skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious where these companies and driverless cars intersect. I guess Uber transitions to driverless cars and cuts costs. It's crazy to think about. It's more or less cheap driverless taxis.
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Poverty may be a necessary condition for "startup" success in the somewhat narrow definition of a startup common in our industry, but the idea that it's necessary for BUSINESS success is total nonsense, which is a useful thing to remember when you're feeling artificially burdened by being over 30 and middle class(!) The bulk of new wealth in human history has been created by people who already have some modicum of existing wealth, or access to it.
Definitely not a stupid question it is really important!

There are several novel ways to deliver drugs to tumors in the brain in trials. Some use specially designed pumps, nanotechnology, and intra-arterial delivery (where a catheter is snaked to the tumor through blood vessels).

The problem is that all of these methods are experimental so they can't be used in combination. We're very hopeful that they are successful though!
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I'd bump that point and the integration with API's way up in the site copy. My first thought as an engineer when I see graphical programming tools is, "oooh...another one of those." It's the most controversial selling point. If I know I can do 90% of my backend work fast enough to slap an MVP together, the tradeoff might make sense. My default plan is a VPS with Flask or some other cheapo web app server that can pull 300req/s. That's a step beyond just using Heroku, but also a valid competitive option.

How would you position your product relative to Heroku in terms of power and how much schlep you trade for how much ease-of-use? I think it's very okay to be clear for now in order to convert well with your core customers.
great article, very easy to read and understand.
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Wow. I know almost nothing about the author or what he's accomplished (other than a skim of his Wikipedia page), but nevertheless, to summarize ungenerously a bit...

- 'My publicly writing is a problem because "seething pools of corruption" in journalism will sneer at me.'

- 'To continue writing, I need to improve the global social condition.'

- 'I've designed and had someone program a Wikipedia replacement which has a one third probability of succeeding.'

- 'I think I can predict startup success in a way almost nobody else can.'

- 'Please involve me in <large list of futuristic projects>'.

That's... a bit amazing as a coda to a piece of fanfiction. Yes, I know HPMOR is not your average fanfic (I've read at least two thirds of it), but just... take a moment to step back and admire the post, and the level of self-confidence required to write it. All I can say.
I just worry about the congestion. Then again, I'd rather be driving alongside a Lyft driver than a taxi driver, if you know what I mean.
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I lived across the street from Sutro tower for 5 years, there is a great paved path around a water reservoir where you can run or walk your dog. Once a year they bring in a herd of goats to clear out the vegetation - very fun to see this happening in the middle of San francisco.

http://youtu.be/LkSzoM__1O8
I love that Propose Change Feature of Github. It's natural and easy to use.
He admitted to me he didn't learn about it until about a year ago. Meaning he never used it in his code and he never understood the concept.

He was a python programmer. Typically in python, you shouldn't use recursion anyway.
Only for a very misleading definition of ordering. Delays affect the order in which receivers see events, but the receivers can compensate for transmission factors and calculate the exact same times for all events.

Except when relativity kicks in from the observers moving at different speeds. Now events that are outside each other's light cones have no objective order.
Dole ( UK slang for Job Seekers' Allowance, JSA ) is very fickle and can be arbitrarily stopped for a number of reasons:

https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/further-information

For example, local to me there was some controversy when people refused a zero-salary 'job' working for a chain of discount stores. Their JSA was stopped as punishment, so they had no income.

Not much of a safety net, it's actually now a policy tool to coerce people into menial and undesirable jobs, and to keep them there ( being fired makes resuming JSA difficult ).
> but then why default to male?

You know the answer: decades (centuries?) of usage defaulting to male.

OP went to great lengths to use neutral pronouns everywhere and you ding him (or her) for one slip up? One of the few people aware of the issues and trying to do good, someone in your camp?

And because of that obsession of yours, a good part of the entire discussion is now derailed.

You need to realize that you are part of the problem.
What were you doing such that printing out statement pdfs wasn't sufficient? Just curious.
I wonder how a 64-bit KASUMI cracker today would compare.
These are some amazing visualizations.
The main difference boils down to SQL vs NoSQL. Other than that, Rails is more polished, ruby is much more beautiful IMHO than JS, but then again a website without some JS looks/feels old. So since you're going to need JS why not build everything in the same language? :-)

Whatever you choose good luck!
I find myself doing quite a lot with Meteor + React these days!

https://github.com/reactjs/react-meteor

If you throw a router into the mix, you might end up doing everything with Meteor:

https://github.com/mystor/meteor-routecore
What about JSON-LD and linked data platform. At least JSON-LD comes from the W3C Web payement workgroup
Well, that's possible with compile-to-JavaScript languages. Also you have the option of plugins like Unity, if you're going for something graphically adventurous.

