skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"TNCs had little impact on congestion in the western and southern San Francisco neighborhoods."

Recently Supervisor Peskin apparently reached a deal to impose a "net fares" tax on the TNC's. I wonder if they will consider differentiating it by neighborhood: imposing larger charges downtown. Peskin has also lobbied for downtown congestion pricing although that is harder to implement, politically and technologically, than such a tax.
I do not restrict screen time in any way. If they want to watch videos (from our scraped collection on the NAS), they can. If they want to play with the carefully chosen educational apps/games on our phones, they can. We've never restricted them since they first became interested, and it has worked out fine for us.

They barely ever watch shows or play with the phones, and most the time just want to colour in, play with Lego, or play with toys. They use the phones maybe for an hour every 3 days or so (or if we're waiting at the Doctors office or on a road trip), and watch shows maybe half an hour to an hour each day (usually in evening when they're too tired to physically play and we're preparing dinner). YMMV of course.
Terms like "democracy" and "peace process" have different meanings: one to you-and-I, and another to the diplomacy corps. To diplomats, these terms usually mean "whatever America wants" because it has, traditionally, had the global, neocolonial power to tell most other countries, in many (but not all) contexts, what to do in the international order. When news reports mention these "dog-whistle" or vague terms, consider that they have alternate meanings that aren't made clear by most journalists.
how much money will a software engineer at Uber make, if this IPO goes through?
It depends how you define "going down." Here's an old screenshot of mine of when Google Search failed spectacularly by marking every single link as malicious and therefore not taking the user to that site when you click the link [1] [2]. Perhaps that might qualify as going down, although clearly it didn't go down at the network level.

It remained broken (in that way) for quite some time (maybe longer than an hour.) But, happening in 2009, I can't accurately recall.

Here is another scenario when Google Search failed to successfully serve my query [3].

And an early time when YouTube went down [4].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/X05BCpI.png
[2] https://i.imgur.com/CaDh1Y6.png
[3] https://i.imgur.com/VZI4Yew.png
[4] https://i.imgur.com/bPTp4bg.png
I think you should embrace Jira but require that you get the access and permissions you think you need. Jira is not bad, but can be used in many ways, and when you figure out a way that works for you, it will not be a big deal.
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Google Reader. It's much faster and cleaner than Feedly...
Barcelona is full of them
I have tried (legally prescribed) amphetamines. I found without a structure and a plan I would be intensely focused on /something/, but maybe not what was most important every day. And with good time management, diet, and most important, exercise, I didn’t need anything else. So, seconded there on the impact :)
Hahaha this is great. But did you win the Putnam?
Mapquest and Yahoo Maps were the dominant mapping platforms until Google Maps removed competitor links in the search results. [1] Google during this time was pushing for "universal search," which would break away from vertical search paradigms into a single blended set of results.

This was also when traffic spiked to Google Maps and away from MapQuest / other competitors. And when you look at the data, the change in traffic is not due to users searching for "Google Maps" in the query more - but rather Google just linking to its own results more. [2]

It was when I knew the whole "Don't be evil" motto was bullshit.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/google-no-longer-linking-to-yah...

[2] https://searchengineland.com/comscore-to-report-google-maps-...
I'm in a similar boat as you. We actually started building on top of Ant. However, we first started out by building out our Admin pages and they were built with Blueprint.

I like Blueprint a lot more than Ant, but Blueprint doesn't pretend to support responsive applications[1], which was somewhat important to us. Blueprint exposes a couple building blocks (like PopOver) which really help in building more custom functionality. It actually looks like Evergreen be closer to Blueprint in this regard so I might piss off all the devs and evaluate Evergreen.

[1]https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/wiki/Frequently-asked-...
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Prepare for the process to be draining, frustrating, and to take a lot longer than you expect. As the owner/operator of your start-up, it's like adding another job to your list of responsibilities. Also prepare yourself for a hundred no responses to get to a yes. Eating rejection is more often than not a hefty part of the process. Try to not get upset at the rejections, waste minimum amounts of time on that aspect; spending unnecessary amounts time dwelling there is dangerous to your start-up, it'll eat your valuable time and mental health (which is already being heavily taxed by the start-up itself).
Mainstream media has never accurately predicted a crash. In fact, the news articles are great indicators that things will keep going up for at least a year or two.
Ask yourself if you actually need the capital.

