skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a likelihood to increase economy's output with spending though. If that's the goal then it's a good measure.
I use %s with Python 3 when I don't specifically have access to 3.6 (like at work, where I have to use 3.4 because we're a RHEL 7 shop). I detest .format(), and I won't use it.
The same reason you would want to find out information about a competitor you aren't destroying? Just because you're ahead doesn't mean you should rest on your laurels.
Perseverance and responsibility.

There's been lots of times where I personally didn't want to do something or learn something, but realizing that I was responsible for whatever that was helped me keep doing what I didn't feel like- and ultimately that results in happiness and a sense of accomplishment.
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I think you're nitpicking, and your comment does nothing to add to the discussion, but I'll say this:

If I'd said "Linux-on-the-mobile", you could just as easily have said "Linux (kernel) is already on the mobile!".

If I'd said "GNU/Linux-on-the-mobile", you could have argued that Termux[1] adds GNU tools to your Android phone.

Half the things you'd expect on a "Linux" system (e.g. systemd, a Wayland compositor, X, DBUS, PulseAudio) are not associated with FSF/GNU at all.

Without nitpicking, when you say "Linux" most people think "Red Hat" (or Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, etc), not "Android".

[1] https://termux.com/
I'm not sure these are so dangerous as all that. I see some server and client crashes, but nothing that'd allow transparent MITM, RCE, or the like. Perhaps there's something I have missed, and if so I hope someone more knowledgeable here will point it out - but right now I don't intend to stop using OpenVPN, because even if it's possible that a malicious network might crash the VPN stack on my phone or similar, that's still preferable to sending unprotected traffic over an untrusted network. If my VPN clients die, at least I know something's up!
Agree totally. I would find it hard to believe, that large well financed companies, with some of the most technically capable staff on the planet, would have the restraint to not peek.
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On the other hand, if we are simply existing in a cyclically eternal universe, then absolutely nothing matters

So the only way that anything matters is if you personally live forever?
> Continental Europe all speak exclusively of monthly salary

Not true at all.
Because not only can advertise your price matching feature and get more customers, but you charge your normal prices to the 90% of people who don't bother to price match.

Basically you can have your cake and eat it too. (To some extent)
Relevant wikipedia article on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

It's why "non-coercive government" is an oxymoron.
It was actually pretty different from that. PayPal merged with Elon's X.com and had technical differences with the PayPal founder and they decided to stick with PayPal's tech strategy. There weren't similar scandals. (See Founders at Work).
I agree with you. Many of my racing friends get prices online and then have Discount Tire price match. I think that's stupid. I'd rather support the vendor that prices things "right" in the first place.
Walmart finds ways for vendors, suppliers, etc to cut their costs so they can pass savings on.

Maybe an AWS price increase potential is a risk they dont want to take
Or flight/hotel/car rental booking websites. Google flights is a notable exception.
How to get free media coverage?
People are commenting here without reading or understanding the ruling [edit: I should say that headlines like the one techdirt gave their article are also misleading; they are playing up the "banned from the internet" angle]. What happened is that North Carolina passed a law making it a crime for someone previously convicted of a sex crime to access social media sites (unless the site completely prohibits access except by adults, which most sites do not do). The court ruled that this law is unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds.

The court did not rule that "no one may be banned from the internet" an so on. A specific person can still have conditions attached by the courts to his release; for example, it's common for judges to impose conditions like "no use of computers" on convicted malicious hackers as part of their probation. This hasn't been made illegal. Restricting internet access of current prisoners certainly hasn't been held illegal. What's been held unconstitutional is criminalizing a priori certain modes of speech by a broad class of people.

EDIT2: Since this is apparently attracting a little bit of controversy, I want to add that I did not express any opinion about whether it's good to ban people from using computers or whatever; I just wanted to describe what the ruling says. I am actually not a fan of the general concept of not restoring people's rights after they serve their punishment, although I think it's justified in specific cases.
The term 'racism' should be socially banned, because of it's misuse and because it can mean so many things. Basicly racism only exists as an combat term.
I called a board ousting of Kalanick some 6 months ago. This move is just too late to pull up from the current nosedive. RIP Uber.
shrug

I'm using the usage that social and case workers use when they talk about believing victims.

So... frankly, I don't really care what HN thinks of the usage.

Note, again, that nothing you said is counter to the "good faith" usage. You're assuming they are speaking the truth as they see it. That's all.

That's how any investigation that involves eye witness testimony works.

It's also the recommended practice for improving reporting and investigation so, again, don't really care what HN thinks about the term: the experts in the field recommended it.
Paypal is in the business of screwing merchants, not customers.
He's not talking about medicine here. Medical facilities pay more for stuff like toilet paper and chairs.

