skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber is a great concept, but the reality is that Uber has shown us time and time again why taxis cost what they do: regulation to protect users and our cities.

Uber, like AirBnB and a lot of other startups, are 'disrupting' industries by entering them and taking them over by ignoring regulations, insurance, and even laws to keep costs low and make a profit. In this day and age, they can grow fast enough that by the time cities see the repercussions and react to them, the companies are big enough and rich enough (and flush enough with VC money) to fight back, and are already entrenched with a loud and enthusiastic user base.

In other words, Uber is great if you ignore the various safety and insurance regulations, background checks, licensing, etc. that taxis have to comply with.
Do you have any interest in algae-based solutions? (Cf. my comment in this thread I just left: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17268103 )

I've done some crude experiments and "back-of-the-envelope" calculations and I think there's "something there". FWIW)
The Paris Climate models (1.5 degrees and 2 degrees) assumes that we are going have to remove a lot of carbon. This is not an either or - we need to both move to a carbon-free economy and remove carbon
1st thing: The people here asking if they are going to deprecate BSD sockets. No way that is going to happen. We are talking about 30yo+ API deeply integrated in the kernel, unix and userspace. OpenGL/CL is a very very different case. It's always been a third party thing an doesnt have the same level of usage. Not even close.

2. Not everything is a webapp or http. You may absolutely need to use the raw network without any encapsulation. This posibility must simply not die.
Its true that most people will not need to use this apis and will use a http webapp.

On the API itself. I think it is a really good idea to make a new generic tcp/udp library. With everything we use today included, and as a first class citizen from the first minute of the design.
The particular API they present looks good and it is very well thought out. Mostly integrates async tcp/upd/tls seemless and supports changing interfaces on the fly. This alone is a big improvement. Does this while still providing raw access to the out/input net queues. You can even access the lowlevel details and parameters if you want or need to.

However this is not the first modern network API. QT (qt network) has a good network layer for one. There are simpler alternatives: libuv, libevent etc. This are more speciallized and dont handle all that Network.framework offers.
I wouldn't give up your secret sauce. let them learn with their money.

Maybe look at partnering with one of their competitors.
Then I was priced out of where I had been living for 6 years

Your problem is actually zoning, not Airbnb: https://www.vox.com/cards/affordable-housing-explained/affor...
I’m curious, are there any good Alexa/ghome apps that do recipes well

As in, not just reciting but allowing me to ask how much of X is needed or what the next step is? That would be great
I live in Nashville and the city just impounded 411 Bird Scooters which effectively caused them to halt operation temporarily[1]. While Tennessee the state is conservative, Nashville the city is quite liberal.

The biggest concern that citizens and the city has is the mentality that when your done with the scooter you can just leave it in the middle of the sidewalk or anywhere you please. Bird needs to be proactive about it, and start charging fines and fees to users who don't properly put the scooters away. Ultimately Bird needs to setup "nests" pod that are designated pickup and dropoff points to fully address the problem.

[1] https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/06/07/bird-scoote...
An actual thief is probably going to laugh and roll their eyes at the idea that the police will respond to an automated 911 call from a scooter left on the sidewalk.
Well let's take an easy example. If the scooter said "Unlock me or I'll call the KKK" we can all agree that's racist right? But even in this example it's not like the scooter is itself doing anything racist, right? It's just calling for help from a group of people who happen to be racist, it just so happens that calling racists to help you is probably pretty racist. So what does that give us? If you don't think the cops are racist then calling the cops isn't racist, if you think the cops are racist then calling the cops can be racist.

But aside from that I think the racism angle is a bit distracting. The real problem seems to me that scooter companies are allowed to push all these ugly externalities on us without paying for them. I see that there is a role for police in private property protection, but is there some point at which we ask a company to pay for a certain amount of their own protection? It seems to me that these scooter services introduce the possibility of crime to a level we don't normally see. Maybe they should pay for that.
People without as much money as you would probably prefer more robust public transportation systems, which Uber/Lyft compete against.
I think it's completely perverse. How about saving even more weight and not building airplanes and traveling anywhere at all? That's just as absurd.
dollar cost averaging does not in reality mitigate the volatility risk...

Consider the scenario where you are invested in 100% indexes and get hit by some black swan event resulting in >70% drawdown. Odds are that you will lose your job during such an event and therefore could not feasibly continue investing at the same pace (there goes DCA as risk-neutralizing strategy). The more likely occurrence in this scenario is that you actually NEED your invested cash to stay in illiquid assets (i.e. house, college tuition etc) and are forced to draw out money at the bottom of the market.

Index investing without any hedging for fat tails doesn't seem that smart.
Hacker News Highlights: April and May 2018
I recall watching some professional photographers, some years ago, chasing George Cluny and some other celebrities filming on location (where I just happened to be, that day). I and a couple of them landed in a Starbucks at the same time. Out came the MacBook Pro. In went the media card. Debate, select, edit, maybe copyright/watermark/whatever, and off the photos went, to be some of the first available.

