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Apparently we shouldn't mention this here because he said it when he was young and likely to say reprehensible things.

But, has he ever apologized?

I am discontent to watch the world lay power at his feet, and proud of Indians for standing up to him.
So you think we should shut down the oil companies and agriculture companies and all the large banks?
Obviously, no one knows for sure but let's say that 1% of the people who went to see it would have opted out if the original stars hadn't returned...

In three weeks, that is over 15 million dollars just where it's been released so far. Think about China and the rest of Asia. Think about on demand viewing and DVD/Blu-Ray.

As I said, we don't know for sure but it's a pretty safe bet that Ford, Fisher and Hamil being a part of this movie will pay for itself in increased revenue.
Where I live there is a minimum fare of $75 imposed on Uber cars leaving from the airport. I took an Uber there and had a great, simple experience ($34 fare) but had to take a taxi back when returning from my trip.

The cab was falling apart. One of the doors didn't open from the inside. The axles made horrible, periodic thunking sounds (I'd guess the CV joints but am no car expert). The engine light, the wheel stability light, and the SRS warning light lit up the dash. The cab driver drove 10-15mph over the speed limit and nearly side-swiped several other cars. I asked to pay with a card and was met with a grunt of disgust, even as I added a standard 10% tip.

I understand there are some regulation issues related to Uber in many cities, but given the experiences I've had, I can't wait to be rid of taxis.

I should add that in London I had the opposite experience, where the standard cabs (and official app) were fantastic, but Uber was price gouging during a tube strike.
I am really looking forward to self-driving cabs. When I see what the job does to people I usually feel bad for them. It sucks getting in a cab whose driver is a jerk, but I honestly can't expect them to be happy with a job like that. People shouldn't have to be doing that job.
In my anecdotal experience, a large share of the 16-20 year old crowd can barely remember their email address, let alone the password to it. They use it as much as I use my postal box.

You're still right that authentication doesn't imply authorization to send PMs, by the way.
Exactly! That too, a democracy like India would never approve something so capitalistic with a pro-poor cover.
Thanks (for being so active here)! I definitely want to check out working with mdBook.
The "union" here in Australia has been running campaigns too, sometimes with hilarious results [0].

0:http://www.smh.com.au/national/my-cab-driver-fell-asleep-tax... (warning, autoplay video)
So why is it not being done? From my previous life spent in India, government subsidies are guaranteed income for politically connected.
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I believe most humans are inherently not evil even if they don't agree with me.

I believe most people are incapable of recognizing well-intentioned but bad actions when they agree with the intentions. Even when you don't agree with the intentions, it's can still be hard to spot without the benefit of hindsight.

Should you fault someone for being the change they want to see in the world?

"Fault" is quite a slippery word to use in this context. As it means both a failing of character and responsibility for wrongdoing.

Obviously with the second definition it's easy to fault someone when you see their actions as wrongdoing.

With the first it's mixed, and I suspect that's the one you mean. Someone who is "being the change they want to see in the world" is seen as virtuous. But when that virtuous person is also too headstrong to see, acknowledge, and correct the negatives of their plans when they encounter well-articulated resistance? Yes, I would very much fault that person.
It's extraordinarily editorialized, because it implies that the author of the article agrees with one quoted source in the article.
You can probably buy GPS data for travel between any two given locations that will indicate the most popular routes and how long they took - from cellphone companies, Google and the like? Do driver routing companies (deliveries, taxis and such) do this to discover implied optimal routes?
They said Groupon is one of the "examples of successful Chicago based startups". So it's no longer a startup. And it IPOed recently whereas Orbitz IPO'ed in 2003 so it's not a recent startup.
The only public paper mentioned during the talk is this one, which focuses exclusively on the high-performance mixing (cMix).

http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/008
There was a service at http://hnnotify.com/ but sadly it seems to be down of late.

See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521491
There's a demo of VR Monitors here, and reading seems possible: http://www.vrdesktop.net/

But you're right, ideally your desktop becomes this pseudo 2D space in 3D, where you manage multiple windows at once all around you.
>Also Netflix gets $10 a month from me. $120 for a year. Double what I spend at the cinema.

Which means you're spending $180 on movies per year. $120 for a legacy catalogue of hundreds of movies, and $60 for six new releases. So why would they give up that extra $60?
what exactly are the poor giving up?
If you are already logged in with google/github/etc you shouldn't need to re-enter your password, just give approval. The authentication and association would be handled in the background. If you have to enter a password when you are already logged in then it is a huge red flag and you should probably run.

