skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft's focus is profit, as it is for every corporation. If someone screams developers, developers it doesn't mean much.

I can remember several instances where developers were nicely screwed by policy and strategy changes, products languages and tools got canceled.

I find that the best strategy for someone that doesn't want to depend on Microsoft's moods is to not use their tools, or at least stick to the ones that have a long history and won't be messed up by strategy changes - that doesn't include C# or .NET
Couldn't they just update a timestamp? "As of april 3rd 2016, we haven't received an NSL"
iOS 9.3.1 enables WIFI Assit, potentially breaking data caps
Upgraded to IOS 9.3.1 today, and after a problematic upgrade to 9.2, I took a moment to double check cellular settings and functions.

Normally I keep most application's cellular data usage to off. When Wi-Fi assist was rolled out, I turned that off as well, and kept it off. All this to keep data usage under a monthly cap.

Today's upgrade to 9.3.1 reverted WiFi assist to ON. This feature is the subject of 2 lawsuits against Apple due to lack of disclosure about this feature, and the feature's unpermitted use of consumer data plans.

The 9.3.1 upgrade turning this feature back on is a potential gotcha for those on a limited data plan who /thought/ they had turned it off.

Check your settings:

Settings > Cellular > Scroll aaaaaall the way to bottom > Wi-Fi Assist > (ON/OFF)

Edit: probably should have mentioned phone version. iPhone5 upgrading from 9.2.1. Perhaps the difference in experience is phone version? IDK...
It also means you can move on from several different situations without having a series of short term jobs on your resume. Which still matters.
https://xkcd.com/1232/

You can replace "exploring other planets" with poor roadways, wealth inequality, or whatever else you would like.
can't they bring it back next year? (assuming they don't receive a new letter)
While that's a wild situation, and MS is not behaving well, it's not quite forcing a Windows 10 upgrade. It's forcing people to be nagged about it, and causing problems in corporate IT departments where they do not want to upgrade and it keeps subverting their control.

It's not good, but it's not forcing upgrades either (which is liable to get them sued).
Haswell is the model prior to Broadwell, and was launched in 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)
This comment, and others that you've posted
(e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11399333) break the HN
guidelines badly by calling names and being personally rude. We ban
accounts that do those things, so please don't do them. In particular, please edit phrases like the following out of your posts to HN:

This is pure nonsense.

Are you kidding me?

do you have any idea what you are talking about?

You have no clue what are you talking about.

wasting people times in HN

Notice how much more substantive your current comment becomes if
you take out all these rude bits? That's what we're going for here.

Hard politics isn't a great fit for HN to begin with, but if you're
going to contribute to such discussions as inevitably arise, it's
important to follow these rules—particularly when others
are being wrong and provocative.

(None of this is a comment on your politics, only on how you're
presenting them. The same applies to all HN users.)
Druid is definitely part of the equation.

Larger, data-driven companies with significant engineering teams prefer not relying on 3rd party, closed-sourced vendors. That can represent a significant risk and a blockage for deeper integration with other internal applications when needed.

Not that building always wins over buying, but the balance shifts relatively to the size of the company.

Also, when using open source on the receiving end of the equation, you want to be a good citizen and contribute back to the ecosystem. It ties to pride, passion, and reflect a strong engineering culture, which can help with recruiting.
Relative to all the startups that compete with them, Google and Microsoft products are much safer to rely on. They will at least give you a migration path and a generous time allowance for that migration. Most of the startups who shut down their services do so with with no notice.
I'm surprised Go is #10. I don't actually know a single person who uses it. It seems like more of a hipster language. The others all seem like reasonable languages that occupy their niche in life.

