skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
License plate cameras aren't new to the bay area: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/your-car-tracked-... (and that's to say nothing of the ones being put into patrol cars, or the data collected on the bridges coming into the city)
Yes, a non-poor person has a better BATNA, therefore they can demand more from the other party. But I think the studies show that the poverty has an effect even beyond that.
The first version of iMovie was brilliant. Sublime, and easy to use. I used it on a Mac Cube and loved it. It has gotten worse with every new iteration.
That's talking in the past, though. Which doesn't invalidate what I said
I did follow the instructions. I deregistered several times, and Apple knows that my number is not registered with iMessages anymore.
What's the duration limit? It can't be perpetual, can it? That would be ludicrous.
1) I think it's ironic that the people most opposed to Free Basics are the ones who already have internet.

2) I'm curious how the legislation prevents FB from charging for this service. And what the minimum cost is regulated at.
There's some confusion in the above posts. You can do all that easily in OS X (Apple's desktop OS). It's only iOS (the mobile one) that's locked down.
> I'm probably not expressing this very well.

Hm, could be. So you are acknowledging the feeling of sacredness, but you think there is no point in trying to evoke some sort of artificial 'sacredness' as that would defeat the very nature of it? That the moment you are trying to dissect it, it vanishes?

Hm, maybe, but that's what we humans tend to do, sharing and categorizing experiences and when we do it systematically, it's science.

I don't see why we shouldn't do this.
Let me reiterate: "The last thing I need is to forget a dongle."
S and X Thinkpad lines have considerably improved screens nowadays. Nowhere near Retina, but they get the job done. Also, most of the parts inside are field serviceable, you don't really need more than a screwdriver to fix it.
OS X lets you set default apps. I had Chrome set as my default browser for a while.
I'm getting a strong mix of upvotes and downvotes. I understand that achieving a true global optimum is likely intractable, so I thought I'd clarify my statement, and hopefully solicit some real responses.

The most influential players in capitalism, not in theory, but as it is practiced in the real world today, are measured by their performance during financial quarters, or political terms. Such an incentive structure is not going to encourage long-term optimization.
Positive feedback loop, specifically. Tesauro noted power-law times in BP learning and you can go off and look at highly skew distributions in BP weight assignments on your own. Simon had a little program of research on skew distributions in economics (you cannot throw a stone but you hit one: money, firm size, investments, trades, income, GDP, yadda yadda), and how they are best explained by positive feedback loops.
The real problem is that lithium-ion batteries suck in every dimension except energy density. They're fragile, can blow up, don't allow many charge/discharge cycles, and charge slowly.

There are other battery technologies, such as lithium iron phosphate, which have much better lifetimes, but you give up some energy density. Sealed units should use one of those technologies.
I would think that all of the ins and outs of these different-legality-by-state issues were mostly sorted during Prohibition. So, it's fun to speculate about who won the 'exporting devil alcohol' legal debates of the 1920s. We definitely would not benefit as a Union from having export controls implemented by states, which of course just shows up some of the weirdness of having a federated legal system.
Haskell's "badge of virtue" is that it's unpopularity has freed the language creators to improve the language, to get closer to solving the extremely sophisticated problem it is trying to solve (completely safe, efficient, correct programs), without breaking anyone; not that others are miseducated
I would try to save some of that 8k+/month. I hope things stay good.
It's a bit of an overstatement to say that the batteries are unreplaceable. They have some tape on them and they require patience to remove, but that's not anything new as far as laptop part upgrades go.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Dell+XPS+13+Teardown/36157
Yoga 900: retina screen, 16GB memory, core i7, 512GB ssd: $1400. That's pretty darned reasonable! Definitely tempting.

Engadget's review says 9 hour battery life, cranky touchpad, and shrunken keyboard. Argh. C'mon Lenovo.

Do you have one?
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I assure you that if you found that box sitting there and called 911 and they sent someone out to check it out, no one would ever question the legitimacy of your call. You seem to be forgetting where this box was located. The bad sign design by itself is not absolutely convincing of course but considering all circumstances, the location of the box, the maybe somewhat real danger of terrorism in exactly this area, the easy build and also the psychological aspects.. Yeah, this would be a legitimate call to at least the local PD.

Also I am talking about logical undeniability.. And I think you know already..
You don't need wealth and fame to work on what you want. John Carmack started out with neither but he's always had one thing to go along with his above average smarts and focus/productivity: an unwillingness to compromise on what matters. There were plenty of times in his early career where he challenged management and won (because management realized how valuable he was) but he was fully prepared to take the loss. Better to work as a pizza cook while furiously coding interesting graphics problems and games at night than bow to management's demands to patent something like side-scrolling technology on a PC.

