skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The analogy is horrible because there is nothing about graphics art that precludes one to be a fine artist.

I really wish people would stop with this hobby project bs. No one looks at your github, no one looks at your websites, and no one reads your blog posts about using Arduino boards to build a non-GMO farm in your living room.
> You really can’t be a REALLY good company without innovation (side) projects where you play around with new technologies, with no expected results or deadlines, no managers, no infrastructure, just exploration.

There, fixed it.
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Doctor wins 2017 John Maddox prize for countering HPV vaccine misinformation
He's not alone in applying physics math to number theory. One thing that makes mathematicians leery of physics-inspired proofs is that physicists accept mathematical transformations that produce correct experimental results but that have not been proven axiomatically.

For example, here is a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis:

http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5012170

It uses operations on an analytic continuation of the zeta function. Are they OK? I don't know. If they are, it's Fields Medal material.

But this is nothing new. Oliver Heaviside revolutionized differential equation solving with the Heaviside Operator, which gives correct answers to electromagnetic problems. Nowadays we call it the Laplace Transform, because Laplace had used what turned out equivalent, for other purposes.
$1,200/Month stipend? Is that a joke? That's minimum wage.
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I think the “not that much of a software company” has to do with the fact that their product is delivered in person by humans. They’re no more of a software company than UPS or Delta.
It's a bit odd though because I doubt the majority of readers will have any direct experience with Bulgaria to put it in context. It's like trying to explain X in terms of Y, when Y is equally unfamiliar.
What I meant is the outside-of-companies open source community.

It's not weird for a company to license their SDK, no matter what it's for. Par for the course rather.
"we"?
'Living Ink' Laced with Microbes Makes Molecules on Demand
AT&T used to help the US with this, too. See 'The Idea Factory' for details on the 'Secret Schedules' the head of AT&T and AT&T research had so they could go explain their tech and make it easy to tap by Washington.
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Oh lord. China looks like a hell hole on that map :/
I'm just wondering if I can do stuff like use Nike shoes in my fake ad. Or, perhaps movie press material?
A close relative suffers from a PD. Borderline with likely schizophrenic co-morbity, he's not cooperative to diagnostics.

I'm not a professional, but think he's untreatable mostly due to his completely non acknowledgement of his disease. The added paranoia and delusion makes him aggressively​ dismiss any kind of intervention as "conspiracy" against him.

It's sad too see an individual waste his life this way for something that seems treatable, from this report.
No mention of the infamous Pizza Rat, the unofficial mascot of NYC?

Or the Avocado Rat - Pizza Rat's hip cousin living in Williamsburg?
Hah. You're not wrong about calling it a downgrade. Absolutely everything I've tried has been a downgrade from pebble. It's as if everyone is deliberately avoiding what was, for me at least, perfection.
im actually not sure why this article is doing so well. HN ranking is weird.
It's a great point. The article and much of the discussion frame these issues around business and profitability, but the NYT's mission is to inform the public not to make lots of money. Paywalls must, IMHO, greatly limit the success of that mission. No doubt they will soon publish another article about how misinformed the public is.

The same applies to scientific publishers. The mission of science is to advance and disseminate knowledge, but only the elite few - the professional researchers with funding - can access scientific knowledge. Scientists complain that the public believes anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers, but then deny them access to the science.

It seems that even as late as 2017, these old institutions haven't adjusted to the Internet's free distribution; they still try to force their square old pay-for-distribution models, which made sense created when paper had to be printed and shipped, into the round holes - or maybe better, the pressureless vacuum - of the Internet. From the point of view of their missions, to disseminate knowledge, the Internet is a fantasy too good to even imagine - free, instant, global distribution to most of humanity - but still they can't see it. Perhaps institutions don't change with the times, they just die and are replaced by a new generation.

We are patiently waiting for the dinosaurs to die out. They will die. And then we'll move into their homes. - Kurt Cobain
> They are a software based business of course they can and will turn a profit.

They're vetting people, and having them do labor on their behalf. Regardless of how the law defines an employee, they're effectively hiring a huge amount of labor.

They're completely unlike most software firms who can sell licenses or ads with no human involvement.
When Will Computers Have Common Sense?
I used to have a Sunday subscription for the Washington Post. That was pretty affordable and all the newspaper I wanted.
The US has poisoned tap water in some regions, too.
Yes, me too. My name, not my address, similar comment.
How police used a traffic stop to take $91,800 from an innocent man
Use TensorFlow Reshape to Convert a Tensor to a Vector
The issue there is preventing fraud -- how do you know that I didn't just pay someone to take the test for me?