For example, I'd expect C# to be more widely used than Go. Maybe the C# people don't share their code on Github, though. Perl should also be more widely used, though maybe that's all on CPAN.
It's a non-HIPAA controlled platform where we can try out things like pulse & respiration monitoring without worrying about FDA regulations that make developing medical devices a slow process. That particular dog tracker might not do it but some of them do: http://petpace.com/
Ease of use and price I don't think are the most important issues when you the most important issue is reliability and how do I know you won't shut this down because too many people use your service .
Isn't Google trying to merge Android into ChromeOS?
>the world doesn't care about you or your important problem and the important product that's going to solve it

Funny that you lobby on behalf of gadget-loving dog owners, but actively rail against someone who points out that there are more important issues. I'm not sure what motivates that line of reasoning. Commitment to frivolity?

Sure, you can say that these companies are just making products that people are willing to buy. But, that's just another part of the same problem.
So your philosophy is, "I only do healthy things if they're also painful"? That doesn't seem productive.
> if someone robs a bank, that money shouldn't be used in criminal defense because it's the property of someone else (either the bank or it's customers).

That is provably not the person arrested money, just as a car thief shouldn't keep the car. Drug money is tougher, and the government should have to prove it came from criminal activity. Allowing the government to seize money just because it could have been from illegal activity is bull.
LaunchSky is now free? Has always been 19$
WOW, Just wow...

The Authoritarian Statism is Strong with you... Sadly I have no desire tonight to try to purge that immoral belief from you...

Maybe one day you will see the light of liberty, but I doubt it

The entire concept of being "born into" a contract is laughable on its face..

I will leave you with a few Links

http://georgeoughttohelp.com/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/No_Treason/6

https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/wiki/index

The Philosophy of Liberty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9srplWe_QQ

Have a nice evening
I know the title is a bit of clickbait (no one pretends all the cars will leave) but I'm not sure I get your point.

He isn't suggesting that people will live in an AirBnB, just that people who own a home can defray some of the cost by renting out unused space some of the time.

BTW I have no idea if that 13% number is accurate--it seems a bit high to me--that's basically having someone else in your home 7 weeks a year.
Yeah, probably, but I figure moving it up to the state general fund from the city / county is a good start.
I usually upvote the comments section of a post, rather than the linked URL's information.
There are images of a single skull fragment in this scientific article, but it's just one piece from multiple angles.
Hmmm, I really get the impression it's doing a lot more than just nagging. Direct examples mentioned here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11285488
> Rather than mislead everyone

That's a form of personal attack which is inevitably provocative of a much worse thread. Please edit such rudeness out of your posts here. Your question would have been fine, and less self-undermining, had you done so.
Collapsing West Antartic means sea level rise may be 2x higher than thought
The question is how to ensure you're getting the right fingerprint. If you have that, you can just as easily fetch the key using HTTP and verify it.
Notably absent from cast of complainers: Google.
I'll definitely provide feedback when I've had a chance to get deeper into it. The page jumping makes it a lot harder to figure out what the platform does, but I'll do my best to look past the current state of the front page and dig in.

I'm a big proponent of open governance systems. If your platform is able to provide a measure of improvement in the quality of public discourse, I'll be thrilled.
VIVA releases an app made for luxury travel millennials
It's your startup, you can't do the rhetorical question title thing.
Perhaps quality? Having developers who know the environment they are developing for instead of a lot of one-size-fits-all apps.

You can do it if you're the only supplier of a given service but as a customer you will not get my money in a multi player game if I smell you took the shortcut or have no idea what my platform is capable off.
Every open source column database I've seen is very poor: text, no decent array oriented ability (give me the prevoius row), slow, json output, etc. When will somebody get it right?
>the world doesn't care about you or your important problem and the important product that's going to solve it

Interesting that people lobby on behalf of gadget-loving dog owners, but actively rail against someone who points out that there are more important issues facing humanity. I'm not sure what motivates that kind of passion.

Sure, we can say that these companies are just making products that people are willing to buy. But, that's just another part of the same problem.

