skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber has: No CEO. No CFO. No COO. No General Counsel. Recent turnover at heads of business, policy and communications, engineering, and product.

Amazon or Google or any other cloud provider could spin up a service that pairs drivers with ride-seekers. This kind of software is no longer a secret sauce and they have the infrastructure to scale instantly and the customer base to market it easily.
It looks like Uber maybe pulling out of India as well:
https://www.recode.net/2017/7/14/15964808/uber-global-domina...
I'm not going to get involved in a flame war, but I'll just say 99% of the time ideas are worthless. Execution is what matters.
v0.0 Alpha

My project manager just hear "So, you're saying this is production-ready? Great!"
See "Step 3": https://debug.com/how/
Good. There has been a Yimby movement for a while in Seattle which has built several times the housing of San Francisco and Oakland combined over the last few years: http://www.spur.org/news/2017-06-15/keep-building-oakland. , and while it is still getting more expensive it is doing much much better than the Bay Area at keeping cost down. All the while, being an equally good place to live (I prefer Seattle by leaps and bounds, many prefer San Francisco.). As a result of this, Seattle is also growing at 3X the rate of San Francisco.
Is there an example in the docs that just shows `examples.sales`? If so please let me know and I'll fix it. I searched and couldn't find such an example (though maybe, through the "magic" of Chrome's service-worker, got an old version of the website). As mentioned by Kevin `()` or `_data()` is what you need.
I still prefer to use RideAustin. The drivers I've talked to seem more into it and given the choice I'd rather give my money to them than to Uber or Lyft.
To be fair, those '10 other things' are already baked into angular, so if you don't want them, well, too bad.
An essay on banking seemed necessary, since you said that banks "give away money" when lending. It's important to understand that banks create money when they lend, but that's too esoteric to say on its own.

As for the questions that were set aside, one role of the Fed is to ensure that enough ("high-powered") money is available to ensure that transactions clear, which is part of monetary policy (including, as you sort of mentioned, the discount window). Asymmetries between banks are resolved through interbank lending. Because all these mechanisms are available to cover their reserve needs, banks will issue loans (creating deposits) based on the creditworthiness of their applicants, not on their own reserve positions. But these are secondary matters, which is why I didn't talk about them earlier.

>Someone like you would blame everything on the last sentence, whereas I am more interested in the root cause.

On the one hand, interest rate risk is precisely why we allow lenders to charge interest; otherwise it would be money for nothing. On the other, I suspect you just want to blame the federal government, because that's ideologically convenient. For my part, I'm skeptical of the Fed's belief (and general economic orthodoxy) that interest rate increases are the correct response to inflation, but that's even more secondary. More importantly, we have the issue that normal people need to be secure in their bank deposits, and since the government is us, it's perfectly reasonable to make that happen. In particular, once you start insuring deposits, you really need to be ready to regulate.

As for S&Ls, deregulation was the response to their interest rate troubles (they went for deregulation rather than closure because of free market orthodoxy), but then that turned out to be a disaster. The "control fraud" I talked about, where executives pillage the bank, was rife in the latter days of the S&L boom. Past that, y'know, it was a situation of making extremely risky loans with capital from insured deposits, because there was nothing holding them back. This is about as far from "won't somebody think of the bankers" as it gets.

The FDIC has a fair write-up of it: https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/history/167_188.pdf Indeed, if you keep a vaguely open mind and know anything about the global financial crisis, you ought to spot one or two similarities, that have nothing whatsoever to do with the federal government strong-arming put-upon banks to make unreasonable loans to poor people---and, if anything, a failure of the federal government to lay down the hammer on private-sector fuckery.
This is a kind of "end of history" argument that assumes no further advances can happen. I just don't buy it.

We will invent new things to do. Or, god forbid, maybe just spend some time relaxing and enjoying life instead of working ourselves to death.
If only people would be as passionate about population control as they are about YIMBY and NIMBY. There is a problem that hits at a majority of these issues and it's a planet's ability to sustain populations. We're out of balance and everyone wants to preach about how it's everyones right to squirt out 6 kids instead of limiting it to one or two, and get the issues under control.
By language you mean like PHP or Ruby or C++ or something like that?
Most of the time, chinese stuff have documentation in english(where necessary). The only problem is long shipping delays, where i live.
A solution from heaven for veguns!
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I spent a lot of time getting peoples' takes on their yc experiences back in like 2011. What I found is that no one really says "yc was bad for us". Even companies that didn't survive got immediate press credibility, money, etc.

If you think about it, the worst case for a company that goes through yc is that it's neutral. They can't really hurt anything — when companies fail (or struggle) it's never because of yc. There are hundreds of reasons companies fail.