Between the ubiquity of pay-per-minute cloud computing for every imaginable service, tools to enable extremely productive remote employees, and thousands of software companies ready to handle the complexity of payments, email, ecommerce, hosting, etc, starting a tech company is easier and cheaper than ever.
See: How I feel every time someone talks about using some six week old framework to program in some 3 month old extension to some 6 month old language (except, this lingo has been around for decades).
Read everything in the fundraising section here: https://www.startupschool.org/library
The question of statefulness reminds me of some not-immediately-intuitive observations from game development. Say you're working on potentially-visible-set computation for a first-person shooter. Where do you spend your optimization efforts? Do you put a lot of work into taking advantage of object coherence between frames, for instance? Chances are good that something that's visible in one frame will remain visible in the next, right? So if you start with that assumption you might think you could save some time by not bothering to test any surfaces on that object for visibility until some nominally-unrelated condition is met, such as the player turning rapidly in place.

You can waste a lot of time thinking about optimizations like that, but at some point it'll occur to you that it's a giant waste of time to optimize for anything but the worst case, where visibility information computed during one frame is completely unusable in the next frame for whatever reason. Otherwise all that your clever frame-coherence hacks can ever do is speed up the rendering of the sorts of frames that weren't going to dominate the player's perception of the game's performance anyway. An engine that renders 95% of frames at 60 FPS and 5% at 43 FPS is going to look pretty terrible, so you're usually better off putting work into the slowest frames rather than wasting time looking for hacks and shortcuts that make the fast frames even faster.

Likewise, yes, you can assume that the car will almost never be traveling backwards on the left side of the road or whatever, so the temptation to take advantage of that is going to be high. But the cases where that assumption breaks down will hurt the user's experience badly, possibly disastrously. So you're better off without relying too much on assumptions that contain phrases like "hardly ever" or "most of the time" or "typically."
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What I really need is a python web framework that has first class support for serving SPA applications (VueJS, React etc).

I spent quite a bit of time setting up my Django app to serve VueJS (replacing the built-in Jinja templates). Once ready, it became a powerful application with ORM, middleware and all other Django goodies coupled with modern JS framework on the frontend.

I hear Rails 6 is going to support modern web frameworks and using npm libraries, so something like that for Python/Django world.
I missed edit window. Let me say just a bit more:

I cared for kids, who got placed with us. Some of those people earned that. Not good. Obvious.

On those, my wife and I did a good public service. It is hard.

But, I saw many cases where a disgruntled person ruined families too. Those kids should never have been with us at all. Yet they were, and worse, we had to hold a terrible line or it gets worse for the kids and potentially us!

A few samples:

Baby sitter feels she can do better, phones the father in. Boom. He spends 6 months being psych evaluated, his wife does not know what to think, and part of his struggle is having his johnson in a clamp while being shown suggestive kiddie pictures. That family got past it. We helped once we were free of the system. Labor of love and justice there.

They left the State the moment they could. Cannot blame them.

Ex wife hated step mom. Similar thing, both parents end up in some program. Never did get right. Just a mess, kids with relatives.

Dad loses his mind in the store. Brats got under his skin. Delivered a quick swat, lets go home. Ended up in all sorts of trouble for essentially getting a toddlers attention. Concerned people trump up abuse case. Never did see that one conclude.

People lose their kids these days. It does not take much. You should also know all public servants, teachers, many coaches are obligated to report or face charges in many places. The report bar is very, very low. An angry kid can get another kids family in the system. I saw that happen.

Having frank conversations about parenting carries grave implications these days. It was once not like this, but it is now. Among a trusted peer group it still happens as it always has.

Out in public? Internet? People are crazy to mention specifics. Just don't do it. Ever.

I do not have answers. I wish I did given what I saw.

I can help share hard won understanding. So I have.

Just know the touchy parent convo is systemic, not so much people being snowflakes or something.
> nothing is really reversible

Will Pijul ever support something like git's interactive rebase? I find myself using that constantly. One common flow for me: make some commits, make a final commit bumping my package version, realize I forgot something, make another commit, git rebase -i to move it before the version bump, git push.
I understand your argument. I had those experiences as well. Then I got high speed internet at 13 or so. Things changed very rapidly from there.

I really didn’t turn out ok. I don’t really want to go into details, but I turned out very far from ok. Maybe I wouldn’t have turned out different without internet, I can’t really know. I do know that I’m going to be really zealous in keeping the unrestricted internet away from my sons. And my girls, but for different reasons.
It's clear to me that in a tech interview, unless otherwise told, it is your algorithm skill that is being tested. If I were you, I would begin talking about Fisher Yates, outline its implementation, explain why it correctly shuffles the list, show why it's an O(n) solution, etc. I might even talk about alternatives.

