skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, drivers are voluntarily choosing to drive for what they're getting paid. Riders are voluntarily choosing to pay the quoted price. Uber takes a cut from the price to run the part of the business that isn't actually driving cars.

The only way the price is subsidized is if the business couldn't be run without Uber's cut covering the non-driving parts of the business, which is unlikely. They're taking ~25% (or more) on each fare. That's a huge margin for a SaaS app and administrative work.

If Uber disappeared tomorrow, it would not be that difficult for someone to build something similarly and price it the same way. In many areas, it's already happened. That suggests the price is not unsustainable.
I've always been a fan of Haldane's treatment of the matter:
http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
> One that had a referrer as a thread on Hacker News kept insisting I couldn't be a real person, and wanting me to do basic math like 2+3 "before he would talk to me." It was gross.

I'm a bit confused, is this an example of harassment? I'd be pretty sure I was talking to a bot in one of those chat popups as well.
If only Ajit Pai knew what the people he bends over for, and whom he thinks hes an equal by doing their bidding, think about him and the names they call him behind his back...
> Man, I wish those pesky Russians would stop interfering with U.S. elections. Last time, Boris and Natasha were outside the polling place and wouldn't let me in.

Russian hackers were found to have penetrated voter registration rolls. It has not been revealed whether or not they changed anything in the last election, but if voter rolls were compromised they could change voter registration data and cause people to be turned away from the booth on election day.

> Oh, wait. No, I was perfectly able to vote for the candidates of my choice based on the research I'd done as an informed voter. I wasn't prevented from exercising my right to vote at all.

Even if Russia election interference efforts didn't personally affect you, it doesn't mean they didn't affect others. And bottom line is that if you want to preserve your sovereignty as a nation, you don't want your adversaries hacking your voting infrastructure, hacking political campaigns, channeling money illegally to political entities, and disseminating targeted falsehoods in social media. Those are all efforts designed to subvert your democracy.

> And it's not just the governments. Look at the millions both the Trump and Clinton campaigns and allied organizations received from overseas donors and politicians (especially UK).

It is explicitly illegal for a presidential campaign to receive donations from a foreign national. It is also illegal for advertisers to accept money for political ads from foreign nationals.
I learned a lot of math from other math. Even better if it was in the same symbology that I was already used to.

Specifically, learning algebraic manipulation is typically taught by showing the basic math that you are abstracting over. Multiplication is often taught in terms of addition.

Are there deeper understandings? Of course! I am again just saying that I see the appeal for this method and suspected that was the point that sparked confusion.
Re: the issues with moderation, I sometimes wonder if Wikipedia were trying to start from scratch in the last few years... would it work? With all of the trolls and bots, easy access it might have died hard and early.

One of the most significant technical problems with OSM is the lack of a review model, that is for a change to the map to be staged and then reviewed before being applied. Not having this functionality caused ripples of problems throughout the system, some of which I'll discuss here.

Moderation is expensive, and Wikipedia got by initially with a pretty minimal degree of it, then ramped up as they got bigger. What if they’d been slammed by modern trolling at the start?
"(Meta: easily my fastest comment to -4 ever. It took less than 6 minutes.) "

Congratulations!
1) If the parties acted principled, open, and upfront as befits the democratic process rather than turning themselves into utterly skeezy Potemkin villages there would be nothing to selectively leak/embarrass them with. Every leak is self inflicted damage caused by the notion that they can do, and get away with, anything as long as they keep the public far enough away.

2) Charging people with crimes for walking through open doors does not actually keep the doors closed. (And the utter disinterest in actually securing and auditing our voting systems relative to hunting heads only goes to show that we don't even care about locking the door, we just want a scapegoat to appease our rage.)
An unwelcome consequence of living in a world where everything is “easy” is that the only skill that matters is the ability to multitask. At the extreme, we don’t actually do anything; we only arrange what will be done, which is a flimsy basis for a life.

There is no shortage of hard problems left to solve. If everything in your life looks uneasily easy, raise your eyes to something harder before gamifying your routine with deliberate refusal to use a microwave oven.

Before big government-funded science programs started in the 20th century, people born into affluent families were greatly over-represented in the sciences, because you can't theorize or research if all day is spent on routine chores. The same goes for composers, mathematicians, and authors.

I find it kind of sad if people liberated from routine chores choose to use their new leisure time exclusively on TV and Facebook. But I'm certainly not going to tell them that they should wash clothes by hand to break out of the entertainment rut. That's a waste of a life too, admittedly one with a lengthier historical pedigree than binge-watching.

