skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Alphabet lobby against a corporate tax cut? I don't think they did. This has nothing to do with the right wing cause-celebre of painting Google as an evil liberal company.
An informative series from pbs narrated by Jeff goldblum on YouTube: search for "dna episode 1 of 5 the secret of life"

It's a great high level overview of dna sequencing from the discovery of its shape through the completion of the human genome project in 2000.

I'm having trouble pasting a link, maybe someone could help me out.
That makes no sense. I am saying this is a scam to get Ether quick and cheap. There is no need to put a drawing or a love note on a blockchain, and me making something better won’t stop people from getting scammed by stuff like this.
Do you also access their website over Tor? If not then they have your home IP address.

According to their about page[1] the company is based in Turkey which isn't exactly a paragon of consumer privacy protection.

[1]: https://put.io/aboutus
Awesome! The background gradient bar seems reasonable now, you can see that it's about hakf brightness which makes more sense to me :)
The article is holding up an ideal premise that is never going to happen (subways everywhere), as a counter to a viable plan that will be a real improvement over a mediocre existing system (the one we have now).

If the US was ever going to do mass traditional subways, it would have been in the prior 50 years when it could have maybe afforded to. It's never going to happen now, not under any scenario imaginable. Combined with the disastrous cost, time it takes, zoning issues etc. to build above ground in most US locations (eg the California debacle). That's what Musk realized and it's why he is doing a partial patch on the mess with the boring company approach.

There is no plausible alternative. Musk's approach can give us a significant improvement over what we have. Wishing for fantasy subway lines everywhere, that would cost trillions of dollars the US is never going to have to spend on such things (particularly in the next 20-30 years, as entitlement obligations alone are already set to bankrupt the US Government), is pointless.
Society rarely gets its calculator out. Rule making tends to be a political process. Oftentimes, the rules are suboptimal. The “calculation” is just a convenient rationalization.
And if you're choosing who to trust between The Information and The Rolling Stone... well that's like choosing between a Bugatti Veyron and a Ford Pinto.
>It's trivial to distinguish between the two.... One goes by the name Bitcoin or Bitcoin Classic, and the other by the name Bitcoin Cash.

My comment about distinguishing was not about Bitcoin Cash, but about the following counterfactual:

>What if the SegWit2x fork had happened, and each of the two resulting cryptocurrencies had roughly equal market cap and each claimed to be the "true" Bitcoin?

In this hypothetical situation, there is (by assumption) real disagreement about which of the two cryptocurrencies is the "real" Bitcoin, and I don't see how the IRS would be equipped to decide this contentious issue. And if it doesn't make such a decision, then the only remaining possibility is to treat the two chains equally.
is that the first thing on people's mind when they take home more money?
Works for me on Firefox 57. And not only does it work, the echo cancellation works quite a bit better.
"So Musk can imply that there’s something wrong with transit because it’s too crowded—an example of the Yogi Berra fallacy—but cities and transit agencies shouldn’t care. If they’re crowded, they’re succeeding."

That seems like an enormous leap in logic. Saying agencies shouldn't care about overcrowding seems flippant. They most definitely should care about rider experience. Soviet bread lines were massively long, but that didn't mean they were hugely successful.

I love the usefulness of the subway when it actually runs on time. I hate the experience most of the time. Next time I hear "Showtime!" I want to punch somebody.
I definitely wouldn't call it cheap, but it's totally doable. $79 is a lot, but way cheaper than a new iPhone.
It depends on whether an abstraction is intended for novices or, for lack of a better term, power users. Tokio is, IMHO, more of the latter. It's a complex set of concepts that is designed to scale up very well as the complexity of the task increases but doesn't scale down very well for simple tasks* . Learning quite often involves those simple tasks, so Tokio gets a reputation for being hard to learn. But when you take an easy-to-learn abstraction and try to scale it up to handle very complex problems, you often find the abstraction breaks down much more easily than something like Tokio does.