I suppose cameras may connect wirelessly now (?). Anyway, new format MacBook Pros don't seem to fit this scenario, nor others I see for real professional work portability, well.

Add to that the keyboard. I don't see how one keeps it "dust free" when running around chasing a story -- or work or whatever.
Uneducated as in it is painfully clear you have never read anything by any sociologists.

Have you tried doing linear algebra on nonlinear phenomena?

The examples of successful sociological science are too numerous to name, and your laziness isn't going to result in someone Googling the easily found work for you.

Go do your homework, or sit down and shut up.
The abstract doesn't really have all that much bearing on the actual contents of the patent. Remember the lessons of "How to read a patent in 60 seconds" [0]. Skip the title, skip the abstract, skip the dependent claims. Read just the independent claims.

[0] http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-read-a-patent-...
Thank you for the suggestion! I still get the error, unfortunately:

File "<ipython-input-1-a0531db54fa8>", line 1
from
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I shall see if it starts working when I upgrade to a distro with a newer IPython.
Those music production apps have the same issue though - most plugins that people want to use don't support Linux, at least not natively and easily.

Progress has been made but there is still a long way to go.
Oakland has a shortage of police officers and calling the OPD generally wouldn't result in a response in 10 minutes. I've heard stories of waiting several hours for officers to arrive.
JFYI, a (five year old) video from "Fifth Gear":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHM6PVTjXo

I simply love the inflated "dummy car".
They can't be, unless Google decides to enforce them. It's not the first time they crowd-source massive amounts of specialized effort, only to steal all the data, close them off and get away with it.

Panoramio is the biggest one I know. They essentially stole 10 years worth of effort from a community collecting carefully positioning millions of geo-tagged photos.

Then you have Youtube. It's not completely closed off, but you can't query the video database, you can't discover any of the old content, and they "delete" (hide from the public) all issues they consider controversial or against their political beliefs.

Now it's possible they used the good old 3Es to stimulate academic research relevant to their targets, use it to create useful products, and then patent everything to choke out the competition. Of course they have better ways to kill competitors (imagine the massive potential for undercutting they have, and how nobody cares about undercutting in the online world).
Most companies, and probably almost zero government projects, publicize what embedded OSes they use. You're not going to get any numbers.

This means you also have no numbers to back up your claim.
You make ~$90,000 a year and are barely getting by with no debt or children? Where do you live?
Basically yes. Thinking as a lawyer though you don't want to leave interpretation of "trace or track" to a judge. In the rare case that there is a dispute, it opens it up for ambiguities which increase risk.
It may be worth pointing out here that with substance abuse, people often end up substituting one dangerous thing for another. Just because someone's a recovered heroin or cocaine user and not an alcoholic doesn't mean alcohol's not riskier for them than for other people. Whether or not that'd be true of Anthony Bourdain or not I can't weigh in on.
In Vancouver, these things wouldn’t last five minutes.
What's an average person, though?

We're keeping this aura of mysticism around customized computer setups (obviously also because there's commercial interests against them).

I think many "average" people would have no greater difficulty learning a fast, simple, customizable mail client instead of Outlook for example.
This is perfectly ethical. You can create whatever objects you want on your own server, if you aren't breaking any law.
Chatbot is the new App?
I'm no expert on this, but I'm almost positive I've read that post-transplant one has to use finasteride (+ minoxidil iirc) to keep the transplanted hair safe from DHT removing it.
20 Years Ago Today: Yahoo Buys Viaweb, Sewing the Seeds for YC (1998)
I don't think there are any 3 that are exactly what you ask about ("chat-on-blockchain thing").

However, from my understanding of Telegram's ICO and "leaked" roadmap, they appear to be doing a decentralized chat the may leverage their own blockchain for some features (identity, tokens etc.).

I think Status.im is another example, but it's currently early access I believe.

My own product, stealthy.im could be another example. The web product is in production. It builds upon blockstack, storing identity and storage pointers in the blockchain.

So that's 3. I could probably list a few more, but again they wouldn't strictly satisfy your precise criteria in one or major ways. I think @jerf's response is really good--for us the "why" of blockchain is in identity and providing a verifiable decentralized storage network through blockstack. The underlying bitcoin blockchain wouldn't be suitable for message storage or sdp handshaking due to latency as another person pointed out.
No publicity is bad publicity I guess?
Feel free to present a coherent argument for how price controls improve economic outcomes. Some data would be nice too, given that the economic literature is replete with the counter.
Isn't it the case, in SF, that police do not even respond to actual automobile break-ins when their very owners call to request police aid?