Even if you lack the inclination or the skills to advance the frontiers of art, mathematics, or science, there are plenty of rewarding activities that are orthogonal to convenience technologies. Hiking, biking, fishing, birdwatching, learning to sing or play an instrument, woodworking, cooking food that a microwave simply can't make, playing sports, gardening... I do think that people suffer physically and mentally if the only parts of their bodies they use are their fingers and their eyes. A sedentary life spent entirely looking at electronic displays isn't good. (Even reading paper books all the time without using the rest of your body isn't great, and I say that as a serious bookworm.) The best way to fill excessive time freed by convenience technologies is to take up leisure activities that use the rest of yourself, not throw away labor saving machines and start beating rugs like your ancestors (or ancestors' servants).
Show me a thing on their website which is not a dark pattern tricking users into their scammy pseudo-products.
"Google Fiber division cuts staff by 9%, “pauses” fiber plans in 11 cities"[1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/googl...
372 ether bounty has been paid for the initial phase of a Doge-Ethereum bridge
When someone points out two problems, you don't try to "order" which problems to be fixed first.

Fix both of them. In any order. US has both a corruption problem (although less so than other countries IMO), AND an outside influence problem.

There are 300+ million people in the country and a budget of over $3 Trillion / year. We can afford the resources to simultaneously fix both problems. There's absolutely no reason to fix things one at a time.
You really shouldn't use N26. I don't know if they have improved the security of their app during the past two years, but here is a talk from 33c3 https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7969-shut_up_and_take_my_money

It's worth watching. They show how they where able to take over accounts and such.
It’s almost like there should be a flag where people could match-make into games with varying codes of conduct...
I was first awakened to the problem of sexism back in the days of IRC. The client (or maybe it was the server) I was using truncated nicks to 9 characters, so "ThinkingGuy" became the non-gender-specific "ThinkingG."
And the barrage of "a/s/l?"s began...
Hey Tomáš, I didn't know you worked for SteamDB :^)
Earlier findings from the same study data led with "Childhood intelligence was inversely associated with all major causes of death": https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j2708

There is definitely a conversation taking place in the research community regarding the degree to which the genetics of intelligence and the genetics of physical robustness overlap to provide some contribution to the intelligence-longevity relationship. The size of the longevity-wealth and intelligence-education-wealth relationships make it challenging of course, which is why much of the more interesting data is in lower species.

Bees, for example: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/old-and-wise/

"The ability to handle stress could be a component of system integrity; better overall stress resilience may contribute to both higher IQ scores and longer life."

There are still twin studies in our species, of course: http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/news/archi...

“Our research shows that the link between intelligence and longer life is mostly genetic. So, to the extent that being smarter plays a role in doing a top job, the association between top jobs and longer lifespans is more a result of genes than having a big desk. However, it’s important to emphasise that the association between intelligence and lifespan is small. So you can’t, for example, deduce your child’s likely lifespan from how he or she does in their exams this summer.”

And GWAS studies over large populations: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/MP.2015.225

"These findings indicate that a substantial level of pleiotropy exists between cognitive abilities and many human mental and physical health disorders and traits and that it can be used to predict phenotypic variance across samples."
The Deputy AG was questioned about this at his brief presser. He was very careful in his response saying "...this indictment makes no accusations..."

He refused to comment outside of this particular indictment which is rather narrow in scope relative to the investigation, and had no comment from the special counsel.
AI Weekly 16 Feb 2018
How much of that $10B was secondary sales that didn't put anything into the company's coffers?
I wouldn't assume that was the only cause. It could be that online games are more addicting (they are), or maybe that they're using it as a tool to cope with depression (I definitely know people that do).

Just because people choose to spend more time drinking, doesn't mean it's not bad. They could just be turning into alcoholics.
https://github.com/openfaas/faas

I'm sure I've seen announcements for others pop up on HN too.
So if you invest when a company is at the end of that temporary window, you’re going to lose money? Remind me of the difference between that an MLM scheme again?
I have a very cheap phone which does not have a lot of space left for apps. So it became a habit for me to deinstall and install less frequently used apps only when I need them (e.g. I go on a trip). Actually it makes me feel better that apps like UBER are not installed when living mostly in a country where I cannot use them at all. Fun fact: You can use the same approach also on high end phones. Install less used apps only when you know you will need them. This way you also do not need to auto update less frequently used apps.
> Since the parent mentioned that in the context of an overall pattern of harassing comments, you're in the wrong here.

That logic is pretty amazing. It's a brand new world.
>The Russians hacked into both political parties and leaked their information selectively to support their agenda. They even got access to voting systems. There is no evidence AFAIK that they changed anything, but the most logical conclusion is that they did.