Tokio doesn't subscribe the the Larry Wall philosophy of making the easy things easy and the hard things possible. It seems more focused on making the hard things as easy as possible without much regard for the easy things.

* Before anyone attacks this...yes, you can accomplish simple tasks in Tokio, but it requires learning a lot more concepts than should be necessary to accomplish that simple task.
You're restating what I just said. Presumption of innocence is a procedural control. Also: "presumption of innocence" is a term of art in criminal cases. In civil cases, what you have is the burden of proof (which is usually on the plaintiff). And, of course, at law, the word "proof" means something very different than it does on HN.
Because incremental updates are very difficult in a zip file.

The point of an embedded database like LiteDB or SQLite is to allow incremental updates to a file without needing to write out the entire file every time.

The nice thing about tools like SQLite and LiteDB is that they have APIs that are fundamentally similar to APIs that we already know. It keeps the learning curve light so we can spend more time on the task at hand instead of learning a new thing.
Elon Musk's livelihood depends on people wanting to live in separated housing (so they can each have powerwalls and solar-paneled roofs) and wanting to move through their regions in separated vehicles. It doesn't take Upton Sinclair to understand why he would use every propaganda outlet he can find to push that agenda.
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen is worth reading in its entirety if one is at all interested in this stuff. (Although it looks like they're making it into a movie for 2018.) It is a history written by an engineer who knew how to ask the right questions, which helps.
I still miss the UI for NeXTSTEP. The joy of tear-off menus floating near my windows is missed. I still have the discs and the full set of books in storage along with the complete run of NeXTWorld magazine[1]. I also miss the librarian. A lot of NeXTSTEP didn't make the transition.

Watch Steve Jobs videos from 1996 and you get some interesting insights.

1) now available online https://archive.org/search.php?query=nextworld
The PGF system required by Tikz/Tikz-cd/Beamer/Pgfplots and a number of other packages is fully supported. You can edit your figures in realtime.
> I'm asking why people view Uber as evil for trying to disrupt industries that are protected by the government

That's not why people see Uber as evil. It's because they see Uber as brazenly disregarding the laws of their communities, treating their employees badly (including drivers), exploiting people who need rides in bad weather, and competing unfairly.
Three-letter acronym.
This sadly seems all too common... Once people finally have money to invest, buy a home, etc... The prices are suddenly much higher.
Having had to track down memory data races in a production C++ codebase I'm not sure that I completely agree with your assessment.
Fundamentally, what ECNs brought to market is a total automation (and enormous speed) of running a basic limit book both internally and against other market participants.
Pre-ECN having major volume if one wanted to sell a million shares and not to get screwed, one needed to develop a very good relationships with specific traders. Now most of such trades are considered to be pretty basic - you may get a little bit of slippage but by god you don't need to call a desk. It really solved front-running issue - it is possible to do a limit 5.1722 500k order but tell ECN to only display "100@5.1722 until 500k filled". So no desk knows that some fund wants to by 500k shares so it can't trade against this order.

ECNs were f!cking amazing and when Datek started routing limit orders to Island (genius play) from retail investors the days of crazy spreads, slippage and free money became history. Some of them also allowed you to do cross-exchange routing - I think BRUT was first to do it - so you could send your order via BRUT to a specific exchange. This killed NYSE/PHL/AMEX arbitrage (AMEX and PHL were slower than NYSE so it was possible to do a trade on NYSE and take offsetting position on PHL/AMEX immediately locking the spread)

Since ECNs would self-cross at the NBB and NBA even if the market had no action because the likes of NITE and GSCO were slowing down just to get better money on the order flow, the trading simply moved to Island and Instinet forcing regular market makers to play ball.

The effect of ECNs in trading was equivalent of introducing Ansible and Puppet management in server management. Crypto-exchanges now act the same way as the who who say "We only manage our servers using Vt100 terminals using vi"
Notice there are still offices and they are occupied... just by other people. The devs and workers are still just in a big pit.

