skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how things currently work with deliveries, so personally I'd guess that would continue and delivery companies probably have a greater push to optimise costs than you do personally.
> it won’t make sense for people to own cars in the future because ride-sharing apps like Lyft and Uber will be our go-to when it comes to moving from point A to point B.

Is there anyone left who hasn't heard this Silicon Valley cliche ?

Even outside the SF, most people own bicycle and cars to get around. I lived in Oakland for 5 years and rarely took Lyft (never used Uber for known reasons). I can count a lot of reasons to own a car, for example, you would never call Lyft to go to a waterfall or visiting Yosemite.

If the case is owning car only for navigating in the city, bicycle combined with good public transportation solves that problem already in a much better and healthier way.
It's not easy to run a team (engineering) blog with static site generators.
Authoring in markdown, reviewing, external contributions etc takes up a lot of time.

With medium we've encouraged the team to run personal blogs and add interested articles to the team publication. It's a bottom up approach.

In return, we get viewer-ship when medium recommends our articles on other (medium) blogs or via tags. Medium has a sense of community. Speaking strictly for myself, running your own site is tad selfish, it lacks as sense of community. Right now medium does that, We'd only move out of medium if there's something that does it better.
Nitpick: Life expectancy has actually trended down slightly in the US, and is behind most other first world countries.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/02/22/us-life-expectancy-is-lo...
Erlang processes are cheap, unlike OS processes. More, the merrier.
> I was looking for a bulk downlowned about a week ago, and the only ones I found requested "Read data from all websites", which is a lot of trust to put in something I have limited ability to test/know if it is malicious.

AIUI that's a consequence of the Chrome extension security model. How could a bulk-downloader extension download files from arbitrary web sites without "Read[ing] data from all websites"?

Compare that to Firefox's model (at least, the old XUL model), where every extension essentially runs as the Firefox equivalent of "root".

But by making nearly every extension sound evil, even the ones that aren't, users get used to accepting every permission request, or not installing any extensions at all.

IMO the danger is worse with Chrome. At least with Firefox, you know that every extension can potentially be malicious. With Chrome, what happens is, you install an extension that has nice-sounding permissions. Then 3 months later, it gets sold to an ad/malware company, they push out a new version that reports every URL you visit to their server, and you see a popup saying that some extension needs more permissions. Maybe you notice it, maybe you think nothing of it--or maybe the browser window steals focus while you're typing and the OK button gets pressed without your even realizing it.
I agree. You'll probably not get the satisfaction you're looking here on HN, just more anecdotes.

I recommend a forum for kinesiologists, physical therapists, podiatrists, or orthopedic specialists. HN is great for software and software entrepreneurs; not much else.
GitHub suspended my account because I used it to host a "for-profit" website, which led to the website being down for several days before I checked.

I believe the last time I checked the TOS, no such mention was made for Github pages.
Can't that be said about any exploit?
If you gave up because of the cost, your reason is different from the blog. Or I did not understand the post.

About copyright, why not make it difficult to find protected music? If people share their own content, the name of this file will not be named as a Justin Bieber song. It will be your own name. I believe most sites want to share protected music and then try to negotiate their use.

Eventually, people may try to game the system, but the site may have an automatic way to freeze the song after receiving a complaint and check if it is a copyright infringement. And this file can be used to feed the system, so it can avoid futures complaints.
I drive barefoot, problem solved!
I hadn't heard of WhatsApp for years being in the USA. You are right that in the states texting was free much earlier.

It spread like fire with Europeans being able to text across countries. Texting was free within country, but between was expensive.
Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later
We have keyless entry, lane departure warning, cruise control, and even autopilot. Can't we have a stupidly simple system that if a human is detected in the car and the temperature is over 37 degrees C:

- 0. Call the car owner's phone or alert them through any communication app they use

- 1. After 5 minutes, call the police

Ether or both would save lives. It doesn't seem like a very difficult technical task to me.
> I can say this: if my car is now going to be throwing ads at me as well, I'm going off grid

You are already the frog slowly boiling in the pot, and you have not noticed it has already gotten extremely hot.

I live in the Yukon, and spend weeks at a time in the wilderness near the Article circle in Yukon and Alaska. I do that for a year or two, then maybe take a flight to Vancouver. Before I even leave the airport I am utterly dumbfounded at the amount of advertising people put up with daily. And phone use. And restaurants, and well, basically just everything.

Sometimes I think it's healthy to come back to "the world" occasionally, other times I say good riddance.
I really like your idea, lph. Reminds me of "Why Japan's Rail Workers Point at Things" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14011793

My children are teens now, but I agree 100% that having children changed me in the same way that it changed you.
Your point is totally correct, but just to be pedantic, it's fixed-sum not zero-sum, since the monopoly economy get injected N*$200 for passing Go every few turns.
What if only outliers or lucky ones are creative enough to generate value and the vast majority is obliged -because of internals or externals reasons- to play the zero sum game part ?
Oakland is the worst city for renters in the Bay Area, study finds
I second this.

