skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are places where Uber is the only realistic choice apart from taxi companies who will try to scam you. Mexico City is an example.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss

I think Tesla's original statement is relevant to post here. Although likely somewhat biased, they provided a succinct explanation to the reason why the Tesla did not brake automatically to avoid the collision.

From the statement: "Neither Autopilot nor the driver noticed the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky, so the brake was not applied. The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S."
Not a single comment on here about using insurance. I know that a backpack with a laptop can be stolen out of someone else's car and cut-rate renters insurance will cover it. I don't really think Uber was the correct person to foot this bill, I think this is the same as someone grabbing your purse from you when walking down the street. You either have decent insurance or you're SOL
Ford’s Signal to the Auto World: Here Comes China
$64k in 2014, $13k in 2016. Pretty sure that's just his inner salesman speaking.
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No, none.
Let me briefly restate the gist of my point above:

UBI or no UBI, we need to preserve access to paid work for everyone to the best of our ability. We need to recognize a right to work that is not being discussed by most people who are pro UBI.

The value of the benefits granted by welfare programs are always eroded over time by inflation. What sounds like a lot of money today will become a pittance over time. These feel good, idealistic ideas touted by so many people seem to never recognize that if you have a UBI and no means whatsoever to improve your income beyond that because the tech giants have no plans to redistribute work, then you are pretty well fucked and your life is hopeless.

People like you seem to be big on the idea that people should not be compelled to work. I am not talking about compelling people to work. I am talking about not actively denying them the right to access paid work. There is a difference between the two, and it is actually quite large.
Yeah. "No cases of fraud or loss due to screen-scraping" doesn't mean your service isn't going to be the one that leaks a treasure trove of banking credentials.

It's also highly probable that it has happened, it just wasn't attributed properly.
> if that's the case, you'd have to protest lots of start ups and companies in silicon valley. There's no shortage of toxic workplaces.

What's even the point here? You're aware that no one has to protest a company they don't know or use. And that "you can't protest one if you don't protest all of them" is a fallacy.
Yeah but because it wasn't Stamford it doesn't make it to HN, so it doesn't count, sorry.
No, for our usage needing to worry about provisioned capacity at all was becoming a deal-breaker. That especially became tedious to estimate and plan for as we had more variability in the size of our values we needed to store.
Perhaps Amazon will take them over... someone's gotta deliver the Whole Foods groceries.

</sarcasm>
30% of app cost and IAP wasn't enough, so Apple wants 30% of tips as well? In summary, 30% of any money flow that even slightly involves the use of iOS? Even Visa and Mastercard aren't that greedy. I'm an Apple apologist way more than is healthy, and this leaves even me wondering, "sure that's the hill you want to die on?"
"Liu, together with doctoral candidate Jiajing Wang and a group of other experts, discovered the 5,000-year-old beer recipe by studying the residue on the inner walls of pottery vessels found in an excavated site in northeast China. "

So the recipe was arrived at by reverse-engineering residues in pottery vessels, and not written down 5000 years ago. In contrast, the Hymn to Ninkasi, which contains an ale recipe, was written down in Sumerian on clay tablets 4000 years ago. Translation at http://www.piney.com/BabNinkasi.html

"The students first covered their grain with water and let it sprout, in a process called malting. After the grain sprouted, the students crushed the seeds and put them in water again. The container with the mixture was then placed in the oven and heated to 65 degrees Celsius (149 F) for an hour, in a process called mashing. Afterward, the students sealed the container with plastic and let it stand at room temperature for about a week to ferment."

The heat would have killed off any yeast in the wort, and sealing the container would have prevented any yeast getting in after the wort cooled, so this cannot be correct. The correct process is to boil the wort, let it cool down, and leave it outside (or open the windows) to allow wild yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and other microorganisms to blow in and inoculate the wort. This process is called spontaneous fermentation, and is still used in Belgium to produce Lambic. Spontaneous fermentation causes bacteria (Lactobacillus and Acetobacter species) to also settle in the wort, eventually turning the beer sour. In other beer styles, yeast is deliberately added after the wort cools.

"The ancient Chinese beer looked more like porridge and likely tasted sweeter and fruitier than the clear, bitter beers of today."

It's an ale rather than a beer. To be a beer, it would have had to contain hops, which give beer its bitterness and act as a preservative. Unless drunk very quickly, like Lambic it would have also gone sour.
I don't think it's meaningful to put Swift, Rust and Go in a single bucket when comparing them. They're languages targeting different levels of abstraction, with very different approaches as a result.

