skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, what I'm saying is that a "completely unknown situation" may present itself with a reason to "start shooting to kill at the slightest suggestion of danger". You just don't know. I'm saying that it is difficult to be "responsible" (by what I'm assuming you mean taking in more information before dispatching) in balancing appropriate responses when it's much safer to err on the side of danger and reduce response time.

I'll admit I didn't think too much about the whitelists (I assume it's just a list of streamers kept somewhere, not people sending their names in if they're a streamer to be placed on the list). It is a good idea because streamers are most often targeted by swatters (citation needed), though it obviously can't solve the problem since not all people swatted are streamers. I apologize.
To be fair, he's probably more fun at parties than the socially-challenged antifa squad downvoting me
A few months ago Bloomberg published a story which I'm 99% sure was directed by Facebook PR, in-line with their strategy being reported on in this story [1][2].

Also can any mods tell me why all my comments are dead?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/is-apple-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17719607
I must be really bad at phrasing thoughts. Isreal was "harming" itself and its taxpayers (normal people like me), same way NY taxpayers would undoubtedly IMO be "harmed" (in the sense of their hard-won money being ill-invested). Is it extortion? I guess not literally, only in spirit. It is just bad investment with negative long-term ROI. NY could have supported thousands of SMBs instead, and that builds more resilient, diverse and sustainable economy long-term.
It depends on the kernel version and the CPU's virtualization support. I have a C101PA that I got before the price hike, and use it for hacking in lisp during my commutes.
Doesn't exist outside the US and Toronto, so not an option for many people.
It's not so much that it's a "bad deal" for NYC but rather that this practice needs to be better regulated if legally possible.

It's a policy that both the Libertarians on the right and the Social Democrats on the left can mainly agree on here and could work together to solve which is limiting corporate welfare that pits cities against each other.
It could also read as "The Yuppie Nuremberg Defense Only Works If People Think They're Going to Get Rich."
Building of fake unicorn valuations
Not really. They lose money by sponsoring some markets, they can just stop doing that and become less aggressive.

They made a choice to lose money and grow rather than break even and slow down.
> Parliaments which have proportional lower houses tend to be a mess.

Citation needed. There are many European countries where very diverse lower houses work fine.
Lyft is barely existing in my city. (updated: added 'MY' city)
> But Sanders also proposed free college for all,

He actually proposed that public colleges and universities should be tuition free, which is not the same thing.

> On reflection, that's not very comforting. We are at a place politically where "redistribution from the rich" has become thinkable as an independent goal.

Redistribution wasn't what caused the collapse, being more dependent on oil while producing less of it (and thus becoming supersensitive to price was.)

I only mentioned redistribution as an independent policy goal to explain why the narrative social spending -> funding needs -> effort at raising taxes -> expropriation was wrong. That sequence simply didn't occur. Venezuela relied on raising oil prices for revenue, and collapsed when oil prices did; expropriation was adopted early on when things were going relatively well, because of high oil prices, not in desperation over inadequate revenue.
Uber doesn't have much of a moat or lock-in effect. I just switched one day from being a frequent Uber rider to 100% using Lyft, simply because I don't like Uber's behavior as a company. The prices are so close it doesn't make any practical difference to me.

Anecdotally, among my friends I also see Lyft becoming the default, and sometimes price-checking with Uber. If Waymo or whoever came out tomorrow with a cheaper/safer driverless car, I'd just as likely drop Lyft in a heartbeat.
Not available in most geographies for me.
LOL. indeed.
I don't think he's disputing that crime and poverty are correlated. I think he's disputing both the idea that poverty causes crime and the idea that cracking down on petty crime hurts the poor.

There are many people who are poor due to unfortunate circumstances, but more than likely, if a poor person commits crimes, it has less to do with their poverty and more to do with other factors that caused both their poverty and criminality. We may have reasons to feel sympathy for or try to help the criminally inclined poor, but showing them leniency doesn't usually help them.

