skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think you understand how Uber/Lyft think about their drivers. They aren’t employees. In fact, drivers are their customers. There’s no “sustaining” drivers because they aren’t paying their drivers anything...they are just making a commission off of the driver’s own earnings. Uber and Lyft can’t and won’t “fire” drivers since, again, they aren’t employees.

The best way to think of drivers is that they are customers who are licensing Uber/Lyft software for lead generation for their own business. In a recession a seller of lead generation software (Uber/Lyft) is not going to turn customers (drivers) away. It just might not be profitable for you as a customer of lead generation software to buy it if there aren’t leads, but I don’t think anyone knows what will really happen to rideshare demand if the economy tanks. I think it will go down, but it might not go down as much as one might think.
How much does a clandestine international assassination cost? Why would anyone bother?
Yes, and the clothing industry is well known to be employee friendly and to generously share revenue with the whole supply chain.

The day they publish their margin and cost breakdown, I may listen to their PR BS.
Is there really a difference, in principle?

"Show me what you have concealed in your pockets" vs. "Show me what you have concealed in your devices" -- aren't these two commands legally equivalent?
Elizabeth Holmes is in jail?
> “I actually cannot count the amount of ‘stress casualties’ we had on Mass Effect: Andromeda or Anthem,” said a third former BioWare developer in an email. “A ‘stress casualty’ at BioWare means someone had such a mental breakdown from the stress they’re just gone for one to three months. Some come back, some don’t.”

Those poor developers... absolutely disgusting behavior by Bioware and EA management.
Real compelling argument.
Sure, but bear in mind that they are paying that price so that they can control the internet.
Things that cause growth are generally a very bad thing in biology, because they cause cancer. Look at a list of proteins key to cancer and you'll find tons of growth promoters, some of which have the word "growth" right there in the name (the G in EGFR, FGFR, VEGFR, IGFR).

Growth must be tightly regulated to not end up as cancer, so that's why it's not abundantly available.
> The cause is more a function of wealth inequality. The ultra-wealthy have so much money that they only need 1/100 to be a gusher.

It has nothing to do with wealth inequality. Whether you're pooling $100 from a million people, or $20 million from 5, the economics of venture capital are the same. Wealth inequality has nothing to do with this.

The purpose of venture capital (for investors) is diversification. It is an uncorrelated, positive (hopefully) return stream. Investors want to combine uncorrelated return streams as much as possible, due to the AM-GM inequality. The geometric mean of a series with a given arithmetic mean is higher when that series is less volatile.
There are definitely many images and graphics. I don't know if my sample is representative of most literature, but I don't think it's too far off..
Bezos Saudi hacking allegations lack detail: experts
These days OneBusAway is just one frontend for the data, the Transit app has the same information.
Of course legally it's not theft - all those lengthy licenses and disclaimers drawn up by legal departments that you have to agree to for an alarmingly large and growing list of goods and services make sure of that.

But legal or not, the effect is the same - they took your stuff. Unless we do something, this, and the violations of other rights you signed away, will become ever more commonplace. Right to a fair trial is already heavily restricted by omnipresent mandatory arbitration agreements. The fact that it's totally legal is of little comfort.
A very misleading title. But the content is nothing to get upset about. Reasonable people can easily disagree:

* Google didn't can can't block a new web browser from working.
* OP is making an _opensource_ browser
* OP's browser is specifically made for showing videos in some kind of P2P architecture.
* OP is upset because he can't play some other peoples' videos in his new browser.

The R in DRM, standing for Rights is relevant: this isn't your content, OP. Thousands of creatives, artists, and investors put time, sweat and blood into these. They've chosen DRM as the way to get paid. You have no right to their content. If you don't like DRM then vote with your feet - watch others' content, and find another way to compensate them.
at t -> infinity, the total amount of bitcoins in circulation tends to 0 because there is always a positive probability to lose any private key.
I confess I was being charitable.
I wish that were the reason. In large companies, the communication channels can be as bad as it is to outside customers. Put your energy into things that reward you back for good faith efforts. Large companies often have power structures entrenched by other factors than efficiency and function.
> Ms. Notopoulos

Plus... Notopoulos

Not O'Poulos.

Not of the chicken.

Not afraid.

We can conclude this isn't a real person, as they're not afraid to be outed, as in having their arms out wearing a vest.

Clever indeed.
"For years" is exaggerating. France is still cancelling night trains. The last few years, a small revival seems to have started, yes.
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This definitely looks like a convenient feature although it's something I would ideally have added right into Chrome. It is not really related to the streaming/syncing responsibilities of the app. Any site which plays video could benefit from this non-window-resize-fullscreen feature.

Another option could be creating two extensions: one for the video syncing, and one for the non-window-resize-fullscreen. That way if the latter gets rejected it wouldn't affect the former.

