skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an economic standpoint if the winner is substantially more effective, the cost of producing the product is high, and the marginal costs of servicing additional users are small the system will end up as winner takes all. This is common in the software, sports and entertainment industries.

Because service like Lyft depends on more than just the software to provide the end service so the product is not substantially better. For the most part the drivers are also working for the competition, the time to get to the destination, and the overall cost will be similar. At some level the network effect is part of both the barrier to entry, and the quality/value of the product but it is not clear if this is enough to end up on top of a winner take all market.
Stupid-tax, it exists.

If you demand protection by the law against being taken advantage of, the law should strip you on a gradient of your rights & obligations as a adult for the return of your "investments".
Somebody who is not capable to evaluate a product and believes in magic, shouldn't have the guardians right to decide against vaccination for their kids.
I'm wondering why they decided to keep the Edge brand. It seems dropping it and the "e" logo all together would be ideal. The logo beit IE or Edge has negative emotions for many users. I am excited for this though, because I will probably make the Microsoft browser my default once it launches since it will finally have access to the vast Chrome extension library. But, I still think they will struggle with adoption just from a branding standpoint.
Emacs has multi-cursor support. http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html
> The US government ignores their laws

and yet

> Apple stared down the FBI in a mass murder case, because it was [legally] possible for them to do so.
well, if you look at it now, webkit is BY FAR not the dominant engine.

So, by your own logic, if Microsoft ends up in a disagreement with Google about the direction of chromium, whats to stop them from just forking it and becoming the new dominant engine?

Chrome will only remain the dominant web browser as long as its users view it as worth the hassle. If Edge is built upon chromium in the future, I'm not going to sit here and say that Chrome will remain the dominant browser following that.

We can sit here and talk about 'what ifs' all day.
I'll call it Rick's law: Roughly every 4-5 years, Li-ion battery prices will halve
ConsenSys Confirms Layoffs, Projecting 13% of Staff at Startups to Be Cut
MinHashing – Clustering enormous datasets with a few lines of code
XML for databases: a dead idea
Compared to other OSes? Partially. If my memory serves me right, on RISC OS, the middle button menu is the only menu; there is no menu at the top of a window or screen, so it also includes the File, Edit, Help, etc., submenus. So as a concept it is much cleaner. And the right button extends a selection (so you don't have to drag to select, saves your wrist and is more precise), and often has an alternate meaning when clicking on an item, but never gives a menu.

Also good to note that RISC OS had these context-sensitive menus before the Mac or Windows did.
...or whether the web can/should support any technology that could possibly threaten Google's dominance.
> The age difference between these tools and those found in the Rift Valley is too short for the stone technology to have journeyed across the deserts and mountains to North Africa

You are an archeologist, keep digging, don't tell me 200.000 years was a short time ...
Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech Is Supposedly on Track
It seems to me you're the one "choosing to be offended by" the article here. As others have said, it is not saying "Tumblr can't do this".

The only two reactions against "Tumblr is banning porn" I've seen are: "This is a dumb move that will kill Tumblr which has a huge adult following" and "The NSFW filters suck and will be overly broad, banning far more than porn".

Both are correct. Tumblr has existed for over a decade and the porn fight is one they've had before, and lost for those same reasons. I don't believe Oath cares enough about Tumblr to be even sort of careful with it, so they're just bulldozing the place into the most standard corporate-approved "social media network" they can think of.

(Disclaimer: I don't care about Tumblr at all, but I've seen enough of these uninspired acquire&bulldoze ploys to recognize them now)
Uber lets you tip now.
Also, congrats for Rust 2018 :)
I tried a calculation for an electric car, and was going to adjust the wh/km consumption but was told: "Electric vehicles don't consume fuel." I wish that were true :)
> This is why Tesla is valued higher than GM, Daimler or pretty much any other car company. Tesla at it's heart is a battery company with products built around that.

It was Samsung, not Tesla, who supplied the actual cells [1]: Tesla’s giant new Powerpack project in Australia will use battery cells made by Samsung

[1] https://electrek.co/2017/08/09/tesla-powerpack-project-austr...
Uber has supported tipping for a while now.
uber added this like 2 years ago
The author of this article hand-waves away the speed advantages of one browser engine over another.

I'd be inclined to agree, except, am I the only one who has seen a marked speed advantage in Firefox Quantum over other browsers? I'm reminded of how I felt about Chrome in the early days. Everything just seems to load in ever-so-slightly more quickly.

