skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand what you're saying, except a waitress runs the risk of losing her job for badmouthing the establishment.

An uber driver who answers me honestly when I ask how he likes the work runs the risk of a single less than 5 star rating, and no other consequences. That's part of the casual appeal of uber/lyft to a driver, I imagine.
Theranos' tech plain didn't work. If you're looking for a historical analogy that fits better, I'd suggest Segway.

There's a number of parallels with Magic Leap. Both have engineering founders. Both founders made their first big money in medical tech (Kamen with stents and Abovitz with Mako Surgical).

Where things got away from Segway was on the PR + Hype front and that seems where Magic Leap is at as well. Magic Leap is going to ship something this year, it will likely be "ok" but not brilliant and then after a few iterations and a half dozen years it may well be a device on a similar trajectory to how we use mobile phones.

That's why all the money is going to these companies, the thought is that the patents and expertise is going to lay the foundation for what replaces mobile phones and what's a $500 million dollar bet against a 5 Trillion a year industry.
The burden of proof is on the new product, not the current society. I don't think he needs "data and deep analysis", that work needs to be done by the people trying to convince you cryptocurrencies are the future.

When the status quo is disrupted, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that it's a passing fad or won't work out. A product or asset, especially a radical step like cryptocurrencies, succeeding and being valuable is the exception, not the rule.

There's a reason accredited investors exist, because they're expected to know better.
Also: most waiters think your jokes are funny, and every stripper thinks you're very handsom.
What are some reasons you can’t find a job? I’d love to be able to tell my AVP that I can hire someone for $2.50/hour. We’ve paid $20/hour for data entry clerks just as a stop-gap measure before we automate things. At such a price we’d stop all our investment in automation and just massively hire people.
I suppose you shouldn't be using pointers if not required, not even smart(er) ones.

They are not free and prevent certain kinds of optimization as well as allow accidentally sharing state.
OpenID was built for the world where everyone had a blog, so everyone had at least one URL that was a website that they controlled that was also their OpenID. It was easy to explain in that world. That world barely existed, and now is long gone, for better/worse.
>Despite its coming out of what was essentially a Republican design, then Governor Romney's health care insurance program in Massachusetts,

Calling anything that comes out of MA "republican design" is a little less than truthful.

Regardless of how you feel about the merit of the MA system or the federal system there are no republicans in MA, just democrats who will say what they need to say to run against incumbent Democrats.
Launch HN: Airship (YC W18) – Controlled rollouts of new features
Hi HN! We’re Alvin and George, the founders of Airship (https://www.airshiphq.com). We built Airship to help companies roll out new features carefully, instead of blindly deploying.

You may have seen that a million users are revolting over Snapchat's redesign, dropping their App Store rating below 2 stars. You might also remember when Digg launched a redesign in 2010 that caused a 30+% dip in usage in a matter of days. To avoid unpleasant surprises, companies like Facebook and Airbnb have developed their own sophisticated tools to carefully roll out their new features, test and measure their impact incrementally, and roll them back when signs of trouble appear. This way they can be informed about how users receive the features, and can fix mistakes without jeopardizing their entire user base. Then they can publicly release the new feature with reasonable confidence about its likely reception and effects.

Alvin and I discovered the importance of controlling feature launches and monitoring them carefully when we worked at Zenefits together. Many companies would like to be able to mitigate risk through controlled feature rollout and rigorous testing, but don't have the resources to do it. This approach is proven to work, but remains expensive, since only companies that can afford in-house tooling, and often a dedicated team to maintain it, can do it. It struck us that there was a need here for a product, so we started Airship to build it and make feature rollout accessible to everyone.

To use Airship, you install one of our SDKs. Then you can flag or gate code with if/else blocks calling a single function provided by our SDK. This automatically gets wired up to controls in the Airship dashboard which allows you to control targeting rules, rollout percentages, and whitelists/blacklists.

Key features of Airship:
- Gradually roll out and A/B testing of entire features, not just copy and superficial changes
- No performance hit (checking whether a customer has a feature takes < 0.1 ms)
- 0% downtime (no dependency on Airship’s services, so effective downtime is 0%)
- Complex experiments using attributes of Users, Groups (e.g. location, purchase amounts, device types, etc.) as well as other object types (Product Listings, Pages/Posts, etc.)

We'd love to hear your feedback and hear about your experiences, ideas, and needs in this area!
A lot of the rs numbers are however replaced by internal 'i', numbers, which makes it extremely difficult to check your results against SNPs
But as we all have seen, the ride sharing market as it stands right now is artificial.

Even though people are getting paid a pittance, the actual fares are severely subsidized by VC money, so what you're paying for isn't sustainable.

The other shoe will drop soon. And drivers STILL won't get paid much. So it's not like this business model is that strong as it is.
> Do Uber/Lyft drivers typically make their activities known to their insurance companies?