I've always wore "normal" joggers, been running, playing sport etc without a problem for decades.

Swapped to minimalist shoes, and bam, had shin splints for months, I assumed it was the amount I was running for a while before I realised it was just the shoes and their lack of support.

Went back to my normal shoes and got insole supports for my new shoes, the shin splints went away very quickly.

Turns out a lot of what works for you differs based on your foot shape. I happened to have a very high arch, and my foot couldn't handle the shoes with a low platform because it caused me to pronate. So either I go barefoot or I go decent support.
About five years I thought of buying up some parking lots in manhattan figuring I could make a killing when AVs made it unnecessary. The economics were unfortunately out of my reach (and in many cases the air rights had been sold off).

I looked at some other places like St. Louis but the long term economic prospects werent encouraging.
How true. I'm a boomer. I'm told that I'm responsible for many ills, hold certain political views, and can't use a computer. None of which are true, but here we are. My generation had the sexual revolution, I'm so left I make Europeans blush, and I used my first computer in the early seventies.

But, people like their boxes and generalizations, or so it seems.
Then we should make homelessness a crime to ensure affordable housing for all.
> It is funny you mention Bandcamp as your flagship example considering how much 1993 duct tape is holding it together. You cannot compare the UI and tech of the two; Bandcamp has neglected the same Courier New interface since they were a startup.

I really don't agree with that. While there's room for performance improvements at Bandcamp (the site can be slow on fridays, which is release day for most albums), their user experience and design is just fine and very functional.

Discovering an album via recommendations in your activity feed and actually purchasing and downloading said album is a matter of seconds.

It takes me longer to remove 5 items from a Soundcloud playlist, which is a process that involves opening and closing a modal window 5 separate times.

If one of those platforms feels neglected and dated it's Soundcloud.
Totally agree! Our website lives at govenue.co and we just use stoptheswipe.com for one of our marketing campaigns!

Thank you for your advice and for checking us out!
I guess this is as good a place as any to post that I noticed something similar had happened to [User-Agent Switcher for Google Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switche...) and [Block Site](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-site/eiimnmi...). The "report abuse" link on the page is useless. The former is very insidious in that it actually hides the malware in a .jpg file that appears benign at first (promo.jpg for anyone who wants to analyze) but when loaded in a canvas element and decoded in some manner yields js that goes on to send all the user's http requests to some domain while also injecting ads and redirecting to affiliate links.
10 Interesting Developments in Life Sciences from the Past Week
What did the state do to create the Microsoft monopoly in the 90s?
Quickly, that's not exponential, it's quadratic.

More importantly though, it doesn't fix the travel time issue that well. It only speeds up a particular section of the journey and only between two specific points. You would need vast amounts spreading out with lots of stops to get close to a squaring.
So relatable. I've struggled all my life with loneliness. I had up and down periods, but overall it is the biggest issue in my life.
The economics of Aadhaar
That would be my guess, that the bandwidth was very high but the latency was higher than the cheaper part, maybe not all the time, but in a way that affected this hashing algorithm.
Yeah, WhatsApp is great. Except that Facebook mines the hell out of message metadata.
Economics will drive this. The car is the most, or second most, expensive investment most people make, yet it has anutilizatio rate of only a few percent. And big corporation s can borrow at a much more preferential rate (prime, basically).
Support Driven Development: Listen now so you don't hear it later
You sound just like a preacher. That's right because what you're preaching is a religion, not an economic system. All economic systems have matured and were finally replaced by something better. Given the level of crisis we see nowadays, the time for capitalism's replacement doesn't seem to be very far away.
A Comparison of Distributed Machine Learning Platforms
> the world has less poverty, war, violence and starvation than at any other time in history.

Is this true, though? Certainly as a percentage of global population things like poverty and hunger are in decline but some of this can be attributed to population increases. There were 795 million hungry people in 2015 [1], but this is more people than were alive in 1750. It stands to reason that 300 years ago there were considerably fewer individuals living on the brink of starvation.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/01/41126502...
tl;dr: A member of the development team thought it unexceptional and credible that Google should be using a clickable bit.ly url in an unsolicited email asking for login and update.

