skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>while being effectively subsidized by the taxpayers roads, etc

Every time someone wants to argue against anything involving a road, they pull out this "roads are subsidized" canard. The state actually recovers most of the costs through gas taxes, registration fees, insurance requirements, and tolls, all of which rideshare drivers (and therefore riders) pay for -- and don't forget the income tax. If someone's activities are costing the state money (which I doubt) the correct response is to tax them -- not ban what they're doing or introduce artificial limitations on supply.
The 1%, including politicians, will find some other wedge social issue to keep the working and middle classes continually fighting each other, allowing the rich to keep siphoning off the world’s wealth. The day after the crash, headlines will be back to “transsexual bathrooms” and “football stars kneeling” and we will forget that we are losing our jobs and homes again. This play book is not new.

My prediction for the next market crash:

1. Working class will lose their jobs

2. Middle class will lose their homes/investments

3. Wealthy class will get huge tax breaks to “stimulate investment”

4. Big companies will get massive bailouts in exchange for empty promises to create jobs that they never will keep

What makes you think next time will be any different?
It probably is just me. I find myself having to look up things like configuration for the menu, syntax highlighting. Hugo is a fantastic tool. I should just blog more often.
Does anyone know if it is ok to deploy tiles used by this library inside intranet, in sites without internet access? If so, what is the recommended way of doing it?
I'm sure that spending your life helping dentists climb the mountain instills a certain cynicism.
Just wanted to say that I've been enjoying the events you all have been hosting in SF, please do more!
My guess the first to actually accomplish it will be something like making your android phone go into chromeos mode, since it already has a desktop userbase and would be the least amount of work to transform phones into supporting.
Urban living is not without risk, and trashing the commons is not a solution. You can work towards making public transportation safer, improving public transit in general, and reducing the congestion caused by ridesharing (through congestion charges) all at the same time.

EDIT: I'm not dismissing the inherent risks of public transportation and interactions, I'm stating it is a risk that must be accepted as a condition of the living environment.
> The buzz: Domestic flights that will get a lot comfier in coach

I have been hearing that for a long time with every new airplane that gets introduced. The truth is that coach will always asymptotically suck.
This is the part that stuck with me too. After the completely unnecessary parenthetical, I not only think the author is wrong, but also that he is a tone-deaf asshole - and that the group of CEOs (cowardly anonymous for the most part) who worked with him to bring this clause into existence likely exhibit the same trait.
I don't know about elsewhere, but in CA a lot of the road money comes from (or at least is supposed to come from) taxes on gasoline/diesel.

https://taxfoundation.org/state-road-funding-2017/

That means that Rideshare drivers are largely paying their fair share.
The average citizen not paying attention will stop when the next financial crisis hits.
Pelican is great, especially if you spend a little time configuring the URL structure to remove the `.html` from the end of the URLs. I think something like this will work for most pages (might be incomplete):

https://github.com/j127/pelican_blog_project_template/blob/m...
Yup, CloudFront. Less typo more like Freudian slip. :D
Likely only around jupiter-like planets, if any large region of gas was that dense it would quickly collapse into either a gas giant or star or even multiple stars.
This post shows a helpful cold email pitch structure for startups trying to reach out to investors without prior introductions. The author spent hours over a period of time honing this template before cold-email-pitching to the same investor for the second time.

Would love to see more examples of cold email pitches that received responses from investors!
Both of your examples are people who even 1000 years ago were considered the same. Tutsi and Hutu differ based on essentially their social class and profession(pastoralist vs farmer), and for Serb and Croat their religion.

Is your stance in life that, if some information has been used in the past for bad purposes, we must pretend like it doesn't exist so those bad things don't happen again?
As the other comments have said, gas tax pays for the roads already so it's not unfair.

The biggest issue is that there is plenty of taxpayer money but it's not being used well at all, hence the strong demand for these other transport options. Ask why the local government cant manage some proper rail and bus lines instead.
I'm old enough to remember when we said the exact same things about OOP, then about Ruby, and now we say them about Elixir, ClojureScript, and so forth.

I very much doubt anybody needs to have SICP at their fingertips, but it seems like many techniques that we deride as being "too far out there" turn out to be quite manageable by all sorts of programmers, it's just a matter of there being enough resources to learn and a little motivation.

This article definitely does not prescribe hurling combinators at every problem, but I will go on record and say that if there's somebody on your team you think cannot understand this code, perhaps you should be a little more optimistic and give them a chance.

