skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be puff piece, but at least it does not focus on "toxic culture forced CEO to resign". The latter story might feel good and thus be more popular, but is less likely reason for investors revolution then "they are losing money, have no plan and are overall ineffective".

It is true that former CEO personality was important for uber and different dude or lady could not achieve the same, but achievement here is losing tons of money on business that does not seem to be profitable ever. That is odd definition of winning.
Bingo. This helps restrict the fragmentation from dynamic strings to one pool of memory, allowing the others to remain nicely packed, aligned, etc (whatever your ideal for them is).
Very cool project! What license are you planning on using?
How your boss is controlling your mind
On switching to the Gnome desktop
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ie/2010/04/alot-is-better-...
Gotta kill that Wizard Alien XD
http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Wizard_Alien
I completely agree. In Vancouver and Toronto (and to a lesser extent, Edmonton & Calgary), housing prices are raising at ridiculous rates, while income is largely stagnant. I have multiple friends who've bought houses in terrible condition with 5% down because that's all that they can afford. If interest rates increase at all they're in massive trouble.
I wonder if Netflix is experiencing quality problems? Sometimes the lower-budget content that's a few years old looks pixelated or over-compressed. In these cases, it's somewhat obvious that whoever produced it just didn't know better.
Minio is deliberately designed in this manner for scale. It is in our intention to make storage deployment to be simpler and scaling is achieved by deploying many smaller instances.

So each minio cluster is a deployment unit which scales with your orchestration software like kubernetes. In our view creating a gigantic cluster with single namespace is scary, where single server can take down the the entire data center.

With Minio's design the intention is to isolate such occurrences and safely operate/upgrade clusters without disturbing a single namespace.
We are considering MIT or Apache v2, what do you recommend?
The article makes the argument that US and Canada shared similar house price trajectory till 2005, then diverged significantly.

The argument has merits, but can there be other arguments? Such as US and Canada are becoming dissimilar economically, or a change in real estate desirability in the eyes of foreign investors?

If looking at the past price data can predict the future price trend, the stock market would be a very different beast altogether.
Typically all that is in those boxes is a coupler. A guy I used to know still had service running to his line. He was actually stealing it though. He just kept hooking it back up after they would come remove it.
The Political Legacy of Helmut Kohl
I have a kid as well, and have the same exact thoughts about his future and incentives - only I grew up in rural New England where it was, "get good at something" or "become a logger for the papermill nearby that will probably close in the next decade or so."

I would love for the US to have a viable vocational education path. So many students in high school prepping for college who don't want to be there.
Can someone explain the 24fps to me? It seems out of place old-school in light of the 4K & 240Mbps etc.
I used to work for a company called Tictail (https://tictail.com) that promotes upcoming brands. If you're anywhere in the fashion, home, jewelry and accessories kind of space, it might be a good fit. Check it out.
The question isn't if it will, the question is when & how.

It's very easy to predict a bubble popping, it's a lot more difficult to predict when. "The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent" - Keynes

And the other question is how. Sometimes bubbles deflate slowly, for example in our market house prices in $ terms were basically flat between the late 80s and the late 90s. That's a definite decrease in real dollars, but nothing like the chaos that the same decrease would cause happening instantaneously.

The third question is whether just Toronto & Vancouver will pop, or whether it will affect the rest of the country.
Title note: changed from clickbait "a company you never heard of" to company name to fit headline limit.
This is one of the dumber articles I've read on Uber. I don't think the author has used cabs much and is just theorizing. In a mid-size American city, I've had cabs cancel on me around half the times I've called them, leaving me stranded. I've been through an experience where someone with a fake taxi license fleeced me charging me 3X with physical intimidation. I know someone who was robbed at gunpoint by his fake cab driver. The author misrepresents the taxi industry as some sort of a philanthropic order of saints. The only times cabs have been reliable for me are when going to and from airports.

Uber is fundamentally different from regulated taxis. Also, there's no moral framework for the taxi-related regulations (medallion, commercial insurance, etc.). They're both a relic of an age that has passed and a prime example of regulatory capture.

It is worth noting that the byline for the article states this:

> Benjamin Edelman is an associate professor at Harvard Business School and an adviser to various companies that compete against major platforms

I wonder what 'major platforms'.
If they automate it, where do the unemployed go? They took that job because it was the best they could get.
And so will the current USA housing bubble in western states and a handful of other trendy locations where housing has far exceeded the realm of affordability by median income standards.
I've had this happen to me as well. Comcast technician came out to hook up one of the other tenants in the building, and went through the Comcast hookup box (there's only one for the building) and disconnected all the splitters that went out to the other units in the building - it's an old building with some almost certainly not-up-to-code coax running all over the place along the outside to hit all the rooms where drops have been put in...

