skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say that. I usually want to tip the driver and I want an easy way to do it. I started using Lyft because I could tip in the app. I don't want to have to carry around cash.
It is very hard to do business if you think like that. Do you think Amazon sabotaged Netflix on the day before Thanksgiving a while back to further their own business? I don' think so.
> going bankrupt and shutting down?

Well, if you're spending more than your revenue, that is the eventual outcome if money stream from investors dries up.

Uber doesn't really have many physical assets that could be liquidated. Their value is entirely based on profitability. Which is currently negative.
Peeking at competitor data would be a short term great idea, long term terrible idea. You do it once, you'll do it again. You do it too many times, someone will rat you out and now your losing customers fast.

Amazon may not be the most ethical company, but they've never been accused of short term thinking. It's just completely outside of what if expect from them.
Haha I also read HN to wake up in the morning and have made my share of mistakes early on.
Nowhere on their page do I see a reference to anything doing actual control. No mention of integration with Allan-Bradley, or Siemens, or GE, or any other actual control system. If your not securing the link between the PC based portion of your control network and the part thats actually controlling things what's the point.
True. However I personally don't think either company can do too much about revenues at this point and it's all about controlling costs. From an outsider point of view it seems that Lyft is in a better position, culturally if nothing else, to do this. At least when compared to a Kalanick run Uber. It will be very interesting to see what priorities the next CEO will have.
D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
I agree. Amazon would do the same. I am responding to all the articles that are sympathetic to Wal-Mart.
"Behind every great fortune is a great crime" - Balzac (kind of[1].)

[1] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime/
Wow. This is a 30 day trial offer over supposed "hardened controls". Pardon my skepticism, but proof or GTFO.

I already have access to ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, Mosquitto, Californium, and plenty more. And they all are open source under reasonable licenses.

So can someone please tell me:

1. Why should I trust your claim of security?
2. Why your product is worth money when I can go Open Source for free?
3. Why should I deal with Vendor lockin?
4. Why should I trust you?

Well... The obvious answer is that it's not worth it, at any cost.

EDIT: I flagged it. I would encourage others to do the same. This is bad, horrible, no good junkware.
How many rewrites-that-involved-no-redesign have you done?
In languages that allow abstraction over generic types you can also reuse a lot of infrastructure to write parsers. For instance you can parse a string by chaining a bunch of char parsers:

string :: String -> Parser String
string s = mapM char s

On the other hand this probably degrades from c-like performance to python levels so some higher level builtins that are easy to optimize and compile into efficient assembly might be a better idea.
Ask HN: What are the best free job boards?
Th Who Is Hiring thread here is a great place to post engineering roles.

Which free job boards do you post your other positions to; i.e., marketing, design and product?
I remember discussions circa 1995 on how the web becoming commercial would ultimately destroy the democratic potential of the internet to mirror the issues of capitalism such as centralizing power and wealth.

In 2003 (was it 2001?) there's the 2nd edition TAZ preface by Hakim Bey[3], in 2007 there's this infamous talk "free internet or minitel 2.0"[1] at the Libre Software Meeting[2]. Closer to now there's RIPE publishing "The death of transit"[3] and recently Peter Sunde told us we have lost the internet and it's all about damage control now.[4]

I would not say it's a surprise, it's simply the consequences of applying the same model that's making our civilisation fail, removing the conditions favorable to life on the planet, causing the current mass extinction, etc.

[1]: https://www.fdn.fr/actions/confs/internet-libre-ou-minitel-2...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_Software_Meeting

[3]: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/the-death-of-transit

[4]: https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/06/09/pirate-bay-founder-weve...

