skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NSA fear killed a project I was working on. I got it to the point of working (proof of concept) because the nonsense they are trying against the Megaupload founder (I'm not on his side either, but I felt we need a safe harbor software suite).

I had my brilliant russian buddy (grew up studying in the ussr) poking holes in my logic from a discussion level.

Then I started thinking, what if this pissed off someone spying on us. They could hack my machine (windows) and throw some CP or something on there that would ruin my life (I have no fear of anything I've got on my computers as a result of my own downloading).

So I killed the project.

Just like the article posts, with the fear of Hoover. I have the same fear of the government. Funny thing is I'm a pretty liberal person for the most part.

Our government operating like it does, from local police being above the law all the way up to the 3 letter agencies and congress themselves. Is really disheartening.
The closing of this article is actually the key for me. I've been trying to teach my kids that if they have a problem, and I'm not around, they should pick an adult and ask for help. The odds that they will pick an adult that has malicious intention is astronomically small. The odds that things will get worse because they can't bring themselves to ask someone for help seem much higher.
What was in the (now deleted) post you were replying to?
How much impact do rain and snow have on the LIDAR? That seems to come up all the time, and I've never seen a real definitive dismissal of the concern.
A lot of people don't really oversee their car's driving 100% of the time today because they're fiddling with their phones or whatever. It's completely unrealistic to expect that anyone will actively monitor their environment if there's an autopilot that works reliably the vast majority of the time. Just won't/can't happen--and has been shown in research. Indeed, why would I even want a fully autonomous driving system if I have to drive the car anyway?
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In the aforementioned source, a Googler said that's impractical. A lot of things could be solved with an infinite amount of money, that we recognize is not solved because we don't have the money to do it.
OOP is an attempt to manage global state and the mutation of it, lenses are essentially a convenient way of transforming values (without mutation) and are only superficially similar. Side effects are inherently non-compositional, so it's no surprise that they are not easy to model, but Monads are gradually teaching us the best way to handle them. The current state of the art appears to be a single monad parameterized with an effect algebra (supporting composition for some effect types). You are of course free to be a skeptic, but in doing so you are rejecting a large part of modern computer science.
I'm owner of an ios, windows phone and android device.
With that said most of the innovation happening lately is just something carried over from others, e.g. the add block feature, or the night shift, both features already present for example on Cyanogenmod with an adblock installed.

Now my point is... (and I'm not pointing my finger to apple, I like my ipad more now than before, with the exception of the music application), seems like we have started to reach the point where enhancements are only marginal.

I'm not sure how much more cpu power can fix that situation (apple can still play the quad-core card), or if this is a development language restriction issue, or a problem with compilers-languages that cannot make use of multi-core cpus or maybe there is nowhere else to go because everything has been made.

If my previous statement holds true... maybe this is the beginning of the "pc era" of the smartphones with lower sales and no more features worth upgrading to the latest and greatest.
"Eventually, your Tesla will be able to drive anywhere across the country to meet you, charging itself along the way."

In there lies perhaps a hint at a business opportunity/solution to the renter problem: Tesla charging garages and comes to pick you up when you are ready to go.

We certainly live in a Sci-fi movie.
The web is far more ambitious than some proprietary walled garden. Personally, I'm willing to put up with a bit of suckage in the DOM API to support that.
This is the best argument I've read on the subject. Before I really didn't worry about the NSA. I mean I didn't think they were doing much good, since I think terrorism isn't a significant threat. But I'm not that cynical or conspiracy-theory-ish to worry that they would abuse their power significantly. This is the first time someone's tried to show that's a real threat with examples from US history.
Cyanogenmod has had it for a while now.
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Demand <--> supply.

Controls might help prevent this type of thing but often just pushes it underground. In all likelyhood they'd probably just get it from some source without public tenders. Then we'd know even less about their censorship capabilities.

Or at best they'd get a less-capable software version from an amoral and less technically savvy country - which may be easier to circumvent.

Bluecoat seems to still be operating fine despite doing similar things years ago in the US.
And yet they don't have the power to hire assistants to help with organizing disseminating their knowledge. If they are the constraint in the system, the organization should be leveraging them.
So, f.lux has a patent pending on this. This may get awkward, depending on if they get it and choose to do anything with it.
Oklahoma has an extraordinarily high rate of uninsured drivers.

The tree that crushed my car was a result of an ice storm. We get those frequently as well. (My entire lot is covered in trees.)
I agree, and most people don't understand the extent of parking being a huge issue. Driveways for houses, all of it.

