skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Travis’s failure to make good on this promise

Is this what happens when a CEO has a large voting block of shares (b/c he's smart enough to learn from previous founders' experience with VCs), and a VC firm that finds they can't have it their way (like they've been used to), publicly shame him for "not doing what he promised (us)"?

Last I checked they ousted _him_ and now they want to play "victim" because they're finding it hard to find a replacement? Maybe none feels they're able to fill his shoes or do as good a job as he's done? Last I checked Uber was still a tremendous success regardless of all their bad press and missteps/deeds.

Sorry, I just find it hard to sympathize with these people.
One company from Montreal has posted in the monthly Who's Hiring thread.

(edit: guessing Mindgeek given the other comments)
Release notes: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html

Which is generally more helpful than the above link. (IMHO)
> Is there some contract with ICAAN which specifies this as a duty owed?

There should be.

ICAAN should stop allowing Google to do any registrations. This is ridiculous.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/court-rules-baker-cant-refuse-t...
I think there must be people wrestling with this already in terms of ISIL recruitment. In some ways, these strike me as similar problems.
The internet is much larger than America. Why would American law be internet law?
Your caution is well advised, but the sun doesn't instantly burn your retinas. You do get a tiny bit of time to look away before any damage is done.

I viewed the 1979 total eclipse with binoculars, and when totality ended and the diamond ring and Baily's beads started to appear, I lingered a few seconds longer than I should have, and still no harm was done. I didn't suffer any temporary or permanent vision damage, even viewing those through the binoculars.
On a related note, Anonymous has apparently hacked them. https://www.dailystormer.com/hacked-anonymous-now-in-control...
Wheres the logic in that. How do you buy food or medicals in postapocalyptic world with BTC?
This a garbage, slipper-slope argument. It is clear and indubitable that the people in question host hate speech. There's nothing controversial about it.
Most Uber employees I've talked to think Uber is the next Google.
> If Travis is able to exert that level of control over the company then clearly he continues to have people loyal to him

Kalanick is being accused of defaulting on an agreement "to modify the company’s voting agreement to ensure that the board was composed of independent, diverse, and well qualified directors" and acting "to deter candidates and create a power vacuum in which Travis could return."

Defaulting on agreements doesn't take particular skill. While installing a surrogate would have been a show of power, throwing a wrench into the search process in hopes that it convinces people to bring him back also signals that those same people don't think he should be back right now. It's a move that signals weakness, not strength.

This letter is a message to people who, while perhaps not coöperating with Travis, left him dark corners from which to throw around muck. Loudly and clearly, Benchmark is saying "the old king is dead."

Disclaimer: These is personal, casual commentary and does NOT constitute investment advice. Please do NOT buy or sell any securities based on my Internet comments.
Encryption without domain validation is pretty much useless. Your ISP/Government/WiFi Hotspot Operator/Friendly Neighborhood ARP Spoofer is just as capable of issuing themselves a valid self-signed cert for google.com as Google themselves are. If you don't know who you're talking to, whether the connection to that entity is "private" or not is kinda a moot point.
I think the feature is fairly compelling in this case. Smart locks allow airbnb hosts to grant limited entry to guests without sharing their house keys. Any frequent airbnb renter runs the risk of their keys being duped and used for illicit access later on. While the implementation still needs work (obviously), the core idea is sound.
In the US the 1st amendment constrains what the govt can do, it doesn't constrain private individuals or companies
Of course, if this was leftist speech we were talking about, the "arguments" would be all about evil capitalists and the need for legislation to protect free speech.
My point is that they (at least ccTLD registry operators) should not be allowed to have arbitrary ToS. As long as it is legal and the customer can pay non-discriminatory prices they should not have any leverage to remove them.

Just like you can't get kicked from your internet service, electricity or water providers for arbitrary reasons.
+1 to premise of the title, but these specific reasons don't hold much water.

* "no tooling": searching Google for "mongodb ui" turns up - even before the organic results - three PAID results for different tools. I'd suspect you'd see similar results for most any reasonably popular NoSQL option.

* table scans: table scans can be expensive in both approaches. You'll get exactly the same performance problems doing the queries described against a SQL database; the number of records required to be considered "a lot" may be different. The fix is similar in both: indexing.
Is there any country that protects all speech that you know of?

(Related to the law you mentioned, in Germany they also have laws that are reactions to WWII, and they arrested some Chinese tourists for making Nazi salutes for tourist photos outside a government building last week.)
At one point, a lot of mobile game companies (which make money from advertising) bought up advertising space to advertise themselves - This is not as bad though because money flows from advertising to advertising but it's still weird.
We Fight for the Users
What a terribly un-nuanced and simplistic view of freedom of speech. I do not support the government punishing anyone for the views they espouse. I do, however, support the right of private companies to regulate their private platforms, as long as they don't discriminate against protected classes laid out in law.

