skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gr8 code, would be gr8ter still if intro documentation were improved.
If the money went to the Uzbeki people no one would enforce the law. The incentive for US/Dutch enforcement is that they get the fine dollars.
Uh, which is why pay for IT/programmers is high, and pay for sales clerks is low. It doesn't matter if your low end worker is doing half as much if technological productivity gains increase 10x.
On Linux with Gnome you can use Tweak Tool. It's under Typing->Caps Lock Behavior.
Don't forget that Uber takes a 20% cut. Black cabs don't have to rely on that at all.

Its up to the government to make the process of getting a licences cab less expensive, and open cabs on having whatever car with X amount of years limited... the monopoly of the company that makes those black cabs and sells them for 150k is absurd.
I was speaking in the context of Go. In general, this is the sort of code that JITs are so good at handling that they tend to fool people into thinking they are miracle workers everywhere else where the JIT expense isn't being amortized across million-row matrix multiplications. But Go doesn't have a JIT, and its performance is good enough that I don't expect one to emerge any time soon. (Languages running 50x slower than C have a lot more pressure to try to solve that problem with a JIT than languages that are only 2-3x slower than C.)
I was half drunk / no sleep at the time. I probably did ask them, or just assumed like every other cab in the civilized world takes them. Anyhow, horrible.
That's a great strategy too if you know the law is on your side and are bold enough to pull it off. But I'm pretty non-confrontational (even when dealing with people I know are trying to cheat me) and when I take a cab I'm usually in an unfamiliar place where I didn't have the foresight to check on the cab regulations beforehand, so I'm going to stick with mine :)
parent here.
yeah SQL Server is pretty nice to work with as well!
LLVM IR is still very targeted to the architecture it will be run on, it's not intended to be a portable representation.
Scala is 13 years old. Golang was first publicly released 7 years ago
They are losing money at the moment, despite their 'success'. It is theorised that the only way they could become profitable is through monopoly and price rises.
There is a systematic property of the modern medical system to overtreat.

At the first level, if a patient goes to a doctor the expectation is the doctor should do something to help. If the doctor says, "sorry there is nothing I can do" the patient will likely leave unhappy and try a different doctor. This leads to things like prescription of antibiotics for viral infections. There is no effective treatment, but patients leave happier with a useless treatment than with a denial.

One thing ignored in the article is that, in this role as a placebo prescription, a longer course of antibiotics outperforms a short course. That is because a longer course gives a viral infection a longer time to clear up on its own.
And immigration. The US would naturally be in population decline without that. Immigration is a two edged sword. On one hand, it removes jobs from existing citizens. On the other hand it funds social security (among other things) and negates problems with population decline.
>> I highly doubt...

Yet that's exactly what has happened in multiple markets now. Uber have a history of pulling this stuff.

--edit-- and now I'm back at a real keyboard:

>> This is really quite insulting to the 20 000 - 40 000 people who are about to lose their source of income

So by that logic we should allow any company to continue to operate, regardless of how badly behaved?

I don't think this argument has much merit, especially when unemployment is at a record low and there is clearly a lot of appetite for services in this sector.

>> i.e. a populist action.

Which must mean it's wrong, obviously? That couldn't be a wave of information coming to light about how bad they are, and how they are not in line with regulations?
Not really, because in spite of "probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python", Go thin set of features makes a good developer in any of those languages feel like elite.
> ...it seems to be explicitly about...

The BBC article is a bit light on details. Do you have a link where I can read the detailed license revocation reasons so I can make my own judgement?
I guess this is what I don't understand. Whenever this comes up, people usually act as if bottled water is no different than what comes out of people's taps. As the conversation goes on, though, people start talking about the filtration systems they've bought, or about having the water tested.

If we all know that tap water in many cases isn't the equivalent of filtered water, or that tap water can vary from location to location, why do these conversation invariably always start by pretending that there's no difference between bottled water and water straight from someone's tap?
I wish we could replicate this in humans (for testing purposes). What personality, intelligence and creativity differences would there be between full and 1/2 left and 1/2 right being asleep? Would it be the same for everyone, or have some people adjusted so that each 1/2 brain is effectively just a smaller (but "fully functioning") brain?

Very interesting topic.
Experts, such as the author should be listened to. Because they are experts. And you should listen to them /s

I dislike when someone needs to inflate the worth of their ideas by repeatedly reminding us they are experts. Show me facts. Briefly, and I mean briefly, introduce your background up front and let your evidence and ideas talk, not "I am an expert, trust me". Especially on issues such as this one.