Though there are some edge cases companies like Google might be able to do in the shorter term. An Uber-like service only needs to show you the closest it is able to pick you up and drop you off, and can largely ignore the parking nightmare entirely.
thank you for sharing
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There might be more chance of getting the tag implemented in CommonMark than Markdown for similar reasons to the reasons that CommonMark is called "CommonMark".

CommonMark: http://commonmark.org/

Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
What's the significance of this? Private things can be removed or modified at-will, seems fine?
The same guidelines suggest, "If TV news covers it, it's likely off topic"
“Trying to teach myself coding and feeling a bit discouraged”
Interesting. Is this a reputable group, that did this survey? They were "inspired" by the Ellen Pao lawsuit, which already somewhat discredits them.

Recall that Ellen Pao made all sorts of claims against Kleiner Perkins and none of them were proven; on the contrary, they hired her on at a very generous salary, after seven years gave her a generous settlement to go away, and her response was to hit them with this big, bogus sexual harassment lawsuit which even the three Asian women on the jury did not buy. She then moved on to Reddit where she made a terrible mess of things (no more salary negotiations, fired popular moderator, asked job applicants what they thought of "diversity", etc.) and ultimately quit or was made to quit.

So a website based on Ellen Pao... nope.

And, like you, I'm not a fan of surveys.
Yes, actually.
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No, but in general, failures of a machine that result in serious injury or fatality routinely result in lawsuits against the manufacturer. See GM ignition switches. Pharmaceuticals are probably the closest thing to an exception but drug interactions can result in lawsuits as well.
Same here. I was just across the causeway in Dhahran.
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> But that won't become a concern, I suspect, until something unfortunate happens.

And then it will just be dismissed as an unfortunate side effect, shadowed by all the times the system worked and did good. After all, isn't it worthwhile to have a SWAT team bust down a few doors and maybe kill one innocent person if it helps catch hundreds of 'bad guys'?

(/sarcasm, in case it isn't obvious)
So, it's OK because Apple gets to use the "private" API?
Well, on the other hand, their website says this:

> f.lux is patent pending. Do you make a cell phone, display, lighting system, or other cool sleep tech, and want to talk about collaboration? Email us: support@justgetflux.com

https://justgetflux.com/
Anyone looking to form a team?
Your experience is typical for "unschooled" kids who face college -- they learn what's needed in a short period of time and quickly become experts on the subject. Very similar to working in a quickly changing industry like the internet -- a new tech comes around, you learn it, use it, become expert and move on with your life.
I suggested something kind-of-similar at <https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-unsafe-types/3073>
Man pages are their own thing -- although the end result could be the same with some aesthetic differences (man pages does not support colors per-se, though with a config you could style your titles or emphasis).

rst2ansi is a more generic document renderer, that may be used in another program to render document parts. It doesn't convert the document to an intermediate man page, nor specifically formats the document as, well, documentation.
What vendor's APIs would one use instead? Or does this just collapse down to "Don't use other company's APIs?"
Is there a version without the edits? Because I found this practically unwatchable; it kept cutting away just as things started to get interesting.
Reminds me of Will Ferrell in Elf:

> You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to meet you.
A few considerations:

1) If these are good ideas and there is nothing wrong with them, than why does law enforcement keep them secret? Why don't they advertise to citizens: 'We track everything you do, including who you call, where you go, what you say online, and then we predict if you are a threat or not and respond appropriately. This makes you and the community safer!'

2) Does being black or Muslim, having far-left or far-right political views, increase or decrease your threat score?

3) Law enforcement has a very well-established history of using their power not for public safety, but to abuse and oppress vulnerable classes of people and people politically unpopular with the state (e.g., peace protesters). Just think of all the shootings, arrests, COINTELPRO, etc. etc. Why would this power be used any differently?

For example, many blacks already experience harassmet from law enforcement, including such things as pulling them over for 'driving while black', suspecting them of criminality for being in a predominently white shopping area, arresting them for no cause, etc. What will life be like for blacks on a police threat list? Will their life be constant harassment? Will the predicted threat be self-fulfilling because they will be arrested inevitably? Will corrupt police just plant something on citizens on the threat list and arrest them to preemptively get them off the street (and then tout the accuracy and value of the threat list)?

4) Police already are given the authority to shoot people based on suspicion or a feeling of threat. For example, someone putting their hand in their pocket or reaching for something in their car could be reaching for a gun. Will being on the threat list be justification for violence against citizens?

