skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly before RES came out the proportion of images on reddit was very low. Going back further before subreddits I remember it as largely just news articles and discussions, much like HN.
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I don't like the use of the word "predictable".

I would qualify this populist uprising as a Black Swan[0], and as Taleb describes in his book, one of the common reactions to a black swan is to rationalize it's obvious predictability after the fact.

Were there logical reasons to believe this populist uprising would occur? Of course (and this paper does a good job exploring them). Was it predictable? I don't know. By and large most of us did not predict it, so I'm not so sure. Only with hindsight is this outcome "obviously" predictable.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
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I'm not saying it's insurmountable, but the gain just isn't worth the cost imo.
People keep saying that, and yet prices still haven't risen.

I feel like a decade from now people are going to still be repeating this same old line.

It also seems awesome. Why wouldn't I want VCs to give away a bunch of money to its customers?

No, it is not going to run taxis permanently out of business. All you need is a car to do that. If this is really true, as soon as prices rise, another taxi company can start back up again and take market share.
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Bike traffic in Amsterdam can be really tense at times. There are few places in the world where you get bicycle traffic jams, but Amsterdam has a few of them. And some cyclists really try to push the limits (students mostly), as do some taxi drivers.

But at other times, and especially outside the city centers, it can be very relaxing.
Not product vendors. Vendors offering a service which handles Wal-Mart data.
Pretty cool!

Anyone know why the cloth looks so stretchy and why gravity looks like it is on the moon? Is it too expensive to run the solver up to a realistic level of inextensibility?
> vegetables are dramatically more expensive than soda per calorie.

That's a poor measure of comparison. Vegetarians are healthy and easily survive without a problem on vegetables only (and calorie wise 50% or far less of what the "daily recommended intake" often is) whereas nobody is going to survive on soda alone.
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> ... built a secure messaging system using the principles mentioned above.

> This has so far shown itself to be highly successful.

What do you mean by this? Can a system be "highly successful" at being secure without having been targeted, or have you actually hired testers and/or auditors to attack/study the system?
For those who don't want to click, here's the abstract:

> Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash. While the backlash may have been predictable, the specific form it took was less so. I distinguish between left-wing and right-wing variants of populism, which differ with respect to the societal cleavages that populist politicians highlight. The first has been predominant in Latin America, and the second in Europe. I argue that these different reactions are related to the relative salience of different types of globalization shocks.
> Accounts are completely separate from Facebook, no crossover at all.

This was the claim that was made when we tried out FB@W, but shortly after I created my work account (I don't have a personal account) my wife started getting friend suggestions for coworkers of mine she's never met. I never even used my @work account for looking at her FB account, wasn't friended to her, etc.

I think it was either a) harder to undo all the creepiness, or b) they didn't want to.
Uber is the largest player by far, so they are an easy target for frustrations and for incumbents. "Uber" is almost a generic term for a iPhone hailable vehicle.
Generally, there is market competition for drivers. For example, Lyft for those drivers who are unhappy with Uber. You have stated that in your city, São Paulo, there are 3 good companies. If one company mistreats drivers, they would go to a competing firm and the firm would lose revenue.
I think I've mentioned this a few times now, but more than half the fund I know that beat the market last year did so in no small part due to Marijuana stocks. Infact the space has been hot since about 2015.

Canada in particular has seen the a proliferation in growers listing on the venture exchange and we're in the middle of a round of consolidation in the industry. As a side note, this is one are that Canada leads the US, in small IPO's for junior companies, we've got a better setup for getting small companies listed and available for taking public money.

The Canadian government is gearing up to legalize it next year and there is a huge rush on to become one of the main suppliers, most analysts figure that Canada alone can support 4 -5 major growers.

My current thoughts on pot stocks is that there is lots of money to be made selling gear and being a grower, There probably own't be too many profitable companies started to sell weed to the public, as its up to individual provinces to determine distribution.
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1) Cost

2) Configurability

Anyone who is price sensitive won't want to pay the hourly rate to have a car sit in their garage all day/night doing nothing. Nor will they want to pay the up front cost and/or interest to hold a controlling share in the vehicle.

And configurability means you can take a 2-seater when you are going to work, take a 4-seater to lunch with you coworkers, take a hatchback to the farmers market to pick up your groceries, and then an SUV to the mountains, preconfigured with a roof rack with your ski rentals already on it, sharpened and waxed, and then take a mobile office for the drive home so you can get some work done, and a mobile bedroom for your trip down to LA so you can catch up to sleep.