This is not to say credible people should always be challenged constantly for facts, but said credible don't need to make such a deal out of it.
> Yes, that's the simplified happy ending for voting in a union but the reality is complicated by factors outside of the union's control.

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.

A trade union has in fact control over important aspects such as wages. The odds of a negotiation between a candidate and a HR representative benefiting the candidate are fare more favorable to the candidate if he has at his side someone who is informed about the company's hiring practices and salaries and has a vested interest in improving salaries paid by the company to his fellow colleagues. If a job seeker goes into a negotiation room alone then this information asymmetry alone is bound to screw him over during negotiations. The presence of a union representative is very effective at mitigating this problem.
How do you get the data? I'm curious because there is a phenomenon here in Prague, Czech Republic, in which there are mostly empty restaurants and stores will obviously have no hope of making rent. Like if you calculate how many customers go inside each day, and you assume they all bought the most expensive item, the total revenue would be less than the cost of rent for the location. Cynical Czechs all say that these companies are fronts for laundering money, but would it be possible for me, as a normal civilian to get hold of documents which would prove that? I thought that the finances of private companies were more or less secrets.
I mean where you draw the line is up to you, but if there are three of you x £15, plus drinks lets say total of £64 , I would normally round it up to 70. By good restaurants I meant anything that isn't fast food (Subway, McDs). But perhaps I am not a typical customer, I don't know.
My concern is more about the precedent that this sets for other cities to follow suit.
I've never understood why the fact that striving for communism reliably lead to disaster can be used a defence of communism. Can you explain that line of reasoning? It seems to me that's saying nothing more than "The utopia that I imagine is fantastic!". The main contention is not the qualities of the imagination, but the clash between the imagination and reality.
Healthcare is flush with cash with so many middlemen it's almost inconceivable. It is also recession proof.
I was responding to the "lots of people prefer" part.

The competition you describe is exactly what's needed, but that's not always the competition that's allowed.
I've been using Timing, an amazing software with a very small memory and resource footprint. [0] If it matters, Timing's UX is very macOS-y both in my experience and in the opinion of Mac aficionado John Gruber. [1]

I have no relation to product except that I'm a satisfied customer.

[0] https://timingapp.com

[1] (disclosure: advert) https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/07/02/timing
I've been using HN Special Chrome extension since it was released. Can't go back to the standard look. http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/
Those features are not made for us, rather for the majority of clueless users that save files in whatever directory happens to be the default one.
.. in the US, or the UK? I'm fairly sure you'd need an explosives license for more than the 100g ""personal experimentation"" limit, although I'm still trying to find a good canonical rules summary.
If they used same brand and domain name, then IMO we should. Did they?
> Which I suppose is why Uber, though present, hasn't really taken off here.

This is very far from my understanding, most people I know use Uber quite regularly.
I find it amusing that you didn't shorten this to "The site guidelines mention that". If I would have written Would you please read the article instead of asking if they had read it, would that be ok, or do you reserve that right to yourself only?

I will try to refrain from asking people if they have read anything. I've read the guidelines several times before, but this specific prohibition just slipped my mind. Your comment does feel effectively the same though.
Also, don't ever accidentally create a circular reference...same thing.
Check out the rest of the thread, onion2k gave a few
In my view, there are many insights like this to be had by physically studying product users a bit more. The startup community has built a strong habit of studying users before a new solution is adopted, but not as much after.

The insights designers get from just watching someone use a product are always delightful. The idea is basically ethnography for design. (https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyc...)

'Desire lines' in parks are one example. Desire lines are the paths in the grass that get worn down because people use them even though the designer didn't plan for it.
Show HN: Dodeka Music – piano keyboard and easy-to-read sheet music in one app
http://www.visitlondon.com/traveller-information/getting-aro...

"You can tip taxi drivers as much as you like, but most people round up to the nearest pound."
I wasn't one who downvoted you but it might be because it sounds as if you're suggesting that there's something wrong with taking an easy and less impactful action when there are more impactful, but much harder actions. One does not preclude the other.

Yes, targeting plastic shopping bags is easy, and yes the packaging the items come in is probably worse, but why not take the easy action anyway? What's your point?
Note that I said in my city.

I know nobody that uses them in Southampton, though they are here.
That is interesting. Do banks have any way of telling how much debt someone has? Are credit cards very common there?

Many Americans have so much debt that lenders are very interested in the whole picture when they consider making a new loan.

Old debt do drop off American credit reports, too. For most bad marks, they only stay on for 7 years (10 for bankruptcy). I don't know how long paid off loans are reported, but they generally have no negative impact (but might impact privacy). see this blog post http://blog.readyforzero.com/how-long-does-a-bad-mark-stay-o...