Actually there's no evidence that they hacked into anything -- it's all BS hearsay and "trust us" from secret agencies and no evidence pudding.
Kent Beck quits Facebook
I think the idea was that they’d soon have automation, but that’s clearly not coming soon enough to save their bacon.
From Wikipedia[1]:

>The habenula receives input from the brain via the stria medullaris thalami and outputs to many midbrain areas involved in releasing neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin.

[1 ]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habenula
The expensive part of Uber isn't the SaaS app or even the engineers. It's the overhead of running a law-avoiding lobbying business that explicitly seeks out to just do everything as evil as possible.

Hell, Uber tried being a predatory car loan business for quite some time, which you would think would be one of the easiest ways to make surefire money, but they lost on that one too: http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-subprime-auto-loans-runn...
At least they didn’t come in and overthrow our government like we’ve done to so many others.
This would be really useful. Now there are Fuseki and Janus[1]. Years ago there was 4store [2]. There is also gStore in development [3]. They all require a lot of help. Would be nice if somebody could pick up and help one of these.

[1] https://jena.apache.org/index.html
http://janusgraph.org
[2] https://github.com/4store/4store
[3] https://github.com/Caesar11/gStore
The US is the least dependent major economy on the planet, when it comes to foreign trade. The vast majority of all US companies operate with between zero and minimal exports. The US is a highly self-contained economy (it should be obvious that's not the same as entirely self-contained), few other nations come even remotely close to being comparable.

https://i.imgur.com/QZyjKdZ.jpg
Well... Nothing similar to Wikipedia has really happened in the last ten years. It's a fairly unique thing, still as relevant and important as ever.

Hard to say if it's because Wikipedia was a long shot at any time, or because of the 90s web vs the current one, culturally or technically.
I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. If you look at the Citizens United ruling and you pair that with the implications of the 17th amendment you see there is a huge possibility to influence elections.
Iphone X
My experience is limited, but I doubt engineers ever speak up about those things. I've yet to witness it. And I'm no better; the best that I usually do is audibly groan at those things or share opinion pieces about them in Slack.

Actually, there was one time I witnessed an engineer speak up about why a particular popular idea was a bad thing long-term. He left immediately after management squinted at him and tilted their heads like confused dogs.

That doesn't mean that it's not worth the effort. I would rather try something than to never have. All I can say now is that I won't be working on any future AMP development. The people who employ me may have to have to decide if it's worth firing me over an insidious Google feature. I hold no malice to my employer, but there comes a point where I cannot take money to do damage to the technology that enabled my career.

TLDR: Your point is well taken, but my point still stands that there should be some way for stakeholders to know that what they want may have long-term negative consequences.
Actually, Michael Jordan was a world-renowned trash-talker. He was the GOAT not only because of his extreme determination, athleticism, talent, and skill at basketball, but also (in at least small part) because he could make other players angry, get them to make mistakes and get emotional during the game, then capitalize on that advantage.

When you are playing to win at all costs, there is no such thing as sportsmanship. There are winners and losers. Basically unless somebody is actually genuinely hurt in real life, winning is the only thing that matters.

Acting like trash-talking is not part of the game is being willfully ignorant of the real-world aspects of competition. Referees miss calls. People trash-talk. What is in the rule book doesn't matter, only what happens in the game: whether a foul is called or not, whether somebody cheats and gets away with it, etc. Following honorary "rules" like not trash-talking because of "sportsmanship" puts you at a real disadvantage in a competition. You can do that if you want, but most people are going to use every single thing they can to get any slight advantage to win.
1) So?
2) Would you prefer it wasn't illegal to walk through the doors at all?
I didn't say it was a good plan.
The method JIT compiler for Ruby 2.6
The problem isn't really manual control over updates here, so much as control over software. Many Linux systems are set to upgrade automatically, which is great for keeping secure from known vulnerabilities. Apps which aren't updated can still change in behaviour, such as Uber's update timebomb, contain hidden nasties, and the backends they use can change any time. Yet in the open source ecosystem someone can just fork your project if you take away features, or try to act against your users, as sometimes does happen.
If you're not in the US or Canada, you can ask for all the data FB is storing about you: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...
I suspect that most people do not in fact have a Facebook account. Last I checked, world population was over 7 billion and Facebook did not have 3.5 billion accounts. Or did you mean "most people who live near where I live"? But even there, the existence of Facebook shadow accounts means they will stalk you even if you do not have an account.

