skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of the maneuvering that's happening now is prompted more by TK's seeming unwillingness to make sincere changes (and that's always worse than the initial mistake), but more importantly Uber's financials are still utter garbage right now and changes need to occur for that to be fixed in time for them to find the next Saudi Arabia that'll invest another $3.5B for them to keep the lights on for another year.
GA 6 was not won by 20 points by Trump. He won it by just over 1.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everything-you-need-to-...
another comment by oh_sigh downvoted out of disagreement with facts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14597026
Don't worry about the negativity, you're doing good marketing, keep up the good work!
They have acquired recently another location based app called Placed. It is become pretty clear that they want focus in construct the best platform for Ads and content based on location. Maybe more than age, gender and education. That could be a shift in their started sttrategy when they only talked to Big world companies like Coke, Nike and Unilever.
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It's unclear to me how much the actual business has been affected by the upheaval.

But once they get Sandberg in there, combined with Huffington on the board, and Boz St John on the exec team, the press is going to love it. It's a new day at Uber, Uber goes from harass-y to classy, all that stuff.
The fact that there are never any real consequences to Wall St actually tends to prove the opposite.
If Verizon can execute, it could even be bigger, given that they also have the FCC in pocket, and they have both mobile carrier data and snooped home internet data.
> Because ultimately most people won't care enough to stop going with the cheaper option, especially when all you can point to is negative effects for vendors.

Indeed. If people could get cheaper clothing if slavery was made legal again, they'd do it in a heartbeat. Witness to a lesser extent the general sentiment on HN that Uber is "helping drivers", when they're indentured servants.

I wouldn't call it consumer excess when you're exploiting someone with limited options.
I like how Jude solved the problem of the password. They do all the scraping on the phone. So no password is stored on their servers. https://blog.jude.io
The title is a bit misleading. The army and Bell Labs could have built a cellular phone in the 1940s, but they had no way to keep it connected to the telephone network as it moved between cells. That required computerized telephone switches, which weren't developed until at least the 1960s; that triggered another big regulatory mess.

The details are in The Idea Factory, which every scientist and engineer should read. The main reason that AT&T didn't get the spectrum is that they didn't really want it: video phones were going to be the future.
> Why should someone choose D today over Go or Rust for any project?

D over Go: D has much better language mechanisms for abstraction and programming in the large.

Go over D: Go has an incremental, mature GC.

Rust and D do not quite target the same application domains (though there's overlap), so it's difficult to compare them. Insofar as they do (D with @nogc and @safe), the tradeoffs become rather complicated.
This is awesome! Congrats!
Extensive discussion 5 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570574
It was worth it until large hack attacks which stole database of one of the mailing list company (forgot name) -- then spam started pouring on many-many legitimate addresses...

Only downside, is when company merges or renames: if it merged I end up with to accounts which have half of the history; if it renames -- hard to remember original email (recent example wayfair's old name was something else).

Now, I'm switching to single email -- it's just simpler
While going the other way is not possible directly, but you can use something like asciiflow.com to make a ASCII diagram easily and paste it in ShakyDraw.
I'll have to dust off my glasses and install this. I never got the hang of it because the screen is about 1/2 cm too high for me so I have to uncomfortably force my eye to look straight up. No matter how I tried to position it on my head I always had that issue...

There was also the whole thing about people thinking you're an ass for wearing one. And they are very rare in New Hampshire where I am so they stick out like a sore thumb.
Literally sets an approach that's hit its limits in stone. [And yet people complain about punctuation.]

Looking forward there will be books on programming with FBE. fbeop will be all the rage. Naturally we'll discuss the form of code. Is that bulge too far out? What is better: a plain of declarations that meets a mountain range of control loops and flow, or, is it better to "sprinkle the frame" with mini frames of plains and hills? There will be debates. Conferences will be held. Papers will be presented with analysis of old school code rendered in FBE. There will also be attempts to finally bring generics to Go, with FBE frontends with little angular < slots >. Efforts begin to teach monkeys to code.

[p.s. and where exactly is that crab in Fig. 1? Very confusing ..]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14003241
I think I noticed a similar venture in Indonesia: https://brank.as/
Yeah, we definitely give finance a pass. We say "huh, well, bankers will be bankers, can't expect folks to behave around that much money", put in place some ineffectual "controls" and start the whole cycle again.
Are we really extracting from a talent pool of 7 billion?

The problems we have in America are the same if not much worse in most of the world (except for Europe, I imagine). What % of children in China and India do not have access to decent education or opportunities? I think it's pretty high.

