skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different sets of data goes to different pipelines.

eg: aerospike will have counters to cap a certain transaction and when we do offline aggregations from logs written through a completely different system, the numbers have to match.

If something is capped to spend $100 and the aggregations don't match up to exactly $100, then there's something wrong, especially with very fine grain numbers.
GitLab CEO here, good to hear your experience with GitLab is good. What solution do you use to mirror the repository?
The point of contention here seems to be insurance: Uber already provides insurance that covers the driver while they are carrying passengers, but Kansas wants them to have commercial insurance that covers drivers 24/7.
I personally think curl is one of the better examples of CLI tools as it follows the pipe metaphor by default (which wget doesn't), supports both long and short flags (so if -s isn't memorable, then use --silent) and doesn't require a flag for it's core mandatory input (ie a URL). You can even slide flags in after the URL, if you wanted - which is something you generally only see supported by GNU utilities.

I could see curl being a little daunting to someone who is normally uncomfortable with the command line, but that's not really the fault of curl having a bad UI, that's more a paradigm preference of the user.
If you live in NYC, cabs always refuse people to go to Brooklyn/Queens/Unwanted destination, eve though it is illegal to do so. The usual excuse: I am going out of my shift, and can't go that way. (this can be legit, but often it is not).

Next time don't enter your destination address, so the driver doesn't know where you go, and once you are in the car it is much harder for them to refuse you.
4 Reasons to Employ Older Developers
That's fine. One thing that I am certain of: today's $500 video card is next year's $250 video card and the next year's default upgrade from on-motherboard.
Why can't people use the expression "ni[g]ger" in context?

People can use the expression in context and many do. Speaking as a black guy (but not representative of all blacks), I have a visceral reaction to the word[0] so when outlets self-censor, I see it as a small sign of respect and I appreciate it. YMMV of course.

I understand the arguments that "n-word" or "horrific racial expletive deleted" is awkward or may be seen as patronizing, but I see "nigger" (in nearly all contexts) as insulating. It's a tradeoff, and from my POV not using the work is preferable. Again, YMMV.

[..] all it does it soften the racism used in that instance.

I think you're correct, it does soften the racism, but I also think it improves relations. I'm okay with that.

Just to be clear, I'm just offering my own perspective here, I'm not trying to convince anyone to self-censor. If someone wants to scream "nigger, nigger, nigger" from the rooftops, go right ahead. Just don't expect me to ever listen to you.

[0] Yes, even when other blacks use it
I give you 50$ dollars if
Reach 100 seconds in the "seconds mode" of OnTime? Game.
The first to reach them will receive 50$ from me! You not'll never make it!

Link:
https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/ontime/id988142014?mt=8
Well, in some locations you can't hitch legally. So there's that.
A background check is obviously not bullet-proof, as it failed with "Esa Alusaimi", but it is so much better than nothing.
I think the product (radio) is totally non-viable but you would've made a killing on Kickstarter (see Coolest Cooler etc.)
Or something went very right and you found something you really loved to do. Personally I kind-of wish I'd have gone that route and not had to deal with all the management bullshit that I've spent time on over the years.
One more thing: painting a language as ugly is a very broad thing to do. Is 99 Luftballons an ugly song because it's in German? Are Mussolini's speeches beautiful because they're in Italian?

In the original case of the orcs' Black Speech in Tolkein, they were a race incapable of saying anything pretty because of their language. These are the broad fantastical racism undertones that really bug me about Tolkein's mythology, and they mirror a real undercurrent in people's modes of thought.
Very cool!

I had one issue while running it via Chrome on emscripten, the Tab behavior was a bit weird (could keep clicking on the same tab and it would cycle the color change over and over).
Desert Bus is kind of an exception because it was intended as a joke from Penn & Teller, mocking the argument that games need to be realistic.

