skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting point but realistically I've never had that happen (that i know of at least). I've a always had them come back with better numbers than the initial offer.
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I feel as if I'm not allowed to talk anymore

I understand that. But have you considered the possibility that people in other categories have felt that way the whole time, and have only recently reached a level of confidence and/or frustration that they're willing to be openly dismissive of your viewpoint? Put another way, this not-so-great but relatively new reality for you has been the norm for many other groups of people and they're sick of it and have stopped playing along with it. That's not your fault, and indeed it is frustrating to be treated as a category member instead of an individual, but the discrimination those people previously experienced wasn't their fault either.
Author here.

Making my first side project live. A chrome extension that shows an idiom/phrase/proverb on a new tab. Consume one in every 24 hours!

Inspired by this conversation between Venkat and Rich from the book The Martian.

V: “Have you told anyone else?”

R: “Who would I tell?”

V: “I don't know, Friends?”

R: “I don't have any of those.”

V: “Ok, keep it under your hat.”

R: “I don't wear a hat.”
Disagree. There certainly are large genetic and huge environmental factors in raw intelligence, and then a whole raft of environmental and cultural factors in how a person with that intelligence is able to use it. I'm a privileged, intelligent, educated white guy but I have an intellectual appreciation for what it must be like to be born to a poor minority family in a poor area. You will point to some example of some guy who made it out of the third world or the ghetto, but the reason that dude is a story is because he's an extreme outlier. Empathy man.
Yes other classical economist talked about the subject as well. Their analysis were of course about 100x superior those of Marx. The feared the problem and worried about in theory but they did not predict the inherent centralization of all markets.

They also understood that politics often has no interest in fixing the market, as they had a actual model of political economy.
Wow that is truly unbelievable. Thanks for the clarification and the link (reading now).
Counter-point: percentage of emails marked as urgent that are actually urgent.
> the current wave of Swift/Rust/Go that rely on "life support" from a corporate donor.

Most Rust contributors are not Mozilla employees. Losing people to work on Rust full-time would be a setback, but we're not really reliant on it; we'd evolve more slowly.
>Nothrow and Pure are not part of the type signature of functions

Actually they are. Take a look at this example:

void main()
{

int delegate(int) @safe nothrow @nogc pure f;
//This looks like something bad is happening, but the delegate literal
//actually has the proper attributes inferred so it Just Works
f = delegate(int) { return 0; };

int delegate(int) g;
f = g; //Fails, as it should
}
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Which countries are supported? Not seeing that info anywhere. I only saw in a comment here that Teller has relationships with "every major UK bank".
By definition protected/private modifiers aren't convention as they're part of the language itself.

Convention is something that doesn't exist in the language. You cannot mark properties as private or protected in Python so the convention is that underscore means private or protected. There are no getters or setters in Java so the convention is to use a method with a get/set prefix.

I would argue that such a common programming practice (enforced or not) should not be left to convention.
> http://breckyunits.com/files/ohayo.png

I have no idea what I'm looking at. This could be a code editor, a debugger, a plain code listing. No. Idea.
I'll attest to the original comment by davidf18. Uber/Lyft have radically changed NYC for the better. Ride sharing services are significantly cheaper on the order of multiples, easier to use (eg. no more hailing, paying), and a hell of a lot more pleasant to ride in than taxis.

Taxis were notoriously bad. They'd intentionally take slower routes to run up the meter, refuse passengers trying to go to locations the drivers don't want to go (despite this being illegal), etc. Not to mention this is all made more attractive due to our failing decrepit subway system.

The smartphone app innovation you speak of was not inevitable. Taxis indeed had a monopoly, and thus had absolutely zero incentive to developing an app. The competition induced by the ride sharing services destroying them is what incentivized them to finally launch an app, but I don't have it on my phone nor do I know anyone who has, and it's probably inferior to that of its competition.
Unfortunately I don't think I have the code anymore. But the gist of it is that say you have two threads in a process. One of the threads contains a function like this:

void recurse (int m, int n) {
char arr[n]
recurse(m--, n)
}

If 'm' and 'n' are user-controlled, 'recurse' is executing in thread A, and thread A's stack is above thread B's stack, then you can cause 'recurse' to recurse down to the point that it makes its way into thread B's stack region. Normally, this is prevented by 'guard pages' in between the two thread's stacks. However, if you have a variable length array, as in the example, it's possible to allocate enough memory to just skip right over the guard page. Once you've done this, you're now writing directly into the other thread's stack, with all the fun stuff that entails.
Looks great, but I was immediately turned off by the combination of infinite scroll and a footer with contact info that you can never reach.
Never?