So the tl;dr; is that people probably won't ever say "yc was bad for us", and companies that come out doing well won't think "yc wasn't great for us".
There's some margin of error, and it would be interesting to see what that is, tbh.
It as been disclosed by Sam Altman on this talk
https://youtu.be/Y0zbiyIEqX0
(Sorry at the moment I don't remember the specific timeframe)
Sounds like https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19335

I guess the performance issue has something to do with some missing optimizations. Hopefully it will get better.

Edit: Also https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19361
TOMS Shoes is another bootstrapped company, though the founder had another company at the time to help the initial funding.

Interesting Tim Ferris interview on the podcast: https://tim.blog/2017/06/28/blake-mycoskie/
It's hit southern Ontario bad the past few years as well. It's a shame.
Ah cool! TIL
Curious to hear your point of view on Sam Altman. I don't know him personally (only met him twice at public events), but from what I have read and listened, I tend to like him a lot. Your perspective might be really useful.
I code mostly in C#/.NET these days, Angular 2 made web development bearable for me and my colleagues.
Animats is a well-respected figure and lot of what he comments on point. 2 cents.
I just finished a project where I tried to fulfill those ideals, but it still comes in at around 200kb.
> Made under 24 hours for a NUS Hackers hackathon, out of 68 competing projects

It's not meant to be production ready
It's not that hard, dude — and I say that being nontrivially Aspie, and profoundly bad at these kinds of social cues. The point where it becomes "unacceptable" is subtle and situational, but not terribly ambiguous.

A good generalization: presumably, you like this person. Why would you want that — or you — to be a thing that is unpleasant for them? That should be the place you're operating from: what's good (or, at the very least, not bad) for them, not what you want out of the situation.

That said, here's a few tests you can use:

If you have any kind of authority over the other person (or them over you), don't even start.

If it's unwelcome, stop immediately. Apologize if it's warranted. Go out of your way not to make it worse.

If you're in any kind of doubt about whether it's appropriate or welcome, it probably isn't. Err on the side of caution.

If you still want to try, a good place to start is probably an honest, respectful, "Hey, so I think I've got some feelings here, but I don't want that to be a problem for you."

If you do that and you're told it's not OK (whether explicitly, or implicitly, thorough the lack of an enthusiastic response) DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CONTINUE, unless that response changes.

"Unless that changes" doesn't mean polling for state changes. That's creepy.

That's all I've got, offhand. This list isn't remotely exhaustive. It's survivorship bias, but I've never been sued for harassment, nor my employers because of me. And, like I said, I'm not good at this stuff.

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> humans will eventually do it a thousand times better.

From an energy conservation perspective nature is perfect. It is impossible for humans to do better than nature when it comes to conserving energy, which is a pretty key problem, so it seems a little optimistic to think that humans can do 1000X better than nature at very many things (or any?).
I'm one of 9. I'm curious, what would you have done to my parents?
Code for America & civic tech orgs would be quite interested, I would imagine.
People can potentially get put on that list for all kinds of things, though, none of which they'd want to be on the list for. Consequences for investor behavior never wait for a jury trial. It's a reputation economy, how would that even work?

> admit there could be behavior which may not rise to the level of criminality

Very little bad investor rises to the level of criminality. And most bad investor behavior is still a good reason for yc to shun you.
> Yes by increasing density, you are increasing supply of housing units, but you are also increasing the demand for your property

So both remain in balance, prices don't increase and you get little or no financial benefits. Also, a house surrounded by high rises in a very busy street has far less relative value than a house in a quiet street where your kids can play around. Cities bring strangers, crime, pollution, noise, etc.

But if you increase job density without increasing housing density, then you reap massive financial benefits from increasing housing prices.
They had a router package in angular 2 which had 3 as it major version number. To sync all version numbers, they decided the next version would be 4.

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/12/ok-let-me-explain-its-...
I did not have a hunched back (that I'm aware of), so my comment may not help you, but I found that a standing desk was more comfortable, and forces me to have a better posture more often than sitting did. I still sometimes lean over to peer at things, but I can no longer slouch back in my chair while coding.

Standing sounds like it would be tiring, but strangely it's never bothered me -- probably because I can change my stance, balance, or even move side-to-side while I'm working (and indeed, did so while typing this). I did not expect to like it as much as I do, but I've been using one for five years now and have few complaints.

edit: The key for me is that my monitor(s) are at eye level, so I don't need to look down. (Laptop screen is an exception, though, and is the main contributor to the discomfort I sometimes feel.)
All of these are excellent arguments against most of the IoT practices, and not even including the security issues. All in all a great read[1].

These are all the reasons for why I'm not interested in IoT/embedded. I just don't have the hardware and low-level firmware knowhow and doing it the other way, starting with an OS and going down, seems (and evidently is) horrible. And I say this as a full-time software developer.