But if you want to see people suffer through that game for a whole week 24h/24, come watch the yearly "Desert Bus for Hope" charity marathon in November: http://desertbus.org/about/ :-)
I'd like to believe that too, but I can't convince myself :).
Business models that rely on skirting regulations affecting competitors are probably not sustainable.
I tried to get the JIT to work on ARM a couple of months back. Since the author explicitly turned off the JIT, I suppose there's still work to be done...
To me, this seems to speak volumes about the viability of Uber's business model in the long run. If they can't compete because additional background checks and insurance are needed, is it really a $40B company?
The difference is when you hitchhike, there is insurance coverage in effect. So when the driver slams into a tree and you get hurt, your care (which isn't covered by health insurance) is paid for by the auto insurer. When you aren't covered by insurance, society absorbs the costs of the $10,000+ ER visit, $500 ambulance trip, etc. Your family bears the burden of chronic medical issues and work loss, etc.

The answer is simple. You pay a little more for commercial/livery coverage and your passengers are covered against perils.

The background check thing is even easier. Do you want your wife picked up and driven around by a convicted rapist? For the want of Uber spending the massive sum of like $20?
This is an edge case, and you can think of it as a side effect coming from living in SF, where everybody has to deal with bay bridge problems. I understand your frustration but I would split the blame 50-50 between the city for not providing transportation, and Uber to not red flagging this problem and offer a special solution for this.
The public goods problem can be either the described Farmer's Dilemma or the Prisoner's Dilemma (its usually considered the latter, since the cost is usually greater than the benefit to any one individual from having the good provided, so that defecting is a dominant strategy, unlike with FD.)
So basically if someone with an undergrad in EE decided he hates astronomers the way Ted Bundy hated women, he could screw up that field of science for the next few centuries with no one being the wiser for it?
I see where you are coming from. HBase was unstable 3-4 years ago, but after a great amount of dev effort and battle hardening from Cloudera, Salesforce, etc., it is very stable now. We have ~ 400 nodes running in production for a very critical use case and have seen 0 data loss edge cases in the last 2 years, along with some of our servers running > 6 months without any reboots.

We use is in a very real time use case with latency requirements of single digit milliseconds, and if you tweak it the right way, you can the required performance from it, along with easy horizontal scaling.

Also, I am curious too for aphyr to take on HBase, but I don't think the result would be different since running Jepsen is straightfoward and not much to a person's interpretation. The results and further experiments are what aphyr does nicely.
Everyone in their 20s/30s worried about their jobs in their 50s... well maybe shouldn't worry about it too much. Definitely think and plan for it, but life's too short to worry about how you will work in 20 years because of current trends.

And I mean it in two ways. One, some of us won't make it to 50+, so why worry about it now? Two, in ~20-30 years there will be a lot of programmers in that age bracket. And maybe by then PHP or Perl or C# will be legacy and will require oldbeards to maintain them. And maybe the stigma of being an old programmer won't be there any longer. Or maybe by then all the robots will do the programming and a "programmer" essentially becomes a robot repair and maintenance job.

So I think it is way too early to worry if you're in your 20s, because by the time you're 50, everyone's stories about being 50 now may be irrelevant. Or you'll be dead. Or it won't matter.
You'd think they could install a gas stove.
Valley politics are not about politics, they're about social positioning. The trendy viewpoints are just a under-informed belligerent narrative stapled onto mostly center-left positions by low-rent bloggers that can feed them anger-bait.

(Not that NPR is that blog (I meant gawker-level properties) but this mental masturbation is one of the more worthless things NPR runs. Lingering racial expectations based on from someones name isn't news when there are ongoing race riots elsewhere in the country.)
It also acts as the de-facto authentication provider for a ton of third-party hosted services.

I don't know if "login with github" stopped working during this outage but I can imagine the sort of hell if I suddenly couldn't access my PaaS running production infrastructure because it couldn't authenticate my github account.
I'm sure it depends on the company and how it is organized. We had design groups that handled most hardware and software design. Those engineers only worked on a program until the production design was finalized, at which point they usually went to a different program, sometimes in a completely different city.