It's designed FOR people control, not ABSENCE due to capital.
The sane way to handle congestion would be to have a congestion fee (as London does) for driving in the urban core. Make it apply to taxis as well as private cars, and the created incentives will balance uses well.
AT&T is not tech but Alphabet is?

I often wonder what HN means by technology and engineering. It seems to mean websites and the backend to support it. Sure it’s “complicated” and multi layered but so is “finnegan’s wake”

For me technology means micro-fabrication bridges, substations and OSes. AT&T has delivered more “tech” than any other company ever!

Google’s innovations? Repackaging existing solutions and funding, yet to be launched, Moon shots.

EDIT it goes without saying that AT&T is a shadow of its former self.
> It's possible that it's very difficult to engineer a virus that can do better than anything nature has come up with

As someone finishing a PhD in computer-aided drug discovery, this seems to be the situation in a lot of cases. Nature often finds it trivial to get around drugs and back to the viral behavior it wants. For example, a lab might make an allosteric drug that reduces the activity of a viral enzyme. In response to treatment with the drug, a few copies of the virus emerge with point mutation that makes them more active. Now a patient has two populations of viruses, and the disease no longer cares about the treatment. The surprising thing isn't just that this happens, but that it happens so rapidly, often requiring just a few days or a single mutation.

A quick example of the above is the I585T substitution in [1]

One big-picture concept is that genes and proteins are more than their immediate sequences/transcripts. On top of their current identity, they all exist on an mutational "landscape". Remember that some codons are redundant, while some amino acid changes would require two or three base mutations. Therefore, the sequence of a virus encodes both its current identity, as well as nearby evolutionary "alternatives". When a recurring threat comes by, the virus might have encoded in its genes a common defense, maybe through a particularly mutagen-exposed gene location or something like that. In the above case, the virus may have had millenia of exposure to weird dietary natural products and whatnot, and encoded easy rate up/down mutations for its essential enzymes, or orthosteric disruptor mutations for its promiscuous binding sites.

This sort of fuckery will have to become a consideration in designing the antivirals of the future.

And, to toot my own horn: In an evolutionary sense, our fight against viruses is particularly interesting. Now that computers are helping us accelerate drug development, our brains and computers could be considered as part of our immune systems. In the same way that metal weapons made us safe against macroscopic threats (lions etc), computers and public health infrastructure will become our arsenal against microscopic threats. If computer-aided drug design can lead to faster approval of cheap drugs, we can design hundreds of antiviral molecules and chase a virus all over its evolutionary landscape, until it has nowhere left to run.

For out-of-field readers -- An anecdote of cancer cells (not viruses) becoming reliant on a drug in [2]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC296079/
[2] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/10/04/cancer-...
I cycle in a mid-cized American city that has had a "Bicycle Friendly America" Silver ranking for several years now, and the Google Maps bicycle directions have been extremely iffy since they were introduced. I just checked how Google Maps routes my normal cycle route home, and it's very close to good, but in fact is quite bad.

It routes me onto a dangerous arterial road rather than the pleasant multiuse park path that is directly adjacent to the arterial road (and which is my normal cycling route). The Google Maps recommendation here is quite bad and possibly dangerous. The alternate route goes on another heavily-trafficked road rather than the quiet surburban street a block away that is a designated cycle route marked with bicycle signs and sharrows (which was my previous cycling route).
You're saying this as if there's an unified consensus within Britain. A bit more than half of Britain wanted to leave, and a bit less than half of Britain wanted to remain. They'll still honor the democratic process and do what the general population chose to do, but it's an overstatement to say that Britain wants to leave when it's rather that Britain was highly undecided and has(had?) a mild preference towards leaving.
They also appear to be tracking child porn torrents. IP is from the vpn I use.
https://i.imgur.com/e5iUctM.png
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/?ip=173.239.215.12
It is a massive disaster waiting to happen.

