skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll play the contrarian and suggest that a space race is the best kind of national pride. If you're okay with football (soccer) or Olympics pride, this is, in my mind, better still.

And ironaically, as you suggest, when one country wins, we in fact all win.

I would much rather we fight to push back the boundaries of space than to hurl actual bombs at each other.
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By "less bad", I thought the comment was saying that Google/etc. actions are less objectionable. That's what I don't think is true. If I have misunderstood, then I apologize.
True, but that requires more effort on the officer's behalf, and isn't an on the spot check like blood alcohol level is.

Maybe if phone companies allowed officers to see timestamps of texts for a number this would work.
As an IPO n00b, I have basic question: Let's say I'm a startup founder with revenues in $10M and want to raise money. Can't I just go straight to IPO instead of making VC rounds? It seems you don't need to be profitable or even have to have great outlook. Meanwhile majority of IPOs are getting magically funded anyway no matter what. On the top of it you get to even keep most of the voting shares. So what are the minimum requirements to do IPO?
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So is every page on every major paper's site
Everything and the kitchen sink has been thrown at Assange. Grooming children from the embassy, meeting Russians in the embassy, meeting Trumps team in the embassy. At what point does you bullshit detector go off and you think "there are at least three people organizing this character assaination, that is the definition of a conspiracy"?
The major driver of procurement bureaucracy is exactly this sort of blatant, somewhat cynical, distrust in government.

Every requirement is designed to protect against arbitrary decision making, especially corruption but also just general "I like the vendor/product".

Corruption is self-explanatory, so let's focus on the second:

Instead of buying a Toyota because you liked the last one you drove, or because they offer a fancy color you like, you have to create a 500-item checklist of features you want in a car, and a scheme to evaluate and weigh all possible options.

If you forget a single important criterion, say "available in colors other than pink", the police department will now be driving in pink cars.
It's unsurprising that political leaders would want to convince people that the true criminals are those who expose acts of high-level political corruption and criminality, rather than those who perpetrate them. Every political leader would love for that self-serving piety to take hold. But what's startling is how many citizens and, especially, "journalists" now vehemently believe that as well. In light of what WikiLeaks has revealed to the world about numerous governments, just fathom the authoritarian mindset that would lead a citizen -- and especially a "journalist" -- to react with anger that these things have been revealed; to insist that these facts should have been kept concealed and it'd be better if we didn't know; and, most of all, to demand that those who made us aware of it all be punished (the True Criminals) while those who did these things (The Good Authorities) be shielded

https://www.salon.com/2010/12/24/wikileaks_23/
I think you're forgetting what we're talking about here. We're not talking about the distribution of people with valid IDs, we're talking about the distribution of opinions that making a racist assertion is offensive to the people it is targeting. Common sense will tell you that there is very likely an even geographic distribution in the US. But I think you're being deliberately petty and contrarian because you don't like the content of the video.
honest question: who does this benefit but yourself? I don't see a commit log or blame on your site for who wrote what.

Aren't you effectively claiming authorship for other's work?
Journalism gets First Amendment protections. So if you broke into someone's house, found out they were doing something illegal, then wrote an expose on it, your story would get First Amendment protections, but you would not be immune from being charged with breaking and entering.
Bodybuildingforum is one of the most entertaining and influential places on the internet. I honestly believe it to be on par with 4chan in scope of "internet cultural influence"
So you prefer being serviced by a machine

Yes
People ask to receive newsletters or RSS updates. Substack isn’t a middle-man it’s a carrier.

The problem with Facebook and Twitter is that they determine what a user sees, and are subsequently responsible for it.
Yes, that concerns me too. Where does inducement start? There must be case law on it and maybe it really is a bright line, but it seems like a bit of a reach.
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> And even when they do make it work, how is money going to be made by someone like Waymo?

SDC as advertising venue and usage info as advertising data source.
Good for them. IIRC, don't they use a lot of elixir? Is this the first public company to have a big elixir tech stack?
I can understand why a neural networks first is bad, but I don't understand the problem with GBM's
>Please don't post about how the law works from your gut feelings about the matter. This forum is awash in people just imagining what the law is every time it comes up. Go look at the law itself. There's no requirement as you've imagined there is.

I never made any claims about how US law works. Please do not misattribute such claims to me, it's not only dishonest but also quite rude.
Uber actually has one moat: their international presence. Other networks don't have it.

If you're a business traveler, you can Uber out of most airports without having to install the local application, and business customers are less price sensitive than local customers in general.

Definitely agree with your point about nobody having an allegiance for local rides, and it's not clear if Uber can defend against hyper local upstarts at scale.
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> What do you consider the other ones?

