skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a 2014 E-class with DISTRONIC PLUS, and it turns the steering to stay in the lane. I'm assuming a current CLA has the same if it has DISTRONIC PLUS.

The shoulder drifting feature is a different feature, at least on my car, and it's not tied to whether cruise control is engaged or not.
This is pretty well established. Most women, even quite short women, want taller men.

My ex husband was slightly shorter than me, so it isn't all women. But, yes, bias by women against short men is a well known thing. If they will not even accept a first date because of your height, the odds of marriage go down pretty seriously. You need to get your foot in the door and get to the altar as some minimum prerequisites for achieving a successful marriage.
Nothing? It is not for the faint of heart, and I wouldn't recommend it (but I'm not in the target audience, so who am I to make that call?) but there is http://www.shortsupport.org/Health/Leg-Lengthening/procedure.... Difference apparently can be up to four inches.

And of course, if you start early, there is the Messi approach of using growth hormones.
Seems to be in a similar space as https://sandstorm.io/

Interesting to see this come out of Germany...Europeans seem to care a lot more about privacy than most Americans, which might make it harder for American companies in this space to get initial traction.
Abandon your desk, Designer
it's literally security by obscurity since gmail does not allow a genuine + in emails, so:

>I also use it to track which sites sell my address to spammers (though it's such a simple regex replacement that I'm sure some hide doing so)

...is Google dropping the ball by doing something insecure. The secure version is to be able to assign a randomized alias, for example I should be able to request an alias and get a high-entropy string like buffaloaerypyrite which is associated with "me+fromDatingSite", which is this great group I heard for meeting singles who are into knitting, my biggest hobby! Then I can give DatingSite the address "buffaloaerypyrite@gmail.com" and have it go to my inbox and be marked fromDatingSite, just as it does currently. But if escorts start sending me mail to "me+fromDatingSite" I don't have to be able to rely on the security by obscurity that protects me from getting spam that is not marked with that source, if any of them figure out how to remove the + so that they can reach the inbox I read everything in.

It's a simple key-value lookup table and would close a security hole that allows spammers to reach you. It is mandatory for Google to let me give out "buffaloaerypyrite" instead of "me+fromDatingSite". Unfortunately, instead they have a non-scalable solution that doesn't work.

This is why I'm faced with a choice, and can either use an unsecure version and rely on security by obscurity, or use a real throwaway email. I use a real throwaway email anyone can read (mailinator).

Because Google's engineers either don't understand how to secure their solution, or believe that security by obscurity is sufficient.

I've never once in my entire life given out my gmail email address with a + in it, even though I know exactly how this method works and how to use it.

Never once. I'm not stupid enough to use security by obscurity. But it's great that they have it and are a single key-value lookup from having it work properly. Any day one of them will realize the implications and implement the solution, which can be prototyped in 7 minutes in any technical stack and be fully pushed out within a day or two. It's trivial. I have faith they will realize it sooner or later. You can do it, Google. Be better.
I'm not saying there isn't hard evidence for this but The Express is a not a reputable newspaper and it's articles should always be looked at with a very skeptical eye. In case that wasn't obvious from clicking around their site for 20-30 seconds.
That sounds like the 1998 Battlezone, an FPS/RTS hybrid with hovertanks. It was really cool; there hasn't been much else like it.

The plot was loads of fun--it's the 1960s, and the Space Race is just a cover for the fact that the US and the Soviets have both been waging war on the Moon, with hovertanks, for years.
Not sure why someone would downvote this.

Incompetence is pretty much a constant in IT in varying degrees, but I'd expect IT professionals to know about kb3080351.

It's certainly not "news" given the media attention this subject has had ever since the "explosion" in June/July, when Microsoft chose to ignore that opt out setting, and even re-enabling telemetry prior to the upgrade.

Edit: I can take a downvote defending a factually correct point, which was originally posted by saidajigumi (who was downvoted, which is why I posted my somewhat cheeky (in retrospect) response, and why I upvoted his post). I don't think most people disagree about it being unfortunate for normal users to be upgraded, but that wasn't what our comments were about.
My comment was in reply to a scenario involving a crime. In this case you would be accountable to society/law enforcement.

Unless you live in a cave, we're all accountable to many others, employers, loved ones etc, and, finally even to ourselves. After all haven't we all felt embarrassed or ashamed of something we did in a 'prior brain state'.

> Who can examine your actual brain states anyway?

Much can be inferred from actions.

> This sounds like mind police

A hyperbolic term. Aren't we all in a sense policing each other's minds? Part of living in a functional society involves creating and reinforcing social norms so that we can live in a slightly less chaotic world.
I recently read the 1886 book by Henry George "Protection or Free Trade"[0], and was struck by how the arguments by Trump, Sanders were more or less in the same form 125 years ago.

