skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Uber is the most important and promising company of our generation"

THen fuck you.

Why wasn't, mr. VC, "taxi companies and their rates and availability and regulations and customer dissatisfaction the most important and disuptional problem of our generation" of the past?

"oh look - people want this! Arent we innovative. Oh shoot! look people are pissed when the company still acts like douchebags! Why would they act like that?"

--

I love the uber product, hate the player and all that...

b
ut give me a fucking break - uber is a taxi, as taxi's should be and self-driving cars are the next inCARnation of said service - but stop patting yourself where you can see that they acted like many disruptors who come into big money do... it is not a surprise.

Uber is a very interesting litmus to the state of things - the confluence of big money, big problems is amazing:

* 1. female engineering drama

* 2. ceo drama

* 3. legal drama

* 4. funding/VC drama

* 5. employees love/hating drama (tech issues are cool and all - but fuck this place)

* 6. user drama

* 7. data drama

* 8. driver drama

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1. sexist blah - we know this one

2. sexist blah, douchebaggery blah -- now the ousting...

3. cities/states/countries banning them

4. raised how much for what? uber car leasing/VC battles, waymo, etc

5. employees love the eng - hate the grind/sexism/bro-bullshit

6. many complaints, new complaints, better than those on Richess. What about the lame "party button" that I already wrote about - lamest contest mode ever "compete for a spot to exclusive lame party - we will pick you up and drop you off to a specific location... OH, You want a ride home from said undisclosed location; FUCK YOU - stand at the corner and cal a surge uber like every other pleb, you moron"

7. No access to any recent data - but we will use it against all our drivers.

8. Here, hold my hammer in your skull for a sec.
You are providing false equivalence and arguing by slippery slope.
It says 14 days lead time. I'm guessing they don't have the
parts in stock for 500+ devices affected.
Zany already answered it, but yes, some were of the smaller or slower variety:

https://www.quora.com/How-many-aircraft-carriers-did-the-USA...
Does the Linux version work with Wayland already?

Edit: Apparently this is now built-in to Gnome 3.24+, using the name Night Light. I am happy camper again!
Yeah, I've had a house and gardens in the past. I know it's a pain in the ass and doesn't always pay for itself. But, it's also possible to pick things that are naturally hardy and suited to the climate and soil. Some things Just Work.

And, if you have enough of those that are very expensive at the grocery (fresh herbs like basil and parsley, tree nuts, avocados, come to mind, though the latter two take years to start producing) you can still come out ahead. And, food picked ripe is delicious and rare in grocery stores.
>"In the name of diversity, when we fill quotas to check boxes, we fuck it up for the genuinely amazing women in tech."

And, why aren't these genuinely amazing women in tech otherwise being found?

How is it that things are so easily "f'd up" for them?
My $90 Ephiphone Les Paul Jr. is still one of my favorite guitars (and I have a Gibson Les Paul Jr.).
Except in the case of iOS/Android, you don't really have a choice. Apple and Google forbade screen temperature apps from being allowed to make the necessary changes, unless it's their own respective system app.

f.lux may live on as a MacOS and possibly Windows desktop app, but it's pretty much impossible as a mobile app now.
When does the new version become available?
I'm not sure how to answer that question; if you are giving people a job it's hard to be too predatory so long as you charge reasonable rates. We simply try to be honest and fair up-front.
We should make a bigger fuss about F# support for UWP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15007166
I wonder if crypto values will skyrocket if this is proved
Reminds me of a time I watched an admin assistant at my work perform a search.

1. Open IE 6 (although this was only a few years ago, my org was slow to upgrade).

2. Use some weird in browser search tool and enters "Google"

3. This brings up a Bing search results for "Google"

4. Clicks on the first result, which is for the homepage of Google.com

5. Enters original search term in Google.com

It's amazing what you can see when you watch users work.
>What would you like to see?

