flow in but your comment isn't fair. The US has a history of settling refugees here. We also have a purposefully porous southern border and have normalized illegal immigrants.
Can you explain what that is for the uninitiated?
Yes, this would be the hypothetical scenario which is the opposite of the current scenario that everyone is so concerned about.
That would be wonderful, but I would like to have ready-made Vue components that I can plug into my app for rapid development. After searching incredibly hard, I realized that preexisting Vue components/frameworks as they are right now have a lot of bugs, or lack good documentation (some only in Chinese), or have visual glitches.

One can't deny that for such things popularity of the framework is supremely important. Even though I think Vue is superior to React/Angular, only half of the batteries are included.
ZeniMax to judge: Block Oculus sales or give us 20%
Because they can't mint and award it to users. NMR is only earned by performing well.
why bring them programmers here, why not move yourself to russia and do your startup there...
> We might actually have to start investing equally in US children

Who is we?
My thoughts are that the proper solution would be to outlaw regional monopolies, and that a store is entitled to whatever pricing model it sees fit.
2 million downloads.

$125 - $175 paid per download.

Jesus.
Numerai doesn't have the model, just predictions. The users don't have the real data to be able to trade their own predictions.
If we are going to craft a stack involving assembly someone would say that assembly is for the weak and real developers write directly in machine language.
Rlimit_stack problems after update to 3.10.0-514.21.2.el7
I have a local backup of native files, but I also have some external 1TB drives I usually get access to once a year and store at relatives places in case my house burns down. They aren't big enough to store my entire media library so I usually end up downsampling to "good enough" copies in case of a disaster.
No initial ICO. Only way NMR is earned is competing.
I have to admit this is oddly delightful
That's kind of the point - if you have large assets, that might be some assurance of your liquidity if e.g. a $100 million bad event happens; but if you do not and can't pledge large amounts of capital as pretty much a collateral, then you'd be expected or even required to buy insurance for very large amounts.
The current government seems to vehemently oppose the idea of normalizing illegal immigrants.
Yeah, that's kind of his point, I understood: If you have to pay humane wages, you have a stronger incentive to invest in automation.
This almost exactly replicates the workflow my team uses with discourse. I don't see the advantage this has over plain old message boards... Perhaps there's a feature I'm missing
I don't think this is intentional. My experience with AWS is that they aim to constantly improve products and create hosted services that are cheaper than if you frankensteined the same thing yourself. They don't always succeed, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for how bad cloudwatch truly is, and just assume either they're blind to the pain because they know what not to do internally, or they're just really hamstrung in trying to modify that feature since so much relies on it.

Hopefully this isn't just stockholm syndrome speaking though...
Bill Gurley Is Leaving Uber’s Board
Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads - world history from an Asiacentric perspective.

Harold Coyle, Team Yankee - WW3 in Europe in the 1980s from the perspective of a tank company commander. Poorly written, in my opinion, but the accurate (or so I hope) descriptions of the military tactics and equipment almost make up for it.

James Gleick, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - excellent book about the history of information.
Currently I'm listening to "Personal MBA" audiobook and loving it so far. I'm not the biggest fan of business books but decided to give this one a try to learn a bit more about marketing and sales.

Here are the books I've read and want to read: https://booknshelf.com/@tigran/shelves
You should've added like $50K of punitive damages. The fact that they lied to the police and got away with it is crazy. You didn't even break even, considering how much time and research you spent.
3.5 / 15.5 = 22.6%.
> What would you propose as a legal solution for this?

By "for this" do you mean "to have a decent minimum wage"?
Yes, like a Tequila company founded by George Clooney getting bought for $1b today
LOL, some of us like the thrill of a plane with one engine on fire, it appears some of us are happy safe on the ground.
> It is also worth mentioning there has never been a single case of fraud or loss attributed to "screen-scraping"

...how do you know?
Apple only charges its 30% fee for digital content, and specifically not for physical goods, like things you buy from Amazon.

So are tips considered digital content, even though you receive nothing in return? Or is Apple adding a 3rd class of transaction that specifically covers tips?
They don't just have to compete with WeChat pay but also with Zhifubao/Alipay in terms of payments to merchants.
Is this a fair analogy when considering Ista's history ("Clorius is taken over by ista. -1974")?
https://www.ista.com/uk/company/facts-figures/history/
Racism is alive and well.
They can sue yes, less likely to win. Modern courts really don't want to second-guess management strategies, and instead focus on things like fraud, conflicts of interest, and misrepresentation. If the company openly said that they are going to pursue policy X because they think this is in the long-term best interests of the company, and some shareholders sue to argue that it isn't, courts are rarely going to step in and try to determine that management should've pursued some other strategy. For one thing, they aren't really equipped to determine what would be the right course of action (valuing things like "goodwill" is not really an exact science), and for another, shareholders already have a mechanism for resolving those questions among themselves: shareholder votes.

Instead, to win a shareholder lawsuit you usually need much more of a smoking gun, things like being able to show that the CEO pursued a certain deal because his brother owned the other company, or that a group of controlling shareholders are having their chosen board take certain actions that deliberately screw over minority shareholders, that kind of thing.
https://twitter.com/mwseibel/status/851509298521944064
Ask HN: Is anyone solving the problem of having to use many different chat apps?
Different parts of my social network are on: SMS, WhatsApp, FB Messenger, Telegram, Signal, Keybase, Slack, IRC, and Google Hangouts.

It's super inconvenient having all of those installed, running, updating and notifying me on my laptop and phone, leaving aside the fact that I have to remember who uses what, when and how.

Are there any efforts to unify the experience somehow, kind of like how for a while I was able to use Pidgin and Trillian to message across multiple platforms? That was over a decade ago.

Anyone who solved this could easily charge me $100+ a year.