But yes, the wealthy will still own private cars because they can have it waiting, just like private planes. Also, cooties.
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Americans lol, want a $29 lawnmower and then turn a blind eye to the supply side of said economics.
So, any benchmarks regarding SSE and AVX out there yet?
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Finding resources online is not incredibly easy. I remember that I very much needed a teacher/class in my early high school years to get started to learn to code because trying to google things often led down very disorganized resources.

I think the main problem at that point is that I didn't exactly know what to learn other than the fact that it was called "programming". Only after I was taught how to code that I was able to see the power of being able to write software and the applications that I could make.

Also, in general, I don't think college students (adults) would be motivated to learn all of their field by themselves because when searching for the information it'll be way too disorganized; it's not curated and sequenced by instructors/professors. I recently took a hardware/architecture course and I realized that I learned bits and pieces of that stuff beforehand but never attained a holistic picture of how stuff worked at the OS level because I just didn't really know what to look up, and learning from my professor also gave me the ability to learn more things about the material by myself afterward.
D being @system by default has already been discussed as a design error, but making @safe be the default would be a breaking change.

So it is up to the community if they want to accept such change.

I should note that they still need some help cleaning the standard library and compiler corner cases in regard to @safe.
At a minimum a self-stopping car should be the basic requirement, such that any vehicle which senses lack of input from the driver, or crazy input which is differential to the experience of its sensors, should be able to safely turn on a hazard alarm for all other surrounding vehicles and safely stop itself on the nearest shoulder.

If all sensors indicate that there is no emergency obstacle requiring sudden swerving or braking or what not, the car should be able to safely decelerate and stay in a lane etc... but this might be to complex a problem. (I was thinking if a driver may have a seizure or some other episode - but if a driver is under duress this may be a bad thing)
Oh it's definitely elastic. I used to take Uber everywhere, until they (apparently) removed the restriction on driver's to use nice/current cars. Once drivers starting showing up in 10 year old beat down cars, my riding plummeted.
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> Xenophobia is a negative spin on an evolved response that is very basic to human nature: homophily

As is murder.

The fact we may have evolved with something doest justify it.
I strongly prefer hub gears. I never could get the hang of derailleurs.
Not sure why quote works like this, but it's very difficult to read on a phone.
Because any taxi could have told you before "if you dont like it, go to the competition"
I recently learned from a guy in a wheelchair that, at least in Germany, wheelchairs are legally equal to bikes, and have to use the bike lane. (It's usually not enforced of course.)
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You mean exporting the middle class and then undercutting upward mobility was doomed to face a political backlash? What a surprise.
I find it funny that people can seemingly flippantly state that Tessa (or any of these cars) have "weak sensor systems" as if it is such a trivial problem.

"Well, there's your problem right there, let's just slap on some strong sensors and you should be good to go!"

You know what has a weak sensor system? Any car without any sensors.
> The discount would be icing on the cake, but in the realm of fashion, 10-20% off is game changer.

Quantity-based discounts of 10-20% at volumes of 3-5 items are low in clothing retail; 25% at a quantity of two isn't uncommon (consistency and simplicity across the board of the Amazon discount structure might be somewhat novel, but the level of discount is not.)
+1 for tinc
Does webpack work for node.js code? I was under the impression that webpack was specifically for front end code.
That's why I trust capitalism. Its dynamics allowed Uber to create a market, but also keep it in check for bad practices.
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> Amazon is a massive immoral monster

this should be enough

> devouring the US economy and replacing it with something vaguely worse, year by year.

Luddites repeat: automation, price reduction and job shifting isn't bad for the economy and it isn't worse either

> It's rapidly approaching a "too big to be allowed to fail" status, and that's awful for Americans.

Completely unsubstantiated. Surely it's one of the larger employees, but compared to automotive there are few satellites that lives because of the induced workload - if Ford closes, all subsidiaries and most vendor will close with it; if Amazon closes, the impact will be more limited.

> Since anti-trust laws weren't written by a generation able to envison entities like this

This is incredibly short sighted, since those were written at Rockefeller peak. Entities larger than this and more looming where at the order of the day, while Amazon has a load competitors and alternatives to fend off.

> the current political climate is that they'd rather die than appear anti-business...

This political climate endured for most USA history, with shortly timed bouts into centrism, hardly something current, hardly something that slowed down the USA economic growth. cfr - Europe.

> I guess the only entities with the power to push back against Amazon are in fact the other major corporate vendors.

That's ok tho, as in not a bad thing

All in all the whole claim is conflated hyperbole that's filtered by an unhistorical view of the current situation
> This is really a stretch in logic

It's not even a tiny weeny little stretch of logic. It is self-evident to anybody who is thinking clearly about the matter.