Not OP, but I think your "syllabus" is seriously lacking in detail. For example, you have a week and a half of "operating systems" That is summarized as 4 bullet points. I would really expect to see at least a paragraph under each of the three sections describing exactly what a student should understand after completing each module. For the operating systems section, I would like to see something like this for the first half of week 19:

|Operating Systems II

|After completing this section, students should be able to describe the various levels of memory used by modern computers, including CPU caches, RAM and swap space. Students should understand how each of these levels of memory are used during program execution. Additionally, students should understand how memory is addressed, including physical and virtual addressing, how memory is managed and allocated by the operating system, and how memory may be shared by multiple processes on the same system.
In a perfect world, no one would ever get injured and this would take no time whatsoever. By personality investing his time after each injury Musk is encouraging everyone to avoid injuries, and showing this is really important. Theoretically this should make things safer because it brings attention to these problems.

However Musk also demands overtime and says the production will be difficult, so I'm not sure how long it will take for things to improve, particularly for repetitive strain injuries.
It's called "Pe'ah" (corner) and it's in the Hebrew Bible.

See http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/961516/jewish/...

It applies to grain harvest and fruit trees and is taken very seriously here in Israel.
Create a board that reflects the ownership of the company (2007)

http://venturehacks.com/articles/board-structure

as a side-note actually current Uber board doesn't reflect the ownership

Benchmark as ~13,5% and one board seat

Travis as ~10% and three board seats
Not sure about in general, but it seems like their residency program [0] gives a good shot at landing on the team afterwards and is accessible to "normal" people passionate about ML

[0] https://research.google.com/teams/brain/residency/
I remember this podcast from him where he talks about why he left Apple: http://atp.fm/episodes/205. It's very funny/weird when he says casually: I started clang [...] and then I started LLVM [...] and then I started swift... When you think about it, someone had to start those projects. I hope he does well at Google Brain.
What is a student decides not to pursue software engineering? Do you still take your cut? In my experience, the market is oversaturated with code bootcamp grads; many of them decide to go back to their previous profession.
Pretty much everything programmers do is create unproven algorithms. Hopefully at least some of them are correct. A heuristic is a problem-solving approach that has a chance of failure. So say you need a pretty fast dictionary, and you can take a relaxed attitude to correctness. You can take a hash of the words of your dictionary, and then as you are filtering some dataset, you can always say in a short time whether a value is definitely not in your dictionary, but your positive solutions have a percent chance of being incorrect (e.g. a hash collision). The idea is generally to make a problem tractable that would otherwise be computationally difficult or impossible. I'm not sure if that quite answers your question.
What are the differences between this and Make School?
Switched from CPython+Numpy to PyPy years and years ago, got a 60x speedup on a core numerical kernel and 20x speedup on real-world benchmarks. The codebase was a multiplayer game server. Less memory usage overall, leading to a big improvement in the number of players that could be connected.

You have to not have problematic libraries in your system, but honestly they're all either shitty on CPython too (literally every GUI toolkit that is not Tkinter!) or they're stuff like lxml, where the author/maintainer just has an anti-PyPy bias that they won't drop.
I've worked at both Google and Apple. They're very similar, but in general with big tech companies there's more variation between teams than there is between companies on average.
I know the prevailing sentiment around here is anti-age-discrimination, but the flip side is also bad. We've seen in a few European countries what happens when the unemployment figures for young people are an order of magnitude higher than people with more experience and it's not pretty. Young people need to be given a chance to start their careers and senior people taking junior roles can get in the way of that. The current trend towards people not having the required savings for retirement is going to echo into future generations that have to delay the start of their careers because those jobs haven't been vacated.
This is absolutely correct. Proving P=NP doesn't magically create the algorithm, it just proves that there is one.