5) Aren't we presumed innocent until proven guilty? Aren't we to be judged by our actions and not what someone else thinks we will do? What happened to the land of opportunity?
The issue is that we do not have the full data set. We only see those cases where the NSA fails and select cases of success. Most successes, if there are any, are hidden to maintain secrecy in operations. I'm not saying there are any successes. What successes we do see are ones that are 'scrubbed' of intelligence or were made with intel that is now known to be useless and only then years after the fact. Again, if there are any successes to begin with. To make an educated conclusion, we need the facts, something we cannot have. Things could be worse or better, we do not know.
Canadian companies doing business with foreign governments get help from the Canadian Commercial Corporation and probably consular personnel too. The Canadian government is very much involved.
It's not worth it moving for each job. Just go to a place where you can stay long term.

Obviously if you want to move a lot, go for it. :-}
Does anyone have more info on the colour warmths available in nightshift? One nice feature of f.lux is that you can select colour warmths using a slider.

Does nightshift allow a variety of night colours, or just one setting?

Either way, this is great news. For years I had been jailbroken merely in order to have f.lux on my phone. I have mild insominia, and flux has greatly reduced that.
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It'll probably include a WebKit version bump as usual, but according to the WebKit Feature Status page, Service Workers are only "under consideration" (not "in development" or "done"), so I wouldn't expect them anytime soon.

https://webkit.org/status/#specification-service-workers
As much as I'm able to repeat it correctly, the author wrote that he believed that the information about the ethnicity will be unjustly involved in the algorithms.

Once being aware of the statistics, there's also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ABRlWybBqM
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>We all have worked with 'a technical manager' who isn't really technical. When you need to purchase a tool, you need to convince your manager and this page is as good as I have seen. All commercial software development tool product websites should feature a 'Convince your manager' page.

Agreed. The electrical metaphors and accompanying images are marketing gold!
I've been using Deploybot for my hobby project and it's been sufficient. Sufficient enough that I'm upgrading to the Basic plan as my needs expand to more repositories. I do think it's lacking a per-repo payment option, though - it would be great to be able to scale your payment with your actual usage with a sort of AWS-style scaling service vs buying repository allocation in bulk.
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There are some who make a compelling case that representation of the people has been nerfed already, and we're in a dictatorship of the deep state. If that's true it is inevitable that "security" will be defined in terms of the continuity of control of the deep state.
How am I going to find Strange Brew now!?!?!?
Apple didn't have an API ready for that for external devs - not due to malice, but due to the lack of need. There are virtually no other use cases for such API, so no wonder they didn't release it.
has nothing to do with that, has everything to do with maintaining the "look and feel" of SF.
iOS 9.2 made the iPad Pro nearly unusable (dropping keystrokes) with the Logitech Create Pro keyboard, and no fix has been forthcoming in iOS 9.2.1 betas. Will this be addressed in 9.3? It worked perfectly with iOS 9.1.
Well, Apple didn't treat Flux any differently than other developers who used private APIs or tried to distribute binary blobs to iOS users.

Software running in the background is something Apple tightly controls in iOS (battery life and security being major concerns). They also don't let apps make changes to the OS appearance. That may be the wrong approach, but Apple is at least consistent in it. This was either an OS level feature or a no go from Apple's perspective. As a user I'm happy it's a feature!
Oh thanks for pointing that out.
You can adjust the costs on a per-session (or even per-transaction) basis. Depending on the nature of your query, it might be worth it.
> Side by side example comparing jOOQ to SQL. A great way for me to quickly see if I like their DSL design.

I'm always astounded how many times this is neglected. It seems pandemic.

I live in the PHP world, and it seems that every hot new framework wants to do its own SQL re-hash. They always seem created by programmers who either hate SQL and want to avoid it as much as possible in favor of OO paradigms, or have never used it beyond its basic features.

Sooner or later, I'll find myself wanting to do something moderately complex, like delete through a join, and all of a sudden the interface breaks down. I'll scour the internet or ask a question, and it either can't be done, or relies on some arcane, poorly documented part of the API, or uses weird, unintuitive syntax that makes you wonder if the API is any improvement over plain SQL at all.
Reminds me of the Sesame Score that was being talked about so much a few weeks ago.

The Mark of the Beast looks more and more real every day it seems.
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This doesn't work in environments where:

(1) There's simply too much information, or too much specialised knowledge required for more junior employees to properly utilise and assimilate it, possibly due to widespread hiring of underqualified or inexperiened people;

(2) There are too many one-offs, unique or short-term items that are not really economical to formalise -- this is usually a problem of business model, or short-term survival strategies (e.g. consulting);

(3) The details are changing too fast for the Wiki to stand a reasonable chance of remaining current and useful, as is often the case in fast-growing, rapidly pivoting and evolving startup companies.

