skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they have not brought any innovation. They are just a company with a very reliable and robust service. For all the bad news its just social moral crying, its nothing about their tech.

As a service they are great, reliable. Thats all you need to be a successful business you dont need to innovate. Let google and Microsoft think about AI. All Uber needs to do is make sure I get to my destination on time.

When you think about impact, you might say Uber has topped all tech companies. Sure Google AI can be the best chess player, but Uber give mobility to me and many others in an easy to use application which is much more effective in my day to day life.
I tried installing the Windows version of Red but Avira blocked it as a trojan (TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen2). Any thoughts?

Edit:
I found this https://github.com/red/red/issues/2399
You should listen to all the Americans insisting the taxi experience was nowhere near that easy or good. Because outside NYC, it was utter shit. And good luck even in NYC if you're black, or going to the airport, or the outer Burroughs, or ...
yea make it dude see if its successful , no one is stopping you
Anti-western — for lack of a more appropriate definition — Terrorism has killed less people than car accidents, tabagism or alcoholism. Yet we spend and jeopardize all that precious liberty that generations won by getting shot at by riot police. We could just stop droning peasants with grotesquely sophisticated weapons and obtain a more durable effect on our own security
Well, not really. The hefty taxes on ICEs have been there always to provide income for the state, they were not introduced to internalize any environmental effects. In particular this holds for the 25% VAT which EVs get to skip, which you otherwise pay on anything from bubblegum to burglary alarms.

The thing that irks me about this subsidy (or whatever you call it) is how ineffective it is. Something like $5000 per tonne CO2 avoided, if uou make some optimistic assumptions, which is 50-100x more expensive than most sensible emissions reduction methods. Adding insult to injury, total emissions from cars are growing, i.e. EVs lead to people driving more in total, not driving less in ICE cars. It's just greenwashing, pure and simple.
Yup, Macintosh XL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_XL). I remember a company (forget the name, likely long gone) at a Macworld Expo (in Moscone!) in the late 80s or early 90s selling refurbished Lisas and Mac XLs.
I thought they were talking from a consumer point of view, not a developer one.

I also don't believe you need to actually create multiple versions, rather maintain some feature flags.
A bunch of P5's that were rightly closed as informative. I completely agree w/ Uber's decisions here...
It may or may not get cheaper.

Lithium isn't semiconductor engineering where every generation you double the density yearly (even that stopped long time ago).

Planning current policies on future scientific discovered usually doesn't end up as planned.
It should probably be 'one month' and it should go both ways.

Also - if you've ever been a manager, you'd realize that what is 'bs' is that you think you can just 'do your job' in the terms that you think it exists.

I literally have this problem right now with an Eng. who's decent, he technically moves the schedule forward roughly on time - but he's impossible to deal with, cynical at every turn, always negative, does not offer up flexible options when he should - and I hate having to speak to him, it ruins my day.

So does he 'do his job' - he could argue that he does. I have only a few complaints about his ability - but working on a team goes quite a bit beyond that.

I'm about to let him go and I will accept someone who is not quite as good in his wake if they are a better communicator -this person will be more valuable to the company - and my peace of mind is worth something.

For professionals - if you 'don't like working somewhere' you should probably leave. Life is too short. It's probably worth taking a little bit of a pay cut to work where you get along.
China's internal control organizations aren't that secret. When they don't want you to do something, they come and tell you not to do it. Naomi Wu, the maker and blogger from Shenzhen, commented obliquely that the authorities came to visit her because she was becoming highly visible outside China. They told her they didn't have a problem.

This is a traditional Chinese solution. China's governments have been into social control, and in fear of a peasant uprising, for centuries. As people became more mobile, the control systems changed, but the intent didn't.

If the Bitcoin crowd in China gets in trouble, it will be because they ignored the heavy hinting that they should stop doing some things.
why is this illegal?
It's not a book, but

http://palaeos.com/

has a lot of great material.
tabagism. An uncommon term that encompasses the acute and chronic, physical and psychological effects of tobacco abuse, e.g., tobacco dependence, tobacco poisoning.

Had to look that one up.
Facebook unveils tool to let users see if they interacted with Russian trolls
In my experience... when you're dealing with external descriptors or programs where CPython releases the GIL on low-level operations which might be contended by multiple threads.
> Or they could be, you know, acting.

Yes, precisely like Tom Cruise is just an actor. Let's forget about the scientology thing.
FWIW, you can absolutely use React as just a pair of script tags - see the "React Single-File Example" template [0].

It's certainly common to use React in a larger application that uses a build chain, and that's the recommended approach, but it's not required.

