skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem really is profit. Pepsi and Coca-Cola both sell sugar water, a commodity, at a profit. Lyft and Uber have made rides a commodity but at this point it looks like commoditization of rides is not able to be sold at a profit. I think they both are touting that scale and technology will lead them to profitable rides but its not obvious that this is going to ever come true in a way that justifies their value. To me the scary part for them is that they already have commoditized their product.
Facebook hired PR firm that wrote negative articles about Apple and Google
Thank God; I'm trying to buy a graphics card.
Via is another great option in NYC that I use all the time.
I can't even tell you how many connectivity and graphics technologies MS launched, I developed on, and then they abandoned.

I struggle to understand why people think MS deserves enterprise trust & goodwill.
I looked at the SNES development manual once and it said something along the lines of “if an area isn’t required for completing the game, go there anyways to ensure there’s no bugs”
Makes you wonder why no one has built an app that interfaces with all of them, and finds you the cheapest rate, while taking a kickback.
still beats the Foxconn deal - $300K per $50K/year job :)
Read the article. At the end the author says

> By the way it's nice to know that the USB protocol has a bit to indicate "a valid oven". I wonder when that is used.

The bit fields he uses as an example related to USB protocol implementation.
You say that as if spoiled tech workers are just going to line up to move to Columbus, Ohio where the only company operating at that scale is Amazon.

That is, you are going to be locked into working for Amazon to maintain your income level.

Not everyone is that mercenary about optimizing their income.

Amazon's hiring pool would be limited to midwestern Universities (e.g. Ohio State) + people looking to reduce their cost of living while working for Amazon + some people that prefer the scenery. Less people are optimizing purely based on compensation - CoL than you think.

To me, that's why these locales were never really in the running. I'm a native midwesterner and I feel bad for anyone trying to recruit a national audience for a midwestern role. You have to have really good sales skills.
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I don't disagree that they are "inclined" to commit petty crime, just like the rich are more inclined to cheat on their taxes. (when is that last time you heard a poor person rant against the inheritance tax?)

But, I disagree that your social status decides guilt.

Rich/famouse/politicians shouldn't get away with crimes they commit based on their status anymore than a poor person should. Crime is crime. Just because the judge/police/whoever feels social pressure to not enforce the law means everyone else suffers.

Feeling pity for someone's situation does not absolve them of their actions. Personally knowing poor/homeless people gives me a perspective that they aren't total victims and that they don't deserve absolution based on status. (just like the rich don't)
The representation of this is a bit extreme here, but this is NY we're talking about. If this is the first thing that you're upset about paying for in NY, you probably have not been looking at the budget.
Now if only Rust had bitfields like this. It was proposed years ago but nothing has come from it.
They do have MBTA passes for middle/high school students to take mass transit (https://www.mbta.com/fares/reduced/student-charliecards)
> And as soon as you have a 'usual' route, or you use the app a lot, you get charged more!! It's so disgusting.

> I tried to book a trip to the airport for my inlaws using both my account and my wife's account. She rarely uses Uber, and hers showed a 10-15% cheaper rate. Do they think we're stupid? They targetted 'smart' people for using ride sharing as opposed to taxis, and now they try to play us.

> Let's not even get started about dark UX patterns. It's hard to see peak rates now, and unless you get a bad gut feeling, you wouldn't know you're currently paying more than a cab rate.

> ...

> The same ride I used to pay $8 for is sometimes $25-32 now. Let's be honest, if anything better came along, I wouldn't look back.

The world now is rediscovering the valid motivations for the old taxicab regulations that so many were claiming were holding "innovation" back.

Uber's prices were so low mainly because they were using VC money to try bankrupt traditional taxi companies. Once the subsidies run out, Uber will probably at least as expensive as traditional cabs, if not more so, but with consumer-hostile pricing tricks that were once illegal.
>> 1) Incentives are not given up front. They are given proportional to the results Amazon has achieved. Amazon must make a report each year detailing their progress before any award is given.

What is progress? How do you measure progress?
Many politicians claim that the past decade was progress. I don't see it.

>> 2) The city-level incentives are available to any business. State-level incentives (I think 300m) are not.

Any business? I bet that the average entrepreneur living in NYC would disagree.

>> 3) Amazon has pledged to invest in the local community as part of the deal. There are plans for an elementary school and tech education center.

Of course, because Amazon is such a generous corporation. Just ask politicians in Washington; they've also witnessed that incredible generosity first hand on many occasions.

>> 4) The NYC tech sector is more diverse than SV. 47% of tech workers in NYC are immigrants [0]. Is there any evidence supporting the claim that Amazon will ship in majority groups to displace minorities or immigrants?