Meanwhile, the video conference I was on at the time suddenly dropped. Started to make me think about whether the other tenants were also getting the higher speeds I was paying extra for...
Just a feature request if it isn't already in the works:

Runtime analysis of code that actually matters ie live code.

Often its hard to figure out what in the code base actually matters.

Debugging is still sort of difficult and dead code is really hard to find and get rid of. Particularly if reflection is used heavily which it almost always is these days.

Otherwise (IMO) as a Java developer IntelliJ and Eclipse are actually not that far off in their static analysis and already pretty good to discover the code. Especially IntelliJ as I can easily see them enhancing their code view/discovery as well as they already have static dead code analysis.

I guess I don't think discovering code bases is that much of a problem compared to understand what is actually running.

That is I think debugging particularly multithreaded applications is vastly more difficult problem. Thus runtime analysis would be very useful.
Uber chose one route to make it possible. That doesn't mean other ways didn't exist (e.g. lobbying for change).

Furthermore, the fact that Uber led the way here still doesn't mean "justice" has been served for anything, especially since most of the horrible things Uber has done were done after Uber opened up the market (and past actions can never be said to provide "justice" for future actions).
>Nationality and Country of birth, are two different things.

For the purposes of this discussion, it's largely a distinction without a difference.

I don't oppose immigration in principle, but the rather extreme view that any amount of immigration, from any place, to any place is necessarily a Good Thing is founded on some very strange assumptions.
Ask HN: Tax lawyer referal for founder stock questions
Can anyone recommend a personal tax lawyer that is versed in the complex avoidance schemes common among those who make it in the valley?

Context: I am a serial entrepreneur embarking on my next startup, and this time I intend to capitalize the company by buying my restricted shares at a nominal fee with funds from my Roth IRA. I believe this to be legal and not fall under the self-dealing / disqualified person rules because all of the founders, including me, are minority shareholders, we are not related, and my Roth IRA custodian is buying the shares directly from the company.

If Forbes reporting is to be believed, Max Levchin did this trick to shelter founding shares of Slide and Yelp, and Peter Thiel did similar things with Paypal and Facebook. However the lawyer at my IRA custodian (who is used to setting these things up for holding real estate and gold bullion, not founding shares of a private company) doesn't want to touch the deal even though he can't, when pressed, point to a reason why this wouldn't be allowed.

So I ask this community, who is in a unique position to worry about and take these sorts of things seriously, is there any tax lawyer in silicon valley who is likely to know the rules regarding self dealing and IRA accounts and be willing to make an opinion on this? Or generally a tax lawyer who knows how startups work and is willing to investigate?

EDIT: Repost because apparently accounts created through Tor have their submissions hidden.
>Here is a harsh truth about homeownership: Over the long haul, it’s hard for homes to compete with the stock market in real appreciation (Robert Shiller quote)

>By contrast, real home prices should decline with time, except to the extent that households shell out some money and plow back some of their incomes into maintenance and improvements, because homes wear out and go out of style.

Wow, I never really thought of it that way. I guess I implicitly understood that buying a home was, at best, a hedge against inflation. But it also seems like a good investment. But it's not, really, in the long run, unless you are "timing the market" and buying into an area with long-term population growth.
EURGBP: Continues to Retain Its Upside Pressure
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It could be interesting if we could measure the damage done to computer literacy skills by the huge spending on easy to use well managed edutech like one to one deployments of chromebooks, or worse iPads, compared to forcing the students to wrestling with obsolete poorly managed systems in order to hand in computer typeset term papers.

It might be that the economic constraints imposed on the former USSR states by their failed experiment with reagonomics is in fact themselves the reason why they produce more programmers and fewer failed athletes and actors then America.
I think the question we should really be asking ourselves is why so many valuable tech companies hail from the US, specifically the bay area. Having grown up in the Bay Area, there weren't any more special focus on mathematics / computer science in school, in fact we were encouraged to pursue whatever we wanted to pursue. If we felt like we were bad at math, we weren't forced into it, we should only pursue math if we really liked it. Most of my friends never made it past pre-calc, yet top tech talent from Russia come to the US, and end up working at wall street / silicon valley. Sergey Brin comes to mind. I don't think we should really focus on improving our mathematician/hacker pipeline, we should make sure we're cultivating a culture of freedom where people can explore and pursue different fields of academics, and make sure there's no barrier to talent working for us.
Non-clickbait headline for this article: "Canadian housing prices will continue to go up until they don't"
Making better technology decisions
The building's worth goes down, but the land's worth goes up...?
I have never watched a tv show show and thought "You know what this needs? Not better writing, plotting, story arcs, acting, or directing, but more frames per second or a higher resolution".
Hogwash. Films are 24fps because that's how fast the cameras and projectors run and that's what people are used to. If what you were saying was true it would be by far the most unlikely coincidence that has ever occurred in the universe that almost every movie ever made chose precisely the same impressionist style.
Here comes automation.