I still use Safari on macOS due to Apple's nice touchpad gestures, but on Windows I'm now Firefox all the way. Not just because I like what Firefox represents, but because I find the experience markedly superior.
PHP 7.1.25 Released
The headline calls for these legendary clips from Red Dwarf to be inserted into the comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWN8AhNER0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r5Ynz-a7Io
Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed, dominate world today
Allow me to change username/email while I'm at it!
You should read more into this, but even though switching seems easy in theory, the truth is different. Going through another driver application process / training takes time, and even then using two apps creates extra annoyance. You would be surprised how lazy People are even if there was a way to grow their earnings through switching.
The NIH's decision to require open access a year after publication was actually a huge step forward, and that must have been a decade ago now. Pretty much everyone who isn't a publisher would prefer it be immediate, but there's a limit to what the funding agencies can do without congressional approval (or interference).
> Haskell and OCaml as implementation languages would signal huge academic bias

Apparently reading papers from the past 30 years is a "huge academic bias."

I'd honestly be fine if it was implemented in Racket too.

> inability to come up with a usable language or at least there exists a negative correlation with those languages.

No one has ever actually offered me a substantive argument that Haskell is unusable. It always seems to be "well, I don't personally understand it, and that means it's unusable" Uhh okay.
> I believe it's mostly a question of company culture and perhaps the expenses the employer needs to pay (gov tax, etc).

I agree, it's the company wanting to evade taxes but getting you to incorporate so that all the risk is shifted on to you. I suspect it is also to lower your leverage because you don't get EI if laid off so they can push you harder without repercussion. Not even mentioning how easy it is to get rid of a contractor without notice or severance vs an employee.

I wonder why so many accept it, I suppose people don't realize how drastic the punishment is if you're deemed an incorporated employee and only think about today's savings by paying a 15% tax rate.
When do you think child pornography was not banned?

It's widely believed to be an issue of effective enforcement, and they explicitly call out the connection in their own announcement.
This is the first time someone has so clearly made TSLA’s value so clear to me. I get it. Damn.
Not sure why you jumped to trickery. I got them handed at the same time, actually in the same DocuSign pdf. They were basically an addendum mentioned in the contract that required a separate signature, even though the signing was required by the main work contract and non-optional. I guess it's just a way to create a better overview like we split stuff in multiple files in programming.

The thing is you don't have much way to negotiate this stuff with companies of a certain size. It's done by their lawyer and everyone gets the same stuff. Just changing we wording on the relocation and signing bonus (because the original wording made absolutely no sense in my case) took over a week of mailing stuff between lawyers and the headquarters in a different country. It's take it or leave it. Crossing stuff out with your pen or not handing in some documents might even get you sued for deception.

Sure this is different for small companies without a big HR department that is hiring on a daily basis and without complicated legal department processes. There is a good chance they just skip the NDA/NSA if you object (seen it happen), when they think you are the best man for the job.
> But I can't blame anyone but myself, because I don't use Edge

The problem is not with you or other users, the problem is with using adoption as a metric to determine success/failure of a browser. Sure FF needs adoption for funds, but for companies funded outside of that model a browser needs a BDFL not subject to the whims of adoption levels during different internet periods for us to have a vibrant ecosystem. But it won't happen because renderer implementation count is the least important and most costly metric.

IMO, what's happening here is not based (mostly) on adoption, rather it's about upkeep. The level of effort for browser maintenance outweighs its value for most regardless of user count. Hence the want to leverage existing codebases, share code, and add little flexibility that would exponentially expand the maintenance surface area. This will remain the general trend until a new form of hypertext (or a reduced form of existing) is in widespread use with the goal of implementation ease instead of just targeting ease. I don't suspect that'll happen anytime soon either if ever.
As someone who used to write frontend blog posts, I found this issue particularly frustrating, as an author.

I have posts about Angular.js, webpack, React Apollo, etc and they become outdated every 6 months.

The problem is that I wouldn't know about it. Despite having lots pageviews and me asking readers to help notify me in comments, people just come, read and close the window. So the one way I found out they were outdated is when I actually went back to reference them for my own work. It's not fun.
> What am I missing?

The word Bitcoin.
That's fair, tumblr is very much being politically correct in that sense. I'm just so used to it being a right-wing insult against basically anything leftist.
Commendable effort, but badly outdated already.

For example, the best result on CIFAR-10 for density models that I know of is 2.85 bits per dim (PixelSNAIL) rather than 3.35 (Glow), and this is a year old. PixelCNN++ is well known, and got 2.92.