If you don't think it's some dimension of his awesomeness that keeps him from getting burned out, what do you think it is? The environment of getting to work on what he wants? Lots of people have that but still burn out, that can't be the only thing.

Edit: I do agree with your underlying idea though that you don't need to be as awesome as Carmack to get the same benefits in terms of being highly productive without burning out. Your output will be scaled down accordingly to how much less awesome you are than he is, but it should be possible, even if very difficult, to transform oneself into a focused, disciplined, productive, and happy worker, even if it's very mysterious and individual-specific how to actually do that.
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It's tough, you know? This is kind of an A/B test along with this one: https://medium.com/@atri.me/atri-turn-your-into-a5f37494c42f...

Figuring out how to launch the product, which will have a more official launch in the next week.

But I hear you. We still mean it and think that something has to change.
If you're being attacked, you'd like to know about it. This thing is more of a forensic device to figure out how you were attacked afterwards.
a lot of Snow Leopard's good reputation was about the fixes and about how bad Lion was. The whole "Save As" and alter documents not expressly saved (a behavior Preview continues) screws up a lot of use cases.

That being said, I remember Panther and Snow Leopard after the .0.3 updates to be the best versions.
Well, my laptop costs 11,5 €/ month on the end of life ( cfr. other post) and i pay my ISP 25 € / month. So i still have less to pay with the sum of my webservices / laptop and ISP together then his 'power horse' :)

Is that any better? ;)
My experience has been that every new release of OS X is more unstable than the previous. I'd very much like to go back to Mavericks. It was the last release I used that seemed to be decently stable. Yosemite and El Capitan have so many problems.

* I've had to switch to a wired ethernet -> TB adapter and turned Wi-Fi off altogether because of Wi-Fi instability, despite having enterprise-grade WiFi APs in my house (Ruckus and Ubiquiti).

* Peaking out the CPU usage and GPU usage at the same time almost guarantees a kernel panic despite Apple's hardware diagnostics reporting no problem and my Fluke temperature probe not showing temperatures going above 90C (although to be fair, that's very hot... that's standard Macbook Pro temps).

* Crazy audio issues for SPDIF, despite it being a basic standardized protocol that's had kernel support since OSX was released, every time they come out with a new version they manage to make SPDIF output break in strange ways.

* Sleep/Resume/Hibernate no longer works reliably, many times instead of waking up the system will simply reboot.

* Bluetooth devices (specifically Magic Trackpad 2) will disconnect and then reconnect randomly for no apparent reason.

I don't even use any of the Apple provided software other than OS X itself, but I still have seen the product go rapidly downhill. I went from being an Apple hater to being a hardcore Mac user, to now back to being an Apple hater that's just waiting until I can find a decently reliable Linux ultrabook (Lenovo X1 Carbon maybe?). The repairability of a laptop isn't even a concern to me at this point, I consider buying a laptop a sunk cost of being in a technical job. I just need it to work reliably because I depend on it for my livelihood and it's currently unacceptable.

The other day I was working remotely and in a conference call with the CTO and had a kernel panic twice in a row because I was doing `vagrant up` in the background which kicked me out of the call. How does that look for my professional reputation when I have technical difficulties during a call and I'm supposed to be a senior level technical staffer? Totally unacceptable.
> "Implicitly racist" is completely subjective.

"Implicitly racist" is far from being completely subjective. A law banning US citizens whose ancestors lived in Africa 500 years ago from voting isn't explicitly racist: one could argue that it's based purely on geography and that ancestry and geography are only incidentally linked. It's implicitly racist given an understanding of the context in which it is applied.

Taken out of context, the War on Drugs can presented as race-neutral. You can describe the laws as they are written and stop there. This is not an honest discussion of the War on Drugs. We're not just talking about laws, we're talking about enforcement. Look at the data. Look at the statistics. I'm not just saying that.

http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUHresultsP...
2013 Drug usage rates, by race

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/...
2014 Drug abuse violation rates, by race

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/...
2014 Drug abuse violations, by category

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf
2010 US Census, by race

This tells me that the ratio of Whites to Blacks in the U.S. is roughly ~6:1. The ratio of drug use between Whites and Blacks is ~1:1. The ratio of drug abuse violations between Whites and Blacks is ~2:1. Do you agree that these figures are correct? If so, how do you explain the discrepancy between usage vs violations between Whites and Blacks? Looking for an honest analysis. My conclusion was that the laws and policies which constitute the War on Drugs have disproportionately affected Blacks. CMV.
It's hard to read between the lines here.

- 2 months is a odd notice period (one would expect three). So was he pushed?

- the role is being split in two from his departure. This usually means the role had more power than was comfortable.

