skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is massively subsidizing this lifestyle and making it more attractive than elsewhere in the world. This is the only excuse for US style suburban sprawl vs similarly developed countries.

We are massively subsidizing it by:
-Not pricing in to user fees all costs of roads (especially over several life cycles of the road). This applies to highways but also local roads where infra in sprawly neighborhoods costs more than denser/centric neighborhoods but usually are paying same property tax rate
-Not pricing in to user fees cost of resource security (oil)
-Not pricing in to user fees all externalities of personal auto use on health care system - what is healthier our system or one where you have to walk a bit?
-Mandating from the highest level an interstate highway system, the funding of which no common person understands (gas tax goes in and then distributed around country to pay for 90% of road project - why not local funding so people understand where the money comes from?)
-We are not regulating green field development - we are letting developers build what they want because it makes the most money without asking how is the best way to build the city. Is the best way to build a city "leave it to the developers to build what makes them most money" ?
-Our zoning is designed to separate stuff which makes cars the only option.

Why does this matter? Because the government is choosing how we build our cities and they are choosing cars. It is not the free market.

Check out Jeff Speck "Walkable City" for lots of facts, examples, and ways forward.
7,750 is a shockingly low number for a service like Netflix, but I guess it reflects the fact that most movies aren't really that good and you'd probably only be interested in watching a maximum of 10k titles over your lifetime, maybe 15,000 hours / 2 years of content
This is very true, though I was mostly commenting on the "Modern copy to clipboard" description.
the only thing that keeps me using evernote is the ability to forward emails to it and then merge similar ones.

If something else did that I would swap in a heart beat and for my other notes I'd convert them to google docs.
Can you explain the difference between search intent and discovery intent
"Pianomania(2009)" is another great movie/documentary about the piano business. It is about the passion and dedication af a Steinway piano tuner.
Traffic around good places to park consists of lots of cars circling. Maybe a result would be less parking and less cars circling so more of those primo real estate places can be dedicated to other uses.
The question isn't how many times you stop, it's driving 3.5-4 hours then needing to plug your car into a wall and wait many hours for it to be ready to drive again. It's so inconvenient to not be useful in road-tripping.
same here, ive been using it for two years now and it so tedious to organise stuff on the metro app that i just dont bother, so everything is a mess atm
I'm with you on this one. Cars these days are too complex and while some of it is for a good reason (e.g. computerized engine controls to improve economy and emissions) but a lot of it is just gimmicks, like power windows or the fancy door handles in a Model S. I'd much rather see no electrical wiring inside the car doors at all, it's just another part to break down and are not essential for the car to perform the task it needs to - just a little convenience item.

I live in a place with rather hostile weather in the winter time. I'd be a bit wary of getting a Tesla, not because of the reduced range in the winter (it's still good enough for me) but because I'm afraid the fancy door handles would freeze shut. But I guess this is a moot point, because if I could afford a Tesla, I could also afford a garage to store it in.
From openssh 7.0 release notes:

* PermitRootLogin=without-password/prohibit-password now bans all
interactive authentication methods, allowing only public-key,
hostbased and GSSAPI authentication (previously it permitted
keyboard-interactive and password-less authentication if those
were enabled).

It mentions that previously without-password it would still allow keyboard-interactive logins. Should be fairly easy to fake for a botnet!
I log JavaScript-based errors using Google Analytics events. Easy to set up (especially if you already have GA set up) and the graphing and grouping capabilities of GA are quite well-suited for bug trend tracking.
I import my GA data into google sheets via supermetrics and then build automated reports to suit my needs from there
As some previous articles have already mentioned, they probably already knew who they were anyways. Only their offices have special locks. They don't mingle with anyone else at the embassy but their own. They also don't have same 3-4 year requirement of staying at the embassy so they leave early; and when their replacements arrive, they take over the same offices.
Android does not have a JVM and Android's Dalvik/ART is not optimized for dynamic languages like the official JVM is. And you won't see this difference when comparing Scala against Scala.js on Android.

At this point you're comparing design choices in Javascript vs Java. Except that I don't buy that the JVM's bytecode is less efficient to interpret than Javascript is. The official JVM actually has a very similar execution model to modern Javascript VMs, with code being first executed in interpreted after which it starts optimizing and compiling the hotspots, with Java's bytecode being optimized to be interpreted first. Android's ART does it differently though, compiling the bytecode ahead of time to native, which is cool for the purposes of Android but misses runtime optimization opportunities for dynamic languages like Clojure.

