skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Indeed they are already illegal, however adequate checks are not done on those who want to be people driver. That effect of not actually doing due diligence does allow much higher incidence of bad actors in positions of power.

You're going to need actual statistics for that. Claiming that we can detect a class of people who are acceptable citizens except under the specific circumstance that they are acting as a chauffeur isn't a reasonable position. Either they are dangerous and should be locked up or they aren't. Their status as a taxicab driver isn't going to be relevant. They would be just as dangerous if they were unemployed, if not more so.

> Bullshit. They have one of the hottest stock request IPOs out there. A year ago their estimated market cap was $50B. Now its estimated at $70B. Sure doesn't sound like a no-profit company.

Pretty sure the profit line is in the red for 2017. You might find yourself on the wrong side of the facts here, even if they don't conform to your worldview.

> Hollywood accounting.

Always willing to be corrected, but Hollywood accounting is a fairly specific practice where they claim specific projects made a loss so they don't have to pay the actors, but the profits still appear in a different part of a controlled conglomerate.

What you are alleging is tax fraud, which is also illegal as it happens. And, again, nothing to do with regulation of the taxi industry, in America I believe it is an issue for the the IRS. Companies in competitive markets have a lousy track record of unilaterally deciding their profits need to be higher. Its investors believe Uber can make a profit, but there isn't any evidence of that yet. They are taking a pretty substantial risk.
Do you have the scourge of zero hour contracts in the US? Basically a person can be contractually obligated to work when demanded but with no guarantees of minimum hours or salary.
Gigalixir has been wooing me. I've been writing phoenix apps lately and Gigalixir include 10k rows of postgres for free, plus no sleeps and no daily restarts. Definitely worth looking at.
"How do humans do small image transformations ?"

Perhaps the answer is simple : REM (the awake variant), and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quJEyTvDdfY
We chose to go with Medium (https://levelup.gitconnected.com), and it has been great. It embeds gists which is good for code. I haven't experimented with custom JS/CSS, but I believe it's also possible to embed. It's not perfect, but it's really good in most areas.

One of the best things about Medium is the built-in network and community. I feel confident our technical publication would not have grown as quickly without it. One of my favorite features is the ability to co-publish articles in publications but also retain the authorship of it on your own profile. It's an excellent way to generate traffic to your posts and take advantage of publications that already have readers. If you're interested in giving Medium a try and would be interested in submitting some stories to https://levelup.gitconnected.com, we would be happy to help get you started!
Really? Because their dispatches from Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, etc are all pretty great. Isobel Yeung, Hind Hassan, Michael C. Moynihan, Simon Ostrovsky, are all pretty solid. There are some corespondents and hosts that are horribly bad, but Vice has some huge talent....which makes BuzzFeed News (not to be confused with BuzzFeed) look like NowThis. Vice (not Vice News) is horrible though, Vice News is the jewel of that org. It's when they do things that aren't from their dispatches that they really struggle. Their commentary on Vice on HBO is often cringe inducing.
IMHO precedence climbing (a refactored version of recursive descent) would be much simpler and makes parsing seem almost trivial, since it can be made table-driven:

https://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm

Speaking of parsing simplicity and software design in general, you've coincidentally found a great example of how not to (ab)use OOP... one line of actual work wrapped in a dozen lines of boilerplate and replicated across multiple files with tiny variations:

https://github.com/ircmaxell/php-math-parser/tree/master/lib...

To put things into perspective, a precedence-climber for 13 levels of precedence from C's grammar, including a tokeniser, fits comfortably in <300 LoC of C, the bulk of that being the tokeniser. PHP's higher level nature (especially around string handling) would probably make a corresponding implementation even smaller.
Psychedelics produce their effects by modulating certain receptors in the brain and body so as to alter perception until they are broken down through metabolism.

We don’t yet fully understand exactly how these alterations work objectively. But they do suggest that our subjective constructions of reality are just that: constructions.

So the only illusion to lose is the entire nature of reality: in some sense there is more than one “reality”, as far as your brain is concerned.

I think this is the sober, science backed version of this notion and I think it is profound.
We have a good life at low cost in our "mediocre" home, and travel to London/New York to do all that economically productive stuff that no sane person actually enjoys

it is the next stage of civilizational evolution, look forward to it America :)
> Question: is this sentence false?

> Aristo: Sorry, Aristo could not answer this question!

> Yes/No and Either/Or questions are not currently handled.