Some people refer to all of these as "better C++", but it's meant in very different and incomparable ways. For example, Rust is ostensibly a "better C++" in a sense that it retains the low-level, zero-overhead (no GC) etc nature and powerful metaprogramming facilities. Go is a ostensibly a "better C++" because it promotes higher-level, safer abstractions that are still "fast enough" (but not zero-overhead). Ditto Swift.

D is arguably in the same bucket as Swift, and partly as Go. I don't think it's very useful to compare and contrast it against Rust. And I think that of all of these, Rust is the only one that can truly claim to be a "better C++" in a meaningful way. Others are "something better than C++ for most apps you'd write in C++ today".
So everyone that makes a bad decision and openly takes their time to write about it so others can learn from their mistakes is a "brogrammer"? Great engineers become great engineers by making mistakes and learning from them.
> But maintaining collective complete commitment to consensus respect of those lines whatever they are despite personal preference or benefit is the very foundation of the rule of law.

I hope not, or "the rule of law" has never existed and never will.

Did you miss my point about the drug trafficker driving 79 in a 75? How far do you think we've gotten towards the goal of "complete commitment to consensus respect of" the traffic laws? Traffic laws are the poster child of the concept "trying to legislate what no one believes in just makes the law lose face before the people". They've turned the police from something people view positively into something people fear. You can be pulled over for driving at the speed limit, because that behavior is unnatural enough that it's suspicious. (And that's true! It is.) You can be pulled over for driving 4 mph over the speed limit. What happened to the rule of law?
Factually untrue. There are studies proving otherwise.
Well played! :)
I was going to type in the long, point-by-point response, but then I saw this:

> Replay attacks protection by TLS, etc uses sequence numbers which expects a continuous connection. There is the setup phase that must be taken into account and then the entire series of packets from that point on can be replayed.

WHAT? You do know that you cannot just "take setup phase into account" in TLS unless you have both server and client secret keys, right? There is the whole "key exchange" step make it impossible?

If you write stuff like this, for god's sake, do not design encryption protocols. I am horrified about what your code does if you do not know/don't understand key exchange concept.
And yet, unlike many of my friends, still kept cash in his wallet (its in the intro).
This is the most succinct and clearest explanation of what's going on. I see this discussed a lot when people talk about the curse of dimensionality. Another very simple example is the example of a n-hypercube with edge length 1/2 embedded in the unit n-hypercube. As n increases, the volume of the unit hypercube is constant (1), whereas the volume of the smaller hypercube is decreasing at an exponential rate.
I'm not sure what your argument is. Unless you are part of HR in your made-up hypothetical situation, it's not your job to intervene or seek retribution because you'll just screw it up and you'll make things worse. Personally, if you know both parties well you may very well find yourself skeptical of those claims ... or not - context matters.

All companies will have a process for handling harrassment claims and process for resolving them. Accusations should be directed to HR (or suitable designated party at the company). If the harrassment continues you may have to involve the legal system - that's what it's there for.
CockroachDB peeps,

you guys should really publish a new blog post with updated performance benchmarks.

Super low throughput numbers is deterring a lot of potential users, imho.
You can't usually get your own time costs back. Even suing for real actual legal fees (that you can document, such as payments to lawyers) is tricky and usually demands that an existing contract is in place to enforce this, or that the suit is frivolous, and a judge has to rule on the frivolity.

You can't just go to small claims court and say "I make $50/hr, and I've spent 20 hours on this, so I also demand an extra $1000"
What does that gain other than more expense and overhead? SQL can do key/value just fine.
The commenters (including me) are not saying "Uber should pay their drivers more" they are actively suggesting increasing the price of the rides so more money goes to drivers (who make a % of the price.) They are advocating for higher prices overall so drivers get more money.

Also, higher prices are more fair. Ask anyone who waits tables and you learn pretty people make more in tips. It isnt fair. I dont know firsthand but I imagine someone with an accent might make less. Formulaic prices for rides seem to me a far more fair way to compensate drivers than the whims of individuals.
I was thinking it might make more sense to design your font and then bake it into something normal for the browser.

On the other hand, I can't imagine seeing myself going "I need something with the Times New Roman curvature, but thicker serifs..."
I would use it if it had support for Hindi.
Yeah the victim would surely give a 1 star. But I was basing what I said on when the article said:

> Uber said that the driver had a good standing

They could've been lying of course.
> Literally does mean virtually now.

: ( I don't disagree with you, and I get that prescriptivism is a losing battle (and the wrong battle, IMO), but this one bothers me, because we actually _lost_ expressive power.
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I was expecting a mention of Mao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign

In the UK, starlings are a protected species..
As you grow older, there are more mutations and more risks for defects.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-with-old...
In another factory, which may well had also employed <20 people.

