skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very sad it failed. I think one thing could have made it a success: Target existing popular devices like the latest Nexus/Pixel or the OnePlus models and make it very easy to flash and restore. That way one can put their toe in the water without spending money on a non-android device and that risk is negated. I gave the OP3 dev some money I would have loved to play with Ubuntu Phone and especially with convergence, it might have stopped me from buying a laptop. But I didn't want to buy an expensive, high-end non-android device (I didn't like that high end Meizu) and I didn't want to try it on a cheap device either. I would certainly have bought a recent Nexus/Pixel to try it though, if I knew I could always go back to Android.
Building Deployment Tools to Align with Your Engineering Culture
He did write LLVM. That is more than just marketing.
> Different audience.

Sometimes but not always.

> Having to ban thousands

This is a massive exaggeration, the number of people driving cancerous chat is quite small.

> Only way to fix that

Citation needed. It seems to me there are plenty of things twitch could do to contain chat cancer besides subscriber mode.
Check AnandTech's Zen review and their recent Skylake-X review for the latest details.
> Media coverage and popularity always works this way. I'm not sure why so many people perpetually can't wrap their head around it.

It probably wouldn't work this way if people could wrap their heads around it.
Group of Uber Investors Want a New CEO
The password reset MitM attack
> If you need a drink

...get treatment for your alcoholism.

If you merely want a drink, then...

> finish your work, and go out and enjoy your life.
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
> It is our belief that messengers are evolving into a new type of OS, and are becoming gateways to our economies and social lives. Status uses messaging as a platform, and by combining both a messenger and a browser we are building a gateway for everyday smartphone users to begin using DApps.... [0]

I'm not sure what this means but it must be a lot because, on paper, they just raised about $10M per core developer. This for an open-source mobile client.

I have tried but I honestly just don't get the value prop of these ICOs. The only concept that my mind can latch onto is the basest of explanations – that these offerings represent a chance to ride a gold-rush wave of speculation.

I'm not assigning fault, certainly not with the founding tech team. Its just that the last time I felt so disconnected from a major upswell in the tech marketplace was 1999. Will ICOs follow a similar feast-famine-smaller feast curve?

[0] https://wiki.status.im/
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> I'm betting we'll see machinectl integration. Excellent!

systemd-nspawn integration is what I was thinking about too, so yeah! Nice work.
Do it. Drinking culture in tech is incredibly rampant...
NFL player studying math at MIT – what about his brain?
2004, actually

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mulinux/files/iso/
>ANELE ITS JUST A CLOCK BRO ANELE

Realistically how different is this than people going on /b/ just to type the N word? MingLee spam whenever there is an Asian on screen, TriHard HE SAID IT when someone says 'nei ga' in Mandarin on a Chinese cast or ANELE spam when someone of Indian/Middle East descent is on screen etc. etc.
Common Lisp is strongly typed (type mismatches result in a sensible error), but is by default dynamically typed, unless you annotate.

The type system is not capable of useful, extensible polymorphic types, though.
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> we can only emit a few bits of information.

Perhaps if you measure against the text representation in ASCII, but it's not necessarily easy to quantify all of the other meaningful information that comes from tone, volume, accent, gestures, etc.

Such is to say that monkeys and birds can effectively transmit no information, which is not true.
Your Brain Treats a Blink Like a Tiny Nap
Yes, I believe that there's an element of implicit bias to it. It's one of those murky things that gets bundled up with "culture fit" as spurious reasons to reject candidates who don't look and act like you do. Hence the "shibboleth" comment.

It's a complicated question. What's innocent, non-coercive fun for a small group of responsible people can get wildly out of control with one bad hire. And we don't do interviews for "angry drunk"....
I second this. I can't make any claims about the security of the client, but the way they handle things is confidence-inspiring.

