skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pricing difference really depends on what apps you use and what your update schedule was before, it was from a general paying at least double (yes, a lot of the professional users I know obviously did those calculations when the subscription stuff started. Enthusiasm about it varies accordingly)
- Uber has been trounced in two of the largest non-US markets

I assume one is China, which is the other one?
> I think consoles have helped keep them afloat in the bad years too.

That and their desktop GPUs. Their ATI acquisition turned out to be pretty vital.
Highly recommend 'Design of Computer Programs' on Udacity. Its a 300 level class taught by Peter Norvig, and while the quizzes and homework's aren't terribly challenging, its a great way to learn how to break down problems for an intermediate developer.
Surely there are some negative side effects of more a trillion dollars of debt!
Isn't there another technique that leads to mosquitos producing only male offspring? That strikes me as a much better technique, as the mosquito population doesn't die off after one generation, instead females keep diminishing until there are none left.
Buy-and-hold investors should desire dividends more than anyone else. Dividends allow the investor to determine where to reinvest profits, it's nice to have the option to hold your cash in something with returns better than t-bonds (which is how these companies hold their cash). Companies can go bankrupt, and it's better to have gotten a payout dividend payout rather than nothing. Borders did a huge stock buyback a few years before declaring bankruptcy. Plus, mountains of cash can entice managers into making poor investment decisions.

I'm absolutely pro-dividend because I've seen too many blue chips squander investors money. But if you're only in it for the short-term, then executives using cash-on-hand to artificially inflate the company's stock price works in your favor.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-...
Oh no I said "cuck" and called people "elitists" how terrible! The horror! I called it exactly as I saw it. They are more worried about virtue signaling and being politically correct than building businesses. I triggered international founders because god forbid I want national security for my own country, which happens to be the same country where YC is based and where most of YC's companies exist and thrive. Too damn bad. There are other conservatives/Trump supporting YC founders who are utterly terrified to speak publicly about their political beliefs after they saw what YC did to me. Also, I've had dozens of founders reach out to me and tell me that they changed their mind about applying to YC. I stand by what I said and I'd say it again.
Accused?
If you're a massive company that is importing a bunch of money all you have to do is make the right phonecalls

"hi, this is X calling on the behalf of $C_level_person at Google. $C_level_person would like to meet with you to discuss controlling the local mosquito population, no cost to the city, of course. Please call back when you have a chance."

A mid-level city administrator will probably call back.
What exactly are these passwords used for? The post mentions "controlling this object in the RIPE database" but I'm missing some context necessary to understand that.
> More likely, since pretty much every VC in the valley needs access to the YC dealflow

Dealflow is everything in the VC community, but this is pure hyperbole. Statistically speaking, there are way more companies that drive VC returns that come from outside of YC than the ones that come from it.
The problem with this analysis is that it's completely aesthetics driven. It will fail miserably at predicting areas that are prime for gentrification since those forces are usually market or location driven. It should more accurately be described as a bad neighborhood detector.
A good sit in probability theory and multivariate calculus is the first thing you should spend your time if you want to understand NN, ML and most of AI for once.

These hacker guides only scratch the surface of the subject which, in part, contributes to creating this aura of black magic that haunts the field; I'm not saying that is a bad thing though, but it needs to be a complementary material, not the way to go.
No, at least not in CS at "good universities". Jobs are too easy to come by for this pattern (which is more common for humanities majors I think).

In CS It's a combo of people playing the immigration game and people looking to one up their credentials and/or network. Which is different from "don't know what I want to do".
3.8k EUR / month is low, since taxes and prices are high in Finland.

The true cost to the employer is almost always higher than what is paid to the employee.

"I don't really understand what you're complaining about."

This is explained in my second paragraph.
Russia. (Forced Yandex merger at unfavorable terms)
Quantum Mechanics is a well-defined subject. "Artificial Intelligence" certainly is not. You could say that the builders of the Antikythera Mechanism were pioneers of artificial intelligence, long before Babbage, Lovelace, or Turing. You could say that everyone from Grace Hopper to Herbert A. Simon to Noam Chomsky was a pioneer of artificial intelligence. It doesn't really mean anything.

If you take "Artificial Intelligence" to mean "Connectionist Modeling in Silicon" or "Deep Learning" instead, then my point stands.
Some applications need 70+ cores. AMD doesn't have that.
Well this is not going to encourage VCs to want to work with women founders. Even if you never harass anyone why take the risk of ending up on the banned list.
TestContainers
What are you 12 years old? Try being harassed for months by the YC network of founders for "coming out" pro-Trump, then get back to me about "muh cyberbullying."
As mentioned in the article, this species only appeared in the area 4 years ago, so I doubt removing them would be an issue to our immune system.
> a $5 microprocessor with just enough intelligence to connect to the internet and send me an email or a push notification if the buzzer on the washer goes off

You have essentially described the Protect. Its brain is a cheap little MCU with 128kB RAM. The author, had he read an actual teardown [0], should have realized this. Instead, he made false and confusing claims about Linux.