EDIT: Done correctly, "Log in with ..." should NEVER need your password for the site it will use separate authentication tokens to associate with your account. It may try to redirect you if you're not logged in, just make sure you log in by directly accessing the primary auth site first.
Another possibility (unless they've already ruled it out) is that it's a rogue planet passing through the Oort cloud. I don't know if thousands of them are any more plausible than thousands of gravitationally bound planets, but supposedly rogues outnumber star-bound planets. They would be spread pretty thin depth-wise and hard to detect.
No, I never had streaming. Maybe it's my shifting preferences, but I remember being able to say "I'll just wait for it to come out on netflix" for the majority of things I was interested in. Not everything, but still more often than not.
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The fact that nobody benefits much is very much worth pointing out. Furthermore absolutely no viable public purpose can be served today by backdating new rules to past works. We didn't create any new works from the 1950s by passing laws in the 1970s. Those works were already created on incentives that authors already received. It is just a giveaway to the tiny minority of said authors whose work achieved success.

Of course the main driver of this is Disney, which is trying to keep Mickey Mouse under copyright. (Never mind the fact that trademark is a better fit for how they use it...)

Also I'd like to highlight the 1987 part of the argument.

The early computer era saw a lot of games written for platforms like Apple ][ by companies that went out of business and the copyright ownership went to places unknown (though they theoretically exist). You can't make and pass around legal copies of them from the floppies that they originally came from. Some of the games (Ultima, PacMan, etc) would likely see copyright renewed. But a lot of them would not. And that would be great for people like me that want to revisit our childhoods.

In fact historically there were stories that only became popular BECAUSE they fell out of copyright. The most famous example is https://www.globalipmatters.com/2015/12/17/when-a-quirk-of-c... but it isn't alone. Just think what new cultural gems we might create if artists of today could safely refer back to works from a generation or two ago.
I don't understand why this is restricted to Facebook. If the telco is providing no-cost data to poor consumers, why does it matter which websites they go to? That's the suspicious thing about this, not the simple fact that Facebook is involved.
In Tokyo, taxis all suddenly become way more expensive after last train.
You should have both public and private options.

If you have exclusive state ownership of wired infrastructure like that, consumers have no state-agonistic means to correct if the state themselves starts breaking net neutrality or just simply do not maintain the network to a standard the consumers of it want.

If you were operating in a society where democracy worked flawlessly, it might work, but thats theoretical. We need to acknowledge the realities of the states we are talking about controlling our network infrastructure here, especially in the US. Since you make the comparison to road networks... mine is incredibly bad. And not just in condition or wear, but in scaling to meet needs. I live in central PA where a lot of businesses have migrated shipping and processing facilities, but there is extremely little budget to expand highways to compensate for heavily increased truck traffic. Now its just hell, and if I ever needed to work a commuter job I would instantly move because the traffic is so bad.

I'm not saying private roads could fix that - if residents didn't want to sell land to build roads, the private company would be screwed without recourse - but there should be huge market pressure around my area for highway expansion that is not being met because of dysfunctional bureaucracy in the state government due to many causes. Can you imagine those people having to build and manage a fiber network, and expand it as technology improves, for the next fifty years?
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The implication is that absent the consent decree IE would have been more dominant in that era, and that the dominance would have lasted longer than it did. This is plausible, since a world of sites built with non-web-standard crap would have been barren ground for nascent Firefox. It was for that exact purpose that IE has always been the way it has been, and would have been worse without the decree. Yeah, we're grateful for XHR, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.
> despite the evidence to the contrary in the form of such low historic participation by women and people of color in tech

Low participation is evidence of exactly one thing: low participation. It says nothing about the causes and is not evidence of non-inclusiveness.
Then add NetBSD drivers as rump kernels to get it running on real hardware. True, drivers in Rust would be even better, but IIUC, the whole point of using a microkernel is that the drivers would be running in user space with restricted privileges.
I will drop by and write some of my ideas. What I absolutely do not want is for the client to rely on, yet another, third party servers/services.
A half brain dead criminal would just do what the Paris guys did - use SMS. Finding a relevant SMS among all other, it's worse than the needle and haystack problem. Also, have you seen those messages? They might as well been some guys going to a barbecue.
My prediction: One or both of two problems will be the straw that breaks the "wait, this doesn't work as well as you've hyped it to" camel's back.

1. Explanation of why a particular decision was made. (I was incredibly happy to see the Toyota article this morning that mentioned this very subject.)