There has long been criticism of the relative dearth of meaningful projects in SV. OP is not the first to notice and waving him/her off doesn't improve the plight of humanity.
I know exactly what you mean. One technique I've used is to express things in terms of what they can uniquely get with the new system that relates to their needs. In the case of iPads, some of the accessibility benefits such as requiring less fine motor control may tip the balance in favor of adoption for some. Best of luck!
I sent you a message with some more info and my email via the contact form at bitfusion.io
We are up now. Sorry it didn't work before.
"Free as in beer is one incentive as licenses are not cheap, and vendors know when they have you locked down and tend to milk everything they can."

Free as in beer is never the answer. A project like this takes multiple engineer-years to build and maintain. That's hundreds of thousands of dollars, at least. How much is a site license? Are you sure? Have you negotiated the rate?

Even for "expensive" services, buying it from someone else is almost always cheaper than paying someone to maintaining it yourself, because expensive services are usually expensive for a good reason: they're niche, and finding someone with the expertise to build it is expensive. And having the source is for a product so that you can customize it is certainly a better answer, but it rarely happens, in practice. It's why we have gobs of open-source Apache-foundation products that nobody in their right mind wants to host in-house, unless they absolutely have to.

Developers have a real, well-documented resistance to paying for things, and it sucks. Because in reality, most development of open-source tools happens when someone gets paid to maintain the tool. If they don't, the tool falls into disrepair. Open-source software isn't free -- it's just paid for by someone else.
How Agriculture Majors Are Going To Save The World
http://www.buzzfeed.com/zjm5066/how-agriculture-majors-are-g...
It's a sad comment on the state of our media and body politic that this has not been headline news. But no signifying image of the enormous damage means that it's hard to get and hold people's attention.
Ridiculous times too, when all of this gathering of data is predicated on a flawed assumption that it won't just be creating more noise in the attempts to predict terrorism. We've switched from one wasteful, illegal, and noisy method (kidnapping and torture) to invading privacy.

I'd love to see efficacy proven, just once.
Architect here. If somebody is interested I would recommend looking at Zaha Hadid office works from late 90's to early 2000's. It was their peak and at that moment they were on the front line of architecture field.
I'm the developer, I can answer any questions you may have!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11400112
Where in LA are you driving? It definitely isn't that bad to be "often"...
It's the ONLY safe assumption.
I think anyone who thinks the population of India, China, or the countries in Africa will stop using more energy to get a better standard of living has faith in the wrong direction.
Huh, yeah. Notarizing personal stats, that's something. I wonder if Linkedin has thought about doing this. Is there a good way to authentic people's college degrees en masse?

edit//: Found this: http://nscverifications.org/welcome-to-verification-services... but obviously it would be working in the reverse--- as a job candidate I would shell out 20 bucks to have a shiny badge of my education institute and my certificates.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-omits-warrant-canary-from...
Disarray at the Hacker Dojo
IANAL, but based on the EFF's page on warrant canaries, it seems like they can, in a way. They can state any legal processes they have not been involved in, for basically any period of time, though EFF recommends several months between any such kind of report. The easiest thing is for them to issue, say, quarterly transparency reports and saying "For this past quarter we have received no XYZ".
A fun one is when the road itself has grooves that the paint mostly follows. I naturally follow the grooves until I realize that the lane just drifted sideways on me.

There is a spot on the 405 S around Culver City that this used to happen regularly to me at.
Show HN: Add Clippy to Your Website for April Fools
Because most people don't know, don't understand the basic concepts, and don't trust people like you and me when we tell them. We're not "Good people" with "Good values". sigh
At the same time I'm pretty sure they also commented that self-driving cars might be 30 years away during an event at SXSW this year.
This is one of the funniest articles I've seen the NY Times publish in months. It seems intentionally written to be referred back to when people ask in future decades about the Roaring Teens Funding Bubble.

Relevant: "Fruit juice isn't much better for you than soda. Let's stop pretending otherwise." http://www.vox.com/2016/3/25/11305614/soda-juice-energy-drin...
I don't see why not. It would be funnier if they said "Until March 1st and starting with March 3rd we haven't received any NSL."
That's right.

