skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does your job involve being alone with strangers in a situation where you control their environment? Cabs, car shares, etc. are a somewhat special situation as they routinely deal with people who aren't familiar with the area, operate at times without many witnesses around, and often get people who are at higher risk (drunk, sick, physically impaired, etc.), and they control the route, ability to leave the vehicle, etc.

It's not quite as bad as, say, child care but requiring stricter background checks really doesn't seem like an unreasonable expectation.
Guns and States
You speak as if those not on the internet can not already joining it in hordes. And those opposed to FreeBasics are somehow holding the keys.

When looking at the two camps here, you seriously believe the motives of Facebook and Telecom companies that have clear business interest in having users locked up in their walled gardens but doubt the intentions of a motley group of activists including startup founders, university professors, policy experts among others who do not have any direct incentive to oppose people coming on to internet and also do not control that access in anyway?
Grant Targets Quantum Computing’s Error Control Challenge
You can cycle through different languages
(One of the authors here)

This is by far my favourite post in this entire thread -- I don't think I've ever seen Seymour Cray referenced as an authority in this manner before :)

Not specifically to OP, but for everyone unhappy about the use of performant: Pretty happy to concede that it isn't our finest bit of writing. Pretentiousness? Lack of technical nous? A bit of hurried/careless wording? I'll let you folks decide...
Do you have to love what you do?
I don't think they would. The issue isn't that traffic is being intercepted inside the enterprise. It's that the proxy performing the interception is issuing a certificate that uses SHA-1 in it's digital signing algorithm.
I think it depends on the way your brain works. Some people prefer tables full of numbers, other prefer data visualizations. Some people prefer compact, tight code with lots of symbols. Others prefer spatially organized code. While there are probably people on the extremes and people in the middle. My observations have found lots of people generally fall into two main camps. A number/symbol/dense data aesthetic group, and a visual/spatial group. Left-Right brain? I don't know. Neither is better or worse. It just depends on who you are and who you are working with.
Brackets are also noise.

There is no objective best answer here. I vastly prefer indentation based grouping, but I respect that you don't.
Python One of Eight Languages to Have on Resume in 2016
Apologies that this contributes very little, but my (lack of) sense of humor found this unintentional circular reference chuckleworthy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726325
How big is the human genome? (2014)
I use android and I've never encountered any issues of the sort you are describing.

edit: grammar
Can I just skip the middle-man and sell my information directly to the criminals?
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Haskell allows the use of brackets and indentation to format code, but nobody uses brackets. Do you find Haskell hard to read? And if so, is it because of the indentation? I bring up Haskell because Idris is very similar to Haskell syntactically.

These are functional languages, and there isn't a lot of code to chunk together with brackets. Functions are often just one line, and it's a bit cumbersome to make functions that require multiple lines. Do you believe brackets add to the readability of a one line function?
As I pointed out in my earlier post, I don't agree that fiber cables are anything like roads (or sewage, for that matter). "Infrastructure" means many things, and it's certainly not obvious that the same solution is the best for all.

My point was actually that when the inherently monopolistic aspect is factored out the free market can flourish. This is how it works in Europe.

I live in a Western European country. This is not how it works here. ISPs own their own cables. Yet I have four of them offering me service, four of them over fiber, but also cable, DSL and 4G. Yes, it's expensive. Many private investments are, yet they still get made. Yes, it's redundant. Reliability depends on it.

From what I've read, our situation is hardly atypical, as private installation seems to be the case in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Moldova, Slovakia and others.

