skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that uber does face competition of every sort means that they aren't fixing prices in the market. To attack uber (and lyft's) business model in a self consistent manner, looking at short term contracts seems like a better approach.
Who is paying for the content? If you're promoting some content its at the expense of another set of content.
>forbids its members from spying on each other

It isn't spying if they willingly exchange the information they have intercepted. Straight from the link you posted:

Yet there have been reports in the British press — amplified most recently by former NSA contractor and leaker Edward Snowden — that that’s not the case, that the Five Eyes spy on one another’s citizens and share the information to get around laws preventing agencies from spying on their own citizens.
>It takes some startups years to find true product market fit.

I can think of only 3 reasons (not mutually exclusive) why it happened:

1. They had too much money which made their PMF search process inefficient.

2. They had to educate themselves about the market from scratch. Which means that the original idea was a wrong/uneducated guess.

3. They didn't find product/market fit. The same team had to restart with another idea (possibly several times) and it took them much less time than several years to find PMF.
There are cultural and demographic inclinations within academic fields, and I would bet at least some problems with nutrition science stem from a lack of statistical knowledge on behalf of study authors and readers.

Plus I feel like really understanding nutrition science would require much more medical/biology training than nutrition scientists typically receive.
Netflix is mostly only good for a handful of TV series outside the US. Sometimes it has movies worth watching, but it's rare. More usually, it has n-1 for the sequel du jour.
> This also implies that you could materially change that rtt number if you used a faster medium - e.g via air by way of microwave towers.

Which is done for high-speed trading networks: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...
I think instead of teaching computer science students should be taught tinkering with a lot of different things. Take them apart and understand them, modify them. Call it "hacking". One thing I notice with the young guys coming from college is that they view a lot of things as black box that is either too difficult to look into or it's even not allowed.

I would be very afraid that teaching CS in high school just creates more people that can whiteboard algorithms without any deeper understanding or creativity. Good for Amazon though to get more workers for cheap they can then lay off after a few years to get "fresh" people.
> Do web designers still exist that only do HTML/CSS but no JS?

I hope so, given that most websites (as opposed to web apps) in existence should not need JS for core functionality.
I could, but I would have a lot to learn, and the benefit would be minimal. Better to learn simply to be wary of these sorts of things, and always measure.

I'm hoping someone with a better background will find this sufficiently surprising and be provoked into doing that analysis, writing it up, and letting us know.

I've got it in my boomerang queue.
That's factually incorrect.

Google blacklisted ALL Symantec certificates since Chrome 66, in April. The roadmap announced the change for October but they did it 6 months earlier, ignoring their own roadmap.

As the OP says, organizations using Symantec have already been hit very hard, by surprise.
"The Firefox X implementation is unnecessarily complicated and I'm guessing very few features are actually used" is exactly the same attitude from Firefox developers for any X since long ago.
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The intent of an acquisition ban would be to encourage companies to split themselves in order to maintain the ability to acquire technology.

The reasoning seems simple enough -- if you obtain a dominant market position through hard work and a superior product, you currently have no disincentive against using the proceeds of that position to expand into new products.

That superior companies should be able to obtain monopolies in one category is a debatable good.

That they should be able to use their monopolies to expand into new categories seems wholly without merit.

If Amazon Basics wants to compete against Diapers.com, or Google Docs with Microsoft Office, or Facebook against Snapchat, then they should do so on the merit of their offerings, not simply by how much of their parents' money they can burn to buy marketshare.

Recognizing that the largest corporations have an inherent, unfair advantage in expansion, disincentivizing them seems like a logical way to create a more competitive, diverse, and freer market.
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Danes made The Killing, though.
If you think education funding would be cut year over year the way it has been if the people making those decisions actually had to send their kids to those schools, there's no argument to be had here. You can't really believe that teachers would still be paid effectively minimum wage across the country if they were responsible for the children of community leaders. It's a joke.
> decide whether it would be more natural to have a topic in front of the sentence

A grammar book can't tell you this, because it's a style choice. All the grammar book will tell you is how to do it. For what it's worth, topic fronting is a standard feature of English too.

> and then finally add a couple of "le" here and there

Yeah... I feel your pain there.
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The last part is interesting, you could make a point that some form of entertainment or junk food are a light form of drugs. And those are illegal.