This all-or-nothing view has never been true, and that's kind of the point. Freedom of speech requires social dialogue and consequence to have value - the ability of private entities to reject what they don't like is what makes the whole thing work.
I don't work at uber, but this letter communicates nothing but drama and uncertainty to me. I can't imagine it put anyone's mind to rest.
Coding for Social Justice in South America
Part of the reason we served was to allow people we disagree with have the right to freedom of speech no matter how stupid their views are. Banning hate speech (no matter how abhorrent) is a slippery slope.
It's not going to happen, you not only have to fix all the legacy code, but also fix the developers.
Not in any production workloads.

They do work these days in PyPy though, so I'd feel comfortable doing so if we did, although I'd probably feel just as comfortable writing whatever numerics in pure-Python too unless it was stuff that already existed easily elsewhere.

On a personal note I've played with OpenCV as well (and done so with PyPy to do some real-time facial analysis on a video stream), but yeah also not for $PRODUCTION_WORK.
what if we started young boys to get interested in gender studies?
Argentina is not particularly a glowing example of an entity with such a long investment horizon given how frequently they've defaulted on their debt.
The now.sh experience for deploying databases
Outrage-driven censorship isn't anything new, unfortunately.

While I respect Google's rights to host whatever it wants as a private business, I can't help but feel these actions merely serve to prove certain groups right and embolden, or entrench, divisions even further.
Google news has done an excellent job of promoting breitbart.com.
The issue here is that Google holds a monopoly on search, which has an incredible effect on the internet. Given that the gateway to the internet for most people is Google, should freedom of speech protections extend to it?
Sadly, we don't really have much to ensure freedom from tyranny of the corporation. Especially since the owners of the corporations and the government are essentially the same people.
It's like neither, but probably pretty similar to the academic UIUC culture where LLVM got started. Having both worked at Google and followed Chris Lattner's work on LLVM since before he was at Apple, I suspect he'll be happier there than at Tesla.
>But that's a cop-out. We should work on all stages of the pipeline.

From the article:

>>Go out and talk to freshmen and sophomore women about why they should pursue a career in tech.

>>Start a mentoring program.

>>If you are a manager, make sure women who work for you are properly treated and recognized.

>>Educate men and women about how to detect and correct subliminal biases.

>>Find men who are willing to educate other men about this to make the message more effective.

Which part of her list of suggestions is a cop-out?

>It's unsurprising that a Google engineer would believe that gender balance can't be addressed without fixing the college pipeline

I fail to see how any reading of the article will give you that impression.
DeepMind AI teaches itself about the world by watching videos
Equivocation. "the principle" points at different principles for different people. There are differences in which types of organizations we might wish to forbid from interfering with speech. It is absolutely coherent to believe in a principle which celebrates censorship by corporate entities but not by governmental entities.
Actually they are not. Once a domain is transferred it has a 60 day lock on it and can't be transferred to another registrar. It can only be transferred back to the losing registrar if there is some of accident or other clearly defined reason. This is to prevent people from shifting domains around primarily to avoid IP enforcement or UDRP problems.

Honestly this is a terrible precedent they have here. I am surprised they are doing this (if true and hence why I questioned the entire story) because it puts them at a disadvantage in future cases as far as 'why didn't you stop xyz domain registration that is now responsible for my child's death after I wrote to you and put you on notice'.
Any pointer to "Uber dominating in Western Europe?" Only in a two horses race with Lyft, but as you know there are many other racers, including traditional taxies which are well organized in Western Europe, not only a vested interest.
I believe that the right of private parties to be free from having speech compelled or repressed by the State is an important principal which means (except where it runs up against other important principals) permitting private censorship is important for the same reason as prohibiting public censorship.
As much as this conversation gets played out, I still find it really interesting. On one hand, there is a difference between free speech as a legal term, and the free speech principles that undergird it. You can argue that Google should abide by free speech principles in allowing open discourse, regardless of the legal requirement to do so. On the other hand, a fundamental component of free speech (expression in this case) principles is the right to free association. Google therefore should exercise its own judgement in selecting those with whom they do associate, and resist external demands to associate with someone they would rather not.

I believe that Google should feel free, both legally and socially, to act according to their conscience as a company. However, I believe that their conscience, as a massively powerful part of online communication, should be to remain neutral towards any legal communication that takes place on their platform. I think that's a more effective moral stance than the one they are taking.
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Maybe as a by product :)
Perhaps, but Google's short sightedness will probably make them (Stormwhatever) stronger. I mean who knew Google liked to sensor unfavorable views? A lot of people do now.
Jeez, not trying to defend Travis, but the guy did create an umpteen billion dollar company in short order, creating absurd value for Benchmark's investment. The least they could do is start off with a hollow thank you and acknowledgement for that achievement. Apparently all Travis did was make mistakes. It really does smell more like a vendetta and less like them protecting their money.
How do you know that your graduates are or aren't making more than 50k? How do you know that you're getting your 17%?