> Parent comment was saying we should give a little more credibility to reports that women make about sexual harassment in the workplace.

No. Wrong. Parent comment said "believe women who...", not "give a little more credibility to reports that women make about sexual harassment". Do you understand how those two statements are different? Your one doesn't even make sense. Crediblity is "the quality of being believable or worthy of trust". Credence is probably the word you were thinking of. I don't think I'm smarter than you, but these sorts of mistakes do go to show that you are not thinking clearly.

> It's a pretty good idea that would make everyone's lives better

Not the falsely accused. They are men too, right?

> But if your reaction to that mild suggestion is hostility and misleading arguments, you're contributing to the problem and encouraging more "manly" behavior that necessitates women's blog posts and company culture course-correction.

The suggestion is not mild. My reaction was not hostile. My arguments were not misleading. I'm not contributing to the problem of some men being sexual harassers, except perhaps at some absurdly theoretically removed degree, which would leave me damned for pretty much any I comment I could make. I'm not encouraging manly, or even "manly" behaviour. My comments don't necessitate women's blog posts, if by that you are referring to Fowlers call-out. The latter is in fact an absurd charge against me on a personal level, as I'm sure you would recognize after mature reflection. That I necessitate company culture course-correction is likewise absurd, though flattering.
Hey guys,

The is the first project I release publicly and I'm happy to discuss anything with you.
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This: "not to expect someone to learn how to code because you want them to".

Speaking from teaching experience, whatever you do, how many hours you put if it is not on other party's interest its never going to work.

Advice on lending money just lend it by clearly setting forth a return time or better don't expect a return at all.
It is too easy to forget that when a person is employed at $100k-$200k per year in the Bay Area, you want things like stopping climate change, more parks, more air, fair treatment, and above all, peace and prosperity.

When making $30k with absolutely zero hope of real increases in Atlanta being a warehouse worker for an industry that's disappearing, the same person would burn all those things down, I would have said to get $10k more per year. Today I would say, getting an extra year at $30k is enough to justify the burnings.

We should think a bit more about Maslow's hierarchy. If you can't give people a decent living first, they will revolt if you try to "make them matter" or try to reach these lofty goals. You might think that wage improvements don't matter if we don't fix the climate, but the exact opposite is true.

I'm not making the point that the climate isn't worth saving, racism doesn't need solving if we can't fix poverty and "underemployment". I'm saying that we won't succeed unless we fix that ... first.

Globalism produces beautiful iPads. But global average wage is $2k ... not per month. Per year. If you're average, working in a non-booming industry, and of course most people are exactly that, that is a terrifying prospect. The sad part is ... yes killing globalization will make us all worse off, in terms of the country's GDP. But it will lessen the gap between the 1% and the 99% (note that 2% is $97k per year, and as such anyone working in the Bay Area in IT is likely at least in the top 2%). Of course, mostly by making the 0.1% - 50% a LOT worse off (that's anyone making less than about 2.6 million per year and more than $56k. Even in the Bay Area, that's probably C-level wages).
I interpreted this as them creating/improving on-site search. Not related to adwords or display optimization.
<insert "so this is just like X communication software" comment here>
The people with the knowledge of these tricks are so few that unfortunately in most cases the additional revenue is too much to keep the minority happy. It's fascinating to look at ecommerce storefronts and search for all of the subtle tactics they're trying to use on you.
i don't follow your math. can you expand on the increase. $125 / 12 hour means it is around 12 bucks an hour. if you have 3 rides an hour (don't know if doable), it would increase a single ride by 4 bucks. that doesn't seem the end of the world
> Were there logical reasons to believe this populist uprising would occur? Of course (and this paper does a good job exploring them). Was it predictable?

Contradicting statements. Believe means somewhat possible. If you assign someone possibility then it's predicted.
Here in the US I don't even think you can buy a "really cheap" car; my current vehicle is a used Jeep TJ and it set me back $18k (great condition though - still, I overpaid a bit, but I consider it the price for getting the options I wanted on the vehicle).

While I'm sure there are probably new (or relatively new) vehicle out there sub-$15k, they probably aren't much to write home about. Certainly nothing I want (that's just my personal wants - for instance, if it ain't 4wd and/or it can't be lifted, I don't want it).

As far as the transmission is concerned, here in the US most vehicles can't be bought without an automatic. Manual transmissions are becoming the exception; most car models don't even have them as an option. The few that do (mostly trucks and sports cars) have seen declining sales of the option (and I wouldn't be surprised if it actually costs more to get it!).
> Sure, discounts for buying more is nothing new, but no upfront costs?