That being said, JavaScript is a powerful tool, if wielded correctly. It's so flexible. In a lot of ways, it's like a pizza. One man orders a pizza with anchovies, another with green peppers. And on and on. Eventually it's like they've got two completely different dinners.
yeah okay, totally unappreciated.

give me a break, it's not 1995.

that's like saying oakland is the new brooklyn.
The problem isn't more automation but more concentration of wealth, making more people use more time restlessly searching for income instead of relaxing and reaping the benefits of more automation.
Sounds about right from my experience.

In SF I have noticed the first part to have changed over the past 6months. I used to see a lot of drivers with both apps, now I see it less.

The rest makes sense those. Even for those that have both apps, you can tell that their personality fits with either uber or lyft.
Ben Green is amazing. Here's a lightning talk he gave recently showing his work on adding SQL support in Meteor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzulpXZn6g

Here's an update he made a month later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSI68J9wNJ0

Here's a link to the package he's published:

https://atmospherejs.com/numtel/mysql
Or you can get an Apple notebook and install Linux. Apple makes really solid gear. This is a clear imitation.
Config look cool & cheap, about design: the hinge is ugly
So now Tonga grew its zone thanks to mother nature.
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Dickey's an unsung hero really. I've been impressed and grateful that he keeps old programs like xterm (in particularly) relevant.
<< and investing in three lincoln escalades

Lincoln Navigator, or Cadillac Escalade perhaps?
Interesting points though, even if a lot of them are contradictory. In Los Angeles, I've similarly observed most drivers using both Lyft and Uber. I imagine that the Bay Area market is more saturated and that a driver could be kept busy on just one service, but I get the feeling it's not quite up to that level in LA.
It's a movement in wrong direction. It's artifact that we can call class name without "new" and method name, because before ES6 there wasn't such thing as classes. Now we should just deprecate this artifact.
Is the "reader view" generated locally, or does it send the URL to an Apple server for processing?
The difference is there's a network effect. Uber & Lyft are not actually transportation companies anymore than Airbnb is a hotel company. They're networks.

So it's not just about price. It's about the size of the network, which means availability -- how fast can you hail a ride. The more drivers on the network the better the availability, so that's where the consumers look first, and so that's where the new drivers join, and so on in a virtuous cycle. Once one network reaches a tipping point and becomes dominant it will be harder for upstarts to enter the market and match the availability of the winner's gigantic network.

That's the theory at least. All this VC money is about trying to get to that tipping point where one of them takes the whole transportation network.
Please note that this adapter does NOT use USB3.0 signalling. The only USB signalling going on is USB2.0 to the STM32 micro which seems to configure the actual Display-Port to HDMI-Bridge chip.

The "High Speed Lanes" (on which normally USB3.0 data is transferred) is re-purposed as a displayport connection.

(in the block diagram ML(0…3)± are the differential display-port "lanes", they are connected to the USB "C" plug SSD(p/n)(1…4) shielded differential pairs)
Serie A ? If yes, 1% equity min, more if your direct boss is the CTO/CEO.
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It's trivial if your app is just CRUD with domain specific fields, but there can still be some tricky parts;

* Sync'ing data between the frontend and backend if your app has any sort of offline capabilities. Conflict resolution is hard if you want anything better than just a dumb overwrite of what's there.

* Data munging for anything that isn't coming from a well defined API is a horrible and difficult task.

* Scaling and replication on a global scale is still a challenge. It doesn't affect many apps though.

You can knock up a decent REST API in Laravel/Express/Django/whatever in a few hours, but getting the data that you push through it still represents some fun and challenging aspects of app development.
I support alternatives to Uber, not because they're bad or anything, but because I don't want to see a monopoly develop. Competition is the best way to ensure that we don't wind up with the next Comcast.

I found this analysis to be the most compelling thing supporting alternatives to Uber that I've ever read: http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5822.html
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"""The real question is not why these four men are all retiring"""

I disagree. NFL players on average retire for very different reasons than Google execs. It may not be the case for the recent retirees but even if you are fully healthy it's really risky to keep playing in the NFL (concussions alone, check health premiums of NFL players etc.). Many players should probably retire earlier. It's a lot better to enjoy less money than to have more money and Alzheimers or the like at age 50.