So no, what actually happens is that normal Clojure insists on loading all namespaces that are used in the program, setting its symbols, vars and functions in the process. Clojure is also a dynamic language and this involves call sites that are not very inline-able and that Android cannot optimize as well as Oracle's JVM can. These problems don't exist with ClojureScript, which in the end is just plain Javascript that also happens to be tree-shaken by the Google Closure compiler.
Ah whereas I find organisation in Evernote not to work. The tagging feature (on Windows at least) is buggy, and I often end up with half-word tags; they can also be 'lost' before the note syncs. I have notebooks full of disorganised information which I can't find -- this is what I view as Evernote's biggest weakness.
Thank's again Hubble – Impressive perspective on how small we are
The article does not really go into why.
I thought many times about building this kind of self-hosting note taking app, but what's stopping me is that it's not very useful without all the mobile and desktop clients, and that's very hard to develop. That's probably the reason why there's currently no good open source solution for this.
As a cyclist in Paris, yes, I'd say the presence (and domination) of cars is a BIG reason I feel less safe. I have friends from other cities who grew up biking but who don't dare get on one the excellent bikeshare Vélib bikes to get around because they're afraid of being hit. But cars are just one piece in the puzzle; I think what's worse is the psychological atmosphere: the stress, the having to always be on the lookout and, oddly, the lack of civility.

I've approached trucks and cars parked on the bike lane to ask them if they could move just a little to the so bikes don't have to swerve around them and enter the flow of car traffic. I do so politely, making sure to not adopt a defensive/aggressive attitude. In a few rare cases, the driver had been genuinely unaware and apologized and moved. In most cases though, I'm insulted and told, "vous me faites chier !" (something along the lines of "You're pissing me off!"). I was once even told by a genleman on a scooter that, "If you want to ride your bike, why don't you just go to the countryside?"

If you're on a bike, cars, scooters and motorbikes will constantly remind you that you're not welcome. Try explaining to a car that he's parked on the "sas vélo", that little space reserved for bikes in front of traffic lights. Or explaining to cars that when they turn right and through a bike lane, that it's common courtesy to signal the turn (instead of suddenly turning and shouting at bikes for being in their way). It's a problem of education, too.

Cyclists aren't all innocent, either. I've seen people on bikes not stop for pedestrians even when they have right of way. Pedestrians, who are understandably annoyed and probably used to no one looking out for them, also do stupid things like cross when it's red even as they see a bike approaching fast downhill. (This actually happened to me; she apologized when I had to slam my brakes, as did the car behind me. What was odd was that she actually stopped before crossing, saw that the light was red for her and green for cars and bikes, that we were approaching and started crossing anyway. And this isn't an isolated incident, I experience this at least two or three times per week).

So, it's a very unhealthy environment where everybody feels no one respects their rights. But cars are by far the biggest reason Paris feels unsafe (even though it really isn't once you get the hang of it).

I ride without a helmet but recently got a Hövding (the portably bike airbag from Sweden) to test in the city and wrote a review of it[1]. Mine actually went of accidentally, but I thing they're very, very promising. Not least because of how much more effective they are at oblique, non-perpendicular impacts.

[1]: http://www.neustadt.fr/reviews/testing-hovding-invisible-hel...
I'd never enter a roundabout with an approaching car signalling that they are intending to exit. Some people wrongly signal early (they're actually intending to leave at a subsequent exit), some set their indicator (turn-signal) on when they entered the roundabout and just keep it on, some are indicating because they changed lane on the roundabout. I've seen too many side-on collisions in these situations.

Basically, I drive defensively and don't trust other people's signalling. (UK driver)
Totally agree. Helps to point out how much we've been subsidizing personal auto use - mainly by not charging user fees enough to cover all costs of driving.
(Disclaimer: I work at Google, not speaking for the company, etc)

We can do both. Google stores, backs up, secures, and generally ensures your data is safe, and you can click a button to download it all if you think you can do any of that better.

This is probably too hard to ask every company to do the same, as it would exclude smaller companies who don't have the resources (this takes a lot of time and development!). So it makes sense for them to offer a different feature set, and accept that it's not going to be suitable for some people.
I'd love to see the ability to paste without using the keyboard too. Is that something possible/on the roadmap?
There's some data that says cars give people without helmets more space than those with them.
Perhaps their rich parents buy it for them?
It seems to work well in the video here - the doors are pretty flexible, equipped with motors and sensors so they can adapt: http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx
I actually was thinking that the graceful degrade was how it was implemented initially and was about to write it off until I got to that part. Interesting.

At this point I still don't buy that Apple is doing this to hold things back. Do you have other examples of when they've been behind on features with no clear explanation of why? It's okay if not - you said you were only casually following - but curious.