I have been in touch with them over some issues I have had,and the support is fantastic. I had an issue with mosh over my local network (SSH worked,mosh did not) and got a very detailed reply about why they treated LAN UDP packets that way, and why I was probably not affected since I ran a modern Linux distro and of course the setting that turned that safety feature off.

And, if you do t trust them to make such decisions for you (or you run an unsupported OS) they have regular openVPN files
Racism is not illegal.

Even if it was, citizens of China and Europe (e.g. France) are far more racist than the United States and no law can change that.
If you read into this more, it's actually the lye solution which artificially ripens the olive. That Youtube video doesn't go into the lye process other than the chart that you can see on the wall while going over the 7 day process. My guess is they don't really want to be verbal that lye is used (sounds a little gross to me).

However, the gap between why black olives are prone to botulism and green olives are not prone is not covered. I wish that was expanded on.
I'm one of the Lucky Few who have real NBN (100mbit down). YouTube 1080p60 is fine, but Twitch and Mixer seem to be coming from Hong Kong and stutter / drop out.
This further enhances the fact that we must have a proper 7 to 8 hours sleep.

Also, to some extent why naps are refreshing.

Does it means that when we feel overwhelmed, just closing our eyes and sitting still for only couple of minutes would help?
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This proves that speaking out makes a difference.

Edit: HN discussion of Susan J. Fowler's original blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022
According to the article 5 different VC firms representing 40% of the voting shares asked him to resign today. Kalanick still controls the majority of voting shares and a board seat.

Most of Kalanick's trouble started with Susan Fowler speaking out. Please believe women when they report harassment in the workplace. Many of their reports may not be as clear cut as Mrs. Fowler's.
Are these numbers for real, and are these all Bay Area? I'm further North and pull no where near these numbers as an ML PhD with a lot of experience now in the tech industry. Have I goofed on all negotiations?
You're right this is correct. I was thinking about commercial infrastructure aka power plants but said the wrong thing.
"This was a minor inconvenience compared to swapping the 40 1.44mb disks needed to install it"

This was a minor inconvenience compared with recompiling the kernel overnight in order to add soundblaster support. (This was before modules.)

(Oh, and I learnt not to buy cheap no-name floppies, after the installation process failed several times, each at a different stage.)
I see -- I thought the patent was new. I'd ask you why you wrote a patent that allows large companies to block the open flow of online information (considering that it might prompt other companies to block information in different, but similar, ways), but I'm guessing that you won't be able to talk about it.
You could have solved the second problem by storing the email with the login and password in a password manager. Maybe they were not a thing yet when you started this experiment.

The third problem is more serious. I use Thunderbird. I googled and there are a couple of addons that makes it easy to edit the from address without having to create new Thunderbird identities.

https://github.com/absorb-it/Virtual-Identity

https://freeshell.de//~kaosmos/index-en.html#editsender

Both are somewhat unsafe, one because of the site certificate, the other because of the download site.

The first problem looks like a showstopper tough.
>If we're going to bother questioning trends, shouldn't we be aiming to be questioning in a way that is different from everyone else who has questioned before us?

That would be nice.

> it would appear that previous questioning has failed to have an impact.

Just because something does not cause a change, does not mean it does not have an impact. Maybe, the impact is that it is keeping things from getting worse...In this case, question like these may help to balance the influence of "trends" and helps us to maintain perspective...
I just had a chance to try it and I agree. It's almost fully automated, unlike other companies where you have to punch in a code to unlock to bike.

Also among their competitors they have the name most likely to work in Western countries, compared to competitors such as "Ofo".
If Uber ends up going down in flames, unable to recover from the scandals and lawsuits, and Lyft prevails, it will be the most incredible change of fate in the business world this century or perhaps longer.

The future of automobiles and transportation is still being swirled about, and it feels like Uber's downfall has blown the game WIDE open, ready for anyone (maybe Uber, maybe Lyft, maybe Tesla, Google, Apple, an automaker) to just step in and take all the riches.
When any story about your company needs a tagline like 'embattled CEO blah blah blah' it might be time to step back
Sorry, I meant L3 without leaving the CCX.
Found via Andrew Gelman's blog, which also has more comments and links to papers: http://andrewgelman.com/2017/06/19/not-everyones-aware-falsi...