However, the reason why I chose to single out crypto specifically is because it has the most to lose if that algorithm exists. Our current methods of encryption become unsafe regardless of whether the algorithm is known or not. I don't think you can claim that your encryption is secure if there is an algorithm that can crack it in polynomial time, regardless of whether the algorithm is known or not.
Doing Data Science Right (2016)
Tesla sells "Full Self-Driving Capability" option for Model X and S on their website right now.
Microsoft's own .NET Native runtime is simply not .NET compliant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15007166

This is unacceptable and should be fixed ASAP. F# is a mature language existing for more than a decade, there is simply no excuse to let this slide.
The US Navy built 78 escort carriers in less than four years during WWII.

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/nav_legacy.asp?id=3
Good feedback. We'll add more detail.
Your end devices execute arbitrary code put in a specific url on your website? I assume this is a purely in-house device and not one in the hands of consumers?
> That was a surprise to me as I thought Android phones completely dominated the Chinese market.

Likely that Android does dominate the Chinese market like the rest of the world.

I think a better way to view it is to segment the mobile device market into 3: high, middle and low end; Apple dominates the high-end market segment. iPhones are still largely considered a status symbol in China.
To be fair, the Lightroom CC enhancements are mostly around mobile and online (which I don't care much about personally). Lightroom does seem to have stagnated a bit though I don't really have a list of new features that I really would like to see.

In any case, the fact that Lightroom is at least theoretically also still being sold as a standalone non-subscription product should increase the incentive to do a new feature-laden release, not decrease it.
Paypal? Well, things are complicated.
> only so far as you're free to set up your own server and host your own site

Where? Your bedroom? You can and will be blocked by your ISP. Colo? Private facility and network interconnects. Outside the country? Blocked at the borders, or you have to register with a US company (.com is managed by a US company, as is .net; .org is a global company but still incorporated in the US).

Plugged directly in to the backbone? You can still be shut down by Level3 and its ilk (or by the terminating ISPs).

In short, I disagree that even by hosting your own site you can still avoid censorship by private companies.
Why would that be more surprising than the fact that some "natural" problems are polynomial and some are exponential, given that an exponential running time is asymptotically slower than any polynomial running time?
I do think that Nix or something like it is the future. Or at least it will be if the tech community as a whole doesn't screw up.

But I also really appreciate the massive effort that Debian maintainers make, and the sheer number of those maintainers.

Combining whatever human processes Debian have in place to keep that going with Nix would be fantastic. Right now, to use Nix regularly, you really have to be willing to read a lot of Nixpkgs source code.

Edit: I should also note that I do actually currently use Nix on top of Debian for my work machine. Servers are all NixOS machines deployed with NixOps though.
Is this the new ask.fm? Back in 2012/13, ask.fm was very popular for a brief time. Among some high schoolers I knew, it quickly devolved into narcissistic or hateful interactions. That little bit of poison seemed to spoil the whole thing, but as a fad, it was already wearing off quickly. Once all of your friends have commented, what is there to sustain the network?
When driving I usually use Waze, which doesn't have lane assist and prior to this I used to use a paid version of Tom Tom which did. Don't think it makes a huge difference to me either way.
A CA is just someone who verifies a cert was signed by a key that they know about. Their only purpose is to show your connection wasn't MITM'd.

They have nothing to do with figuring out if you're being phished.
Online games give gold to their users liberally as positive reinforcement for playing the game.

That's probably not compatible with a strict minting schedule constrained by a proof of work system.
> Do you also think government should prevent Google from paying Mozilla to be the default search engine in Firefox?

Yes I do. And for the same reason I'd oppose Verizon or ATT buying everyone else.
MoarVM stores strings as either 32-bit signed or 8-bit signed. Negative numbers are reserved for "synthetic's" which are for grapheme clusters which contain more than a single codepoint. Synthetics are allocated as needed, so we can store as much as we need to. The only issue would be storing more than 2^31 possible combinations… though you would run out of memory before you ran out of negative numbers in the 32-bit integer space.
A lot of things.

We're online-only, focus on CS not building apps, 6 months long (vs 2 yrs), a bit less expensive, and generally speaking target different markets.