Do you add some kind of monitoring, like a mandatory proctor? Or do you have a in-person interview component to verify that I seem like I'm legit? If so, how would such a component differ from what we have now?
That particular gotcha has been fixed in Python 3:

>>> try:
... x = 1 / int(s)
... except ZeroDivisionError, ValueError:
File "<stdin>", line 3
except ZeroDivisionError, ValueError:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It now requires the "as" keyword. Also, AFAIK setting ValueError to something else affects only the current module; only modifying __builtins__.ValueError would affect other modules.
Private Browsing Semantics Without Browser-Side Assistance [pdf]
Here are some options f you don't want to use corvallis's suggestion.

"John Smith, 123 Main St."

Back when Radio Shack started doing this, my Dad like to give them the store's own address.

There's no reason to give your legal name. Some hikers have trail names - you can have a business name.

Say, "I'm visiting from overseas. I live in Germany. My address is Willy-Brandt-Straße 1, 10557 Berlin and my phone number is country code 49, then 180 272 00 00." Or use a UK address so you can give them a post code lik "SW1A 2AA".

There are phone numbers like http://rejectionline.com/copycat.html which are used to be given to people pestering for your number.

The main reason I know of for asking for a name is to reduce mixups in ordering. For that they only need a relatively unique token. You could give them a new name each time.

The main reason I know of for collecting zip code/address is for marketing purposes, either to gather demographic information, or for advertising.
The comparison is mainly to put their available resources into perspective. Imagine the question: 'We have the entire economic output of Bulgaria in liquid assets at our disposal, what is the optimal portfolio we can construct'? And then re-ask yourself this question every second and just make sure you account for transaction costs as you shift stuff around. Also remember this is pre-levered money so deployed capital is a lot higher.
Subscriptions is not the solution. It's an old model that doesn't work anymore.

What we need is micropayments.
This analysis is the case of trees obscuring the forest.

There is no human driven taxi business in the world where robo taxis exist.

By my calculations robo taxis are 2x-4x cheaper than human driven taxis.

If Uber doesn't do robo taxis then it dies the moment someone else does.
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It would depend on location.

I work from home most of the time. Comfort is king when that's the case. Shorts and a Drytek tee-shirt.

When I'm going to a customer site, I'll wear a polo & khakis.
I still remember TV news about the Gulf War. I was a 6 year old kid (in Germany) and still remember being horrified by the news that people have to use gas masks and that an elderly woman died because she did not remove tape (or something) from the filter and suffocated.
I don't like this. I get the NYT and The Washington Post delivered. My wife reads the NYT on-line quite a bit, I read it only occasionally on-line. With 10 articles per month, I'm fine not logging in. Now, I have to find out our subscriber information.
> In this specific case, strongly typing the CryptVerificationResult as an enum would have helped. But, generalizing the problem, if you had more complicated criteria for whether that branch should be taken, it can be far too easy to save an intermediate result into a (strongly typed) variable but never end up using it in the correct way in the condition statement itself.

We can capture that requirement with something called Linear typing, but even if we don't go for a compiler-enforced consumption the creation of a universally used family of result enums brings enormous discipline and reliability to error handling. In no small part because when considering the result of such an enum, the compiler can demand a total pattern match, which forces developers to consider what that failure means in context and present SOME kind of strategy (even if it's hard failure).

The approaches of languages with type inference and more sophisticated type systems like OCaml and Haskell go even a step further because they can create workflows around these types, creating composite workflows that make it easy to handle errors. It becomes harder to ignore them, or write functions that ignore them.

One of the reasons it's so easy to write parsers in languages like Haskell is that algebraic data types and applicative functor composition make it easy and even convenient to talk about the logic within the context of non-trivial error flows. It's much more frustrating to write a parser without a combinator framework in OCaml or Haskell. Similar stories exist for Validator, Either, and Maybe/Option.

These techniques don't mandate error processing, but they make it more convenient to compose error-handling functions and offer more compiler checking when the results must be handled.
Well that all depends on what you classify as profitable?

Also whoever wrote that piece has never taken a class in accounting. There's something known as useful life of an asset.( You can write off a lot of expenses and do other clever accounting tricks that I'll never post on a public forum)

They also bought one of the safest vehicles.

Wait until they ( insurance companies) start charging higher rates of insurance for having a less safe vehicle AKA not newer model.

They also bought the same vehicle so they can actually use scale for buying parts and services to maintain it.

They also just bought a mapping fleet because wherever it goes it will take images similar to Google Street View. Uber could build its own map service.

All of this reduces costs on the back end.

In terms of operating costs, they can buy fuel at scale and possibly hedge which makes it incredibly cheap, talking about 20-40% cheaper than anyone else.

There also was nothing mentioned about prices increasing. The fact of the matter is that prices will increase. If that's the case they can easily make that money back over 5 years.