This will affect real estate prices and will displace people who are living there right now who can already barely afford it.

>> 5) There is direct investment in tech education for minority groups in the city [1]. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that they will receive a chunk of these jobs in the future. If you support increased diversity in tech, it is inconsistent in your beliefs to not support 25k more tech jobs in NYC.

I don't buy these benevolent corporation arguments. Even if you assume that Jeff Bezos was a saint, I'm pretty sure that the many layers of selfish or apathetic middle-managers working under him will find a way to divert much of the funds back to themselves somehow.

>> 6) LIC built almost 2.8k rental units last year. [2] I think they have built 6k this year so far. 28k units were built city-wide last year [3]

Great in theory; but in practice, NYC is full of homeless people.
Completely agree. Most of my FB posts seem to focus on "look how rich I am to afford these shoes, this expensive vacation or these nice clothes/diner" etc. Some of these people on my feed also seem to have some sort of narcissistic mental illness...like craving for attention without end. Then you have the people that post nothing but political ramblings. The amount of people sharing genuine content has plummeted and the overall platform just seems to be fake overall. I've stopped posting to the platform and only look at the new feed a little. I mostly use the site for the groups function.
oh man, the dreaded "click click, click click,...".
My "Uber sucks" story is that I left a jacket in the back seat of a car. I immediately tried to figure out how to call the driver but Uber decided they needed to make money off my misfortune. Not only did they charge me $15 to connect with the driver but they refused to let me message the driver directly, so what could have been a few minutes of time turned into a week long saga. Once I finally got a hold of the driver several days later she had the same story as me where she had immediately tried to contact me and return my item but Uber didn't let her contact me.

That permanently cost Uber a customer because now I know that they'll try to use dark patterns to screw me over any chance they get.
Schools produce Computer Scientists, but companies want Software Developers. When interviewing new grads, the CS questions are just weed out questions like a hard sophomore level class.

But if you don't how to build a passable REST API, when to use an event queue instead of a database, or experience with a build system you are far from my ideal candidate.

In all reality, my advice for anyone in college today is to get an internship during school, and try to convert it into a full time position. Good luck getting a position with no internship experience.
I would add that sometimes, getting really in trouble is what helps some younger people straighten up in life. It's a disservice to the poor to ignore their crimes against others.
Huh, you're right.

I just checked my Facebook feed, and there's an ad every four posts.

But like AOL, it feels like more.
> most old apps have 10ˇ5 users, but new apps, those only one or two years old, have less then 10ˇ2 users ... What happened? Are schools only using pre-installed apps?

Schools and school systems don't buy software directly from app stores, like consumers do. Generally, they decide to use a particular piece of software based on public standards, best practices within the educational community, or academic research on efficacy. Then they will usually buy a site license or subscription that provides access for all their students.

If you are trying to get schools to use your software, it probably makes sense to explain its value via the channels that schools are paying attention to.
Hm. I like the approach except for the overloaded meaning of packed. In C, packing means byte-aligned packing, rather than bit-packing. These seem like separate concepts. (Both are useful! I just think bit-packing should get its own special name.)
Can you elaborate on how they charged you $15 to call the driver? I don't use the app.
> tip required

Really? I've never tipped a cab, though I rarely use them. What happens when you don't tip?
Uber launches rider loyalty rewards like credits
I have a pet theory.

These investors aren't investing their money, but someone else's money. If Uber folds now, these investors are to blame. But if Uber folds when the great crash (a-la 2001 and 2008), then, well, it's the entire economy - not the individual investor's fault.

So they do whatever is needed to keep Uber with high book value until the big crash. What's $20B of other people's money to maintain your sterling reputation as a smart investor?
Yeah, that stuff isn't part of Google Cloud Platform.

But trust in the stability of products can't be siloed that easily.
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Been there. And if you pay for a $30 fare with $40 they won't have change to give you and will "keep the tip". I believe that's the last time I took a cab anywhere.
I left his car, checked the app (my address was correctly entered). Then I hailed a regular taxi and when I got home I filed a complaintto Uber and got refunded.
Any idea where the actual numbers are? I can't find any link in the Bloomberg text.
>On a conservative news site called the NTK Network, dozens of articles blasted Google and Apple for unsavory business practices. One story called Mr. Cook hypocritical for chiding Facebook over privacy, noting that Apple also collects reams of data from users. Another played down the impact of the Russians’ use of Facebook.