It almost certainly did not require 10 * 1000 person-years to produce all the machinery that this factory needs to run for 10 years. If it did, it wouldn't have been a cost savings.
I have never used WeChat Pay or the tipping function, since they're both only available in China, but I really don't like that this article essentially says that this issue is "iPhone vs WeChat" for Chinese citizens, because it really isn't. Tips are used by about 10% of WeChat users, and a large percentage only tip a few RMB per month. This is absolutely not on the scale of the actual WeChat Pay, even if this article implies it; it does mention that WeChat processed $1.2 trillion in transactions last year, but that's not tips, and I think it's disingenuous to not directly mention that.

The removal of tips happened a few months ago, and it has definitely affected people who rely on those tips in mainland. For example, in a Quartz article about this topic[1] it mentioned that one blogger went from making 1000 RMB to 100 RMB per day from tips after this policy was put into place, because even though iPhone users make up a small percentage of total phones, they generally have a lot more disposable income (having an iPhone is a status symbol).

It's really not as cut and dry as this article makes it seem because of that. Wealthy Chinese like iPhones because of the status and don't want to give it up if they don't have to, and Tencent probably makes a cut from being the middleman of the tipping feature, so Tencent is also probably annoyed at the loss of a revenue stream as well. However, Tencent will never remove WeChat from the App Store, and neither will Apple, for various (and obvious) reasons. There are likely negotiations going on, and there may be a pseudo Apple Pay system to handle tipping like this in China.

Also, nitpick: I don't think it's fair to say that Apple Pay is an "answer" to WeChat Pay. They may do the same thing (facilitate payments to merchants) but they do it in very different ways, and I would imagine a big reason it's not bigger in China is due to the pervasiveness of WeChat Pay (which works with QR codes, not card readers).

1: https://qz.com/973359/apple-aapl-may-be-gearing-up-for-a-gia...
I've been using a 10.5 inch iPad Pro for the past week and I can attest for the almost unnatural feel of responsiveness the new display technology affords. At first my brain could hardly make sense of it: animations were way too smooth, scrolling felt unreal — it all felt like a pre-rendered demo. Now I've become used to it every other display feels archaically sluggish by comparison.
Walmart reportedly telling partners/suppliers to not use Amazon Web Services
One of those things is how you spend 40+ hours of your non-sleeping week. The other two are completely irrelevant to anyone but yourself.

What would you even say about your family? They exist? "My mom died of cancer, thanks for asking."?

If you have a problem with the way things are, at least think of something reasonable to replace it.
Oh, man, that is so old school. Cash? WTF?
Jepsen is not microscopic edge-cases. It is the heart of the distributed system promises that database vendors make but routinely do not meet.

If you would rather go back to trusting marketing speak instead, good luck to you.
Oracle beats profit estimates on cloud push, shares jump
Chracters all appear as tofu on iOS safari.
My problem is with the reasoning behind the decision (or rather the complete lack of it).

(And it wasn't me that used "brogramer").
I missed the part about selenium scraping – thanks for pointing that out.

There has just been a project submitted to solve this on HN – https://blog.teller.io/2017/06/12/the-api-for-your-bank-acco...

But it seems to support only a handful of UK banks – no ANZ or Kiwibank.
A system and method for letting "The Marketing Guy" choose and design the font instead of a trained graphic designer.

This isn't going to end well.

Have you ever seen a font and thought "oh, that's ugly" but it's really hard to put into words exactly why? Font design is all about aesthetics and custom hand-tweaking every single curve of every single letter and making them look exactly right.
> The point of focus should be verelox and the criminal negligence on their part. Verelox is the criminal

Nope. The affected customers probably have grounds for a civil suit, but no sane prosecutor would think bringing criminal proceedings against Verelox to make sense at all.

The ex-employee who perpetrated this is at fault as well and must bear responsibility for his destructive actions. Having the ability to do something (even due to a lapse in security) does not make that action moral or legal.
Some people make this analogy, but it has so many caveats, and is so far away from what people think about as RC, and has very serious and significant differences, that I don't think it's a useful analogy, personally. I even might go so far as to say "actively harmful." Not totally sure though.
I wish there was a feature to double click a phrase and auto draw the ASCII box around it.
And real time tracking of the car, a feedback system, an invoice that shows the route taken, etc...

Nope. No innovation here... /s
This is such amazing feedback. I'm truly touched and appreciative that you took the time. Thank you.