2. Flexibility in the face of change. (Or is there a better response to a model with declining effectiveness than "start over".)
This supersized drone will fly you to work (or anywhere)
I'm not up to date with the state of SF transportation rules and U&L. Are U&L still ignoring rules designed to provide access to those with disabilities?

This article is pretty old at this point (2014) and I don't know if the situation has changed for the better.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/As-Uber-Lyft-Sidecar-grow...

Ignoring the people with disabilities, as they are more expensive to service is one (problematic) way to lower costs.
Some recent research suggests that normal human sleep has always been in one continuous block in places near the equator. Then segmented sleep developed after humans migrated to places like Europe where sunrise/sunset times vary more. According to this hypothesis, segmented sleep was only a temporary phenomenon, before electric light caused a return to continuous sleep.

https://athensscienceobserver.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/the-s...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/112251/
You may think they are "worthless" but clearly some people think they they have value.

Which one do you think is more poisonous? Making a fuss over the maintainer wanting to impose one or just accepting that someone else sees value in something you don't and agreeing to the CoC.
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Seconding the low-res thing.

Another person here took a sequence of shots and just linked the individual images.

If you like tinkering, the step up from that would be stitching the images together with something like Hugin.
Any time. :)

I've really been enjoying mdBook. https://github.com/azerupi/mdBook/issues/29#issuecomment-168... for example is so awesome, can't wait until it lands.
Is there a standard format for logging URL path coverage in web tests?
I'm trying to establish how well a test suite covers the various URLs on a web site, particularly for a shopping cart. What I'd like to be able to do is have our continuous integration detect whether coverage for certain flows and URLs increases or decreases as commits are added to a branch.

Now, it's fairly easy for me to log what's happening in the test suite, but the effort will be in writing tools to parse and diff the reports between various runs.

So, I'm wondering if a) there is an existing standard format to log this sort of information and b) standard tools already exist to parse and graph this format.

Basically, on my end, I'd expect to log the URL, HTTP request method, HTTP response code and possibly the keys which are passed via params. I'll associate these with the test class which is being run and chain this data together to describe various flows through the site.

I'm not looking for a tool to rewrite the test suite. I don't have that amount of time budgeted for this. I'm mostly looking for an 80/20 solution to a better idea of coverage.
> they consider rape a cost of doing business, as they consider that rapid expansion to India was more important than doing background checks on drivers[3]

I didn't follow that case closely, but according to that article that's a pretty gross mischaracterization of what happened, since the driver had "evaded Uber’s earlier security checks by providing a fake police reference letter."

You also imply a pretty explicit calculus ("well, some rapes will happen, but it's worth it") that I doubt occurred except in the sense that any taxi company would have to consider.

But maybe there's a better source?

edit: not to take away from your other points. I've had extremely mixed feelings about uber due to those incidents and others, balanced by how completely awful cab companies tend to be and uber's genuine good points.
The problem there is that the driver had to manually input the address. With Uber/Lyft, that problem doesn't exist, because you input the address into your phone's app, and that's relayed to the driver's phone and automatically used to route them. Any time you have humans entering data, you're bound to have problems like this.
Bought PS3 to play Journey :) Worth it.
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65mph through the streets of downtown San Francisco was pretty interesting, but on the other hand we did get back to our hotel in about 3 minutes.
Margins on the Force Awakens aren't bad. Margins on Waterworld, probably not nice. On average? Haven't looked it up by I'm thinking they are OK but nothing to get really excited by.
What are all these advantages of cinema, pray tell?
You do not really talk to the rest of the audience other than those you went to the cinema with, and that can perfectly be replicated at home. The surround sound is indeed better, but that can be replicated with headphones or, if you're dedicated, with speakers around the room.
Upvotes for expanding the transit options to both. It's absolutely embarrassing NYC doesn't have better ways to get to any of the three airports.
seL4 provides many more guarantees than that:

" In short, the implementation is proved to be bug-free (see below). This also implies a number of other properties, such as freedom from buffer overflows, null pointer exceptions, use-after-free, etc.

There is a further proof that the binary code which executes on the hardware is a correct translation of the C code. This means that the compiler does not have to be trusted, and extends the functional correctness property to the binary.

Furthermore, there are proofs that seL4's specification, if used properly, will enforce integrity and confidentiality, core security properties. Combined with the proofs mentioned above, these properties are guaranteed to be enforced not only by a model of the kernel (the specification) but the actual binary that executes on the hardware. Therefore, seL4 is the world's first (and still only) OS that is proved secure in a very strong sense.