Anybody who can figure WebPack, Gulp, Babel, closures, promises, async/await, generators, &c. out can figure this out.
I don't use ride shares that often, but when I do, it's almost always because I don't want to deal with parking downtown. If ride shares are increasing traffic, it could be that, to some degree, they are turning roads into "living parking lots". Where before my car would be parked at some lot near my destination, now "my car" is a Lyft that is out cruising the streets when I'm not in it.
The OP cites "S&P 500 or some total market fund", which are market-cap weighted.
I started as a 10 year old with a "for dummies" book and finished an MEng in CS this year.

So some people do benefit from it a great deal, it seems.
We can reduce the risk, if we beefed up our funding of mental help institutions, social safety nets, and educational facilities. But until then, people will pay a premium to avoid the hassles of public transportation.
I always find it funny when people propose adding closures to C. Because the moment you add closures (in the way most languages implement them, not Rust's implementation), you're adding automatic boxing, which implies garbage collection and a runtime. Which basically means you've added objects. Which...sure you could do, but at that point, you're not adding to C, you're just making a new language.
Ok. As long as we agree that the information is may actually be there - but it is too scary to look at. My only argument was that the information actually exists.
One of the biggest issues that I see is where the cars pull over to pick up / drop off people. They almost always just stop in the middle of streets, double parking. Rarely do they pull over into an empty spot that's safer for them and passengers. This often causes traffic backup, at least in the Boston area.
Some languages are better at supporting agile development. The idea behind agile is that things change, so your language needs to help rather than hinder those changes. It should make separation of concerns / single-responsibility easy, rather than something you have to fight the language for.

The idea behind DevOps is integration between development and operations, in a way that eases automation of tasks where they interact. A platform absolutely can provide a structured way to do that integration, or can interfere with it.
If everybody is behind NATs (without uPnP privileges), nobody can be the "host" for connection-signalling purposes.
This is backwards. Inflation destroys the value of debt. Poor tend to be borrowers and rich tend to be lenders, so inflation is an equalizer.
According to this article [1], public firms account for about 80% of the pre-tax profit in the private sector. That's probably enough, given that public and private company returns are probably at least somewhat correlated.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sageworks/2012/09/21/private-co...
A well functioning society requires effort. You can't unicorn app the hard work away.

If transportation network consumers wish to use those services, they should be able to. And cities should tax those rides to offset additional congestion and improve public transportation. Everyone wins.
If you know your history, it's the "middle class" that has directed just about every non-marxist revolution.

I guess I should add the clarification that I think most folks who consider themselves middle-class and who are investing and saving money are actually working-class.

If you don't own your residence outright or have the liquid assets to purchase it and still make investments, you are working-class.

If you live in the valley and can't afford to buy and can't uproot your job to somewhere more affordable to buy while maintaining roughly the same income level, you're working-class too.
>>> without the aid of credulous buyers

or with the aid of people with that necessary skill needed to convince regular people to do something only credulous people would do. What was the name of that skill,... hmm... isn't it "manipulation" or "marketing" ?

You see, if someone's is going to make a mistake, I tend to help him by preventing him to do so. I don't give him the pen to sign its destiny.
The two topics are tangentially related at best, though. Economic policy deals with much more than simply the stock market. Furthermore, economists typically don't specialize in investment management.
In a functioning market, a buyer would not have received a loan, no matter how much they wanted to over extend themselves. But, because fraud was being committed from the rating agencies, investment banks and mortgage originators, they got the loan.

I understand what you saying, but I think you underestimate the lack of accountability that allowed people to get loans they were not in the best interest of anyone.
The New Tribalism and the Crisis of Democracy
make public transit suck less
Are you kidding yourself? You think people continuing to rely on cars whether they drive or they are being driven is going to reduce traffic? Buses and rail reduce traffic not cars. Mass van pooling and what not can also help.

We have to get off of cars and empty seats. Apps pushing cars and pushing ride sharing are pushing laziness and congestion.

Why kid ourselves into thinking that Uber and Lyft are fixing the car traffic problem and climate change?

Imagine for a second all these cars as chairs. Imagine sitting in your chair with a wheel attached then getting onto a freeway and propelling forward. All these people in chairs with empty chairs in their walled off metal combustion tank. We need to stop all this empty chair insanity and use more efficient ways to move people sitting down going from place to place.

Want to combat obesity? Fight climate change? Prevent accidents? Motor deaths? Depression and isolation? Do away with cars.
The problem space for computer science algorithms is gigantic and many of these companies testing for this knowledge then immediately throw new engineers onto line of business CRUD apps and bug fixes, which rarely have the engineer implementing any of these algorithms from scratch.

A programmer worth his salt should retain enough 1st principles knowledge to not create a O(n^3) bottleneck in production or otherwise stay out of trouble.