My thought process was inspired by the recent article on the estimated 5 million geniuses in India, most of which will go on to lead lives in poverty.
Walmart bought jet.com
This assumes there is commentary on Tumblr worth saving.
Yes, that explains why the language is failing.
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The bicycle industry is the least of the workers' worries. Automation will be a bloodbath. I'm reminded of that factory which "shed" 90% of its workforce a year ago.
I've only had a half dozen MagSafe chargers, and never had one fail.
> People have intellectual, social and emotional needs. Merely satisfying their basic physical needs is not enough.

This is one thing I think went wrong with all the 20th century modernisms. The thinking that social and emotional needs didn't matter infected all sorts of fields[1] like a cancer. Before 1960 they used to keep sick infants in sterile boxes where they failed to thrive and eventually died. Okay they don't do that now. But the equivalent exists in all sort of other places.
I mean FB paid $1b for Instagram's 30m users. $33/user
I'm not sure a lot of people actually got to try google glass.

I'm loving (and developing in) VR, and interested in actual AR. Glass was a deadend as soon as I actually put one on.

I found it to be pretty much as if you were holding up a smartwatch beside one eye, that you could turn your eye and look at in focus.

There is no overlay of the real world. You are either looking at watch beside your eye or the real world.

The blurry screen was always kind of off to the side and annoying when wearing it.

Just as if holding a wristwatch up to the side of your head would be.

If that sounds bad to you, yes that's why it failed.
easily??!! i need a reference for that. the reason we blast it way the @#$@#4 up the energy mountain of syn gas via steam reforming is because methane is a stubbornly happy little camper...
Specifying Systems, http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/book.html

Engineering a Safer World, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engineering-safer-world

Software Specification Methods, https://www.amazon.com/Software-Specification-Methods-Henri-... (also available through Safari Books Online, at least at my office)

Read most of the third one this week, a useful comparison of the various approaches. My objective is to understand how to better produce formal (or more formal) specifications. Either for whole systems or just for significant or critical portions of them.
If you're interested in getting parse trees from regexes (ie all the submatch locations), check out Kleenex, it looks really interesting and is based on some new research. Full parse trees are a harder problem than matching, and one that is not a primary focus in RE2 performance AFAICS.
>> Amazon welcomes re-sellers (which can span all market niches), while Walmart doesn't.

This is false, You can sell things on walmart.com as a reseller

https://marketplace.walmart.com/

There are not many resellers doing it, no where near as many as Amazon but many large online shops are embracing the Amazon Model, Newegg does it now, Walmart, and a few others.

Amazon is also getting more aggressive with their resellers, putting in more restrictions, heavily favoring the Fulfilled by program where Amazon gets a larger cut, increase the number of blackout catagories, and increasing the number of items sold by Amazon directly which puts huge pricing pressure on Resellers that can not get the pricing amazon can.

Several Niche and some larger brand have pulled out of Amazon completely in the last couple of years for these (and the counterfeiting problem) issues
I've never heard of the guy, whats hew known for? Also what's wrong with angellist?
I could read it on mobile but not on desktop.
I too feel the results have been poor of late. I think Google probably "knows" the type of questions you look for (ie. usually on stack overflow for programming questions, or whatever most popular links people are clicking on around that time).
If I'm looking for something very esoteric, I can tell straight away that DDG doesn't understand my query from its results and I go over to Google and find the answer on the first, second or third page.
Did you work there? This narrative is almost comically hyperbolic.

I know exactly one person who works at Uber. She joined as an engineer about a year ago. I asked; she says it is less sexist than every other place she has worked (especially after all the press), and she likes her job. She also says it's a big company and she doesn't know if it's different in other parts.
Ah, I noticed you didn't hyphenate ;)

"Japanese Canadian" and "Korean Canadian" is possible, but not "Chinese Canadian"
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=does+china+allow+dual+citizenship
The Software Languages Book
If I'm looking around the world, is China what I want the US to be more like? It seems like the happiest countries are much smaller places like Sweden and Denmark.
Is there any way to know how much he's taken off the table? The way Uber is going, I'd be shocked if he's worth billions in 5 years.
Why is that a bad thing?
I hear Marissa Mayer needs a new job.
China has, through quite brutal means. It's population will decline over the next 50 years.
I feel bad about his mom, but losing the CEO? No, and in fact, Travis might be secretly glad. Anyone who is serious about this sort of thing must understand the reality of the control versus wealth founder's dilemma from day one. By giving up, he may be getting more as Uber becomes successful in a way he could not make it. His skill set, getting it to where it was, was critical and he just wasn't the right guy to get it to the next phase. Pretty much every single startup goes through this. The Gates and Bezos and Musks of the world are huge outliers.