We also had a third category, who were the engineers that worked in support activities like manufacturing and failure analysis. They might have the same "job" for years on end, but the job itself changed constantly.
Or, you know, don't use Uber.

I get that you had a bad experience, but the response to every bad experience should not be regulation. "Surge pricing" is no more a scam than any other market-based pricing mechanism.

To be clear, I'm mixed on Uber overall, and I do think they need some regulation, but not with regard to pricing, coverage, or response time. Those are good fits for self-regulating markets. I'm more concerned with things like knowing that when I get in to an Uber, I'm covered by the proper insurance if I end up in an accident on the way to my destination.
Just wait till an NRA class lobby organization emerges and fixes it for everybody. :)
>Github will probably have more downtime which you can do noting about, than your selfhosted gitlab, which will probably fail because you upgraded something, or tinkered with a configuration.

Personally I don't think you will see less downtime on your own server. The difference is, that when it goes down, there is something you can do about it, so you get busy fixing it.

When github is down we get to all get online and talk about our woes together.

The outages are usually pretty short. Go get a coffee and come back, or grab the team and go play a round of bowling. That has to be better than trying to manage and keep secure our own repos.
Deprecating the Sync and Datastore APIs
Geospatial - asset management, smart metering, integration, analyses.

We are also based in small country, where everyone known everyone :).
I gave up on Uber for airport rides. For LAX it's not unreasonable to request a 4:00 am ride for a 6:30 flight, which quite often comes up with "No cars available" anywhere except their most expensive tier.

Wingz is a cheaper replacement for UberX and Blacklane is a cheaper replacement for Uber Black, both have to be arranged though.
Ok, I'd like my work to be addictive, as long as I'm required to keep my 5 8-hour days, I might as well look forward to it.
Hall acquired by HipChat
Perhaps the insight here is that neither law nor medicine is advancing fast enough?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9329148
> not sure what's the business logic behind opposing them

They want to have no costs to doing business, and to reap all the profits.
Just for the record, Desert Bus is a joke (mini-)game included in unreleased Penn & Teller "trick" collection
Are you using source maps? If so, you can actually put breakpoints in your other source and Chrome will still break on it. I've even done this with Scalajs.
Freightliner Unveils First Autonomous Truck Licensed to Drive Itself on Highways
a couple? also look up seabury smith. Here is a list of their subsidiaries. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/62709/000119312511047... You can't tell me zenefits justifies a 4 billion dollar valuation for what they are doing.
Wow. I actually remember you commenting on the Ross Ulbricht story and you gave an explanation of how you changed your name.
what I appreciate about weave is that it solved the cross host container networking problem easily (it's very very easy to use) and now, i.e. no waiting for promises of future solutions or fooling around with more complicated set ups.

Here's where I got burned: I set up an elastic search cluster using containers and weave and life was great, but it then grew to need another node. Upon setting up the new host with docker and weave it turns out the new node couldn't talk to the old nodes because they were using different versions of the weave protocol. That was disappointing and a pain, I stopped experimenting with weave at that point.
Also in the randomly-generated area (which i wish they would do a port to current consoles) was "Spelunky" - super challenging and randomly generated levels too.

All being said, I miss the grand era of 80s/90s 2D greatly.
How One Computer Hacker Conquered Online Dating, Opens Locked Cars and More
Yellen cites 'potential dangers' in U.S. stock valuations
Ask HN: Self employment tax? [US]
I'm reviewing what my CPA sent me.. it looks like individuals (contractors) get fucked with self employment tax in the US. Is there a way around this? I netted less than 100k and my effective tax rate is almost 40% according to self-employment tax + income tax
Some of these attacks are remote, some are local privilege escalation flaws.