[5]:
I think perhaps the least useful part of the book is its
section on the Internet. I envisioned the net as an
adjunct to the TAZ, a technology in service to the TAZ, a
means of potentiating its emergences. I proposed the term
"Web" for this function of the Net. What a joke. Time
magazine identified me as a cyber-guru and "explained"
that the TAZ exists in cyberspace. "Web" became the
official term for the commercial/surveillane function of
the Net, and by 1995 it had succeeded in burying the
anarchic potential of the Net (if any really existed)
under a mass of advertising and dot-com scams. What's left
of the Left now seems to inhabit a ghost-world where a few
thousands "hits" pass for political action and "virtual
community" takes the place of human presence. The Web has
become a perfect mirror of Global Capital: bordeless,
triumphalist, evanescent, aesthically bankrupt,
monocultural, violent -- a force for atomization and
isolation, for the disappearance of knowledge, of
sexuality, and of all subtle senses.
“The best way to express it is that everything you see on Netflix up until the play button is on AWS, the actual video is delivered through our CDN,” Netflix spokesperson Joris Evers said.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3037428/cloud-computing/...
What is there to liquidate? Some espresso machines and office furniture? The software isn't worth much; it's been copied by several others already.
"Uberraschung"
Then take a look at other countries: The German system was introduced 130 years ago[0], survived multiple forms of government, two world wars, the incorporation of a former socialist country, multiple waves of immigration, and still provides excellent care. It just works.

(And modern medicine is not yet at a level where ethnicity is a relevant factor when deciding treatment options.)

[0]: By highly conservatives by the way, to fight the rising social democrats
"no longer price competitive" to who?

"drivers start to leave" where are they leaving to?
Does it make sense to stop recommending OpenSSL and start recommending LibreSSL now?
You've been praising Steve Jobs throughout this thread, saying his flaws "served" Apple. We don't know that they did. All we know is that they didn't run it into the ground.

If we are angry about Kalanick sexually harassing people (as we should be), Steve Jobs mentally/emotionally harassing people is as bad. There is no difference, don't make it seem like it is okay or that it was "good for Apple".
I don't know Kalanick, though I've read about how his brashness and "win at all costs" attitude was forged through his past startup failures[1]

If this is true then he is his own worst enemy, and I find it very sad when anyone - no matter how big a jerk you think they are - is trapped in a repeating pattern of negative and destructive behavior.

To be clear: I am not absolving him of his behavior, I'm just observing that the culture comes from the founder and his wounds run deep.

[1] Scour filed for bankruptcy, Red Swoosh was acquired after enormous struggles to keep the company afloat.
It would be simpler to invent wrinkle free clothes and convince your wife clothes don't need to be sorted.
I always feel like gathering data and formatting correct data sets is the most important part of data science. Back during classes where you're taught machine learning require perfect data sets for you to learn the algorithms. And then when you're analyzing data, you'll use a library that runs these algorithms for you. Which means you'll spend the longest time making sure that you're data sets are correct and easily useable.

I love working on these types of projects. Things like scraping sports stats (which may or may not be considered legal, but not like I'm trying to make money for them), data from posted articles, music data, data about locations of public restaurants, etc.

Finding some place that offers correct public data is fantastic to see.
Two things - firstly, each of the scores you see in the key findings are just the average. We have also estimated the size of the standard deviation (see table in section 2, or appendix A). So for some treatments, large uplifts are not out of the question.

Maybe more importantly - every A/B test ever run suffers from measurement error, and usually in e-commerce this error is on the scale of the effect you are trying to measure. This means that sometimes you will 'see' massive uplifts, where in actuality most of the size of the effect was due to random noise. This is kind of the curse of e-commerce : most people have enough data to say something (we are 95% sure this test was positive), but most not with any notable precision (we are 95% sure the uplift was between +8% and +9%). Basically all the stats in this analysis is trying to remove this noise, and this is what we got.
There isn't much of a negotiation though.

Somebody else said than an early version of the Uber app let customers define their tip in the app and it was automatically applied. Maybe they should bring that back and also give drivers the ability to filter on that value.
Yup, these are the reasons I'm not interested in those "hands-free but still assisted" autodriving deals. I'd love cruise control assist and lane assist in my car, but that's about all I want until I can be 100% sure cars can handle the situations by themselves.
>>or because they don't trust Amazon not to look at the data hosted on their platform?