The US case, on the other hand, it's hardly representative of a free market, and your problems can not be attribute to it.
Yeah but they lie about how much they like it. I mean, nobody likes a downer, and they need to get rated well so they can keep their ratings high enough to keep driving. You think you'd rate them perfectly if they complained about driving for Uber the whole ride? Plenty of articles online and forums online show how unhappy the drivers really are. don't trust what they tell you when you're paying them and their tip and ranking are tied to what they tell you about how much they like it.

source: Know a few people who drive for Uber AND Lyft, they all like working for lyft a lot more
I used to battle this, and still do if I'm not careful. What have you tried? I find exercise (even light yoga), watching what I eat in the hours before sleep, and breathing exercises help greatly
I am probably in the minority here, but I don't agree. I understand why the security program does it and why they think they need to. I just think that, regardless of who owns this computer and the network it's connected to, if I'm using it, I should be able to use TLS without any interception.
This would be problematic for any programming language, though.

However, if you do want an elegant solution for your problem, may I recommend ruby-install[1] and the companion for easily changing between versions, chruby[2]. Alternatively, you could try RVM[3].

There are a couple more versions (one is even specifically designed for Windows), but I found ruby-install and chruby to be the most convenient ones for both personal and professional use.

[1] https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install
[2] https://github.com/postmodern/chruby
[3] https://rvm.io/
Agreed... though you can do a few simple inspector edits that let you change the background and link colors to make it appear the way you want it.
I didn't know I needed a Netflix live news channel until you mentioned it. Now I can't stop hoping they do that.
Here's one of his articles on TRumP: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/135324448866/the-lucky-hitler-h...

His blog is a lot of fun when you realize he's doing it for fun.
USDA SR-28

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964
You're misunderstanding. I'm not taking a stance on whether this is an accurate analogy or not. I'm just stating that the OP is misinterpreting the author's thesis by nitpicking a small point the author make's out of its context. Reread the article, then look at the point OP is making in the full context.
Like the very usable Beautiful Soup:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
It only looks like this in the beginning, the bitrate adapts very quickly.
Ha, funny I was looking for which comment to reply to and looks like I found it. I'm 47 and just started my first freelance gig after the startup I was with got bought by big blue.

Just finished my second day in an 'open layout' office of 20 somethings as a front-end lead (react/redux) after working remotely from home with a small team of 'seasoned' pros for the last couple of years.

I'm sure there were some raised eyebrows when I showed up but that seems to have passed now mostly because they see I know what I'm doing. I've had a few moments of reflection wondering what the hell am I doing here but I love software development and made a conscious choice not to take the management route.

Had my first of 2 kids @ 40 and find when I start slipping into a regrets of what I haven't accomplished I see them and am reminded of my real purpose these days.

I still feel young on the inside but sometimes look in the mirror and have to acknowledge I'm not 20 something anymore and that's a bummer. But I was walking to work this morning pondering all of this and walked passed someone sleeping on the street and checked myself.

I remember the first time I saw Doug Crockford and had a profound realization that you don't have to outgrow programming. Seems silly now but not at the time.

My dad is 77 and can still kick my ass on a squash court so I try to focus on what is still possible instead of reflecting on what I haven't done.
The fantastically great podcast, backstory, did a piece on it as well. There was supposedly a stage of the us temperance movement against second sleep.

http://backstoryradio.org/2014/11/02/sleep-well/
> AI taking over the earth is always a decade away.

I can't say I've seen that said. Any sources? Most predictions I've seen for AI surpassing human intelligence are for mid 21st century. The reasoning isn't rocket science. I wrote an essay about it for some school exam 34 years ago. If you discount the religious stuff then brains are biological computers of roughly fixed ability and regular computers are less able but get better each year. If so, they'll overtake and you can kind of graph it and make a rough estimate of when.
I prefer 28-56 because that was the law between 1909 and 1978 and it worked well. That era was extremely productive for artists and profitable for capital. Hollywood and record labels thrived in those years, so we know we can roll back to 28-56 years without harming those industries.
Looking at Cute Things Increases Productivity
That's cool! I would use this. I love to cook but rarely follow recipes and love to tinker.
AWS Launches Seoul (Asia Pacific) Region
(x) This seems transparently unworkable, but worse you seem to think we're all stupid enough to fall for it.
Or...was it working as intended? mind blown :)
That is fascinating. Could this reliably reduce the hardware footprint on any device?
Please, please don't let this be the top comment on Idris. I really want to hear from people who have experience with it in different regards.