There's a culture of bureaucracy and incompetence in the medical industry that is unbeaten even by government.
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LOL you're right. Absolutely. I wrote that at like, 7 am as I read HN to help me wake up in the morning. That gave me a chuckle.
And then got rehired because Apple needed him
Yeah, but it seems there's only 13' version of that.
What are the challenges in writing such a system?

Is this a matter of keeping track of forces that work on e.g. a triangular basis element, and doing hit-testing so the triangles cannot move through objects or other triangles?
what is the point of an NDA around launch dates?
> Okay so you're driving to your parent's house and open up Google Maps for directions, are you going to start doubting its directions?

If it tells you to drive into a lake, yes, you should doubt it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-follo...
It would be great to see the max uplift achieved for each category

Indeed. What matters most with these kinds of experiments isn't really the average results, but what is possible and the distribution among beneficial results only. After all, the whole point of A/B testing is to try experiments and then either keep the changes if they improve results or stay with what you've already got if the changes didn't bring an improvement. Surely all the treatments that led to negative changes would just have been discarded in practice? It's still important to see the full picture as well, if only to guide decisions about which experiments are even worth trying, but I think there's another side that doesn't fully come through here.
Lot's of interesting data and some findings I didn't expected. Thanks.

What I have missed in this paper is the impact of customer reviews (a 4.5 ranking has a higher uplift potential than a 5.0 star ranking - according to some studies). And the number of reviews has impact as well.
Not enough studies around for a meta analysis?
The LibreSSL fork tries to do exactly that: Although they still provide the original OpenSSL API for existing applications, they add a much simpler and hassle-free API on top of it ("libtls" [1]), with the goal that all applications will be switched part-by-part to the new interface.

[1] https://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/
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> For most e-commerce sites the customers aren't going to stay long enough to notice imperfections in the UI.
> What you do need is a dead simple checkout (no signup required)

These two statements are contradicting each other, because "imperfections" in the UI can in fact greatly affect the perceived simplicity of the checkout process - and optimizing that is a large part of what people want to achieve with A/B testing.
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As I said in response: I don't really care what HN thinks about the term: the experts in the field recommended it.

That should give you pause when you claim (incorrectly) that a such a narrow usage of language is correct.
The website doesn't make the stat easy to find. It's here http://neo900.org/estimate (spoilers: it's estimated to be 990 EUR before tax, or about $1100)
Uber's valuation is based on a formula that looks something like (raw brand value in an autonomous car world) - (burn rate)^(number of years until autonomous cars are widespread).

The valuation can be quite high if you assume that the value in the exponent is low.

But I personally think that the "autonomous vehicle revolution" is not going to pay off as well for Uber as they had hoped. It's becoming more clear that the market for autonomous vehicles isn't going to look like the market for human-driven ones -- and vehicle manufacturers are going to be looking to build their own self-driving auto services rather than sell self-driving vehicles directly to consumers.

Uber's biggest innovation was their app. Even complex apps like Uber are not hard to clone if you have any sort of budget. There's an assumption a lot of investors make about their brand value: it assumes that another, already strong brand does not enter the same market. Seeing as Tesla has made no secret of their intentions to compete directly with Uber in the ride-hailing space, I don't think that's a fair assumption. Would you rather call an Uber or a Tesla at this point?

And what does buying a Tesla in that scenario even look like? Do you buy a car and rent it out a la Airbnb when you're not using it? How much money do you get for that, and how much of a cut does Tesla get since it's their algorithms actually driving the car?

Don't get me wrong; the brand value is actually really high because hundreds of millions of wealthy customers worldwide know Uber. Even if the company fails spectacularly, someone will buy them for a few billion in a fire sale just for the brand.
Just another reason why trying to raise insane amounts of investment capital probably isn't the best idea for creating a successful business
> Why do a price match guarantee? Why not just price your items lower?

MAD [1]. Price-match guarantees are meant to deter price competition. If you cut your price below a price-matching competitor's, the time you have the best price will be short. After that, less profit for everyone (assuming similar cost structures). If, on the other hand, you match, everyone keeps their market share and margins.

Price competition in a price-matching market happens when someone has lower costs. It also happens when someone uses cheap capital to buy market share, intending to make up for lower margins with volume, e.g. to cover fixed costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
About 10 to 15 (very variable) fps on an old i3 3120M (that's Intel HD 4000 GPU I believe, mobile). Windows 10, Firefox beta. But FF has been open for a while and its getting sluggish, maybe if I restart it, the demo would perform a bit better.
Doesn't that seem like some form of tacit collusion though? In this case it seems the price match flips the competitive environment so that competitors raise prices instead of lowering them.
Agreed. Prices being equal, why would I go with eBay? Their customer service and return policies are awful. It's 10x worse if you pay through PayPal. Amazon is basically no questions asked.
Why would it be a joke?
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Depends on the compiler.