You need legally available reverse engineering without dmca-hammer to be applied plus PSD2 directive coming soon forcing banks to open.

Those are EU things.
> You can't just shut down access to your customers apps

Yes you can, and banks already do this. Even the E-Trade app refuses to work unless it's on the most current version. When you control the apps and the API, you can pretty much do as you please.
> That's a very "class conflict" approach in the Marxist sense. It's not clear this was what was argued in the post I was answering to.

The topic under discussion is the changing of economic rules to benefit some at the expense of others. It's the heart of the linked paper (TFA), and may be assumed as context for a root-level comment's assertions.

> In any case, that analysis is obviously highly political, and the least that can be said is that not everybody agrees with it.

That certain economic rules benefit some and harm others seems pretty uncontroversial. That those who are harmed by changes to said rules should quit expecting to be "given" things and just work harder seems like an obvious double-standard. That coupling of economic power to political power makes ethical reasoning on this topic in particular a bit muddy also seems uncontroversial.
This kind of abuse is apparently common enough that there's an EU directive that limits this abuse in the EU: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...

In the UK, for example, even before the EU directive, unpaid commercial debts accrue interest and late payment penalties and can be claimed retrospectively for up to six years. This means that you can quite legally wait until you've stopped doing business with a particular customer before then claiming late payment penalties and interest.

These rights cannot be waived by contract.
Yeah, yours is the second comment along these lines and I think you're right.

My thinking was that I wanted to differentiate it from the very gamey branding of apps like Memrise and Duolingo. "Spaced repetition system" sounds more serious, more academic - and I do want people to get the impression that CleverDeck takes the spaced repetition implementation as seriously as Anki. I think I can probably still do that while being more clear - thanks for the feedback.
Travis, if you're looking for a new adventure - I'm looking for a co-founder. Ping me ;)
Also a crypto currency[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_(cryptocurrency)
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This is deeply fascinating.

We provide theory and case-study evidence showing how incorrect
beliefs persist.

Although harmful at the individual-level, we show that they
generate Pareto efficient outcomes that have group-level benefits.

Pretty much my view on religious practices in the West.

Many beliefs are almost certainly untrue, yet there are big benefits for group members.

Those of us on the outside with our evidence and falsifiable hypotheses are left with envy.
My data points are that I've been taking Uber exclusively, because Lyft can't seem to figure out how to operate outside of the US. :-)
off topic: I never noticed that there's a .google TLD...
https://www.amazon.com/Handmade
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To add to the other reply, here's my analysis:

Well, Bancor itself is... interesting. The background section of the whitepaper provides the motivation:

https://www.bancor.network/static/Bancor_Protocol_Whitepaper...

So, unless I'm grossly misunderstanding things, during the ICO, Bancor BNT tokens were purchased representing some fraction of the 150M contributed. Those tokens can now be exchanged by participants in Bancor's exchange, and purchased or liquidated freely to the underlying held cryptocurrency.

The ether raised during the ICO are used 1) fund various Bancor operations, and 2) fund an ether reserve to support liquidity.

But note, that reserve is just a fractional reserve. If there's a run on BNT, some people will lose if the reserve dries up! In their whitepaper example, of 200k ether raised, they mention a 30% fractional reserve.

You might ask yourself, why not just buy/sell ether directly? Well, the novelty, here, is that Bancor tokens could represent other cryptocurrencies or even baskets of currencies (though how the subsequent transactions on those other blockchains are handled, I have no idea, and their whitepaper doesn't go into it).

So yeah, I'd say your general description is accurate. If things go bad for Bancor, there's gonna be a lot of people losing out.
I think good review and ratings systems for online marketplaces are possibly one of the hardest things to get right. I'm not sure it's ever been done really well before, or even if it can be done well. As a spouse of someone with a successful Etsy shop, let me tell you that the sellers aren't always exactly happy with the system either.