Finally, seL4 is the first (and still only) protected-mode OS kernel with a sound and complete timeliness analysis. Among others this means that it has provable upper bounds on interrupt latencies (as well as latencies of any other kernel operations). It is therefore the only kernel with memory protection that can give you hard real-time guarantees."
You don't have to believe right-wing propaganda to see it's a mess. You even provided many examples. Like the author says, you can either try your taxes yourself, or dump hours into working with a tax accountant going through every possible thing you could pay or deduct. And people do realize how efficient and machine-precise the tax machine is when they come after you for every last penny if you got it wrong or didn't do it. Even if you don't get the police knocking on your door, it's a huge hassle that everyone has to go through every year, and why April 15th is an unofficial, tongue-in-cheek "holiday". There's still a lot of room for improvement on the "customer experience".
Your use of "unions" causes the reader to assume you mean "labor unions", which is why your original comment is gray.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 is pretty damn good. I haven't seen it mentioned here yet, but people are more than happy to put scores of hours on that game. And the VR really improves it.
You are just mincing words to make it seem like unions aren't the bad guy here.

The auto unions, for instance, are larger than most big corporations and many of the leaders get paid out millions of dollars in bonuses every year.

Read the first line of this article:

https://news.vice.com/article/taxi-drivers-are-trying-to-tak...

"Taxi unions in cities such as Boston, Denver, New York, and San Francisco are not pleased...."

Sorry, but they are unionized and like every other industry where unions have control, you get inflated wages and higher prices. It nearly put the big 3 out of business during the downturn of 2008.

Companies like Toyota didn't even bat an eye during that time because they could make changes with ease.
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David is a very bright person, but what will most likely happen is that he'll do six re-runs just when they are about to go into production or sign some major deal. If you wonder why I believe this you should read up on DigiCash and how David managed to squander a decade lead.

Any effort that has David Chaum involved with it is going to go nowhere so don't worry too much.
I'm just skimming this, but this sounds as if they plan to implement the WebExtension spec. That would really be a remarkable step forward and a distinct difference from IE.
So I watched his talk and I'm pretty confused -- it felt like a rehash of a lot of well-understood stuff (mix nets, which IMO are awesome and underutilized, MPC, etc.), but it was an odd mix of very high level and very low level details. I haven't read either the cMix or PrivaTegrity papers yet.

However, even if this is a fatally flawed system as a whole, it's entirely possible there is some interesting research, maybe even useful tools here.

It is an interesting idea, being able to protocol-level enforcement of various types of surveillance. Of course, if the level you choose is "none", then you don't need the complexity of the enforcement mechanism.
This comment is the opposite opinion to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10847769. Interesting
Good lord. No wonder this city's scene sucks.
Thanks for that. I knew Google has scary, massive bandwidth but didn't realize it was shared between their internal operations and their cloud platform.
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According to his talk at RWC, there's a live alpha in AWS right now, with Android clients.
This comment is the opposite opinion to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10849162. Interesting
Curious what the advantage is (in general) of sparklines over, say, a line of circles with filled in = win and empty = loss? you could use a red fill color for streaks of 4 or more. It seems to me a solution like that would have less clutter and better communicate the data...
HN is not just a tech news site, it's the Silicon Valley startup community's tech news site. There's a large selection effect at play.
I just started being more systematic about taking notes, and I've found it to make reading both more pleasurable and more memorable. I write marginalia, as well as keeping a separate notebook, and it keeps me more engaged with the author, as if it's more of a conversation than a one-sided lecture.
sigh not again
This is awesome very good combination. seL4 is formally verified and then slap a memory safe and performant user-level code on top.

More info about L4 micro-kernel:

https://sel4.systems/Info/FAQ/

Now user-level here means drivers as well. So that would be interesting how it would work with Rust. Will it all default to unsafe code and just end up with pointer twiddling and memory overwrites and all the same errors. I hope not.

Currently it seems that the verification mode had DMA turned off and for SMP they run a kernel instance on each core and then send messages to each other via shared memory. That probably means not load balancing or not scheduling?
Most people demand CoC when they have not talent and want to be respected per status.

CoC is a proof of failure in leadership, respect is earned.
Perhaps this one: http://time.com/3693737/uber-new-delhi-india-rape-case/

> The new screening process will include requiring address verification, a local criminal court search and a national criminal database search

makes it sound like their previous background check did not include, "has this driver been convicted of sexual assault before?" This particular driver had indeed been previously found guilty of sexual assault, and Uber hired him without caring about that.