The world is an uphill kind of place.
UI Designer Salary Research of 2017 in the United States
It's alright, but I don't recall the book articulating actions computers cannot do. It seemed to still leave open the possibility that we can automate all human work. What we need is a precise task that humans can do with ease but we can prove is impossible for any computational device whatsoever.
Ditching WhatsApp encryption will help terrorists: Facebook COO
No, that because you upgraded to Windows 10.
It's been a while since I watched the course, but IIRC the setup video had an overlay that said to simply put "fast.ai MOOC" (or something similar) into the P2 request form. Worked perfectly for me. Did that not show up for you?
Tier 1 entrepreneur gives the masses what they want. Tier 2 gives the masses what they should want, and makes them want it. Tier 3 saves their lives so they have time to learn to want better things. Med tech is best tech. It also relies on much of the fun tech.
Still seams like the model could be repurposed to make gamedev more stable across APIs and backends at the same time removing lots of interactions with the underlying driver. It is a really clever identity function with some mechanical sympathy. Amazing stuff and so glad it is open source!
Not really. Monopolies are spawned by runaway fluctuations on the market (one player getting successful enough to start protecting their business faster than the competition can work around it). Monopolies are natural outcomes of the market unless special care (e.g. state regulations) is taken to prevent it.
Proof of Work is inefficient by design. The transaction speed of the entire network is equivalent to that of an average node. Adding more hardware increases inefficiency.

A centralised service like HN on the other hand could be designed to scale linearly with the amount of hardware resources.

Edit: Now that I think about it I wouldn't be surprised if someone makes a cryptocurrency based around "digging holes" keynesian style. I've even found a name for it: captchacoin.
The corollary here is that the people you hire to "make you happy" don't likely have the means to make themselves happy.

It's messed up, really: they do a study to determine that we could be happier if we offload our crap onto other people who, nearly by definition, can't do the same. Then, they explore further to try to determine why people who are able don't engage in crap-offloading more; the implication being that it would be the reasonable thing to do.

How about a study that explores the unreasonableness of structuring a society in such a way that so many are relegated to less-fulfilling, less-happy lives?
> I know it's their wet dream - just go away

Not sure who are "they" but in the end its all about cost, if renting cars is cheaper and its good enough for most of your work then people will go with the cheaper option.

The reason you have such extreme position is because you grew up with having your own car, in the future there will be a generation who will grow up with the renting option and they will ask the question why do you need the hassles of owing your own car.
I'm probably up too late, but why would falling demand for an asset cause that asset's price to rise, shouldn't it be the opposite?
Every time I see a picture online or in-person of a baby laying in a crib with a blanket, stuffed animal and a crib bumper I want to smack them. For as much as the rate of SIDS has declined, there is still many more parents out there who are ill-informed or ignorant about safe sleep of their child.

I have seen people spend money on these Angelcare monitors while doing one or more of the above, it's insane!
I work in a school and have found it's really easy to spot "Digital Natives" by the method they use the capitalize letters.

They will almost always use Caps Lock instead of the Shift key, so rather than momentarily hold down the Shift key and press the letter they want capitalized, they will press the Caps Lock key, type the letter and then press the Caps Lock key again.

Considering that there is only one Caps Lock key compared to two Shift keys I am not quite sure why they do it this way since their hand has to travel further when capitalizing letters on the right-hand side of the keyboard.
That is some fine detective work there, Lieutenant! :) What tipped you off in the first place to the malware in User-Agent Switcher?
I was replying to "There are just not that many coins out there that are GPU mineable to support really massive operations, like a full 747 of GPUs." And I pointed out that's not true because 1 airplane-load of GPUs represent only a tiny minority of the mining power of just 1 cryptocurrency like ZEC.

Also you seemed to assume this airplane-load of GPUs is meant for Ethereum, but Genesis Mining (the miner who rented a 747) already mine ZEC and other alts.

Finally, I would wager there are probably more (at least as many) GPUs mining all other coins combined than GPUs mining Ethereum (2 millions or so).
This is a main rule of thumb when I am choosing technology stacks for my clients (I may choose new experimental ones only for hobby/experiments).
And basically the reason I am coding on LISP (Clojure)
Given Wikipedia's standards I am a little surprised that the article is light on the math. One tool to measure this with is the hazard rate.

Say at age x my probability density of dying at that instant is f(x). Now we condition on the obvious fact that I would lived at least x before I die (counting from 0). The distribution function F(x) is the probability that I die before x. So that gives a conditional probability density of dying in this instant is

h(x) = f(x) / (1- F(x))

If this quantity is constant (in other words independent of x) then I am Peter Pan. I don't age. I will die by some random accident that has no preference over time.

If h(x) is an increasing function of x then I am more human, I age. I age.

If its a decreasing function of x I am probably the Joker, "... makes me stronger". Whenever h(x) is a decreasing function of x one encounters Lindy effect.

Pareto distribution has been called out in the article but anything that has a fatter tail than the exponential distribution will suffice. The life of a database query, search engine request, etc., etc., likely all fall under this category. In such cases it is on us engineers to try to make those latencies have an increasing hazard function.
I think we take for granted a lot of assumed knowledge that the younger generation simply isn't taught or hasn't been required to learn.