[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/master...
They mean javascript; jsx is a very small amount of new syntax and is embedded in normal javascript. Learning a completely separate template language with all of its own constructs for conditionals, iteration, etc. is significantly more work.
Sport vehicles go fast very quickly and handle well at high speeds. That's the fun part - acceleration. Getting punched into the seat off the starting line, braking into a curve, smoothly slalom through apexes, then rocketing towards the next set of curves... You've clearly never been in a proper sport car because that lesson is self-evident well below 60.

As an aside, has anyone else noticed how new posters are overwhelmingly pessimistic and reliant on dubious anecdotes?
Good to know they aren't actually deadbeats on bugbounties and can chalk up this example to honest disagreement.

As for the rest, it has to do with everything. Would you trust your application's security to code libraries written by a company with the the allegations hanging over Uber? If there's a chance your customer data might be a strategic asset for Uber?
They generally don't support consumer GPU cards for passthrough however...
As someone who just patched two abandoned projects to work with Django 2.0, I can say it's incredibly annoying when maintainer's are MIA for extended times.

That means, now I have to divert time to maintaining my own fork.

The funny thing is I'm the person doing the heavy lifting. I make the fixes, write the tests, make sure CI passes and older versions don't break, even update the change log. Everything to assure stuff is in order. All they have to do is accept the pull request and publish the package.

In my specific situation though, I was able to merge the PR to master. But had no PyPI access to publish the package.
It's even cheaper to construct and use all that stuff on Earth.
This will cause all your secrets to show up in the process listing, readable by all users on the host.
Ubuntu Phones Will Soon Run Android Apps
200M users on Heroku must cost a fortune!
The Britten is amazing http://www.britten.co.nz/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rjJQUnq5Js

I was on track with the first version at Westwood, in BC when it was ridden by Gary Goodfellow and Steve Crevier. 88-90 era.
I'm the child of an addict.

It really depends on how you measure cost - the current regime of punishing it, or treating it as a character weakness is clearly not working - plus moving sustained addiction outside of a care network to the black market, also clearly isn't working either.

Everything we do has a cost to the community, the question is, since we know we can't eliminate the cost, how can we reduce it?
Amen! As a former drug addict, I can tell you that I would have given you amazing service. Reason being, that next $10 would have meant the world to me, and I wouldn't jeopardize it for anything. Stealing is hard and I was terrible at it.

It's pretty common to assume that addicts are just pieces of inferior shit. Hell, I felt that way before I was one. That was a rather rude awakening.
>At this point, so much energy has been expended mining bitcoin that that in itself creates value.

Bitcoins security relies on current hashing power and is completely indepent from past computations. If bitcoin falls to let's say $100 then major mining pools can do a 51% attack and make all the expended energy worthless.
As a twenty-something white male software engineer, I found it humorous and it gave me a laugh!
I was trying to explain why it is more important for the satellites to quickly detect launches from land.

With SLBMs you have other options. You can have your attack submarine shadowing enemy's ballistic missile submarine, or surface ASW ships patrolling the area that can detect the first launch and try to sink the ballistic missile submarine before it can launch its remaining missiles.
TLDR "all existing x86 processors are seemingly affected by information-disclosure vulnerabilities" plus arm64 too. This appears to be severe enough for Linus to accept a 5% slowdown in user code (which in previous security cases he would not have), although future processors may have this disabled again.
No need to provide Internet, as most phones broadcast their WiFi MAC addresses to the world, even with the WiFi UI shown as "off".
I've never had less than a 1 month notice period in the UK. And if you walked out in less than that, you'd be in violation of your contract and potentially could be taken to court.

However, the flipside is that usually your employer has the same notice period. A sudden termination for anything less than gross negligence is very rare and usually followed by an employment tribunal.
I certainly don't claim to know everything that goes on in the React ecosystem (especially outside the US), but I _am_ pretty tuned in with the major trends and discussions that are going on, and I've seen plenty of real-world React applications and codebases. None of that matches anything I've seen thus far.

I have never heard of Facebook paying "software evangelists". I suppose it's possible, but it really doesn't match with what I know about how Facebook develops and uses React.
Because the policy doesn’t take into account actual fuel consumption and emissions.

The BMW 520d has a combined MPG of 72 and 79 road, it’s still at a higher category than many less efficient cars simply because of how the policy is structured.

For gasoline engines specifically you’ll also find that many performance cars do offer higher efficiency at road speeds than your sluggish 1.8L minivan.
”Transacting in non-fiat”, beyond the crypto-jargon, has a name: barter. You can’t keep your accounts in barter units (particularly volatile ones), and more pertinently you cannot settle your tax liabilities in altcoins.
vuejs does gain strong interests from large companies such as alibaba,baidu and tencent, the three are called BATs in China similar(or larger) to amazon, google and facebook in US.

