skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make custom filter for a location for a time and the price scales for both. You can only use the filter from that geofence.

Something like $70 for a half square mile for a day on the geofence I drew in Santa Monica. It's $5 for an office building in downtown Austin for a day.

Their ui is really fun!
Why in the world would you want to make it socially acceptable to wear a camera on your face?
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Can you describe what more quality earnings means? Do you have a source for the breakdown of particular earnings (i.e., is this simply ad-clickthrough, or is there some dimension I'm not aware of?)

I find this very interesting, not that the earnings are so high on Apple, but that Google could be failing so miserably to earn mobile search revenue on their own platform. I feel like there's an accounting error somewhere.
All within hours. Basically, they all shipped at the same time. Blog posts were manually published. There is no order implied.
You think 5% error is "accurate"?
> If we can get a $100k contract, we will deliver a fully working PyPy interpreter with no GIL as a release, possibly separate from the default PyPy release.

If done as a separate release, will that version be maintained in the future?
Because it's subject to market forces and not the government?
Pick your poison I guess. Skimming Shapeshift's T&Cs, it seems their maximum liability to you is $50. So if you want to convert 1BTC to ETH (for example) and something goes wrong at Shapeshift's end and they don't transmit ETH back to you, the best you can hope for out of them is $50. They also put you on the hook for uncapped admin fees at their discretion.

Finally, there's no company info in their T&Cs (just a vague mention that they are incorporated in Zug, Switzerland).

So... all dandy when it works. Pretty scary if shit goes wrong and you were doing a largish trade at the time.

Edit: I have no affiliation with Evercoin or Shapeshift (learnt about both in this thread)
I am currently working on a .NET Core/Mono integration with QML.

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/net-core-qml

The idea is to only have bindings for QML engine and it's parts, with the ability to use .NET objects (properties, signals, slots, methods) with vice-vera (using dynamic).

It is very much in the early stages, but to me, the idea seems very promising.
Except you are not glued. Buy your own host, having a public IP, simple as that.
Methinks the fact that this letter has gone out to rank-and-file employees at Uber signals a very tumultuous cultural impasse that the board is having a huge amount of difficulty clearing.
If CPU load is an issue, why would you be using an interpreter in the first place?
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I won't be upset at all. My opinion is simply that is the only reasonable/ethical way to go about it if we choose to do so.
Google is under no obligation to provide a platform for free speech. Only the US Government is bound by laws like the first amendment.
If you tell your recruiters to look harder for one kind of candidate than another, I don't see how that's messing up fairness, because the search/recruiting process isn't part of the evaluation process.
> You aren't allowed to respond by gluing someone's mouth shut.

Refusing to actively collaborate in spreading someone else's viewpoint isn't gluing their mouth shut.

Now, if you want to argue that domain registration should be a public utility and not a private interaction where the service providers freedom of speech and association is protected, that's perhaps a reasonable argument. But that's not the status quo.
Then no one has the right to a free and public internet. The experiment failed.
It doesn't break sem ver. Sem ver doesn't disallow revving the major number without making a breaking change. It only says if you do a breaking change, you need to rev the major number.
They're asking for funding to spend on a risk-free attempt at GIL removal (risk-free since it won't bone PyPy mainline), if the attempt meaningfully succeeded I'd imagine their next step would be making it the default.

A fully functional PyPy that could do heavy math in multiple threads would be an amazing tool in the box, but there are plenty of risks to that (penalizing single threaded performance, for example). So this strategy makes plenty of sense to me.

They can't just do it on mainline from the outset because there are huge obstacles to overcome.. for example, that ancient foe, CPython extension interface compatibility, which assumes a single global lock covering all mutable extension data. I don't think there will ever be a way around maintaining the GIL for that, even if pure Python code can freewheel it otherwise
Not really.

Yes Lyft has gained some marketshare in the past 6 months. But Uber still dominates the US rideshare market (Uber by public accounts still has greater than 70% Market Share). Uber dominates in several other regions (Western Europe, Latin America) and is competing in several other huge markets (India and SouthEast Asia). Uber also has significant stakes in the dominant ride hailing companies in China and Russia.