It's a bit annoying that half of the discussion apparently happens on FB instead of the public internet.
Load salt on the huge cargo ships already crossing the oceans. Build machines that dump salt overboard slowly and continuously as the ships make their voyages.

The ships are probably full one direction (when traveling from countries that manufacture a lot) but relatively empty on the way back, so there's probably free space.
Susan Fowler is the giant killer of this century.

Salutation!
OK, makes sense. Thanks!

It might be a good idea to mention that on the page as (I'd guess) many tech literate people use the service.
Regardless of what he does professionally, his soul totally needs this.
Reproducibility in Machine Learning Workshop (ICML 2017)
Choose-Your-Own-Adventures Just Landed on Netflix. Yes, Netflix
Wow, I thought he was just going to step away and take a break. Do we know who might replace him?

It's also interesting that the five shareholders mentioned in the NYTimes article want 2 "truly independent directors". What does that mean? Depending on how many board seats there are, maybe two votes aren't enough?
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O
Wow! Looks like the investors really want their money back now and are pushing hard for an IPO.
Wow, makes me want to skim over the original Susan Fowler thread to see if anyone predicted this happening [0]. Her allegations of course weren't the only problem Uber faced but it sure seemed to cause other previously overlooked issues and complaints to gain real resonance.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022
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Hope everyone's paying attention to the identity of these investors behind this horrid behavior. Travis is not without his flaws but he created an awful lot of value for them.

They pressure him into taking a sabbatical, then two days in they pull this cowardly act of firing him remotely. Not only was it a cowardly act, but it was the wrong thing to do for the business. It will lead to an epic destruction of value.

Worst business move since Apple's board (with John Sculley's behind the scenes string pulling) fired Steve Jobs. How well did that work out for Apple's shareholders at the time?

Travis Kalanick needed to change but do you really think that running Uber by committee is going to work? Guess it's time to try Lyft.
Thanks, that seems to be the problem indeed.
Not unsurprising, as Uber really is trying to grow up, and Travis Kalanik has been the silicon valley poster boy for a bit too long. I still think he did a phenomenal job, not only launching a successful startup, but creating an international cultural movement.

I wonder who will take his place, and, more importantly, I wonder if Uber will continue winning.
What this really reflects is that Tesla has painted itself into a corner. They've shipped vehicles with a weak sensor suite that's claimed to be sufficient to support self-driving, leaving the software for later. Tesla, unlike everybody else who's serious, doesn't have a LIDAR.

Now, it's "later", their software demos are about where Google was in 2010, and Tesla has a big problem. This is a really hard problem to do with cameras alone. Deep learning is useful, but it's not magic, and it's not strong AI. No wonder their head of automatic driving quit. Karpathy may bail in a few months, once he realizes he's joined a death march.

If anything, Tesla should have learned by now that you don't want to need to recognize objects to avoid them. The Mobileye system works that way, being very focused on identifying moving cars, pedestrians, and bicycles. It's led to at least four high speed crashes with stationary objects it didn't identify as obstacles. This is pathetic. We had avoidance of big stationary objects working in the DARPA Grand Challenge back in 2005.

With a good LIDAR, you get a point cloud. This tells you where there's something. Maybe you can identify some of the "somethings", but if there's an unidentified object out there, you know it's there. The planner can plot a course that stays on the road surface and doesn't hit anything. Object recognition is mostly for identifying other road users and trying to predict their behavior.