London obviously, but they might be turning inwards with Brexit and losing that status.

The next tier is Tokyo, maybe another Asian capital soon. Paris, Vienna, etc. were part of a Euro-centric world but don't have much relevancy beyond a holiday destination.

London and NYC both create culture from aspects of people from around the world, then export it. I don't see China being able to do this.
It's always weird to see articles like this talking about traditional forum sites as if no one uses them anymore.
I got a full-time programming job at 19
71% of China speaks Mandarin compared to 80% of America who can speak English.[1][2]

>Eat Noodle and Rice.

The cuisine of China is actually very varied. Rice is more common in the Southern and Middle parts of China compared to noodles which are found mostly in the Northern Parts.

You could not find a Dim Sum place in Shanghai compared to Southern cities because Dim Sum is more of a Southern tradition. While the cuisines of Shanghai are completely different than ones found in Xian, Xinjiang, and Hubei.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_China
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States
Assange wrote in a chat "No luck so far" to Manning.

Where you are from, can you go around trying to pick locks on front doors and are only prosecuted if you succeed? And the same with cars?
I think we all underestimate it. Driving a car in a road without assistance is solving the robot navigation problem forever. Its the answer to life, the universe and everything. There is still great progress and it will probably work in some limited sense.
Quick note that Facebook, unfortunately, has no real competitor for the sheer number of things it does. As soon as one comes out built for non-technical users the way Facebook is - and hopefully is a nonprofit - I’ll go running to it and encourage my friends, too.
Are they going to fare better then the human who are already exist right now that fight on behalf of the animal?
The cost of driving multiple platforms is pretty low. If the maps in my city are accurate, literally the same drivers are active on both platforms at once...

If there is significant regulation, like airport partnerships, that could be a good moat. Just like the taxis had
> Manning did not have administrative-level privileges, and used special software, namely a Linux operating system, to access the computer file and obtain the portion of the password provided to Assange.

Fun to see them exonerate themselves for using broken security by calling a hash a, "portion of the password".
Green card holders may own and purchase guns, and non-permanent residents may also own and purchase guns (but it's complicated).

This isn't really relevant to the point you're making in this thread, but figured I'd point it out anyways
I think the intent of the parent's question was to say why can't a group of drivers get together and create a ride sharing app that is jointly shared by all the drivers and just gives all the money to the drivers, hence taking no profit (rather than the more formal term 'non-profit' which has the tax implications like you say.)

Besides, companies only pay taxes on profits, so loss making companies don't pay any tax either. (And usually have some kind of ability to carry forward losses to reduce future tax bills)

Why would anyone work voluntarily for what would essentially just be a company that gave all it's profits to the drivers but expected them to work for free. Volunteers tend to work for causes they believe in for some ethical or moral reason, and while I sympathize with the drivers like I'm sure many do I doubt many would work for free so someone else can earn more.
Oh, wow, this jumped the gun for us. We weren't expecting to announce this until next week! It's also in a bit of a draft form, and we expect to improve this integration guide as we add partners.

Keybase's view: identity on the Internet should not be just about Twitter, Facebook, and the other superpowers. Your membership to any site might be meaningful to other people, whether that membership is to something small like a phpBB forum about motorcycles, or something big like LinkedIn or Etsy. Often, the smaller the community, the more meaningful and close-knit membership is. And the more that community might want access to secure tools such as Keybase. If you're on the forum, you might _really_ need to reach out to another user of that forum, securely.

It might be a good time to mention that Keybase is looking to hire an Identity Evangelist[1]. This would be someone with a tech background (i.e., from the HN crowd), who has great presentation skills and experience, and who wants to help other sites and apps integrate with Keybase.

[1] https://keybase.io/jobs#evangelist
I think the rating system is key and means the lower bound on drivers will be higher than taxis.
I asked because it changed the timbre of your anecdote from one of cars vs. bikes to one of race vs. race. Was this person yelling at you because you're on a bike, or because of your apparent race?
> Technological and social impact.

That's what makes SF a financial capital. What are its cultural contributions? Hoodies and overpriced coffee?

> SV owns the west's attention and behavior right now

Tech acts to capture and reflect culture, it doesn't create any. Even if it did, having companies based in SF wouldn't make the city itself a cultural capital. Just economic.
So, here a line from their "Consolidated Statements of Operations":

Other income (expense), net: 139, (16), 4,993

The three numbers representing 2016, 2017 and 2018. The company is _only_ $997M down for 2018 because of that $4,993M item.