For classification on CIFAR-10, current SOTA is much better than the 2015 Fractional-MP result (which also used non-standard augmentation, so perhaps not directly comparable to the rest)
You're quite close. There is a also a cost lowering network effect in ridehailing
Shows me for not actually double-checking, I was pretty convinced. Is that a recent addition or is there another editor I'm thinking of?
There is, kind of, https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-frontchannel-1_0.htm...
There are a limited number of grid topologies where a battery can add this kind of value. It's really unusual to be this extreme.
It is quite false to suggest comparison between Emacs and Vim is like comparing a "car to a speedometer". Vim is not just an editor, it is an "extensible-editor" in much the same way as Emacs is.

I don't care if Emacs was born as a lisp machine, the fact is that the modern Vim-garden has as many add-on plugins and apps written for Vim as exist in Emacs' garden, possibly more. And in many cases the Vim extensions are better, despite being hobbled by an inferior extension language.
Just as a sidenote, Rust's compiler was first implemented in OCaml after all, is Rust "academic and unusable"? ;)
Thanks! That makes much more sense than a TV station.
GRC is not known for giving much importance to marketing.
After learning about this a few days ago, I created a Laravel package for managing .well-known URLs: https://github.com/tnorthcutt/laravel-well-known

I plan to add other URLs that make sense as well.
So in the case of Android, you would have phones with replaceable batteries running old OS’s that the manufacturer abandons unpatched security holes.

Give me a phone that can run the latest OS for five years that I can take to the Apple store and get the battery place for $79 ($29 until the end of the year) any day.

Besides, the processors that are in most low end and midrange Android phones are so horrible compared to 4 year old iPhones, I can’t imagine them keeping up with new software.
Well, advertisers are going to do their job as well as they can, defined by the amount of money their methods bring. They can't track in newspapers or movies because there's no feasible way to do so. If you want a business to not do something that brings it more money, you'll have to introduce legal liability that makes that something not worthwhile. That's probably GDPR, in a nutshell.
The words do come off harsh but they come from a passionate but frustrated place. I think everything raised is a valid point that Bitcoin will eventually self-improve on; however, the fact that accounting with Bitcoin is a nightmare is also a function of regulations... which may be less likely to change.

I don't think that the added complexity of 2nd layer improvements will keep Bitcoin from being a standard in the business world.
Normal rs232 is run through shielded cables as well. It was standard practice to wire the d-sub connectors to the cable shields. The wires themselves may not have been shielded, but the cable was shielded against being an antenna.
app bloat, the app size is too big for a simple example
I suspect it's because most Java and C# engineers are "enterprise" engineers who work on mostly CRUD applications. Go and Ruby would be more aligned for a startup. Given that TripleByte's interview process is more technical and computer science oriented, I'm not surprised they score less. It's mainly about the types of problems you solve at work and how well you keep technical knowledge fresh.
Humanitarian Highlight 12/6: Social Responsibility
I believe he is referring to the area he traveled through after he left Lucca, not Lucca itself, which is on many tour itineraries.
Except they are stepping AWAY from C# here, not towards it.

And the game-industry as a whole is moving to data-oriented design, which tends to be hard to do at best (if not downright impossible) in most GC'd languages.

Regardless the transition from C to C++ has no performance cost (often a performance advatnage), so I'm not sure why you're bringing that up as some significant migration in this case? It doesn't support any argument for a transition from C++ to C# or similar, as that comes with a huge performance cost. Particularly in an era where CPU performance hasn't improved for almost a decade now.
Are sublime multi-cursors different from code multi-cursors?
There’s only two possibilities.

Either white people are undeserving of tech roles...

Or white people are superior to black people.

You have to pick one or the other. I don’t see a third way to explain an employment gap.
> I think a valid point of criticism is that this increases the centralization of the web.

this = ??? OCSP stapling?

I fail to see how it increases centralization.

> I think it's already a notable shift that an HTTPS server must periodically connect to the internet in some way to get a renewed certificate - but with OCSP Stapling, the requirement seems to be that the server queries the CA in realtime, i.e. has a permanent internet connection.

Both points you've made here suffer from oversimplification.

1. web server does not need to connect to the internet; an agent with access to the key does. rather, an agent that acquires a signed CSR, so this doesn't mean the server has to share the key, just a signed CSR.

2. server does not need to query in realtime, just once/day and it can be done in advance, not "on demand".

> All of this is clearly necessary to keep HTTPS secure (as the article described very well)

Perhaps this is just a difference of opinion, but I don't think the article makes the case that this helps at all. Consider a state-run CA that mints certificates for state purposes (and of course client browsers are forced to use the trust anchor). It simply doesn't include the stapling option in the cert, or it points to its own OCSP server.
Because of the popularity of VS Code on HN, I decided to give it a try. It's good. Much better than Electron or Atom for my workflow. And much faster IME.