I copied and pasted this into a gist, with responses, which seemed to make it easier to read:

https://gist.github.com/breck7/42a00b00cdcc797e4bb0b6c291a1b...
Well there is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIklqgXi05A

They are kind of pests on cattle ranches.
I've actually noticed the opposite; I've been resorting to !g much less.
Ask HN: What do you use to host your blog / website?
I'd love to know the usage of hosting options like Github Pages. Would really appreciate your feedback :)
Nope. Take off strong enough and the doors close shut, some trunks too.
Ethereum Slides as Network Backlog Points to Growing Pains
Oh no, that's not the Uber way. They're not agents, they're independent contractors and the Uber rep said in court "we have absolutely no control over what they do, and no responsibility for what they do"...
Not phrenology. It's science/genetics.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-with-old...
We need to start distinguishing between the H1B abuse of several large foreign consulting companies and the seasonal low skill jobs in our discourse. You yell "let's reform the visa process" in a crowded room in this country and everyone cheers for different reasons.
First hit in Google was https://www.smart.gov/SOMAPI/sec1/ch5_recidivism.html which makes the following key points.

1. The measured recidivism rate will depend on time frame. The longer the frame, the higher it is. Most studies use a shorter time frame.

2. Most sex crimes do not get reported. Most studies rely on reported crimes because it is obviously easier to get data for them.

3. Most re-arrests are for non-sexual offenses. But a non-sexual crime when carried out by a pedophile may have a sexual motivation.

That said, in the largest available long term study, the 10 year rearrest for another sex crime is 20%. The actual re-offense rate is certainly much higher.

Making it personal, I was abused as a child. I know two other people who that person abused, and I have strong evidence that there were many more before that. However looking at his legal history, you'd only see a single arrest and conviction for public indecency in the 1960s.

I have seen surveys indicating that the most unusual thing about this example is that he was arrested and convicted at all. That perfectly fits with what I've heard from other people who were abused. Most of the abusers were serial offenders, few were convicted.

Moving on, visit http://virped.org/ to get an idea of how hard it is to be a pedophile who is attempting to never offend. I fully respect their attempts to be better people, but won't be letting my children be around anyone who I suspect is in that group...my reasons should be obvious...
Damn sorry that you were kidding around. I'm the OP and I thought you were being completely serious. I immediately felt bad for you and hoped you wouldn't get downvoted into gray.

I agree it is hard to be tongue in cheek on HN. I have to remind myself of that too.

At least your happiness isn't dependent on your karma ;).
Here's the original WSJ article, but it's paywalled:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wal-mart-to-vendors-get-off-ama...
I don't think that's true. Despite their corporate life support and relatively young ages, Go, Rust and Swift are all in the top 25 most active languages on Github (https://gist.github.com/alysonla/e14c01ec7a0d2823e7317f7b58b...) and D is not (and never has been).

The masses have had a long time to adopt D and I wouldn't get my hopes up simply because it's not dead yet.
I would consider none of those to be acceptable though, and would point to a huge process failure around security at the company.
It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Successful leadership is only possible if people actually follow and trust the leader. In the absence of that, you'll get apathy and probably utter failure. So if this idea that only a single person can lead a company spreads throughout the company, it becomes true.
People don't necessarily want hand outs, they perhaps just want to live in an environment where they can sustain themselves through their own effort. Perhaps this is part of the reason HRC lost in November.
I use Github Pages to host my blog. I love that it is free and backed by Git.
Hi. I actually had it in mind to create something like this myself -- a mobile-first, nicer-designed version of Anki. But it looks like you already started on this, 2.5 years ago. Always the way..

It definitely looks nicer than Anki. It's also better for creating simple cards, something which I haven't really been able to do on the Anki app. The workflow for adding a new card is a great experience. I do think that creating my own cards is an important part of the memorisation process. I've downloaded pre-made cards before, but the stuff I use in conversation is almost always the stuff where I've created the card. Those are the words/phrases that leap to mind.

One issue - my recorded audio didn't play when I reviewed the card (either on the front side or the back side). Maybe a bug?

Based on just 5 minutes of experimentation, I expect that this will become my "on the go" card creator, while I'll keep Anki around for the time being because, when I create cards on my laptop, I can import Forvo pronunciations etc.

Have you thought about how to monetise this?
I do not care about Travis that much as I care about the next victims of this rip-off machine what uber became in the recent years.
I'm currently facing this problem as well.
There are plenty of neighborhoods and even countries that might give you pause. There are plenty of people for whom having children is their only goal, their only live purpose, and the only meaningful thing they do in their life besides living.