[1]: Even if there might be inaccuracies; the author admitted the possibility and the point stands.
I think the concern is that the value of each rider is actually negative, and till now this cost was hidden by VC subsidy.

There are several ways this could play out. One possibility is that if Uber raises their rates, people will mass-migrate to Lyft. Whoever survives that war of attrition may monopolize the space.
Yeah Erlang is slow as hell for number crunching but then when you see this:

(Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang) https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781461444626

You're like huh. There's people that's doing it. I don't know how but yeah. I can't even crunch prime number on it without giving up cause of how slow it is.. I guess there's more to it.
Nice creative hackery in the browser! Always great to see well written blog posts on pushing web browsers in new unexpected directions.
Done. You should see a more obvious search bar on the next push. We'll also make search case insensitive :)
Ah, yep. I agree with all of that, except I'm not sure if there's a linear relationship between case lifespan and fees. The delay in California really comes from overburdened courts and distant trial dates. Anecdatally, I haven't found that this encourages lawyers to churn any more work than the case "naturally" supports (i.e., the amount they can get away with billing given the claim size, complexity, insurance pot, fee clauses, etc.).
> Businesses track the reputations of other businesses all the time.

I know of no business that regularly tracks the reputation of any _individuals_ in a database as part of it's regular business practice (the individual part is important) and that isn't part of it's model to disclose to involved parties. Uber would be a good example of someone that does this, but at least you can see a users rating at the time.

> The idea that there's something unusual about this is pretty silly.

I never said it was unusual. I think you're honing in on the wrong thing on this thread - which is the presumption that people are disgusted that these tactics happen. I more concerned that they are actively tracking it in a "review style" database and the data is only access by a select few (which is the presumption here).
Wow, that -entire- neighborhood is named after places in New York: Ithica, Albany, Buffalo, Elmira, Mt. Vernon, Great Neck, Jamestown, Middletown, New Rochelle, Coney Island, Syracuse, Queens, Niagra, Yonkers, Catskill, Cohoes, Westchester

The only streets that aren't associated with New York place are Terita, Faith, and Norwick.

There's also a whole bunch of other NY places in surrounding streets. (Utica, Rye, Troy, Rochester, Corning, Rome, Vassar, etc.)

Really cool! The cool part is pretty much the entire state is covered,from The City to the Hudson Valley to Western NY, to the Southern Tier.

(Found the person who grew up in New York)
Users redeem codes from inside the App Store app on their phone.

You can generate codes to give you app away for free, or to grant a free in-app purchase, but that is all. There's no callbacks from the app store to your app to intercept.

Possibly you could do what you want with QR codes and launch URLs, or by doing camera+OCR stuff yourself inside your app.
I am an advisor for http://www.dronesbench.com from Italy, an electro-mechanical testing bench for consumer drones entering the market worldwide in September. We hope to have a drone certification market soon in order to start running workshops in a scalable manner. Also engaging with IEEE and EASA for safety legislation to come while promoting our concise drone efficiency parameter for drone's plate. We will see.
Rent control is partially to blame for this, in that it creates a huge de facto landlord class out of a group of people who would otherwise have a strong incentive to keep housing prices affordable. They can even reap financial windfalls from rising housing prices by negotiating buyouts.

(I say this as someone who personally benefits from rent control. It shouldn't exist.)
I agree, C#/.NET + Angular + Typescript is a nice combination. I hope it will become even nicer when .NET Core will stabilize and rise in popularity.
If your back is hunched, the solution is to stretch it in the opposite direction: the following works for many people and if you go to a doc or PT and get something like this for first line treatment you are lucky:

https://www.amazon.com/Treat-Your-Back-Robin-McKenzie/dp/095...

Look at the yoga position

https://www.yogajournal.com/poses/cobra-pose#!

Also see

http://reichandlowentherapy.org/Content/Practices/Grounding/...

The bow position is easy to do because you can just stand up and do it as opposed to lying down as you would for the Cobra and McKenzie exercises.

I also like lying back on an exercise ball to stretch.

If your neck hurts, neck exercises are likely to make your neck hurt more because your neck is already being worked too hard already, the key is to do exercises that get other body parts to put your neck in the right place, see the neck exercises in:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pain-free-pete-egoscue/1102...
I'm not convinced that population control is needed, at least in the US. The total fertility rate in the US is under 2, which means we are no longer going to be growing in population, but declining; immigration aside.

source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Most CS students should get at least an internship before grad school. If nothing else there is a summer between your CS degree and the start of a masters program. 'Bootcamps' are very short term and don't really allow for that kind training.
First, "you can write a GC" in Rust is not seriously an answer. You can't do it without unsafe code, it would be a lot of effort to just purposely avoid using a GCed language. And the existing efforts to do a GC in Rust are very simple mark-sweep designs that (unsurprisingly) don't even support generational collection.