What many younger generation seem to miss is that in the 80's C compilers were pretty lame, most junior Assembly programmers could easily out perform them.

The current state of C compiler performance is the outcome of almost 40 years of research in compiler optimizations for C, not anything of the language itself.

Also for those that prefer "Performance trumps correctness" way of thinking, some compilers offered ways to disable those checks.

But for anyone that thinks "Performance trumps correctness" is worthwhile, I advise to read C.A.R Hoare Turing award speech about the responsibility of software engineers, Algol use by the industry and law, done in 1981.
A couple of months ago, I've started using AWS Lambda for a side project. The actual functions were pretty easy to code using `nodejs` and deploying them with `serverless` but the boilerplate to opening them via an http API was the real bummer. IAMs, routing and all kind of other little things standing in the way of actual productive work.
Some time after that I tried to setup GCloud Functions and to my surprise that boilerplate was minimal! Write your function and have accessible with just a couple of commands. IMHO GCloud Functions is way more developer friendly and AWS Lambda.
Given the recent Load Balancer release, it looks like Digital Ocean is slowly becoming a mini-AWS without the awful UI.
>a blockchain isn't used to reach consensus on which intermediaries to use, it just acts as the settlement layer.

To do the things the intermediary is not willing to do.

To use the Yahoo example, Yahoo is willing to generate a public feed of financial data, but it is not willing to sign a cryptocurrency transaction. We can leverage the credibility of its public feeds to create a financial application that is trustworthy as long as that feed is trustworthy.

So to generalize my point: a blockchain application can be built around a trusted feed generated by a reputable party that would not be willing to agree to be a trustee of an application, or if they were willing, would not be as trustworthy in that role as they are in their role as the producer of the general-purpose feed.
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For me the main advantage of using Uber in Europe is payment.
It doesn't even matter whether it's card or cash - once I'm at the destination I just want to get out of the car. And having to think about tipping is even worse.
And I don't mind paying a fair price.
There are other proportional fonts than cursive ones or Comic Sans MS. You should just use better fonts.
True, not out of rubber. But remember that air-blocking seals were important for the control of the fermentation process in wine production and preservation, and it's not beyond possible that they could have refined cruder pitch and resin based solutions if germ theory had been better understood then.
Always? Really?

And how many promising companies failed with their founders at the helm?
My experience is that I just do something reasonable and I've never had any problems. If it's just an hour or so early I'm leaving on Friday I don't even bother to announce it. Sometimes I'll just state I had to deal with some issue in the middle of the night so I'm taking off early tomorrow to catch up on rest or whatever.

Oh, and unless I'm taking an entire day off I've never used any leave time for something like a doctor's appointment at any employer. If I miss a few hours of work one day I might make a special effort to make it up or might not, depending on what's going on in the department and my perceived need of whether or not it's valuable to the team/project. I'm sure soon enough I'll get hit with some overtime for a big project or a late night support call anyways.

FWIW I acknowledge that overtime is part of the deal on occasion working in IT, but I'm not the type to grind away 50 hours every week forever. I might be able to sustain that for a week or two in an emergency, but it's not worth it. I talk about that part of the work culture during the interview process. I would avoid grind shops.
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A double-free can traditionally allow remote code execution. Maybe modern libc mitigation​s will protect you, maybe not.
i've always wanted them to float that scale bar, so i can drag and rotate it.
Don't we want companies to engage in price competition though? Especially in a market with network effects which is dominated by a few large players.
Wasn't that an April Fools joke anyway?
Sounds like you're experienced, which is great. Tell me about the first business you started and how long it took you until you were able to live like you live today.

I totally agree that it's very easy to get to a few thousand dollars a month in sales. It's getting beyond that which is hard.
I would be nice if they added geometry shaders as well, but I guess we get to use native code instead, as usual.
Still, that concession created the imbalance that got us where we are today.
And that's because morals are not policed. People will always abuse power. Hence Laizze free is impractical and we all need oversight.
I managed to install DSL by connecting the HDD to another machine and using Virtualbox. In my case it was a Libretto 50CT with 24 MB of RAM: https://github.com/cfenollosa/dsl-libretto50ct
@gabriel_b - can you describe the process / command you used to upload data into Redshift from S3? I have a hard time believing those huge load times.
You're one of my heroes, keep up the good work :)
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Uber isn't a mature company. They're not profitable and are burning cash like crazy.