One of the BAT should acquire Vue.js to make it a strong player for the long run, that may happen in 2018 I hope.

Both laravel and vue.js (vue.js is the default frontend choice and embedded in Laravel) are from one core developer, I liked them, but am concerned about the bus factor. I eventually choose nodejs+react because of that.
2018 the year of the Linux desktop
Are you arguing that if you unilaterally fork a cryptocurrency all transactions up until the fork remain valid? I ask because I’ve never thought about this.
The problem when quitting is that you have to optimize for the worst case outcome. Not every employer is understanding and considerate. The default behavior in a lot of larger companies is to terminate someone as soon as possible if they've given notice of leaving their job (specially when moving to a competitor).
I'm a tenured professor of social science (at a large research university) who is on the cusp of leaving my position

Perhaps you should write a book!

I could probably write a book on the topic and it still wouldn't be enough

Then perhaps you should write two books.

I think this is a story that needs to be told its full complexity, and you seem to be in a good position to do so.

It's as if we decided as a society to honor war veterans by celebrating only those few survivors with the wildest, most glamorous tales of adventure

An excellent analogy.

I think science is just one more casualty of this, but it's been hidden for awhile due to the gradual nature of the disease, and the cracks are starting to show.

This is one of the parts that confuses me: what sets the pace for the "race to the bottom"? If the incentive structures haven't changed, why did it take so long to reach where we are, and why are some fields still relatively immune?
I do not count on any scientific breakthrough. The current batteries are good enough for cars. It is just too expensive to make them. But most of the price is not inherent in the technology, but rather in expensive specialized tools. Economy of scale should fix this.
Zebra finch self-tutoring
I like the simplicity of React though I don't mind the Vue templating language that much either.
Sometimes I actually prefer Vue templates because with React you often see components where it's not so clear how the rendered output will look like.
So what protects HackerOne users from companies claiming that every report is a known issue and not paying anything out ever?
I don't mean to be argumentative. MULTICS was in use by Honeywell Aerospace into the early 90's simulating physics models.

There was a centralized computer which was programmed via punch cards which you could dial into to submit your specific simulation and later return to for results.
I picked up ClojureScript at the end of 2013. I was a C++ developer then in a small firm and was tasked to write a web frontend. Outsourcing that project had failed before (2 times iirc), so my boss bet on me to do it. I knew HTML and had written probably < 1000 lines of Javascript code in my life before. Anyway, I needed to write an interactive single page app (basically it was a visualization of simulation results), so I needed Javascript. But it was so frustrating to write Javascript (also, tooling was mediocre back then or I didn't know it). So at the same time, I stumbled over ClojureScript and had a try (I new Scheme before and was especially outraged by JS syntax quirks, so I hoped S-expressions would rescue me). With ClojureScript in 2013 I had a module system that handled dependencies, an emerging library ecosystem that had what I needed for that specific case, I was pretty happy. This was more advanced than what I got with JS (I might not have found the viable options for such stuff with JS, but at least information on them wasn't widely found then).

Last year I had another look at ClojureScript and it felt like a ghost town. This saddens me. There are a few inspiring talks now and then, but nothing I found worth using in a project.
Good to see you here.

I did get the idea from this article exactly that you would like to have the option to invest in promising individuals to enable one of their cherished ideas to bloom from an almost blank page.

That's what made me look at your website, and was disappointed that the firm as a whole can not realistically do that any more so than the average VC's. You've got to have similar guidelines that avoid the extra risk that would entail if you want to swim with the sharks without running out of air.

I expect you realize better than most that these limitations have kept your group from getting in closer to the ground floor on some of the very companies that you have successfully capitalized.

I guess to me I expect superior execution ability and customer satisfaction technique to be part of a winning idea.
Let X be the random variable that takes values in natural numbers n>1 with p(X=k)=A/k^3 with constant A such that sum p(X=k)=1, you can't apply MCMC with ypur explanation since you don't have an oracle for p(x=k). To apply MCMC you only need an oracle for the quotient of probabilies, here the transition probabilities are k^3/j^3 and you don't need to compute the unknown constant A.
Our Visual Imagination Is Severely Limited
Looks like they are reinventing a small chunk of Nix (https://nixos.org/).
This would appear to be consistent with what I've personally observed of Uber's approach to, well, pretty much everything.
There is still the other most common source of memory leaks: putting data into long living (e.g. 'static) hash tables and having no plan for pruning it.
Bugs Bunny animator dies aged 99
Methane is far worse than CO2 though, about 30x. A process that converts one to the other while staying carbon neutral isn't what we need.
Optimized Python
Great article. I fully agree with the author that the way one handles resignations and terminations says a lot about the character of the individual or company.