+it's more likely that NFL players that retire early kind of have a good feeling for how many more high level seasons they could have played. At least I'd think it's easier to judge the capabilities of your body than the capabilities of your mind. (QB's are the exception, I guess Locker could have stayed around as a journeyman for a couple of years and made relatively safe money holding a clipboard). I don't have any evidence but I also suspect some of the surprise early retirements may be ralted to PED use and/or uncertainty if that can be kept up "undetected". At least it's reasonable to think this is the case for a higher %age than in other fields.

tl;dr: apples, oranges. NFL retirement is extremly different from most other forms of retirement. The high level abstraction of "retired but didn't have to" is at least somewhat questionable.
You're absolutely right, I didn't consider it at all, shame on me, and a lot of shame. Actually, I didn't even think of it, although that is something I am almost praying when working with clients: make your sites at least usable without JS. Weird that I got caught there. Thank you.
Personally, I would say

foo = ('x' in bar) ? bar.x : 3;

instead. The problem with your code is that if the property bar.x exists, but is one of any number of values, like 0 or false, your code will still set foo to 3. Requiring properties to be explicitly created means that you're separating existence from value, which are two very different things in my book.
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I have been working hard on my charity fundraising campaign on Indiegogo. The traffic is pretty decent but the contribution is very slow. I feel frustrated and helpless. So I’m thinking to have it promoted by professional. Friend of mine sent me this link and I look through it times to times and still can’t figure out how to use it. http://press.customerdevlabs.com/ anyone experience using it? Or any suggestion about how to promote fundraising campaign? Your advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/let-s-help-renovate-the-monk-s-house/x/9904228
There is actually a whole board game based on autocomplete results[1] which is like a cross between Balderdash and Cards Against Humanity. Players create their own autocomplete results and then try to guess the real one. This review is pretty accurate: One of the best elements of this game is the sociological knowledge you get out of each round. "What, people really search for that?" is a common response.[2]

[1] http://www.querythegame.com

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IUVSCSS
Naturally, on OS X, where scroll events are already inertia-ed by the time they reach the browser, this makes scrolling way too fast. As a bonus, it breaks the two-finger back/forward gestures, as well as cmd-{up, down} to go to the top or bottom. How nice...
Some founders have special classes of voting shares, e.g. Google and Facebook.
SSH + emacs on the remote part.

For embedded programming, where I need to run a programmer to flash a microcontroller, I use an ARM board as a host.
One of the more unfortunate cases is the Equifax one which expires in 2018.
Believe it or not but you don't HAVE to buy anything, you can sit there for hours and if nothing catches your attention leave empty handed. The handytrax are cool but more for big garage sales where they don't provide decks and I'd be wary of a record store that doesn't have record players.

try this: http://record-shops.org/
Totally agree.

> I myself try to disregard my learned biases, but often don't realize I failed until after the fact.

Part of being human and why we should be very careful to judge. I'm in the same place.
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I think it's extremely premature that people are saying Uber has won. These companies operate in a bunch of silo'd markets so for Uber to "win," they'd have to one by one take all the markets.

It's more appropriate to look at individual markets where both are competing and see how they perform relative to each other. I think Uber's higher valuation is probably due to the fact that they've aggressively expanded and are in more markets than Lyft, Sidecar, and others.
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I'm personally a fan of Lyft. Uber execs are too sleezy for me. That means something to some of us.
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Question: Where is text rendered? on the gpu or cpu?
The problem with module pattern which enables you to use "this"-less Javascript is increased memory usage. Of course you can use other techniques for elements which you instaniate in thousands, but then you are mixing one pattern with another and it will begin hard to follow which should be which. I prefer consistency here.
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I am one of the fools who bought an optimus popularis - it's optimus lame.

Also those relegendable knobs and sliders are very popular in the music industry already 0 - so it would be fairly trivial to bring it to a consumer device.
change the order of s-boxes and crack.
it was my homework.
You do realize that by saying "in my experience, people do X are more likely to be Y", you're doing the exact same thing you're criticizing?
I don't wholly disagree with your critique, but I'll counter on one point. The Times' videos are not the raw source videos you usually see in blogs, which complement and are given context by the text. Compared to TV news, they do tend to spend more time on source material, but overall they tend to follow its model: interviews, on-scene footage, and narration professionally cut together to make a complete narrative. Like on TV (or, for that matter, professional YouTube creators' channels), the video is the complete experience, a replacement for a textual story, not merely a part of it. And as TV and YouTube demonstrate, this is a perfectly valid way to tell a story which many people appreciate; I, on the other hand, prefer text, because I can consume it much faster. It seems reasonable to me that people should be able to choose between the two media. Which is not to say that more of a fusion between the two precedents isn't possible...
In theory, an optimizing VM/JIT should be able to handle this for you. I'm not sure if existing implementations currently do any optimizations though.
Fully agree.