It's an astonishing book, not only for the clarity in which it dismantles these arguments in the cause of free trade, but also for how it transcends this, and explains why protectionism remains popular:

"Thus the opportunity of work comes to be regarded as a privilege, and work itself to be deemed in common thought a good... When men are thus accustomed to think and speak of work as desirable in itself, is it any wonder that a system which proposes to "make work" should easily obtain popularity?" (chapter 23)

Remarkable in how relevant this book and its arguments remain.

[0] http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/George/grgPFT.html
Wow. I don't know where to start with some of these comments. There's just a real lack of understanding of central banking.

Protip: Your critique of "status quo" (e.g. central banking) systems will be taken more seriously when you demonstrate thorough knowledge of the subject matter and don't rely on emotionally laden arguments involving "fraud" and "lies."
I think it would still be interesting even if it proved false, simply because it appears to be true for small numbers. That would be weird, and weird is interesting.
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Yes! Where can I turn to for this?

Is there a course that teaches me just the maths that I need to understand this?
I had this exact same issue with my work machine and my at home workstation. Wifi adapter completely broken, I tried to revert back to Windows 8 on my work machine and it gets stuck on a black screen for over 24 hours. I tried to power down to restart it but no luck. Somehow everything got corrupted. Had to completely reformat the drive and install the operating system all over again, which it then proceeded to upgrade straight to Windows 10 again. I lost months of work but was able to recover from a backup I had a week prior to the incident. Absolutely disgusting business practice by Microsoft. The only times where a Windows 10 installation has worked well for me is when it's a brand new machine with little to no extra content on top of the existing OS. If you've used Windows 7 or 8 for over a year and accumulated a fair amount of apps, files, content, I can almost guarantee you're going to run into something breaking after the update.
This seems to disable 51 updates from installing. That is quite a list. Some of the updates are blocked for other issues than privacy - one of them for example is a graphics stack security update which is blocked because it broke some older games.

This reminds me of the older "registry cleaner" apps which are highly debatable.
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In Germany, you can get an A-klasse with DISTRONIC PLUS (and absolutely nothing else) for $30k, but it's an almost $4k accessory, it's not standard, and if you're shopping in that segment it would be very weird to pick that option and nothing else.

So Honda's offering is actually pretty spectacular!
For what it's worth I believe you are being wildly naive. Have a nice day.
Online dating stats, at least from OKTrends, show tall men have more sexual partners than men below the average height. I also wouldn't be surprised if that also holds true for receiving more responses compared to short men.

Furthermore, my recorded stats of women's profiles in the online dating site Match.com show a significantly higher number of women prefer to date men of their own height or taller than women who are willing to date men shorter than them. Plus, it's also not uncommon for short women to exclusively date tall men, whereas it's very rare for even tall women to date guys who are significantly shorter than them.
This is exactly the problem. The police are obviously not always in the wrong, but when people automatically assume that, regardless of what victims say, the police are in the right, that's why nothing changes. Nobody is calling for anyone to lose their jobs based on a tweet, we're calling for people to pay attention, listen to the victims, and make sure this sort of behavior is investigated and that people are held accountable.
the free software movement demands that the work of others be free for consumption without compensation

You say this one paragraph after you listed a number of ways to get compensation. There are entire corporations, large ones, built around this model you claim doesn't exist. And then there's the fact that the overlap between people likely to buy your software, and people with the skill, time, and desire to build your software from source, is pretty small. A number of app store apps work on this model (off the top of my head, the Textual IRC client is one)
"men routinely say they will happily date a woman who is 10 years younger"

This also have consequence of reducing chances for younger men who would like to compete for these younger women too.

Those are same years when adult personality forms, hence we're seeing some really broken men personalities.

That then boomerangs to women in form of abusive, ignorant or insecure men.
Just out of curiosity, what dev work can't you do on Linux? I usually only hear that case for games or graphic/video editing.
Looks like you missed the sarcasm.
Yeah I've only seen it twice since the last major ap update.
I hope that Microsoft don't survive their Windows 10 release...
Today's children's are tomorrow's voters. A state that cannot indoctrinate the young - cannot have unity and dumb nationalist people needed to sacrifice for the survival of the state.

---- From a very cynical person ----
That one I don't really buy sorry, wiretaps have been around for ages and while they have been misused by law enforcement I haven't heard about too many cases in which criminals actually exploit them.

While cyber criminals are sophisticated it's just not going to be worth the effort for them, most large cyber crimes were pretty low tech.