The one thing that keeps me from switching from my current IDE is the lack of Whitesmiths brace formatting. I'd pay up to $15 for a Whitesmiths plugin. Until then, I can't change. But I'll keep checking.
> Arguably Google is already abusing their monopoly power but in the way that people like. I'm talking about AMP.

Do people actually like AMP?

I hate it and strongly wish I could disable it for all Google search results. It's supposed to make pages load in more quickly, but for some reason they always seem to be slower for me.
Show HN: Boulder Dash type of game in Elm
More links here (source code, level editor etc.): https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/a3cemn/i_made_a_boulde...

Direct play link https://jordymoos.github.io/elm-pixel-boulder-game/?startLev...

Sorry I posted the editor link by mistake, just click Play on the page :-)
Tbh i preferred Uber exactly because of no option to tip, but like other people have pointed it out, you can tip in Uber.
Why Black Hole Interiors Grow (Almost) Forever
This is just the RF version of the apple ][ speaker playing audio. Toggle a binary pin attached to something analog fast enough and you can approximate a signal (plus a ton of harmonics).
I haven't tried Firefox, but Hangouts with video works in Safari for me.

I had to bookmark a Hangouts room URL though, which I think I opened from within GMail some time ago. If I try to just load hangouts.google.com, it won't work.
> We are discussing the press' behavior in this thread.

I wasn't aware we were discussing just that.

It took people a while to figure out the potential downsides of social media, press included.

Are you going to tell me that if Facebook is dragged before parliament and congress that the press is supposed to not cover that so as to appear 'fair' to facebook?

Those events are newsworthy and they are being covered.

As far as privacy concerns, they seem legitimate to me, and also newsworthy to the layman, who may not have considered the side effects of using a voluntary surveillance platform such as facebook.

(Also I never really understood the urge to defend the powerful. Powerful organizations like facebook don't need our moral or material support.)
well in this case they only really talk about the one function so i.e. is not incorrect.
There are a lot of white collar jobs where being able to do a bit of coding, if only at the level of Excel functions, is somewhat useful.

If I had kids, I think making sure they learn to code would be sort of medium-priority. Less important than learning to swim. More important than learning to dance. Perhaps on par with speaking a second language well.
Does anyone know what the extension ecosystem of this new Edge will look like?
the unix way is small tools for small jobs.

if you have to debug the OCSP renewal, would you rather debug an entire web server (and update it), or just the behind the scenes renewal tool, which doesn't require an interruption to ... web serving.
I would like more detail on the calculation for their emissions/km number. In California, they list 148g/km, but the Union of Concerned Scientists has the California electric grid at 93g/km. That's a significant difference, and I wonder if they're taking the production profile of the CA grid into account.
Way to miss the point.

Lawyers exist to mitigate legal risks, not to solve racism. The parent was just pointing out that anything documented that admits racism occurred creates legal liability. The triggered the lawyers defense mechanisms where they need to clearly document that there was no discrimination in the legal sense.

So the point is that there needs to be a way to report unconscious bias events for data points that don't put the company at legal risk just by having them on record.
It’s a Model S 85 with not quite 60,000 miles. From what I hear from other owners, this is slightly better than average but not much. I haven’t done anything special to treat it well, either. I charge it to 90% nightly (the default), charge to 100% before long trips, and have used Superchargers for maybe 20% of those miles.
Uphold email breach – phishing email sent from their own email account
Does this also apply to batteries in electric cars?

I had an argument with my Dad the other week, he wasn't convinced by electric cars because of the battery disposal situation, complaining he finds it hard enough trying to dispose of a normal battery in a petrol car, so couldn't see the environmental benefit of electric cars

I didn't have a good response because I didn't know either.
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Retail Investors want to participate in the "transportation logistics market". Lyft is the first of many.

It's not zero-sum, given every car on the road can potentially be replaced by freelance drivers moving people and goods.
Ah thanks, didn’t see a link, but I probably just wasn’t looking for it. Looks like they’re undead now :-)
Why do people use the wrong there/their/they're?

Why do people match salmon colored items with rose ones?

Why do people sing off key?

They aren't themselves sensitive to the difference and don't think about it.
Trump hits Amazon, online retailers with proposed USPS changes (audio)
It's interesting. Taiwanese businesses need to consider their own election cycle as well as the American election cycle. At least they no longer need to worry about the Chinese election cycle!
I was going to say something to that effect, but who are we kidding - I'm sure Google tracks visitors to that site whether they go there via the AMP link or not.