It's always better to demonstrate in an interview that you have a lot of knowledge about whatever that is being asked. It's not just being able to code, but also the ability to explain why and how it works.
I've been using Blueprint and pairing it with Basscss for some responsive assistance and it's been successful (and a lot of fun).
(Disclaimer: I'm not a shibe let alone a Dogecoin expert or insider, so all of this is just from casual observation. OTOH I do know one of the current devs http://coloringcrypto.com/index.php/2018/03/12/29-part-3-ori... personally—he's on here as rnicoll—so I'm not unbiased either. On the third hand, I'm speaking for myself here, and what I say isn't co-ordinated with or approved by him or anyone else. And it sure as heck is not investment advice or a substitute for your own due diligence.)

Are you thinking of Billy Markus? He's in the article. He's lower-profile than Jackson Palmer but his involvement is by no means a secret: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jp5x3d/dogecoins-... . It seems that Markus did all the actual initial software, having begun work on it before Palmer independently came up with the (rather brilliant) Dogecoin name and marketing strategy.

(The other essential piece of journalism on the history of Dogecoin seems to be https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/78xqxb/the-guy-wh... )

I'm a little skeptical about Palmer's ongoing Dogecoin apology tour. Partly that's because it looks like another marketing operation to me. That's not to say that what he's saying is simply insincere. But I do get the impression that when he saw the marketing opportunity to be the founder of a far-out, headline-generating cryptocurrency he seized on that; and now that he sees the opportunity to be the remorseful crypto-skeptic, delivering what-have-I-wrought confessions to a media that's mostly soured on cryptocash and is now highly receptive to that message, he's pouncing on that opportunity too.

> When I asked about the recent Coinbase rumor, he answered, albeit hesitantly. “There’s no way of submitting all the legal documentation that Coinbase requires. It’s by no means likely that they’ll get it.”

This does seem to be accurate https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/9j1yuf/dogecoin_d... https://twitter.com/langer_hans/status/1051943757715820545 but the reason why is hardly something that reflects only badly on Dogecoin. Evidently the Coinbase application process is designed for VC-funded startups, while Dogecoin is closer to a community-run open source project, led by people who have day jobs in tech and aren't gambling on a big ICO bonanza.
For a context: Russian, read several Bulgakov's works as a teenager, as it was part of a school program.

To provide an alternative view: I did not like "Master and Margarita", especially compared to "Heart of the Dog" and what I consider Bulgakov's best novel "The White Guard". Part of this has to do that with the fact that author chose religion and mysticism as literary vehicles and I am not a big fan of either. The whole book felt rather frivolous. I warmed up to this type of novel after reading several works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez though much later.

"The White Guard" on the other hand left much deeper impression on me. The novel does a great job showing helplessness of people in front of their old life crumbling down, caught in a whirlwind of turbulent times.
With something that measures depth and can profile the ground. Probably a LIDAR.
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>I have lost track of the number of in-house / one-off frameworks I have seen that have been justified on the grounds of making thing simpler, but which have the opposite result.

There's also 'simpler for me' vs holistically 'simpler'. A great example of this is a junior engineer comes into company, sees existing solutions and doesn't fully grok them, and jumps to 'lets throw this out and implement something better'. This is pretty common and the underlying motivation is indeed to make things simpler! But actually only from that individual's perspective.
Just send her this (obligatory)

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
So it’s like going to job interviews! :)
I believe even if that lesson is set, it would be beneficial. As it leaves a space open for another player in smart mobile operating system -- in turn creates more competition in the market. By giving Android for free, the market stayed duopoly.
What’s the mobile vs computer demographics here? Me thinks twitter is telling a little twattle.
I like this genre - Marquez, Murkami, Allende, Wolfe are some of my favorite authors, yet I didn’t really enjoy Master and Margarita that much. I may try another of his based on this comment though.
Regarding #2, the python code has the arguable advantage that (with appropriate variables in scope) it's valid standard python code[0] that could evaluate to (a representation of) the desired type, whereas the typescript isn't valid javascript code, and I don't think it's a valid (value-level) typescript expression either.

3 and 4 are disappointing though.

0: I'm assuming the extra [ after Callable is a typo.
I've been at a company that used jira 5 different bad ways as they constantly churned through different ways of doing agile. I've also been at a company that used jira as a simple issue organizer with a handful of labels and literally nothing else.

It's just a tool that can be badly misused to make a bureaucratic mess, or can be barely used to write things down as we collectively think of them.
What is wrong with Johnny Johnny yes papa rhyme? Please get off your high horse and see it through a simple mindset of father and son playfulness - even TFA says so.
Not a lawyer (are you?), but I do maintain a keen interest in nationality law. Italics mine:

"...the Department of State adopted the administrative presumption found in 22 CFR 50.40 that a U.S. citizen/noncitizen national intends to retain U.S. nationality when he or she commits certain expatriating acts. That administrative presumption is in the process of being revised in 22 CFR Part 50, and includes when a U.S. citizen serves as a commissioned or noncommissioned officer of a foreign state, not engaged in hostilities against the United States (INA 349(a)(3), 8 U.S.C. 1481(a)(3))."