If a smashed window + stolen laptop (total loss: ~$2,500) can't convince the SF police to lift a finger, I doubt a scooter (~$400) will. Sad situation all around.
This is the UK NHS take on it: http://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/hair-loss-drugs-linked-wit...
yep, just reversed now: SaaP... Serverless as a Platform
I agree with the sentiment but you have to be careful about just assuming assets that are uncorrelated will remain uncorrelated in a black swan event. Additionally, you have to assume that your hedge is liquid enough that it can be rolled off in times of need.
On a decentralized, p2p service, the entity that's hosting the content is "everyone". That is, everyone who is a part of the network could be held responsible, either directly (for distributing the content) or indirectly (for being part of a service which does not have a mechanism to follow the law forbidding distribution of the content).
It isn't that governments are bad at it, its that they have incentives to fuck it up. It's much easier politically to give the union what it wants and let it be some mess someone cleans up in 20 or 40 years.

Only if the electorate is intelligent / educated enough to call bullshit do they temper their bullshitery.
Setup an Nginx reverse proxy for your Docker containers
The Guardian video has it, although it also has muzak playing over it ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Ly1aArYjU
You can still force IPFS nodes to delete certain files.
GitHub+Microsoft: Looking Forward by Looking Back
Nah. Linux will always have poor ergonomics when it comes to device support simply because of the development culture in Linux, and particularly the Linux kernel culture: support every device under the sun in a way that minimally satisfies every stake holder. That means there are always too many controls and knobs. Device support stops at 80% completion (all the esoteric features working, but poorly integrated) because, theoretically, with all the knobs the end-user has the capability to take it the next 20%, and there's always something new around the corner that needs that 80% support. That's the Linux way and will always be the Linux way.

There are two other ways: the Microsoft way which is to invest billions sustaining an OS and commercial developer ecosystem that does marginally better in terms of working well out-of-the-box. And the BSD[1], Apple, Chrome[2] way, which is to focus on specific hardware and specific use cases and outright reject everything else.

Pick your poison.

[1] BSD is a broad brush. NetBSD and OpenBSD are more focused than FreeBSD, which sits somewhere between those two and Linux. NetBSD is more developer focused (always emphasizing the perfect APIs and frameworks) while OpenBSD focuses on functionality, both server-side and client-side. AFAIU, if you buy one of the laptops favored by OpenBSD developers things will work very well out-of-the-box. The downside is that because of lack of manpower if they can't do it well they won't do it at all (e.g. the previous lack of 802.11n Wifi support for many years).

[2] Obviously it is possible and viable for a vendor to complete that last 20% that Linux leaves unresolved, at least if they very narrowly focus their efforts. But Google is for the most part the only such success; there have been (and will be) many other attempts that will drown in the endless complexity and churn of the Linux ecosystem.
The Price Club, now part of CostCo, had employees park their car in the lot to make the warehouse look popular and busy. Fake it till you make it in 1976.
We're in the opposite position from people that doubted whether the human body could cope with transport faster than a horse.

We have pretty good data for what very high G-forces do to the human body and what the failure rates of rocket launches are, and neither are compatible with routine commercial flight.
Yeah they are all gone. I was worried about first impressions and meeting people but it has never been an issue.
.. why are either of these two distinctions significant?
Growing takes time. Things like a surge in tourism or commercial activities can happen nearly overnight.

In the city I live in (no NYC, but still one of the densest in the US and high demand), there's currently some big construction projects, and people are complaining its not big enough. Except its on a former landfill that could not support the larger structures. Let say we fix that...but the size of the project was also scaled according to capacity of the sewer infrastructure. Sure, we can fix that TOO, but then the people building the project have to wait a year, or two, or more, and they want money now.

You have to throttle things so that all the moving parts follow each other, to avoid making it hell for everyone.
We have interest in anything where cost-efficient carbon removal is the goal.

We're not picking technologies at this point since no-one really knows. Personally, I'm more excited about Direct-air-capture than I am about bio-energy with carbon capture for a bunch of reasons. Storing carbon in oceans is also interesting. Whatever path we see as a truly scalable way (like, can you 10000x your prototype and get costs benefits for example)
There's no audio!
Lol no police officer is going to give a fk what happens to one of these scooters.

They should all be launched into the sun.
For everyone curious as to what the alarm sounds like in person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsW4kIg4PQc
> It doesn’t help that China has essentially been spewing entirely fictitious accounting numbers for the last 20 years. It’s not even about padding an extra 10-15% anymore. There are journal articles out there claiming that Alibaba, a company as big as Oracle, is making up whole cloth 95% of it’s accounting statements. Ridiculous...

That can't be any good. The very foundation of modern nations is built on good accounting purposes. In fact, I read a book about how double entry accounting was one of the fundamental reasons for the growth of the British and later the American empire.