This is huge. It takes one and the rest will follow.
"I still think driving a truck as a profession will be a thing of the past within 20 years or so."

I hope so. Trucking is one of the toughest professions for a person to endure that I've ever seen. It destroys a person's body and mind...and you're lucky to end up making minimum wage when you account for how many hours they spend working.
We believe in something very similar, there are some differences though. Luna type system is not dynamic BUT it is also not mandatory. Our whole standard library does NOT mention a single type - all are inferred by type system and you can, if you want, state them explicitly. To sum this up, we want Luna to be simple to use, intuitive, but have a strongly typed backbone with power similar to Haskell or Idris IF needed. Does it makes sense to you? :)
There is nothing significant in my neighborhood, and I live near an university.

> locality-oriented public groups

There is no point to those groups. Just make a discovery function for specific activities. Or just make people chat away with people in an area, or create default groups for each square kilometer. Don't let the users take the initiative to organize a forum.
So I have two issues with this post.

1. It needs to separate out Vancouver and the rest. Vancouver is its own bubble of self-perpetuating nonsense propagated by Chinese money.

2. The article states shares are better because companies can plow money back into the business, which completely misses the point because price rises aren't pure speculation. There is a HUGE labour cost in housing such that housing prices track inflation (particularly wage inflation).

And that's the real value in property investment in periods like the 1970s that saw really high inflation.

What's more land represents a largely non-renewable resource. Take Manhattan as a fairly extreme example. They're not making more land to put things on. Other cities like Chicago, LA and especially Atlanta can basically spread forever. But even in those cities, inner city land is irreplaceable and finite.

Now I'm not saying Canada isn't in a bubble or that bubble won't burst. But the author takes a naive stock-centric view of things.
For starters we've made sure to make git diffs as readable as possible. The visual data is kept at the end of text file (hidden when using our editor), usually in a single line. So if you just move nodes around, one line gets changed and it is clear what to ignore when scanning the diff, while making sure to retain the changes in the repository.
For later stages, we envision much deeper integrated version control, including viewing git diffs in the visual editor.
¿Qué es el phishing? y Anatomía de un ataque de phishing
I don't think web servers clarifies much, though. The most important web servers (Apache, nginx, ISS, etc.) are all written in C or C++, and they try to squeeze out every bit of performance they can. I guess we're talking about applications communicating over HTTP, but that's not my first thought when I hear someone talking about web servers without any more context.

(I'm aware of Caddy, but my understanding is that it's aiming for ease of use over performance.)
Digital Marketing Platform Recommendation
My team is looking for a digital marketing platform, but most of the ones we've found, like SalesForce and Adobe are way out of our budget. Any recommendations for a DMP that will cost less than 5k a month?

Thanks in advance.
The U.S. Is Destroying Raqqa in Order to Save It, and Civilians Be Damned
How to over engineer a door lock
That is an interesting piece. But I think it somewhat contradicts itself. On the one hand it claims, "The company’s cultural dysfunction [...] stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking." On the other, it points out that Lyft was actually the groundbreaker in using unlicensed drivers; in fact it links to a 2013 Uber policy statement [0] detailing Uber's plan to start using unlicensed drivers only after competitors had been doing so unimpeded in a given metro area.

The point is, Lyft was even more aggressive in ignoring the relevant legal strictures than Uber was; yet I have not seen any stories about a dysfunctional culture at Lyft, which, by the author's argument, should be even more inevitable. Indeed I know hardly anything about Lyft as a company, except that their service has worked for me when I've tried it, and the drivers seem to prefer it over Uber. If I had to say what seems to distinguish the two businesses, based on what (little) I know, I would say that Lyft seems more interested in providing a good service, while Uber seems more interested in making lots of money. I am tempted to conclude that Uber's problems are rooted more in a general lack of concern for customers, drivers, and employees than in the fact that their business model is somewhat outside the law.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20150910144736/http:/newsroom.ube...
33k social media shares for the Breitbart article, 15.1k for Climate Feedback's debunk + 6k for Snopes' (http://www.snopes.com/scientific-papers-global-warming-myth/), not too bad...
There's free descriptions for quite a few of those languages available online.
More specifics from Lattner's online resume

"In the end, Elon and I agreed that he and I did not work well together and that I should leave, so I did."