Unless you have a super targeted problem space that interviewing employees know about

Often the specific skills are mentioned up front. It doesn't have to be that targeted, either.

Most developers I know just brush on as many algorithms as they can remember when they are going to interview for a new job. Then they just go through interviews until they find a company that manages to pick an algorithm out of the ones they memorized.

This speaks more to bad interviewing. It certainly does not mean that such knowledge being worthless and arbitrary. What you want in a candidate, generally speaking, is someone who can actually apply knowledge. What you are describing above is just regurgitation.

http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
Apologies in advance for editing the title, but it's a substantive article but the original title is flamebait.
It does raise certain issues that other forms of communication do not, certainly at this scale.

Does country A have any right to dictate what company B does in country C, just because company B operates in country A? Many of us say no, because that will only cause a downward spiral to make the internet the lowest common denominator of all countries that are connected.
Counterintuitively, the energy costs are basically the same. Whether you dive in to pick it up, or run into it out in space, you will still have to accelerate the gas to orbital velocities before you can cram it into a tank. Some of the gas in space may already be moving very fast, may even be in an orbit, but it is probably not aligned with the orbit of your tank.

Either way, the energy required to maintain operations anywhere near Jupiter means you probably want to find your hydrogen somewhere else.
I know people like you, but I also know people who are very much not like you. The latter sort are kind of lazy, at least when it comes to getting around, and they will frequently opt for whatever means of conveyance involves the least effort on their part.
I dimly remember that that book presumed launches would get much cheaper and more frequent. To be fair, before the shuttle flew there'd been inflated promises, and aerospace had progressed really fast in the preceding decades. It was a little like someone in 2000 thinking Dennard scaling wasn't about to hit the wall -- it's easy to think that was dumb in hindsight.
I'm not arguing that race is a useful basis for determining someone's value in society, or anything like that. Merely that it actually does exist, and different peoples at this point in history have vastly different lineages.
I agree with you on the People being responsible for lynching, but I do not think awareness initiatives will be sufficient in the short term. As they will take generations to come into full effect.

Instead greater respect for the law is more important. No matter what the people had thought about the five strangers they didn't have the power or the right to punish them.

It will be a lot more viable to educate them to respect certain non ambiguous laws, such as murder being a crime regardless of what you think about the other person. While judging authenticity of a piece of information can be ambiguous and will take time to become affective.
Do you work for the company that developed MapD?
So, you think that his statements garnered controversy because he proposed policy amendments and didn't simply leave things at "innate biological differences might explain these disparities better than bias"? I think that's a pretty profound misreading of the situation.
[PM on Azure Pipelines here.]

We've just finished building the initial version of container jobs [1]. A job groups up a number of steps -- we haven't yet decided if or how we should implement container-per-step. I'd be interested in your thoughts and use cases. In case I miss you here, my email is mattc@xbox.com.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/process/co...
The idea of peace in the heart in Christian Heaven is an idea entirely absent in the New Testament. Peace, in the NT, is always interpersonal--and it's this very thing that causes conceptions of heaven to fail.

To describe it as peaceful, as tranquil is not the point. To describe it as peaceful, where all have been reconciled and relationships have been restored starts to capture an essence of what the purpose is.
Could apps pushing car services increase the number of people who don't have cars?
Could it make owning a car more vialble?
Could it increase the density of a city (due to less parking)?
Could this make it more walkable?
Could it make mass transit more effective?

We should be encouraging ride sharing and working to eliminate parking; parking requirements make cities unwalkable thus making public transit ineffective.
While having a guaranteed wider seat is nice, I've never found the width of coach seats to be all that terrible -- it's the lack of leg room, and the airlines continue to have sole discretion on how many rows of seats they'll jam in to these new planes.
I mean, who would have thought that in a free market you'll get groups of people preferring different types of devices?

I'm actually really concerned how around Apple and similar devices there's this strange groupthink which says that if a device only caters to less than majority of people on this planet, it gets mocked like it shouldn't exist.
Absolutely brilliant! Take a bow, Dr. Chisti.
It would be a bit of a nightmare of device maintenance (and loss), but real time bike tracking at Burning Man would be pretty nice.

People lose bikes, people get bikes stolen, and people also want to know where the Yellow Bikes (free to use bikes) are located.
Interesting that Orwell adopts Eliot as an English writer. He was from Saint Louis and educated at Harvard.
In other other words, it isn't free software at all. It's commercial software with source code access and a limited right to free use.
> famous for shorting the housing market before the bubble burst

Also famous for losing more than $3 billion (or $7.7 million per day) on Valeant

http://fortune.com/2017/03/15/valeant-stock-bill-ackman/
It is most definitely a problem. Detecting fake clicks is hard enough even when the links are pointing to ad-tracking hosts. In fact browser adblocking could be wiped out instantly if ad networks trusted websites to report their own hits.
He's really quite excellent at what he does, which is "writing and speaking". I don't know why it was ever supposed to be a sick burn that he didn't know what a characteristic polynomial was.