And yes while the deficit doesn't matter, good accounting absolutely does. Fudge those numbers and people lose trust in the system. That's how you create economic panics...
HHVM JIT: A Profile-Guided, Region-Based Compiler for PHP and Hack
You broke a key?! How scandalous!
Ask HN: What is your favorite newsletter that you pay for?
I'm pretty adamant about rewriting public history for _any_ project. Are other orgs pretty relaxed about rewriting git history?
Found someone uploaded it to YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsW4kIg4PQc
Build more high-density or mid-density rental housing.

In Vancouver, condo towers are coming up like weeds, but it's not reducing the cost of living for anyone. People who already have money buy those condos, they rent them out at high prices so they can pay their mortgage, people have to rent them because there's nowhere else because literally no one is building rental housing, and so rents go up.

Rents go up, so property values go up because there's so much money in them, so people build more condo towers, and the cycle repeats.

The problem is that we have hundreds or thousands of speculators who got in early and have the real-estate wealth to leverage to purchase more real estate, but they're in it to make a short-term profit. They don't have the capital to set prices for the long-term, so they have to rent things out at pretty high prices.

Meanwhile, if we had purpose-built rental, you'd be looking at one building, one landlord, one set of rents, and a business with a long-term view rather than real estate speculators who are just holding onto a condo as long as they can before they can cash it out and retire (or leverage it to buy more).
Being "happy" in your job is really a luxury for most people. Plenty of people are happy just to be able to pay their bills and if they are lucky, own a home/raise a family.

I don't think anybody is being "forced" into coding.
High marginal income tax rates are designed to keep you from building wealth-- the capital-holding classes don't want the competition for assets.
No, really, you shouldn't. We do not know what they are going to 'monopolize' yet. A patent application, even if published, is not enforceable, it is not a patent. I could file an application today claiming to have invented the wheel, and 18 months from now it would publish as an official looking patent publication. It means literally nothing.
This is a very US centric view of policing.
Scooters are litter?

Are parked cars litter? What about when a restaurants put a chair or table outside on the sidewalk?

Maybe a closer analogy is the other kind of electric scooter (as in the mopeds like Scoot). Never heard them called litter. So is being on the sidewalk vs the street what determines if it's litter?
Google. monorepo with almost full visibility, code search/cross referencing/review tools, good infrastructure support, great videoconference and collaboration tools, a culture of written knowledge vs. oral lore, clear strategy in many parts of the business (loosely coupled, tightly aligned). Perks, pay, vacation are excellent. Work life balance is generally good. World experts in relevant subject matter are never far away.
Not that it's on-topic, but both are rights, and to be more specific, both are negatively asserted rights; which are (at least in America) rights to which nobody else has the obligation to assist you with, but to which nobody in the government may interfere.

Whether or not we regard one right as more important than the other (and to be fair, we absolutely should), that doesn't change that nobody else is obligated to assist you in pursuit of your rights.
Medical care, especially drugs, greatly increasing in price for old. 2/3rds of over 65 have at least one cintinuing prescription.
> while half of CVPR paper results cannot be reproduced.

even if just another half of results are proven to outperform traditional approaches, is it strong enough trend?
Ask HN: How do you keep flow with long build times?
I understand that, I went with a T470P which is an absurdly powerful little machine, i7-7700HQ, 32GB RAM, NVMe storage, no thunderbolt but I had no need for it also has HDMI, DisplayPort, Ethernet port, Fingerprint reader.

Happy with it for what I paid (lot of machine for the money).
Well, that’s also what people said before GitHub.
Yet Another Facebook Data Scandal
How to Build a Decentralized Cloud Storage Solution Like Storj.io
I'm equally afraid of no police, and calling the police. Figure that out.
Overall the "Joel Test" is still relevant, but a few of his steps haven't aged well. 3 and 10 in particular.
I don't think anyone in San Francisco does, either.
Typically individual people are limited to ~1 free car and bike space, and many cities treat commercial vehicles differently from privately owned ones. If you park your ten cars on the street, or if you park your ten cars on the street and start a car rental company, or if you park your commercial-plates delivery truck on the street overnight, you will quickly run into conflict with your city government. Rental cars and e.g. Zipcars have their own dedicated parking spaces, usually on private property, and docked bike rental companies rent curb space from the city.
I found your post aggressive. Will you please change it to appease me?
> People buy places to live in and make a life in, and then half the building is party people

This has to be repeated. There's no point in living without some level of quality of life. Having everyone trying to raise their family, do their school work, study, or just try to sleep, in what are essentially all becoming hotels, is just not something we should strive for.

One could even argue you're going to end up in a world where success in life is tied to wealth, not because of all the reasons commonly associated with it, but just because one group can actually sleep at night and one can't.
I find myself in this camp. I enjoy optimizing, but I need to see positive feedback.