>The rash of news coverage was no accident: NTK is an affiliate of Definers, sharing offices and staff with the public relations firm in Arlington, Va. Many NTK Network stories are written by staff members at Definers or America Rising, the company’s political opposition-research arm, to attack their clients’ enemies. While the NTK Network does not have a large audience of its own, its content is frequently picked up by popular conservative outlets, including Breitbart.

Facebook employed content writers posing as journalists, as hired guns against their enemies. A page out of the playbook of the Internet Research Agency.
Most will be replaced, and most of the replacements will also be locally sourced.

Company A creates a “new” job. They hire an employee of Company B, who in turn poaches a replacement from Company C, and so on.

It’s fair to assume that some hires will be new arrivals to NYC, and some might come from the pool of unemployed. Most will have simply hopped from one employer to the next, replacing one job opening with another.
I didn't have the driver's phone number so I had to use the Uber app to contact the driver, that's when they charged me the $15.
Ameritech/SBC, now AT&T, received, IIRC, circa $750 million in incentives to deploy universal access to high speed Internet throughout Illinois.

The ink was hardly dry when they turned around and lobbied the Illinois legislature to let them out of their side of the deal -- while keeping the incentives.

The current Foxcon deal in Wisconsin is looking more and more like Foxcon won't be coming through on all their rosy prognostications. Meanwhile, the SE corner of Wisconsin is all torn up, being rebuilt to accommodate them. In addition to all the other incentives.

And again, it will end up a struggle as to how much they get and what their ultimate deliverables will be.

And often as not, the public side of the equation is far outgunned in terms of very expensive and specialized lawyers.

I'd prefer my communities not even engage in this. Don't open that door. Focus on the people and businesses you already have, and on not screwing them for the sake of some outsider's "vision" -- especially when that "vision" is making said outside, and the local "development" talent they've recruited, very much richer.
My god, you're bitter for a startup founder! As a veteran founder myself, I'd be excited: this brings talent to fuel my startup, this brings interactive infrastructure, etc.

Amazon and Google are not regular employers: your startup pays outlets in taxes and mooches off infrastructure. The big companies find that with real profits.

Finally, $48k/employee is peanuts to a big city startup, and typically that kind of money is available from accelerator/etc programs.
This is not a very useful comparison. You can say that there is less energy in a stick of dynamite than a chocolate chip cookie, and yet, that stick of dynamite should still be handled carefully.
I think it's interesting that despite all the idealism of SV, the minute bad press happens and stock takes a dive, morale is similarly hit. Shows how money oriented the entire environment is; at the end of the day, it's all about the cash.
Th discussion of ssh is interesting and calls to mind the SUPDUP protocol, which moves all the character echoing, cooked mode, and even some local editing — including screen movement for Emacs!) to the local (user end) of the network connection. Might be worth reviving.
I don't know my rating but I never did anything inside an Uber to deserve a low rating.
> In a study, researchers found that people using an online sexual health forum featuring computer graphics, called icons

Wow...this reads like news about the "World Wide Web" and "Information Superhighway" from 1995. Takes me back.
Cold and warm are relative. 0 for freezing / snowing and 100 for boiling gives you a much more understandable range. Honestly, US metrics don’t make any kind of sense anymore...
I think you're being unfair.

"This add-on was installed and set to ‘OFF’ and made no changes in the user experience unless it was explicitly turned on by a user, but it was added. Even when turned on no user data was collected or shared."
I can imagine there are very solid reasons related to stalking that result in Uber wanting to make it hard to contact past riders or drivers in either direction.
RSUs still need to vest, and while you are not under water if the price drops you are definitely looking at a much smaller payoff for sticking around another year. The long tail of RSU payout over the vesting period also means that when things are going up you have an incentive to hang around because those early RSUs are paying off big, but if the price drops then there is really no incentive. The golden handcuffs are not a single RSU grant but the cumulative effects of several years of grants all slowly paying out -- a sagging price means that the big payoffs you were expecting from the tail end of early grants that have appreciated significantly are suddenly much smaller payoffs than you had been counting on. Yes, it is still a nice pile of money, but you had several years of watching it become a big pile of money and seeing it shrink makes you start to wonder if the grass is greener at places that are not as morally bankrupt...
It makes a subset of what are currently C pointers—arrays in argument position—into fat pointers.
Cuomo's just looking for new innovative ways to take money out of the MTA budget. The fact that there will be more people trying to ride the 7 train just puts icing on the cake.
If you can successfully blockade an interior group, sure. But that interior group has the ability to strike back and away from their interior that they want to hold. America's infrastructure is totally not hardened. The millions in prisons also make for a potential pool of manpower. All I'm really saying is any actual conflict would play out a lot different than the real civil war we had, or any of our foreign continent excursions where the enemy can't really strike back.
If a game update goes wrong, they can just send down another update. If a Steam update goes wrong...

