skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's not what you're asking, but for the record you can buy memristor-memory-based microcontrollers in single quantities from Mouser today.

The reason I mention it is that memristors are being accused of being vaporware when really they're in production already.
Only a guess but I'd place money on "because that's the best way they can think of to increase advert impressions". I've known publishers do that for this reason, at least. Depressingly.
Very interesting article. Very long, too, but well worth the time. (Also, I find it very well written in that it presents a pretty large and complex amount of information in a way that is easy to follow.)

The impression I get away with is that the political/religious/economical landscape in the middle east is way more complex than most media reports lead one to think.

The part about cellphone metadata was highly interesting, too. It shows how this metadata can be used for investigating crimes, but it does not take much creativity to imagine how an oppressive government can use such data for building profiles of opposition movements.
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I suspect you're getting downvoted for the last third of your comment. The first two thirds alone might have had the opposite effect.
Why Food Startups Should Care About the Sysco-US Foods Merger
> you can't deny that drivers get absolutely shafted

Actually you can.

I think the simplest argument is the best one: They choose to do this voluntarily, every single day they drive.
There are also other great mutation testing tools for other languages, such as Mutator: http://ortask.com/mutator/
Ken Jennings' 74 win streak is because...?

A. He cheated
B. He's lucky
C. He's a genius
D. It's written
Oh look! Watson can answer that question: https://youtu.be/UFF9bI6e29U?t=2670

(ok, it's not exactly that question, but you can see how it works)
I'm really impressed by the quality of engineers on this forum. It's amazing, it seems that just about everyone here knows how to do skuhn's job better than he does!
Besides the Moped--they aren't quite street legal? What is the point of the App if you can't see the vechicle? Do you happen to work in a climate controlled Uber office--with stock shares?

My point is don't claim Independent Contractor status when you're obviously not. This link makes fun reading. Maybe you can explain automotive aesthetics to me, Honda, Chevrolet, or Volkswagen?

http://www.driveubernyc.com/vehicles/full-list/
I don't know if it's a function of thickness, or if they've beaten these researchers to the punch, but black widow spiders spin by far the strongest thread I have ever encountered. There's never any doubt when I encounter a black widow web, and that's how I know to proceed with caution, when I'm working in my garage on the next Google haha.
Yeah, it definitely wasn't as impressive as it seemed on the surface. A much better test of Watson's performance would have been QuizBowl, where contestants can buzz in while the question is still being read.
If by illegal images you mean child pornography, there's a few key differences between CP and Bitcoin. Namely: very very few people are into CP, while practically everyone who isn't an enthusiast is violently opposed to it. Therefore, law enforcement has a practical free reign to track down and destroy the lives of CP-sharers, and are actively supported and even acclaimed by the wider public for their actions.

The excuses for the prohibition of free financial services on the other hand are all basically covert attempts to protect the sovereignty of state military/police institutions, and do not actually align at all with the interests of regular folk. Plus absolutely everybody needs and enjoys high quality, unrestricted financial services.

So I see the chances of government attempts to suppress Bitcoin succeeding as more or less 0. What would be the grounds for it? Where would they gather the support that would allow them to openly violently suppress great swathes of people to try and keep it from happening?

It's even less likely to succeed than efforts to suppress copyright-breaking, because with Bitcoin there are no legitimate victims, it is only the state who will lose out.
> “There’s an unbelievable amount of information available on American consumers — so it’s not exactly Affirm that you should be freaked out about. Having said that, we’re probably some of the most ethical users of such information.”

Rationally speaking, how is his "trust us" remark any different from the US government NSA spying program's "trust us" remark?
Everything Dies, Right? But Does Everything Have to Die? Here's a Surprise
Thanks so much for the kind words.

1. I remember reading about that concept in Ariely's book. And I actually considered adding it to the list, but I wasn't sure where to incorporate it.