For example, what's the editing experience like compared to e.g. OCaml with emacs/Merlin? Is there anyone in a position to compare 1ML's approach to unifying type/value languages vs using dependent types?
It is surprising how even after 50+ years of Moore law technology is still does not cope with biology.
Single cell carries about 700MB of genetic information in its nucleus.

https://medium.com/precision-medicine/how-big-is-the-human-g...

It is orders of magnitude more dense than current technology.
Nicely flawed and lazy logic here. You don't have to take your reasoning much further to claim that all of human perception is relative, unprovable, and therefore basically nonexistent.

You sound like a nihilist. As another poster pointed out, "do to unto others as you would have them do unto you" is a good baseline for determining whether an action is good or evil.

I'm an atheist and I even realize this.
That's the idea, and I hope you find it useful!
You know what is reading for the rushed? Audiobooks. Once I started listening to audiobooks on my commute, walking the dog, doing household chores (laundry, cleaning) I went back up to about 50 books per year. I listen at 1.5x to 2x speed. Love it.
India deserves better than Mark Zuckerberg’s watered-down internet
Massive amounts of very, very weak beer.
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+1 on this, once you get away from the front page there is quite a lot of good content for every imaginable topic!
No, I'm not talking about stop and frisk or "am I free to go". I'm talking about pointing a toy weapon at an officer when he/she can't tell if the weapon is real or not. Or reaching into the police cruiser, punching the officer in the face and attempting to grab his gun. Stuff like that.
Exciting to now have Netflix officially in Asia (Thailand for me), though its catalogue is decidedly sparse. There's no BBC shows (so no Sherlock or Dr. Who), no AMC (so no Breaking Bad or Walking Dead), no CBS/ABC shows (so no How I Met Your Mother or The Office), and oddly enough no House of Cards (though that's the only original series that seems to be missing here—and presumably that's missing because they sold international rights).

If Netflix launched internationally with this sparse of a catalogue a year ago, it'd be a much more major problem. Today, though, Netflix has enough of their own series that there's a decent amount of new/interesting stuff to watch. Perk of owning their own content is that they already have the rights—nothing to negotiate for each new country.

Still, for now, the catalogue is sparse enough, you'll want a VPN to get your money's worth from a Netflix subscription outside the States.

Another interesting little thing. Better Call Saul is AMC in the States, but it's called a Netflix Original in most other countries—even Thailand where Netflix doesn't have any other AMC shows.

Also: HBO, time to get HBO Now in Asia.
There's nothing about braces that ensures visual cues to nested code.
Significant whitespace does precisely that. And eliminates brace placement arguments.

int func()
{
while dosomething()
{
dosomething()
dosomething()
doanotherthing()
}
dosomething()
}

def func():
while dosomething():
dosomething()
dosomething()
doanotherthing()
dosomething()
> Personally, I believe Zuckerberg is sincere in wanting to connect everyone in the world with each other.

Or, is he desperately trying to save his company by getting the last remaining drops of users in a rapidly diminishing market for new user base?

If you think about it, Facebook is not a monopoly that it used to be in the early 2000s, even comparing it Microsoft Windows (like someone did in this thread) is an erroneous exercise.