Aside from that, you're essentially giving your students a loan and then having them repay it once they start earning money. How is this any different than a regular student loan (but with way more risk on your end)?
> Not on the hosting side.

I assumed we were talking about hosting from home, since hosting at some datacenter would again be dealing with additional private entities.

> if you want to make a case then you are going to have an uphill battle where a hosting provider would have to supply and and all paying customers.

I guess that would be an alternative. So either non-discriminatory treatment from hosters or non-discriminatory treatment from ISPs + DNS registrars.
> People would write in all the time saying we ruined their lives and what's it going to take for us to remove the videos

Did this business illegally post content it did not hold copyright to? If so that the environment is otherwise toxic is not surprising.
Google seems to be in the right here. They aren't a government or even a clear monopoly as a name service provider.

The 1st prevents me from using government power to prevent people from saying things I disapprove of, but if they come into my house and say them, I can certainly demand that they leave.
Because not every problem can be solved by AI.
maybe they should switch to Nix... wait!
AWS Releases Glue, Migration Hub, Macie at NY Summit
Several good mentions here already--

Worth considering, Dave Asprey's Bulletproof Radio > https://blog.bulletproof.com/bulletproof-radio-episodes-dire...
The washington post and new york times don't have a monopoly.

I'd also be fine if they dropped them from search. I'm not fine with them abusing their status as a domain registrar.
To follow up on this, in computational linguistics, there is a sharp divide between facts which take cubic time, like recognizing whether a string belongs to a context-free language, and facts which are halting-problem-hard, like recognizing whether two context-free grammars describe the same language. There doesn't appear to be much of a middle ground.

In another realm of computational mathematics, matrix mjultiplication is cubic, with optimizations that can approach quadratic time with lots of effort. It's conjectured that matrix multiplication can actually be brought arbitrarily close to quadratic time, but at the expense of ever-more-complex algorithms.

It could very well be that the biggest interesting exponent in P is 3 or 4.
years ago, diversity had almost nothing to do with women.

It was about underrepresented minorities such as Blacks, Latinos, etc..

It didn't really pertain to white women
Spectacles was nothing more than a smart PR campaign that promised a steady drip of positive press leading into their IPO.

It was gimmicky, with no real-world use case, and "sold" as some kinda of geffen good that was only available in limited quantities.
employees in Google's ad sales department are "openly encouraging Adwords customers to pull their ads from Breitbart and Rebel Media."

"efforts to demote anything non-PC, anti-Communist, and anti-Islamic terror from search results."

"Emmett says he personally witnessed efforts from leftists within Google to bias YouTube's algorithms to push anti-PC content off the platform's 'related videos' recommendations,"
I am a heavy user of Python and its scientific libraries (numpy, etc.), and although I know about the GIL, I have to add, that for us (we do a lot of scientific code-prototyping to evaluate remote sensing processing methods) the GIL hasn't been a problem so far.

E.g. in the remote sensing and earth observation domain you can simply divide your problem (e.g. semantic segmentation) into (maybe over-lapping) subproblems (via e.g. tiling) and start separate processes for each image processing tool-chain.

Granted you may not utilize your resources to the full extent by only applying multiprocessing (and ignoring threading), but in my experience you can solve a lot of problems by simply applying map-reduce-like programs and optimizing for throughput.
I've had a similarly positive experience writing a CMS in dotnet core that currently runs my blog. Like you said, being able to stick everything I need in a Docker container makes life so much more easy then it was with ASP.NET in the past.

For the person that asked why choose dotnet core over another technology: the only other technology I've recently used on the backend had been node which paled in comparison to core's compute performance, documentation and ease of development (TypeScript helps a ton on node, but C# on Visual Studio makes things really simple and easy).
It was probably a clang->land auto correct on a phone. It used to be I only had to worry about my fingers hitting the wrong keys, now I have to worry about my computer not believing that what I wanted to type was what I actually typed.
You can try "dlang"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_calculus maybe?
Funny thing is someone linked to Benchmark's twitter demonstrating the authenticity of the PDF in a reply to you. But refreshing this page and the post has now being deleted.

https://twitter.com/benchmark/status/897144805762793472
We need more dumb-pipe-like services. It's one to fight SOPA-PIPA for something that affects directly your users and your business and it's another to being "forced" by pressure on social matters that don't directly affect your users/clients/business.

I would expect or rather hope that companies have their mission and strive on every chance to make that mission a fundamental reality with no compromises.

