skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you talked to actual women? Ask them if they feel safer in an Uber, in a Taxi or in BART. Seriously go try this experiment. Assuming you're in the Bay Area, ask 10 of your closest female friends.

I am in the Bay Area, and the biggest proponent of taxis over Uber that I know is female. The only woman I know that uses Uber does so because her boyfriend is a code monkey at Uber and so they'd get a few rides for free each month.

Of my friends that use "ride sharing" apps, they almost all use Lyft exclusively because they find Uber so reprehensible. I also see plenty of vehicles signed for Lyft alone or Lyft + Uber, but almost never see Uber only vehicles.

As a woman how do you feel about Uber fighting background checks tooth and nail?

Or how about this?

http://time.com/5023287/uber-threatened-journalist-sarah-lac...

Or this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/technology/uber-india-rap...

Or this?

http://www.newsweek.com/uber-and-lyft-drivers-accused-more-1...

And, really, Kalanick using Uber for sex (a.k.a. Boober) doesn't bother you in the slightest? Good for you then.

> People are not stupid. If it was a raw deal for them then they'll jump ship

https://www.recode.net/2017/2/28/14766964/video-uber-travis-...

So this guy is an idiot then? How exactly do you get out of an auto loan that you're now underwater on because Uber decided to turn the screws on you?

> I think you forget that the OP that prompted my response

I am the author of the comment you replied to. I'm happy to be convinced but marketing doublespeak like "engineering excellence" isn't convincing in any manner. Uber develops an app and spends a ton on marketing. Beyond that Uber externalizes almost all of its costs. That's trivial to scale compared to actually scaling a transit company that has to invest in infrastructure.
For I have lied to you – my struggle with mental health
Discussed on HN 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16432435 (13 comments)
From what ever little I know, this is the most optimistic and best case scenario and the central assumption of the report seems to be we are going to get a battery miracle and that will make S&W much more practical for day round and year round production and consumption cycle.

From the report:
Germany sees rapid change to 2025 with coal and gas generation falling 29%, nuclear phased-out and renewables topping 70% of generation.
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Germans are burning more coal than Pre-Fukushima days and Munich is 48N latitude.. good luck with Solar. That production efficiency from massive solar installation thus far is not that impressive.
Seems like meditation (maybe yoga as well) gives you access to control the Ego. Westerners just want to dial the knob in the opposite direction.

I honestly am more inclined to think that in the world we live in (and the rules we operate according to), having a way to boost your Ego isn't necessarily bad. There is no way you can achieve anything significant (involving many other people), without at least some use for your Ego. Of course you can "crash the ship" if you don't know when to use it.
Thanks for the detailed writeup! I will send you an email :)
Definitely. And for someone who is already familiar with the Bogleheads philosophy, I think his "Investing for Adults" series is unmatched.
"Self-destruct sequence initiated, cannot abort." should be left in the world of sci-fi.

If there is a physical process that cannot be stopped (rocket, nuclear reactor, oil well) then of course the system must be designed around that physical fact.

But this is an HR process. The "moving parts" are people.

If it was designed with the intent that human intervention should be impossible, the design was a failure.

Perhaps more likely it was just a failure of implementation (there's a cancel button but nobody knows where) or of imagination (nobody thought about whether the process could be canceled or not).

What if instead of HR, this was a financial process, playing out over days or weeks, entirely beyond the company's control. Would any sane CFO approve such a thing?

> Cost often supersedes quality or flexibility

That helps to explain it, but it doesn't excuse it.
Disagree if you wish but it's mostly an economic decision.
While it's common to restart on all sorts of config changes like multiwindow or layout changes on Android, flutter specifically configures it's android activity to not restart. So going into multiwindow works just fine, and the framework handles redrawing and resizing.
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Why would advanced civilizations go to the trouble of moving stars closer to them rather than just moving themselves closer to black holes and letting gravity do the work?

If proximity to stars is so desirable, wouldn't residence in a galactic center near some super massive black hole be ideal?
Yes correlation does not mean causation. But sometimes the correlation is so obvious that it becomes hard to ignore.

So what I would say is this: Ignore this correlation at your mortal peril. The risk is that of total war.
Interesting approach.

Maybe I'm lazy but avoiding increasing cost to commenting is one of the few absolutes I abide by. Often I find myself tired after a long stretch of code, trying to convince myself that's it's understandable on it's own.

