skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except in the Uber/Lyft scenario, we see no $1500/month deadweight loss going to an economic rent.

There's also no reason to presuppose that personal transportation SHOULD provide a livelihood. The goal of companies like Uber/Lyft is to take advantage of the currently wasted extra carrying capacity in personal vehicles. There's no reason to expect a priori that the value of extra capacity is enough to provide an income.

The goal of these companies is to provide cheaper transportation to those without cars, not to provide a living for those with cars. If less money overall is spent on transportation (which is >90% means to an end, excepting joyriding and competition), which is the case when currently excess capacity is utilized, and consumers also spend less (and consequently capital tied up in personal vehicles), then more capital and income is available for other goods and services.

Obviously, any major paradigm shift in the provision of a good or service will cause some level of upset for those accustomed to the current paradigm, but that does not make the shift a negative one. Further, attempts to ease the transition only draw out the period where we operate in a lossy manner.

In another manner of speaking, when I heard of Uber and Lyft, I did not think that I could quit my day job since I have a car, nor would I have decided to go buy a car if I didn't have one for the purpose of earning income. I did think that they could be a valuable way to defray a portion of my already sunk cost of owning a vehicle. If I hadn't owned a vehicle, these services may have lowered the marginal cost of acquiring a vehicle enough that I could now reasonably afford one.

In both of the above lines of reasoning (currently owning or deciding to purchase), they are not a means of supporting myself, but a means of sharing some of my costs with others who are willing to pay. A car still costs money, but by renting space in it, I can lower the cost.

Think of it more akin to AirBnB - if I own an apartment with an extra room, I don't expect to pay my whole rent with AirBnB-ing out the extra room, but I certainly expect to pay part of my rent out of it. The only difference is that Uber/Lyft rent room in a car.
Oh yeah I forgot. Make a feminist point on HN, get downvoted to hell and beneath.
Well done. I enjoy being out pedanted. Have an upvote.
> Its not like these things are pleasant or easy for men either.

So the system doesn't work for women, nor for minority groups, nor for many men. Doesn't that suggest that we should be trying to fix the system?
Dynamic walkability estimation with Turf
In other languages such as French, female is applied exclusively to non-human animals.
How much hacking and/or electronics knowledge is required to set this up and get it running?

#Edit. Another question, will the Reach (when it comes out) integrate easily with the boards coming out in Februaray, and be supported as part of Navio+?
Does anybody else find it disturbing that the Supreme Court, which, as the head of the legislative, should be a fully independent entity, defers its decision of whether it should become active to the head of the executive/judicative?
So much about the separation of powers...
Please watch "Black Mirror" on channel 4. If you haven't seen it I think you'll probably enjoy it.
I worry that we're now viewing all of society's interactions through a prism of demographics and privilege. The prevailing cultural narrative is now that your demographic is your destiny. Too much success is granted to privilege and too much failure is blamed on society.

In my formative years, the rule for proper behavior seemed very simple: treat everyone the same, no matter their demographics or background. Now it seems there is a different ruleset for every demographic group. It all seems very retrograde and divisive.
When is your maintenance window?
When is your maintenance window?

Ours is Saturday 11pm to Sunday 7am. Some of the teams are advocating for weekday updates for the application layers as they say they want to know if users are having any problems right away instead of Monday morning.

I'm curious when your windows are and why.
>Why are you speaking Chinese on an English newsboard?
It's not very polite to respond in a different language as the question, especially when it cannot be presumed everyone will understand you.

But it fits in with the current discussion, and I think is in the spirit or this particular thread.
Microsoft has been shipping steaming crapola for decades. Their unwieldy and unmaintainable codebase is their own fault. This should not be news to anyone who is unfortunate enough to have to use their awful products.

They sought to dominate the market by means other than having the best talent and shipping the best software. It worked but now they have a problem.

And who can forget this? http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74
Developers developers developers.

Any vulns I find will not be dealt with in such a charitable manner. (i.e. you have exactly zero days to fix your shit).

Why on Earth are Google wasting their own resources doing Microsoft's work for them?

Tiny, tiny violins, Microsoft. Tiny, tiny violins.
Life is particularly interesting because it's something I've been toying with (off and on, not in any particular depth) for all my life. It's certainly not pushing the limits of simplicity.
Might be worth getting a conch. Ideally a plastic model one, that is difficult to smash.
It is appalling what currently is happening in the aftermath of the crazy Paris attacks.

Some of the biggest offenders of the Freedom of Press are now not battling for the protection of the press, but for being seen by the media as one of the mourners in the first row of the Paris events on the weekend (for a better overview of that see https://storify.com/tometty/staunch-defenders-of-free-press-...)