They wouldn't have very much to gain in my mind - none of their core business relies on locking in/out web development. They have an app market, and I guess you could argue they're trying to drive that, but they have implemented a lot of other features, and early extensions in many cases, that doesn't really align with them trying to hold web back.
I’ve Looked at Airbnb and It’s Way Worse Than You Think
My uneducated guess is they don't want to pay the Microsoft tax for FAT.
> The Carrera GT is a notoriously hard-to-handle car

It's a really well balanced car with a good weight distribution and handles beautifully. The issue is that it's very different feeling to having an engine at the front and the center of gravity further forward.

If someone who is not used to mid-engined cars gets it into a slide, they'll be caught by surprise and probably lose control completely. But with a little bit of practice, it can be driven hard and recovered from pretty nasty slides.
I still prefer "PermitRootLogin=no".
It only seems to work for reflected light, so you'd still see the object blocking the background. If you only want to make surface features invisible from the front, why not just paint it matt black or cover it with a curtain?

Not to say it isn't an amazing discovery.
I think it's possible, but one time events are misleading, in my opinion. People use exceptional measures that are not sustainable in the long term - out here, some people even took a vacation day when our cities did the "day without cars".
Also human trafficking.
After spending lots of time in the Netherlands, where bikes and pedestrians are respected, it was a shock to see the situation in Paris when I was there this week. It felt like a car city. Roads sometimes took up a significant amount of space and the sidewalk was only wide enough for one person. Drivers also had such a lack of respect for bikes and pedestrians. It was at times frightening to try to use a crosswalk, as nobody would stop for the people trying to cross. Paris is much better than the states, but they have a lot of room for improvement.
How do the botnets come to be named? Is it named by whichever security firm finds it?
Speaking entirely for myself, it never occurred to me to do that, and if it had I have to say that it's immediately self-evidently that it would be wrong to do. Twitter has repeatedly gone to bat to protect people who are the targets of major governments, including suing the US government. SLJ (whoever he is) is due the same treatment anyone else on Twitter has. To use your power as an employee to out him when you're fighting court orders asking you to reveal the identity of other accounts would be the height of hypocrisy.

This is very similar to the strange (to me) idea that people wouldn't use GMail because they're worried Google will steal their corporate secrets. Seriously? There would be riots in Mountain View if anything like that ever happened...
While it doesn't give any real security, changing the ssh port will at least filter out these kinds of attacks.
Ask HN: Is There a Door Lock with an API?
We're couple of developers who made a company around a year ago and we've now grown to around 8 people and moved into a brand new office.

We've been trying to use modern and integrated solutions for everything (e.g. integrating our sonos with alerts as well as the phillips hue) and we really want everything to work together. However, the solutions I could find for door locks is very enterprisy, expensive and non-integratable.

Is there a cool (startup?) that makes physical door locks with an API/integration, so that we can easily provision new people when they start?
Any sufficiently complicated distributed architecture contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of SOAP.
Browsers support clipboard events for a long time. Except safari. Because Safari, we have to use that "flash & bloated frameworks".

Because "the people using safari" is still a thing (i dont know why)
May I hug you for that comment?
Still a paid service as far as I know. Plus you still need to manually add data charts to the spreadsheet?
I have problems finding non-tech co-founders.
The issue is one of persuasion. By having these days it gives local authorities the ability to demonstrate what is possible and makes actual implementation of smaller leaps (e.g. segregated cycle tracks) easier to swallow.
Download+free+iTools+iOS+9.0+/+iOS+9.0.1+to+all+iDevices
Another vote for Simplenote - does exactly what it says on the tin. In 2-3 years of using it, I had only couple of issues with sync. When I reported them, support was super responsive and the issues were fixed with subsequent updates.

They also offer easy exports of your notes.

If you've never tried, give it a shot - http://simplenote.com
I suppose it depends on your perspective. If you permit cars to drive on 1km of road, that's short, but if you prohibit cars from 1km, maybe that kilometer is long.

The biggest one in Munich is two intersecting streets, each almost 1km long if you measure generously, and some 50-200m stretches of neighbouring streets.

By property value the area is vast ;)
To whoever downvoted this - instead of doign so, why not point me to a beginners-guide? I have read whatever I've found so far...
Because it's the perfect Enterprise OS for companies, schools and other organizations that have moved to the web. Currently there's just no OS that would rival ease of deployment for large scale thin clients.