It's been known before:

Battle of the Airlines: King 'backed dirty tricks': BA staff hacked into Virgin computers and poached passengers

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/battle-of-the-airlines-kin...
positron dynamics
I was going for the case "you too" / "they too" which tu quoque literally translates to from Latin.

Say we accept that Amazon does these things (the parent didn't actually provide any evidence / argument for that case). Pointing out the hypocrisy of the other party (or 3rd party) is not a valid rhetorical argument why they should be allowed to do it (Walmart).
The digital version of using satellites to count lorries in warehouse yards and cars in supermarket car parks.

Which also happens and is fascinating.
> If I were a rich man
If they were smart they would hire a diplomat like Condoleezza Rice (Dropbox). They have a ton of experience dealing with crisis, external perceptions, government relations, and lobbying on an international level.
Why is the 'United States' not below 'Governments' like all the other countries ?
I completely agree, this is a terrible move on uber's part.

That being said, if tipping is going to be part of the new model going forward I would at least want it to be anonymous. That is have the driver receive all of his/her tips in aggregate at the end of the pay cycle without knowing which passengers it came from. The driver can still determine if his overall service was, on average, financially valued by the drivers above the fare price but passengers don't have the same pressure to tip (blacklisted by drivers, bad reviews, etc) if they don't want to.
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It doesn't surprise me.

I did several weeks of physical therapy for back pain. The PT suggested that I get a TENS Unit for pain. She said, "It costs about $800, but don't worry, your insurance will cover it with no copay to you."

Additionally, the pad refills were free and paid by insurance (they stop being adhesive after so many uses). And so for several months I had sales rep calling me once every few weeks, asking if I needed more pads. Again, it cost me nothing, so I'm sure this is a useful service for senior citizens who otherwise might run out--but I'm also positive that this guy was massively upselling the stuff to insurance, or he would not have been so persistent.

I spoke later to my parents, who also had one, and asked them where they got theirs. They said they paid about $50 at Wal-Mart. A cursory look on Amazon reveals similar pricing.[0]

I don't care how much more effective the professional-grade one is, I doubt it could be 20x more effective, and yet it is 20x the price.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3...
There have been some advances with REBCO magnets that may change that though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 has info.
LNPs have the ability to write prescriptions for low schedule drugs. That's pretty much the basis of those tiny clinics in retail stores.

More movement in that direction could lower health care costs, or at least improve utilization.
I can only assume that you have never worked in any industry in a customer service capacity. Tipping is a totally normal thing, that you are free to engage in or abstain from.

If you are especially pleased with a service on a particular occasion, then you should tip. If you are the type of person who is never pleased with anything, then you should certainly feel no obligation to tip, ever.

This whole exchange reminds me of an episode of Black Mirror.

* (edit: Then again, after reading some more of the impressions on this page, I think I may be privileged that I am in a relatively small midwestern city where Uber and Lyft both offer service. I have never been asked to tip, by any of the drivers I've used on either service. It sounds like that is far from the norm, at least in areas where HN users are.)
Kilian Jornet summits Everest twice in one week without supplemental oxygen
Phone cases and batteries are usually selling much cheaper on ebay than Amazon Marketplace. A lot of them are obviously fakes, but even the real ones are a good 20-30% cheaper.
Where's the Real 'Next Silicon Valley'?
> Please believe women when they report harassment in the workplace. Many of their reports may not be as clear cut as Mrs. Fowler's.

no evidence? no problem. guilty until proven innocent based on the gender of the accuser.
There has been out-of-tree GCC support for D for several years. I wonder what has changed that they're letting it in to the official repository.
> People who just can't catch up with all the rush ultimately feel discriminated.