Foreign intelligence agencies is another deal, but then again they could just as easily penetrate Apple now.

So while there will be some technical risk its really not substantial, the privacy implications however are going to be very severe.
I'm going to make a few statements here to address the parent and children; but let me put the normal disclaimers here: I ONLY can speak for myself, I do not speak for MS or any of my coworkers.

Simply put, the sort of behavior implied (vote brigading) doesn't mesh with my understanding of how I or any of my coworker/HN reader peers tend to behave. I could be totally off the mark with this but it just doesn't mesh with the culture I've been exposed to.

More relevantly however, and more in line with how I typically approach HN threads regardless of topic, let me try and pose a more "occams razor" explanation:

MS has been gaining a lot of positive press lately. The tech community WANTS to see our biggest entities succeed and "do good". We hate seeing suggestions that a "new convert" to the good side might have changed face again. Realizing that a company can do both good and "evil" simultaneously is a degree of mental dissonance I don't often see handled "cleanly" so to say.

Long and the short; I am not happy with the forced upgrades. I am still using 7, and would be rather irked if they broke everything for the sake of forcing through content I do not want. However, I do tend to attribute much more naïve explanations for the patterns we're seeing, over some sort of PR conspiracy. There was a wonderful quote a while back, "we're not organized enough to be that evil" :) I don't mean to be any sort of MS apologist in this, my comment is entirely directed at the discussion regarding some degree of astroturfing, if I got asked about my opinions on the updates, well, that's a whole can of worms on its own and the remaining comments in the thread seem to speak to the resounding sentiment in that respect.
Seriously, putting cars with brake-assist technology in the hands of drivers who are already overrepresented in accident statistics is a good thing. Life doesn't have to be hard-mode all the time.
React can be learned in a day. It's really simple. The tooling around it can get weird but honestly I think most people are exaggerating. It's fine.
"I suppose it might matter more if I were to seek the Presidency"

Unless you want to do it in Russia :-/ We literally had garden gnome for "president" forced on us.

No offense to capable short people here.
Finding a way to provide viable (fast and high quality) image resizing on phones was one of the biggest challenges.
This set of lectures provides a nice balance between providing a (relatively) gentle theoretical basis for the algorithms and also providing code labs in R for using R library implementations.

http://www.r-bloggers.com/in-depth-introduction-to-machine-l...
But that's basically every rule or guideline in the software world.

You should do X always, unless it does not make sense.

How do you know the difference ? With enough experience or enough ignorance. Knowing when you are in one category or another for a specific topic is the tricky bit.
"My anecdotal observations reveal an unusual number of pairs where a tall woman happily dates above average height man. It works the other way too, short women often date tall men."

Aren't you saying the same thing as Mz? That women will favour men taller than themselves? A tall woman will often be shorter than an above-average-height man.
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As seen on Next Gen Den[1]. Great idea!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl6XZ-cLwkw
I hope they wont go with a knee jerk reaction and regulate Uber.
>We've completely accepted auto updates for browsers (chrme & firefox) - years ago.

Your argument starts off with a wrong assumption. I manually update all my software and only when I see fit. Sometimes feature removal prevents me from updating. http://i.imgur.com/u3qVwBS.png

W10 is completely incompatible with my workflow/customizations I've made to W7. There are registry tweaks everywhere and custom DLL's because I'm reliant on a few bits of software that keep me anchored to Windows instead of moving to greener pastures (Gentoo). Much of my software is completely incompatible with both W8 and W10.

Updating is a no-go for me and if I'm going to move away from W7 it is going to be to move to Gentoo. I've had the auto-updates disabled for ages - and it looks like I can't even trust security patches to only contain security patches, so I've disabled those too now.

Oh - and it bricking incompatible devices and losing people's files is a big reason why this is a bad idea. How happy would you be if you lost all important data on your computer?
Disappointing to see a complex field summarised in this fashion. For some reason, ill-informed individuals love to adopt extreme views about cancer therapy and air them in public. This is totally irresponsible, and I hope nobody making decisions about cancer therapy reads this. For example:

1. 'Weakening' of the immune system is the wrong idea. Preclinical and clinical studies have shown that there is synergy between the immune system and chemotherapy, and also between the microbiome and chemotherapy. For some cancers, combining modern immunotherapies with other treatments including chemotherapy is likely to be necessary to achieve the best outcomes.

2. Your analogy to medieval blood letting is totally ridiculous. The chemotherapy used today has been carefully studied in randomised controlled trials with many thousands of patients. These patients have been followed up for many years with meticulous documentation of early and late side effects, disease outcomes and patient reported quality of life measures. This information is invaluable to patients who have to make decisions about the pros and cons of cancer therapy.