Maybe not, but if they do there is substantial legal risk (not just for accident liability—for which they will be uninsured—but also for the legal consequences of driving without legally mandated insurance coverage.)
Could you please explain to a non-American what do you mean here? Sounds like something that is interesting to know :)
The 10,000 Question Challenge
> You can prove a lot of people (including people most normal human beings would consider civilians) did get killed.

Drone strike have and will continue to take place, no matter what Google does. But as you very correctly mention, as it is right now, many innocent civilians accidentally get killed. Doesn't it then directly follow that if said drone strikes become more accurate, then less people (or innocent civilians) will be killed?
This portal is good! Thanks.
Coinbase doesn't trade in ICOs.

Bitcoin is probably not a security. Something like tether or filecoin probably is.
That has scary implications now that Google exists.
What would you recommend as a good complement to The Economist?
That would appear to be evidence that it is not harder than division?

From your edit I guess that you already realized this, but the hard part here is that for 1 / q you would have to perform up to q divisions of integers of size n = log₂(q) which of course takes time O(2ⁿ) even assuming the divisions are O(1).
The Stanford Bitcoin Mafia
Sure, but I would just call this 'mentoring' rather than pairing :)
What incentives? A 4 instead of 5 star rating, and maybe a $1-5 tip? For answering a question honestly?

I think your incentives are overstated. Excluding some kind of egregious slight, riders have very little influence over drivers.
That is true. What stood out to me about Magic Leap is that the huge/weird looking AR glasses look a lot to me like the AR version of an Iridium 9505 (first generation handheld) phone. Something that is so bulky and weird that you'll only use one if you absolutely need to. That and the combination of ridiculous amount of VC money.

If you compare a 9505 to a current generation 9575:

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&hs=DVL&channel=f...

if you hold and use one, a 9505 is huge and has short battery life.

current gen: https://www.google.com/search?q=iridium+9575&num=100&client=...
I can see this for a team of interns on a summer project, but not senior devs that don’t really get stuck that often, or know to involve someone for the brief periods where they need a second set of eyes.
Also, mutual funds can be forced to take fewer taxable distributions since they can use cash inflows to handle things they’d otherwise need to take a distribution for.
Good point. HODL to the moon, grandma!

For the record, the SEC won't ban cryptocurrency. They want technology (in general) to stay here and potentially evolve into something that can be useful and provide jobs and value someday, so you can still free oppressed nations, but you will need to cooperate with the American government if it's being done on our soil.
Theoretically, yes. But I’ve never seen anyone actually do it.
Qt is about the last library I'd call modern in terms of C++ dialect it employs or requires...

(There are worse but deprecated like MFC. Or on par like wxWidgets.)
I would argue it's also useful for new team members in general, or for teams that have in the past been unorganized. At my current job I've spent a lot of time refactoring code so that there's some more unity among everything, because everybody does their own thing and doesn't really collaborate, which makes maintenance a pain in the ass. Something like this that kind of forces people to work together and create some kind of unified style could be very beneficial.

Not to mention when I've seen experience developers show something they've been working on for the past two weeks, only to be told what they've shown is a disaster because they never had any other eyes on it to question their design decisions.
my secret familiy recipe is cheesy rice with sausages. It's secret because it only comes out good if you add to the mix kraft cheese, which is widely regarded around here between cheapening out on your guests and not caring about using quality ingredients.

so I just use it and people love it, but I literally can't tell them or they'd think I'm serving them rubbish
Well, while ~$9/hr is a lot better than ~$4, it's still well in the category of squeezing drivers, IMO.

In fact, if your goal is to squeeze your drivers, you actually don't want to squeeze too hard because soon you'll have no one left to squeeze. $9/hr is perhaps a level a number of people can (barely) subsist at (at least for a while) while $4/hr may be untenable for almost everyone.

(I agree, though, that drivers aren't like captive servants, as some seem to assume.)
>"T-shaped"
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I live for the kind of vacation you describe. Almost everyone I take, I do get my family with me (so not exactly solitude), but freedom to do what I want is the main chase there.

But do give bandwidth to the 'everyone' you talk about: In my experience, many people look at communication as a 'contributing' activity: meaning they want to add to it with their own color / knowledge rather than listen to what you are saying and go "that's awesome dude!" and move on. I would assume some like it too instead of looking at it as one-upping because this is pretty wide spread. I just look at it as chatter rather than judgment nowadays, frees me from the insulted feeling. I didn't do that for their approval, so while approval would feel nice, I am totally free to ignore their judgment :)
I didn't downvote — and talking about downvotes just invites more — but the faux-quote summary you provide in your comment is inaccurate. A more accurate summary, provided in the article, is "Get news. Not too quickly. Avoid social."

