skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Google themselves suggested during discussions with the EU that people should just change their name when their old name has too much stuff connected with it.

The Right to be Forgotten is a far better implementation than that, IMO
There will also be special builds of Beta and Release without this limitation - you won't need to use Developer or Nightly.
20% actually but if the costs are low and volume is high, that piece of pie would be worth a lot. Also ~20% is a much higher margin than what the retails operate on.
> This year, the firm expects to clock $10.84 billion in revenue which — calculating the 20 percent commission that it takes — should bring in around $2 billion in revenue for the year. Its projection for next year comes in at $26.12 billion, which could generate over $5 billion in take-home money.

So, is it eleven or is two billions in revenue... Techcrunch...
Well, what middleman cut does Uber take? 30%?

They could be a super unicorn with $87+ billion.
Uber spends a ton of money on three areas: R&D, new customer and driver acquisition (including marketing too), and legal/lobbying. These areas may taper down in growth in the future, but it's unlikely to shrink.

Also there is the huge red flag they may be forced to hire the drivers as employees.
There's an author with the same name as me- if I exercise my right to be forgotten, does that mean he's forgotten too? I can imagine he might not like that.
For it to make sense to buy one, it would have to actually be a better all-around solution to a problem. Say this machine costs $10 million (the same price of one of their earlier machines), and is the size and power consumption of many racks of equipment. Do you spend $10 million on this, or $10 million on 4 racks of xeon servers with GPUs?

Their machine is probably hilariously worse than the commodity solution for nearly all real-world problems.
I don't really know why, but I have some small optimism that Servo might enable such a browser. The only other candidate browser engine is Webkit, which is already too huge to be part of a small Unixy browser. Maybe Servo, as a project that people are actively hacking on, might work.

Alternatively, maybe https://github.com/breach/breach_core though their website is down, so maybe the project is dead...
And again. You're talking about tinkering. What about the freedom to run for any purpose? What about the fact that one is renting a proprietary service with a de facto universal backdoor and spyware capabilities? How is that not an ethical concern?

Voluntary association does tend to work in this case, but it doesn't change the fact that a party is engaging in unethical behavior. Furthermore, the ultimate end result of "Don't like it, don't use it" is the erosion of choice.

You are NOT required to use any proprietary software.

Oh, hell yes, you are. Government agencies, who have a duty to serve the public, run proprietary software all the time. Meaning they are deprived of computational sovereignty and cannot guarantee they are performing their duties unfettered. If you've been to public school in most countries, you are taught to use proprietary software in IT classes. An institution devoted to learning compels students to use software that explicitly forbids being learned from and studied. Even more harmful are proprietary formats, which are like a lock and time bomb on your data, yet are ubiquitous.

Network services are a big ethical dilemma of their own and yet practically unavoidable.

Software is essential to contemporary civilization, and you will be using lots of proprietary programs. You cannot reasonably expect people to become hermits over it.

It's the same logic as religion, who feels I shouldn't be allowed to marry someone of the same sex even though it doesn't affect them in any way.

What a load of nonsense. It is the proprietary software vendor who deprives users of freedom. Your analogy is backwards and completely inappropriate. Free software mandates you have the freedom to run the program for any purpose, so gay marriage would be unrestricted. Proprietary vendors would have terms that may or may not restrict it.
Nitpick: these are not "beacons", they are "sensors". The product page linked from the article doesn't even contain word "beacon". Beacons are unidirectional. But, beacons are hot right now, which presumably the author sought to capitalize on.
This kind of classroom blending also has the potential to promote misanthropy among the shafted gifted kids.
I still remember a student getting yelled at for working ahead in the book in 1st grade. I guess I learned my lesson because I never did it.

He wasn't even a very good student, and my reaction (that I was wise enough to not vocalize) was "well, he's finally doing some work, this is a good thing, right?"

There are a bunch of people in school administration who have as priority #1 "make the system as easy to run as possible." Priority #2 is to drive out anyone who questions priority #1.
You can indeed request the BBC or Telegraph to take down articles under similar circumstances. For example in most European countries you can't publish a kind of "where are they now?" article that picks a few random '80s criminal cases, and tracks down the whereabouts of the people 30 years later. That kind of article, showing that a certain person (mentioned by name) now works as a web designer in Aarhus, while another person (also mentioned by name) has moved to Germany and is a welder, etc., would be seen as an invasion of privacy by gratuitously digging up and publishing this kind of 30-year-old information without a current public-interest justification.