This is not to diminish what Lyft has done. They're successful company. But they are in no way seeing more long term success compared to Uber as of today
No mention of the IPO disagreement. I wonder if most Uber employees would be for or against an IPO. I am sure many would want to cash out at this point and might support Benchmark for that reason alone.
>Sooner or later, some such opinions get out there

Very carefully chosen words, regarding the Memo.
"uber is the most important and promising company of our generation"

If that's true, I'm scared.
Not sure I would ever want to step inside a Johnny-cab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY
Not at the moment, but I am looking to bridge that gap.

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/net-core-qml

The idea is to only have bindings for QML engine and it's parts, with the ability to use .NET objects (properties, signals, slots, methods) with vice-vera (using dynamic).

It is very much in the early stages, but to me, the idea seems very promising.
This is made challenging by the fact that the entirety of the internet is composed of private parties.

Should we simply stop expecting anything resembling free speech on the internet?
Most people are entirely capable of reading the general attitude others have towards them. We occasionally make mistakes but a large sample goes a long way ("Jerry respects me" vs "most people at work respect me"). Is there any rational reason to think she's wrong?
Yes, yes, yes. You have to go to the root of the problem. It's impossible to solve the problem by (only) changing the recruitment processes. It starts way earlier than that. You can't expect to have the current gender distribution in education and job applications that we have today and then expect the numbers to magically even out in recruitment no matter what policies the companies have. It basically doesn't matter what way you measure differences in programming interest, at every level there are vastly more men than women that are interested in programming, let alone has anything more than cursory experience with it.

I believe that can be changed. I don't think it's biological. But the changes needed are wide and deep. If you want it to change, you have to actually change something about culture. That also means letting go of things you are familiar and comfortable with, maybe even some thing you really like. Gender norms need to change. I'm not so sure a lot of people even actually want that. Many seem to want to fix some negative symptoms, but not fix the root cause.
(You may have omitted this detail on purpose, but I think it's worth pointing out) The example of trial division as a primality test is a good illustration of an algorithm that takes a lot of work to run but whose output is easy to verify. However, the problem of primality testing is actually in P. [1] You have to use a fancier algorithm than trial division in order to get polynomial time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test
He said probably, but even if it doesn't this is an easy decision for Google. Imagine that they did not do this, the next headline would be: "Google even more evil than GoDaddy, enables Neo Nazis".
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864183
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we had a scheme where we'd push an update, it'd reboot, and if it didn't connect to our server within 20 minutes it'd revert to the previous version and reboot again

Was this handled in userland? Or with something lower level (e.g., a hardware watchdog)?

I'm asking because the question has come up a few times recently about making FreeBSD recover (unattended) in the event that an unbootable kernel is installed.
This is just asking various world governments to regulate or force google to do stuff.

Its not going to end well.

Riots are the voices of the unheard - Martin Luther King Jr
It is not a limitation at all in this case. Python is just a front to Tensorflow and similar libraries/frameworks so GIL doesn't matter there.
You know, it's at times like this that the term limited Presidency sounds like a wonderful idea. Imagine a Zuckerberg getting elected time and again because his minions have us convinced that we love him.
>Not sure what this letter is supposed to accomplish.

I would guess just stirring the pot and keeping Uber in the news. If you believe that Benchmark is the source of some leaks, like the poor state of the leasing program, that's the goal. Make enough noise that some other investor is willing to buy them out to stop the noise.
Are you suggesting that freedom of speech is what allowed or was necessary for the Nazi party to become what they were?
somehow i think that "real" AI won't be trained by the minds of 4chan
> Should we simply stop expecting anything resembling free speech on the internet?

I don't think that was ever the expectation. The internet is a lot larger than the USA. Different countries, different laws.
Yeah, sharing memory between processes is a very delicate ballet to perform. That said, sharing a read-only piece of data is way simpler than you'd expect, depending on size and your forking chain. The documentation could do a better job of explaining the nuances and provide more examples.
Yes, I agree (check my comment history over the last few days to see which side I fall on).

I meant worse for the problem the GP was trying to solve.
> You appear be asking tech companies to pass over excellent candidates so they can lead the way on equality.

That is absolutely not what I said. I'm saying tech companies should take active measures to counter the historical bias against qualified under-represented candidates, while simultaneously engaging in corporate efforts to influence the pipeline to produce more qualified candidates from those under-represented groups. If you don't think that such a historical bias against qualified female candidates exists at all stages of the candidate pipeline, from primary school through to job interviews, then we disagree on the basic assumptions.