Almost any substance can be abused though. Where would you draw the line? Should we ban (or put more tax) on candies? Soft drinks? Salt? Carbohydrates?*

Personally I probably draw the line quite far from you, I think many drugs could be legal and it wouldn't shatter society, maybe it could even improve it. But that's disagreement about the line.

My general point is that even if we would agree that people should watch more EU content, then forcing it on them is like when you have some complex algorithm (like in these coding contests), and some test cases fail. And instead of trying to rethink the algorithm, you add a few IFs, to make those test cases green. You can find examples of workarounds that would have the opposite effect (like netflix providing less content so that % matches) that people came up in minutes after reading about it. And in case of legislation it's much harder to get rid of those unnecessary IFs later on, than it is to add them. Anybody who's trying to innovate then has to navigate around them. Law is already so complex that everyday citizen can just hope he doesn't break any. He cannot be sure, because it gets created faster than you can read and understand it, even if you would make that your only hobby.

It's like with cookies in the browser, yes I don't like tracking. But having to click a banner that I accept cookies on every website is not helping anybody.
Good analogy.

I’m not a medical person so I’m not sure about the statistical sample volume required for typical tests. I do know that I’ve had comprehensive testing done and they took 5 tubes the length of my finger. That’s pretty far from the drop of blood that Theranos were after.

The future has a way of returning to these things. We’ll see if there’s even a partial approach that could work soon enough. Or not.
Amdahl's law, for further reading. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
It's anti-majoritarianism.

There's economies of scale to producing products addressed to the majority, and minorities suffer as a result. This doesn't just affect cultural products. Who wants the high street in their town to be filled with chain shops, identikit and no different from the next town over?
Generally speaking, nutritional studies are observational and very difficult to control for confounding variables.

Think about it this way:

"We want to feed group A organic apples, group B apples that have been doused in insecticide, and then use a group C that isn't fed anything."

This is already hard - specifically if people are resistant to eating something they perceive as harmful. But now add in further separation for confounding variables:

- Weight
- Race
- Age
- Sex
- Other foods you eat
- Exercise

And everything else that can vary drastically from one person to the next.

In order to actually perform this study, you would either need A) a VERY large group of people to observe (who haven't opted in to a controlled study) so you can have statistically significant sub-groups that can be stratified into quartiles or whatever (for example, sedentary, low activity, moderate activity, high activity),

Or, B) a fair sized group of people who want to opt in to such a restrictive controlled study.

Nutrition is something that typically needs to be studied for decades for things that we don't already have a pretty good idea about (like acute allergies, botulism, those kinds of things).

We are very unlikely to have this data until we have MUCH better observational data over the course of someone's life. Maybe we will have these points as people born in the early 00's start to grow up with more tracked data available, but can you tell me how many apples you ate per week in 1997?

(Quick edit to clarify some confusing language)
It's from here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-They-Dont-About-Capitalism/d...
They're not spying on each other, they're spying on us.
Efficient in terms of administration. There's already a minimum wage so simply increasing it shouldn't require a lot of new bureaucracy like this would and achieve the same effect.
When people "delete their Facebook", most only ever delete the app. Many still use it on other devices, or maybe even their phone browser.
> That's how I expect Google to make decisions, not Mozilla

Exactly. There is no point to compete with Google for "browser for Uncle Joe", Google won that battle. The power user browser niche is what Firefox could take instead. But no, let's chase after the leader by his rules, look at how good is Blackberry doing.
I do kind of wonder how many power users are opting out of telemetry for privacy reasons...

Unrelated, but dear god that bug tracker was infuriating to read. As in I had a strong desire to reach through the screen and shake a few by the shoulders asking "What the FUCK is wrong with you people?!"

Concern over data loss nearly dismissed out of hand, a smug "you should have backups" response to intentionally caused data loss, and all this over what amounts to a property field on a bookmark... It's like I was reading the GNOME tracker!