The author explicitly rejects the claim you are imputing to him: "You don't have to read a print newspaper to get a better relationship with the news."

The whole article, as I understood it, was about the deeper understanding you can gain about a situation if you take things slow, in batches, instead of seeking to read and post shallow reactions quickly.
> Large parts of the standard library are designed badly.

That's true, but IMO it's useful to study the standard library to understand what it offers, as opposed to examples of well-designed C++ code.
My comment was referring to the broader conversation about WISPs vs. fiber for consumer broadband.

I agree that in the financial use-case, the trade-offs are different, and perhaps you can just turn off your wireless link and just fall back to normal fiber when it's raining.

To address your last point, under my limited understanding of high-frequency trading, the edge is in predicting small fluctuations in price, and acting first. For that kind of trading if you incur unpredictable latency, you'd expect to lose money on more trades, since your orders come in after the latency arbitrage has been removed.

You still need to be able to (somewhat) accurately predict those price movements, but that prediction is meaningless if you can't also execute quickly. So the speed boost is a necessary but not sufficient criteria for executing many HFT strategies.
I Miss papers... No hysterical inflammatory comment section... just news.
So Uber was the only company willing to hire that guy when everyone else rejected him, and somehow that's a blow against Uber?
I also know people who work there. Very talented engineers. I find it highly unlikely that they have been duped. And even if they are, they're sure as shit still making money out of the deal.
Very unfortunate news. I hope they realize what a mistake this is and reconsider!
People are probably downvoting you in part for your use of 'meme arrows'
It sounds to me more like lending their already existing Cloud AI for analysing video.

This stuff already exists to some extent and can be used by anyone (within Google's terms & services).

https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/
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I’ve just finished a 4 year PhD, working alone. Now, I’m building my company building software, but I’m currently a one man show, and again, working alone.

Do you reckon 3 people in a mob is more productive in the short term than 3 people working independently?

I wonder if 3 people who typically work independently could time-share each other to work on projects in a mob.
Well you might have thought it was impossible! Give DesignSpark PCB a go.
it's actually a big difference. lower quantity in the same tray will make less volume and overcook faster and even adjusting time to avoid overcooking since the volume/surface ratio is different they'd be well cooked but still more dry
Contemplating this article over my coffee just now, I realized what bothered me about this pair programming extension. There are really two divergent schools of thought in software, that only get acknowledged periodically. There are those that see software as a factory process, where developers are essentially interchangeable cogs, tasked with churning out an amount of work each day. I would submit that much of "Agile," despite being well-intentioned, falls into this camp. The alternative view is to view software development as an engineering profession, requiring specialized education and knowledge, where individuals are respected in the same way as doctors, lawyers, accountants, or other types of highly-skilled professionals. In this model, developers might come together in an exchange of ideas or information, but otherwise have personal responsibility for their own outcomes. These conflicting schools of thought would seem to be at the root of many of these discussions of methodology and practice, where for some things like pair programming and stand-up meetings are essential, and for others, untenable.
What I like about being a loner, is that no one can influence me.

My decisions are all my own.

I used to live with roommates, and it was too mentally exhausting. Once I was able to afford my own 1-bedroom apartment, I moved out. And I found serenity.

No more mess to deal with that wasn't my own. No more roommates bailing on me, causing unnecessary drama. You now have better control of your life and destiny.

When I traveled for work, I had to travel alone. I found the best place to sit was at the bar. The sports game on TV provides distraction. And sometimes, you get to strike a conversation with another fellow traveler.
Dissecting the 128-byte raycaster (2014)
couldn't have said it better.

The very idea that a random citizen in a modern country can invent their own notion of money is beyond problematic so it is confounding that this whole thing has been allowed to mushroom into what it is today.

Proponents like to drag skeptics into crypto debates but that is far off the mark when it comes to the real implications of the current situation.

Some questions to ponder:

When will the government decide it is illegal to create your own money? will those who have already amassed fortunes (even imaginary) be allowed to keep it? And if so why would the citizenry tolerate such a situation?
Republicans used the ACA as a wedge issue to motivate their base. Driving up premium costs was them hitting the hammer. The press failed to hold them to account. There was a big backlash though in some town halls where they would get called out so much so that they stopped attending town halls! Insurers want rescission and pre-existing conditions because it is a very profitable business when you don't have to pay out claims. I agree that we are lacking in trust as a society, we only trust the almighty dollar and maybe our local communities. The real problem is that people keep voting republican because they refuse to think. But that excludes the massive voter suppression they engage in in their red states as well. You can see that if people vote most states will turn blue. We need more engagement.
Side note: I didn't know Google had their own TLD. Is this new? Seems weird that an organization has that ability to do that.
And if the shoe drops, drivers quit, or the whole system goes belly up for lack of profitability, and the market has solved the problem, without any artificial meddling which otherwise guarantees a less than optimal result.