No upfront costs is isomorphic to “buy on credit with low-friction returns”.
UBER: Crowdfunding the development of autonomous vehicles by temporarily giving people jobs and keeping all the data collected by the thousands of drivers using its app.
I've compressed 30 hours of one of my favourite podcasts in less than 100MB... And voice parts are almost indistinguishable from the original.
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In NYC, there is one app called Arro that responded to the competition of Uber/Lyft, but was not available beforehand. I believe there is a 2nd app now as well.
If this had happened two years ago, would Uber have avoided any of the later negative press?
HN works like this, and it is a terrible misuse of UI
Thanks, I might be biased because I have a legacy platform still using gcc 2.7, which is older than the adoption of the Itanium ABI.
All already implemented by bazillions of libraries.

Sure you need to know when to use them but not how they works or how they are implemented as long as someone who specialize in this field already checked them.

And if one day you need to use/modify/adapt one of those or even another algo you can still learn it at that time.

EDIT: I'm starting to think I misunderstood you and that you basically said that you should just know of their existence and use ?
Silly me, I was under the impression that gdc was already part of gcc...

Well, so at least now I am no longer mistaken. ;-)

I have tried to learn D repeatedly over the last couple of years, but I was usually scared off by how complex this language is. Even so, the syntax is far cleaner than C++[1].

Also, the last time I gave it a try, something finally clicked. I am not all there yet, but I am beginning to like it. The community is very friendly and helpful. Being able to ask stupid questions without being shouted at makes learning a language a lot easier.

[1] To be fair, C++ has carried the baggage of backwards compatibility around since its birth, while D did not and could learn from what C++ got right and wrong.
Agree 100%

No matter how many ways to justify, the wealth and power enjoyed by a few are simply irrational.

Edit: the wording is difficult, but all replies below have the same idea. Or I should rephrase it to: the absurdity of the wealth and power enjoyed by people grows exponentially with their rank in the social ladder. The ideal probably should quadratically.
Presumably you'd need to generate 1.3M liters off of only daylight hours, making it more like 130m*130m per 10K people.

Cairo has a population density of 18K people per km2, so this would mean covering 2% of the area. For contrast, streets and parking take up ~40% of most US cities.
What data science project in NPM are people actually using? There are literally thousands of people using NumPy/SciPy + Matplotlib. NumPy, BTW, is over 10 years old and counting.

Javascript is a terrible to do data analysis, given its inferior numeric data types.
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Racism and poverty are related.
I can smell the potential of this revolutionary approach already. I have two questions:

1. how are you handling recursive semantic analysis for the creation of the TN code representation? You say HAL is Turing complete, so a bottom up approach could be better for the semidecidible parsing structure of ETN

2. What insights do you have about applying this technology to AI and big data analitics? Social IOT apps could really change the world we live in if they truly embraced this coding paradigm
To clarify, by "predict" I mean "to be reasonably sure of the outcome before it happens". I can assign logical reasons for Uber to declare bankruptcy tomorrow, but I would definitely not predict it.
I usually default to using Flask for Python when building APIs and using Zappa to deploy it has been a wonderful experience. Easy to develop locally with a Flask web server and then you just deploy with Zappa.

I haven't used it in a huge production environment, but it's definitely my go to way of handling APIs in side projects and other related things.
> they have little advantage over other companies and can't for the life of them turn a profit.

At this point why doesn't Uber just lay off a HUGE portion of their staff and kill the R&D. It's hard to imagine if they downsized significantly and quit investing in self driving cars, that they couldn't tip the needle into profitability.

Isn't that a fairly common move for a startup? Burn money to get off the runway, then downsize to stabilize?
It’s time for companies to be honest with themselves
What? No street view??
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Thanks for the great story. If you don't mind me asking, how did you come up with the idea and did you validate it before moving forward?

I've always had some ideas but haven't been able to gain traction. Eventually, I see other companies started to do well with almost the same idea so I'm a bit bummed.
It probably is a surprise if you put a lot of faith in Ricardian equivalence, the theory of comparative advantage and read and nod your head to this sort of thing:

http://www.economist.com/node/605144
You can port some of the templates to D, since it also has templates. Although I'm not sure if they work the same in all pathological cases.
> e.g. you're sentenced to X years, get released earlier at Y years and are now on parole for X-Y years

I think that's exactly what was meant as an "alternative" to serving their time. You state it yourself, they were sentenced to X, but only serve Y behind bars. They are offered the choice of some years outside prison but with restrictions instead of that time in prison.
Some banks will do this for free too. Maybe not as convenient, though.