Darn it, so much for destroying it with paradox. Here's a bizarre one:

> Question: What is Aristo's accuracy in answering questions?

> Aristo is not sure about this one...

> Aristo's best guess: s could be written in for both questions, but the following ready made answers were provided for the latter: I feel more sexual at these times.

> Confidence: 5.93%
The data in my Address Book is far more sensitive (and valuable) than the pages my friends like.
You know, I'm not in this field but this should be stuff that I assume would/should already be done BEFORE even putting it out to the market.
So what you're saying is that you re-invented SAML, but with JWT? What you're describing is SAML; every commercial SSO system on the market offers it natively.
Parent is correct. The worry is AT&T giving preferential treatment to their new Time Warner content on their own network...
> History as it was taught in my early schooling was not only useless, it was utterly counterproductive

It's not just history. Physicists complain "why would they be interested in physics, when they aren't shown any interesting physics?" Chemistry education research describes precollege chemistry education content as "incoherent", leaving both students and teachers deeply steeped in misconceptions. And so on.

Consider a scale of dysfunction, from rote memorization and regurgitation, through mindless plug-and-chug, towards transferable expertise. The disruption of VR/AR is coming. What if we aimed high?

What might transformatively improved history education look like? Imagine teaching crosscutting concepts that pervade history. "History without X? That's just silly." Migration, for example. What if students, shown any slice of history, could be "ok, this looks familiar, here are some key things to look for"? A veterinary systems understanding, instead of a med student's memorized details.

When one sees a bit of history, it can be fun to reflect, how might this have been described better, with greater insight, simplicity, clarity, and accessibility? ELI5. But beyond the fun, with the tech potential for change building, there's a need for visualizing: what would success look like? Real success. Awesome success. Because we need something that matters to aim for.
> The gig economy should only be for people that have economic security.

This would be a form of scabbing: taking jobs away from people that don't have economic security, to give disposable income to people that do.
Splitting LA and OC is idiotic. OC is the suburbs of LA. Of course the whole thing is fairly unlikely and not really a good idea.
> least a third of the shares are being repurchased with borrowed money

What?!

That is insane. Right? Like I know I’m just a lowly programmer who doesn’t know jack all about finance, but I thought the whole point of a buy back was that your public company was flush with cash and instead of spending it on capital expenses (am I using that word right? I mean things that grow the business, like say, Facebook buying Instagram) you spent it on buying stock from shareholders.

What the heck is the point of a buy back purchase with debt?! I really don’t understand.

If the article explains it and I missed it, it would be awesome to have it pointed out.
If I had to make an admittedly uneducated guess, I bet females being more self-sacrificing than men can be seen across species. It would only make sense that the sex generally responsible for child-rearing would be the sex most likely to self-sacrifice.

I know nowadays, especially in the tech scene, it is frowned upon to suggest intrinsic differences between the sexes and to imply those differences can affect behavior at a statistical level, but with this fascinating historical context, it's an interesting thought.
Similar projects:
https://weex.incubator.apache.org/
https://www.nativescript.org/

I think Weex has better performance and lighter overhead than this(?)
>Which game is it? Who are the players? What is zero-sum about it?

It's the same game they're playing with AirBnB, Uber, etc. Just openly break the law and subvert centuries of built up labor laws and protections we've created to make America into a livable society, just to profit a small minority of shareholders. The players are the American people, with no choice left but live with this system because more equitable uses of this capital aren't perceived to give investors "10x returns". There used to be an agreement in the US between Capital and Labor that struck a fair deal, and this agreement has fundamentally eroded. What benefits and rights that did still exist in jobs up to this point are gone for most people. The result is a zero sum game, where human suffering is converted to shareholder profits.
FIRST MAN Official Trailer (2018) Ryan Gosling
take a look at gigalixir.com. I'm moving an app over there right now and they don't do the annoying sleep thing, or the daily restarts. You also get a free 10k row db. Pricing is reasonable if/when you want to scale later too. More expensive than rolling it on GCE yourself, but you get all the convenience of the heroku workflow.
This article suggests that Summit cost somewhere in the low $100 million range and last I heard from DoE that was accurate, so they aren't exactly paying retail.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/11/20/details-emerge-summi...

Price isn't really a concern with these computers, though, because the sort of experimental work they are intended to "replace" (using that loosely, since a lot of the things they simulate are impossible to actually do) is far more expensive. Leadership-grade computing is all about enabling new classes of problems to be solved.
You are looking at the engineering blog, which--judging by the rest of the mixpanel.com site, probably isn't borrowing much from the marketing/ux side of the company.