Compare Chris Urmson's talk and videos at SXSW 2016 [1] with Tesla's demo videos from last month.[2]
Notice how aware the Google/Waymo vehicle is of what other road users are doing, and how it has a comprehensive overview of the situation. See Urmson show how it handled encountering unusual situations such as someone in a powered wheelchair chasing a duck with a broom. Note Urmson's detailed analysis of how a Google car scraped the side of a bus at 2MPH while maneuvering around sandbags placed in the parking lane.

Now watch Tesla's sped-up video, slowed down to normal speed. (1/4 speed is about right for viewing.)
Tesla wouldn't even detect small sandbags; they don't even see traffic cones. Note how few roadside objects they mark. If it's outside the lines, they just don't care. There's not enough info to take evasive action in an emergency. Or even avoid a pothole.

Prediction: 2020 will be the year the big players have self-driving. It will use LIDAR, cameras, and radars. Continental will have a good low-cost LIDAR using the technology from Advanced Scientific Concepts at an affordable price point.

Tesla will try to ship a self-driving system before that while trying to avoid financial responsibility for crashes. People will die because of this.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik
[2] https://player.vimeo.com/video/192179727
Solar desalination is not new. KKR invested $100b in SunDrop farms which uses solar desal that produces energy (steam) and water for greenhouses in the desert.
There are thousands of ecological niches. I'm the kind of programmer who takes time off to make gnocchi and think shallow thoughts about quantum physics. Not every company is into that. Some are. It's not a judgement against anyone, it's just a question of fit.
Please investigate, not necessarily believe. Innocent til proven guilty still has some place in this world..

That being said, kudos to anyone courageous enough to speak the truth even at the risk of vilification.
I'm missing Google Street View on those.
You're right, but I wonder what "Last Update: 2014-06-27" is referring to.
Did Susan Fowler's article start this fire? If so, it's an incredible and inspiring story every victim of harrassment should follow. Thanks Susan.
I bet it will be a woman. Merrisa Mayer? lol
If you are a hiring manager for top-tier ML experts, why would you be trying to inflate market value with outrageous claims?
> Travis is not without his flaws but he created an awful lot of value for them.

It's business. Travis ought to understand that.
Firefox has better controls for that. You can reject 3rd party cookies only from non-visited sites.

It also blocks some trackers by default when using private browsing mode.
It will be interesting to see Uber's HQ corporate culture shift from the wild-westworld crazy co to one who's cash cow is closely managed by the monied interests who will surely own the company from this point forward to ensure all future scandals are either quashed or kept under wraps...

With that said, who should lead Uber?
Would Marissa Mayer be a good fit for Uber CEO? Given that she just resigned from Yahoo, one would think the board would at least consider her. Unless they're going to choose the next CEO from within the company.
Founder CEO's do not resign, they are fired.

The article skips over the board entirely, but Travis must have been blindsided by his co-founder Garret Camp and early CEO Ryan Graves for this to have transpired. The board likely threatened to fire him unless he resigned, because there's no way Travis walks away because of this investor letter. It's more than likely the letter just provided the air cover his old friends needed to send him packing.

edit: For those replying that Travis has control of the board, please cite your sources. Being the majority shareholder using dual-class stock is a much different thing. Shareholders elect board members, but you can't remove investors' board seats, that language is boilerplate in financing documents.

Uber does not need the backing of the investors from the letter to remain solvent. With the exception of Fidelity, these aren't big players. Hundreds would take their place immediately given the chance.
Amazing the internet can empower an individual blog post to force the previously most formidable startup's CEO to resign.

Fear this inter connected world. Fear the power of language.
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No, but quite a few posts mentioned Travis being part of the problem and promoting that sort of culture.
I don't (yet) have an opinion on this, but it's important to note the other side of the coin...

> Hope everyone's paying attention to the identity of these investors behind this horrid behavior. Travis is not without his flaws but he created an awful lot of value for them.