You have to basically keep it at perfect feedback in some goods marketplaces or you're considered a fuckup, and while that's easier than it sounds because people don't know how to rate effectively so almost all feedback is perfect, you also have to deal with people that leave negative feedback because of issues that have nothing to do with what they ordered (tracking shows USPS lost he package for a week or two in delivery, or shows it delivered to correct address but customer did not receive it).
That's completely wrong headed. What people think is entirely the reason that something is "pioneering" or not. How businesses comport themselves and treat their various constituencies is part and parcel of their ongoing success.
Guess we just have to agree to disagree. API design matters. A lot. "As long as they provide some API" doesn't really cut it if you want a system that functions well. Having spent close to 10 years of my career gluing systems together through APIs, I've encountered too many "Oh we have an API!" vendors only to find out how horrible that API is. The consumer facing product is often a direct reflection of the underlying APIs powering it. If you have many APIs powering it, the app will take on all of the negatives of the sum of those APIs. Good app design can help smooth over the rough edges, but that only goes so far.

Again, I should reiterate: I'm not arguing that it can't be done or that it's not possible. I'm arguing that the result will be subpar. Let's remember that the parent discussion is about the creation of a system that rivals the Uber/Lyft experience. If you want to do that, someone (probably someone big like Google as suggested in another comment) is going to have to influence the design of these APIs so the end user experience is a consistent/good one.
IMO, mine own, this is the CORRECT NARRATIVE
If you can wrap up your D3.js visualization in a React component with a declarative API, then you can turn it into a Dash component. Here's the tutorial on creating custom Dash components: https://plot.ly/dash/plugins and as a reference example, here's how we're wrapping up the plotly.js library as a Dash component: https://github.com/plotly/dash-core-components/blob/master/s...
Mocking Clinton and Trump
Have you seen the awakening of Reagan at youtube? It's a new channel which mocks the politicians in USA. It's hilarious.
> Uber is under investigation at several levels of government for their Greyball program to hide from law enforcement.

^^ this is why I never stopped using Uber.
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What I hear when I read your reply is this:

> I pay by the cubic foot for municipal water, and I pay
> again for the municipal sewers and water treatment. For
> what I pay, I expect to be able to actually get my
> solid waste into the sewers without some jackass
> telling me how much water I can use to do it ...

This "I pay X so its my choice" is the basis for a number of arguments on water conservation. If it is the only argument that carries weight with you, then the legislative response will be 'use what ever you want, your water cost will be exponential per unit time' So the first 100 units a month, are $1, the next 100 units are $10, the next $100, etc. The allows the cost of profligate water use to be borne by the responsible party rather than the community.

And yes, it is true that agricultural use dwarfs urban use. But the same logic applies. Someone trying to grow almonds in the desert should pay more than someone trying to grow beans.
Huge congrats to Gustaf and the YC team! :)
Not quite right, NDK applications are constrained in what they can touch and many syscalls have been removed.
Calculated ethnicity accuracy is horrible in the public information space, as is calculated gender.
What a wonderful way to add massive complexity to font rendering while delivering spectacularly little value.

Don't get me wrong, it's cool, I just don't see the point. And I don't look forward to my battery life being used for pointless sugar.
I think there's a case to be made that the tax policies that apply to investor organizations and participants qualifies as a form of state sponsorship.
How would you characterize the response to such proposals?
Esquire has elaborated http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a23132/why-tip..., but most of source research is from Michael Flynn. http://esq.h-cdn.co/assets/cm/15/06/54d4001b11630_-_CQ10Race...
Its a weirdly phrased sentence, but what he means is that he will have a long tail of minimal revenue users and also a few users that will make up the bulk of the revenue, and he wants to open it up to the public in order to find these users.
When I look at, for example, technical updates from the Facebook Engineering teams, it's really a little textbook, a distilled version of the knowledge at that point in time.

Same if you bring new team members up to speed by talking to that person.

There is typically no single "historical" document that does the job. Old documents (e-mails, descriptions, comments, ...) tend to be outdated. New documents tend to be increments, so they don't really make sense if you don't know what is written in the old documents.

I expect that in the near future, automatic summaries based on NLP would be able to do all the heavy lifting, so the head of engineering (or whoever is in charge) will only edit the doc, not write it from scratch.
I think this really depends on which city you are in.

When Uber started in SF, the experience of getting a taxi was very frustrating. There weren't enough cabs, the cab drivers were over the top rude, they refused to take credit cards and were aggressive about tips, if you called a cab they would never show up, and they were (and still are) expensive. It was not necessarily about the app, it was just that it was reliable -- you could get a car when and where you needed it and not having to pay in the car made the experience far superior.

At the very same time, there were all these black cars rolling around the city and picking up passengers somewhat illegally. That experience was not great because you often had to negotiate a high rate, but this was mostly because there were no taxis available. In other words, there was a bunch of supply that could be utilized.

I think those conditions made Uber particularly ripe to work in SF and once it did, that proved that it could work elsewhere as well.