More like "CEO of a growth startup" to "fixer who can pull an over-valued startup out of a nose dive." That's a much tougher leap.
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what does being a 'company' mean if you don't have a sustainable business model? Just call it what it is, a train-wreck about to happen
OP is not experienced. OP has no idea what he's doing. It will take him 1 year to realize the idea he chose sucks. 1 year to panic and freelance while he figures out what he's doing next, then 2 years to reach profitability.
There are some stories documenting what seems to be a somewhat strange relationship to women, but that's not quite the point. He has, and this seems to be almost undisputed at this point, certainly let far too many serious incidents including sexual harassment and assault go by without taking action.

I've commented all over this thread (as a sister comment points out) because it appears there is a narrative that his attitude towards his employees misbehaviour is at least closely linked to the personality traits that allowed him to be successful. That can be seen, I believe, by the many comparisons to Steve Jobs, for whom it's accepted more widely that it was often hard to work for him because of his perfectionism, but that this was a necessary trait for his success.

The danger here is that people (mis)understand the situation and start excusing inexcusable behaviour, or even imitate it, because they think it's linked to success. It is not. You have to separate the strip-club-going bravado from the other law-breaking, which could at least in theory explain Uber's success.
I, for one, will consider using Uber again. It is very important to me to see a change in leadership. I simply couldn't square my use of the app with the sense that Uber was deeply unethical, starting from the top.

Also, it's so disappointing to see so many people buy into the cult of personality of the Startup Founder. There's a lot of half-baked reasoning going on on why Uber's fate should be inexorable tied to Travis. So far, the two main arguments I've seen are "because Steve Jobs" and "he raised so much money for them". Neither one of these are compelling in explaining why Uber's survival prospects should be further damaged by a change at the top.

The only argument that's compelling to me is the concept that they've built their whole business on unethical assholery and it's going to take a lot of time and energy to reorient a big company around a different M.O. But even that's not very compelling, because it presumes that there aren't a whole lot of people already there who would flourish in a healthy, ethical work environment. I know a number of people there who feel that way.
You seem to be taking a very narrow definition of e-commerce here. What you say seems plausible enough for sites selling low value or commodity products to casual purchasers, but I wouldn't assume the same situation for someone selling luxury products, services, digital subscriptions, etc.
It's not too tough to spot the fakes if you are looking.
http://video.vanityfair.com/watch/the-new-establishment-summ... 33:45

It's actually would be a major news point I think. Whether or not Travis sells his shares is what's gonna be decisive of his position in the company and possible future ambitions.
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This is true in some US markets, not true in others. In NYC it's very easy to pay by CC and requires no interaction with the driver, because they installed CC readers in the back seat of every cab years ago. And if the reader is broken, they're required to tell you before the ride starts.
Except that ebay has a terrible track record of delivering, paypal issues, etc. Amazon just works, always seems to make things right and has better shipping and accountability. Ebay at the same cost is still a bad deal.
I earn that much a week in Canada...
indeed, some of the companies listed on the dow jones index managed to run at a profit for one or more years.
> Uber bought market share by subsidizing rides.

Sounds like a '90s startup. Companies acting like this en masse was what caused the 2000 crash. Uber isn't going to make it out of this alive, and they're going to take the rest of the industry with them. I think the whole culture of VCs looking for "unicorn startups" is going to go away when the unicorns all die.
>where there might be only a minimal reuse from the last one

Not from what I saw from some constructors. Lot of software and parts are reused for multiples models.
What OP is saying is that this isn't competitive, rather it's a way to signal to other participants not to cut their prices. They can't do this outright because that would be collusion and violate anti-trust laws. OP referenced MAD which is the cold war tactic of mutually assured destruction. Basically, if you nuke me I nuke you back and we all die...so nobody nukes anyone. This is the same but with price competition. If you cut your prices to try to gain market share, I'll cut mine too. You'll gain no market share but you will lose revenue.
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If nobody recognized his name then it wouldn't matter because nobody would know what he had done. Just ask the guy who wrote homebrew (Max Howell. I had to look up his name).
Maybe AMD pulls something akin to the "Iris chip" from Intel and makes L4 standard in a few years. Speaking of which, never understood why Intel wouldn't push a bit more for Iris, when used as L4 it gave close to 20% increase in performance (due to lesser cache mises I believe).
Delivery is probably a jarger cost, we mostly depend on gravity for water pressure.
That makes no sense. If anything, they're probably shitting themselves. They've been able to brand themselves as the anti-Uber this whole time.
Here is the clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eowPka21BNc