- but it's still two
Months. Any signs of gardening leave?
PayPal had good earnings last quarter (http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/27/paypal-shares-up-on-earning...), so bad performance may not be the reason.
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Not sure if you know this but after you go through the process to create a task and you don't seem to have a way to edit it.

You also may need to streamline your sign up screen as it defaults to login without clear messaging.

Seems like a good start but you may have to work on your actual use cases and step through it with a few brand new users.
Because they have a huge culture of secrecy internally. They're afraid of getting fired if anyone found out they commented.
> My wife and I were about to buy a car ... eventually we had to walk away from the deal

Just curious, were you able to buy a car elsewhere without signing an arbitration agreement?
You shouldn't be downvoted; people should help you get up to speed.

In the scenario you describe, the database commit works, you send the email but... you get an error back from the email send function. Now what?

This is a basic distributed computing problem. Choosing how to solve it can have a drastic effect on your code and your infrastructure. If the secondary function is "charge a credit card" obviously you can't do that twice. But if it's merely "send an email" then maybe it's okay if people get a duplicate.

Google lease/lock/deadlock/race condition and read up on why databases tend to make for bad implementations.
Unity is a terrible solution for things like photo spheres and media tours:

* you can't load it without a long unity splash screen without paying $3K for a pro license

* it renders photospheres poorly - no dynamic eye buffer resolution or separate overlay compositor support

* based on your overall attitude/taking offense, I'm going to assume you haven't actually used Unity at all. Try to HTTP stream/lazy load web assets, go ahead. Also go ahead and try to build links in Unity, or to load JSON. (Hint, none of those are available out of the box). Now try to make changes/iterate, or distributing your changes to clients. Unity is a huge pita.

Honestly, I can't understand why you are arguing online about what's "wrong" or not about something you obviously haven't tried and know nothing about. Now, that's offensive.
Senior VP Payment Services and CTO seem to be two roles that one person may have been right to fill in a special case (with a very special person), but where usually the best person to fill one wouldn't be the best person to fill the other.
Except not really. It would have been "So, sue us." It's not even clear that you would have a case; you're just having to sign an agreement that already applies to all current employees. In any case, is it really worth spending 10s of K$ to fight them?
> I assure you that if you found that box sitting there and called 911 and they sent someone out to check it out, no one would ever question the legitimacy of your call.

Do you know what the operator says when you call 911?

> You seem to be forgetting where this box was located

In a relatively low traffic area?

> Yeah, this would be a legitimate call to at least the local PD.

Yes, the non-emergency number. Not 911 FFS

> Also I am talking about logical undeniability.

Logical undeniability? Logically terrorists would spend far more time making their sign look legitimate, since DHS doesn't really need to be worried about someone thinking their not-a-bomb is a bomb.
Well, I didn't mean "this is Apple's fault" as much as "serviceability problems traditionally associated with Apple devices are now common industry wide" - and are now hard to avoid even if you look at other brands, as the person I was replying to said they would. I do understand that, ultimately, companies are just delivering what most consumers want.
Apple Maps' reputation is much worse than it deserves. These days it is better than Google Maps, in my opinion: Better map pins, better graphical performance, better rendering style, better search.
Globally, yes. I think parent was talking about the US market where OS X is slightly more prominent and according to StatatsCounter surpasses the market share of Windows XP and Windows 10 combined. Microsoft still controls 3/4 of the desktop market according to these stats, but that would probably not qualify as monopoly anymore.
Update: I'm actually wowed this post got any traction, let alone time on the front page as I'm sure many people here could make a task manager in their sleep. Thanks, HN.

That said, the hard part isn't the tech, it's making something people want to use and use again. That's key. So excuse the app being rough around the edges - it will be refined - and thanks for the advice.
OSX fan here: Everyone is completely misunderstanding our recent criticisms of Apple software.

We don't hate Apple software!

We have seen a steady decline over the last few years, and so we are expressing our concerns. This does not translate to us hating the software. We know what Apple can do when it really focuses on the quality of it's software (see OSX Snow Leopard).

I still think OSX is more stable and useable then any other OS out there. Yes there are annoyances, but they are trying to move the ball forward. The only piece I would agree has gone completely off the rails is iTunes.

OSX is still strong, and I believe Apple will right the ship. After all, Apple employees use Mac's themselves to build iOS.
Sure, we have dumb apps on our iPhone that we don't use and some of the preinstalled applications on OSX aren't that great.

But bashing Preview and touting the alternative Adobe Acrobat Reader!? Are you serious? Firstly, they are different products. Preview handles multiple file formats and Adobe Reader is meant for PDFs. Secondly, Preview allows you to edit, combine and covert pdfs all of which you would have to pay Adobe to unlock these features.

Preview is such an amazing tool and I would go as far and say it's one of OS X's killer applications.
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Heh, this got me thinking of the feasibility of cryptographically signed, err.. signs.