It also doesn't help poor people in general, because typically the victims of poor criminals are other poor people.
Big-box retailers are slashing their property taxes through a legal loophole
Nothing lives forever even for AWS/Azure.

Maybe not forever, but some things do live for a very long time. Amazon SimpleDB has been deprecated for over 5 years and Amazon works hard to discourage people from using it in any new applications... but it's still available and will continue to be available for the foreseeable future.
What about the externalities and expenses pointed out in a prior thread [0], specifically the ones not helped by federal funds in this post [1]?

Will Amazon help to pay for the transit and housing required by their move? Because they're sure paying less than they would have if not for the incentives.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18443624

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18445241
WeChat has low penetration in the US and also is not HQ’d there; thus, even if you think it ought to be regulated - probably outside the scope of the US government.
estonia has the rigth idea. their card is about empowering and giving control to the citizen. Last I checked, it migth have shift since then.

US credit score/CN socia score/RU degrees of separation from putin (ok, I made the last one up :) are invisible, non-opt (in or out) systems of control.

estonia ID card (and an aborted digital ID in some south american countries) were about allowing the citzen to securely sign a document, in person or remotely.

the two concepts are world apart.
Or call it an investment as there is a future payoff.
If we're going to talk about "mothball without formally announcing deprecation" Microsoft is pretty awful for that too. There are so many zombie libraries and frameworks and tools in the Microsoft family, and they never have the decency to say "stop using that". Even windows.forms was default in visual studio until like 2013 or so.
Uber's new "cheap" pool option forces you to walk up to 5 blocks (!!) and is the same price that it used to be. Lyft's pool option doesn't make you walk and the prices have remained unchanged.

Uber lost all of my (bi-daily) business when they moved to the pool express business model.
Plenty of companies prioritize margin over revenue. Owning a profitable niche is a much more defensible strategy in the long run than relying on investment dollars to grow unprofitably.
Sorry to be inflammatory but in what world is Austin, TX considered East Coast?
Just say "some of." Location isn't behavior and certainly isn't objectionable be itself, nor were you making that objection. At this point at least one of us is cavilling, so I won't reply further.
Cabs are:

* Much lower quality cars (torn seats, smelly, old, safety issues...no one looks good showing up to a date in a Cab).

* Much lower quality drivers (some smoke openly, talk on the phone loudly, don't listen to you, take longer routes than necessary, etc)

* No accountability for service

* No trip data for safety reasons

* No handy log of all your recent trips

* More expensive + tip required

* Sometimes will pester you to be cash-only (even though the credit card machine works, they'll just lie to you)

* Ignore the law and will refuse to give you a ride if you're going to some specific destinations where they don't want to go.

I can go on and on. This is in most American cities. I will not take cabs even if they are cheaper.

Cabs deserve to be eliminated as a transportation option.
Agile works, but not for everyone and everywhere. It's like DevOps, you need buy-in from everyone or it won't work.
Not a good metaphor, since Nicotine itself is not harmful.
I mean, yes, but they are also throwing $1B at it each quarter, so is it really surprising that the expectations are high?
not just jaron lanier! there are multiple thinkers who are fellow travelrs. Cal newport, Tristan harris, Nicholas Carr...
FPTP shares little meaning from voter to voter.

I'll be an anecdote here, from 2016. I voted for Sanders in the Democratic primary. I voted for Johnson in the general election, but had I been in a battleground state where Clinton had a chance I'd have voted for her.

Did how she was doing in the pre-election polling and exit polls determine whether or not she was my favorite candidate? Of course not. Would my single vote for her to try to avoid electing Trump have looked any different from a devout partisan Democrat's vote for the same office if I had voted for her? No, not at all. What FPTP almost convinced me to do is to VOTE FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS NOT MY FIRST CHOICE.