This is one of those systematic rules I have to enforce to shutdown my lazy lizard brain.

edit: But I can see how highly structured comments could actually come in handy as well for viewing configs in a gui
Yeah but thats the point...imply it through your language rather than state it explicitly. It's intellectually dishonest.
No body talks about SDLang (Simple Declarative Language) : https://sdlang.org/

An example :

```

// This is a node with a single string value
title "Hello, World"

// Multiple values are supported, too
bookmarks 12 15 188 1234

// Nodes can have attributes
author "Peter Parker" email="peter@example.org" active=true

// Nodes can be arbitrarily nested
contents {
section "First section" {
paragraph "This is the first paragraph"
paragraph "This is the second paragraph"
}
}

// Anonymous nodes are supported
"This text is the value of an anonymous node!"

// This makes things like matrix definitions very convenient
matrix {
1 0 0
0 1 0
0 0 1
}

```
I second any recommendation in favor of Natsuo Kirino’s Grotesque. (Which I will take the current opportunity to do, as I don't often get to.)
Could you please post civil and informative comments instead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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The greater point is if you become a landlord, you get rich with the bank's money.
High availability requires a database cluster which provides synchronous multimaster replication. What they have is failover, not high avilability.
I think it’s just personal preference. For me it has several wins over octopart and I got the input filtering which is really cool. Really neat man. Shame it’s all single search at a time.
One thing I could never figure out was how to do business development while simultaneously working full time as a contractor. I just didn't have the energy or time to continue developing relationships while also focusing on existing client's problems. Thus when contracts ended it was a rough transition from one job to another.

Have a plan for that.
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You can mine the materials, fabricate, and deploy solar panels or wind turbines without significantly impacting ecology (even when drastically increasing shade in deserts) but dams completely change the landscape and flow of water with consequences reaching as far as tidal pools and tributaries fed by rivers that are damed hundreds of miles away.

It's becoming more and more common to exclude hydro from the list of renewable energy sources because the ecological impact of dams is huge and largely irreversible - something that has only begun to enter popular conscience (at least in California) over the last few decades. The point of renewable energy is to avoid exhausting natural resources at an unsustainable rate and that includes ecological diversity.
I'm not contesting the importance of correct identity. My point is that there are limited facilities available to authenticate the identity of any given human, and that if we increase the value of being able to identify as a known American, we'll increase the criminal interest in bestowing that upon those that are able to pay for it.
SaltStack also has the JINJA2 template embedding which can make it very difficult to understand which parts of the lifecycle run through templating. I'm still not certain I understand how it works.

The most recent offenders for bastardizing YAML I have seen are the different CI services:

* Circle CI using moustache-like templating and interpolation with things like {{ .Branch }} available in certain steps [1]

* GitLab CI adding an "include" type directive to declare YAML dependencies [2]

I've also experienced this professionally. At my last company, somebody decided to add a feature to enable interpolation in some parts of the YAML deployment data. It ended up being used by a handful of people who were confused why interpolation worked in some places and not others. The weird trend of "extending YAML" seems to be going against any sort of benefits you might have by trying to use it.

[1]: https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/configuration-reference/#save_...

[2]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#include
I'm beginning to think that running any software on the same physical machine where secure code needs to run is a liability. Someone could backdoor a stupid useless utility and grab important keys.

What scares me is virtualization; could this attack be practical on EC2 across guests instead of hyperthreading? (I know there's a very large difference in the way these two concepts work)

Finally, how exactly is this possible with a EDDSA or Ed25519 based ECC curve? The claim to fame there is that because they don't branch, side channel attacks are much harder.
Those are two different issues though.

Firstly, if you believe that you should hold your money through a crash, then you are free to do so whether or not you invest through Wealthfront.

Secondly, that is a huge amount of money. Congratulations on making so much. Yes you can save that money by learning yourself but do value your time. If you are going to rebalance, tax harvest etc it can add up time wise.

Thirdly, learning yourself may not be about saving in the areas that the robo-advisor is good. You don't want to learn about tax harvesting because it is better to leave that automated. You might want to learn about a particular stock, but even that is better left to analysts and you can rent the research. I had a friend who worked at Goldman. He analyzed three stocks total. He worked 16 hour days. He knew more about any of those stocks than I ever could.
Its all horsesh§t. just use php and mysql
Used synergy for years but recently bought one of these guys which i didn't even know existed:

https://www.startech.com/ca/Server-Management/KVM-Switches/2...

The software is not as configurable but it is SO much more reliable and responsive. Basically a wired version of synergy.
Anyone here use Swagger? Do you write your definitions in JSON or YAML?
You were implying that women were the more privileged ones. I don’t think that’s true. At the same time, you’re sort of correct here. Most men are not good at that anymore. But we are still better predisposed to dealing with conflict and tend to be more aggressive. This could even be related to the suicide issue — men, for whatever reason, could simply be better (on average) at wielding lethal force than women. And a lot of our social configuration was built around men historically being able to kill and do physical labor.

