skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not suggesting there's anything deeper nor do I understand why you think I am. I'm just pointing out that as English exists today, an 's' on the end of noun makes it plural while an 's' on the end of a verb makes it singular.

And I think that's strange. That's it.
Musician Who Lost His Arm Plays Piano Again with AI Prosthesis
The simplest explanation is that it is used for sharding. (Uber iOS dev)
I stopped at 4th paragraph because I couldn't understand the author's ideas. Can anyone explain the following bit to me?

> Like the inevitability of collective micro-ownership of commodities like real estate, art, storage, even energy. These feel natural to the innate structure of the blockchain itself [...]
> And don't get me started on trying to define how American definitions of class have evolved in the last fifty years...

Yeah I don't understand what Americans mean by middle class... in the UK middle class means educated, successful, with a respected profession and more sophisticated cultural tastes. A doctor or lawyer who owns their own home and takes a couple of foreign holidays a year with children in private school would be a classic example of the UK middle class.

Middle class in America seems to basically mean poor? The phrase doesn't seem to translate at all.
Before you build anything, see if you can pull a Slack community together. All you need is a landing page to test this out. If you can't find 20 people to start with, then building additional tech isn't going make up for that.
My boss just recommended a tax person to a bunch of us new hires- we're all 1099 contractors. He said basically the same thing as you. I want to start doing things like maxing out Roth and Sep IRAs, or whatever will end up making sense for my position.
Wow. Privileges in action.
A third of the rise in the S&P 500 stock market index this year is attributable to Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc., Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

That may mean the advances these companies represent are becoming economically significant. Internet sales, for example, now represent 9% of total retailing.

Above from Greg Ip/WSJ 'A Tech-Driven Boom Is Coming; Please Be Patient'. https://www.wsj.com/.../a-tech-driven-boom-is-coming-please-...

Given the lobbying power of these economically important global business platforms it seems unlikely local 'government' will do very much to rock their boat...
Primarily since it's been an issue for over a year, reported here https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8475 as well, with no help from the RN team.

> Also, that doesn't sound like a Babel issue, as I've compiled JS files that were several MB before without taking an unreasonable amount of time.

The error is specifically that transformation of the JS times out, so it very much appears to be a babel issue. It might be something specific to the RN preset though.
Maybe I’m alone but my initial reaction was: “oh 30% doesn’t sound that bad”.
If I'm spending more than six hours on a flight, I expect the person in front of me to want to recline. Seats are so constrained these days that I expect that people will stretch out at their convenience. The issue isn't concern for others, it's whether that concern extends forward to the seat ahead, or whether it extends backwards to the seat behind.

One might be tempted to say, "every situation is different. Just ask the people behind you before you lean back, and comment to the people in front of you when you want them to lean less." But the problem with that is that most people want to sidestep the close-packing of the cabin by interacting with others as little as possible. Maybe a little polite conversation within the row, but that's it.

BTW, my flight attendant didn't point much of anything out. She angrily yipped at me in German, no smile, no sense of friendliness. It struck me as bizarre, totally counter to the interpersonal skill that usually characterizes flight attendants. I chalked it up to a combination of a difference in culture and a lack of corporate attention on politeness.

I have no problem with accommodating a polite request, although I lean back frequently and, other than that one instance, have never been asked to refrain from doing so by a passenger or flight attendant despite flying very often and almost always leaning back for some or all of the flight.
The death of the nytimes
Everyone always tells me that, but isn't Nim even more niche than D? I like that D feels familiar and easy. I love D! It's the C++ I always wanted.
> Argument #2 is parrotting what Apple said

Weak argument or no, it is demonstrably true - the first Intel CPU to support LPDDR4 will be Cannon Lake, expected some time next year. The part that's missing is that Apple could have put a bigger battery in a device that was either the same size as the previous model (or anywhere between the thickness of the previous and current models), or offered customers the choice of trading RAM for battery life.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16023685
> There was a challenge to this idea at the end of the 20th century, when business school academics the late C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel claimed that the era of conglomerates was over.

> Although many large companies were broken up on the back of this mantra, there is little dispute that size is back - with a vengeance.

I think it's always a mistake to use a singular data point to proclaim if something is dead.

That said, consolidation has become the new norm. Companies and executives trying to either get into every other market or consolidating by buying other companies, hoping synergies will help them keep afloat. This all seems like a mistake.

Most of the consolidating companies don't achieve the "synergy" dream and end up with huge amount of debt. So, companies end up being sold for parts ie broken all over again.