Android on the other hand has very limited provisioning tools and even iOS/OS X is orders of magnitude more expensive and harder to provision, keep updated and running.
What's new in Chrome DevTools?
Atomic[0] provides this on a Fedora/CentOS + docker base, and it works very well. It's slightly more mature than the CoreOS version as there is support for sharing volumes (volumes mounted with z are sharable, volumes mounted with Z are specific to a container).

It's great to see this being adopted more widely - it greatly improves the security of containers, and in my experience, adds nothing to the cost of administrating systems. I'm much happier running our security-sensitive applications in containers with this than I would be without it.

0: http://www.projectatomic.io/
Note Station isnt half bad at all, and has a very similar layout (almost exactly like evernote!) so its easily to pick up. has a web clipper.
its a bit slow at times though but so is the web version of evernote as well. not that they ever will, but if synology ever made a desktop note station app id be sold.
Gotta love how it is censored.

For example on page 8 of the pdf (page 54 on the footer)

"Considering the above mentioned specific vunerabilities, the steps toward preventing trojan horse implantation is as follows: CENSORED"

And a bit later on page 10 (56 in footer):

"This paper is essentially a call to arms for all computer system research and support groups to focus attention to this very real problem."

Trying to neutral (its NSA after all), i get the impression the authors of this paper did want to raise awareness of the coming armageddon.
Unlike Fake Steve Jobs, I honestly get real insight out of things SLJ says. I guess it's possible outing him would force him to be a little less snarky, which would be really disappointing. SLJ snark is an awesome antidote to the SV cheerleading that dominates a lot of people's twitter feeds.
> besides ransom-type stuff.

With next to zero investment necessary, collecting ransoms is lucrative enough to pay off.
At least in the EU there is a regulatory obligation to design your backup system such that data can (eventually) be deleted if the user so requests.

Fortunately there is no strict time limit on completing this process so a design that looks like "and after X months it will have aged out of our backups" appears to be considered reasonable. You are still responsible for making sure your backups are safely destroyed.
A small shortcut in this article that I can't help to point out:

> The Volkswagen scandal over emissions-rigging has increased pressure on the French government to act on car pollution.

The current mayor of Paris has been taking actions like this one since she was instated. We regularly have to deal with "50 km/h max speed" measures and it has nothing to do with the VW rigging scandal.

Small sidenote:

> In the rest of the city, cars were allowed but at 20km an hour.

I'm not sure this is true, but I assure to you no one was driving 20 km/h in my neighbourhood.

All in all this was a great opportunity to see the streets of Paris without any cars whatsoever.
Why would you want to sleep when you can listen to Spotify some more?
Fascinating to see how well a distributed architecture with relatively low processing power coupled with abundant sensors works out. Very similar indeed to biological systems, and quite humbling with respect to our current 'big data' machine learning algorithms that require entire clusters. (Although these do very different things, of course).

I expect that as these robots would become more clever, more 'implicit' centralisation would enter the structure, much as they do in biological organisms. But I don't know how far this line of research has ever been followed.
Show HN: Epoh - Social Network of Quotes
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...and then there came OneNote and syncing was even better, features even more, collaboration best, and it was free and I started using it and soon after I never accessed Evernote again. And many, formerly hot loving Evernote fans in my peer group changed, too.
It would be nice to know who downvotes how often in relation to others (publicly or at the very least for the person herself)

People could then compare their behavior against the others and one could define a "too often" in terms of std-dev from the mean or a quantile, both within a specific time window (say last 365 days).

In this way one has at least a candidate set of abusers (for the "HN Mods") and everyone could compare his downvoting behavior and adjust.

Additionally, since it's a simple statistic, it should be easy to implement.
Dude... thank you
There seems to be an Ars Technica coverage of it http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/09/google-pixel-c-hands-...
This isn't about evidence. Eugene Cotton was right: "Man has openly begun to lay plans for his own destruction."
I don't know what your experience with the car is but even professional drivers and car reviewers describe it as challenging and a handful.

Also, it doesn't have a electronic stability-control system.

Of course the driver is likely at fault in this case, but I'd wager that he wouldn't have gotten himself into trouble in most other supercars.
I'm a long time Evernote user (I think I got an email stating I was in the first 3k users) but I'm also seriously considering migrating away to something else. My company is moving to Office365 and with that I've been exposed to OneNote and it looks like a good alternative (though the lack of a Linux client is a big problem).

The other note-capture tool that I've used religiously is "The Brain"[0], it's great for bookmarking and visualizing relationships (I even use it as my address book for contacts), it handles notes, links to files and URLs and can be synced with Dropbox or via their own cloud service.

[0] http://www.thebrain.com/