Note I'm sure some people definitely prefer the desktop app approach and I wish you all the best getting the approvals you need for that. This is just how I would prefer to use it.
I agree. At the very least, there should be some dialogue on whether the trade off is worth it. I lean towards yes, most people think we can get the privacy back without giving up the advantages. I'm not sure how, but I'd be interested.
A TPM is user owned by design. It is opt-in, you can delete the contents and create your own keys, password protect access etc.
Even better would be to just use standard input/output. Like so (assuming pandas accepts ordinary file handles for reading and writing CSVs; I have very limited experience with it, and I tend to avoid Python in general):

#!/usr/bin/env python
# process-csv.py
import pandas

def expensive_operation(data):
# TODO
return data

input_data = pandas.read_csv(sys.stdin)
results_data = expensive_operation(input_data)
results_data.to_csv(sys.stdout)

Or maybe even shorter (I think this is valid Python?):

#!/usr/bin/env python
import pandas

def expensive_operation(data):
# TODO
return data

expensive_operation(pandas.read_csv(sys.stdin)).to_csv(sys.stdout)

And then use it like so:

$ python process-csv.py <input.csv >results.csv

Or like so:

$ csv-generating-command | python process-csv.py | csv-consuming-command

You could even do a quick

$ chmod +x process-csv.py

And then call it directly

$ ./process-csv.py <in.csv >out.csv

Or copy it to somewhere in your $PATH

$ cp process-csv.py ~/bin/process-csv

At which point you can run from anywhere

$ cd /literally/anywhere/else/
$ sudo pip install csvcat # or something
$ csvcat *.csv | process-csv >~/Documents/results-201904021616.csv

Of course, we could get even crazier with a custom Pip package or whatever the actual terminology is (egg?) and do all the setup.py and requirements.txt and whatnot that Python packaging entails and yadda yadda yadda, but that's probably overkill for a one-off script. Point is: your fancy Macbook has a full-blown actual UNIX™ on it, so might as well put it to good use :)
It's a start, but really fixing the problem would be correcting a mis-regulated market with regulations and encouragements that create many kinds of housing, retail, office, and production (Industrial zones) to regulate market price from the supply side.

Regulating the demand requires making more cities worth living in; same basic ideas (create useful civil infrastructure), but harder since the money has to come from outside. Well, or we could do WWIII, an pandemic, etc, to constrain population in less pleasant ways.

15 USD/hour SHOULD be a livable wage, and the fact that it isn't reflects the insane rent-seeking, regulatory capture in all sorts of forms, and unhealthy market dynamics leading to inflation outpacing economic prosperity increases (for a majority of the population).
I thought the punch line would be that he'd wake up parked on a siding in a Warsaw suburb 8 hours later. If Amtrak was in charge that's definitely what would have happened.
Actually, the train system in Melbourne, Australia was doing exactly this to passengers in the very recent past. The private operators realised that there were penalties for getting to the end of the line late, but not for missing stops, so they just told the passengers who wanted to get off to suck it!
The lead bus is much less equipped to skip a stop if it has more passengers, because there's a greater chance of a passenger needing to stop to disembark. In Chicago, you will see a trailing bus skip but it can do so because the driver hasn't gotten and cord-pulls to signal someone getting off.
> I'm quite sure Boeing knows the answer to these questions. I suspect the FAA knows the answer to these questions. And when you say "we don't know" I think you mean HNer's engaged in discussion, who maybe aren't even aware that quite a lot of things are mandatory for obtaining transport category aircraft airworthiness certification.

I mean that the general public doesn't know that indeed. And thanks for the references, I'll look them up. The original post I replied to was specifically saying that what you are now describing is not allowed (these types of planes being unstable) should be acceptable.
You're still dodging my point.
Rare Persian manuscripts dating back to 13th century now online
Interestingly enough in Europe there are places [1] where you can take a train which goes on a ferry, so you can take the ferry while you take the train

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogelfluglinie
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And now that Colin Kavanaugh has made waves, others can tag along, and force still more companies to de-brand.
Border responses are little different to the support the average person gets from a tech giant. You get the response you get and that’s it. You need deep pockets, serious friends or an online furore or you have no choice but to remain oblivious. As with the tech giants, for the decent people caught up by mistake, it’s frustrating and terrifying.
> which they are legally obligated to do as far as I understand

Says who? Do their ToS even address what happens if they're bankrupt?

It sounds like Apple can legally do whatever they want if they go bust: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/30810/what-happens-i...

I expect the same is true of all the other major cloud providers.
Absolutely. The title isn't just sensational, it's misleading. OP's browser is opensource and uses a P2P-like architecture. It sounds incompatible with current rights management.

OP sounds like he feels entitled to others' work and efforts. If he wants to play videos in his browser, he can make them. Or find people who will make videos for free for him.
We don't usually call them "commodity" businesses, then.