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In general as a sales engineer or a solutions architect (this is not Amazon specific at all), you will do things such as evaluating the customer's needs from a technical perspective, figuring out how they can leverage your software products, and possibly prototyping or developing or leading the MVP to achieve the results they want. This will be at various levels of detail for the different people at the customer's company who make up the project team. You would be expected to communicate clearly up and down their personnel stack E.g. execs, project managers, actual software engineers, IT staff, support staff etc... Typically, whatever it takes (technically) to get their business integrated on your software stack/platform (and the kitchen sink too). You would also translate customer requirements into new product features and report back bugs etc... to your developers. At the same time you will aspire to get things implemented and figure out workarounds, triagem troubleshoot etc...

It's a great role if you like the variety. I would imagine that at a place like Amazon the processes may be well defined already (vs a smaller company) and have people already in various roles. For AWS related technologies I imagine you will have to communicate some incredible technical details to your customers as well as troubleshoot/debug in a complex environment. Also you also get exposure to what customers actually want, pain points and if there are gaps in the market and opportunity to build out your own thing!

You may end up writing less software but you will still be developing and delivering software solutions (if that makes sense).

If you can go further into the sales (pre-sales) side, see if you can get a sales commission arrangement. Or work your way up!
Since neural nets are winning at the moment, it's easy to see SVMs as an underdog, being ignored due to deep learning hype and PR. This is kind of true, but it's worth noting that 10-15 years ago we had the exact opposite situation. Neural nets were a once promising technique that had stagnated/hit their limits, while SVMs were the new state of the art.

People were coming up with dozens of unnecessary variations on them, everybody in the world was trying to shoehorn the word "kernel" into their paper titles, using some kind of kernel method was a surefire way to get published.

I wish machine learning research didn't respond so strongly to trends and hype, and I also wish the economics of academic research didn't force people into cliques fighting over scarce resources.

I'm still wondering what, if anything, is going to supplant deep learning. It's probably an existing technique that will suddenly become much more usable due to some small improvement.
A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'
Yes, I agree that TLS provides replay protection on a suitably reliable network. Don’t know about DTLS or QUIC but I will look further into these.
We didn’t really look to much at TCP and TLS, etc. because early on we made design decisions to have components adopt an autonomous posture and work with unreliable networks, as can often be the case for controls. That led us to reject all connection based network protocols such as TCP to avoid the coupling it creates, and to create a very simple, one step protocol for robustness and simplicity. But, I can see where use of TCP and TLS could be useful, even for us, in some cases.
To some extent this is a design philosophy that is biased towards simplicity. I’ve noticed that in the software industry there is a bias towards complexity. Almost a need among some to built “Rube Goldberg machines” for everything. Each time a new issue is raised the solution is to add new functionality or feature to handle it until the system is a complex monstrosity, instead of reevaluating the whole enterprise from first principles in light of new requirements.
Our concentration is on design. As I like to say “Code is nice, but design is everything.”, and its corollary “No amount of code ever made up for a poor design.” Our concern was to remain compatible with standards to the extent needed to remain switchable and routable on Ethernet and IP networks, but to reduce the problem of controls messaging to the simplest possible level while retaining a high level of security.
The archive link doesn't appear to include the images, which are perhaps the most interesting part of the whole page IMO.
Is this attention-seeking, or is there a process to reviewing these replies (maybe see what's common to many of them)? 140 characters for a great idea is very tough. And I'm sure the people advising him on this are geniuses with lots of experience.
I didn't feel like that at all and it surprises me anyone did. Do you have the same problem when you see people walk in real life?
It was 'torpedoed by corporations' when I submitted it; that title doesn't really align with my reading of the article.
I'd guess the real future will be some kind of implant. then you could simulate feedback as well. Would also be a great mechanism to fund better developments for prosthetics as well. My guess the biggest impediment is people do not have quite enough trust in the technology or the owners of it.
> Most people in Silicon Valley subscribe to either the first or second school. Much of the rest of the country, including many truckers, favor the third. "I can tell the difference between a dead porcupine and a dead raccoon, and I know I can hit a raccoon, but if I hit a porcupine, I’m going to lose all the tires on the truck on that side," says Tom George, a veteran driver who now trains other Teamsters for the union’s Washington-Idaho AGC Training Trust. "It will take a long time and a lot of software to program that competence into a computer."

Driverless trucks are a very interesting concept. Once they're on the freeway, I would think most automation would work (relatively) well. But getting through traffic congestions, busy multi-turn-lane intersections, and making sure you don't sideswipe someone who's hugging the line seems rather complex given the different trailer dimensions and blind spots, (un)marked lanes and everything else it takes to get to the highway.