Second, the reason why I use the BDD example (or, more generally, persistent data structures) is that it's the simplest way for online discussions, because (unlike simpler examples), it's not amenable to pseudo-solutions that don't resolve the underlying problem and that you don't have the space and time for.

The underlying problem is that Rust doesn't really do safe zero-cost abstractions for multiple ownership, and multiple ownership crops up more often in actual Rust code than people like to admit (global caches and memoization often end up with using cloning). You have to deal with it either through Rc<T>, Arc<T>, or cloning, of which cloning is the most common solution, because you don't have the footprints of shared ownership all over your code.
We are living in the richest and most technologically advanced civilization ever to have existed. Life is supposed to be easy.

The failure to ensure that basic needs like housing are available at prices that are affordable to average people is a clear and unforgivable failure by policy makers.
Based on their current valuation, exercising pro rata could have turned out to be a lot of money, but certainly not 5-14BB. They may be looking to dump at a big discount to the current valuation though, which could put them near a wash or a loss.
> It's ideal for coordinating a cluster doing machine learning, but ANN code itself should not be in Erlang.

It's funny that's what they did with disco (http://discoproject.org/).

Python + Erlang = Hadoop 1.0 like.
Without bringing job density into the equation, the demand is much much higher from the land value increase when zones move up. Is not at all unheard of for a SFH that was worth max 500K on the SFH market to be bought for over a million by developers when an area has gotten upzoned. Now, going back to jobs, in practicality, allowing upzones, also tends to bring way more jobs - more coffee shops / corporate towers etc.
225k total comp (salary + bonus + equity) for Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Apple sounds about right. I've personally gotten offers from those companies only slightly less than that with only 2 years of experience under my belt.

If you're curious, hop onto Glassdoor. It's really accurate for the tech giants because of how many datapoints have been submitted.
I've recently come to believe the same thing, always shrugged off the weird consumer IoT stuff because of the marketing, security issues and uselessness of a lot of the projected visions of the IoT future.

I lose confidence in my rejection of IoT when I think of smart energy grids and cooperating sensor-networks. It's a useful and welcome addition to our future.
Nitpick: yes, it does. man- is a root for 'hand', and 'manual' as a noun was a term for 'handbook'.
If this is something you have to talk about, it's not something that's going to get done. Places that don't have this problem don't come up with a catchy phrases to talk about it.
Ideological reasons. I'm no Richard Stallman, but try to exclusively use FOSS software. I have made concessions for requirements at work (G Suite, Slack, Ngrok for conference calls/webhooks, etc).

The source for the backend portion is also available, https://github.com/localtunnel/server. Going to set it up shortly on my own personal box, and if it works smoothly I'll be able to present it as a self-hosted alternative to my employer.
> “Gore did not like Truman very much.”

There seems to be a substantial cohort of artists/authors with absent mothers. Those are two of them, and I can think of a few others, not that biographies interest me much in general.
Is the abstract really shorted and the author is mentioned but as affiliation it only says "London". They really don't want to know much about the paper before you pay for this paid research.
I just read on yahoo finance that social security could be drastically cut by 2028-2034 if nothing changes. Like at what point do we simply refuse to pay into the system if were are going to be shafted?
You are aware that, like, humans are part of the ecosystems, right? That we depend on these ecosystems to keep working if we want to survive? We don't preserve bees (being the classic example) not "because ecosystems", but because without bees, far less pollination, without pollination no food, without food we starve to death.
Uhh, 14 characters long.

Call it even ~30^14 / 348 billion per second = 1,374,416,379 seconds. So, they can break passwords with some pattern to them, but not really brute force em.
I think I remember that. Were they paid apps Starbucks had a deal with, or free ones?
This is gold.

I hope all of HN realizes how valuable it is to have you around....
I also was just thinking about those poor woman who got killed in a Chinese escalator accident a few years ago, totally missing the analogy's point.

But that's just a problem with analogies, they trigger different ideas in different people's heads.
If users are being quantifiably harmed by lax IoT security then there will inevitably be lawsuits which will adversely affect the company that chose to pretend that Updates aren't necessary for a device with a full blown OS.

It might be hard to prove that someone has hacked your smart tv and is causing you monetary damages but all it takes is for one smart toaster to burn down a house to set a precedent for liability.

The question the manufacture needs to determine is the risk / reward value for their device and what could happen if it's hacked.
As one of those engineers, I often wonder. In my line of work, if you don't have a stamp, you're not an Engineer. While NCEES offers a PE in software, how many in software actually take the PE exam? Is Professional Engineer even a thing in Silicon Valley?
Using a private Composer package with Laravel