The local attacker should have user-level access, but instead has admin/system-level access.
There Have Been Some Big, Mysterious Moves in Markets Lately
Daimler Unveils Autonomous Truck Licensed to Drive Itself on Highways
Ok, that's a good argument for their differences (volatility).
Precisely, because you don't pay the guy that gives you a lift when you hitchhike, but you do pay to an Uber driver.

Once there's money involved, we are no longer talking about an agreement between gentlemen, but about a commercial transaction, and those require regulations because the incentives are different, and money does weird things to people. A driver maximizing profits has no incentive in, say, checking his brakes regularly (money spent + car immobilized for some time), while a random driver does ("yeah, I'll take a cab for a couple days, no biggie").
that's strange -- as far as i know, the uber driver will only know your destination after they pick you up (so they cannot do this kind of thing). uber's feature page also say that https://www.uber.com/features -- "After pickup, we show the driver where you’re going..."

I also spoke with the drivers I used here in são paulo and they said the same thing: they only get the destination after the pickup and they only get my first name -- uber now is using a 3rd party service that proxys my phone so the driver won't have my personal number.
The values that go into the formula are normalized, but not weighted. So a similar screen size is "worth" as much as a similar weight. If you find examples, where weighted results would perform better, let me know. You can compare the given phone to other phones by clicking them in the list on the right.
The required insurance in that bill seems to be 1 million dollars, which seems still very low to me. Mandatory insurance minimums for cars here in Germany are much higher than that.
> it follows the pipe metaphor by default

Completely agree. As a novice 15 years ago, this bugged me, especially coming from arguably simpler tools like wget. But over the years I can to appreciate how it works. And now, wget seems kinda dirty.
"Kansas lawmakers want to make sure drivers have insurance that covers the times when a driver has no passengers — and is therefore not covered by business insurance — but is behind the wheel of their work vehicle — and is therefore not covered by personal insurance either."

It's outrageous that there could even be a situation where someone is driving on the road but not covered by insurance. Looking at comments under the article, it's like people don't understand the implications of this.
Lyft (as far as I know) won't show the driver your destination until the ride is started. It's intended to save time in allowing the driver to bring up directions and not as a decision point for them to decide if they want to take the ride or not.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I read that the screen door effect were even less visible in the Sony Morpheus prototype, even though it had less resolution than the Crescent Bay prototype.
> "Surge pricing" is no more a scam than any other market-based pricing mechanism.

Surge pricing on an unknown fare (metered) is actually quite ridiculous.

For contrast, when I order a Lyft line in Manhattan, it gives me an exact price quote (not an estimate, but the exact quote) before I order the ride, taking all surges into account. This means I have perfect knowledge of what the price is going to be before I decide whether to take the ride[0].

Uber has consistently refused to implement price quotes, to the point where they have literally jeopardized their existence in at least one city because of it: all of the legal problems they have in London would be avoided if they provided price quotes in advance.

Uber has been really clever to frame the controversy as a debate about whether the cabbies should have to take an exam. But the fact that medallion cabs in London have to take the street exam is all moot, because if Uber provided price quotes in advance, they would be classified as a different kind of car service which doesn't have to take the street exam in the first place.

Instead, Uber would rather launch a coordinated PR and legal campaign against the entire medallion cab system in London, just to avoid implementing an incredibly user-friendly feature.

[0] This feature may not be in all locations yet (in fact, I don't know if it even works if the destination is in another borough), but it's clear to me that this is at least where Lyft is headed, whereas it's clear that Uber is committed to not providing price quotes.
They probably rewrote "privilege escalation" to that sentence.
So they probably have some sort of way to root the box after getting in as a standard user. Oops!
I don't think they get to see the destination till they pick you up.

I am of two minds on surge pricing. I certainly don't like it, but I don't think it is a scam so much as normal economics.
"There was a slight selection bias in that all those present were people whom an on-campus group was hoping to get donations from."