That's the problem, you see. If I'm tempted to vote for someone I really didn't care for rather than who I prefer because of the mechanics of the counting, that dilutes my voting power. I wanted to vote for Johnson. If I could have ranked the general, it would have been Johnson, Clinton, Stein, Trump. If I could have voted Approve/Disapprove, it would have been Johnson and Clinton approve and the others disapprove. If it was Approve, Neutral, Disapprove for each I'd have either voted J+C, S, T or J, C+S, T.

The last thing I want is to have to choose between my candidate of preference and some tolerable major party candidate based upon who else is running.
Criticizing the organizations funded by George Soros has nothing to do with Judaism.

And ironically you ignored:

> It also tapped its business relationships, persuading a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic.

Misrepresenting things does not help you in your goal of critiquing the behavior of large companies. It actually serves as ammunition against your credibility.
The reason I'm reluctant to use Lyft is that they do not say beforehand how much my ride is going to be.

Edit: I stand corrected. Their UI mislead me because for airport rides the price is only shown after you hit a Confirm button, but that does not order the car as I thought, only takes you to the next screen.
> some of their elected officials are opposed to Amazon moving in

The opposition to an almost-done deal is almost always louder than the support. Supporters want to keep the status quo, i.e. the deal closing. Opposers want to stop it.

I think this is a good deal. I prefer having Amazon in New York, and I prefer the billions of extra tax dollars they're going to pay New York City and Albany versus potentially losing those dollars to another city, state or country. I'm not making a lot of noise because I think the Mayor and Governor have it handled.

TL; DR I don't think one can assume popular opposition to this deal.
I suspect, like Amazon, Uber could be profitable any time it wants.

Their burn just reflects a continued, aggressive customer acquisition strategy.
Consider cultural bias in code examples
:/ yeah.
Kind of a tangent, but I still firmly believe that for Earth weather conditions, Fahrenheit is a more intuitive scale. 0 is a really, really, really cold day and 100 is a really, really, really hot day. 50 degrees is neither especially warm nor especially chilly, 70 degrees is warm, 30 degrees is chilly, 20 and below are truly cold, 80 and above are truly hot, and if you go into negative numbers or above 100 degrees than you're in the "extremes".
For you to think that your vote doesn't count would mean you know in advance that your candidate will lose. You don't.
Pine64
I don't understand your comment about ethnicity. Are they all one ethnicity now?
I typically purchase soap made from the discarded fat of liposuction clinics; it's cheaper and waste-free.
Not to mention the fact that by saying, "Just give us HTML and we'll do the rest", you're taking away their ability to push adverts and track you for that juicy, monetizable(?) tracking data.

I think this is why RSS did and is dying, although it also seems to be making a comeback.
True, myself have moved definitely into Java/.NET worlds back in 2006, although C++ is still an option for what is unavoidable to do without it. Maybe in the future their canonical implementations can even be fully bootstraped or have replaced the C++ layer with something else.

But even if all userspace developers move to safer languages, we still have the UNIX derived kernels, PIC and other microcontrollers, routers and plenty of other embedded stuff to worry about.

Even Microsoft with their Azure Sphere project, which is supposed to be all about secure IoT, still bundles a Linux kernel with it.

Hence why we really need to fix C somehow.
My friend is an airline mechanic. One thing his coworkers all had was the jawbone headset. This was back in like 2008-2009. He said he could call up a mechanic working right next to the turbine while it was running and hear him crystal clear. I wonder if any of that technology paired with software technology will make it so there is 0 noise in calls. Maybe an implanted bone mic.
The thing is, when I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make my program type-safe all of my unit tests become either useless or no-ops

Integration tests easily survive refactoring, on the other hand
the ps4 version, which is a blu-ray, only has one disc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12711060
Maybe some context would be appropriate. New York has been trying to diversify beyond finance for a long time. The cost per employee is amortized, as stated by others, but it’s almost moot — as if it were a hedge.

Amazon has a rep for not retaining many of its engies beyond a year or two. Perhaps the hope is that those folks will go on and bootstrap a real startup economy. NY already has a Google and FB office. Two is interesting but three and you start to have a pattern.