Can someone explain what that is? Will it re-occur in the coming years?
I don't know the answers to your specific questions, but note that such late and humongous IPOs are a recent phenomena:
https://steveblank.com/2019/04/10/startup-stock-options-why-...

My guess is that $10M/yr in revenue is close to enough to IPO. It's just not popular recently.
That would require the gov't and big business to jump on board, and it's not clear why they would want to.
Indeed - I don't like him (but on this basis I'm not a great fan of myself either) - but what wikileaks exposed is important.
I'm not even saying it's true, or of importance, or of anything.

Just, as an example:

https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/

Here's something I hadn't seen before.
I didn't see this on my "morning news" - and I'd really just like to know if this is:

a) true
b) if it is, somebody I've employed will step up and defend/explain it.
Keep in mind these numbers are Uber's cut, which is probably around 20% in most markets. So the average far is probably around $10, which seems reasonable to me, considering there are some very low cost high volume markets it serves.
The 7 years of lies about Assange won’t stop now
Why do we give aid to space fairing nations? Couldn't the aid be better spent on our own space program?
This! Tree Sitter is the only thing I miss in VSCode
Telcos are already selling that, on more people. Why would Uber inferior dataset would be so valuable...
I suppose Assange's defense will be that he never actually even tried to crack the password- if he was lying or bloviating, he would not have actually done anything in furtherance of the conspiracy. If that turned out to be the case I'd be with you. But if you have chat logs saying "I will do the thing to try and help you commit a crime" then that sure seems like evidence that you did the thing, or at least tried to.
As someone from one of the regions the article claims is discriminated against, I have literally never faced discrimination on the basis of the region I'm from. And it's not like they can't tell given that my accent is quite heavy. The dialect I speak gets made fun of a lot but that's done as much by people from the region as by people from outside it. The fact that the article straight up opens with poorly done translations of online comments makes it pretty obvious that it's just another puffpiece using cherry picked examples.
I know we're talking about docs right now, which is where Scribble really shines. And when it comes to blogging/prose, I'd recommend Pollen[1], which is a writing system based on scribble. It is fairly lightweight and extensible with Racket (which is by the way actually a pretty awesome language).

I'm writing my college notes in it and couldn't be happier. The dev is very responsive on mailing lists and would gladly help you out if you have some trouble initially. There is a pretty thorough getting started guide on the linked page. There's a few blogs written in Pollen and even a few books (Ever heard about Flatland? Or Practical Typography?).

[1] http://pollenpub.com
Maybe. We'll have to create this reality to see what happens. Maybe we arm the animals in their struggle against their oppression. The sky's the limit.
My bad, I wasn't being very clear. What I meant with my second sentence was that it's thorough to the point of being a bit overwhelming for someone who's self-teaching. That said, I should probably revisit it and with a more recent edition.

Thanks for the response
> I think a lot of the verification problems for electronic voting could be solved by simplification and using old 'outdated' technology. You don't need a full fledged PC to tally votes, you need the computing power of a 30 year old calculator that could be built on a 2-foot wide board with large and simple traces. Something somebody at home with a multi-meter could probe around and test.

Even that's too complicated to be trustworthy. That's why I think optical scan ballots are the way to go: even a totally unskilled, untrained regular person would feel fairly confident that they could count them.

IMHO, all the technology investment should be put into processing and validating ballots after they've been filled out. Personally, I like the idea of a voter being able to feed their optical-scan ballot into a machine at the voting booth that will let them verify it will be read exactly as they intend. Then they carry it over to the ballot box to be tallied by a separate machine there.
> Did I ever suggest that

You called it a "supposed criminal act". Usually "supposed" used in that way means something similar to ostensible. That's why I started my post with "It's not supposed". In fact, that's the first definition Oxford gives for supposedly...
People vastly underestimate the work it takes to build Lyft/Uber because it's simple to use.

They would need someone to do all the legal/compliance work, validate drivers, handle marketing, handle payments, detect and combat fraud, resolve disputes, and the million other things you don't think about when you use the service.
I think we have a lot of growing up to do regarding the Swedish law concerning equality. My suspicion is that Sweden are 50 - 100 years ahead of the UK and the rest of the English speaking world when it comes to treating women with respect as a society and in law.

In our own mis-spent youths we assume some laws don't apply to us, it can be a simple thing like riding a bicycle on a pavement (sidewalk). Then we might flatten an elderly person as they step out their door, putting them in hospital and to no longer have their health. Only then does the penny drop and that the law is not a petty thing. Before that happens we might assume the policeman ticking us off for riding on a pavement is a 'jobsworth' who should be 'out catching murderers'. But no, the law - even this small one does matter.