The other day one of my coworkers, a senior engineer in his 40's. Sent a simple C++ program he had written to dump some data into a CSV file to another coworker(a new graduate in her early 20's) via email. I was CC'ed. The email body simply said:

Usage:
convert.exe [infile] [out.csv]

She stopped by my desk later in the day I mentioned in passing "How did that program work out for you?" she then complained that she couldn't work out how to supply the program with the arguments - double clicking the file did nothing for her. Turns out she had never used a command line in her life.

I was shocked I grew up on the command line it boggles my mind to thing there is an entire generation who has been raised on nothing but a gui. This is quite a smart person with an (non software) engineering degree mind you.
Marathon shoes are much closer to Vibrams than to regular running shoes. They just have a bit of extra cushion to make a long asphalt running session manageable.

In fact, running on Vibrams on sand or grass is very similar to using cleats on the track. I say this as a ex-competitive runner.
Not exactly true. Life expectancy hasn't slipped, although admittedly it hasn't been increasing very fast in the last couple of years (up only 1 year over the last decade). http://hdr.undp.org/en/indicators/69206

Either way, you shouldn't look too much at short term trends when trying to measure long term development. If you start from 1990, life expectancy has actually risen by 4 years.
Clojerl – Clojure for the Erlang VM
My dream for a language is a type system that can enforce runtime semantics, preferably at import.

import 'mod::memcmp': O(1);

where O(1) is big O notation.
How to paper founder investment in company? SAFE or note?
Hi all, I'm a solo founder of an AI company. I'm wondering how to document the money I put in my company pre-funding. I looked into the SAFE but the lawyer I consulted said to use a convertible note as the SAFE was 'just a silicon valley thing'.

Pros of SAFE: I trust the YC provided docs so don't have to spend $$$ on having a lawyer draft the document.
Cons: Little guidance available on how to use them as a founder so here I am hoping y'all can help.

There are 3 types (https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/)

Safe: Cap, no Discount
Safe: Discount, no Cap
Safe: Cap and Discount
Safe: MFN, no Cap, no Discount

Anyone here used a SAFE before? Which would be best for a founder to paper their own investment in the company? And which for an angel?

Thanks all!
For a very generous definition of 'approaching'.
Just to throw this out there, I was born in 57 and there are really good odds that you have been impacted by my code in one form or another.

Trivially related, I'd like to preemtively apologize for some of that code. I am not actually a programmer, I'm a mathematician. I programmed out of need, until I was able to hire qualified professionals. Sadly, I did not stop there. I am a pretty horrible programmer.
Whatever they're doing doesn't seem to be working. What are the great music acts coming out of the industry in the last five to ten years? It is all a bunch of copy-cats without any large impact on society, unlike music produced up to the 70s.
It can, and has to, if you want to compare different qualities. That's kind of the whole point of putting a dollar figure on something.
Let's edit this comment for accuracy:

"[Some of us chose] to debug viruses, worry about floppy disk compatibility, learn how to change out failed hard drives, etc. if we simply wanted to use technology at all"

Now, Millennials is a pretty uselessly broad term, so depending on what age range you are actually talking about, there is slightly more truth to this. If you are talking about someone who is 29-34 today, then you would be an early adopter of these technologies and it did require a high level of expertise. However this was a very small portion of the population.

If you are talking about 22-25 year olds, then computers and the internet had become more common in households and de-skilling. I know plenty of people who have used and owned computers most of their lives and have never debugged a thing.

Nerds have the inability to understand that most people use computers like any other tool. They do not obsess over it, seek to understand how it works, or otherwise care.

Like a microwave, they buy a new one if their current computer "breaks." Like a light fixture, if it malfunctions, most people hire a repairman instead of doing it themselves.

This has always been true for the mainstream users of computers. It only seems more absurd now because 16-19 year olds have had smartphones and other technology luxuries their whole lives, and so we expect them to have invested more interest into truly learning how to use them and how they work.

But availability of a technology does not have much of a connection to proficiency of said technology.

Ironically, I am sure most of the people here who whine about how little other people understand computers have a similar lack of understanding for other objects they use everyday. How many people in programming/I.T. know anything about plumbing or car maintenance?
In raw numbers, but the rate is what's important.
Not that this is a complete solution, but there's an option for users to "turn chat off" for given users in their friends lists so that you don't show up as online to them and vice-versa. I use it for a substantial portion of people on my friends list simply because I only message a small subset of my Facebook friends, but theoretically you could enable it for everyone on your friends list so that you never showed up online to anyone. The only catch is that there's no way to turn it on by default, so you need to make sure to enable it for the given user every time you become "friends" with a new person.
I love this story so much
I present to you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport: scheduled to open in 2010, the current estimate is 2019. The stories around its delay are sometimes comical.