A QR code can hold 2953 bytes of binary information, so more than enough for a 2048 bit public key.

Same code can also hold 4296 bytes alphanumeric, which would be sufficient for even a decently long message and its associated signature.

A government could post the fingerprint of their key on a site, and post a QR codes containing a signed message about the sign on the sign itself.

Like so: https://imgur.com/a/fWZpt

Sign sign sign. Got some semantic saturation happening now.

Sounds somewhat absurd, but definitely feasible for homeland-security-type things like this random box.
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It would be preferable if the suddenly-wealthy tinkerer was inspired to build a solar farm instead, yes. Or even a thorium reactor. I would think that refining your own uranium would be fairly hazardous to your own health, even if it wasn't enough to leave much of dangerous cleanup site.
My experience with the MBP + iPod Touch/iPhone since 2009. Using apps like iTunes, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Garage Band, and Logic Pro.

So the golden age for me has been 2009-2015 from Snow Leopard -> Mountain Lion (trailing off steeply w/ El Capitan) and from iOS 1 - 7, w/ iOS 8, 9 introducing issues.
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Legitimately confused by the downvotes on this one... Is there another way I should express disbelief and request more information? A drive-by claim that Amazon is lying to its customers about what Echo sends to the Amazon mothership is a substantial accusation that should be supported with either evidence for or a method for independently confirming the veracity of said claim.

So, I'll try another pass:

Dear AndrewUnmuted: would you kindly elaborate on what else, other than the audio that follows the wake word, is transmitted to Amazon that ensures "[Echo] users would not ever have privacy again."

I think we can all stipulate to the fact that there is an audio transmission beginning after the wake word and ending when we see the spinning light pattern that indicates Echo is waiting for a server-side response.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10999088 and marked it off-topic.
I'm not sure about that... iTunes has always been awful.
Yes, it's legal to smoke inside an apartment, so long as your lease doesn't disallow it for example.
In my city, Google Maps has NO transit, NO satellite images since 2004, NO map data since 2010. Here maps has satellite and transit, and Apple Maps even has full 3D buildings.

Following is a set of complaints I compiled last year when a Google employee asked me on reddit to post them more detail about my maps complaints.

The usability of any Google product outside the US is a total disaster, and it’s a wonder how Google is able to keep any market share with their quality of service.

NONE of this has been addressed since we started complaining in 2005 (!), except for one thing: that connection between two streets, which is closed with a fence, has been marked as closed. So now we have less people standing there trying to get through.

> https://www.google.com/maps/@54.3559928,10.0734304,18z

> http://imgur.com/a/DyRBT

> The map data on top is from the municipality, the map data on bottom from Google.

> As you see, the street "Beim Bauernhaus" is completely missing, the "Kellerkate" is missing half the street, the connection between "Beim Bauernhaus" and "Kellerkate" is missing, the "Kl. Koppel" is missing parts of the street.

> You currently have data from 2010 for this specific area.

> The data you currently have access to from GeoBasis-DE is this: http://i.imgur.com/67TQeP8.png

> At least the connection between Steinberg and Nienbrügger Weg is now marked as service path, until recently it was marked as street and people tried to get through there (there’s a fence making that impossible).

> I won’t get too much into satellite data either, because yours is from 2004, too:

> https://www.google.com/maps/@54.3530178,10.0703569,529m/data...

> https://www.here.com/?map=54.35308,10.07028,17,satellite

> And the unavailability of Public Transit data for busses, etc. on Google Maps – which is available on Here.com – makes it unlikely that I, as a student using public transit all the time – am going to switch back.
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It might be possible to commence a legal action for a declaratory judgement (a summary judgement is a different thing) on the matter (declaratory judgement rules vary by jurisdiction.)
I don't know where you are getting your information from. I can still buy Pepsi and Coca Cola in India. And I have friends who work for IBM.

Coca Cola has been in bad news for other reasons. If you sell a pesticide poisoned drink, you must expect to be held accountable by the law someday.
No. Your last line completely invalidated any point you might have had.
I do the same.

However, I guess that as Apple grows and attracts more customers outside of tech (especially as they have done with the iPhone), they will have also picked up a much larger share of customers who will use the built-in apps. If it's true that the quality is gong down as they say, well those people will form the opinion that you would expect them too which happens to be the one written about here.

Let's also not forget that the operating system itself has a huge impact on the experience. The difference between the OS and the apps is that problems in the OS don't just affect end users, they often affect app developers too. So regardless of how their apps are, they could easily get themselves into trouble here.
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Some suggest alternatives for default Mac Apps? ( Eg. Apple Maps vs Google Maps, Safari vs Chrome)

What's your alternative and why ?
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