In those cases, there's really no getting around the role of "go-to people".
No one talks about the $1 Million second prize for matching all but one number and the game has been changed now to make more of those kinds of winners.

You could solve a lot of problems in your life with $1M even after taxes taking half, I know I could. Top health and dental care, payoff student loans, payoff credit-card debit, get a decent well running car (maybe even a Tesla) and a decent reliable home without a mortgage (and reverse mortgage for emergencies/retirement).
Is this the first car that will now drive itself, however small a distance, without anyone sitting in the driver's seat?
If your Twitter profile is serious and you work for a startup that sends PB&Js to people, I'm going to go with 0.

Put $10k in a Vanguard index fund and leave it alone.

Source: https://twitter.com/AirPBnJ
Sweden - I'm having some major general connection slowness for some sites at home, but I think this is an individual problem and nothing widespread. Work connection was fine.
The multiple-ids on iPad thing for schools is something I know a lot of people have been asking for for ages.
Citation needed? I can't find any reference to this
Would agree, but I think greed doesn't fully capture the culture. Incompetence plays a large part in this, on the part of the regulators and the actual banks.
% isn't really a meaningful way to express an accident rate. You probably want to use some measure like accident rate per vehicle mile. I don't know the accident rate but the fatality rate in the US is about 1 death per 100 million miles.
Disabling sequential scans is generally reliable. It sets the planner cost of seq_scan excessively high, so the planner will only choose it if there's no other choice (at least, that's been my experience). Of course, if your query is complex enough to trigger GEQO that might not work out.
iOS 9.3 will turn down the blue light on your iPad to help you sleep
well they're all not all that different then
Yes, that's the whole point of private APIs - they're not supported, and they can be changed or removed whenever.

It's just access control at the framework level. Apple could embed a copy in each application using the framework, but that's inefficient, so they install it at the system level.
I'm sure that one of the world's richest corporations will find a solution to this problem.
This might be my favorite update since iOS 7 added the slide up menu to toggle wifi. The flux and notes locking capabilities have been on my want list for years now.
This is getting off-topic, but ARMs success had nothing to do with RISC vs. CISC. It was that _Alpha_ engineers took their skill to the ARM ISA (which at the time had only very weak implementations). They created StrongARM which made people sit up and take notice. Intel ironically inherited the technology and continued developing it under the XScale name. So, yes, Intel in part created their own ARM problem.

I feel I have to repeat again that none of this had to do with RISC vs. CISC. It had to do with implementation and market muscle.

"Alphas relied primarily on clock frequency to achieve their performance, and were very power-hungry as a result"

So was the P4 and it failed, but Intel had enough capital to take a power efficiency clue from Transmeta and turn the ship 180 degrees.

What killed the Alpha was three things: delays in getting the new models out, the cost of staying in this game, and of course, the arrival of Itanic.

EDIT: An aside: the 64-bit extension of ARM is a completely new and different ISA called AArch64 which incidentally is a lot more RISC-like than the original ARM. IOW, it looks like the ARM designers disagree with you.
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"Somebody is going to do this, so we might as well do it" is not a valid defense for doing something that is immoral.
Yes and no. Looks like many of these changes are just at the app level - Notes, Car Play, Health. However, because Apple doesn't separate these apps from the system (ie., you can't update them from the app store) they get bundled into the OTA. If these apps were civilian apps, I doubt anyone would be surprised by these updates.
Google has clear TOS that disallow copying data so it isn't just about copyright, and EU database rules are anyway a much bigger concern than US copyright law.

OpenStreetMap needs to be useful for everyone, not just people in jurisdictions with more liberal copyright laws.
For the same reason people root for their local sports team, it's fun.

Which reminds me, New York City is the greatest city in the history of world civilization and the rest of the country is an endless cultural desert of strip malls and chain restaurants.
One thing I found rather amusing was the fact that there are visible passwords in the picture although it hasn't been unlocked. Hopefully it's at the very least blurred before you input your password.
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Mapzen seems like a good idea, but I can't help but wonder (with respect): Can a developer expect it to be here in 2026?

Seems like someone integrating against an API has the choice of "Use one from a big company with a proven business model and risk their TOS changing to have it taken away" vs. "Use one from a firm with only a few years of history and risk them going dark one day (or changing their TOS)."

In this specific scenario, I'm not sure that this solution would guarantee the developer could have avoided this failure mode.
This is a fatally utilitarian response. You want to be able to calculate whether an equilibrium lies between good and bad outcomes of a process. That is a somewhat defeatist analysis to make because it implicitly denies the gaping moral and ethical risks of the system.
Says the guy who relies on Linux.