He's been very well compensated for the value he's created. You don't keep a job because of what you've done in the past, you keep a job based on what you can do in the future.
FWIW, I think now technically indexing can either be 1- or 0-based.
Honestly when it comes to these "most powerful woman in tech" awards, she wins by a landslide.
Yes I've done several. Great overall experience but not to be taken casually.
The Uber movie. ^^
Are you still doing that or back at a job?
Check out the Apollo 11 landing site:

https://www.google.com/maps/space/moon/@0.6813909,23.4602739...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/correct-i...

This is the one I use.
Uber was already likely to lose. It was way behind in autonomous vehicle tech.

Also, it wasn't even close to profitable.
It clearly makes a difference as to who is CEO -- on several occasions a succession of bad news stories has effectively removed a tech CEO (Mozilla, GitHub, Uber, ...)

Questions I'd be interested in your thoughts on:

- does it actually change corporate behaviour?

- is it a good thing that press (which it seems is sometimes influenceable) can effectively hire and fire by continued pressure?

(And please note that's not whether this case was wrong, but whether it opens the possibility of intentionally targeted public campaigns to remove someone from a company sponsored by unstated private reasons. And those are genuine, not rhetorical, questions.)
lol what the fuck is going on with this company? Unbelievable amount of drama, I don't know how any employees can do any work at this point.
Good chance of it being Arianna Huffington.
As the adage goes, sometimes the startup CEO for the first $70 billion, is not the same as for the next $70 billion.
I think it was unrealistic to expect to have any "significant" market share compared to Android and iOS, even 1% is a huge number.

What I would have done is to focus on apps first, staying on Android. Make worthy competitors for the built-in apps, like GMail.

Then, make it easier to write apps. Mobile app development is a baroque hell. Most apps nowadays are just lists, or maps, with a JSON backend. I don't want to deal with Adaptors and Fragments and Providers and what not for just that, when the app could be done 90% declaratively, and styled with a bit of CSS.

Why did they ditch all the work put into Maemo to make Gtk touch friendly years ago? Merge that stuff, or use modern Gtk, and let me write apps in Python+Gtk.

Then, once you have kick-ass apps, make a great rooting tool. Then, make a great android distribution (don't call it a ROM!). A vanilla android + your apps + a tool to extract drivers from the backup partition, so that it works on dozens of devices. Then add debian in a sub-tree. Then add apps to tie the linux world and the android world together (e.g. a Android terminal, maybe written in your "awesome" framework).

I think a piecemeal solution is the only realistic way to build an android competitor.
> epic destruction of value

Better than abiding by an epic destruction of values.
Unfortunate choice of name...
Well this comes as a big surprise. I just thought that he'd be taking a break. I also think that he wasn't forced to resign as much as he thought it'd be the best choice for the company (he probably has majority voter control).
Kalanick - because of his super competitive nature - was probably the best person to be CEO during the time he was but maybe its now time for a more matured and seasoned executive to take over. Just my thoughts.
Both work.
I would bet against it.

Germany had the best tank in WW2. The "royal tiger". But the Russian T34 was much cheaper. They outproduced Germany.

MoBikes are expensive and heavy. They look over-engineered for the problem they are trying to solve. Compare this with the yellow bkes ofo. They seem to be much cheaper to produce and are much lighter (no GPS positioning system, location is saved by last cyclist during checkout).
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> to one who's cash cow is closely managed by the monied interests

Not sure I'd use 'cash cow' to describe something that bleeds cash to the tune of billions of dollars a year.
Yes, there is an obligation. A social obligation.

If you think this is not a real obligation or doesn't have real consequences, then you have no experience with tipping.
This has been happening slowly in a lot of areas already. We went from manual transmission to automatic transmission without much fanfare. Even with the current self-driving trend, it is happening pretty slowly with various assisted technologies. I doubt things will change overnight.
This is a topic I find really interesting, so I caught myself writing a whole essay about it. But I have to get back to work.

So let me just say that yes, you are right that gasoline prices better match price and demand.
Believe. Do not take action against individuals without investigation, but at organization levels, take measures as though the complaints are true.