Most of these providing their "condolences" have been constantly mocked by CH, have tried to criminalize the work of CH in the past (e.g. German politicians), and are now shamelessly exploiting media attention and believe again that there will be no better time to even further crush the rights of European citizens, some with measures (e.g. further extending telco data retention, dragnet snooping in the UK & Germany) that latest with the events in Paris should again been demonstrated as not effective to protect from such attacks (both measures were already in place and broadly used in France before the attacks).

We can only hope that Cameron's statement in the article linked is solely a political one, fishing for voters in the far right & UKIP spectrum. Otherwise this might be another nail in the coffin of a growing and successful UK Internet industry.

Some additional info:
Noam Chomsky on the aftermath / events in Paris - http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/We-Are-All---Fill-i...
Reporters sans Frontieres / Reporters without Borders: http://en.rsf.org/rwb-condemns-presence-of-predators-11-01-2...
I was just listening to the audiobook from Peter Thiel this weekend Zero-to-One and have been rethinking myself this whole growth-hacker mindset that some of us have. It is mostly like focusing on short-term wins to gain a particular goal (profits, traction, something to show investors, etc) rather than focusing on the long term benefits you are building toward, and the decisions we make everyday to achieve the hockey-stick growth numbers could very well hinder the long term impact our products have in the world.

This was a good read in general. I appreciate their candor.
Ember.js: When to use Ember.get
The Secret to Work Life Balance
start over? the 90 days is not spent attacking the code.. it's split across testing/packaging/etc. The developers can continue to pour over the code in PARALLEL to the testing to check for similar avenues/triggers, and at any point, push an updated patch, which could move the release date back. Still, how long would it truly take to finish the full cycle? It seems hard to believe it would be months. 90 days is roughly 12+ WEEKS.

Let's take a stab in the dark and say it takes 4 weeks to fully test. That means from day one, MSFT would have 8+ weeks of time for developers to attack the problem (yes blah blah patch tuesday, call it 7 weeks if you wish). I don't know their code, and I don't know how pervasive the problem was, but 7 weeks seems pretty generous when you are handed the problem (and not required to fish it out of "user" complaints).
Writing Off the Warhol Next Door
Smartphones cause drooping jowls and 'tech-neck' wrinkles in 18-39 year-olds
Perhaps this is too far outside of your existing scope of functionality but I'll throw it out there: I would really love a "Hacker News Alerts" feature. I make the same searches every week on a few key terms but it's a manual process.

If you could push new search results directly to my inbox it would be convenient.
Is that responsive?
Same. Spotify is just too damn convenient not to pay for it.

Not having to copy over my playlists to my phone, but just being able to sync, that feature alone is worth the €10 subscription to me.

I discover a song, add it to a playlist from my mac, and I can listen to it next time I leave the house.
It seems your experience actually does matches up with the author's thesis. As in the credit union with 74% female supervisors, companies with higher female makeup purportedly had less difference in the way female and males were perceived when they spoke up.
Classes are just functions for constructing certain kinds of objects using open recursion. There's nothing wrong with them per se, but their elevated status is confusing. It also might lead to trying to solve all complexity concerns using open recursion. I'm interested in clear analysis about how good or bad that idea is honestly. At this point I just find it (a) not personally necessary and (b) interesting.

As to the author's problem? I imagine it might have some deep seated cause related to the above, but that keeps getting translated to abstract disdain for the concept. Which is tragic.
>>> I've seen similar comments before and even going as far as saying women were harder on women than men when moving up in a career.

This is probably the one single point I've seen completely overlooked in every men vs. women debate.

As someone who's been in management, I can't count how many times senior executives who were male wanted to promote a woman to a more senior role, only to have other senior women disagree to such an extent, it caused a scene. This is probably one of the more interesting dynamics in this conversation which is often brushed aside.

One of my colleagues once made the comparison how men are always in the "alpha" mode. Always trying to be top dog, always trying to outdo their peers for the top roles. He said this is just as prevalent with women, and most people never see it because women tend to be more, shall I say more "backstabbing" than their male counter parts.
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Momentum in Colombia, group of investors headed there in March
Buffer's transparency dashboard: Public salaries, equity and more
OK, but they're already making money. And anyway it is far from certain if they will "win" and moreover how much they'll even get out of it. It is less likely to be successful than a "slip-and-fall" scam. Surely, there is more to it?
"/email route: Email integration added" is my favorite way. Same thing with code naming, I always put the widest context first, then narrow down. With this habit I spend a lot less time thinking about names.
That mostly just passes the buck to why do merge and revert use the imperative? Simply being consistent with them doesn't seem like a very strong argument.
I agree. and car manufacturers should focus on making cars, that's a handful already. why not "outsource" the consoles to other more UX aware companies and just provide a universal connector.
Imagine being able to plug in your favorite tablet in your car where the console is, and your car app will just popup. It makes sense especially for entertainment since you already have your music, and movies and games (for the rear seats).
We could partner with https://www.hnwatcher.com (using the HN Search API btw), they proposed us their help a few months ago.
I would say it is safe to say that having a mobile optimized site is something that you might want to be added to your list since it is now included into their ranking algorithm and as mobile devices become more common than desktops, this will only become more important.
I ran into a problem today where I'm trying to find something I saw a really long time ago - so sorting by date from oldest to newest would be great.