Check the Mixpanel blog (https://mixpanel.com/blog/) and you'll find it the brand consistency more similar to the other tech companies you mentioned.

I'm actually okay with engineers spending less time on shiny css and more time on the content of their posts.
This is brand new but worth checking out.

https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos
Also anecdotal but I get depressed when I can't exercise (usually because of injury, weather or sickness). The longer that lasts, the more depressed I get.

It has a very noticeable effect on me, to the point that honestly I can't understand how people who don't exercise manage to stay above water.
Utopias are always justified this way, and the worst crimes are committed as a result. After all, if a potentially limitless number of lives are saved in the future, you can argue for sacrificing millions today. Somehow people never seem to understand that nothing real or worthwhile is down that road, and as a species we go down it repeatedly.

I think the best argument against this, is to demand that the person willing to let many die is the first to die.
I'm extra confused because I thought in some sense stock was the collateral (or at least a component of collateral) for said debt.
That exec was probably the SolarCity CEO at the time, who is Elon Musk's cousin, so that might be a little awkward.
1) Bitglass Inc.
2) Blockstream Corp.
3) Andela Inc.
4) Virta Health Corp.
5) Eero Inc.
6) R3
7) Spoke
8) Exabeam Inc.
9) SparkCognition Inc.
10) Stash Financial Inc.
11) Digital Asset Holdings LLC
12) Brave Software Inc.
13) Abra
14) Monzo Bank Ltd.
15) Kespry Inc.
16) DataVisor Inc.
17) Fourkites Inc.
18) Nauto Inc.
19) Babylon Holdings Ltd.
20) Bowery Farming Inc.
21) Airobotics Ltd.
22) Freenome Holdings Inc.
23) Claroty Ltd.
24) Descartes Labs Inc.
25) Keybase Inc.
The news article you cite is a bit over dramatic- the distinction between clinical and brain death has been around for a while. None of what is in there is really news, although it might be somewhat remarkable if they found activity 10 minutes out; then again, this is research from the medical community, which as others have pointed out is often quite methodologically flawed.

You too are being slightly too generous towards scientific journalism- a typical non-scientific audience wouldn't make the distinction between clinical and brain death, and the reporter likely wasn't either.
This move makes AT&T the largest private debt holder in the United States.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/att/2017/06/30/can-att-k...

It’s tough to be nimble with financial responsibility this large. It is not obvious to me that this is a good thing for the shareholders.

It’s for this reason that I’d rather see us focus on incentives for local ISP competition rather than regulatory burdens designed to keep elephants this large in check. Net neutrality has to be powerful enough to curb AT&T’s legal teams. Scrappy local ISPs aren’t going to have the same resources for responding to regulatory requests. It entrenches the big players.
Both WebGL viz and the browser ultimately go through a pipeline to the screen. If you do GL, you can skip the cruft, e.g., SVG middleware. I've been surprised when SVG would seem ok... And we ended up getting big slowdowns and glitches, and ended up rewriting in GL.
Deploy Node.js App on Google App Engine
Doesn't this argument ignore the basic supply and demand of electricity? Even if the supply of electricity remained the same, if the price went up 100x, then that would allow for (1) current energy use of bitcoin, and (2) 100x price of bitcoin, which you said was impossible. That was simple.

Obviously the price of electricity is unlikely to 100x, but I think it's entirely reasonable that jurisdictions start placing taxes on electricity use for crypto miners specifically, which would have the same effect, without affecting the rest of the economy.

Miners will also probably start investing in, and operating, cheaper power sources that are not connected to the grid, if/when those taxes get too burdensome.
I had a project with the same requirements and settled on echarts[0] (version 2 at the time, now on 4). Its adoption was, at that time, very diminished due to everything being in Chinese. Its base graphics library, zrender[1], still suffers this issue. Were it to become more introduced to westerners, it could take the place of d3 for many of these use cases since its API is much easier to grok. Granted it's all canvas, but most uses don't care how it's rendered.

Edit: well, browsing zrender's source, I see svg logic too

0 - https://github.com/apache/incubator-echarts

1 - https://github.com/ecomfe/zrender
It's not incorrect to say that hashes and signatures add some overhead, but the question is whether the overhead is significant enough to matter for the usecase. Probably not.