As for the companies getting into every business imaginable, well, they end up spreading too far too thin without relevant expertise. In the end, there is no choice but to sell the loss making unit.
Love that he's bringing attention to CO2 build up & air quality in offices. I can't stand those modern "energy efficient" buildings with no open windows.
It seems like this parallels the need for encryption. I don't over-share in meatspace for the same reason that I don't deliberately make myself vulnerable in cyber-space.
> That cooperation requires a certain amount of communication skills (apart from stellar technical skills), but it doesn't mean that you have to be an extrovert.

Yeah, and I realize it's a spectrum and not a binary thing. My point was more:

If we use the simplistic, trendy definition of introversion/extroversion as "do you gain energy having conversations or does it require energy?" and then say that regular conversations are an extremely important part of doing modern development work, I think it's fair to say that you're implicitly selecting for extroverts.

And again, I don't really put a judgement on that. I think it's fair to say "regular conversations are required to be successful as a software developer." I'm just noting the shift (as you've also done!).
The income in France is many times less than the income in the USA.
Five startups disrupting the gender problem in tech
Bitcoin exchange chief kidnapped as he leaves work
If there are engineers you highly respect on your team, their code is a great place to start.

Otherwise, many top tech companies now open source software that they've written internally, oftentimes with their own websites. And there is also a growing trend for them to actually maintain the software they open source as opposed to just throwing it over the fence.

Think of companies that have a strong engineering brand, and then just search for what open source software they're released. Pick whatever seems most aligned with your interests.

Some examples:

Google: https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured?languag...
Facebook: https://code.facebook.com/projects/#backend
Stripe: https://stripe.com/open-source
Airbnb: http://airbnb.io/projects/
Yes, but scale of countries like Bahrain doesn't make a dent. Also, in each of those countries Uber has a competition that is usually more successful than Uber. That's not true in Brazil and Mexico and that's why Didi is rushing there!
I understand where you're coming from, but the empirical history of America (at least) brings up two problems. The first is that the definition of race/ethnicity tends to shift based on what's politically expedient for the powerful: consider whether Irish people, Eastern Europeans, Arabs, and Jews count as "white" at various points across American history. Race just isn't a solid enough concept to be a reliable way to ensure a share of power for anyone who doesn't already have a unrelated strong grasp of power.

The second is that in practice this just causes the weak to identify with and have solidarity with the strong, which isn't the direction you want. There's a lot history of public policy in America that's been targeted at getting lower-class "white" people (for whatever the current definition of "white" is) to believe that their self-interest is more aligned with the success of the white race than with the success of the lower class regardless of race. You can see this clearly in the history of things like Bacon's Rebellion, and the establishment of slavery in the US as a racial-superiority thing as a way to avoid a combined revolt by white indentured servants and black slaves against the upper class. But I think you can see the same thing happening in the present day.
Your competitors will find things to exploit anyway. Opening yourself up will attract people who'll help when things get tough.
The bottom 8 bits were alway zero, so all you could really do was 8 row (1280 byte) vertical scrolling. I don’t think you could change the screen base address mid-frame either, so you’d need a double-height buffer to do a continuous scroll.

The STe fixed both of these problems, and had variable wid5h rows and the pixel offset thing too. That meant a setup that was roughly equivalent to a 4-bit Amiga screen, though with interleaved bitplanes (which is not necessarily a bad thing).
Stratfor's 2018 Annual Forecast
People don't seem to remember or appreciate they quality of pre-iCloud versions of osx and ios. I remember buying Snow Leopard in a cardboard box from Microcenter for $20. It had almost no truly new features. Everything was focused on making things work better and faster. And it showed. I would gladly pay $20 or $50 or $100 or whatever Apple wanted to charge for a true bug fix version of osx.
The mod is right, I could have phrased it better.
Then it is not familly dinner.
Had to read thru it to get just how much men are disrupting gender issues..
> If Uber is limited to US and Canada

I fervently hope it's the US only. I will talk to my MLA and show him a nice collection of news about Uber in hope they will not allow them to operate their scam in Vancouver.
You misunderstand supply and demand. Consumers can be (and are) priced out of the housing market just as they can be priced out of any market.
People (including a team member of mine) are still commenting on https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8475 which has been iceboxed and never re-opened. Same problem, which made the RN team seem very unreceptive.

Indeed, I think it's worth a shot to see if the metro team is more receptive. Thanks for the suggestion.
As far as I'm aware, 'growth mindset' comes from education/psychology with Carol Dweck, not from management - did I miss something?
>Given the lobbying power of these economically important global business platforms it seems unlikely local 'government' will do very much to rock their boat...

They will do. They did it in the past. See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_antit...
In early stages it's relatively rare (or, perhaps more bad). When you're the size of Uber a downround isn't a necessarily uncommon thing, and it's very unlikely to be a company killer.
ZFS is bundled into the Antergos Linux installer.

I think pacman can get you their PostgreSQL package easily enough.