Windows had a kind of monopoly on PC world that perhaps no other software product in the history of computing ever had. But Facebook has tonnes of alternatives. There weren't many when it began, but today we have Google-plus, twitter, Reddit, Hacker-news and lots of others. Granted that none of them is an exact replacement for FB, but then again, everything has its pros and cons, its a monopolistic competition anyways where each product in a competitive market is a monopoloy in itself.
Agree. In Chicago, cab drivers tend to know the city better simply because uber drivers tend to be part time. But I take uber to and from the suburbs a lot and that just wasn't an option before uber
Isn't the whole fantasy thing based on:

`(III) No winning outcome is based--
(aa) "... performances of ... any combination of such teams;"
`

So illegal?
Would be great to have both exactly once delivery as an option along with the current broadcast-to-everyone functionality there now.
Yahoo is prepping to lay off 10 percent or more of its workforce
See also: USB Rubber Ducky
Agree- it seems very reactionary and defensive. Our attention is getting VERY fragmented. Personally, I feel way too spread out over too many social media venues and I don't know where to focus. I have a twitter but it's only to park my name there and in case professional people google me. I don't use it. I'm not sure what to use these days, to be honest.
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too be fair the US catalog is pretty sparse these days as well
I'm out of the loop, can you fill me in? Did they have a falling out?
hes not "exceptionally" funny to me, but i'd not want to say he is especially poor as a comedian... there are many out there who are much more deserving of that level of criticism, and plenty of others who i find much funnier.

its all subjective though.

the point i was aiming at, and obviously missed, is that what he does with the dead terrorist puppet, whist obviously a very strong stereotype, playing on other stereotypes, doesn't offend me like this does.

the more i try and rationalise this irrational emotional response, the more i am convinced it is the implications. there is something prejudiced about claiming that arab terrorists are arabs and terrorists, but its by definition the case. so lampooning the concept on that idea, whilst it looks like it should be offensive on the surface, really is not... but there is definitely something wrong about using stereotypical 'arab' names to enhance a perception of dishonesty as part of a joke trying to make a point about who you should trust, and who you should not.
Have fun paying your "surge pricing" every weekend, San Franciscans.

Chumps.
> Personally, I believe Zuckerberg is sincere in wanting to connect everyone in the world with each other.

> However, I believe he is also sincere in thinking that Facebook is the best and perhaps only platform by which this is possible. In this he is sincerely mistaken.

Why not just give people free bundles of data and let them gravitate towards Facebook how we do in ie: North America?
OpenBox: Enabling Innovation in Middlebox Applications (2015) [pdf]
Who gives a shit. They're free to degrade its performance all they like in order to test it. Its not as if Facebook has some kind of SLA, its a free service that nobody is obligated to use.
The Growing Data Opportunity
I sure hope no one invested in this company. This will be destroyed once Netflix's lawyers see this.
or they just post multiple tweets all in a row if they run out of space in the 140 characters.
Google Is Missing Social and Their Culture May Be to Blame
But it's perfectly normal to depend on some OS parts and have minimum version requirements. Happens with everything out there, just that thresholds are different. Any recent Chrome doesn't run on Windows XP. IE11 doesn't run on Vista. Edge doesn't run on 7. Safari 7 doesn't run on OS X 10.8.

What do you propose to MS - to spend time supporting Windows Vista? Or make a browser that supports it? Bet they just don't care about Vista, besides security patches and alike stuff that they have to do under various enterprise contracts. Given that they go lengths to persuade 7 & 8.x users into upgrading to 10, doubt they care much about those versions, too.
They did their best to kill Linux:

- Negotiation and "arrangements" with OEMs that they will only pre-install Windows on all devices.

- Allowing "selective piracy" to happen so the masses are addicted only to Windows, while they still earn from corporate clients.

- Making Word/Excel formats not compatible with ODF (Open Document Format), thus making it difficult for OpenOffice/LibreOffice to function.

If I think about it, it seems like a wonder that I even have Linux running on my laptop today!
Does it include a wireless dongle for the PC? afaik wireless support doesn't exist yet for Linux. Wish they had included the Steam Controller instead.
Funny enough: the FB app never crashed on me, but Twitter does reproducibly crash after about 20 actions (Android).

Whatsapp however regularly loses its connection on Wifi (even when on battery, and wifi powersaving is disabled), and after 6 hours I see "oh, 20 new messages"...