As a further point of fact, Facebook (and Google; Facebook is not alone here) stalks even people who _can't_ have a Facebook account. For example, children under 13 in the US.
For those who care about having OSS powered desktop/laptop, I think the situation isn't as bad as it's sometimes made out to be. Both Debian and Arch have worked very well for me, and been my primary OS for years.

It is frustrating that we still can't really get full control of the hardware, but at least from the kernel on up we can have pretty complete control of software.
> But it's been years now and they've got drivers, so they can't possibly be paying too far below market rate.

Why do you say that? It's well-known that they've toyed in every possible way with driver rates, including showing different rates to the consumer and the driver in an attempt to hide lower-than-market-rate wages.
I agree with you generally...the uproar over twitter bots and fake news stories has struck me as a little silly.

At the same time, some Russian activities seem to have risen to the level of espionage. According to the article, Russian agents traveled around the US, posing as Americans, gathering information. The article also says that Russian agents organized and funded political rallies.

Making a big deal over that stuff is hypocritical given US actions abroad over the past hundred years, but that's a separate issue. Maybe the US shouldn't be interfering in the elections of other countries, but every country probably has rules like these: https://www.fec.gov/updates/foreign-nationals/ and every country seeks to minimize foreign influence on internal politics.
Perhaps, instead of reading Programming books, people should master the core tenets of programming first such as OO from such books as "clean code", "Code complete".

That will make it easier for readers to understand and retain information from programming books?
I always found 'memorization' incidental- after step 1 and 2 in What should you do with a definition?, step 3 was already done.
It's an interesting question of how much flexibility you give people at the beginning vs as a project matures, but I'm looking at the situation with OSM pragmatically, that is to say "What OSM needs to do now", rather than "What they should have done".

The problem of both bad edits and vandalism are very large (much like Google Mapmaker) and other measures we've put in place, such as changeset comments (which I helped develop) and vandalism tools don't seem to cut it.
Instagram removes post after Russia watchdog orders
Wow, what a way to miss the big picture.

The people who shape this forum are mostly not anonymous. Most of the people at the top of the leaderboard use their real name or some portion of it. In many cases, you can find articles about them or profiles on an employer's website or other third party verification of their identity that is far stronger than Facebook insisting I go by Doreen.

Furthermore, you have to have a handle here to apply for YC, the incubator that owns this site and has fostered companies that include Reddit and AirBnB. So being an asshole on HN can be a great means to guarantee you will never have a shot at a successful startup.

The stakes for participating here in good faith can run into the millions of dollars. Anyone with any sense at all will make some attempt to restrain themselves, plus the most influential community leaders will set a better example than you are going to see on most forums that lack such table stakes.

There are plenty of people that don't realize any of that. I seem to be the only person who ever points that out. But the fact that it seems to go largely unrecognized in conversation here doesn't mean the effect isn't there. People who would never state that money is a big part of why they behave here will, nonetheless, behave here because of the serious consequences that can occur if they don't.

Paul Graham has written articles about the YC "don't be an asshole" rule. They are quite open about the fact that they don't want to work with such people. So anyone who has any aspirations whatsoever of applying to YC and 2 functioning brain cells is going to try to not be asshole here.

That has more power than what your public handle is. And I am completely fine with it.
>Russian hackers were found to have penetrated voter registration rolls. It has not been revealed whether or not they changed anything in the last election, but if voter rolls were compromised they could change voter registration data and cause people to be turned away from the booth on
election day.

Actually "Jeanette Manfra, head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, told NBC the Russians only successfully infiltrated a few of those states. It's not believed that the Russians were able to alter the voter rolls"

And that's if one believes that they did in the first place, on the claims of such state agencies -- the same ones that target some country or another when its the enemy du jour (WMD anyone?) and need BS stories to justify their budgets.
I am not defending him, but does not wasting human time on ads (as Facebook and Google do en masse) have the same or potentially even worse downstream effect on life?
I've found that in terms of supporting any kind of additional analysis, OSM data to be unreliable to the point of uselessness, which isn't to say there is a better alternative. I think this quote from your article:
"One of the most significant technical problems with OSM is the lack of a review model, that is for a change to the map to be staged and then reviewed before being applied. Not having this functionality caused ripples of problems throughout the system, some of which I'll discuss here."
is the primary reason I can't regularly use OSM data. Trust me when I say there are millions of instance where having reliable data regarding streets could save me time/ stress.
Do you have any thoughts on how to improve the quality of OSMaps? Conceptually, I feel like the product is indispensable. In practice, I feel like the product is utterly unusable.
On the other hand, they're losing billions of dollars.
Wow, you're correct. Yet another example of the stellar leadership from Riggio...