Certainly other companies put grossly-overspecced hardware in their "Smart" devices, but Nest's Protect isn't one of them.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nest+Protect+Teardown/20057
yep :(
Because those people haven't internalized the idea of an analogy. An analogy is necessarily an imperfect abstraction, and some people think finding out those imperfections means you somehow found a flaw somewhere. Their brain (not singling out our friend here, just people in general) goes towards the exceptions in a model, because its far easier to find superficial flaws than it is to realize deeper meaning.
Griz – React grid system based on flexbox/styled-components
Yep. They made the process much more efficient, they can release 25x per week of mosquitos of what the startup they are working with could do before.

This is by doing automation - a robot that rear moskuitos , removes females from the group, automatically releases mosquitos at the right area, result measurement tools, etc.

Another interesting thing:reading this, and the recent news about Google entering geo-thermal power generation - One gets the notion that Google found a way to locate areas with a decent solution available, but that just needed scaling - developing cheaper processes and tools, working with cities and government and financing institutions, etc.

And doing that is much easier than inventing new stuff in really hard areas, like the previous approach of Alphabet.

And i could see how having the best search engine in the world, all that data, all that "AI" capability could enable an automated or half-automated "lead sensing" approach such as this.
hard brakes that apply when doors are opened manually, and an emergency panel behind which a small ladder is located.
I forsee many a bitter Uber engineer on the horizon when those options end up worthless.
"I need to preface this by saying that I have very little faith in the worldliness or general sense of Silicon Valley hardware engineers. I have seen a long history of extremely poor decisions from that part of industry, so I will assume they made all the worst decisions."

Old school engineers designed bridges, dams, nuclear plants, transformers, etc. They took a serious oath and got a license. Software "engineers" -- and let's be honest, most are closet software engineers, even the "hardware" ones -- are not cut from the same cloth in approaching problem solving, to the major detriment of society. I never trusted them.
Look, I know HN loves to hate on Uber, but much of what you say feels more like FUD than a rational explanation.

Let's break it down:

> Uber cannot support its operational business without massive VC subsidies (without drastically raising prices and losing their primary competitive advantage)

As they're not yet public, we have mostly speculation. We don't know this for sure.

> It's too easy for small, local competitors to enter the market

I completely agree, but are the small, local competitors not subsidized by investors like Uber? I don't understand how a competitor without backing could compete against an established super corp.

> Uber has been trounced in two of the largest non-US markets

From an investor's perspective, they came out ahead.

> Waymo legal mess

We'll have to wait and see, but I think everyone needs to take this with a grain of salt. Many, many large companies are in constant lawsuits with each other. Read the Amazon Investor's report, for example -- there are three pages of lawsuits, some of which have been ongoing for over a decade.

> The sheer volume/scale of scandal engulfing the company may be impossible to recover from

I think this is magnified by the Valley -- peers and friends outside of California seem to either not know, or not care deeply. I honestly don't think Uber's bottom line has been harmed.

> Current valuation makes an IPO under less than perfect conditions very challenging.

I think this was always the case. I don't see what's new now versus two years ago. I think Uber has just as hard a time as, say, AirBNB.

> If this was a well organized, planned round of funding, Benchmark wouldn't have gone behind the backs of the other board members to try and strike some shady deal.

At least in my circle, it's widely understood that Bill Gurley burned all his bridges to get Travis out. It's even been suggested he's been the leaker Mike Isaac of the New York Times has been getting his information from. I think Benchmark has destroyed their confidence with the rest of the board (which Travis is still on) and wants to rinse their hands -- I'm sure the feeling is mutual.

What does it say if Softbank takes the deal? Softbank is a huge, successful megacorp. They bought ARM! I would think that if Softbank buys shares in Uber, it's because they see future profits -- which is different than Benchmark's games. Not to mention that Softbank may be a great addition to Uber's board. If Benchmark exits at even 60% of the current valuation, they're out waaaay ahead.

This really seems like a win-win-win for all parties involved.
The presumption here is that the list will be abused by founders more than the VCs it was explicitly created to enumerate do their position vis a vis founders.

I think that attitude is no small part of why this problem is as deeply rooted as it is.

That is: which is the greater harm? Founders getting abused by VCs without this list, or VCs getting accused by founders with it? Maybe it reflects my categories and biases more than reality, but I know which way I'm inclined to err, there.
IP addresses (can) change all the time, so the attacker would also need to have a way to find out who had which address at the time of the post.
The strategy of releasing sterile males to reduce populations has been used for decades.