Problem of scale is that neither of the three (or, actually two) companies has a public bug tracker where one could report bugs and see if anything happened with it. You basically feel like you're interacting with a fucking black box.
> There's nothing about braces that ensures visual cues to nested code.

A machine can look at the braces and re-indent the code, so that you don't have to look at the braces. All while you rest assured that the meaning didn't change:

I just popped it into Vim, selected all and hit =:

int func()
{
while dosomething()
{
dosomething()
dosomething()
doanotherthing()
}
dosomething()
}

Some semicolons are expected so things are a little off.
Report: Facebook intentionally crashed Android apps
"- twitter becomes another FB/tumblr/medium/whatever."

It's it that already? How is it different/special? Seriously most of my friends on twitter just reblog the same exact stuff they post on instagram and facebook. They all seem analogous to me at this point.
Amazon Is Delivering Cow Pies (Dung) in India
As I pointed out in my earlier post, I don't agree that fiber cables are anything like roads

The earlier post:

Except fiber cables are not at all like roads, in that you can run dozens side by side in less space than a single water pipe.

Ah. That's a great point actually. Maybe the solution is just to have the public provide and support this "fiber pipe". Not the fiber; Just the pipe. This would lower the barriers to competition for last mile connectivity. I still think this ought to be insulated from the upstream connectivity providers. To continue the analogy: The cables are self-driving uber-like taxies and the pipe is the rode. I want regulation to ensure every taxi is totally interoperable with every private freeway/bridge/airline in a given area. I also want the option to just use the taxi for local services. I don't want a taxi cartel to tell me where to shop.

I live in a Western European country. This is not how it works here.

Okay. I'm pretty ignorant about these issues. I'm operating from a cached worldview. I did some searching and I'll concede this point. I'm a sucker for "Europe has this figured out already" narratives. I still like the idea. In general I'm opposed to government protected monopolies. If monopoly is the emergent reality then it should be reduced to the narrowest causal factor and kept under government control. Everything that remains should be returned to the free market.
China halts share trading after 7% drop for second time this week
"The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."
haha! I haven't thought on that

I was thinking that if mutual friends are shared, then the estimated number will be higher than real one.
London taxi drivers are a massive outlier, though. They are world famous for their knowledge and expertise. It's not really relevant to compare them to anything outside London.
Apploitation in a city of instaserfs
I wouldn't say it's bad, it's just different.

The text vs. call is an example of technology removing obstacles and inefficiencies. In your example, both of the conversations lead to people meeting face-to-face, but only one of them could be done while on a bus, or in between work meetings. Text-based communication enabled us to talk in situations when it wasn't possible before. I fondly remember late-night IM talks with my friends when I was in high-school. This is not something we could do on the phone, both because of stupidly high costs and because other people in our houses were sleeping.

RE most people solving their own problems, I think that's a) good, and b) not what actually happens. Good, because it means less time wasted for everyone in aggregate; not what really happens, because the world is getting more complicated and people delegate more and more understanding to third parties. Also, that we can solve some problems on our own doesn't mean there aren't other, more complicated problems - for help with which we end up calling the family or friends after all.

The world is fine, at least in this aspect.
Of course a CoC can't make a community actually do anything. These are Open Source communities we're talking about here, and nobody can make anyone do anything at all.

You're alleging that a CoC is meaningless, but why implement a CoC, as a community, if you don't actually want more women and people of color becoming involved in your projects? The CoC is the signal saying, "We, as a community, want you to feel welcome here."

That's all I'm saying it does, and all I'm suggesting it can do, and I say that's sufficient cause to implement a CoC, if you want more women and people of color in your community.

So, to repeat, a CoC is a signal of desire to be inclusive. It is not a law, it is not a guarantee, it won't make assholes stop being assholes. It is a sign on the door saying, "We're gonna try to be welcoming. Come on in."