The author is insisting that the sorts of efforts I described should not be the responsibility of corporations, but rather should be the result of virtuous charitable actions of individuals volunteering their time. This is like arguing that corporations should do no charitable giving to fight hunger, or fund environmental initiatives, and it should be left solely to charitable individuals to feed the hungry or advocate for a cleaner environment (I realize there are significant number of people who also hold that belief).

Fighting these sorts of large complex problems takes a lot of resources coordinated and guided by a set of values. Today, for better or for worse, those things lie in the hands of corporations. We could argue about whether that should be the case (i.e. perhaps government should be the responsible party), but it is manifestly the case today.
Didn't Zuckerberg already kill the 'Fuck Zuck2020' page from Facebook for being hate speech?
I was kind of worried he would not find anything... :D

Seriously, I wonder if stars like Lattner even need to submit a CV or their mail simply floods with offers.
I know it's not the status quo, but if we cheer this, we are cheering the death of free and public internet. Careful what you wish for.
> I mean we complain when China does it, how is this fundamentally different?

Because a private company declining to participate in the hosting of somebody's speech is a hell of a distance from the government mandating blocking said speech? How is this even a serious question?

Random House probably isn't interested in publishing a neo-nazi racial superiority manifesto, either. That's neither a free speech issue nor "tantamount to Chinese censorship".
But the 'having islands' adds confusion: HM QEII is known to have islands, to the layman boats are not.
When reading letters like this always be aware of the interests of all the parties involved and what they have to gain. Benchmark has a lot to lose if Uber starts bleeding talent (especially so in the engineering department). And it is there investment at stake if they can't turn the tide.

I'm not advocating for one side or the other but there is a lot of money involved and when that happens you have to be very vigilant of who is espousing for what.
Good sources for this?
That's exactly the reason why it exists in the first place.

Racist viewpoints? COVERED

Misogynistic viewpoints? COVERED

Satanism, Cults and "questionable" religious groups? COVERED

Pedophiles and MBLA? COVERED

Websites that advocate illegal drug use? COVERED

Websites that advocate political assassination? COVERED

Websites that advocate killing law enforcement officers? COVERED

There are limitations to free speech, but the reason it EXISTS is not cover speech YOU approve it, it's for speech people you DO NOT agree with and viewpoints that aren't popular.

This is the problem I have with people who say they support freedom of speech, but when it comes to groups like ANTIFA, BLM and others on the left, it's ok to shut down white supremacist websites, but not others exposing the same thing, just on the other side of the aisle.

You can't have it both ways, that's why freedom of speech covers EVERYBODY equally.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve been using .Net Core 1.1 daily for the last couple of months building out a reasonably large Web API for a game.

The platform, tools and C# as a language are a pleasure to work with on both my Mac and Windows machines (small caveat on VS for Mac, it’s still a bit lumpy)

I’ve been using Unity for about 8 years and I’m finally confident building a backend using .Net and basking in the joy of interfacing it with Unity.

When I first started using Unity many years ago, we used to say it made making games fun again. I can say .Net Core feels the same for Web/API development.

Kudos to all those who put effort into bringing 2.0 out.
Yes. We've never had free speech on the internet. Or rather, we do, but only so far as you're free to set up your own server and host your own site and put whatever you want on it (and if you can't convince a domain registrar to give you a domain, you can always advertise its IP address, or maybe operate a Tor hidden service or something like that). But if you're not willing to host your own site, then free speech on the internet has only been an illusion.
I don't think the goal of most people is to become a well rounded guitarist. Otherwise the route I would advise is to learn solfege.
This suggests that the full Holder report has some real, ugly dirt in it.
A quick google search says yes.

That is a bad sign, and so is this.

My big fear is hate speech will become speaking out against the rich and powerful under the guise of protecting people.
Absolute free speech is fundamentally incompatible with a free and fair society.

Allowing some forms speech has an incredibly chilling effect on other forms of speech, or on the safety of people.

Even America does not have absolute free speech (Although its further on this spectrum then all other Western democracies.) See - fighting words, direct incitements to domestic violence (Indirect domestic ones of the wink wink nudge nudge ones are fine, as are direct ones that incite violence against foreign persons or nations.)
Yes, but that's a workaround. All the effort you put into marketing an app called "FooTime" is now devalued because the actual app name is now "FooTime2" Furthermore, if you remove "FooTime" from the store, there are now a bunch of dead links.
Interesting as a company change (IMHO), from privacy-focused Apple to Google... :D
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OK.. I just assumed it was the same at staring at the sun... except without the blinding light that normally forces you to look away due to pain.