My examples are imperfect - Southwest and GEICO aren't pure commodity businesses, the fact that they even have brands indicates that. It's just that it's hard to point to examples that people have heard of when, by definition, a commodity business is one where you don't care who produces the product.

A better example might be sugar, or wheat, or iron ore, or screws, but I have no idea who produces those. Actually, there's a good one: oil. Oil is a pure commodity business (gasoline is the same regardless of where it comes out of the ground), and it has the expected behavior. The low-cost producers (Saudi Aramco) dominates, and they maintain their advantage through a combination of strategic application of technology, economies of scale, and owning natural resources that others can't match. And when Wall Street analysts evaluate the health of an oil company, the #1 metric they look at (besides the price of oil, which affects the whole industry) is the cost per barrel of oil.
I'm not sure if they publish their finances, but being employee friendly and boosting their supply chain is kind of a large part of their identity as a company. Maybe you consider it to be simply propaganda, but you are aware of the founder's book titled Let My People Go Surfing?
You're so completely right that the NSA, CIA, and more already agree with you!

The IC invests massive resources into enhancing security. I've seen it firsthand - software projects like SELinux and a whole slew of research projects come to mind in addition to stuff I worked on. Though if you've only ever been exposed to the other side of the house, it's easy to be ignorant that the defensive missions exist at all. Certainly it tends to not make any news, ever.
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Off-topic, I remember reading about the history of the online Bahn schedule lookup, it apparently started with a guy, not affiliated with them, who put the contents of the Bahn's CD-ROM timetable online. IIRC that was 1998.

Edit: 1994! The page: https://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/railserver/history.... , and it was just an email address where you could send an email with a special syntax

#FROM vonbahnhof
#TO tobahnhof
#DATE mm-dd-yy
#TIME hh:mm

and you'd get a reply telling you the train connections. From a cronjob that ran twice a day!

The (German) how it worked page is even more fascinating: https://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/railserver/technik....

"If we are at step 4 for a long time, I'm probably personally at the machine and doing some tinkering.". I love that there's no separation between a developer and productive system.
Every trace leads to http://www.mitchj.info but from there the trail goes cold...
Yes, I'm all for sleeper trains, but Sweden has the worst maintained infrastructure. They are trying to catch up after decades of neglect, but are open about expecting continuing disturbances for years to come. It is not only a nuisance, reimbursements or not; it's outright risky and a damn shame because we really need trains now

The "new economy" made popular round the turn of the millennium didn't deliver on it's promise of solving everything imaginable, just by turning maintenance of public assets over to lowest bidder private entrepreneurs. Go figure.
Will Smith's contrary view is that fame is great. You get treated better everywhere and people listen to your mundane opinions on anything. The pain of being ignored or rejected is vastly reduced, whether it's in your personal life, career etc.
Couple of questions,

- Are there any plugins to transform the saved output into HTML or other content (markdown)? Or does the user have to implement these?

- Whats the difference between this and the CodeX editor referenced in many places?

Edit: PS: The docs link to https://editorjs.io/usage but that url seems to be broken.
How do you manage combinatorial explosion as states increase?
http://onlineresize.club/pictures-club.html
that's by definition, worldwide. other forms of business are co-operatives, or collectively owned companies in communist countries.
> Electric trains exist

Not universally, so it's pretty obvious your rail experience isn't as universal as you think it is.
And I am so happy he did, since I missed it the first time.
I've never been to Vietnam and I wasn't attempting to describe any specific people. I was just addressing the idea that being poor is not a condition that might raise the bar for disposing of one's trash "properly" (or, for that matter, doing almost anything else). Where I live I spend $52 a month to have my trash picked up (and it just went up to $54). I can totally imagine a person or family who can afford to buy some things made of plastic (pretty much one of the cheapest materials in the world) but who would still be strained by an extra $50 obligation. Or people who can afford plastic but still live in a community that cannot afford to offer this service. I've seen photos of people living in mud and straw huts without windows or running water wearing Nikes so I suspect access to industrialized waste might be more accessible than you think.

And I'm not saying even the poorest individual can't handle their own waste, I'm just positing that the effort required to do so is inversely correlated with income.

If anything I'd prefer if people were more careless with their trash in the "nice" places since this is where most of the people responsible for designing and producing this stuff tend to live and under our current arrangement these minds are somewhat insulated from the actual impact of producing long-lived objects of marginal utility.
Agree with your critique of Wolff. I’m on a similar quest and have some resources you might find interesting. Feel free to reach out on gmail–same handle.
Yes, they did fix the line-endings for both Mac and Unix files.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/12/17563704/microsoft-window...
"Uniformly distributed" : the number of passengers is the same for every time of day

"Normally distributed": number of passengers versus time of day roughly looks like a bell-shaped curve, a Gaussian.