Is chemotherapy pleasant? Definitely not. Do some people experience terrible side effects that may be permanent and life threatening or even fatal? Yes. But it saves lives, and it comes with a host of supportive therapies designed to make the process as tolerable as it can be.
You're not short, at least not in the US. You're not tall, either. Current average is 5'10", with a standard deviation of 4". You're very nearly average.
Fixed above -> below, sorry for confusion.
I'm glad that you've had a good experience with Windows 10, but this is still a big deal. There are a lot of reasons this is different from Chrome and Firefox updating, or even from Microsoft automatically delivering updates to Windows 10.

Windows 10 is not just an update: it's a completely separate operating system, illustrated by the fact that you have to accept a separate TOS. And while the upgrade may be free, the OS is not. I have never heard of an involuntary OS upgrade, and it's ridiculous that Microsoft is trying to impose one now. No rational user of Windows 7 would suddenly expect to be force-upgraded to Windows 10.

Yes, Chrome and Firefox will force you to update when you restart your browser. Yet although they might nag you, they won't forcibly restart your browser for you. This is what Microsoft is doing to users' computers: the upgrade might take hours and download gigabytes of data, even if the user never asked for it. This is effectively holding computers hostage. If a computer is being used in a safety-critical situation, even if it shouldn't be, that's a recipe for disaster.

Finally, Windows 10 has downsides that Windows 7 doesn't. First, the upgrade itself might not succeed, as I learned the hard way when the upgrade process simply... stopped. Additionally, depending on your configuration, the upgrade could render your software or hardware unusable: not all hardware may be compatible, even if Microsoft thinks it is. And Windows 10 has more invasive tracking than Windows 7 did, with little or no option for ordinary users to disable it.
I don't think this is unique to HN. Western news in general tends to cover negative stories more often than positive ones. Quite a few studies have been done trying to explain the effect; there's no bulletproof theory yet, but one theory is that people are more likely to read negative articles than positive articles and journalists are just catering to demand. http://hij.sagepub.com/content/19/3/360?etoc
What a coincidence - 4 days ago I disabled auto updates on Windows 7 because it would force me to restart all the time. I'm glad I did that. Forcing Win7 to Win10 Upgrade? Disgusting practice by Windows, will switch to Unix-based systems asap.
None of what you've said here makes you stand out from your biggest problem: Imgur. None of those features are groundbreaking or even original. And how are you going to monetize? Running this service won't be free.
So a number ending in 'x' is as likely to be followed by 'y' as a number ending in 'n-x' is to be preceded by a number ending in 'n-y' (where n is the base).

Can't think of a trivial reason why that would be the case, something weird is happening.
"it's very rare for even tall women to date guys who are significantly shorter than them"

It's not very relevant who people date, much more relevant who they end up with. Might be counter-intuitive.
It is just shocking to see people complaining of data loss, and other extreme inconveniences caused by this update, but then on the other hand people going so far as to flag this thread (see comments below), despite this having been experienced by thousands of people. Being skeptical makes sense, but flagging the thread? I don't see that kind of polar opposite reaction often on HN.

It can be relatively economic to pay people to post favourable comments if they already enjoy doing it anyway. I suspect that it happens more often than you think, and often takes the form of just paying people to hold biased opinions. It is not hard to imagine that if someone was holding onto a large amount of Microsoft stock, it would be easy to maintain cognitive dissonance.
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Right now just a 3 time retry with hard coded delay between each one.
That happened to me. I was pushing the update a week away each time it prompted me. But at one prompt I was out in the city.

When I arrived home, the computer was rebooted and upgraded to Windows 10...

The curious thing is that I have Bitlocker on all drives, including the system one, and it asks for the password on boot. Somehow they got over that (probably temporarily saved the key somewhere).
ugh. as someone who wandered over to development after years of freelance design, this brings back terrible memories. you may want to check out http://www.nospec.com/ and spend some time ruminating on the ethical ramifications of the service you're offering.
> I'm a short guy (5'8")

For what its worth the avg height from where I'm from (Asia) is 5'6". You're a giant here.
Let's face it, PHP is the Donald Trump of programming languages.

Tons of people love it, but admitting you do is pretty much socially unacceptable.

:)
If you ignore the tooling, then you can't use JSX. If you can't use JSX, then I don't think React is that useful.
> It's just that publicly funded institutions should be forced to make their papers widely available free of charge.

Exactly. This problem needs a big push from outside the system, from government and people, because the publisher-academic careerist marriage is, unfortunately, working well for both.
What happens in the payments industry if the UK leaves the EU