I don't have anything bad to say about Make School. Have never met them, but they seem like they're doing a fine job!
> Delisting a domain from the DNS is metaphorically equivalent to raiding the premises of a newspaper publisher and ripping the banner off the front page of each printed copy, while leaving the remainder intact, so that anyone attempting to read the latest copy of that paper would not be able to find one, even if they were standing on a stack of them. It is backdoor censorship, by attacking people's name-based associations.

No, it isn't. It is merely saying that you won't take an entry in your copy of the phone book, but you're free to petition the other issuers of phone books and you're free to create your own phone book.
In the same way that anyone can start a newspaper, anyone can also start a website. In the same way that someone needs to sell the newspaper vital supplies like paper and ink, so to do websites need to have network providers and web servers.

If you think that a pro-Nazi newspaper would have no problem setting up shop, you are sorely mistaken. They will have the same problems as this website and people of conscience will refuse to have them as clients. This website, as would those newspapers, will need to find suppliers sympathetic to their views.

That few people are sympathetic to their views, in my opinion, is the market at work.
Thanks for the detail and clearing the waters I muddied a bit. I guess I'm just surprised that people are doing deep learning on AMD gpus, not because of the performance of OpenCL, but because of the reliance on Cudnn in frameworks like tensorflow and torch made that seem not worth it in the past.
Social Finance Faces Sexual Harassment Claims
On the other hand, my neighbors drive me completely nuts. Each on the cul-de-sac has an acre or so, and i'm the only home-farmer. The rest barely go outside let alone grow some veggies...

Its bizarre and a little infuriating.
Privacy focused? Oh, you mean how they pivoted when their Ad business failed.
I am not sure if this comment has been built by a bot given positive sentiment to TF. Maybe the first step to skynet is applying aggressive marketing for the framework itself to bootstrap itself?

Just joking, it's a nice framework. However don't forget other projects like caffe which also contributed to ML and DL research.
What did you serve? Coffee?
Looks awesome, is there any first person 3D point and click adventure? I only know the very old Normality but otherwise I'm not aware of any game that follows the "classic" adventure approach... Firewatch is cool but there are not many real puzzles.
They're certainly not putting a 300 Watt gpu in an all-in-one enclosure. The only way that would work is if they used the closed loop cooler version, which is too bulky.
This is an awesome idea. What I'd really like to know, however, is if any of the existing loan options will accept this as schooling in order to loan a student money for living expenses. Some students already have a family, and thus they cannot crash at a flophouse.
A friend showed me last week and I've never used it. Here's a link, try it out.

https://www.snapchat.com/geofilters
> multiprocessing instead of multithreading

There's a reason threads exist.
There's at least one online optician [1] that offers prescription lenses for Snap's spectacles.

I can't imagine the spectacles not being usable over normal eyeglasses either, just like other off-the-shelf sunglasses or 3D glasses.

[1] e.g. https://www.glassesusa.com/snap-spectacles
Great point. I, as a farmer, do own quite a lot of wallnut trees that could be mistaken for public property. I am ok with random people picking random wallnuts, but most of the theft is done by organized groups that resell my fruit on farmers market. Each year I do think about reporting them to police (as amount of fruit stolen is higher then treshold of breaking law), but then I realise that amount of trouble I will get them into and probable damage to their life is higher than some wallnuts I just let it go. Now I just hope that the area will get rich enough that they will just don't care about picking my fruit and I will finally get something more then just few lefovers.
If you're not a competent party to whatever you are guilty about, 0.
This is a discussion of what is legal and what isn't, no? I don't make the laws so I don't see how my views are relevant here. It's legal to refuse to do business with Nazis. That's what's at issue here.
What a great hire, but he should probably start something new rather than work on Tensorflow. Obviously he likes to create new things. Not sure what google is thinking here. Maybe he'll create a higher level language to TF?
Amazon Could Probably Conquer Drugstores, Too
> Electron means you need 2GB of memory for a simple chat app...