The author probably never used Smalltalk, just to cite one of the oldest dynamic languages.

btn := Button new.
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Wow, that's crazy! I've always wondered if something like that would be feasible... had no idea it had actually been done on a grand-scale before. Thanks for that.
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I don't particularly favor putting all my passwords in an online password manager. So I have some JavaFX gui I made that encrypts a password file (passphrase => PKDF => AES). In total it's like 200 lines of code - GUI, storing pass, generating pass, and rotating master password. The encrypted file I keep synced in my cloud storage.

But in retrospect I don't know if this makes any real difference from something like keepass. My encrypted file is transferred over some secure socket, so an attacker can at least a copy of the encrypted file if they either hack the cloud storage provider or somehow hijack my connection.

It's not exactly super portable but for sites I care about, I wouldn't log onto them on untrusted computers anyway.
Despite how long this is, it leaves out very many details. I'd like to see a description that goes in detail into protocols, code and circuitry signals at every step.
I use `delete object[key]` all the time to unset a property. I do think in the JS world the use of `new` is inconsistent, but avoiding the keyword does not rid of that fact. Your new-less libraries may be consistent with each other, but not the rest of the JS world that do it their own way. (http://xkcd.com/927/)

This seems like a problem the language should solve incrementally. Especially with ES6 classes and modules!
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I have not looked into your company - but what's your opinion on crowdsourcing some of this? Some of these devices are remarkably similar to 3d printers and not so tough for the hobbyist to assemble.

If you do that then the community can start banding together to test formulations and then send the promising ones to you for further analysis.

Good luck. I love the idea and I personally have a few ideas of my own in the field that I want to start in 2016/2017

Edit * of course everyday people won't necessarily have access to approved therapies - but perhaps they can test other compounds and environmental conditions (or get the FDA to somehow approve tiny little test pellets for different drugs that would be legal for hobbyists to use in testing)
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> Azul's practices in Java/JVM are really great but finally down to its commercial focuses.

Just like any other programming language that tried to bring research into the mainstream.

If it wasn't for the money invested by companies into C++, Java, .NET and JavaScript ecosystems, we would all be doing C most likely.

As all the better alternatives to C on its day, died from lack of investment.

As for waiting.

It is no different from C++ developers eagerly waiting fro concepts lite and modules, which might be available across major compilers (not only desktop systems) around 2020 if all goes well.

Besides how many companies in the world have to worry about petabyte JVMs? Very few.
I still prefer Uber because it's nicer than Lyft. Not uberx of course, but even then uberx is basically on par with all Lyft drivers. If I'm paying for a car service, I don't derive much value from a fist bump. I want a bottle of water in the back seat, tinted windows and the door opened for me - and the few extra dollars is more than worth it. Yes competition is good, but which supporting demographic do you think will keep a company afloat? I'm betting on the people that fly business class. There are good reasons Uber attracts the big money investors.
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`delete` is harmful, consider setting property to `undefined` or `null` instead.
Yea there's definitely a chromebooks section:

http://imgur.com/Ro5MQjf

Currently they only have the Acer Chromebook 13 and the Chromebook Pixel.

https://store.google.com/product/acer_chromebook_13

https://store.google.com/product/chromebook_pixel_2015
Why is it harmful to delete a property that disappears forever?
'new' is a source of confusion for newbies and experienced devs alike, sufficiently enough for them to ask questions on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9468055/what-does-new-in-...

Even I have to refresh my memory on these ambiguous parts of the language from time to time.
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iCloud is widely considered to be troublesome by many different developers.
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Pretty cool.

Since everyone is going to mention what it misses, here's this pet peeve of mine: when I type Google.com it redirects the URL to google.[countrycode] and then I have to jump through hoops to get the .com, the English version and the global results.
I'd also like to see what's going on within the Google servers and data centers. Also, a flow diagram would be awesome. I am hoping to show this to my wife to have her appreciate the engineering involved.