2. I think everything boils down to your ability to communicate the value of your offering. People will pay any amount, as long as they perceive to be getting more value from it.

3. And I can't believe I didn't mention Kahneman anywhere! His research was a large foundation behind a good portion of those techniques.
I'm only 35 (in hex, ha, ha!) and I've been programming professionally since 1985 when the earth's crust was still cooling. It's still a blast.
I want to look into your service, but there's no link...
Most likely, it's just an impedance mismatch between current models and reality. Institutions and individuals with access to money taps will find ways to divert some of the flows towards their benefit while ignoring all of the downstream effects.
I drove for Uber in Baltimore last spring for a few months during weekends just for fun and I agree this article's assessment is _dead_ on.

I've since stopped using Uber even as a rider. The way they treat the drivers is pretty horrendous and I don't want to be an enabler to that. Lyft is a bit better because at least I can leave the driver a reasonable tip through the app.
There is a tool to detect duplicate tests which many have found useful: http://ortask.com/testless/

For other kinds of test quality, try Mutator: http://ortask.com/mutator/
The idea of "choice" is significantly more complex than you present it to be, particularly within the context of people providing for themselves and their families, and the information asymmetry Uber leverages in order to convince people to work for them.
That is your experience. A properly set up Hackintosh (with a custom DSDT and the proper kexts as needed) can be as reliable as a genuine Mac.

Regarding Windows machines, I've had desktops that would be used for months at a time (mostly rendering) without a restart and never crash.

A pretty good way to test for reliability is to let Prime95 and Memtest86 run for a week or so and see if it fails somewhere along the line (obviously proper cooling is a must), many consumer machines will fail this test.
Understood.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, right? The only way I can respond to that is by delivering good stuff. It will take time for that evidence to accumulate.

For today I just wanted to communicate that we are paying attention :)
I just wrote this up myself. The results are remarkable, but the credit seems entirely due to the spiders. Well, not entirely, but the data is so limited! They only got a handful of spiders, from the lab's back yard essentially, and a bunch of them died from nanomaterial exposure, malnutrition, or both after 1 trial!

Yet despite the bargain bin trappings, the results are so incredibly cool! The spiders just... incorporated carbon nanotubes and graphene into their silk-spinning process? What?! What's the mechanism?! No one knows! Who would have guessed this would work? It sounds like a joke experiment they cooked up while waiting for the glassware to bake!

Hopefully a more rigorous study replicating and expanding on these results will appear. But it just blew my mind the way this particular science appeared.
Thanks for the explanation. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why he was getting bad imaginary internet points!
Fast touch typist here and I can't say the transition away from mechanical keyboards had any impact on my speed. Shallow travel keys and minimal finger exertion are nice.
You choose to do business with Affirm in order to get something from them that you deem valuable enough to let them gather information about you, and they tell you that up front.

You don't choose to do business with the NSA, you have no say in whether you consider their "product" worth the cost, and they cover up their own activities.
Where does the 'redistribution' come from? From what I can tell the currency is created at an agreed on rate proportional to the pre-existing arbitrary community that is participating in the currency. There is no 'previous wealth' that you can bring into the scheme, so there is no redistribution going on.

The real fallacy is believing that wealth is a concrete entity.
Sure, but it's still an agreement. There's a cross-cultural agreement that the US dollar is worth something too. I don't really see the difference, but I'm not an economist.

That said, I wouldn't make baubles out of dollars.
https://xkcd.com/918/ , but with PayPal in place of Facebook?
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Would love your feedback. Thank you.
They might be twining multiple threads (each themselves consisting of multiple strands) together to make an especially strong dragline or something. The giant riverine orb spider is on record as making the strongest thread, but that might be under certain conditions (like what comes out of the spinnerette (sp?), no weaving allowed) or the like.
No hablo espanol bueno. Quisas es posible para ti provisir un translation?
Founder of interviewing.io here. I'm an engineer who did recruiting for a few years to understand how exactly hiring is broken. interviewing.io is my attempt to fix things.
I'm just using AdBlock Plus on this particular browser (Conkeror; Firefox-like). Haven't bothered to try with Firefox (which doesn't have Ghostery, but has a more stringent ad-blocking policy and some other privacy-ish addons that I can't recall at the moment).
"FULL VEHICLE LIST

"remember - UberBLACK and UberSUV vehicles MUST be black on black.