No, it doesn't. Visual Studio Code is an extensible IDE that is stuffed with features - yet it doesn't use that much memory, and it's fast.

And yet there are seemingly simple Electron apps that use a lot of memory and are slow - it seems, just like with any other framework, it's possible to write both good and crappy code.
The complete sylabus would be wonderful. Knowing exactly what one would learn would be very useful.
> undermining the success of the CEO search

Travis legally has control of the company just like an owner would. Nobody can "force" him to leave on run his company as certain way. Benchmark is just whining because they can't get their way.

Benchmark agreed to let him have permanent control when they invested, if they didn't want that they shouldn't have signed the contract.
I would guess the UK government is going to work with US officials to ensure he has a fair trial.

Not everyone in the US gets that luxury, but given the strong relationship between our two nations, I feel reasonably confident that Mr. Hutchins will receive as fair of a trial as anyone.
Fair enough. I still disagree with your conclusion. Text isn't keeping kids from coding, throwing them at Swift's text (in your case) was. A simpler and more forgiving syntax, or a UI (a very capable IDE in this case) that walks them through the syntax (showing them only the valid options at any given point) since you chose a relatively complex syntax would also have helped. You achieved that via pictographs transition via pictographs, which ought to be effective (you won't be changing the rules of the game on them, from their perspective, just the notation used).

Pictographs are useful, and effective. I won't deny that. But kids can, and have, learned to code with textual languages when those languages were more effectively chosen and developed for the task of teaching kids. It's unreasonable to make such a strong claim.

We could make the same claim about math and kids (Notation is Keeping Kids from Mathing!), and it would be superficially true, if you started kids off with a notation like geometric algebra (bi-vectors, tri-vectors, multi-vectors, oh my!), instead of arithmetic.
I think the marketing aspect has started to pick up recently. Whether through conscious effort or just word of mouth momentum I don't know.
I've been using this version on macOS for probably over a year now, I'm not sure exactly how long.

I don't believe I opted into any betas, and I couldn't find a similar featureset for Windows/Linux.

Still, good news for anyone running Windows/Linux, I'm actually going to go update ASAP.
No, I'm thinking along the lines of large vehicle manufacturer doing an over the air update of the firmware of their vehicles bricking all of them, including the ones on the road. That kind of disaster.
DESIGN: Check yourself in terms of aesthetics
Will work on fleshing that out. Thanks!
Awesome, I'd love to be running something like this IRL with room and board like another commenter mentioned. Will settle for being a hiring partner :)
Maybe he'll create a higher AI language for TF. That'd be really really cool.
Those are the recommendations of the report, not the report itself. Only a few people have seen the entire thing.
Adding this to my subscriptions, but I wonder if this is only available on youtube
Strings for acoustic guitar can be found smaller than .012. Martin Extra Lights are .010, Earthwood Extra Light are .010, etc.
>Travis was Uber, and Uber was Travis.

TBF to travis; that is how it should be, it would seem... but

* the actions of him at dinner in NYC and his comments there

* the claims against the corp from females

* claims by his GF

* THE FACT THAT 99% of his employees are not millenials employed at the SF HQ, vs the ~N K ppl employed as drivers...

Sure, as ChuckMcM said: "direct reports" how many is that? What about the N # of employees that his direct influence didnt positively effect?

Look; I love Uber as a service - as a company, Danny deVito would have been a better CEO from a cultural fit.
"At some point, there might be nothing left to do except to roll up your sleeves, brew some coffee, and tell your graduate student to read the paper and report back to you."
How is this abuse? Is access to web-hosting a right now? Going back to my newspaper example, you might as well say possession of a printing press is a right.

If I violate the terms of my lease I can be evicted. If you violate your registrar's terms of service your website can be shut down. This is not a new concept, not is it somehow special because it's "on the internet".
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We only take a percentage if you get a career in software engineering, so we have built that kind of risk into our model.
Don't forget F#!