I don't understand the problem. Especially in this business model. This isn't some sweatshop where people are required to grind all day and have no way out. These are people who generally earn extra cash in their spare time with a vehicle they would have anyway. I just don't see why they need any kind of special protection from a nanny state.

If you feel that ride sharing is not profitable, don't start driving. Let everyone else drive if they want, for whatever rate they deem is sufficient compensation.
You could sell the old Iridium as "retro" phone and make a lot of money now :-)
>"Research suggests some potential benefits to being a loner"

... says loner.
It's a phrase usually used to refer to developers who have a broad base of knowledge (the horizontal stroke of a capital "T") as well as a single area of particular specialization (the vertical stroke of the "T").
> I shouldn’t have to eat egg or milk in a tortilla

Correct.

Lard, OTOH...
"...which is very far from actual data"

The study used a measure the poster did not think was accurate.
> Cryptocurrencies have the potential of loosening the grasp of oppressive regimes over their people.

How exactly would that work?!
I’ll also add the recommendations I usually make.

Anyone interested in learning to cook, Americas Test Kitchen Cooking School (And also Cooks Illustrated Cooking Science and Science of Good Cooking) would probably be good for much of HN's audience. It is much more of a cooking "textbook" than most cookbooks. It explains what you are doing and why you do it instead of just a big list of recipes. There is also Modernist Cuisine but those are really pricey.

These books tackle the “science” side of cooking rather than your recommendation’s history side. Both are, of course, excellent approaches and are much better than your standard cook book’s vomit of recipes with no context.
in brief, and this is a highly anecdotal biased view, florida (in aggregate, not the more liberal cities) is a deep red state that generally agrees with Trump.

https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president...

as a random white person, caucasian floridians I have met are racist as hell. You would not believe the things that come out of their mouths when there are no ethnic/religious minorities within earshot and they believe you to be a person that might agree with their worldview.

it's a state that believes in cutting taxes to the level that they have the absolute bare minimum of social services, government services and other things that people in a western european nation (or canada, au, nz) take for granted.

florida is a state that regularly elects, at the state and county level, christian-religious politicians who will attempt to do things like make abortion illegal, introduce religious into public schools, and other policies generally supported by the evangelical religious right wing.
“native uriPlayer is broken in android 21 and over”
Math is everywhere, like it or not. If you use computer, smartphone, drive car... all devices are either designed or using methods deeply grounded in mathematics.

The caveat is that mathematics isn't ideal for describing the world. Undoubtedly it is very useful in many fields (e.g. computer science, physics, biology, chemistry ...), but requires multiple adjustments, specific to the domain.

Take for example statistics: correlations. Start changing a single value in one of the vectors. Pearson/Spearman correlations coefficient will start to drop, so as the methods that are based on those measures. Eventually, they will suggest that the vectors are not correlated. And all you did was just adding a single outlier...
>I'm very very social when I want to be.

I'm the same. If I want and choose to be social I can be. I can easily be the center attention and a goof ball having silly fun or just a social participant in a social gathering.

As I have gotten older I tend to pass more on being center of attention goof ball (it is fun and it is fun laughing with others) and spending more of my time doing things I currently value as being more important.
There's also Wikinews, which is run by the Wikimedia foundation (Wikipedia).

https://en.wikinews.org/
The clock thing is true, albeit simplified: I didn't have enough characters to say which type of clocks.

Regarding "an energy war in the Balkans", I could have said "an electricity dispute between Serbia and Kosovo", but again, I wouldn't have had enough characters.

I'm not sure the title was that bad, or that editorialized.
Though perhaps contrary to your parent commenter's point, the North Korean regime appears to be using Bitcoin speculation to circumvent international sanctions, making as much as $200 million last year ( which would be about 1.5% of its GDP, or 10% of its military budget): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/05/north-korea-may-...
In this thread- everyone in deep denial about the guys with destroyed affect sitting at the hotelbar in the evening.
The line I linked to, sure. But under what conceptual model would a framework need logic to strip comments (an aspect of source text) at runtime? Follow it to its conclusion.
How much of those will be meaningful to have known about on Tuesday instead of Friday or Saturday, three months from now?

A lot of events have been discussed, fewer of them have had significant impact yet, or have well-understood impact yet.
There is no requirement that regulators avoid catch-22 like situations. It would be unsurprising if the SEC had responded in such a situation with "Yes, they are likely securities, but no we don't care to elaborate, and we can't undertake approving your exchange because of (insert plausible but kinda lame reason here)."

You have very little in the way of recourse.

However if they determine that you're illegally selling those securities, you better believe that they can and will come after you, in the name of protecting the little guy.