Please note: all vehicles must be 2010 or newer. The TLC is no longer renewing diamonds for vehicles that are older than 2011, so if your diamond is up for renewal, the TLC will not allow you to continue driving a 2010 vehicle. If you don't have TLC plates yet, you must get a 2011 or newer vehicle, as the TLC requires black cars to be under 5 years old."

But wait if you have one of these Uber approved automobiles you will "make $500 per trip, no risk, no strings attached"

Sign me up for a loan!

(Couldn't upload the list do to size)
I understood what he said. Do you?
Ask HN: Why hire junior developers?
As a junior developer and new graduate actively looking for a job a question came to my mind , why would companies hire junior developers , instead of senior and more advanced developers , of course there is the long term investment and the lower salary that junior gets compare to seniors , but is there any other reasons , that companies hiring junior developers get ?
I disagree. Uber employs extremely deceptive advertising to recruit drivers and encourages them to do things like buy new cars then turns around and cuts the amount drivers get paid. This has the effect of totally screwing them over. It's a pretty exploitative situation for people who actually rely on it for income to pay their living expenses.
And yet I have adblock on, so the only thing they're accomplishing is making me not read the whole article. There's enough irony in that to cure every case of anemia worldwide.
I'm one of the subjects of the article. Regarding the 2009 incident at ABQ: I was acquitted of all criminal charges by a jury in 2011. The trial ran two days, during which I did not testify and presented no evidence. Bizarrely, the prosecution presented the [video I made of the incident](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5DBUK1K8M) (that he police erased and I recovered) as evidence against me. The jury deliberated just one hour to reach their decision.

Later that year, I filed a related civil rights lawsuit. March of this year, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on dismissal of that suit. There's no set timeline for a response from the court.

For details, see:
- [FAQ: State of New Mexico v. Phillip Mocek](http://papersplease.org/wp/mocek/)
- [FAQ: Phillip Mocek v. Albuquerque et al.](http://papersplease.org/wp/mocek2/)
> You choose to do business with Affirm in order to get something from them that you deem valuable enough to let them gather information about you, and they tell you that up front.

True. But that makes the business model more compelling. It doesn't negate the fact that it takes just one bad actor at Affirm to screw that trust up (just as easily as it takes just one bad actor at the NSA to screw their trust up).
I would love to see some details on how they plan to get their IPC raised by 40%

That is a bold claim!
What on Earth is your point? You agree with my point that punishment is not eternal in Buddhism, and then go on to write about how karma works. Is your assumption that I don't know any of this, and that I need to know in this context?

The people that I mostly have in mind are people that bet on Pascal's Wager. People that are not necessarily Buddhists, or even religious to begin with. From their standpoint, it might not be that crucial to bet on Buddhism, since it they're wrong they won't have to pay for it for ever and ever.

(Gotta say that I was surprised to see M. O'Church talking about Buddism, btw.)
Dissolved gold doesn't evaporate. So, unless you spill the liquid, you should get virtually everything back.
There is plenty of disruption in the small business loan space, including billion dollar valuations (one went public in December). They're just not from SV.
Hmm, must be the site, then. I'm using Firefox (with Ghostery, why do you say it doesn't have it?) and it refreshes for me as well.
This is a bit of a Godwin's switcheroo - where in a historical discussion about Nazis someone will inevitably try to use it to win points in a modern political argument.
A problem with this is that sometimes nondeterminism is OK.