WHat's more, is that any founder or CEO who doesn't embrace this reality should not be made CEO.
> You have to remember that the drug companies have effective monopolies for many expensive drugs.

I think it is funny that the people demand the government force companies to lower prices caused by the government granting a monopoly to said companies why way of the patent system....

How about we just end patents.
Why can I send money to my friends via FB messenger or Snapcash without apple taking a cut, but the same thing is not possible for WeChat? Something doesn't add up here.
In this area I see the only real defence coming from employing the users to build graphs and small knit communities. If you empowered your users with data and suggestions you can leave it up to them to build a web of trust for the users that are providing the stated service or at least goals of the community. This leaves an open hole for the community of cheapest made knockoff products a place to grow as well.

In this environment new sellers are handed nothing with a mountain to climb, but you could offer a series of incentives to encourage the sellers within the webs of trust to review and verify new sellers. You could encourage sellers to meeing within meatspace as well to build these webs of trust. This would allow new users to join communities of trusted sellers/makers and then be given the proper showcasing and search placements to the buyers.

The TL:DR use your real community and encourage it to grow outside the site and within meatspace to build webs of trusted sellers and makers.
Everything you need to know is linked to on that page I linked to.

Nothing is wrong with AngelList. AngelList is great. It was Bill Gurley's slimey VC actions to conspire with Nirav Tolia against the other Epinions founders and early employees that led Naval Ravikant to found AngelList as an alternative to the VC system.
My Mom suggested I start a coin where each coin is backed/tethered to one of the thousands of Beanie Babies in her closet. I told her the majority of cryptocurrency traders are too young to get the joke so it wouldn't get much traction. Then again Dogecoin started as an obscure joke and it now has $300Million+ market cap.
Is this essentially wrapping each scoped segment of code into a "frame" for manupulation using a mouse?

I must be misunderstanding, how can this be more useful than plain text? Eliminating syntax errors?
This is exactly what PIR is for. A good intro is chapter 6 of the (awesome and ahead-of-its-time) book Malicious Cryptography. One of the authors works at the agency now, I believe.
Is was mentioned on NPR's Marketplace this evening that Clooney and Co's Tequila company was founded mostly by accident. And ended up being worth $1b.
It's kind of hard to say he didn't survive when he still has voting control and could appoint himself CEO again tomorrow.
I've had at least four, and never had one not fail.

It may depend on the conditions you use them in; keeping it on your desk most of the time is probably better than carrying it around and using it in coffee shops and so forth. But that's a standard use case for laptops; there's no excuse for not being able to survive that.
This touches such an important issue! The answer is "yes" but it must become "no". Our culture has made it such that we think life is about work and "accomplishing things". "Things" are of course work things. We might or might not get to a point where we don't need everyone to work. That should be awesome. Basic income guarantee might solve the economic problem associated with it, but not the social problem. We cannot derive our self-worth from our work. We need to learn to appreciate "free time". We need to legitimize enjoying and practicing the arts. I personally would love a future in which I could focus on practicing potter, learn Japanese, study economics just for fun and build the occasional video game or AI player for existing video games without worrying if it makes money or not. From conversations I've learned that this is not the case for many people. In a recent interview Marc Andreessen claimed that people in the midwest don't want checks form the so called coastal elites, but they want opportunities. We need to learn to be happy about the freedom we get form just getting the checks.
A Yale Dean Lost Her Job After Calling People ‘White Trash’ in Yelp Reviews
There are tools available to draw ASCII diagrams easily, like asciiflow.com or asciidraw.com. Their output can be directly pasted into ShakyDraw.
I have only had positive experiences working with Etsy but a lot of other people I've met have had their businesses shut down and their funds locked on the site. Incredibly shady especially since most of their products were legitimate crafts they made.
Hopefully they get their act together because there really is no replacement.
I'm currently using a 2013 MacBook Pro and my only interaction with the Force Touch trackpads has been in Apple stores, but what do you dislike about them?

I haven't had a chance to try them for long enough to form an opinion and I'm curious about potential annoyances if/when I upgrade to a newer model.

Personally I'd love to see the 12.9" 4:3 display from an iPad Pro in a Thinkpad retro.
Mage and screenshot comparison tools for UI testing
Sexual harassment and retaliation against employees for reporting it is not "just being jerks".