This adds the sterilization of eggs carried by the mated females, so that females can't subsequently mate with wild, fertile males. This is a big upgrade.
I'm a Rocket fan and glad to see this big slate of improvements. On the other hand, I do want to register a bit of concern regarding the plan to add "first-class database support" for 0.4. I hope that doesn't result in a close coupling to any particular database, or to using a database in general.
Makes sense. Having 90% of a pseudo legal market share would probably force law makers to make it properly illegal.
We will never understand software engineering in that way, because we are in the business of automating ourselves out of work. As soon as we understand part of the process well enough that it could become an engineering discipline, we simply build some new tools and let the robots handle that part of the job, moving the humans along to wherever today's frontier of uncertainty happens to be. We will never be engineers in the traditional sense, because that would be a waste of human brainpower.
Is that number attached or crawling? If attached, how many have you caught before they dug in? I live in the same area and that number would be really low. Stumble on some deer ticks and you'd be lucky if you only end up with 10x that number.
You can network things without exposing them to the world.
Of course they're hard to create and maintain, and of course they're more complicated than simply a count of the number of complaints.

The idea that there's something unusual about this is pretty silly. Businesses track the reputations of other businesses all the time. There's never any transparency in those lists, and people that fall on the wrong side of those lists never have any recourse.

Really, what we're arguing about here is the simple concept of "reputation". It's tough for message board nerds like us to hear this, but reputation in the real world is powerful, and it's not tracked in public Bugzillas. Ironically, the only upsetting thing that has happened here is that YC took the time to tell you about what they're doing.
The costing difference between an elevator and stairs is substantial. Especially when you have to have stairs when you get an elevator by building code.
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Deep Genomics is a Toronto based startup aiming to revolutionize genome analysis using machine learning. It was founded by a team of scientists from the University of Toronto led by Dr. Brendan Frey, a world-leading researcher in the area of machine learning and genome biology.

Bioinformatician:

We are seeking a highly motivated bioinformatician with solid scripting skills to help with tasks like variant annotation, genomics data-set integration and other tasks. A successful candidate will have the following:

* BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Bioinformatics or related fields

* Understanding of basic concept of molecular biology and human genetics

* Solid knowledge of Python and Unix shell, some knowledge of R

Molecular Geneticist:

We are seeking a highly motivated molecular geneticist with computational skills to help evaluate molecular effect predictors using ClinVar and other variant databases, curate variant effects from the literature, help interpreting results from whole exome and whole genome sequencing. A successful candidate will have the following:

* MSc or PhD in Molecular Genetics or related fields
* Familiarity with variant annotation resources (e.g. RefSeq, Annovar, dbSNP, SIFT, UCSC genome browser)

* Experience with human genetic variant interpretation and curation

* Basic working knowledge of at least one scripting language (e.g. R, Python, Perl, Ruby) to perform tasks such as importing and filtering a data-set, computing simple classification performance metrics

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Thanks!
Rust doesn't have a stable/mature HTTP implementation/abstraction yet.
> I wonder if this whole thing really happened or was completely made up.

Well, reading TFA, given that there seems to be evidence and a legal ruling involved, chances are likely that this incident wasn't "completely made up." But obviously you didn't create a green account simply to cast aspersions on Dyn Suh's character, and you must have read the article first, so clearly you know that "the whole thing really happened." Unless you're accusing the LA Times, the California government, Tami Barker and her attorney of all collaborating to manufacture this story, but that would be absurd.

I also don't see evidence of support for "many violent terrorist/anarchist movements" on her FB account, although she does have a BLM sticker on her mortarboard in her banner. Of course, that alone isn't evidence of support for violence or terrorism, so I have to assume you know her personally and have supporting evidence of Mrs. Suh's radical sympathies, and have chosen to post anonymously out of fear for your personal safety, which is brave of you.

However, I don't understand what "coincidence" you could be referring to, or why you find it "funny." Perhaps you could elaborate?
Eastern Europe sees discussions like this being done by the "bored westerners" and finding it great fuel for right. When Django was moving away from "blacklists", the general attitude was to mock it, or keep quiet about it:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev...
I took latin in High School and loved it, thanks for posting this, it reminds me to get back into it
TBH I don't understand this perspective. If you sign on to a startup as risky as Uber, you have to understand that there is a large chance your shares will be worth nothing. The fact that anyone might not understand this is everything wrong with Silicon Valley.
A 60-year-old California law may help women fight investor harassment
What was the use case? Was it for determining faces in general or distinguishing between different faces?
Uber backers consider selling shares to Softbank, report says
Tesla Model S P100D Ludicrous vs. 1,000 HP Toyota Supra Turbo\
64 cores on 2P EPYC 7601/7551/7501. Intel has its 4P platform, which in theory almost doubles the ceiling (4 * 28 cores in the top tier Xeon Platinum aka new E7). If you really need that many cores, you should either use specialized hardware (GPUs, FPGAs etc.) or clustering anyways.
You and I apparently don't attend the same sort of concerts.
MonolithFirst: preambule to microservice
Uber should have just gone public, now their future is too fragile because it depends on their small number of VC investors who probably are thinking that they will still make more money than breakeven if they exit now.

