skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A visualization of the front page: https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/HackerNews Easily see "hot stories", and how stories relate to each other.
Wages are growing dramatically, just not near Bloomberg HQ.

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/wages

https://tradingeconomics.com/south-africa/wages
> As a simple language to wire pieces together, Golang is fine, but it really doesn't give you the tools (imo) to be productive for anything more complex than simple apps.

I write raft based distributed applications in go, it uses millions of raft clusters concurrently just for its nightly tests. That simple app is not that easy.

Introducing too much of such language X is better/stronger than Y propaganda is not helpful at all.
I like it although it might get pretty cramped if you plan on spending weeks on the road. Having to make up the bed every night could also prove to be an annoyance. One thing is for sure, however, based on that video. It seems to make you smile all the time.
If you're going to defend this congressman and Equifax, at least lose the weasel words prepending your defense.
Getting some slimy congressman to introduce legislation to preemptively cap the restitution people can get when Equifax messes up isn't "reasonable protection under the law", it's an attempt at stripping away of the rights of individuals to the great benefit of the corporation. Gross.
That statement doesn't preclude some political activity if you consider it to be something that you can actually "impact and improve", in the author's words. Of course I can only speculate about the author's original intent, but I think I agree insofar that most daily news out there is irrelevant for most individuals. Even if you have a political cause you are interested in, you have limited time and energy, so it might be better to just stay informed in those areas that concern you and ignore the rest of the daily news.

You can't fix the world as an individual, so it's pointless to concern yourself with things you can't impact. Of course that still means that everyone should probably find a little thing where they can try to make a change.
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The cynic in me says most startup types would witness this behavior, snort derisively and say "they're not our target market".
Well, it is a Volkswagon after all.
Yep should be nationalised with no compensation to share holders - that threat would be enough to make the remaining 2 behave
This is my new least favorite sport: speaking about concept vehicles in the present tense. "has sophisticated features ... has space for a sink ... includes an LCD projector" Oh wait. "The California XXL is still in the concept stage." Now there's correct usage of the present tense.

Concept cars come to market approximately 0% of the time. In the rare cases that they do actually make it to market (many many years later), they undergo significant changes through the product development pipeline.

Is this the effect of PR people setting the tone for these stories, or is it the authors/editors of the piece that want to trick people into believing it exists? The point about the "concept stage" was buried in the middle of the article.
Does anyone know of a hacker news viewer that can sort an article's comments chronologically or on another criteria?

My only gripe with the default site is that there is no way to quickly locate the most recent comments on an article.
Badger stores keys in a LSM tree and values in a separate log file. Bagder's launch post mentions B+ trees as a viable alternative to LSM trees, considering the recent random write performance improvements of SSDs.

This sounds similar to how PostgreSQL stores data. PostgreSQL uses heap-organized table (unlike MySQL/InnoDB which uses index-organized table), where values are stored in a heap, and each index is stored in a B+ tree containing keys and pointer to the values in the heap.
To be fair, I've only ever seen this in expensive restaurants.
China’s Bitcoin Trading Volumes Fall to Insignificance
I presume it's available somewhere, if one looks hard enough. london.gov.uk has a lot of detailed info, including minutes of transport committee meetings, various FOI requests (including an Uber one from earlier in the year - https://www.london.gov.uk/foi-disclosure-log/foi-uber-meetin... )

If there isn't enough already published then you could consider submitting an FOI yourself.

--edit-- This may be interesting and has various links to rulings by the London Assembly, and other bits and pieces:

https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/assembly/chair-of-t...
Making a website secure is such a broad question it can't really be answered comprehensively in a question like that. A better starting point is "how do I protect my application from threat x"
> Do all these apps make some ramen income (at least)?

Yes, but 3-4 times less than I can earn by just freelancing. But it's mostly a visibility problem — time tracking keywords are too competitive.

I wouldn't recommend developing Mac-only apps because they are too hard to promote. Press is not interested in reviewing software for 15-20% of their readers. Even Apple-centered press is more about iPhones nowadays.
uber is pretty much useless in zone 1 since the roads are too narrow and the traffic too extreme. you could literally take a leisurely walk from the british museum down to leicester square garden faster than a minicab. black cabs have the benefit of being allowed to travel on bus lanes and that makes all the difference in central London.

that said, black cabs get more and more unreliable the further away from central London you are.
Supporting your third paragraph, I had some contact with the unschooling movement while growing up. The experience is typically that kids will do nothing for a while. Maybe quite a while. But then they get bored, and start to pursue things they find interesting. Art, music, literature, science, programming. You sort of need to detox from living under a very defined structure before you learn to self direct and spend time doing things you enjoy. It also seems possible that this transition could become more difficult as people age. Intuitively that makes sense to me, and might partially explain why some adults have a hard time transitioning into retirement.
`EXPLAIN ANALYZE` - I read that in a Dalek's voice.
A bit of a hack, but I came across this a while back:

http://www.deepelement.com/article/gearvr-remote-desktop
Facebook/Goggle makes billions bottling information it pays nearly nothing for.
> If you are sick and your doctor mentions antibiotics to you, the first thing you should say is, “Hey, doc, do I really need the antibiotic?”