It is illegal.
Meanwhile all of the rank and file employees keep the lights on and the ship afloat. Wishing their on-call teams all the best.
If anyone from the Glass team happens to read this:

A very good friend of mine has an uncorrectable problem that basically gives him double vision all the time. I got Glass for him as a gift, and it changed his life. Emails, text messages, directions, all over a single eye so it was clear. Thanks for pushing a much needed update so he can start using them again.
The author will hopefully look back on this post and cringe a little. All the requirements point to a relational database, but that is not realized quickly because "if I need to use a database, I go straight to NoSQL"
This company develops software for the handicapped: https://getaccessibleapps.com/

I think they've created software that can bypass captchas and will work with you to develop software that can help your dad.
Amazon does it too.

It's standard practice.
It's always worth pointing out with Minio: they optimized for disk usage (with erasure encoding) and came up with an object store that tops out at 16 drives.

"Note that with distributed Minio you can play around with the number of nodes and drives as long as the limits are adhered to. For example, you can have 2 nodes with 4 drives each, 4 nodes with 4 drives each, 8 nodes with 2 drives each, and so on."
https://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guid...

Minio is the least scale-able of the open source object stores. Check out Swift, Ceph, Manta, or Riak CS.
For the uninitiated, this often serves to gobble up anyone who had a resting stop loss order on that exchange all the way down to the low price. Ostensibly crypto markets don't account for circuit breaker scenarios. Very much wild Wild West.
Immigrants do not just bring their intellect. The imaginative capacity, courage, and tenacity required to move across countries and often continents are very helpful for developing new ventures and technologies.

The 5 million number is vastly exaggerated if you go for a real meaning of the word 'genius'. For example, Einstein's IQ is reportedly 160 and assuming normal distribution that is about 1 in 32,000. Even if everyone in India receives the same opportunities as Einstein did from their childhood, the number would be 1.34 billion/32,000 = 42,000.

Not to mention that IQ alone is far from adequate. Imagination, persistence, and courage are required for intellectual distinction. That's why there are so few accomplished geniuses in the world.
Of course not. But let's be clear, anything that can be automated to better effect, will be, and I see no reason to believe that will stop are purely functional pursuits. Artists? What's to say true AIs might not squeeze people out of that field as well?

A great many people find purpose through achieving some greater goal, or less loftily, through feeling like they matter, even if they do not. How easy is this fiction to perpetuate when you are, quite literally, house pets to the true intelligences running our society as house pets are to us?

Lest you think we'll have a place in running a future where we might have actually designed our betters, consider dogs. We love them, we pamper them, but we don't let them run wild in the streets and cause problems, because clearly they don't know what's best for them in the society they are now living. Humans may not be the dogs of the future, but let's not assume we're safe form that threat without real good assurances. To me, life in the matrix might be preferable to an existence where I'm constantly confronted by my inadequacy in any matter of import. Then again, my dog loves me, and while I feel sorry that I can't take him out as much as I believe he deserves, I'm not sure he realizes there's more to life (depending on point of view) than what he has.

So, is life without work worth living? Is contented slavery okay? I don't know. Truly. It seems like it should be bad, but how much of that is rational thought and how much of that is my culture speaking through me? My allusion to the Matrix was actually one of the more Utopian possible outcomes. At least we retain our sense of agency, even if it's a lie in reality.
If 50% of women at Uber are perfectly happy at their jobs, and the other 50% are being subject to an illegal hostile work environment, that is not a good track record.

Even if that number was 10%, or 1%, that is still a horrible track record.

They have perhaps taken the criticism and news to heart and changed their ways, but nobody at all denies that there WERENT problems before.

Uber itself has admitted that there were serious problems, and says that they re going to fix them.
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From some discussions I've seen, it seems that the human battery idea was introduced in the last minutes by executive meddling. The original idea by the Wachowskis was exactly what you described: a way of the machines protect themselves from humanity attacking them again, while also giving humanity a paradise as mercy and gratitude. It was never the machines' intention to rebel and attack the humans; they only attacked back as self-protection.

The [Machine War][1] describes how it was in the early days. The conflict started when a robot killed its human masters because they were planning to destroy it and replace by a newer model. That started a Machine Civil Rights Movements, but humanity had become lazy and arrogant due to the new lifestyle yielded by the creation of AI. Most humans refused to acknowledge the robots and the few human sympathizers who did were silenced. It's a great read/watch (if you see the anime), but I better stop here so I don't spoil anything.

After reading this, that has become my single concern about the future with AI: will humanity be able to treat and respect the machines as equals?

PS: I was reading about it just this past weekend. Such a coincidence. This thread was from where I got most of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4h9ghg/in_the_matri...

[1]: http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Machine_War
That's a really powerful quote from John Sculley.
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Hostile work environments are not "just bring jerks", it is illegal.
Step 0: Acquire at least ~1PB of storage to store all the data.