Non sequitur. You're also generally espousing some pretty reprehensible ideas. We as a society do not take the view that business success overrides all soft concerns, especially with regard to their employees. If ruthlessness and discrimination is the grist that your mill requires, find another mill.

Also please avoid working in management.
This is... Not the best? That Wal-Mart is powerful enough to dictate the internal business practice and tech decisions of it's vendor.

On the other hand, Amazon is a massive immoral monster devouring the US economy and replacing it with something vaguely worse, year by year. It's rapidly approaching a "too big to be allowed to fail" status, and that's awful for Americans. Since anti-trust laws weren't written by a generation able to envison entities like this and the current political climate is that they'd rather die than appear anti-business... I guess the only entities with the power to push back against Amazon are in fact the other major corporate vendors.
I think the driver's response was more ironic in today's context.
People, not businesses.
I can't think of a way to take this statement that makes it true.

I don't know how old you are, but public morality towards sexual harassment just in the U.S. has changed in my lifetime. (For the better, although it is currently ugly and messy, as these changes always are.)

Even attitudes about what constitute harassment vary by culture between similar cultures. Compare Italy and Germany.
The most insightful part seems to be:

"Naively one might have expected some machine learning expert to take over the reins at Tesla."

Here we are.
Storj: A distributed cloud storage platform
Facebook did many things right. How many people really thought Facebook would be a $450B company in 2017, good for top 5 most valuable company, and pulling in over a billion in profit a month. Yes most of the money is being made on mobile which likely wasn't the master plan of Zuckerberg or others. But things had to go right up to 2013/2014 to allow Facebook to become huge in revenue and profits with its mobile business.

We don't know exactly how much influence Zuckerberg had in all the decisions. For example the common theme for years was for there to be uproar after any major feature or change.

Like the news feed that is now ubiquitous. A worse company might have feared the backlash and slowed down on features and growing the news feed.

I assume Zuckerberg was also fundamental in acquiring Instagram and Whatsapp. Instagram is worth tens of billions now. Whatsapp has 1.2B or so monthly users. There were many comments on how overpriced and silly the Whatsapp purchase was. But most of it was in stocks and the cash at the time may have been a lot ($4B), but Facebook gets that much per month now. Whatsapp tripled its users since its acquisition.

A lot of tech people disliked the Messenger split off. But that seems to be working out for the business too. It is becoming its own platform now and can also boast 1B+ users per month.

Maybe anyone would've done all this. I don't know. But I do know it was Zuckerberg in charge when all this occurred.
Nuclear fusion takes a step closer
A lot of such stuff can be avoided by simply using Rust.
This post hightlights the real barrier to entry for startups. Being connected with people with the money.

It's normally the people with best connections and the best relationship with investors and not the best product market fit that can get funding.
I am really disappointed that another article discusses a power struggle without mentioning the power struggle.

Something like this is nearly always a power struggle. That the accusations may be valid is just showing that the people attaining power have a higher chance in this situation. It doesn't change the fact that it is a power struggle.

So who are the people taking over? For an news paper that shouldn't be hard to figure out. Who are the three new guys? They are 100% sure linked to the group taking over. They are certainly not "neutral". Who is likely to become the new CEO? This guy is certainly the leader of the coup or a puppet.
Scraping and aggregating airline info is not really comparable. Airline data is based on predetermined schedules and is relatively static.

Ride hailing is extremely fluid. Must be real-time. Must be able to provide GPS coordinates of the user to the service in question.

I don't think you'll see an aggregation app until there is some ride hailing standard that is adopted by the various providers.
...the horrible site is just the cherry on top
Why is this in the front page ?
Maybe Bob still holds a grudge:

"Some have speculated that Muglia and Ballmer disagree about the development and future of Microsoft's cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, but no details are available. So for now, at least, the departure remains somewhat of a mystery --- as is the blunt way that Ballmer handled it."