I agree with you, I think. His writing is fantastic (just, like, as a deployment of the English language) but his podcast is better than most of his New Yorker stuff and definitely than his books. I've re-listened to the university funding stuff a couple times.
I've always thought being meek and obedient was part and parcel of working for someone else.

But I think being a good culture fit is a bit more than that.
>The fact is that you can't easily do the last part without a central server.

Looks up DHT use.
To be honest I think you've decided on the worst possible way to solve your problem. But good luck with your endeavour non-the-less. :)
Why stop there? Why not put tolls on the sidewalks and park benches and charge per usage?

We as a society have decided that it's best for all of us is we collectively eat the cost of letting people use certain resources as much as they want at low/no cost or at a cost not proportional to usage. Roads are one of these resources.

Increasing the cost of transportation basically increases the cost of physical distance. That's a needless drag on the economy in every way and at every level. It's better to just keep filling potholes and ignore the people who grumble about it than it is to enact any sort of pay-per-use system that actually results in the roads being approximately self sustaining. Transportation infrastructure is publicly funded/subsidized for a reason.
> Boom - It'll fly you from Tokyo to San Francisco in less than six hours.

Yes, but that's one of the only routes it will fly. With the Concorde, we discovered that flying supersonic jets around population centers is a big deal-breaker because of the supersonic boom.

Given how few of these routes you can actually fly, I expect Boom will come to the same realization that the airline industry did 20+ years ago; you can't make money on supersonic.
Your statement is a bit ironic, given the thread you're commenting in.
Please consult the facts before you post.

All employers within San Francisco pay a large amount of taxes to the city for each employee. Those taxes more than pay for the cost of road use of their employees.

Thank you.
I see a lot of issues here

You are conflating the general notion of index funds with the common investing advice of buying and holding index funds. I would argue that holding here is the vast majority of the advice. Plenty of people day trade index funds. You should be explicit that your objection is to the un-informed buying and holding of index funds. Also, you should be explicit in how you think a crash would come about, instead of simply mentioning a popular investment category.

Index funds do not discriminate. I don't understand how you drew the connection between them and an individual company like Amazon.

You make the assumption that people who now buy index funds would otherwise be intelligent investors that would correctly set stock prices. I doubt it. The trading patterns of most people have to be near random, more noise than signal, and likely very emotional. In fact, in this way index funds reduce the chances of a crash by removing this kind of nervous money from the stock market.

You make the assumption that index funds would swallow up all investments when in reality the edge that active investors have increases as the number of active vs passive investors decreases. There is a self-balancing force at play.

You simply have a wrong outlook on index funds. Buying a total index fund is investing in the entire stock market; betting that it is healthy and will grow with time. That's all. It is as much "too good to be true" as a healthy economy. Yes, buying an index fund means not participating in the process of correctly allocating resources to the best companies. But the important thing is that you are not in any way harming the actual participants because you obey their prices. This means you are essentially investing as the average active investor.

And lastly, it is naive to think that "fat cats" take more money from passive investors than they do from active ones.
Shadow banks were already a thing in 2007-2008

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/pu...
Urban living is not without risk, and trashing the commons is not a solution.

One either actively polices and maintains the commons, or it devolves into trash.
Could I avoid requiring a central server, and still use webrtc, if the two peers I want to connect are in the same lan?
It's not so much different, as it's derivative and muddily so.

Foucault had a tendency to re-define terms as he saw fit, irrespective of their historical use - as his philosophy would encourage - which is partly why the majority of his writing is so obtuse to other philosophers.
I agree. My point is any ire directed towards Uber/Lyft is useless. The problem with public transportation (and using public facilities in general in big cities) is much deeper, caused by lack of investment in public infrastructure and social safety nets.
I've been calling it since 2008. I never saw it happening for numerous reasons, chief among these being the intentionally crippled nature of mobile OSes.

I'm glad others are realizing this. I remember a few years ago when people everywhere quacked "mobile is the future" in this weird almost brainwashed sounding way. I heard this a lot talking with CXO level people in companies, and then I'd look around and see that 100% of all real work was taking place on PCs. I kept my mouth shut of course. I've learned over the years that computing is extremely faddish and criticizing an in-vogue piece of fadthink is absolutely futile.
Just so you know, you have a name collision with a popular ClojureScript SPA library, re-frame: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame