skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well Uber provides insurance during the ride, but anyways...

Why are people in favor of using tax dollars preemptively to defend extremely-profitable insurance companies? If their customers aren't following their contracts, the burden is on them - and I don't see a problem with that. Its not Uber's fault.

In the meantime, Germany is banning a company that has shown they lower DUIs upon introduction.
How it was made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA4QWwaweWA

What are the ripples?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ6Hv_du2Zo
I am compelled to reply to this because I feel that this is an example of the material being written that confuses the understanding and application of design. Your post mentions several things that can and should constitute a good design but your understanding of it all is highlighted by this single line, "By itself design is art". Sorry, but art is art. Design is a solution or plan to solve a problem. Art can be a part of this as can graphic design, illustration, copy writing, great interactions etc. But know that design is driven by constraints and results, it should be circumspect and in the end effective.

I will point out that you are right when you say that the underlying business goals are more important than the artwork or style that tries to facilitate it, and fundamentally all efforts should be directed to make them a success.

On the matter of RFPs which this article is about honing, well that is a tirade for another day...

TLDR: Design != something's aesthetic, its a solution or plan to solve a problem and in order for it to be good it must be effective. Please do not confuse art and design. It only confuses engineers, budding designers, illustrators, and anyone who may be looking to hire a skilled designer.
Do you work from home?
Does the AAA company ever get created now?
There's an abandoned blast furnace (Carrie Furnace) outside Pittsburgh that offers occasional tours, and also doesn't have any meaningful security.
The best thing about line oriented languages like BASIC was that, lacking abstract functions, the language worked exactly like the machine worked. If you wanted functions and parameters, you had to implement that much like you'd do if you were writing assembly.

Learning BASIC with line numbers and GOTO meant learning how the hardware control-flow worked. This is abstracted away in all languages today.
Strangely enough, the first startup that was shown is the only startup from Arkansas that has gone to Y. I am a developer in Arkansas. Creepy.
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Didn't the initiative for the project come from the BBC rather than from the Conservative led government of the time?
MasterCard can be (and is) used all around the world as a debit card. Giving credit to the customers and defining its limits is up to the issuing bank.
That sounds about right to me if you include both personal and work email time. You might be surprised at the number of people in large organizations that spend seven hours a day actively reading and writing email.
I suppose the really interesting part isn't the final result (the metaprogramming part), but the Coq model of System FC1 and the linking to GHC's Core passes.

Coq is a functional programming language, similar to Haskell, but with a much more powerful ("dependent") type system. These powerful types let us specify all kinds of stuff about our code, eg. instead of "an integer" we might say "a prime between MIN and MAX whose binary representation is a palindrome". Roughly speaking, if you can compute something with a pure fold, you can use it in your types.

Having the compiler check our code in such detail gives us a lot of confidence that our pre/post conditions are satisfied, that tricky calculations have been implemented correctly and that edge-cases are eliminated. This doesn't really matter for CRUD Web apps, but it's exactly what we want for compiler optimisations.
rephrased: You can't move or make more money by staying in the same chair.
Thanks, Jon Postel, http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/grants-and-awards/...
Not just hackers, but also nation states and APTs (who may have ties to nation states).
> "Impersonal" was only ever a label applied to email by people who didn't yet have access to the Internet, jealous they were being excluded.

This is factually incorrect. Everone I've ever heard use the term to describe email had internet access and was a regular email user at the time they used the term. I'm sure some people who didn't have email have used the term, and I'm sure some of those people had the motivation you describe, but it is simply not true that it was "only ever" used by people without access to the internet (or, more relevantly, email -- whether on the internet or otherwise, as electronic mail existed on networks besides the internet.)

> In all areas that matter, email is superior to paper letters.

"areas that matter" is a subjective category (and, further, superiority in each of those areas is, generally, subjective as well), it may well be superior to you in each of the areas that matter to you, but those subjective judgements may not hold more generally.
This has been done for a long time - a couple years ago when I was learning about exploits, this was one of the ways to check who would discover your exploit. Pretty nifty trick
>I just don't care if I have a 0.1% chance of dying instead of 0.05%

A 0.1% chance of dying per ride would mean a 51% probability of dying within a year of daily commuting.
Mimicking Brain Function Is Revolutionising NLP
SoftBank to Sell World's First Humanoid Robot 'Pepper' in US Next Year
Ask HN: Why do uber drivers use iPhones exclusively?
Its a very strange natural phenomenon and conventional thinking would expect Uber would have them use androids.
Show HN: BLITZ – Weekly Fantasy Football with Live Drafts
Hi guys,

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It will require an access code when you first download it (this access code has 1000 uses):

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If you don't find a match, cancel and re-queue.
Nephorider: AWS cloud infrastructure visualization tool
With a chrome plugin, a window can be created with the running page does not have access to. I'm pretty sure that is what this plugin is using
I'm a big fan of React. I soured on Ember but, to be fair, haven't looked at it in quite a while. Curious, though, is the statement in the slide deck that Ember "dominates" big apps true or verifiable? Perhaps if you exclude toolkits/libraries like Backbone, and compare only to Angular, I could buy it.
> Roughly speaking, if you can compute something with a pure fold, you can use it in your types.

I don't really understand that statement but it makes me really curious. Can you expand it a bit? (Background: I can read Haskell but I have only a vague idea of dependent types.)
This is not about price fixing. Uber can (and in UberBlack does) legally operate a car-for-hire operation that is cheaper than cabs. This is about not complying with safety and other operating regulations, which makes it easy for UberPop to significantly undercut the competitions prices. So the competition sued for unfair business practices (since complying with safety regulation costs them money) and the case is so clear that the court granted without any oral arguments a preliminary, enforceable injunction.
Facebook talked ice buckets twice as much as Ferguson
How realistic does it sound to you that a codebase that size would be transferred to a new team without any of the old team, outside of a hack of a bank or a reversal of some outsourcing decision or something like that?

Typically the value of such a codebase is determined by the quality of the team maintaining it and the degree to which it is documented.

Complexity of software constructs is not linear and enough books have been written about simply multiplying and dividing manyears and lines of code that I don't think we need to hash that out all over again. See 'the mythical man-month' and many similar books and articles.
In the past IE beat the pants off of Netscape and basically invented "Web 2.0" with Microsoft's introduction of XMLHttpRequest. Nowadays IE starts faster and uses less memory than Chrome and has just as much CSS compliance. There are few parts of the HTML5 "standard" that IE doesn't supports.

So, what exactly are you talking about? What does "hold a candle" to mean to you?

Here are some charts of IE not holding a candle to other browsers - http://blog.mid.as/2013/11/13/best-web-browser-internet-expl...

Maybe you can provide some of your own links to explain just what it is that you're talking about because I don't think anyone has a clue.
It's not a 'power grab' for the FCC to regulate wireless transmissions. Congress gave them that explicit authority in 1934. I really don't understand your comment.
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Require-es6
Certainly a missed opportunity.
How do you know Uber drivers use iPhones exclusively?
You can only street hail a cab in NYC if you are in certain select portions of manhattan, and it isn't cab rush hour or cab switch over hour. Good luck hailing a cab in the middle of queens at any time of the day.
I can see it now: for the low, low price of $40 (times three companies) you can check once to see if someone has bypassed the 30-year-old security on your MasterCard(tm)(c)(r)(pp) ID and fraudulently used it for border crossing or employment. Then, for the low price of a few hundred dollars and many hours of your time (x 3 companies, natch) you can dispute the ID usage and get yourself removed from the watch lists that pop up nasty red symbols and words like "suspected forgery / illegal alien / terrorist watch list" whenever a future employer tries to verify your biometrics. Of course, the police and TSA still get the vague but serious-sounding warnings, so you still get pulled off of planes for extra pat downs and an extra 45 minutes added to every traffic stop, but hey, at least you can get a job.

Efficiency! Value creation! Huzzah!
I actually equated using SQL to using ORM in my comment since I imagined most people would be using one, but imagine if you didn't have SQL and you had to store the data on a file system yourself.
First reaction: Jeez. Not this shit again.

Second reaction: Whatever works. There are too many ideas for one problem to find and establish "the best". This is definitely not elegant, but let's see what it gets.
1 and if your priced out of the housing market? what then not everyone has $100k of savings for a deposit.

A lot of the euro zone central banks are/where worried about deflation.

Most people in the west have a substantial amount of debt and so would be impacted severely by deflation.
That's a very good idea... as long as there's enough equity (there usually isn't). For 75k/year, I want at least 10%, and even better, co-founder status. While 75k and 1% is in the founders' interest, it certainly isn't in the employees'.
or Front :)
Thanks! The source is on GitHub if you want to have a go at anything in there...
https://github.com/michaelcolenso/1033-Program-Map
aside: interesting to me the subhead is direct guidelines of how/what to tweet for this story.
it's an awful user experience regardless.
Didn't read the article, but I did grep it for unicode and utf-8 and found no matches, so this might also be related.

Twitter lets you tweet 140 characters regardless of the bit width of those characters in. For Japanese, I think almost all characters take two bytes in utf-8. As such, given the same number of tweets, the bandwidth usage is approx 2X.

Twitter also seems much more useful in ideogram languages as 140 characters = 140 words = an article. In English, 140 characters = a short/medium sized sentence.
Nope, small companies with bad processes grow up to be big companies with terrible processes. Precisely because you hope to be a big company (or mature into a profitable one), get your processes right from the beginning. I'm definitely not saying "run your small company like the big companies you hate" ... I am saying, start as you mean to go on.
For the record

I am a co-founder and CEO of Unbabel. I feel that I should respond to these allegations.

1 - The contract we had with Andreas was full time employee contract. The first three months were "at will" which means that either one was free to terminate the relation at any time. We have a signed contract to prove it and I am happy to share a sample of the contract to anyone that wants. When we fired him, we not only paid him what we owed, but we paid him an extra 15 days of work in addition to $1000 dollars to offset any unexpected costs. Which we didn't have to. We also have receipts of all the transactions, If need be.

2 - We fired him because he was a terrible fit to Unbabel. It became clear very quickly that it would not work. In the end the responsibility of hiring him was ours, and we are really sorry it did not make the right choice. This made it clear that we have room for improvement in our hiring processes.

3 - He did really well on interviews and we went to considerable lengths to bring him to Portugal. We paid his airplane ticket, we lent him money for rent, we helped him search for a house, amongst other things. I am personally really proud that Unbabel is an example of how we can capitalize on excellent talent in Europe and Andreas was the first person from Sweden. We have people from 5 nationalities at Unbabel and we pride ourselves in having a great environment to work with.

4 – We believe that the culture of the company is extremely important and we devote a lot of energy to it. Everyone in Unbabel is expected to participate actively in the company Meaning that they are part of the planning, and encouraged to be autonomous in creating the best products possible. We truly enjoy working with each other and spending time together. For example, every week we go surfing on Wednesday morning in the beautiful beaches of Lisbon. It is not mandatory, but every one has loved it so far. It is an amazing way make sure that every week we hang out together outside the company.

We try really hard to make sure that working at Unbabel is an amazing experience. We pay well above average for Portugal, which means that you get a really good life here. We offer health insurance, surf lessons, catered lunches once a week and beers on Friday afternoon. We give you autonomy and agency, we are transparent about the company every employee has a chance to make a difference. Come and see for yourself what it is like to work at the best Translation Startup in the world. A position just opened up :)
Thanks, that's a great point about limiting yourself. I appreciate it!
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"a version of Windows enlightened to run efficiently" is just begging to be quoted out of context.
To my list of quotes.
Actually, like 50 years, way before internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Origin
I can say you also see the "perpetual clusterfuck" antipattern in organizations that don't fit the traditional "startup" mold.

You can definitely see it in government, non-profits as well as existing businesses. It's the end result of a culture that values "getting shit done" and ends up with nothing but "shit".
The concept of email is too fuzzy. Is it SMTP that will last forever? This technology is more like sending postcards that every middleman can read. Certainly a more private alternative will replace it someday, and it should be more spam-proof.

Also email serves many purposes. If it is to be replaced, it will be on a use-case by use-case manner. RSS is a better alternative to one-to-many mailing lists. Forums are a better alternative to many-to-many mailing lists. Etc.

But yes, we should improve what we have until we can replace it.
> An then what would be the next step? No more cash payments?

Yes. From the article:

"“In close collaboration with both the public and private sectors to achieve the full potential of this program, NIMC is focused on inclusive citizenship, more effective governance, and the creation of a cashless economy, all of which will stimulate economic growth, investment and trade,” he adds."
tl;dr - Yes.

I worked at one company for a long time (10+ years). There was something about it that really bothered me, and it took me a long time to be able to articulate it.

The way I eventually phrased it: You are what you were hired to be.

I was hired as a junior engineer, and it seemed like no matter how much I learned and how much more I contributed to projects, I was at least partially viewed through the lens of that initial hire as a junior engineer. I had to fight hard for promotions, and like others have said, the commensurate pay only came after I had been operating at that level for some time.