(This has sort of happened. Valve managed to roll out a version of the launcher for Linux a while back which used instructions not available on older CPUs, and crashed before it reached the point where it could check for updates. Was a pain. Normally, if Steam exits uncleanly they force an update check immediately on next restart, but if it never gets that far you're screwed.)
Saw a web app that did this a few years ago. Likely the companies made changes to their API’s. Would love to see it again though.
The one time I remember that I didn't tip a cab, he swore at me, wadded up the receipt and threw it at me. This made my expense report somewhat more difficult.
From people that work there they are hiring unlimited headcount to work on integrity teams - the goal of which is to stop the kind of manipulation that happened in the 2016 election.

Given the decisions Facebook has made Zuck seems like a really good CEO and when FB makes something their focus they usually pull it off - fixing mobile, instagram moves against snapchat, etc.

The impression I get from people that work there is that it's not just talking points.
I love chocolate sorbet, but I don't want chocolate sorbet on my pants. I feel the same way about empty jokes in discussion threads.

If you are contributing to the conversation, your joke will probably get upvoted for the insight it brings. If your joke doesn't contribute to the conversation (e.g. the joke above was just a pun), it will rightly get downvoted because that's what you're supposed to do with comments that don't contribute to the conversation.

There are lots of other places on the Internet we can go for jokes — most forums, actually — so I think it's OK for some places to try to push for a higher signal-to-noise ratio.
You can order taxis on uber too.
Don’t trans people take the hormones associated with the opposite sex to become more like that sex? I.e. a male-bodied transwoman will take estrogen, and in turn her body becomes more feminine. The reverse for transmen.

That would seem to indicate that testosterone/estrogen have (on average) the same response in both male and female bodies, either masculinizing or feminizing.
pyrolytic perhaps?
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> I don't want to vote in a way in which my statement is that I equally prefer the Democratic candidate to Green Party candidate.

This is a pervasive logical fallacy, we call the "expressiveness fallacy".
https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/expressiveness

In short, you could allow partial approvals (1/4, 1/3, etc.), or mathematically equivalent ratings on a 0-N scale. But Approval Voting behaves almost as well in aggregate.
http://scorevoting.net/BayRegsFig.html

And IRV/RCV will maintain two-party duopoly.
https://asitoughttobe.com/2010/07/18/score-voting/

Voting theory is highly counterintuitive.
I see this as nothing more than a fun poke by Mozilla at the overwhelming majority of the technology industry—those who treat privacy as a nuisance at best and as a non-event at worst. Mozilla are giving people like myself the fun of clicking on the Amazon Echo or Google Home and voting "Super creepy," chuckling to ourselves about our virtuousness before closing the tab in Firefox.

I doubt they expect this page to be used by many laypeople. Maybe a few techies will toss a link out to their families as a rough crowdsourced assessment of the degree to which some popular devices respect user privacy. The inclusion of several nearly-unknown high-privacy options seems to be a reminder that there are alternatives; probably more difficult to use or less capable, but alternatives to the mainstream data-harvesting devices you see routinely advertised.

I think it's lighthearted fun intended to illustrate Mozilla's mission of being advocates for privacy, to a degree that we have become unfamiliar as a society in the age of everything-as-a-service.

Yeah, there are probably some inaccuracies. But frankly, unless you're selling a device that allows you to run the services on your own host using open source software (the way Mozilla does [1]), it's fair game to say that it's possible you are not sufficiently respecting user privacy. How can we as users be sure if all we can measure is that, indeed, the device sends data off-network to the "cloud?"

If you genuinely respect user privacy, you should allow a user to wholly own the data in the most pure form possible: they never send it to you.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-services
All of that would be true in any other location. One could argue other locations actually need such infrastructure more. Amazon was not hiding the fact that they would build HQ2 anyways, and in USA. There was absolutely no need to donate them taxpayer money for it. And if you do, then taxpayer should own the infrastructure, with Amazon paying for use.
That is pretty shitty. It use to be that drivers had to return stuff on their own dime, I think the fee is supposed to pay them for that time.
It was 5 AM or so, many many people at that hour is trying to catch taxis and so on. I think he was preying on really drunk people that can't think properly.
Genocide is far harder when a significant portion of the population you want to remove possess small arms and the will to use them.
Note, that first thread didn't point out any of the positive externalities GP did.
Simple answer: Japan is up to their necks in money. Anybody can take a few billion off SoftBank.
Except for weather, it’s never 100 C outside, or else we’d all die.