In other words, even if you serve as a officer or NCO of a foreign country, the Department of State will not consider this an expatriating act causing loss of citizenship, unless that country is at war with the US.

See also 7 FAM 1222 for more details of the "administrative presumption" in question:

"...in 1990 the Department adopted the administrative presumption found in 22 CFR 50.40 that a U.S. citizen/noncitizen national intends to retain U.S. nationality when he or she commits certain expatriating acts. That administrative presumption is in the process of being revised in 22 CFR Part 50, and includes when a U.S. citizen:

(3) Serves in the armed services of a foreign state as a commissioned or noncommissioned officer of a foreign state, not engaged in hostilities against the United States (INA 349(a)(3))"

https://fam.state.gov/fam/07fam/07fam1220.html#M1222
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Thread A.

Correct, weakness always invites aggression. It's human nature. "If you want peace, prepare (as Smedley Butler would: defensively only) for war." The problem is the US' neocolonial, corrupt MIC's blood lies in endless, fruitless war adventures that cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives. And worse, what happens in these wars adventures, like the Roman Empire, is eventually brought home: mass surveillance, drones, perpetual para/militarized occupation forces and so on.

Thread B.

"Democracy" has more than two meanings.

0. Policy debated and made freely and clearly by common-people's interests.

1. Some people take it to mean unlimited freedom, as in anarchy.

2. In international politics, it's usually a dog-whistle for whatever America "suggests" other countries should do.

I can't recommend Chris Hedge's latest book, America: The Farewell Tour highly enough to connect the dots as to why things seem so fucked up and why they're likely to get worse before they get better.
> Why?!

"I had some money and a friend. I lent my money to my friend. I lost my money... and my friend."
Just to update, it seems my knowledge is also wrong, or at least, out of date. The way I thought it worked was an earlier draft, but they have some new mechanism that I haven't read about yet.
I have close friends working at all of these companies. Nice to see the industry growing!
Individual incentive.

Every manager wants a bigger team and impactful projects for their resume. This bubbles up to the top, where rarefied execs don't see a reason to go to war with their own org and possibly lose. As long as it's still profitable, everyone's doing fine.
"Currently there is no opinionated way to construct responsive layouts in Evergreen. In the case of responsive layouts you might want to simply use a div with a class name and use breakpoints in CSS — or potentially a CSS-in-JS solution."

https://evergreen.segment.com/components/layout-primitives
The one place that I had to use Jira, it was poorly managed. The manager basically used it to create a list of every project and idea he could think of and then assigned quite a lot of them to me simultaneously.

The result for me was that I was overloaded with work. And then the manager became unavailable to discuss some important blocking items for about a week.

I am not saying that Jira or project management tools can't be helpful, but it does seem to have a tendency to encourage micromanagement as well as distracting from priority items with less important tasks and deemphasizing direct communication channels.

But of course management needs some way to know what is happening or that actual work is being done even, and a way to give direction about business goals.

I believe though that if not handled correctly this change could very well interfere with development. So you are right to be worried.

Personally I would do something like this:

1. Very quitely make a backup plan for alternative employment. Just in case.

2. Come up with an alternative to Jira that A) allows managers to to see that some development is even being done and they aren't just paying people to hang out and B) gives some details about what is being worked on. This could be just email notifications when people push to GitHub.

2b. I would also set up a weekly meeting with management to discuss dev progress and business priorities face to face. And as far as capex reporting maybe you can use a Google Docs with employee hours together with a dump of github commits, perhaps grouped by user.

3. Explain that you want the dev team to focus on their work rather than checking off boxes for a process, and they want to stay focused on core tasks rather than a lot of small unimportant ones. And therefore since the current process is working you believe adding Jira will only take away time from core activities and make the team less productive in terms of actually meeting business goals.
Can confirm, for what it's worth.
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Youtube is mostly idle entertainment though so an hour of no youtube is not the end of the world but people rely on search engines to get stuff done.
REPT: reverse debugging of failures in deployed software
See also previous discussion from 13 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18137217 (31 comments)
Be wary of raising too much too fast/having too many investors to deal with early on.
Typical scam. Problem is verified accounts can change names so scammers steal details for random verified accounts and then use them to pretend to be high profile accounts.
If the ride rate drops, it probably won't be that harmful, because less milage will occur per day. You won't get your return as fast, but you'll still get your return unless vandalism is a big part of the that cycle rate.
This. And also "why magnets repell each other" https://youtu.be/36GT2zI8lVA
Such a left-brained thing to say :)
You're better off spending the time improving your product.