If you ask me, it’s worth the bet. $1-2B is cheap change on this level of macroeconomics.
The exception that proves the rule. And maybe not even, as he actually got to power thanks to the peronists, and keeps it becuase they need him.
Long Island City was already rezoned, luxury housing built and gentrified. 20k workers in a city of 8.5m isn't upending a small, vulnerable community. And we're not the commuter suburbs, an office in Long Island City is not very much different from an office building in Manhattan.

Gentrification concerns are thus overblown, and our local pols are known for dramatizations like these for political gain (at least on camera/Twitter, less so when it comes to campaign support and backroom lobbying deals).

The controversy is in the tax incentives primarily.
Divide whatever your number is by 1.4 billion. Labeling and judging people is always tempting in the face of complexity, but it is also always a choice you make.
It would be nice if the betterC mode of Dlang would get traction. That fixes the worst weaknesses of C without having to create a whole new ecosystem.
One (non-generalizable) solution is to avoid using writable function pointers, to help maintain control flow integrity.

For example, in libopus we have platform-specific SIMD optimizations that are chosen at runtime.

The common solution is just to have a function pointer that points to the accelerated routine. But there are only a limited number of choices for each routine. So we put pointers to them in a static const array, which gets stored on a read-only page. Then instead of storing a pointer, we just store an index into this array. This index is chosen based on the available instruction sets detected at runtime. This lets us use the same index for every accelerated function.

Then, we pad the array size out to a power of two. To call an accelerated function, we mask off the upper bits of the index. Even if the index gets corrupted, we still call one of the functions in the array. So there's only so much damage it can do.

Obviously this doesn't apply if the set of functions you need to call is open-ended (e.g., a callback, like nginx was using). But it seems like a good pattern to follow when it applies.
I don't know if THIS article was directed by Facebook related PR but the times reporting says there is other PR basically identical to this. So I think we can decisively label your conjecture as "credible"
I argue that space-faring civilization goal should be independent of alien encountering.
"Highly valued companies typically grow quickly or generate big profits -- and great ones do both. In the fourth quarter of 2005, Amazon.com Inc. had about the same revenue as Uber’s today -- just under $3 billion, not adjusted for inflation. Yet, Amazon earned $199 million in profit and was worth about a fourth of Uber’s $76 billion valuation."

I think this graph neatly summarizes the concern at this point. There are few signs that the business can live up to its existing hefty valuation, not-to-mention the even-loftier IPO expectations.

Amazon was also famously unprofitable as a public company for a long, long time. But they still had revenue growth rates worth investing in and potentially more defensible businesses.

I do wonder if the ride-sharing business will wind up like the airlines business: valuable, booming but very, very tough to consistently make large profits.
If they were sincerely trying to acquire new customers, why wouldn't they do anything to combat their shit reputation?
I may be totally wrong, but I think the point is that just about any company can grow 38% for a long time if you throw enough money at it. So far, lots of people have thrown lots of money at Uber, and some days it looks like they're not going to get profitable before they burn their runway.
Seriously. Google owns the fourth largest building in NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue
> The Tokamak[1] design used in ITER and this example uses a whole heap of magnets to hold this plasma in a doughnut-shaped area.

The technical term for a "doughnut-shaped area" is "torus"; "tokamak" is an abbreviation for the Russian for, "toroidal chamber with magnetic coils".
> The issue would not come up with a car because the door could merely be jimmied.

This isn't a counterargument for why phones/computers should be considered a special case exempt from a search warrant. The inability for the door to be jimmied doesn't make the car deserving of a special exemption.
Then catch a cab! Most other people don;t and thats perfectly fine.
Well, yes. The only privacy concern I see is when online services ping back to the Estonian government to make sure your certificate hasn't been revoked. If they choose to hit their API for every public key they encounter, the government could collect information about all the services you use. I think businesses can choose to periodically download a list of revoked certificates instead to avoid leaking usage data.
You seem to be correct.