But the massiveness of that disaster, or its impendingness, has very little to do with some people in Washington DC mouthing words about how you shouldn't do that.

This is definitely one of those cases where I feel like a lot of people are demonstrating some very magical thinking about the effectiveness of regulations, with all due respect to those involved. Does Kim Jong Un care that some people in Washington DC say that it's illegal to make lethal viruses? Does China? Russia? Iran? Europe? Anyone else in the world, really? Or a small criminal lab located in the United States? Or a criminal with access to a lab in the United States? It's not like there's literally people standing on top of every single gene sequencer in the world, or the US, stopping people from doing things.

The regulations were not all that was standing between us and some deadly virus, because anyone who would make a deadly virus and release it, accidentally or otherwise, still has a very simple path to that goal: "Ignore the regulations the US has." This just gives the good guys a chance to possibly learn some things about that before someone else releases it.
I think you are exactly right. If I wanted a small macOS device, I could buy one (I didn't). What I wanted is a large iOS device and that's why I have a 10.5" iPad Pro. It's my favorite computer.
There are good investments out there today but we just don't know what they are yet.
Needs more examples certainly. Still, nice work!
This has nothing to do with storing coins. It's a portfolio tracker.
How Can Geo-Fencing Technology Improve the Effectiveness of Content?
I think most people are concerned with making sure they're not actively supporting and organization currently behaving badly (and I pretty strongly believe that Uber isn't).

I've been at the company for 2.5 years. I'm solidly within your firing range. I've seen a company with a behavioral distribution that was slightly shifted from the societal mean. My job has almost exclusively involved interacting with people whose behavior fell within societally normal. Nevertheless, the upper tail of Uber's behavioral distribution was, retrospectively, clearly in a bad place.

I believe that that behavioral distribution has shifted to being mundane.
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If you take this argument to its logical conclusion there is no point arguing about the law in the first place.
im all for that, but i doubt that this provision in the tax bill is going to result in a net increase in charitable giving. and its compounded by the fact that r’s will use the huge deficit they just created as an argument for cutting services for poor people.
Apart from the asteroids packed with precious metals or water/zero-g vacuum manufacturing /virtually limitless solar energy and near earth rendezvous from interstellar objects?
I like people too but not random train passengers. They smell bad, are unattractive and grouchy. I don’t want to strike up conversations with randos. They make the train dirty.

I don’t think this makes me “elitist.” The reason rich people don’t take public transit is because no one likes it, but the rich are more able to afford alternatives. A trend of history is extending luxuries of the few to the many.

This looks to me like CityLab is emotionally attached to the current transit system, with all its flaws, and is a bit annoyed that someone is working on a better alternative.
Google maps has the name of the street I live near spelled incorrectly (O'Neil vs O'Neill). They're the only mapping service that has it wrong and I've tried to submit the error through google maps multiple times to get it fixed -- it's still not fixed. It's odd to me, because I've submitted other fixes in the past for mapping errors and they're usually accepted within a few days. When I direct people to my house now I have to intentionally misspell the name so google maps will route them correctly.
Fantastic preemptive multithreading, especially for the time. The file system (BFS) was basically a database, with metadata capabilities that allowed applications to store their data in files and open up their data format (after a fashion) to any other application.

Want an MP3 player? Don't need to open the files and get their ID3 tag info, it's in the file system. You can query it with "filetype:mp3 artist:bach" or whatever and you'd get a list, updated when other songs files were added or changed, of all mp3s meeting your requirement. Same for any other document. Contacts can be stored the same way, rather than hidden away inside an arbitrary file format you can store them with each bit of info as metadata (query on the phone number and find everyone associated with it), email, anything. The real benefit of this filesystem-as-database approach was that it breaks the data silo situation you find in many (most?) other OSes.