People criticize Uber for operating in a red ocean but this was the case for Amazon too. They just stuck around and survived while everyone else in the dotcom era died off.

But it's looking more like that kind of scenario is impossible now that their founder/CEO is out and the VCs are looking to get out.
>our very capacity for trashing the planet suggests it was rather shallow

That strikes me as circular? I mean, are you saying that the planet was never fit to begin with because it is unable to withstand any assault we can muster and remain habitable for us?

We've evolved the capacity to split the atom, while being simultaneously limited by our own biology. We need air. We need water. Yet, we can easily create a blanket of fallout that will render virtually any environ inhospitable to our delicate biologies. We can't ignore that incongruence and think that our planet is the problem.

Wherever we go will require some stewardship.

>defending our crapsack position from asteroids is as good as it gets.

LOL. Well, given our difficulty in finding any other place that offers a baseline of accommodation for any life, I'd say it'd be even more difficult to find a place that works for us and is also immune to cosmic activity. So, we'd likely have to consider certain issues for any crapsack of a planet we populate.

It's kind of like saying, "we don't have the technology or will to ensure our survival on a customized-for-us planet, so let's go out and terraform another planet or achieve interstellar travel, and then figure out how to ensure our survival on that planet".

How's about we optimize on the stewardship-front here at home?

>if we could somehow reproduce the same problems wherever we go enough times there's an opportunity for evolution

More likely, extinction.
This seems like a critique of what I would regard as Stoicism "taken too far."

The most helpful parts of Stoicism for me are understanding and accepting that awful things might happen I can't do anything about, the hedonic treadmill exists and a little more money, a car, a speedboat, or whatever I currently desire probably won't make me happy in the long term.

If I spend a week or a month in tatters over something minor, I can learn to adjust myself rather than trying to change the world to fix my own head. Long-term happiness is a mixture of changing the world to fit my goals and changing my goals and what I demand from it to fit the world - to learn that I cannot get everything I want.

Where I disagree with Stoicism is the ideas that my goal should be to optimize myself to some sort of perfection, and that I can ever have perfect control over myself mentally. My thoughts themselves live inside a biological brain which is affected by its construction, genetics, hormones, and many other physical influences. Beyond this, the idea that any specific thing must be the moral goal of all persons seems, as it is put here, like a gross presumption. But I never went in that far to the philosophy.

What does strike me, though, is your identification of various "self-improvement" techniques together under the Stoic banner - I've recently been confronting aspects of my personality in that sense and it made me jump a bit to read your description - it makes me think there is a bit of "There" there I should reconsider.
It's far easier and less risky to update, not to mention roll back, code on servers than it is on embedded devices. If you break the updater on a server, you can SSH in to fix it "manually" get a tech to replace the machine. If you break the updater (or WiFi driver, or bootloader, or...) on embedded devices in the field, you're up Product Recall Creek without a paddle.

In practice, this means that many companies prefer the less-risky approach which still lets them iterate rapidly on feature development, and fix bugs in production without weeks of QA.
IMHO, this is poor writing on WP's part.

I dug up the original tweet:

"Last month another investor asked a female founder/CEO to search for a white male to replace her as CEO. Also uninvited."[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/nolimits/status/845065946834386946
If you're talking about lazy loading of data, for your R implementation you might want to (if you're not already) look into creating a custom dplyr backend that only loads data when needed (similar to the dplyr SQL backends).
In before PETA releases 20 million ticks to turn people vegetarian.
By having a manual fail safe that operates mechanically. i.e., without power.
The Nerves project (http://nerves-project.org) is an IoT OS which basically boots a device into Elixir, and benefits greatly from the battle-tested Erlang BEAM VM which is extremely fault-tolerant.

Do you have a link to the Maersk story? My dad used to work in shipping.

Also, my original Nests decided out of the blue one day that their power wires were both disconnected (which is impossible); is this bug related?
Very simple and to the point.

Quick question, how did you generate the magnet hash?
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Oh nice, thanks. Did not see that on mobile at first.
I can't catch that before it triggers a "call" to Apple to very the code and do something else? I'm thinking of rerouting to a feature inside my app that's special to users of that code.