EDIT - If I can filter by date ranges like others have suggested, I would much prefer that to my sort direction request!
I'd love to see these discussions recorded and more objectively graded. I can not fathom a room full of people in a story meeting that isn't over flowing with interruptions and shot down ideas.

Now I'm not saying that these issues aren't real. Or that women don't run into issues that men don't have or have with less frequency. What I am saying is that these tales are anecdotal and we need more objective assessments if we have any hope of making any improvements.
> Make a feminist point on HN, get downvoted to hell and beneath.

That's not true at all.

I think you got down-voted because you missed the point of the comment you replied to. (I think) the point was that even if you get rid of patriarchy, you'd still have to deal with women putting each other down. I guess that's noteworthy because it's easy to forget when you read an article like this one. I am constantly amazed by how poorly we treat each other. All of us, really.
My favourite one for 'getting my bearings' is:

28C is 82F
>If we eventually start doing graphics on CPUs it will because we move to ray tracing or other sorts of algorithms that GPUs are bad at.

Even for ray tracing, I think you'll get better results on a modern GPU. Each individual processing element may not be anywhere near as good at dealing with the constant branch prediction failures inherent in ray tracing algorithms as modern CPU cores are, but there are thousands of them for every CPU core you have, and millions of completely independent samples to compute in a raytraced image. But I suspect that by the time that realtime raytracting becomes viable, the HSA approach I outlined above will be viable as well, and that will be the way to go.
How does Amy know what time to schedule the first meeting she sets up for you? Do you have to suggest a couple of times? Or do you have to set up a Google Calendar for Amy?
Those are vulnerable to other attack vectors.
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/thesis/online/IM100855....
I assume that means they also make a healthy profit?
Oh, nevermind.
If speed is your only requirement, write the thing in assembly.
Hmm really? From the solutions that worked in the article I came to the exact opposite conclusion.

No interruptions rule no matter who is talking worked and the team became stronger.

The other was anonymously submitted ideas which were ranked prior to the meetings and the best ones adopted.
By Go's OO you mean the interface-driven mechanics? I think those are quite nice.
This is why it's important to have things like affirmative action - and in fact to scale that right down to informal conversations. Your experience of simple obvious facts is lying to you. You'll think a woman is taking more than her fare share of time when a numeric time measurement would show her being sidelined (as well as interrupted, ignored, and poached from). So you need to swallow your feelings of indignation and your naive realism, and measure.
Sorry this is so long, I deleted many paragraphs.

Something about this doesn't sound right to me. I think the third-party factors are overwhelming. After all, the basic I/O and other low-level stuff is going to be there on any supported OS. But availability of compilers/VMs/interpreters, and good libraries for GL, Qt, audio, etc. are all at the top of my reasons for not going with a particular language that would otherwise be suited to the task.

I think Rust is in a better position than one would normally expect. People are looking at it for web dev, and web devs tolerate more diversity in their language of choice. The existence of Go, and the frequent (if misguided) comparisons to Go helps, since writing a web-facing app in Go is a sensible thing. I'm not sure if that will work out, but if it does I think it's a trump card. No web language ever died, except things like Cold Fusion and languages that were superseded by offerings from their own vendors.

On the other hand, I think Rust is better suited to game development. I don't know of Carmack being sweet on Rust in particular, but a few years ago he did start talking about how it would be nice if id could use safer languages (though his biggest complaint was about script writing.) More to the point, Rust is growing a collection of gamedev libraries. Piston is ambitiously trying to curate an entire ecosystem. This is a rare phenomenon among the pretenders. Piston is in no shape to take over the world today, but if it continues to grow and polish it could turn a number of heads.
Ask HN: Why are we pushing so hard for more women in tech?
Before you attack me for being sexist and/or misogynistic, hear me out. I am honestly curios about this and it is not my intention to offend anyone. If there is something I do not understand, please enlighten me.

I just read another article this morning claiming that we "need more women in leadership roles" and, frankly, I don't understand why.