These are some thing that was not mentioned in the calculations you referenced.
"unwelcome" would be a significant improvement. Try "ostracized and worried about getting fired for not visibly toeing the party line"
I would frame this as comedy rather than any kind of serious analysis.
But how can your work be the same if attitude (ultimately) affects the work produced?
The NYT's digital subscriptions have been increasing steadily for quite some time [1], and while their print subscription has fallen by approximately half since 2001 [2][3], they have more digital subscribers now (2.5 million) [4] then they had papers in circulation in 2001 (1.1 million for the weekly, 1.7 million for Sunday) [2].

That doesn't seem to suggest that the NYT has lost trust from all of its readers, to be honest.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/315041/new-york-times-co...
[2] http://s1.q4cdn.com/156149269/files/doc_financials/annual/20...
[3] http://s1.q4cdn.com/156149269/files/doc_financials/annual/20...
[4] https://www.recode.net/2017/11/1/16592340/new-york-times-goa...
How far you mean?
Do you have any data to support the position that any of those three are not irrelevant from a market share by rides given or by industry profits?
Project Euler (projecteuler.net) has great algorithmic and mathematical challenges. I like to go through their problems when learning new languages.
how exactly do you rate "best podcasts"? not disagreeing, just interested in methodology. ever thought of giving per episode rating?
phrenology nice.

How do you detect BPD when the subject is so uncooperative and knows how to act normal enough to trick you?

I suspect someone of having BPD who doesn't want any help at all (suprise?). What will convince a psychiatrist or counselor?
Bucket Stream: Finding S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs
You reset your icloud password, or your phone password? The part that seems new is that you can reset your icloud password with phone access.
‘Slick 6:’ 30 years after the hopes of a West Coast space shuttle
Maybe they’re spending a ton to maintain market position w lyft, who just raised a bunch of money and is now doubt also lighting it on fire for growth reasons.
Scalaz is widely used and widely panned. Even though I'm a haskell and purescript programmer that prefers to write <$> and >>=, I find Scala's approach frustrating and hard to read. Especially as type lambdas stack up.

I'm just saying; the impression exists for a reason and the reason is a popular and well-known library.
> Probably only 1 in a million people could figure out how to do it if they didn't already know how it is done elsewhere.

They already know how it is done elsewhere; it's how one finds a word in a (paper) dictionary or an book index.
Manhattan IS a burrough bub
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Requiem for the mall
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Seconded on Garmin, Tactix Bravo owner here. They’ve made a serious effort to support their developer community, and as such I’ve written a few apps and watchfaces for it. And as you say, there are many options for viewing and manipulating the data - IIRC, you can even download it from their servers after you’ve synced it, if you prefer.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with my comment or with reproducible builds. Flatpak does absolutely nothing to help reproducible builds. That's just a statement of fact: It works at a different level of the stack, and solves a different problem.
Apple forces 2FA enrollment now. And someone who steals the phone and asks for the pin now has access to icloud reset.
Driving 100% in the city only ups the EPA range estimate to 256 miles.

http://pushevs.com/2016/11/23/electric-cars-range-efficiency...

In addition, the guy mentioned commuted in, presumably on the highway.
I recently cancelled two subscriptions I had started online and had to call for both of them.

One was moderately annoying as the call center menu hid the ‘unsubscribe’ option about five layers deep, although once I found it I had a brief and reasonably efficient conversation to sort things out.

For the other subscription, I had an absolutely painful discussion with a woman on another continent who kept pretending to misunderstand me and offering to “suspend” my subscription for two months.

After several attempts to be reasonable and being treated like a fool, I had to raise my voice and express some anger before she suddenly became able to understand me. :(

Any future subscriptions of mine will be through a trusted third party like amazon or only with services that have proven they don’t suck at customer service.
Will it be possible one day to run a whole OS (e.g. an iExec linux distro specially made for that purpose) via iExec? Then one could just own a cheap low-end PC, which would emulate a high-end PC as long as s/he pays some RLC.
This application would probably be much less CPU-intensive than most applications iExec will be used for, but it may be of interest for many more users.
Amazon should explore cannabis market. Kush on prime now would be neat.
And even if they are, it’s not a given that “a software based business of course can and will turn a profit”.

Your fixed costs per unit go down as you scale, but you still need to recover them, and recover your per unit variable costs to break even.

For Uber, they gamble they will the only ones to have scale by the time self-driving cars drive per unit costs down, and thus can keep competition out on price and still make a healthy profit.

Problem with that is that they won’t be the only one reaching that globally. That means that, for example, Chinese competition may still be able to enter Uber’s home market. That’s relatively easy if/when self-driving cars become available.

It will also be interesting to see what governments will do with public transport if self-driving cars become available. They could, for example, start operating a much denser and more flexible network of (smaller) buses. That might take away part of the market Uber aims for.
Isn't this a good thing?

I mean if there aren't any conservatives now, it means it got big without them. Why should it add such people? This would only lead to its demise.
> It is greater than aerodynamic friction.

Is it comparable to engine braking in a manual transmission vehicle in at cruising RPMs?