This will of course never happen. Tragedy of the commons and all that.
i think 50% of comments in this thread are Mongo's PR team trying to head off criticism with fud!
Yes, the reselling of debt just moves it around and pretends like it's new debts, for new amounts, unless someone fights it tooth and nail.
Spot on. I struggled with the mainstream deep learning/machine learning MOOCs. I felt like they were to math heavy. However, I'm struggling on how to learn deep learning. I get polarized advice on it. Some argue that you need a degree or certificates from established MOOCs, others keep recommending me to do Kaggle challenges.

Has anyone managed to land a decent deep learning job without formal CS/machine learning training? How did you approach it?
>As we’ve argued in the past, companies should limit their compliance with foreign governments which are not democratic and where they do not have employees or other assets on the ground.

Should a company also limit their compliance to a foreign government even if they are "democratic" and where they do not have employees or other assets on the ground?
Im suspicious of your base data. Uber's are not anonymous, and although it might give a broader access to the service for criminals, its not less able to turn information over, if not more. Argentina has an issue with taxicabs picking girls out of night clubs and sexually assaulting them, but there is no record of which cab it was, so the criminals are never found. That would not happen with UBer (without finding the criminal, that is).
Hmmm, well there's this small study:

http://www.treadmillreviews.net/water-bottle-germs-revealed/

So it seems likely that there's bacterial buildup. But I'd be interested in further reviews, more data.

> If you're going to suggest such extreme measures

I'm not suggesting any measures (and is using soap an extreme measure?).

But it doesn't seem completely wasteful and a "sign of mental decline" to want to buy bottled water in certain situations, as another poster was suggesting. People are different, and have different requirements are priorities.

It's absolutely possible of course that we might determine that the environmental costs associated with bottled water production are too high a burden on society. And that they should be outlawed. But that's a different discussion (and obviously if this is required there are many other items that would likely also be outlawed).
Yeah, I think this whole secession thing is a bad idea since the less tangible parts of breaking up a functioning country are so awful. It's pretty much always a better idea to fix things if it is possible.

So I say advisedly that if the attitude and misunderstanding of facts among some of the unionists here is representative of a larger whole, it might not be possible to fix things. That's an outsider's point of view.
I agree that's a terrible experience. But you could get a refund with 30 seconds effort in my experience (a lot easier than if this happened with a normal taxi as you have GPS to prove what happened). It also seems like an extreme outlier experience.
Years ago I took a stab at writing my own reader with the goal of looking at the top HN stories over the past 24 hours since I'm not one that checks HN every few minutes. Pretty limited use but surprisingly still works: https://yahnr.dangoldin.com/
The sibling comment by laumars puts the position well - perhaps you could explain where I'm erring? I consider a monopoly to be exclusive control of a market niche by one company (eg limited to a particular geographic area). Uber would have a monopoly if they drive out competing taxi services (or "private hire" in the UK, depending on the scope of the niche you want to focus on).
> I don't know, maybe put this on your site.

It was on there before. I removed it for the current one-liner. I'll find a new home for it. Thanks again.

> Do "merch wearer" overlap through bands?

Yes, this mindset overlaps through bands. You'll find this deep-rooted obsession most often with people that listen to metal but it is not exclusive to that genre.

> Seems like the common ground would be the music or maybe genre and not the wearing of the clothes themselves.

That's exactly what happens when you get inside. You are introduced to people that like your genre(s) and band(s) based on things you follow and search for.

> But again, maybe it's just some part of the culture I'm not aware of.

Probably. You may not get excited about this Marilyn Manson event poster sneak peek I obtained (https://app.merchvice.com/posts/1289702) but lots of people do.

Unfortunately, the buzz that is generating off-site is ... well, off-site. I need to reign it in more.
I like Go as a language, for the decisions and trade offs that they made when creating it and for the cross platform bits. Clearly the performance is sharp too.

I just don't find it particularly productive for full stack web work. API's or other high performance interfaces...great though.
In what ways has it grown? It seems easier than ever to track and automate personal finance.
The most important feature of http://hn.premii.com isn't in the list:
* it caches a text (some pictures but no styles/css) version of the article on their servers, with saves hundreds of MBs per month from my mobile traffic quota

I prefer their iOS app, because it works even a bit better as a native app.
> People criticise soft drinks all the time.

For health reasons. They're very rarely criticized for their environmental impact, when they're impact is almost certainly greater than bottled water (since they're not just water and a plastic bottle, but water, a plastic bottle, plus sweeteners and additives).