It doesn't come up often with respectable media outlets, because they have mostly internalized this norm anyway, and wouldn't run such a story. But I could imagine a tabloid or daytime TV show doing something like that, if it were legal.
Is the plan to scan all those manuals to make them accessible online?
They're completely broken. Vimperator has an issue on github about getting e10s support but it looks like with these changes it doesn't matter Firefox will permanently break or cripple them.
Yes I hit the wrong key and didn't notice. However, its 20% before expenses.
I agree!

You could start them with a job. They'd have, by their standards, a great job. What they almost certainly wouldn't have is a typical career in software engineering following that job and the obsolescence of their skillset.
I have Flash enabled all the time. No probs here. Smooth and efficient. I have no agenda or need to kill it.

So much viral hate. Plugins have a right to exist. You gonna declare war on all plugins or just Flash? HTML doesn't necessarily run its full suite of tricks on all browsers and platforms. And my iPad3 often slows to a crawl because of bloated well-known websites. Browser memory maxes out and I can't even switch tabs without full page reloading. Inefficiency follows poor technical design no matter what technology is used.

Is javascript next because of those trendy promo pops where they think you're leaving? Kill everything that sux, or whatever technology it comes from. Kill it all and dance on its grave like there's no tomorrow.

Tomorrow we'll retreat to our native apps with virtual coins and account validation. We'll share our contact lists without knowing that we did, and we won't be blocking ads because we can't.

Tried the Youtube HTML player once. That was one hell of a rough and buggy experience. Switched back to Flash.

Clicked a link to youtube in iOS Safari more than once, and got auto-switched to the youtube app rather than the video play in Safari. I don't know what or who to hate about that, I'm just tired.
Designing legislation from the victim's perspective is not advisable.

Example: How would you feel if someone assaulted someone you love? I would likely believe this person should be thrown in jail for a very long time although its probably an unreasonable punishment for the crime.

I just don't see a way where a piece of legislation can be drafted and implemented that would protect your daughter and not be abused by those in power who want to change the historical record.
Subversion 1.5 added support for tracking merges: https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#me...

Before this, merging branches was a huge pain, because you had to manually keep track of the commits that needed to be merged.
No, but you can only buy USB 3.0 adapters with gigabit ratings (all the USB 2.0 adapters max out at 10/100).

See: http://www.midwesternmac.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/getting-gig...
Windows 10 the Ultimate Craplet
Hmm, so probably the same order of difficulty as aerial refueling given the low speed differential. Doesn't look any less scary though.
There is one button - "on". There is no program. The program is baked into the machine itself. The input data is carefully prepared and fed into the system. The machine then runs and spits out the output. That's it.

You should think of it more as a piece of lab equipment rather than a computer.
Thanks for the suggestion! That's what I'll prolly end up doing although neither of them are in the Ubuntu repos.
Price fixing is when competitors agree to set prices. If AirBnb and Hilton and Marriott started agreeing on prices, then it would be price fixing.

This isn't price fixing because companies aren't considered their own competitors.

It might be a little fuzzy if the people posting rooms on AirBnb are considered competitors, but even then it's not price fixing because there's no requirement to use the algorithm's suggested price, and no single owner can influence the general price of rooms, because there's still hotels, motels, non-AirBnb rooms, etc.
I disagree. Puffery comes into play where things of the law are not concerned. Things like advertising, marketing, etc.

Puffery has no place in the practice of law or -in this case- legal document drafting.

The courts take a dim view of this sort of thing where people might detrimentally rely on this explicit promise that Bonsai's contracts are "Bulletproof".
"What you measure is what you get."
"They have three main tasks. The first is to buy breakfast for the programmers [...] Secondly they are there to chat and interact [... ]Finally, they are there to play ping-pong with the programmers [...]

That's almost the opposite of a professional work place. Reminds me of the Mad Men episodes that depict 1960s office atmosphere were most assistants just used their jobs as a past time until getting married. At least Mad Men included a couple of strong female characters, but lots of others were were shown as being hired for beauty and typewriter writing.
The fact that they can be prosecuted for it.
s/by enlarge/by and large/
Uber seen reaching $10.8B in bookings in 2015: fundraising presentation
Uber is paying for these costs through the fares their drivers collect. Non-ride insurance and vehicle capital costs do not show up as a line item on Uber's cash flow statement, but the fares cover them. Uber has other capital costs though.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
But even without intent, negligence can, at times, rise to the level of being criminal[1].

Not sure if there's even been a case of a white-collar/financial negligence charge being considered a felony or not though...