> Google Maps Platform is a part of Google Cloud, but not a part of Google Cloud Platform

I have never felt that I have been confused by something so justifiably.
Tim Wu makes the case for breaking up tech giants, and FB specifically, at book length
The ironic thing is the big 4 style companies are usually labeled as being careless with user data yet they probably have some of the strictest internal rules/procedures for user data classification and handling.

It’s the startups consumers should be more worried about IMO.
I'm not a Corbyn fan, but I think this is a gross misrepresentation of the current labour leadership, and their likely actions in government.
I often see these kind of analogies being drawn based on a selective reading of the wide variety of regimes leftist politicians in the UK admired (or once-admired in the context of the Cold War). Can you point to any recent commentary from Corbyn or other senior labour figures (excluding Ken Livingstone, who is increasingly senile but thankfully out of the loop these days) that expressed admiration for Chavez and Maduro?
Comparison is very accurate, not picking up free junk on craigslist takes 0 time, not eating the free food at the tech event (that you are already going to) takes 0 time.
Yes, they do
"It works"/"it brings profit" has nothing to do with "not disgusting". Let's not encourage that.
Ahh but word games are par for the course in these discussions. A recent example is the humanities redefinition of 'racism' to mean 'power and privilege', instead of 'discrimination or bigotry based on race'.

Don't disproportionate negative consequences constitute a disadvantage? Especially when faced with the existing issues of being a minority in a school system? Who really is disadvantaged here?

You can compound that with the new racism definition and I'm starting to wonder where all this supposed privilege is.
I'm not sure what you're referring to. They always show the price beforehand for me.
Bluetooth isn't replacing my $250 pair of Senneheisers or $700 Grado RS-1s.

Some of us care about getting lossless signal while being able to simultaneously charge our phones.
They do that now.
Sqawk is an Awk-like program that uses SQL and can combine data from multiple files. It is powered by SQLite.

https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk
Have you tried booking the trip through google maps ? It shows the price of the ride beforehand for me.
Exactly. If 38% is bad then I would like to know what Uber would need.

On the other hand, they are operating at a loss so increasing revenue just means they spend more money paying costumers to ride with them or eat with them. Only founding would limit the revenue growth when you are giving away stuff.
The New York City marathon goes through the [worst, least interesting part of] the Bronx, for like a mile and a half.

The other side has way more trees.
I use Lyft frequently on iOS all over the US, it gives an estimate that tends to be conservative (i.e. high). Do you not see the same thing in your app?
Kerr is a law professor who not only has a career in prestigious institutions but also an engineering background.
Cabbie drivers lying about their credit card machine is a moot point if your jurisdiction has a decent regulatory body. In DC if they pull that shit, I just get out with out paying as they're not abiding by the law and the dept of for hire vehicles will have my back.
I thought they only made soap like that in the movie Fight Club...
I am a pretty loyal Uber user, and probably spend around $400 a month with them.

But... I was stuck out in the cold in the boonies of long island recently, and Uber kept bugging out and not finding rides since I was fairly rural. I downloaded Lyft for the first time and it found me a ride instantly. I'm going to have to use them more often.

Just my random anecdote.
The extent of their lock-in is that of any C2C company: the marketplace. Can one side be confident there are enough on the other side? And then it becomes about brand recognition and marketing. (And in this particular case, the Uber brand has some issues....)

No different than, say, consumer rental companies like Airbnb.
Their shit reputation has paved the ground for all the other apps that showed up afterwards. I dont think people appreciate how the ride-share revolution would not have happened without Uber's aggresive brand.

Look at lyft, stuck in markets where uber is already there. Meanwhile, Uber fought legal battles and city governments all around the world: their staff often jailed and persecuted. What brand do you want to have when governments send your employees to jail? Quirky funny, or ruthless?
Are you referring to master switch or attention merchants? been meaning to read both.