Some schools have banned bottled waters but allowed bottled soft drinks.
Never happen universally.

Of course there are already lots of people that would rather not take antibiotics in cases where they aren't needed and especially in cases where they won't do any good.
> But Go doesn't have a JIT, and its performance is good enough that I don't expect one to emerge any time soon.

that's true.
that is... until a (real) Go interpreter shows up.
something that's bound to happen when Go will be used for (data) exploratory work.
Uber is a very very very long way from making a profit.
Does the node graph functional using an existing open source library or proprietary component?
In addition to what other people mention, it's generally a bad idea to take a sloppy input and try to autocorrect it, because it encourage bad habits that will really surprise you the next time the autocorrect doesn't work as you expect. This ranges from autocorrecting spelling, to keypresses, to UNIX commands, to all sorts of things. It's better to block or highlight (if relevant) the bad input than to try to correct it automatically. For one thing, if you encourage sloppy input, the brain automatically adjusts and will become even more sloppy; while this isn't necessarily a never-ending spiral it is still quite likely to lead somewhere worse than blocking bad input entirely.

(Incidentally, if you want to fiddle with your keyboard but you don't want to go whole-hog with switching to an entirely different layout, you can use this principle to switch around two keys really quickly. If you want to try your Caps Lock as, say, CTRL, that's fine, but be sure to unmap the CTRL key itself. If you don't, it'll just be frustrating as you try to force yourself to remember, and realize three weeks later that Caps Lock is still mapped to CTRL but you haven't used it at all. If you do unmap the old key entirely, you'll find you've adjusted entirely in as little as 5 minutes, and it's only another 5 minutes to go back, if that's what you decide. You can iterate on these things much more easily than you might think.)
>If some factors are outside of of the trade union's control then it's also outside of the worker's control. Therefore, forming an union has no impact on the problem.

I think you're oversimplifying again. Many workers who vote "no" and reject union representation believe that unions create problems for workers including the problem of jobs being moved elsewhere.

Also, does "no impact" include workers paying extra ~$1000/year in union dues and the possibility of not having jobs? Many workers don't see the logic in paying more money to make their lives worse. E.g. Why pay my Bakers union rep to play hardball with Nabisco management for high wages of $26/hour so that I end up getting $0/hour? The theoretical "win" of $26/hr becomes a real-world "loss" of no job which pays $0/hour.

There are interesting game theory dynamics of "workers vs unions vs management" that your comment ignores. Each party has different leverage and different ultimatums. A bakers union is in a more precarious economic situation than a teachers union.

>A trade union has in fact control over important aspects such as wages.

Yes, I already stipulated that. Your comment ignores the other things that workers consider besides wages -- e.g. no jobs.

It seems you're not aware of the reasons for workers to deliberately reject unions.
>And investments in the stock market, real estate or anything else than actual money are at least protected by usually rising with inflation.

Quantiative Easing is used as a tool to increase inflation by the central bank through buying stock. Of course this means stock keeps it's value with increasing inflation while everything else doesn't keep up with inflation. Obviously this is bad for those who don't own stock.
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Have they since reduced their dependency on Bing for search results? I feel that, while that's the case, there is no point in switching.
Moonshine Link Discovered for Pariah Symmetries
Do they know what F1 is?
I would have to argue though that something like Unreal Engines blueprints really is like programming with a "lego block twist". The learning curve was steep for a few days but really after that, it's not all that much different then programming by hand. I will say it is a bit easier and it's amazing how fast you can get things done in it.

I'm not sure of a total "non-programmer" being super successful learning blueprints if they can't learn basic programming, but I would say it's a bit easier.
MiniHack on iOS let's you post and vote if you login through the app.
Um, no. I rarely quit reading books, but I never got past the first couple chapters of Anathem and read about a third of Cryptonomicon. So over-wrought! Otoh, Snow Crash is a cyberpunk classic.

I want to like Stephenson, but Anathem and Cryptonomicon only seem to appeal to a very narrow range of readers whom I don't understand.
Software today is different, in that the value is not in the source code but in results of its execution. With Internet, this made it possible for companies to keep the sources and execution to themselves while giving you only outputs - also known as Software as a Service model.
Were you using only the phone and not a Fitbit tracker? If so it's only going off steps, not GPS. https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1875#Mon...

If the terrain forced you to take a lot of shorter steps then that explains it. In 6 hours of normal steps you'd expect to walk about 18 miles.
If you value performance over stability, things were infinitely better. Of course I actually don't value performance over stability, but I am still capable of being shocked by things like the Smithsonian website.

I noticed this a week or two ago when the Chick Parsons article popped up. I made the mistake of... leaving that web page open in the background. It's a world gone mad.
Interestingly they claimed that technology is to defend themselves against fraudulent activity (fake accounts, competitors, sting operations).