I am hoping that aside from the Wikileaks circus that something good can come from this regarding how we see women. 'Well, she was asking for it' attitudes should not wash, regardless of how big the ego is. There was no evidence that the original charges were a pretext to nab Assange and send him off to some US courtroom. Assange should have faced the music and apologised for his conduct, then moved on as a free man having paid whatever fines/community service/prison spell the judged deemed appropriate.

If you are in a hole, stop digging. Assange kept digging.

Much has been made of the benefits of the Wikileaks sideshow but I don't see it that way. If someone had some important information to leak they might easily be discouraged to do so given how Wikileaks had monopolised that 'business' (and made it into a monetized business).

It is not rocket science to create a web page and post documents online, the idea you need Wikileaks for that - to filter it for you - is ridiculous. But Wikileaks created a black hole where any secret documents had to go to in order to be perceived by journalists and the public as a legitimate scandal worthy leak.

The idea that Assange has a 'dead man's switch' is also interesting. Imagine that he did have the crown jewels of leaked information stashed away, let's imagine it was something like the identity of the killer in a murder case, withholding that information from the family of the deceased would put him on the same side as the murderer, harbouring them in effect. This would be morally wrong. So we will see what the leverage he has turns out to be.
The client is open source; you can build just the CLI client if you want. Check out https://github.com/keybase/client/tree/master/go
Too much is being made about the sensors. From my pilot's perspective it's far worse that:

a.) MCAS can mistrim the airplane faster than pilots can even recognize what's going on.

b.) Boeing and FAA directives still don't account for a.), and therefore they're still giving pilot's inadequate advice. And it's sufficiently bad that I think it's intentional because the advice is consistent with prior Boeing 737 models: runaway stabilizer. If they came up with a better checklist to run that only applies to the MAX, that is suggestive that at least difference training is needed, and might even suggest a different type certificate is needed.

Much of this is discussed here which I found to be decent:
https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/what-happened-on-et302.html

incredibly it just dumps the stab and leaves it to the pilot to get it back.

Electric trim must be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before cutout!
But Capone DID commit the crime of tax evasion.

And Assange appears to have committed the crime of conspiring to hack a Department of Defense system.

You're talking about it like they're innocent, but really they just got more attention towards their crimes because they did other things which they were more notorious for.

And frankly, that's always the case. If you want to get away with a crime don't make a name for yourself as being a criminal.
Winter (ice, snow, freezing winds)
Rain storms
People who don't want to show up to work sweaty (my work never had showers and I'm the sort of person who creates a lot of sweat (and smell) even if I'm taking it easy on a bike
People who live more than X miles from where they are going
People who live up/down major hills
etc.....

I lived IN Boston for a while, and actually rode my bike to work during the summer (didn't own a car) and just let everyone suffer through my sweat. But I couldn't do it in the winter (yes I know some people do). Aside from the physical cold/misery, the snow and ice made many roads extremely dangerous. The last few places I've lived were in the suburbs, commuting to other suburbs (luckily I've been avoiding the worst city traffic). The distances were too great to bike (unless you like a 3+ hour commute). shrug. Its great if you live somewhere that biking works for you, but don't expect everyone everywhere can just give up their car, jump on a bike, and carry on with life...
Any thoughts on which is more friendly for (complex) plugin writing?

I've been wanting to add multi-cursor modal focused features to an editor for a while and I've been debating which editor would be the best one to write for. Thoughts?
>But in fact, Uber does have a massive moat -- its network of drivers and riders in thousands of cities around the world. No competitor is even close.

Ola in India, Didi in China... both are expanding internationally.

If Lyft somehow manages to offer riders consistently cheaper fares (say, 50% off the Uber fare for 1 month) people will switch in droves.
Please don't make things up. It's detracts from the conversation.
So if someone tried to poison you to death, but failed because he mistakenly bought sugar instead of poison, there was no crime committed? Is that how it works in your country? Is that right?
> requires a person to drive it but assures the human can't crash the car?

Because the 'not crashing' part is the hard part, the rest is just navigation.
Would be great to have - someday - everybody driving on the same side of the road. I wonder if space agencies have agreed to build space vehicles on a standardized side.

I moved from a country that drives on the right lane, to one in the Commonwealth, driving on the left lane. It's interesting the amount of adjusting it takes for you as pedestrian to get used to which side to make sure to look to before crossing, and as a driver (roundabouts are especially challenging in the beginning).

And not all cars here have the seats on the right side. You can find cars that were imported and have the driver seat on the left. Or old/classic cars too.
Assange has not been convicted yet, has he?
similar apps have popped up in many places where uber is not allowed or limited. it doesn't look that hard.
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