I have screenshots at the end of this (unpublished) article:

http://syro.org/systemd/zfs.html
Same here. In the States I mostly use Lyft, but internationally it's easier to just use the Uber app instead of first figuring out which other options are available. In many cases installing the local apps doesn't even work because they are limited to their own local app stores.

One of the next steps for those companies is probably to get roaming agreements with each other: When I'm in a country where, e.g., Uber doesn't operate I'd still like to be able to use the Uber app to order cars from whatever local companies Uber has an agreement with.
I think being coy here about what you are talking about doesn't help your case. For example, the US election, the dominance of Facebook/Google/Amazon/Microsoft never came up, unless maybe you mean the discussion of "Fake News" that had no effect until 2017 anyway.
I have an Amazon "Smart Home Consultant" coming in a few hours to help me wire up my Echos and figure out what else I need to buy to get a seamless Amazon Music experience in my house. Bye-bye iTunes and iCloud. The Airports and Apple TV are already gone, replaced by luma, echo and roku.

Next is a linux laptop instead of MBP. Works out about $500 cheaper for similar spec, or same price for much better spec. And they're upgradeable, so not having to buy another MBP in two years time means I can save probably another $1500 over four years. Even the ultrathin 13" has one NVMe and one 2.5" bay. I'll be getting a 17", like apple doesn't make anymore. Only this one has two NVMe bays and two 2.5" bays. Last straw was my 2011 MBP 17" had video problems (reboots under gpu load) and they refused to fix it. Finally this year it developed the pyjama stripes, and now they recognize it has a problem, but oh dear, its out of warranty since Dec 2016.

There are five apple computers in this house. They are the last.
In my experience, the Didi app is inferior to Uber's. Not sure how they would manage to outcompete.
This is so good. This person is eloquent and to the point and clearly very smart.
Which is harder for a call center employee or server admin?

1) Upload a file via GDrive or Box
2) base64 encode the data andsend it to a remote DNS server over the course of several days via TXT record requests

As another poster says, it's all about reduction of risk. It's about balance. And on a corporate network that owns the workstation and server configuration, running a root CA cert and installing it in a gold load is pretty easy for the level of inspection and prevention it provides.

This is not the end all of security, either. It's one of many steps.
It's difficult to incorporate because it would basically be original research that's a metareview of published articles. Of course, the article itself is basically a metareview of primary source articles, which itself is a no-no on Wikipedia, but at least the fact that it is such basically screams that it's biased and non-NPOV.
> it's also inaccurate in the US, which has no generally applicable VAT)

All but four states in the US have a general sales tax
Filmmakers Want the Right to Break DRM and Rip Blu-Rays
> We worked with Lisa for 2 years and we produced our biggest successes with her.

So, being honest paid off for her?

Most successful CEOs are very open about everything, and don't keep secrets. Secrets and opacity are what destroy companies and relationships, not the reverse.
> Hows downgrading to _secure 1.2_ insecure ?

I could go back a few years and ask you the same question: "Hows downgrading to secure SSLv3 insecure ?" You could say "it wasn't", and then you could suddenly be facing a bunch of CVEs and a cute acronym. What makes 1.2 so special that truly, this time, there won't ever be any problems found with it? Especially when enough potential problems were found to motivate TLS 1.3?

> Regarding sslv3, why would client ever use it, downgrade/POODLE or not ?

At the time, downgrade attacks specifically forced SSLv3. So yes, why would a client ever enable downgrade attacks - intentionally, no less - is a very, very good question. Of course, we're only talking about downgrading to 1.2 these days - but we've already had the history to show us why downgrades are a bad idea, so why repeat that history?

> So what ? 1.2 is not weak. Connection is still secure.

For now. So was SSLv3, until it wasn't. At the bare minimum, it's a larger attack surface of extremely security sensitive code - which is worrying in it's own right - and an intentionally written security vulnerability which, while "not weak" today, may become weak or even exploitable in the future.

Completely future-proofing things is a losing game, of course, but seeing as insecure downgrade moots the point of 1.3 - strengthening security - it seems reasonable to try and figure out how to do things right "now" - or failing that, "before it becomes a crisis."

> Also MITM still gets to decide whether to have tls or not. Then "Why even have tls ?". If MITM is blocking a protocol (or higher version, which is equivalent), then there is nothing to be done.

Does your browser automatically downgrade HTTPS to HTTP if the former fails? I hope not! Connections failing when MITMed by unknown third parties is a feature when you're logging in to your bank. This single feature is basically the entire point of TLS, HTTPS, and the entire CA infrastructure. That's "why even have TLS". There is something to be done: Defer connecting to your bank until you're no longer on your current, terrible MITMing wifi connection. Maybe pick one of the other 20 hotspots on your connection list. As currently implemented, this requires some minor, manual intervention, on the part of the user.