The app was also a huge benefit, but in context, I actually think it could have been just as useful in the beginning if you could have texted your address.

It goes to show that for something to be great, you have to get a lot of things right at once. :-)
They're probably referring to the diameter.
For me, an American guy, my thought was the same. Normal people don't think about APIs. I gather the target audience here is service providers, but the copy is confusing because it seems to be speaking directly to consumers?
Your reply doesn't address anything CPLX said. There were already non-yellow cab options in NYC for car service, and there still are. That's the point they were making.
Well, if you actually use the GC and array range checks (also enabled by default), it gives you memory safety in the vast majority of cases. Though, indeed, the language does let you break that by default, it isn't something you are likely to do accidentally.

GC + range checks provide memory safety to most programs without the kind of extra work you need in Rust. This is a big reason why they are so common in industry.
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> citation?

http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-of-mat...

> I didn't define useful either:

> but if you can understand written instructions it doesn't matter what you happened to read to get that skill.

Of course you are free to define useful in a way that makes it impossible to argue or to have a discussion. So let's stick to the way it is defined for the purpose of say University admission.

> Why is reading a classic American author important?

Reading difficult work earlier develops higher reading comprehension faster.

> Likewise, what is wrong with using M&Ms for learning math?

I think if by 4th grade you still need concrete pieces to understand integers or denominators of a fraction or whatever they were supposed to represent, that is a sign of a weak math education. In general concrete examples are antithetical to learning advanced math, this leads do the monkey-style ability to solve problems that are similar ones presented in textbooks, but not the ability to reason effectively about an unfamiliar problems.
> who has run multiple startups to various exits

What has he done besides Red Swoosh? btw, Red Swoosh was sold to Akamai and then later disassembled when they realized there was no "there" there.
I don't agree that consumers are irrational. But I do find it interesting that your implied solution would be to empower someone or some group of people who similarly possess the same negative human trait, so they could then make overarching rules for everyone else. If nothing else you've only narrowed the target for the bad actors from billions of individuals down to a few.
WT... wow. You really have CS in 99% of high schools?
> Science isn't free. Also, how on earth does one go about such an experiment humanely and in a financially prudent manner?

I think it is outside the scope of this paper. But that is part of the thing that struck me as being so bizarre. This isn't a paper about the efficacy of the spell on an individual level. It seems to be a paper that is discussing how a belief in X may have high potential risk to the holder of belief X and, yet, be beneficial to a group of believers in X. That is an interesting but counterintuitive idea. I could see the same model being applied to experimental cancer treatments on a purely conceptual level.

> "duh...because they are superstitious barbarians"

This is admittedly 100% rhetoric on my part and may be "too much". However, there is really the way that authors' view of these villagers came across to me. I'm sure that is partly due to spending time in Africa and the very positive impression of the people that I came away with.

As you said the authors start by mentioning: "unfalsifiable religious claims". So, they seem to start the paper by classifying this a one of those "unfalsifiable religious claims". But, they then immediately classify it as a "false belief" without any evidence for such being the case AND the "false" modifier being irrelevant within the context of the paper.

> The authors come to exactly the same conclusion

Once again, that is what I find so bizarre about the article. I guess it is just me. But, it doesn't sound like a scientist conducting a study; it sounds like one part cultural commentary and one part science. The conclusion doesn't seem to require the cultural inferences about belief systems and their falsifiability or lack thereof. Hence, it struck the wrong chord with me.

I guess I would like to believe that we (i.e. all science lovers) are really looking for a better understanding of the world and that we can do so without pre-conceived judgements of something that is foreign to us.
The sexism isn't the only problem within the company. It's the easiest to criticize, because it's obvious how stupid and absurd it is--and how there is no excusing it, but I Uber has done a bunch of other things that reflect this same mindset.
It's illegal to catch them now in Europe. Harder to catch by poachers than they once used to be, since there's much less of them around.

They taste like quail, apparently.
I think its easy to automate a CEO's functions if you're purely looking for a manager in the outdated corporate sense back when everyone wore suits and listened to orders. However I think like all professions, CEOs have changed in their roles and have to adapt to values like leadership and vision. I think its hard for a robot to come up with vision and make that vision resonate to employees without personal anecdotes. I have only learnt this firsthand that even though I thought vision was total bs, its the only thing keeping you alive when you and your company are in hard times because there is really no rewards when you're starting out or trying to find profitability for a huge corporation losing money and everyone is convinced you wont earn because you have a company that does not have strong operating economics