Once you know this, it's not so bad. I'm happy where I am now, and I'm not job hunting. But I know I won't want to do this exact thing forever, and when the time comes for me to make a change, it will very likely be to another company. I tried too long before to find career growth satisfaction with one employer. I gave them too many years to underpay me (it's more than just pay of course, it's the recognition that your value to them has increased).
German court orders Uber to suspend services across the country
Why would "conventional thinking" expect them to use Androids?

These are the drivers' personal cars and the drivers' personal phones. That's like saying "conventional thinking would expect Uber would have them all drive a Prius."
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Without knowing about the particulars, I would say: yes. IT jobs in non-IT related companies are more or less dead end jobs, it's seen as a cost rather than profit center so you can be sure someone is working in replacing your job already (either by hiring consultants or automation, SaaS, PaaS, ...).

That said, in some specific circumstances, when you're the right-hand of the C-levels, it may pay off. But you have to marry the technical expertise with executive skills to move up, so they can see you as "one of them" and justify above market salary and/or promotions.
Everybody dies and frankly I'm much more terrified of making it to 75 and getting Alzheimer's or prostate cancer than a quick violent death at 23.
To my eye, it's a little odd to read an article about multiple groups of experts who spent months or years hashing out a difficult problem, and then to see a comment like this one that proposes its own much simpler solution.

Is your thought here that not one of the dozens of people involved considered this sort of syntax during those months or years or work? (That seems unlikely.) Or do you think their reasons for rejecting it were unsound? (You don't seem to have said why.) I'm just not understanding what you're aiming for here.
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About me:

I'm a software engineer with 8 years of experience, of which I've spent the past four consulting. I'm now looking to move back into a full-time job at an established company (i.e. with a shipped product, and ~20+ employees). I'm fairly language-agnostic, as I believe in using the right tool for the right job, but I'm also excited about Elixir, Objective-C/Swift, Go, and hybrid application stacks.

I'm looking for a product engineering role or a similar full-stack position where I can contribute both on the frontend and backend. I've been learning design on the side, and it would be great to put those skills to use. I'm interested in products revolving around mobile, collaboration, messaging, B2B, SaaS, etc.

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Alright but (1) why should I publicly subsidize a private company who can't manage to fit a project like that on its balance sheets?

(1a) Isn't that a sign they need to be a public utility?

Furthermore, (2) the last time we did this (1996 Telecommunications act), wasn't it no strings-attached? (3) Wasn't it widely seen as the private companies not coming through with the intention of the legislation?

(4) What do you mean "flood the small guys off the net"? Are you saying they would maliciously do denial of service attacks on smaller companies, as in a "Trespass to chattels"? If not, then what do you mean, in concrete terms, without platitudes?

(5) "no way for the ISPs to recover those dollars in the future" - Isn't it true that other companies in other countries can do it without government subsidies and are yet, still profitable?

(6) [background] It seems like you are outlining an industry-wide endemic attitude which belies service. Although I agree that there are institutions structured this way, there are others, such as Level3, or my ISP, Sonic.net, which appear to be committed to tendering networking services.

[question] Wouldn't it be better if companies who do not value providing high quality service actually do exit to a NetFlix model ... as service-providing doesn't seem to be the right industry for their culture (they are entertainment companies such as Paramount, not utilities such as PG&E). Thoughts?

Thanks.
At my last job we had several shared IMAP mailboxes. The workflow that we used that worked fairly well was to have a sub-folder for each user. When a new mail came in, you'd first move it into your folder, then handle the email.

This worked really well for us, but I think the biggest inbox only had a dozen users.
Is the video of this talk available anywhere?
Randy and Chip also have a great series of essays and articles here, including a bunch on the topic of online communities:

http://habitatchronicles.com/
" It would lead to a mass exodus of investment dollars from wired broadband because there would be no way for the ISPs to recover those dollars in the future."

There is a way, I pay a bit over a hundred dollars a month to the cable company for an internet connection. Some of that money should surely be ear marked for taking care of infrastructure? Why does it matter if i'm using it to watch Netflix?
This is not an appropriate use of HN. I suggest http://ux.stackexchange.com/
I think at the startup level you can "hack the system". The issue comes when you grow.
Jumping in at this point cuts out all the evocative pictorial motivation for unidirectionality. If you'd rather start at the beginning:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1afMLTCpRxhJpurQ97VBH...
whereas a negative review for a driver has an immediate, measurable effect. when can we throw out this old BS 'regulation authority' mentality