All this over "maintenance burden". Is the "maintenace burden" of a non-searchable field that's only visible in a single context really that high? Really? It seems like this is quickly becoming the go-to excuse to eliminate power user features in a way that those users will not see until its too late. "Developer" is already a subset of "power user", and "developer who reads the bug tracker for unwanted future surprises" is an even smaller subset.
To me, it's all the same thing. I have a repository of reference material, and I have a repository of tasks to accomplish, but most of the tasks require the reference material. So having it all in one heavily linked and searchable pool seems to obvious thing to do, with a queue of "pages" that come to hand, or get put back into the queue.

Separating them just gives me two unrelated pools that I then have to cross-correlate.
"Progressive candidates continue to win in elections at every level."

They are winning primaries so far. That's different from being elected.
This is nice but I don't see myself using this as vim command are short (at the price of being cryptic to beginners) compared to emacs interminable shortcuts.

A vim version of emacs swiper, now I could definitely use that !
Is the author generalizing other South Asian immigrants as Indian Americans? Or is it factual that Indian-Americans do own 50% of motels in the USA? Because I have seen a lot of Bangladeshis, Pakistanis and even Arabs owning motel businesses across the USA. I am not cleared about this just from reading the article alone.
>You must be in the Bay Area. A 120K salary is above the median for SW developers for most of the country, and grants them a great lifestyle: Big house, two cars, vacation travel, etc. Hardly "living on peanuts".

I'm not in the US currently. I have worked with teams in New York in finance and the wages expected were multiples of 120k. Likewise in London and Honk Kong.
It has been my experience that school officials will offer some coding if that is what parents want. Coding, programming, and CS are used so interchangeably that often meaning is lost. So the bare minimum of coding classes will be presented as this massive shift toward STEM/CS, and parents will go along with it.
Same when I worked at Rackspace. I was in a football-field-size windows-less room (there were actual windows at the periphery but I was so far away it didn't matter) right under a fluorescent light fixture shining right in my eyes. Most of us had these gigantic plastic leaf shades we found in the kids section of Ikea blocking the light. Some folks went as far to drape their cube in surplus camo netting.

Now I'm in an office sitting right next to a 10x10-foot east facing window with lots of light and views outside. But I nearly always have the shade down since the sun shines right in and blinds me every morning.

All this could be solved with private offices. I just hope I live to see the day when our line of work reverts back to private offices from this open space insanity.
But can you stop going around acting like the police? I have seen you call people out for breaking the rules on many occasions. Please follow the rules yourself and stay on topic. I know my post is also wrong, but I feel you need to be called out on this.
I thought it was clear that those are the top movies I could think off the top of my head while on the bus. It was not intended to be a comprehensive list of the achievements of modern German cinema.

Sorry for not making that point clearer.
Microsoft had a monopoly on the PC market in the 90s. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the smartphone market today.
With moon mining, space tourism and colonization on the horizon
Led matrix with Android Things. The idea is an output-only device controlled via mobile app, with a retro style.

Project delayed because AT gpio is pretty slow, and couldn't pilot the matrix fast enough. We're then using a STM32, and we went down the rabbit hole of creating our own rpi hat. Lot of learnings.
It's accredited by a specific school, usually a nearby community college or university. If they reject AP credits they probably would have rejected any credits from that school. Some schools also require that your major credits be received from the school.
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"This is the reason there are movements for quitting in every member state "

No, totally not.

Promoting national and regional content is probably something that the populist anti-EU types would support anyhow.

I understand the EU has woes, and some rulings might cause problems ... but this ruling isn't an example of that.
As mentioned in other threads, the role of self-preservation is hard to dismiss. Most universities drop the task of getting external funding to the researcher. In order to maintain their position they must bring in X dollars. Of course, the results of all fundings have to be made meaningful to the funder. I get it, they need to eat too.

It is a shame that the Harvards of the world don't have huge research departments where the goal is always the public good funded through their monstrous endowments. I know RWJ does this kind of research but they only run so many and we have 1000s of researchers at countless universities all trying to just stay alive who will always pick up trash studies to pay the bills.
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"Protection is bad in all its forms" is an ideological statement of opinion, but you say it like it's a fact. It's not a fact.