I also think part of what’s driving men to suicide could be related to our current role in society. This would be sort of the original meaning of “toxic masculinity” although I think politics has kind of ruined the term. There is somewhat of a historical example for this: a good number of men who couldn’t provide for their families anymore after The Great Depression killed themselves.

And as far as Bourdain himself goes...yes, he had economic, social, and political power, and a pretty good amount of it. He had basically everything you could want in life. That didn’t stop him from killing himself. You can’t really make the argument “men kill themselves more than therefore they have less power than women”.
>The sex and race-driven identity politics currently animating and, to my mind, diminishing the literature and cultural products of the West are either muted or non-existent in Japan, where postmodern aesthetics are the outer skin of a modernist backbone. Japanese stories focus on the individual adrift in seas of excessive convenience and information, obsessed with personal not political identities, and questions of the soul.

Oh boy, this puts into words how I've felt about Japanese vs. Western media for a few years now.
Amazon has been known to ban accounts that have excessive return rates[1]. One part of making this an explicit, branded service available to Prime members is reassurance that excessive returns of clothing items won't count against you, nor cost you return shipping (it's only free in general for certain return reasons).

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/23/a...
Are you just saying that there are poisonous deep sea fish?

To be a counterexample it needs to be a poisonous fish that exists in shallow waters but whose older members only occupy deep waters. Entirely deep-sea species aren't what this article is referring to. I'm not aware of any poisonous fish that aren't hunted by humans that follow this pattern.

Just saw your edit. I don't think that sunfish fish of different ages spend their time at different ocean depths? Wasn't mentioned on wikipedia.
The 603 in the x200's was a 32-bit CPU, and it explicitly supported 32-bit memory bus interfaces. That was part of how it kept costs down. In short, not a bug, but a feature (and there was support for interleaving to get you some of the benefits of a 64-bit bus). As per the link, the clock speed of the CPU was 90-120MHz. No PC was using 90-120MHz memory. They were all dropping to 1/2 & 1/3 (including Pentiums you are comparing against).
You really haven't heard of Binance or Bittrex?
A valid point! Thanks for postulating!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17347347
The Go Object Lifecycle
“How do you do?”

—“How do you do?”

tipping of hats ensues
Right, no law can prohibit use of legal counsel (pro-bono or paid by the client) in any context.

... well, any context involving American citizens under American court jurisdiction. (Cases involving incidents in the armed forces comes to mind as an exception -- that's under a separate armed forces court jurisdiction, where the rules are different. No asking to speak to legal counsel when your Sergeant yells "go!" :-) )
It seems that this is the main reason behind OpenBSD disabling Hyperthreading support.
But at the moment there is not a lot of information out there.
I think that if we start to see other distribution (Redhat) disabling hyperthreading too we might have another Meltdown on our hands.
If you weren't converting to USD, why use Coinbase at all?

I understand there might be a convenience factor for managing the BTC transaction, but there are many options for doing so that don't introduce such a liability.
I used to run SETI@home [0] on my computer back in the early 2000s. Made for an interesting screensaver whenever friends were over.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home
“the slave which accepts synchronous writes from the master and may be promoted to the master”

That is failover, not high availability, since there is downtime, however short. High availability means zero downtime, like with Vertica.
Sure he can, if people know the CEO backs his decisions.
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> difficult to pull off and requires productization, in other words not low-level tooling in a text file.

Is this supposed to be a feature? One of the great things about simple config files is that you can use standard GNU tools to view edit, and diff them, you can put them in source control, you can be sure that you can edit them on a remote server no matter what's installed, etc.

Eliminating all those benefits would require an extraordinary jump in functionality as a tradeoff, a jump in functionality that most things frankly don't need.
> Be sure to also read https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/

Comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16221563
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>I think it’s an improvement over [...]Typescript

JS I understand, but what makes you prefer Dart over TypeScript in this case?
Yep, and starting several months ago I was getting weekly emails asking if I'd be interested in moving to England to work for them as a software engineer. Except, I'm not a software engineer (I'm a hardware guy), just a customer of theirs from V1 days. They made it sound like an emergency situation where they had to stall development until they could recruit some more talent.