I hesitated writing this, pushing the pedantry up a notch, but then considered spacecraft crashing into Mars due to failure in technical communication, and recalled colleagues with college degrees in computer "science" who rejected the paradigm of Evolution of species as "only a theory", so here I am writing it down to remind myself of the difference between normal and uniform distributions.

Also, I worked briefly with some Ph.D. Queuing Theory people that one time.

Maybe there should be an academic discipline of "Commuter Science".
I love following the segment design team on dribbble https://dribbble.com/segment
seat61.com will tell you which site to use for which route.

reiseauskunft.bahn.de knows several languages, including of course English.

There are also some pan-European booking sites, like loco2.com, happyrail.com and a few others. But these don't always manage to find the saver tickets, so you're sometimes stuck with full price.
From slide 7 "Opera VPNFree | VPN for iOS and Android with 2M MAU. Anonymized subscriber data resold to third parties for market intelligence."
Implement rich link previews in a React chatroom
>I enjoyed the story but found the author(s) practically peddling Shannon's importance as if any of that was needed.

The vast majority of the public have never heard of Shannon, or have but don't really understand how important he was, so yes, it was needed.
There’s a Boston to Chicago route that is pretty cool. I took it to Chicago from Albany for less than $100 a few years ago.

The only problem is that the schedule is kinda of aspirational. The train from NYC attaches in Albany, and the times often don’t line up.

When the economy is good, the westward tracks are busy with frieight traffic so you wait.

I enjoyed the trip though and got a lot of work done.
That's fascinating. Are there any writeups on it?
Just googled around and I'm guessing the terms allow google to use the photos and associated metadata which sounds to me like it would be hugely valuable. For ML research, search, advertising, etc. If Google knows where my photos were taken, what products are in the photo, what car, etc.
throwaway for obv. reasons. employee ~30. Company IPO'd at over a 1B valuation. Post taxes, I got about $700k, and have another $1.2M in pending subsequent grants and RSUs that still has to be taxed and the options are more expensive. I'm hoping to pocket about $400k from that. I started as a mid-level developer making about $70k a year, and I've grown a lot. I'm still there. Still a developer. I make $190k/yr now. Had I gone straight into a FAANG, I think I'm ahead now, but for the longest time, I was behind. Now equity keeps me here (aside from actually really liking where I work). If I were to leave, I'd be tossing out 1.2M! That all vests over the next three years. So I really make more like 190k + 400k a year. No complaints. But I got a winning lotto ticket with this job.
I ran it on an iPhone 6 and it was fine. Your comment about "at least 3 apps" makes very little sense to me; iOS is notoriously aggressive with memory management, and apps must be designed to expect being killed at any time without warning, with only a few specific background tasks allowed to run (and generally for limited times with explicitly defined purposes). I'm sure my phone had upwards of a hundred apps on it, but generally speaking, only one or two were running at any given time because that's true of any iOS device.
And quite possibly a lack of interest from the customers of their site.
"Reflecting on my earlier experience of trying to share the project, it felt like I’d struck a corner of hypocrisy in our society and technology — pornography is a major part of internet usage and people’s daily lives, yet we’re not comfortable talking about it. Here was a fledgling technology that could improve the situation, but we moderate and bury it."

-> see e.g. "Ten indispensable technologies built by the pornography industry" (2011) http://www.enterprisefeatures.com/ten-indispensable-technolo... and "Does Porn Make Men Bad at Sex?" (2016) https://medium.com/@SexCoachSarah/porn-a-convenient-scapegoa...
You are correct. The parts of the flight envelope where this is a problem are very high (approaching critical) AoA, or in a very tight, highly banked turn. These would not be maneuvers I'd imagine any pilot engaging in without engine power except maybe in the most dire circumstances.
Farther than any number less than $15 will, certainly.
It's analogous to police "searching" a homeless person by throwing, tearing up and destroying all of their property without even reasonable suspicion... they do it and get away with murdering people time-after-time because they can under a thinly-duplicitous cover of qualified immunity (at least in the US).

Although police at the borders don't have to have any reasonable suspicion for searches, racial profiling, secret watch lists and targeted intimidation are a likely consequent of an unfettered military-industrial complex that long since ceased to do more than security theater and carry water for the corporate elites. So it should come with zero surprise that such an empire's law enforcement acts with impunity however it pleases and only ensures to "serve and protect" the rich elites' and their property, effectively creating a socioeconomic apartheid of gated communities and post-apocalyptic anarchist favelas, both in terms of geography and public discrimination, that tears a society apart into a failed, third-world, backwards country.
A few more points regarding (1). The longer a bus takes to arrive, the more people will accumulate at the next stop, thus compounding the problem. Also, all people don't board the bus at the same speed. The more people that accumulate, the higher likelihood you have of getting an outlier when it comes to boarding time (wheelchair, elderly, bikes, etc). So the later a bus runs, the later it's likely to be.