EDIT: Even though bad marks are supposed to stay on only for seven years, the industry is very scummy and will often try to keep the bad marks on your report longer, requiring you to take action sometimes to actually get it cleared off. The CRA's and debt collectors don't follow the law, and we certainly need better enforcement of the laws.
Why Investing in Artificial Intelligence Is the Need of the Hour?
I wouldn't be so sure, within the last year it's now "Hechy Hech mixed with groundwater", you may have seen the pre-emptive advertising on buses when they rolled it out. My feeling is that it is probably worse than it used to be.
Yes, I was talking only about my city and my personal experience, I agree that it's more of an exception than a rule (at least judging by many comments here, especially coming from USA).
This has been well established in medical circles for at least 5 years now, the difficulty is in ensuring that people in the community cease at an appropriate time (i.e. Not before it is fully cleared) because that is potentially worse than taking a 'whole' un-needed course
> They only record debts that last longer than 3 months and of those delete all record of them after 5 years after being paid off

That's the same as the US, except that here they expire after 7 years instead of five.

> Mortgage interest rates are currently 1-2 points less in The Netherlands than they are in the USA, so there's no correlation I can see between America's vampire capitalism credit model and cheaper loans.

That's a rather meaningless way to look at it, because there are a myriad of factors that affect aggregate mortgage rates, and credit ratings are just a tiny piece of it.

It's like saying "Well, they keep tell me that the world is getting warmer, but it's still pretty cold in my neighborhood".
It suffices to use KeyTweak for Windows, not physically modify the keyboard. For example, I used it to disable the Back/Forward buttons on my ThinkPad.
I like the way the notes are organized. Simple, clean, and efficient. But, I do not want to go online every time I want to use this...needs to be available offline as well.
Show HN: Internet Radio built with MEAN stack
The New Processing for Android
Yes, I hate that about Uber and Lyft drivers but I don't blame the company for it. It's the passengers. They could rate these aggressive drivers one star. It will correct driver behavior.
The Cost Conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care (2009)
Fair point.

In the context of the article we're talking about a highly specialized office environment, where bios/live boot environments etc. do not happen often. There, a software solution is useful and cheap.

In the more general case, and for those people that do not mind carrying their own keyboard everywhere, you are right. Especially since a keyboard that expensive probably lasts for a long enough time...
I call such things "this is what happens when developers and designers do not use their own products"
In my opinion as a local, Lisbon is pretty bad. Scamming and rude drivers, unreliable when requested by phone, forget about paying by card (now some have apps, but that's a post-Uber development), plus the organization leadership is very corrupt (getting around licensing limits by putting them under their families names, outright snatching licenses from members when they ask for help renewing them, leaving small towns without cars by using the licenses to drive in big cities, etc).

Before Uber, I already avoided taxis as much as I could, only taking a couple per year.
Related: "Launching Pipewire" [0], which is meant to (among other things) eventually replace PulseAudio.

[0]: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/09/19/launching-pipewire...
On some of these embedded chips there are methods to glitch the fuses for read protection by messing with the power (a form of fault injection attacks). These used to work a few years back but I haven't heard if they still do.
Thanks for supporting my point, in that 89% of the working population is "usually not employed in healthcare".
> It's the only way we make it better for everybody.

Not true. Alternatively, you can have competition and consumer choice which can also make it better for everybody. Not everyone wants to be a squeaky wheel on these things, nor should they be forced to.
> I mean I know factories in India which have buildings with asbestos roofs.

And how much would your company be forced to pay and abdicate to relocate their headquarters to that asbestos-packed hell-hole?

Do the company's middle and upper management tolerate the idea of moving to a different continent and be forced to live with inhumane infrastructures setup by inhumane and careless middle and upper management types?

Not every job is a factory job or involves low-skilled grunt work. Not all companies are willing to lift the proverbial anchor and relocate to a different continent just because a job seeker has a trade union representative with him during negotiations.
Does anyone know if we will be able to access the OS-NMA messages and manually verify them, or if the chip just discards any forged messages?

The reason why I ask: If we can get highly accurate and signed timing data it will have a huge impact on distributed systems. If the signature is accessible from the API it could be included in a DB transaction that every node could verify.
> This should really be solved in software

And this software is called "Excel". This should really be solved in software called "Excel". As in: remove functionality from F1
Could rustc have a way to output desugared code or code targeting a specific epoch with new features like generators expand to a backwards compatible form. This might allow for preprocessed source that could be compiled by something like mrustc even if it doesn't implement every single RFC?
> but I'll be darned if I'm going to ever try to use it again

You probably won't have to. I think the long term plan is for Pipewire to replace PulseAudio (and be an alternative to JACK). Pipewire also does video. The initial release of Pipewire is video only with audio support to come:

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/09/19/launching-pipewire...

http://pipewire.org/

https://github.com/PipeWire/pipewire
Seems like the core philosophy of Go is the end result of Python's "there's one way to do it".