Either way, I think sama's point was that this stuff can be A Big Deal and is really important. I don't think any of this discussion contradicts that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_negligence
The only problem is, Google isn't the only way to find this information. It exists in social networks, on Twitter, Facebook, and even in Archive.org. It also exists in local search engines provided by the sites themselves.

If you have an uncommon name, and you were covered by the news media, or by social media, I can go direct to the AP, NYT, or Twitter search just as easily as Google.

It's sad that the internet can't forget, but the law can't make this a reality.

Does anyone seriously believe anyone doing serious research, stalking, or a background check on someone will be stymied by Google censoring links?

How many of you searching for pirated warez are stymied by DMCA takedowns and don't just go directly to Torrent search engines?
The altruistic algorithm would be for the first guy to take an end, and the next guys to skip one, filling from one end to the other.
Apprenticeships, as typically proposed in a context such as this one or in bootcamps, don't teach fundamentals and train skills. They skip the former in favor of getting to the latter more quickly. Skip logic and math in favor of React and Bootstrap, that sort of thing.

That is what I am saying is a poor fit. None of the items on this list, last I looked, are four-year apprenticeships that include CS fundamentals.
A big problem for a lot of Firefox users is addons that are side-loaded into a profile. Like when you download some junk and it comes with an installer that injects an addon into your profile. This is a good expose on what even a seemingly legitimate site like download.com does: http://www.howtogeek.com/198622/heres-what-happens-when-you-... (and several of the malware examples in that article are side-loaded addons).

Unfortunately hoops aren't enough to fix this problem, because hoops generally involve some flag that you've gone through the hoop, and the installer can easily fake that.
If you stack it up against the just the manufacturing step, I agree completely. But in certain niches, if you compare against the manufacture, transport, inventory, logistics costs etc, then maybe there's a few more areas where 3d printing may be an advantage. If you can actually print structurally usable parts on demand, why dedicate a longer more complex logistics chain. e.g. is there a trade to be made between carrying a network of warehouses full of parts and a printer with a database of those parts right near the consumption point?

In all practicality, you can only do this with a very narrow range of parts, even if you could get direct finished looking structural parts out of a 3D printer (which right now, many times you can't exactly ...).
Yes. Or more precisely, for a demonstration of how the bug can be exploited -- I'm not looking for something "weaponized".

I think if someone manages to exploit this bug, the details will be very interesting, and I think it's worth paying for "interesting".
Anybody know how the query planner may change in 4.0?
I'm guessing those are "Gross" vs "Net", or "Revenue" vs "Profit", depending on how you define your terms.
> but the fact is that very little you learn in K-12 matters anyway.

I disagree. Most of what is learned in K-12 is foundational for things learned later (literacy, numeracy, and basic social skills at the earlier grades, more developed hard and soft analytical and communications skills in later grades.) Even to the extent that the nominal subject matter may not be particularly generally useful later, it tends to serve as a focus for more generally applicable skills.
Quantum Computing Primer
Flash is a closed source binary plugin with a long history of security vulnerabilities that Adobe was slow to patch. For the most part, JavaScript engines are open source, don't have a history of security vulnerabilities (to the same severity), and are typically patched quickly.
That's a valid point, but if you think about what it's like to raise money, do you really want to be in the position of establishing --- to a prosecutor's satisfaction, since being dragged into court for this is game-over --- that you were unaware of the materiality of these distinctions when you improperly made them to potential investors?

From model jury instructions, which might be misleading here: the "intent" a prosecutor needs to establish is that you knowingly said something false, in the process of seeking something of value, that the falsehood was material to the decision of whether to give the thing of value to you, and that the other party later gave you that thing.

The bigger issue is it's very very very very very unlikely that a tiny startup is going to be prosecuted for attempting to defraud an accredited investor.
Strictly speaking, negligence has its own 4-part test (duty, breach, causation, damages). Fraud (intentional misrepresentation made to be relied on by another to their detriment) without intent (or reliance) is simply an unactionable misrepresentation.
Perhaps the real fix is in not publishing the details of teenagers who commit crimes?
Its a felony which means that little employment checkbox that asks if you were ever a felon? Yeah, that'd be the one you'll be checking from now on.
Array slicing is likely to come in the next few versions. Templates and generics are simply different things.
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How much? Enough to last a lifetime. Discrete mathematics, algorithmic analysis, the Church-Turing thesis, the foundations of computational theory, and so on.