Women make up a small percentage of the tech work force. Whether we agree with that or not, it is true. If 5% (I don't know if this number is even close to reality) of engineers are women, then why should we strive for engineering teams that are 50/50 (a goal at multiple companies I've worked for)? Shouldn't women make up 5% of the engineering team? Shouldn't women make up 5% of the leadership team?

That sounds like women are being hired because they are women, not because they are necessarily the best candidate for the gig. It follows that the whole gender equality argument goes out the window if we are hiring women because they are women. That's the same thing as NOT hiring women because they are women.

With that said, I understand that there is a lot of sexism and misogyny in our industry and I agree that is a massive problem.
I worry about the regulations being wrong or becoming wrong over time then being very difficult to change. What happens if we are legally obligated to engineer a system in an insecure manner and we can't fix it without a series of bureaucratic moves?

If sweeping regulations do come along, I hope there's a strong push for them to be loose or amiable enough to avoid these problems. For now, though, I'm skeptical.
Drone.io is cool, and free for open source projects too: (https://drone.io/pricing)
But you can still modify elements of a final List (thereby modifying the Article object).

Properly implemented getTags should create a copy of tags so that fiddling with the returned value doesn't affect the object.
actually this is not true, what you're not noticing is that the parallel() use is akin to Spark, basically these streams are just map functions and if you can put the closure onto multiple cores/machines you get much better performance without any additional programmer intelligence.

If you think that api is complicated then I don't think programming is for you, this is a very ordinary and usual construct in programming.
We can do maintenance after 5pm any day of the week as long as it isn't disruptive.
But how much of women putting other women down is due to patriarchy? What if it's all due to patriarchy? What if getting rid of patriarchy solves it all?
My biggest issue with Spotify is still their catalogue. I listen to primarily foreign electronica, and it constantly feels like none of it was there. When I finally did want to grab music from American artists, half weren't on Spotify.

Something I've wondered for some time, is if the world needs a music service that both allows smaller artists to stream their music from it, but also negotiates with companies like iTunes/Spotify/AmazonInstant to allow their music there as well.
Well for starters, what brought you there/ why do you live there? Mining/logging company?
Well, my large corporate employer uses Websense which seems to categorize hn.algolia.com as ("Category: hacking"), and blocks all queries (HN itself is fine). So I guess I'd say I need...search. Maybe you can get off the blacklist/on a whitelist?
How is that distinction relevant? I want my data not to be with NSA as much as I want it not to be with hackers or marketers. In some ways, even moreso.
> Technically a Prime Minister doesn’t win an election at all: people vote for a party.

In most parliamentary systems, the Head of State is compelled to invite the party with the largest representation in parliament to form a government, and that party then proposes a government which is then subject to a confirmation election in the parliament, which it must win in order to be the government. So, generally, Prime Ministers win an election among members of parliament, who are themselves elected by the public (whether or individually or by party name depends on the particular parliamentary electoral system -- the UK system, as I understand, uses first-past-the-post with candidate names and parties on the ballot, much like most US elections -- while some systems use party-list-proportional where seats are allocated proportionally to the number of votes cast for parties, and there are various hybrid and other systems in use, as well.)

This is not entirely unlike US Presidents, who are also elected indirectly by presidential electors who are in turn elected by the public, however, it does differ in that the electors in the UK are also legislators rather than being elected solely as electors. Its kind of like if, in the US, members of Congress elected the President.

(Which, in fact, can happen in the US system, but only if the Congressional count of the vote by the electors doesn't give a majority for any candidate.)
Yeah I have. You know who actually does that low margin work? Deployment companies, consultants and implementors, outsourcing firms. There's a reason why "SAP Certified Specialists" exist. There's a reason that there are programs and credentials that teach people to deploy this stuff. Because SAP and Oracle are actual software companies unlike Palantir.

Palantir hires young smart (but not street smart) Ivy league engineers that have no clue how actual enterprise software works ... much like the founders and management team of Palantir.
I think it's not so easy, unfortunately. A while ago I read an article that woman who are eager to argue in business are perceived as bitchy, while men with the same eagerness were perceived as ambitious (by both men and women). In my experience, there are many such subtle discriminations that makes it hard for women to speak up.
I disagree. It is actually a very rare for me to not find a band on Spotify, and my listening is mostly focused on esoteric or small bands in a variety of niche genres.
This post is about the GitHub student developer pack.
Feminism and such isn't "men vs women", it's "women being put down". Women can be misogynist against women (heck there are gay people opposed to gay marriage, humans, eh?)
Sure -- not looking to nitpick. I just wanted to understand if there was something about Django that you found incompatible w/ microservices, and it sounds like there isn't.

An overstated headline isn't the worst crime on the planet (though, I would say that Google has already carried the headline far and wide already ... sigh).
So... which one is more popular? Go or Erlang?

I hoping Erlang >___<.