When I left my last corporate job to start my company I gave them six weeks notice and used this opportunity to train another team member so there would be continuity.

On the flip side we had to fire a non-performing employee earlier this year and we gave him eight weeks of full pay and decided officially to lay him off so that he could collect unemployment if need be.
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world
One of his bios mentions he was deployed as a fighter pilot on a carrier participating in the Cuban blockade.

After sitting on the front-line of the potential end of the world, an untethered spacewalk probably seemed like just that - a walk.
Weex is not a part of the titular Vue project, but can be said to be the most endorsed one, and one that is the most up to date with Vue upstream development.
Risk Management and Threat Scoring
This is so cool. I can’t wait to comb through it looking for great code comments from a bygone age. The folks who wrote the code for the lunar lander have set a high bar.
> peak human beings
3 months is the standard in Norway, going both ways.

I have always found the way layoffs being done in the US very strange and unnecessarily dramatic for both parties. If you are leaving, you should be leaving in a professional manner. Do your best at work until the last day of your employment.

Same if you are letting someone go, treat them with dignity and respect until their last days at the company. Telling someone to pack their bags the same day they are getting the notice sounds very cruel.

I don't see how this "burn all bridges" strategy can benefit anyone.
You can't have it both ways. Increasing interest helps people that save but hurts people that are taking out loans.
ESET Internet Security 11.0.159.0 Full Version
The people who say "science is so awesome," are usually looking at NASA pictures and relatively long-known facts, in the tradition of Sagan's science pubicization. I've never seen a "science is so cool," meme about loop quantum gravity in 1D universes with the topology of a circle, or about a social sciences pilot studies. So, in that sense it's fine that they're leaving out the messy part; after all the entire point is to turn the messy into the clean.
Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness
The simple answer is in reading the chart. Look at "I've USED it before, and WOULD use it again".

React isn't just popular. It also consistently provides good developer experience. You have to compete not only against React's popularity, but also against that.

React:

- Used it, would use again: 14k

- Used it, would not use it again: 1k (7%)

Vue:

- Used it, would use again: 4.6k

- Used it, would not use it again: 454 (9.8%)

That ~3% difference in people who tried it, and didn't like it could be the difference between make it and break it when coming up against React. "I've heard about it, and I'm not interested" is another important metric.

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Personal take:

Things I personally don't like in Vue:

- String-based programming so prevalent these days.

JSX is a thin layer on top of regular Javascript/Typescript. Where as Vue is often this:

<li v-for="todo in todos">

Really?

- It breaks Javascript and how it works:

var app5 = new Vue({
el: '#app-5',
data: {
message: 'Hello Vue.js!'
},
methods: {
reverseMessage: function () {
this.message = this.message.split('').reverse().join('')
}
}
})

There's no chance in hell that `this.message` exists on app5. And yet, there it is. And then data becomes $data and a lot of other weird stuff such as computed properties being also hoisted up to the top-level object etc. etc. etc.
But they're asking about £800 for doing it? Seems steep.
I’m more worried about their ability to drive safely. I am not against drugs (I in fact believe legalizing them would be best) however, one should not drive a car when they are either high or on withdrawal because it prevents them from being able to drive safely. I would not want to be the passenger of someone who does drugs regularly because regular usage can have negative affects even after you are no longer high.
Recent Android and iOS versions randomize the MAC when scanning.
It'd be exciting to see RHEL 8 based on these concepts.
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Whoa. Thanks for the link, wasn't aware of that. A lesson on how not to run OSS: https://github.com/riot/riot/issues/2512
> The effects of such a PR stunt are likely negligible

Marketing is most likely the most important thing for new products nowadays. Quality becomes secondary if your target group thinks they get the best even though they don't.
Age shouldn't be an issue. I'm in my 30s and I have a mentor. I mentor others. I've had both older mentors and younger mentors. I've mentored both older and younger people. To me, age isn't a factor.

As the mentee, it's about finding somebody who knows something you don't know and is willing to talk to you and answer your questions. As a software engineer, I find it valuable to meet with and talk to people who know more about various aspect of engineering -- the tech side of things (coding + architecture) and the business side of things (growing in leadership skills and knowledge of how to function within a business).

Even at a large company, depending on location, it can be difficult to find somebody to meet with. I mentor others both local and remote who work at the same company because sometimes they're not able to find anybody else with a similar role in their location. I'd recommend being willing to meet with remote mentors.
Twenty Years and Counting – Open Source Initiative