These "apprenticeships" are little better than bootcamps. They skip all the fundamentals in favor of whatever the language du jour is.

Oddly enough, the changes you suggest would bring your apprenticeship roughly in line with the four-year Bachelor's program I did here in the US. Perhaps this isn't a coincidence.
As others said elsewhere, mozilla will provide builds of Beta that do not have this issue. It's just that the default build will.
In high-school calculus, I would arrange to answer the questions other kids in class had, so that I could then ask the teacher the questions that I had.

It wasn't too bad, because I was teaching other honors students.
Mitsuba was referenced in the recent Siggraph paper by DICE (battlefield4) as the source of ground-truth for verifying their new volumetric rendering system.

http://www.frostbite.com/2015/08/physically-based-unified-vo...

(Starting at slide 31)
- reliability

- no data loss

- performance
What makes you think the Medical Insurance Industry is interested in reducing medical costs? They benefit from higher costs.

If medical costs were much lower, fewer people would need/want insurance. Premiums would have to be lowered, which means less cash coming into the insurance company, and claims would be fewer and/or smaller which means less cash flowing through the insurance company. Cashflow is where the insurance company makes its profit.

The other profit center is captured premiums: money people pay in that they never get back out. The insurance company doesn't care how high your medical bills are or how much you wind up paying for them; the company only cares about reducing its share as much as possible. Lowering the overall cost doesn't alter the payment distribution, so the insurance company has no inventive to lower overall costs.

If there was a pill you could take which would allow you to pay a larger proportion of your medical costs, without reducing your premiums, the insurance company would be all over it.
Yeah that same line made me laugh a bit as well. "Your non-identifying, SUPER personal, burned onto your phones hardware, is never going to change Mac Address is recorded as you walk by."

I think the idea is a great one, it's unfortunate there isn't a better way (that I can think of atm) to do it, or like you said just some transparency on what they do with it. As simple as: "At the end of each day the encrypted mac addresses are completely erased from our system."

Seems like they do keep the info though, it says the Cincinnati airport kept it and used it for data analysis. In the end, I think this kind of thing most people will be okay with foregoing a bit of privacy for.

Edit: Interesting article on mobile MAC addresses down the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10097882#up_10098108
An open letter to Spotify
"We need to go deeper."
We feel our's has worked well for us, the apprentices we've hired, and those that have found careers after our apprenticeship.
Oh, negligence can certainly be criminal.

Sam didn't claim that though, he specifically claimed that unintentionally stating incorrect jargon is a felony crime called 'fraud'.

That is incorrect and somewhat ironic in a post about using correct terminology.
Given the data available, how would you slice it better? Do you believe the result would change significantly if a better slicing were done?
Article doesn't say "and it's called fraud". Maybe it's been edited since you quoted.
How Daniel became a CTO without going to school
Show HN: Bayesian Fantasy Football
This tripped me up too, but I would guess the author meant to say $10.84B gross revenue and $2B net revenue.

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/102714/what-are-diff...
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I haven't touched Statistics in thirty years. Just haven't had a need for it since university. I find myself playing with a project that needs proper statistical analysis and need to get back up to speed. Can anyone suggest a good online resource to do a Matrix-style brain download over, say, a month? The goal isn't to go for a PhD but rather to get a practical handle on the subject. If Python is involved all the better.
I will match this bounty. Colin's word on whether it should be awarded is final, and Colin can reach out to me to tell me who I have to pay up to (or, if the recipient would prefer, I can transfer money to Colin and he can just double the bounty).

Colin: if you post this bounty publicly anywhere, you have my permission to note also my commitment to match the bounty, which will remain ongoing until either (a) your bounty changes, or (b) I notify you otherwise (which is unlikely).

Good luck, everyone. I will be surprised and happy if this HN comment costs me anything. :)
I find it a little ironic that the author argues sites should use https to avoid someone MITMing their ads when the majority of ads out there don't function correctly over https.

For any ad supported website, this is the one of the main blockers for adopting https. I really wish more work was being put into fixing it.
So do I, but this is extremely sloppy writing. Profit is talked about a bit later in the article, there is likely none.

I find it all very ironic with "financial mistatement" being on the front page.
IANAL, and Sam mentioned a felony charge. Are there any legal protections for investors (or.... whoever this is protecting) for e.g. misrepresenting "signups vs users vs active users"? Surely that falls under subjective fraud rather than a straight up objective lie, especially for sites e.g. reddit where the line between "active user" and "lurker" is extremely murky.

EDIT: Clearly I have no understanding of fraud.