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2470214/social-business...
Agreed, it's interesting that competitive differentiation can succeed based on having the lowest UX friction. Google knows how to optimize performance, but design can trump performance in certain areas. Certainly, Amazon knows how to make a performant site, but it's their adherence to customer experience that gives Twitch the edge here. My money is on Twitch.
Lilium and Magic Leap are fake, idk about the others.
But neither -- really -- are Indeed. Indeed are (sort of) only an aggregator.
Elitism in the academy: Hierarchy in faculty hiring networks
> What would you have looked at and thought "That'll be massive in 20 years"

I was on the internet in the early/mid 90s, and was told that "the web" was growing massively and was going to be huge. This was more common knowledge by 1997.

The kind of DNA sequencing that 23andme sells to people for £150 now? It's not "millions of units" massive yet, granted.
Do you have any examples? I use PayPal (even on Chinese sites) for many years -- never have been scammed yet.
My spouse seems entirely incapable of keeping savings, so the rational financial advice I would give myself is to get divorced, so that I can lose only up to 50% of what I earn, rather than 100% of it. It doesn't help that I don't seem to be getting anything else out of the deal any more.

It would have been a whole lot easier to just not get married in the first place. If you can't stand being single, at the very least, make the other person's debt situation a deal-breaker before getting too involved with them.
I try to use Lyft, but have used Uber before and yes, I tipped with cash.
Most streamers have fans/volunteers who are given moderation powers. No need for micromanaging while they're actually playing.
It's actually older than Microsoft. Just saying.
Your autocorrect keeps calling the dice not die by the way.
I have a fire stick (gifted to me) and the twitch app on it is awful. Bad enough that even I noticed. As far as I can tell there is no way to filter the videos by language/region like I can on the desktop.
The videos are displayed in 'current viewers' descending order and I have to scroll for a while and hope that the stream title has enough info to guess at the language (I don't have favorite streamers, I will watch whoever).

I haven't found a way around this in the months I have had it and half the time I use the youtube app and watch a pre-recorded game instead.
FastCompany had an article back in 2003 about the Vlasic gallon jar of pickles. Sales to Walmart quickly eclipsed all their other channels. And then Walmart said "We want you to lower your price."

> For many suppliers, though, the only thing worse than doing business with Wal-Mart may be not doing business with Wal-Mart.

https://www.fastcompany.com/47593/wal-mart-you-dont-know
A remaster with no old code: Crash Bandicoot was rebuilt nearly from scratch
I'm in the same boat as you and same age group. But I'm not sure if I can quit my job because it's a very nice job with a nice group of people. And there's no guarantee that if I go my own way, I will succeed. Leaving would be very difficult for me right now. I wish you all the best for your startup journey!
For the target demographic (developers?) I would say it's way higher than 7%.
Back in 2002, I started working on "automated digital doubles of real people" with an eye on automated actor replacement. I'd been working in VFX, with a history in 3D development going back to the early 80's. Long story short: started with a stellar team and I wrote and was awarded a global patent on automated actor replacement in filmed media. The company, patent and seed funding all come together just as the financial crisis at the end of Bush's term climaxed. Team scattered, I went it alone building a freelancer tiny team. Pivot to a game character service. I was never able to achieve more than a half way decent game character creation web API, which no one would pay to use. All that is left now is 1) the twitter account https://twitter.com/3davatarstore?lang=en, and of course I still have all the tech. I use it for facial recognition now, and no longer make avatars. It's even better now, but even when contacted by interested parties, no one want to pay for it, at all.
There's always a trade-off between how complicated the docs and usage are and how many people will use it. OpenSSL is problematic because it has very complicated docs and usage, but people still used it anyway. This leads to a situation where people use it incorrectly, and for a crypto library, that's a very bad thing.

If OpenSSL wasn't the de facto king of OSS crypto libraries for so long (partly because it was the only one for so long), then people might have been able to make more informed choices about what library was better.