Slight?
That's definitively an interesting problem. Just note in many cases we're not even interested in learning the tasks. For example, you don't need any person to actually know that consumers aged 25-29 years old prefer a certain product 10% more than consumers aged 21-25, and so on.

But humans are still the ones responsible for important high level decisions, so it still makes sense to maximize information transparency to enable good decisions in those contexts.

A neural network that given a prediction 'X is most likely' and could answer the question "Why?" with 'Because Y' would be amazing.
You're not wrong re: best experience, but your $1000 of GPU + $500 screen puts you in like the top 1% of gamers. Most ppl are gaming on cheap rigs, laptops, etc. It's possible that FB/Oculus are trying to make something that will only appeal to the big spending "prestige-rig" gamer set, but I'd think that they would be trying to make a product that will be compelling to a bigger audience.
The name recognition could work better.
For "HTC M8" it said it had no results. For "M8" it asked me "which M8?", but had only one option. Also - really? The alternative to HTC M9 is....M8? It's like saying that the alternative to Galaxy S6 is S5, and to S5 is S4. Not very helpful.
Why Europe Needs a Single Digital Market – The Numbers
Spending 10+ years at a company gives you habits, habits that help you get things done at that company but which may not be translatable to other companies. You have to relearn how to get things done in each new company you join, and if you don't exercise that skill, or you don't think about it explicitly, you find a transplanted engineer becomes ineffective.

The trick of course is to manage them through that. And that requires both trust and good communication. Trust to know that you will get there, communication to see how things work (from both sides) and be able to match up skills with trends.
> Uber needs some serious regulation

Too often our knee-jerk reaction is to want the government to get involved.

But based on your experience, you are probably

a) not going to trust Uber again, at least for this sort of ride

b) choose a competitor / traditional cab to get you to OAK

c) tell all of your friends / HN about your crappy experience, leading to reduced reputation for Uber

The end result is that Uber will no longer get your business and perhaps others' business will go elsewhere too. Uber is being punished for its bad behavior by the market. Getting the government involved would likely put Uber out of business (hence the article) or make rates way higher and essentially no different than a traditional cab.
It comes with much more liberal SEP-IRA rules (25% of gross, not capped at $5,500) and deductions (health insurance purchases are deductible for self-employed), leave alone the commonly known things, such as deductions for transportation, entertainment, etc. so you have way more ways to minimize the taxable portion of the income.
Uber drivers are required to accept at least 80% of their requests.
The identity underground
Especially because they argue that they are not a taxi company because they are doing "ride sharing". Well are you ride sharing or are you a limousine service with jobs on the line?
If the HTTP connection is interrupted during download (highly likely if you're doing this routinely) you'll end up with something in a broken state. Locally running a remote stream as it arrives as code is just a bad idea, unless you're talking about something like a webpage where a partial is potentially preferable to nothing at all.
This Pressure-Sensing Stool Wants You to Sit Better
> Instead of above, the question you need to ask is [...]

Yes, excellent point. (And we can go further still.)

I've been calling this the "fallacy of ignored instantiation". Personally, this is something I've been ruminating on for a while and have meant to do a writeup on it for a couple years now. Hopefully, though, that name is descriptive enough that a certain crowd would, upon hearing it alone, understand almost exactly where I would go with it.

(Alternatively, if anyone knows of any good treatments that already exist on this topic, please let me know.)
It really is incredible how the opinion of Uber has dropped. I used to love Uber - and still do love the Uber service - but now I can't stand the company. I used to buy in to the whole corrupt taxi industry narrative, but now I feel like a fool for believing it (even if it was true at the beginning). It's a shame that there's no alternative, at least that I'm aware of, to UberEXEC/UberLUX.

I feel like Uber could have been a great, albeit smaller, company had they concentrated on their upmarket service. Aiming to be cheaper than taxis is just a race to the bottom - but there are many people who are willing to pay more in exchange for a better experience.
Doesn't the last sentence in your message contradict the first one? Uber provides crappy service; use different product. Done.