Downsides were the dearth of applications, being single-user, and for a time being PPC only. Opening it to x86 opened it up to many more users, but then the OS became the product (instead of the BeBoxes they also sold) which was much lower price and profit. It was a POSIX-compatible OS (good), but not really a Unix in the way users of Unix would expect. This did make porting of applications a bit easier, though.

They were also crippled by Microsoft's actions with Compaq (HP?), where MS threatened to change the favorable licensing costs for MS Windows if they sold BeOS on their computers.
I know some people working on the tools side who claim Magic Leap is the real deal but won't give any details due to NDAs.
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My journey on using the hidden Airbnb API and writing my first Electron app
>> You protect yourself by having the appropriate contractual agreements in place, which the client did here.

I disagree. You protect yourself by doing your necessary homework before you even sign the contracts.

Contracts are helpful, but in the real world, getting a resolution can be very messy. Lawsuits are stressful, expensive and time consuming. If you've been through a lawsuit, you'll know that being right is often very small consolation, especially if your adversary happens to have better legal representation than you.
Honestly it's beginning to become a parody of itself how people in the bay area can't imagine life outside of a hypercrowded cityscape that has temperate weather year round.
Kuri the adorable home robot starts shipping to pre-order customers
Here in switzerland, we've had building shapes for decades (if not hundred of years).

Here it what it looks like:

https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=ech&lang=en&bgLayer=ch.swiss...

I've always found that kind of map way superior to the original "google like" maps. It's great to see that google is catching up, but I am really surprised that a database of building footprint is not something public like it is here in switzerland.

Edit: Just discovered the time travel function, here in 1860:

https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=ech&lang=en&bgLayer=ch.swiss...
If you look at Mac OS X 1.0 Server, it's even more obvious.

Rhapsody is pretty interesting stuff.

EDIT: Missed the link. http://rhapsodyos.org/
Then I'm really glad sane anti-compete and trust-busting laws wouldn't care about the motivation.

This is using large scale marketshare in one market to effect a tangible and monetary benefit in another market.
Four lessons learned while hunting for a data scientist role
Maybe it is just not a good technology. Just compare it to others:

C++ - memory unsafe, no GC.

Java - memory safe (by default), has GC.

Rust - memory safe (by default), no GC.

D - memory unsafe (by default), has GC.

Authors of Java solved memory safety by adding garbage collector. Authors of Rust managed to make memory safe language without GC while authors of D made a language with GC that is still memory unsafe.
The precise route is actually an important part of the service provided to customers. Same with ensuring the identity of the driver.

However, I don't see how they can argue the driver has a contract with the passenger since all customer relationship is handled through Uber.
One-off CRISPR treatment slows genetic hearing loss in mice
>BCH received in the fork should be treated like the receipt of free money

Why is that? Another way of looking at it is that the value of your existing bitcoin holdings got split between two competing chains. In a rational market, value of your bitcoin holdings pre-fork should be equal to the sum of the value of your holdings on the two post-fork chains.
It doesn't make sense for all apps but I felt like I need it since I started using Margin Note app in my ipad and macbook.
I'm not sure how Elon Musk could be any more wrong than urban transit planners.

I live in a cold city, most of the bus stops aren't protected from the elements / heated so waiting for the bus is excruciating. It's not possible to track the bus with enough precision to reduce outside wait times to acceptable margins (~5 minutes).

I do drugs recreationally that impair my ability to drive. Invariably this happens at night, after about 8 pm at which point the busses run hourly. The thought of burning an hour because I missed a bus is a serious dampener and makes Uber much more attractive.

And the bus isn't a collection of random strangers - it's people who are too poor / cheap / sick to drive themselves. The bus riders seem to skew loud, cantankerous, and disrespectful of personal space and privacy. I deal with PII on a regular basis, I can't work on the bus.

But transit planners insist this system is as good as it can be and to make it better, they'd need more money. Bus drivers make more than junior devs at my company, bust the transit unions and maybe public transit will have a chance.