Dat is realtime. You are notified about updates as soon as they are distributed. In Beaker, the files-archive API has a `watch()` method to do this. If you're accessing a dat files-archive, you're participating in the syncing swarm and so you'll receive those updates automatically.

You'll want to use a UDP socket if you're streaming a high volume of data with low latency requirements, for instance for a multiplayer FPS. But Dat has been used to stream live video, so it's probably real-time enough for most Web use-cases.

Small aside: Comparing Dat to CRDTs is apples to oranges. It's like comparing Javascript to B-Trees; they're not quite the same kind of technology. In fact, the new version of Dat uses CRDTs in order to allow multiple users to write to a files-archive.
Not at $35. I would get a zynqberry and learn fpga programming if I was serious about the form factor. Otherwise I would get a used server on ebay and max out the ram.
Eh, I'm not saying we have a full picture of what's going on, but the scientific method is much more effective at helping us arrive at a real description of what is going on than any arbitrary religion of the past.
That's pretty much what "Schedule 2" is for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_I_drugs_(US)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_II_drugs_(US)
Google, apparently
Why can't progress in technology replace population growth through higher productivity?

We tend to cut costs and reward the capital managers... but why not maintain costs while rewarding employees?
KDE Plasma 5.13 Released
DooM is not only fun, but it's great fun to play around with from the inside, or even to port. I've helped bring Doom to the x68000, which was quite the mission as the only compiler we had that could build 'large' executables was GCC 1.39 which had been translated into Japanese.

But it's been fun doing ports to OS/2, DJGPP v1, Watcom C, and of course various other Unix via the X11 code. The GPL'd code was 'cleaned up' and kind of bugged up on the way, sadly what was released really wasnt' all that pure.

For anyone wanting something more 'pure' for MS-DOS I'd highly suggest: Mara'akate's DooM-New

https://bitbucket.org/maraakate/doomnew-for-dos

And then there is Quake, which I compiled with the excellent MS-DOS based TCP/IP stack WATTCP so that I could bring native TCP/IP networking to Quake.

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2011/01/05/quake1-with-wa...

And on the heels of that, I did a QuakeWorld client for MS-DOS

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2011/01/06/quakeworld-cli...

which kind of took a life on it's own here:

http://dk.toastednet.org/QDOS/index.html

And of course with the source to Quake 2 available, it only seemed proper to port it to MS-DOS.

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2015/06/02/porting-quake-...

https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/06/03/porting-quake-ii-to-ms-d...

https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/06/07/porting-quake-ii-to-ms-d...

https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/06/26/porting-quake-ii-to-ms-d...

https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/09/17/porting-quake-ii-to-ms-d...

So yes, there is GREAT fun to be had in the iD source.

Also don't forget some of their earlier games:

https://github.com/CatacombGames

https://github.com/FlatRockSoft/
The wrapper http://c3js.org any good?
“My boss, however, likes to view me as the person who can always remind him how to change the x-axis tick labels in matplotlib.”
> Use template literals for templating, so you don't even need handlebars/mustache anymore.

Are you using some template tag function that handles escaping? Seems risky to rely on manual escaping everywhere.
The only problem is that Apple products have been printing money for the past 15 years while Tesla products burn through money.

The argument against Tesla isn't about their products, it is about the economic valuation of the company making the products.
Sometimes the company can make better use of it's existing capital by using debt (especially when debt is cheap as it is now). This means it has more capital than needed - so it returns that capital to shareholders using buybacks and finances itself through issuing debt.
If I read parent's comment correctly, the notable thing was simplicity via few dependencies. I expect parent knows about J/TSX.
Why the quotes? Did you not have any fun?
> People who ran Soviet Union had very little to do with leading people on the streets. They did had few squabbles with loyalists after they began their purge campaigns, but their extend is also exaggerated.

Very misinformed statement, don't even know where to begin. Red Terror was Lenin's invention. The whole leadership was a band of thugs. Lenin developed an entire philosophical theory of terror. These 60 millions were not killed overnight, true. The "night" lasted from 1917 to 1953.
Tell me about taxi drivers and labor law. I used to drive a taxi and I paid $110 per day to rent the taxi, paid the gas, if I damaged the car, I paid for that out of my pocket and then I get to try and hustle rides from the airport where I had to pay for ticket for the right to pick up a passenger — then, due to airport fixed rates, I might drive that person to the other side of town and make $65.

Driving a taxi was horrible. Anyone that laments Uber has never driven a taxi.