For instance, changing the constant to another prime in the "classic" hashcode implementation (repeatedly multiply by a prime and add the next field) will (probably) not trigger any (well-written) tests, and indeed generally won't be detrimental at all, but will be flagged by this sort of test.
https://www.kabbage.com?
This comes a couple of years too late in the game, but I'll probably use their new Zen FX in a desktop build just to encourage an alternative to Intel.
Thanks for the links!

I hate to sound negative, but something about that website seems dodgy. I'm unconvinced duplicate/overlapping tests -- while obviously undesirable -- have a direct correlation with code quality. Unfortunately, in order to read their "papers" where they elaborate on this, I have to register :/

I'd rather use something open source like pitest.

(Again, thanks for the links! I don't want to sound too negative)
The article claims that credit assessment is partially based on "..behavioral factors like how long he or she takes to remember all that information..". Is data entry latency being used as a proxy for human memory latency?
Step 1 of that plan was hiring Jim Keller.
If you want to organize resources and work in a centralized fashion, you still have to understand people, how they think and how they're motivated. You still have to decide who gets what, how they get it, who works on what, how to motivate them... You just do it directly instead of detouring through the abstraction of money and prices.

Getting rid of the intermediate pricing abstraction doesn't magically solve the underlying problems. Perhaps it lets you address those problems more directly, but it's not clear that that's a better approach—as programmers and computer sciences we should appreciate the power of abstraction and indirection to make solving problems easier.

The same energy would just have been spent in committees. Except, historically, the process would have ended up far more political than scientific.
Re: point 1.

Maybe something like:

"Strategy: Giving away for free and then upsell"

Tactic X: "Give away free product or usage of your service" (talk about Ariely's theory of social norms vs market norms)

Tactic Y: "Up-sell free users into a more compelling value proposition" (distinguish between the free product/service and use it as a framing exercise to get your users to pay)
They can form them to their needs.
It happened to me without any adblockers or other add-ons (Chrome, in its default form.) The refreshes were partly obnoxious due to not always scrolling back to the same place on the page.
> Given recent history, that's not going to be for a number of years.

That is something that no one outside of Apple can say for certain. It doesn't even have to be a major change, but something like rearranging ports, adjusting taper or extrusions on the chassis, etc. Those kinds of adjustments happen all the time on consumer hardware, and most people don't notice, but may be an issue if you're trying to fit into precision machined slots.

> Hardware will almost always cost less than engineers.

For commodity, off-the-shelf hardware, absolutely. This is anything but, and still requires engineering effort to design, fabricate and assemble. And it's not always about the immediate dollars: sometimes a fundamental reworking means sacrificing short-term savings in favor of the long-term: flexibility, risk mitigation, reduced operational complexity, and cost over successive generations of hardware.
> It has to

So basically you mean than Uber can only make money if most their drivers do not respect the law. Which gives Uber an unfair advantage over the competition (regular taxis that do respect the law ). It's like saying employer X doesn't check if his employees are legal workers, because if he did it would be too expensive to do business. But hey, even startups got to hussle to make a good living.
nothing there (anymore)?
I was a low level army grunt for several years before finishing college, and getting into R&D. I agree with your perspective 100%.
airbnb: where it's cool to roll a front end engineer into my scheduled interview for ML 24 minutes late without having read my fucking resume
Looks more efficient .. with the use of Arduino
The Failure of Agile
Ember.js new rendering engine merged
Now I feel like I'm ready to go make and sell some "As Seen On TV" product.
I'm a procrastinator
Eh. Any good and competent senior engineer will do the same.
Some of these tactics are contradictory. Tactic 2 says to add cents for a "rational" purchase, i.e. 19.86 verus 19. This contradicts tactic 3 which says to use fewer syllables, i.e. 19 versus 19.86. How do you prioritize these tactics?
I think that things like React, and React-Native show the opposite is true... composition of UI elements that are meant to be rendered in relative terms doesn't tend to work out well when you are trying to use absolute measurements in something like C++ with lower-level constructs.