On further research looks like something about your eye having a specific point to focus on which gets damaged immediately.

Thanks.
Always good to keep the following quote often attributed to Voltaire in mind : "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Is this an escape hatch?

Registrant represents and warrants that:...registering or directly or indirectly using the Registered Name will not violate any applicable laws or regulations, legal rights of others, or Google’s rules or policies including:

It would seem to include rules and policies not listed in the terms.
> what's to keep someone from flashing an update that backdoors the lock?

> from which a signed payload can be loaded

All updates should be digitally signed by the lock manufacturer
I have a different take, I always advise people to get the cheapest guitar they can find, a second hand one if possible (because for the price you'll get better quality). I've bought guitars for 50$ that were really good guitar for myself, so I can't see why you wouldn't be able to start with that.
I'm really interested to see what comes of the XAML standard. Supposedly there's a Macos and GTK# implementation in the works.

https://developer.telerik.com/content-types/tutorials/xaml-s...
Perhaps, but there aren't exactly "many sides" to a group chanting "gas the kikes" and celebrating the murder -by-car of a counter-protestor. There's no moral grey-area here.
> The only reason not to do blind hiring is if it produces results which are indistinguishable from standard hiring.

Or the fact that it's not really possible. Right now, most software engineering jobs are pretty communication heavy. Almost all company cultures contain a non-trivial amount of verbal communication, so with that premise, it's reasonable to have candidates verbally describe technical things or even make technical arguments.

Once you're listening to real voices, it's difficult to pretend that the hiring is blind.

The famous study involving auditions for positions in an orchestra worked really well because you could hide the person behind a screen and judge an entire work product without knowing anything about the instrumentalist.

Now, if most software jobs include a heavy remote work component some day, it might be more reasonable to throw a somewhat detailed spec at a candidate, have them code up a solution, then show the code (and only the code) to people evaluating the work product. But most devs don't have a day-to-day that looks like implementing textual programming problems for strangers.
Another interesting move on Benchmark's part. I wonder if this is the key sentence: "Travis’s failure to make good on this promise, as well as his continued involvement in the day-to-day running of the company, has created uncertainty for everyone, undermining the success of the CEO search."

One of the key things about organizations which isn't always apparent is that leadership isn't "given" it is earned. This is often used as a tool in story telling where the hero's actions inspire people to follow them and so even though someone else is the "boss" the people are following the "hero."

That they are complaining about Travis, who, AFAICT, does not even have an employee role at all in the company, continues to be "involved" in day to day operations, suggests that his lack of co-operation is the issue and Travis is, or continues to be depending on your point of view, the 'bad actor' in this situation.

Sometimes you have classes where they throw out a hypothetical question like "What if you fired the boss and he didn't leave?" If Travis is able to exert that level of control over the company then clearly he continues to have people loyal to him doing as he asks against the wishes of the board. I can imagine that this would make it extremely hard to manage a company in that situation.
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Do you have any examples of these? Were they a case of Apple as a whole getting breached (e.g., all hashed iCloud passwords) or individual accounts?

I use Apple services for quite a few things, so whenever I hear about a data breach I evaluate how I use the service and how I can guard against similar breaches that might affect my data.

EDIT: I should point out that this applies to other services that I use as well. This is something everyone who relies on a 3rd party service should keep an eye on as a matter of course.
Nazism is a meme, just like stupid cat videos and the bible. It spreads from person to person seeking fertile ground in terms of an easy to identify scape-goat and an association with trouble experienced in a persons life. Allowing such memes to spread unchecked is playing roulette with open societies, the question then becomes whether you'd prefer free speech if it becomes the deciding factor in whether or not a thing like that can take root on a scale that it could cause a disaster or whether you forgo free speech to some extent in order to squelch the problem before it gets out of hand. Note that the Nazis themselves were not exactly free speech fans.

So even if it isn't a necessity it certainly will help to make it grow, and will allow it to grow faster.
I actually live in Sweden, and I can tell you that there hasn't been any social engineering projects at a large scale. Sure, there has been some adjustments to teaching and elementary school, but gender norms are very much alive and well here. It's not nearly enough to change a few things in school to actually make a dent, there's still soooo much influence from media, advertising, role models, friends and most adults.
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I mean, how bad is blowing up a planet really?
What's wrong with R? I know it's not a programmers language but it's great for getting things done.