TLS 1.3 with insecure downgrade accomplishes this no more effectively than 1.2. It's a waste of bits. It's why insecure downgrade to SSLv3 is gone - it was mooting the entire point of TLS.
I grew up in a decidedly lower-class family (at least as concerns income) and my parents would have been able to afford $130 a year. Of course the kind of financial discipline that lets you save money while on unemployment benefits/working a low-income job makes it quite unlikely to spend it all on a single meal.

I'm fairly certain that a middle-class family would be able to afford a $130 meal if they really wanted, it's just that they don't feel like they are getting more enjoyment than 4 $30 meals would provide, and that's OK. Don't pretend that middle-class people have no money to spend, when in reality they just have none left over after spending it on all kinds of things.
I get WWII, but WWI was ethno-nationalism driven?
> lack of confidence

Hide your doubts, smile and act confident and you'll be OK most of the time...

..but when it fails it can lead to disasters, especially if entire teams are engaging in this behavior.
I have a T470P, Core i7-7700HQ, 32GB RAM, NVMe SSD. 2560x1440 matt IPS (excellent screen) with the larger 72whr battery.

Cracking machine for the price works great with Linux.
"Suggest" as is used in the title isn't a very grandiose assertion. If the research pans out, then it solves a great mystery. This isn't more hyped than how the researchers running the project see it.
The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view); having empathy toward and being supportive of one’s colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver; and being able to make connections across complex ideas."

That is describing what it takes for an individual to be successful in a group of men. I think Im safe in saying this is like that since the dawn of men. Specifically here, it happens in organisations big enough so that people's actual productivity is unknown.

Innovation though generally doesn't happen in such environment.
Of course you sir will be considering all non-profitable startups as in debt. Such a genius you sir.
Is Uber a scam, or is ride share, in your opinion?

Ride share is a great servicce for people and increases safety in many areas.
> C++ is never just C++. The build system for any C++ program includes both macro language and some form of make and/or make replacement.

Your comment makes no sense, and shows some confusion. C++ is a programming language. That's what's being discussed here. You, on the other hand, are talking about build systems and how sofrware projects may be configured by some people. That is besides the point and actually completely misses the very topic being discussed. It's entirely irrelevant if you can fill a whole header with #define or write a convoluted macro with m4 to write it for you. That's not how a programming language like C++ implements compile-time constant expressions. That's acvomplished with C++'s support for constexpr.
This relates to the tokenization of all forms of ownership so it becomes easy to sell fractional ownership of otherwise difficult things.
A game like GTA, but open source, hackable, running better on Linux than Windows, so that users are finally attracted to Linux, making 2018 the year of Linux on the desktop.
Checks out with the name.
Uber should easily be profitable without driverless cars. Uber's cost to book rides is pennies, its share of ride revenues is dollars. It's likely profitable or close in north america now.

The naked capitalism analysis was childishly biased, completely done without access to the necessary detail of their financials. Uber under Kalanick poured massive amounts of money into accelerating international market expansion as well as a huge number of side projects of questionable value.

Uber just exited the car leasing business. Yes, Kalanick had Uber leasing cars to drivers, and losing big money doing it. How much has it poured into Uber Eats? How much did it pour into driverless car tech when it will be easily available whenever it becomes good enough for regulators to allow it? Besides the cost, how big a distraction to running the actual business of offering car sharing services were these hundred other endeavors?

The new CEO just has to trim out almost all of the side businesses, and put the focus on finding more cost effective ways to grow Uber's car sharing services world wide. Part of that is not pissing on your own brand by doing sleazy things. In the end, if they remain the world wide leader in car sharing service, installed on the most mobile devices, with the biggest pool of drivers and customers, they'll be very profitable. and making the transition to driverless cars will be easier for them than anyone else because they'll have the biggest brand and customer base.
SoftBank has huge bets in all the global rideshare companies, which includes Grab and Ola as well as Uber and Didi.

The bet is on providing sophisticated transportation logistics in fast growing developing world cities that are currently served by a hodge podge of unaccountable, poorly coordinated small time private transportation companies, and where overwhelmed regional governments are unable to provide sufficient public transportation services.

It's an addressable market of potentially billions of people who will never own cars, and and currently have limited options.
In every single workplace I was, there were people talking about things I could not relate to. Isn't it kind of normal in any group that is not excessively homogenous? Some people you relate to, others don't.
As per usual, the comments here have a loose understanding of NP-Hardness. Anyone discussing limited space to store the levels, simply doesn't understand what NP-Hard means. A problem can still be NP Hard even if your input size is small.
I agree. Considering that people who fly are often travelers from dissimilar home cultures, with some going airborne for the very first time, if there is an expectation of refraining from a seemingly permitted behavior, that expectation ought to be made clear.