The fact that it is XML is more convention in this case... even with React, it's translated to coded controls via strict rules.. and is relatively easy to manage and reason with.
The entire economic system is built around people trying to get the best deal possible for themselves. You can try and paint that as inhumane and abusive if you're commited to emotionalising economic dynamics, but it really doesn't make any sense. At the end of the day as long as the transactions are consensual, there's no need for this rhetoric of abuse. Uber drivers know the deal and they can take it or leave it. No one's holding a gun to their heads. Likewise, it's not Uber or anyone else's job or responsibility to guarantee anyone or anybody a certain standard of living.

You might as well vilify people for choosing the potatoes which are 10c/kg cheaper at the supermarket, isn't that a case of those wealthy enough to buy potatoes victimising helpless potato farmers?
I never said it would fry itself. It actually just turns itself off, and I have to remove the battery and power cord to get it to restart. And I only had this problem on Windows 7. Every major Linux distro I tried had proper power management support.
Just when I'm full up on superhero themes it gets all interesting again.
So what, some people have urgent needs, different parties in economic transactions have access to different information. Welcome to the free market. They're still choosing to work for Uber. No one is forcing them. Uber isn't forcing them. Uber is just offering an opportunity that they are deciding to accept.
There are definitely risks, but I do want to gently re-iterate that we're not blind to them.

About the only thing that Apple could do that would render this chassis obsolete is to substantially change the exterior dimensions of the Mac Pro. Obviously if it's a different shape, we would have to adjust things.

If they kept the same shape but modified it somehow, the only dimensional change that would be truly tough to accommodate is an increase to circumference. This is the dimension with the least wiggle room built-in, and it would cause some headache. We would probably have to sacrifice some density by removing 1 chassis from the rack.

Otherwise, changes to ports or minor adjustments to the length of the chassis can all be accommodated for in this chassis design.
Show HN: Templator, the new front end templating engine
Relying on self-driving involves

* owning the fleet with up-front capital requirements

* buying insurance

* owning the parking facilities for such fleet

* operating filling/charging stations for such fleet

* providing maintenance for the fleet on an ongoing basis

* operating car washes

What exactly is Uber's competence in such setup, and why are they in a dominant position to achieve this when compared to, let's say, Hertz, ZipCar, a local car dealership, or some mom-and-pop operation that bought two self-driving cars to rent them out on a busy intersection?
I think the proof is in the fact that they were letting the oil wells lapse. That being said, it's all academic now that oil prices are recovering.
They also take a very data driven approach to hiring by leveraging applicant tracking systems like Greenhouse and testing platforms like HackerRank. This helps to surface top candidates and keep the operation smooth and tight.
A/B testing?

I assumed the longer syllables was part of the "rational" purchases, but it isn't really clear.
Something I never liked about jeopardy is that you can't buzz in at any time.

I played on a trivia team at the high school level, and most questions were structured like:

"This American architect, born in 1867, is known for works such as the Robie House, the Guggenheim Museum, and Fallingwater."

So they typically feed you information from least to most well known, and you can buzz in at any time. This rewards players who know the most trivia. Everyone who played knows Frank Lloyd Wright did Fallingwater, but a very good player would know his approximate date of birth and would buzz in immediately on hearing 1867.

I understand that this might make Jeopardy less fun for the audience, but I feel it would be a better test of trivia instead of buzzer timing.
Happy birthday! :)
Possibly related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9496813
To put it bluntly, no, the poor don't vote to redistribute--that's why they're still poor.

It's the rich who've made it a practice and habit to grab whatever they can, whenever they can; excepting those who were merely born rich, that's why the rich are rich.
Uber offers a certain deal to potential drivers, they either like it enough to accept it or they think they can get a better match for their skills and circumstances and they keep looking. Uber has no responsibility to try and offer a deal which matches your sense of fairness. No one is being coerced and no one is being exploited.