The "Go's design and users are dumb" meme needs to die. It's not even a constructive criticism. It's dishonest, insulting, and it's too bad grown adults and professionals can't see beyond it.
> Almost all "ordinary humans" manage to keep and use a pair of physical keys to there home, among other things

And what happens when someone loses their encryption key? This happens often enough with house keys that there are entire businesses set up for emergency locksmith services.
Coding the History of Deep Learning
There are merits to both systems (reviews from anyone vs you have to have booked through booking.com), the biggest one is that if you visited somewhere but booked directly, or through another OTA, you can still leave your opinion.

More here: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/vpages/review_mod_fraud_detect...
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Better Pokemon Go.
Real compensation includes these items below and in typical cases employers say they pay 30-35% in benefits, 65-70% in wages:

- gross wages and salaries earned by employees and payable in cash.

- cash allowances, overtime pay, bonuses, commissions, tips, and gratuities if paid by the employer to the employee.

- remuneration in kind paid by the employer to the employee valued at purchaser's prices, including meals and drinks, personal accommodation, uniforms worn outside of the workplace, vehicles or other durables provided for the personal use of employees, free personal travel, free personal fuel, recreational facilities, transport and parking subsidies, and creches for the children of employees.

- real or imputed social contributions and income taxes to government payable by the employee in respect of employment.
the value of the social contributions in respect of labor hired, which are paid by employers – these may be actual social contributions payable by employers to social security schemes or to private funded social insurance schemes for employees; or imputed social contributions by employers providing unfunded social benefits.

- income of students from paid work, including the value they contribute through work for an educational institution.

- income received by shareholders who are also employees of the corporation, and who receive paid remuneration (e.g. stock options) other than dividends.

- income by outworkers who are paid by an enterprise for work done.

- the value of the interest foregone by employers when they provide loans to employees at reduced, or even zero rates of interest for purposes of buying houses, furniture or other goods or services.

My guess is you don't take advantage of all those items but your 'real compensation' includes it. Companies are paying you 30% in benefits that they retain. Yes there will always be freebies, but those should just be that freebies, nothing to do with personal health insurance and healthcare. Just pay people more.
It was a pun on the topic of the article, which was snowflakes, you snowflake.
> In the entire history of the hackney carriage (black cab) license - going back to 1662 - I know of only one case of a driver having been prosecuted for rape, about 5 years ago.

That's absolute bollocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys
Could you expand on that point please because my understanding of the term monopoly, "the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service." would align with the point the other commenter is raising.

Some independent stores simply aren't interested in being the monopoly in their local area for their particular product. Sometimes they just run the business because its a product they enjoy and running their own business is preferable to being an employee for someone else.

Another example of businesses not run like monopolies is with consumables like fast food. You might have a successful fish and chip shop, Chinese or Indian take-away. Most UK towns will have multiple different independent restaurants but you seldom see these restaurants open up more shops in town, or even in other towns. Yet there is clearly a demand for good take-aways.
I designed the original tariffing engine for Oyster back in 2003/4. Compared to similar work I did for cellphone operators this was interesting in that Oyster actively seek to charge the lowest amount possible. The engine is pretty simple in that it does a shortest-path (£-based) determination between start and end stations. The trick was dealing with trips where a weekly or monthly travel card covers part of the route, and pay-as-you-go the rest. There are other edge cases that cannot be handled at all - having a travel card for, say, a trip through zones 1 and 2, and a pre-purchased ticket for zones 3 and 4 for a trip from zone 2 to 4.
Wow really? You would post that on a technology board?

Yesterday I read an idea from a guy who wanted to create a mariokart-style "ghost" via AR to pace you while you are on a run. That's one example.
Actually it's on both.

The 'show' has recent top submissions, selected and sorted by ranking algorithm [1], and 'show new' has all recent submissions, sorted in reverse chronological order.

[1] https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking...
I wrote about this last year. I called it the "social loop of death":

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/schedules-arent-a-constraint-...

It's super distracting, but you can easily break out of it with being accountable for your time.

Nowadays I've found a healthy balance and am more productive / happy / successful than ever.

A lot of it had to due with following these 3 things too: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-overcome-procrastinati....