It got so bad I had to unsub from their mailing lists.
You misunderstand my point... larger ratio of base pairs to behavior means that the behavior is likely more robust to noise, and the original evolution of the behavior would have been smoother (i.e. proceeded in less of a step-wise manner, because each step would be a much smaller fraction of the required change than previously thought).
Slightly off topic, but I'm curious as to what your objection to Malcolm Gladwell is?
Same, but there aren't that many large movie theater companies. AMC competing against a third-party "shitload of movies" provider isn't diluting the pool too much.
> What About:

> python: 3.5.3

> postgres: 9.3

> {'python': '3.5.3', 'postgres': 9.3}

Surely that's reasonable?
That is a lot of information! Thanks for sharing! :)
> I can believe both that these teens were going to sext each other anyway and Snapchat is keeping them safer, or that they weren't going to and Snapchat has convinced them that it can be done more safely than it can actually be done.

Related to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

(I also don't know the answer!)
Here's the website: https://joinpeertube.org/en/home/

And project page: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

So you can avoid medium.
Works well, only issue I ran into is that multidimensional arrays must all have the same number of elements. Had missed this originally when reading the documentation https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/arrays.html#ARRAYS...
Why can't they just ban by account? Anyone circumventing bans is going to be committing identity fraud or other crimes so shouldn't they be passing it to law enforcement if they want to pursue it.

Switch hardware will likely be resold for decades so it's obviously going to be onerous for consumers that the devices may be invisibly crippled just because they want less copyright infringement.

They don't even need to ban accounts permanently, it's pretty disproportionate when you think in years and decades of a device's life.
Couldn't they just reweite the code after leatving your solution?
​Linux and open-source jobs are in more demand than ever
My advice as a full time employee who contracts.

Option 1: Don't get a gst number until you hit 30k. To remove a gst number is a lot harder than getting one.

Option 2: Incorporate and get your gst immediately. Advantage if you are buying materials.

Option 3: Get your gst and do not incorporate. Lowest tax rate/highest cost for taxes.

Knowing when your contract is to end should help you decide. In your case I would incoporate immediately if the contract is > 6 months.
>Having studied biology and genetics this is common sense to me. Genetic systems are probabilistic chemical systems where everything influences everything to varying degrees in parallel. They are nothing like the linear assemblies of modules that humans prefer to engineer.

I'm really glad that this mental model I've built up seems to reflect reality. The idea of neatly editing specific genes to produce a desired result always sat with me as the pinnacle of human hubris. The more I learn about Biology the more I just throw up my hands and say "magic".
Some do, but most likely not under ftp.*.debian.org name. AFIAK there's no official list of HTTPS-enabled mirrors. An incomplete, possibly out-of-date list is here:

https://lists.debian.org/53B6150A.3000602@at.or.at

Besides that, https://deb.debian.org/ provides HTTPS mirror backed by CDNs.
Ask HN: How do you leave a company the right way?
I've been with a company (~150 headcount) for 4 years, and it's been terrific. Everyone I work with is fun, and smart, and just a good person. I've loved it. But I'm leaving to start my own company (not in the same industry).

This is my first company, and so it's the first one that I'm leaving. People usually do a two-weeks-notice, and it's not awkward, just sort of wrap up existing work, document things you worked on, and make sure your last day is on a Friday so everyone can go out for drinks one last time.

What's the proper way to give my resignation/notice, and tell my coworkers? I've only ever been on the receiving end of this when we congratulate a coworker on moving on to a different or better opportunity. Do I send out an email first to my manager and HR, or tell my manager in a one-on-one?

How have you done it?
Just noticed that https://flutterstudio.app/ only works properly on Chrome, what a surprise.
I don’t agree with you. Provided you’d persuade him that the company and tech are worth it, I think he’d be a good addition to most companies.

It’s a legit concern.
You need to factor in the following:
Taxes
PTO
Vacation
Equipment
Certifications
Insurance
Costs of hiring people under you
Mortgage/Rent
Gas/Transit Costs
Emergency funds

Essentially as a contractor you should be making at least 2.5x what an employee would make. So if an employee is being paid $120,000 as is in a similar position as you you should be getting paid $300,000/year so you can make the same salary + a little more for the added costs of being a contractor.

What are these extra costs you might be wondering they are: Business registration, licensing, certification, life insurance, private medical/health/dental insurance, taxes, vacation, technology, bills, travel, parking, emergency funds, liability, general and umbrella insurance, car maintenance, car fuel, carl detailing and regular cleaning, house maintenance (yard, inspections, upgrades, insurance, etc.) or rent, payroll if you get your own subcontractors, overtime pay (if you end up working 60 hours a week you need to add in the costs of this. If your employer wants you to work more than that you can renegotiate your rates to accommodate), etc.

As an employee there is about 50% or more costs that you do not see as an employee. It is known and expected that contractors will be paid way more than employees as contractors take on 100% of the risks.
In your analogy, the alternative is to not see the movie. The analogous alternative would be to... what? Not use config files? Doesn't seem like much of an alternative to me.