Marketplaces are amoral. They incentivize supply to satisfy demand. There's nothing that ensures that demand morally good or bad, and the intermediation effect of monetary transactions can disguise morally problematic inputs to goods that satisfy demand, so it can encourage immoral production, like polluting industries or child labour.
People trying to lose weight imagine so many ways to believe this is true.
Yes there are many details about nutrient profiles and how types of foods affect hunger levels and metabolism and so on.

but the first order thing to do, if you want to weigh less, is put less stuff in your mouth, and move around more. all the rest are 2nd and 3rd order details.
I agree. If you inspire kids with a practical creative outlet they will be more inclined towards the more rigorous aspects of software design.
Sure wish I didn't have to root my phone to delete the Facebook app. Is this a T-Mobile thing, or do most carriers bundle Facebook now?
Sure, but the signs are positive [1] [2] [3]. A government shutdown [4], more Trump tweets [5], a Kavanaugh confirmation [6], still lots of foot guns for Republicans between now and November.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/9/4/17818204/midterm-2018-polls-gen... (New 2018 midterm poll has Democrats up 14 points on Republicans)

[2] http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/democrats-surgi... (With the Midterms Two Months Away, Democrats Are Surging in the Polls)

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/politics/midterm-polls-democr... (Democrats have double-digit advantage in midterm elections, polls show)

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/trump-does-not-want-governme...

[5] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/09/04/s...
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If you have performance bottlenecks, Python is the wrong language. The only place where this kind of investigation makes sense is if you're a Python VM dev.
> A true computer science education involves a study in multiple areas, from discrete math, to computer architecture, to operating systems, to algorithms, to finally, both as the pinnacle and the essence of the subject, theory of computing.

Similar arguments could be made for physics, chemistry, and biology. But we still say that we teach those subjects in high school, even though the depth and breadth of material is hardly what you'd expect from a university or college. The only broad and deep courses in K-12 education (US-centric descriptor) are math, social science (history, geography), language arts (English-language literature, writing). And none of those really go that deep, or that broad.

We can identify the initial elements of CS that everyone takes before going deeper: Introduction to algorithms and data structures, and some logic/discrete math courses.

Logic is technically covered (or used to be) in geometry courses (in the US). Discrete math presently has no place, so this could be improved. The introduction to algorithms and data structures part is barely separated from programming 101. The difference is that a programming language course (Python 101) is going to go too deep into the weeds of Python and not cover topics that are portable across more languages. An algorithms course should be more portable (at least across a class of languages, like across imperative languages or OO languages).
The hammer fell in April already. Google published a roadmap, the link you gave, but didn't respect it.
On the other hand, it is absolutely possible to create good content with moderate/low budgets. And European local audiences love and watch films or TV series in their local languages... when these are passably good.

But they don't like crap, and most of the local production is, unfortunately, just a shitty version of US stuff. The same bland generic ideas, but with worse acting, scripts, and production, on a lower budget.
Bookmarklets no longer install via drag-and-drop in Chrome 69
It looks like the latest version of chrome prevents creating bookmarks of any kind my dragging and dropping a link onto the bookmark bar.

For example, if you go to HN's bookmarklet page and try to follow the instructions, it doesn't work. https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html

Anyone know if this is a known issue, new bug, or intentional? I tried to search through the changelog for "bookmark"/"bookmarklet", but it's just too much to parse through.
Not to be a naysayer but it might be a better effort to prevent having to do a bunch of work before returning a response. Have you considered polling for all the jobs to be completed instead?
One only exposes you to the spy, the other exposes you to every other malicious actor on the internet.
An excellent way to make kids as bored or afraid of engineering as they are of mathematics. As a coder who'd only like his wage to get higher this is wonderful news, I fully endorse it.
These types of arguments get so tiresome. "On a long enough timeline, the sun will explode and consume the earth."

"True, but that still doesn't mean I'm going to let you set my house on fire."
Qemu can emulate the Raspberry Pi - there's instructions here: https://azeria-labs.com/emulate-raspberry-pi-with-qemu/
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Not too much feedback yet (just about to add it to the chrome app store). In general people that works on multiple projects or with multiple clients are more likely to get it and try it. If they manage to avoid the habit of processing emails in Gmail inbox they are more likely to convert and love it.
I wonder what percentage of those people who removed the app still use the platform though. Anecdotally almost everyone I know has uninstalled the app in favor of the webclient. It's usually faster, has less tracking shit, and doesnt eat battery like their native app does.
> How many Linux users disable telemetry collection

Almost certainly a very small number.