From what I understand, it works by marking accounts as fake (using credit card lookups etc) and then showing them fake cars that never pick them up.

Imagine being falsely flagged by that system and just always having a terrible time getting a cab and not knowing why!
They don’t in real running. After seeing his page I got super excited. They’re really accurate at the pace you csalibrate them too, then drift quickly once that pace changes. So if you camlivrat them at 7:30min/mile, then run 8min/mile they’re pretty far off. Especially if you’re a distance running, or looking for accurate pacing. I’ve tested it both on marathons and tracks.

All current running watches and phone software uses single point calibrations. Now if they curved fit 2 or 3 points....
>Now, in the midst of Saudi Arabia’s sustained attack on Al Jazeera

If anyone at the EFF is reading this, the link tied to 'sustained attack' is behind a paywall; is there an alternative source that could be used?
Actually civilian GPS would work fine in low-cost cruise missiles because they fly relatively low and slow. The restrictions are to protect against ballistic missiles.
To people who regularly drink very mineralized spring water, there's a huge difference. Spring water tastes almost like milk.
I guess I'm not, then.
This is the better option (aside from fixing your PA config in the first place, which I'd heavily recommend instead). apulse can get into issues with Firefox's sandboxing. It supports PulseAudio and works with ALSA too, but ALSA-pretending-to-be-PA won't work.

But really, fix your PulseAudio instead.
Yes. The moon blows up in the book. Sorry to ruin it for you.
I don't think the Mayor of London or TfL really expect to shut down Uber. It would be a deeply unpopular move. There's an acceptance that Uber has improved things for riders, albeit at the expense of the Black Cab industry, and London wants to welcome innovative technology firms.

However, I also suspect that Uber hasn't been as co-operative as TfL would like on several issues mentioned, and so this feels like a warning shot to get them to be better corporate citizen. Quote from an MP; "No company, however big and powerful, will be allowed to flout our laws and regulations."

Uber could have reacted by saying "we acknowledge our shortfallings, and we'll work closely with TfL and the Mayor of London to ensure we put passenger safety first. We hope to avoid any interruption in service and continue to play a valuable part in London's diverse and effective public transportation system."

Instead, they took a typically Travis-ish stance and said "Screw you, people love us because we're cheaper, we'll fight this and we'll win," without any acknowledgment of their failings.

Perhaps new leadership can change this approach.
Near to where I used to live in East London a mad old guy known as the 'Mole Man of Hackney' dug so many tunnels under his house the pavement collapsed...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/aug/08/communities....
I've traveled and camped across the U.S. in a EuroVan Weekender, and I can confirm it can get cramped, and that it can be a massive inconvenience to break down the sleeping quarters every morning if you need to drive the vehicle.

Our last trip in the vehicle had us climbing in West Texas in the winter (meaning warm days but cold nights). The sun set around 6pm each evening, which means we were crammed into the van for over 12 hours (temps would rapidly drop toward freezing, and we couldn't have a campfire due to state park rules). We were ready to be home after two weeks, that's for sure.
Modern slavery is disturbingly common
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/riverdale-star-la...
Why the Last Snow on Earth May Be Red
Walmart wants you to let delivery people into your home while you're away
In theory yes. But compiling Firefox is just a mess.
Seat belt? Most taxis in china hide that under the seat cover.
This is how I improve my habits
Accurate geotagging of photographs for starters. From my experience the results can be wildly off and at times my phone doesn't even get a GPS signal.
They won't license their software any time soon. They decided against it in the earliest days and it really wouldn't fit with the Uber brand today. Maybe once they are a public, growth from new markets has slowed and they are chasing profits they sign license deals to open up otherwise closed off markets. I am skeptical that many taxi commissions in major cities would line up to license though. As of now the current system obviously works well enough for them (and that's to say nothing about the little those orgs likely trust Uber). If they have successfully banished Uber (etc) to the point where Uber wants to license software just to join the market I'd expect revenue split terms would be so unfavorable to Uber that they would not be interested.
I felt like they were to math heavy. However, I'm struggling on how to learn deep learning.

These statements are in contention. You will never really understand machine learning without learning a fair bit of the math.

I do think a lot can be done on the presentation of the material, and certainly don't think much of credentialism.

Honestly, in your shoes I would look for a position where you can learn from people internally, rather than try and qualify yourself first. Even if you do a bunch of online learning and toy problems, you are going to flail about if you don't have a strong mentor in your first position.

What related/supportive skills do you have to bring to a group that is doing ML ?

edit: I should add that you don't really have to understand much these days to integrate (some) ML into a system, but you aren't going to get very far into modeling or understanding issues without some background. You can only get so far with black boxes.
One Year of Spear Phishing UK Companies (results)