As much as I hate what the Daily Stormer does and what it represents, the reality is that such pressure can come in a different way in the future and be exploited for non-obvious cases. You open a pandora's box when things like that happens.

We need more dumb-pipes.
duplicate, please help keep down the noise and check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15001403
I'm pretty far out of my area of expertise, so I'll take your word for it. Could an an algorithm be correct, but not proven correct, or is it defined as a heuristic at that point?
I just tried placing an order and Evercoin's fees appear to be significantly lower.

Shapeshift: 1 BTC -> 14.20477011 ETH

Evercoin: 1 BTC -> 14.25967407 ETH

Changelly: 1 BTC -> 14.35434362 ETH

While Changelly appears to have the best rate they don't guarantee the rate. In my experience the actual rate is often much worse than the estimated rate (and unfortunately it's too late to cancel once you see the rate).
TL; DR Woman startup CEO fires women, hires men who work for peanuts because men love coding and thus are higher "energy"; takes advantage of recent controversy to get free advertising on HN. Side note, said woman lacks professionalism and uses profanity in an appeal to the peanuts working, 20twenties'ish men reading the article.
Agreed, I greatly oversimplified things. There's the whole matter of convenience too which I didn't even touch upon. As it happens I have a car (weekend trips) and use Uber too (during the week), and use public transportation. Convenience is the driving force behind my usage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15001403
Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. have a pretty beefy track record in very selective censorship. Why would you expect anything else from them?
I don't think that's Open Access under any definition of Open Access.
Yes, mulberries are worth it. They would be a very popular fruit if they could handle the rigors of transport.

If you can track on down in the UK I'd feverishly recommend Pawpaw (Asimina triloba), a custardy fruit with such tropical flavor you'd be shocked it is native to North America.
So ... no "bake that cake" for you?
I don't live in a city and have only used Uber a handful of times. But UberX has been in the ballpark of about $1/mile when I've taken it to and from airports and that seems consistent with numbers I read online. Perhaps the cost is higher in a dense city with lots of lights and traffic.
our app updates via the app itself. This gets regularly bricked but we have a Cronjob where we can put bash commands in a .txt file and upload that to our server, and devices will execute it regularly. This has always saved the day but apparently the past developers before me used to drive around with a USB stick on a regular basis, to re-image bricked devices.

I can also confirm the wifi problem. Not knowing if a device is bricked or just on bad wifi is a huge problem you have to somehow account for. It was terrifying before I built tools to keep track of which devices those are
Well, without the seed the ground would lie fallow. It needs both, not either one or the other and while it is definitely a requisite that the ground be tended that's a hard problem revolving around education and a general idea of ones place in the world and what rights and obligations we all have. And in spite of trying for a long time we have yet to come upon an infallible way of making these things known to all.
> Most people can’t tell the difference and go with the default.

Sadly, that's true. I'm a big maps' aficionado and as such I prefer the Hybrid View (satellite + roads) whenever I'm looking for an address or POI on GMaps. I've noticed that the majority of people I interact with (work colleagues, closed ones) only use GMaps on maps view, and as such they don't know how to make sense of where exactly their desired POI is, because when they zoom in on it they usually see only some colored background with some lines (i.e. roads) on the side. While when using the Hybrid view you can actually see the buildings themselves and other physical reference points (a forest, a football field, a parking lot etc), which makes it way more easier for you when you actually want to get to said POI.

As such, I fully believe that for these types of people switching Apple Maps in place of GMaps would make no difference at all, it's just switching a blob of colored backgrounds and lines with another blob of colored backgrounds and lines, while GMaps' preeminence, IMHO, is in its exceptional and unique satellite views quality.
Were you able to crack it?
At some point, a $200 glove become a premier product in that niche. By remaining to manufacture in America, it adds to their brand image that they're one of the few remaining "true American" products, especially if the factory has been producing gloves for 70-some years. So consumers are buying into heritage.
Bingo. The people who are cheering this censorship will be damning it when it happens to them. You either fight for freedom of speech, or you live by the pleasure of the tyrant.

People cheering Google here, were you happy when Occupy Wall Street was run out of a public park, essentially censoring the movement? I certainly wasn't.
We do not have plenty of evidence of rampant systemic sexism. That is not a self-evident truth unless you're bought into the ideology pushing that agenda. Next.
Usually the tradeoff you make for trashing your reputation is to become fabulously wealthy. This sounds like a really bad deal.
The U.S. war crime North Korea won’t forget (2015)
One person that happens to be a big name related to Gnome.

And the man being a certain "lovely" site.

http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/

Gnome is hell bent on defining THE Linux OS for some reason.
It's the sci-fi version of nuking two cities and firebombing every civilian population center in an entire country.
Google does not operate the .com TLD. They only resell it.
Hiring quotas are bad. Let's have quotas in engineering schools instead... O_o