I didn't keep the two of them clearly separated in my mind since they had operated as a team for so long.

I wonder though if part of his access to computers while locked up allows him opportunity to carry on the same sort of operations as before, this time only for "approved" clients.

Elections aren't what they used to be. Maybe they never were.
I've heard from people inside that the quality of their codebase has gone down, and thus they can no longer just upload stuff without a refactoring.
This is one of those cases where the engineers aren't going to be able to cheat and force the world to conform to their model of reality. I await the "falsehoods programmers believe about roads." If you actually want to build autonomous cars there are a whole host of assumptions that you have to throw out. To give only one example: are all roads paved?
This a million times for sales calls. I like to be polite if they get through. They tend to mince about the point with niceties or building up to what they are selling. I'll even say "I can hear this is a sales pitch, please get to the point' They rarely do and then close the call. If they got to the point in 15-20 seconds they have the best chance of me deciding if it's interesting or not.
I personally wouldn't want to be in a car that didn't work if the lane lines were faded. Apparently all terrorists will need in the future to cause mass mayhem is a can of paint.
I think there are basically two plausible scenarios, either they received a NSL or they do no longer believe that a canary is necessary and misjudged the interpretation. (In the second case, they could of course clarify in the comments.)
Small is probably "Anything goes until I see my bill next month"...
This reminds me ... the rsync.net warrant canary[1][2] is ten years old this month.

I was hoping that it would be irrelevant after all of these years...

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary#Usage
Well, in New Zealand we have some beaches that are legally classed as roads so I guess the answer is no.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11392005
According to Wikipedia, Apple's warrant canary was removed in the July-December 2013 transparency report (and remained absent in the following transparency report in 2014).
anybody can just youtube for "russian road accidents" and imagine a self-driving car in those situations. Wrt. responsibility/insurance - when it comes to post-accident "discussion" would self-driving car come with a walking robot who can use baseball bat and fence using metal wheel wrench? I'd venture to guess that deluxe version which would use handgun instead of the bat would find a lot of customers among Chechens living in Moscow.
>> When one looks at his actions in the light of those motives his actions make a lot of sense. Without those motives his actions appear stupid.

> I disagree, see my comments about astute businessmen not using yes-men above. No worries if we don't agree here. Countries are most certainly businesses. They're in the business of acquiring people who generate money.

Right, but that is assuming that Erdogan is trying to do what is best for the country in the long term. Many would argue his primary concern is Erdogan's interests in the short term.
AWS CloudFront is already very cheap and easy to get setup, probably less than 5 mins. No reason to go through a 3rd party. CloudFlare is even easier, better and completely free.

I don't see why this is worth the risk (or IMO, the trouble).
The reason for that is to maintain secrecy of the ballot. Otherwise your husband or neighborhod thug might beat you if you don't vote correctly, or you might be paid to vote a certain way.
I said nothing about the gag order attached to an NSL. They are a violation of First Amendment rights and adhere to basically none of the checks the courts have put on gag orders in the past. The reason this hasn't been rectified is exactly as you point out: their very nature helps eliminate most legal challenges to them.

But that's not what I was talking about. An NSL is an administrative subpoena. It can compel you to turn over metadata about communications, for instance, which is absolutely a Fourth Amendment violation with what you can discern from modern "meta"data, but it can't compel you to turn over the content of those communications, and it certainly can't compel you to, for instance, alter the software on your customer's phone to allow easy intercept of all future communications.
It's not my preferred language, and you can see C# in the top 5 languages listed on the TIOBE site:

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=index
Observations About Intuition
Do the third-world countries you're thinking of enforce traffic laws? Because I expect that an autonomous car could safely navigate an unmarked road if it were just paying attention to its destination and avoiding obstacles, not obeying detailed regulations.
To be clear - this is a bike lane on a road with onramps? Uh, what? There aren't even bollards (in the part without an onramp, obviously) or any semblance of protection.
So, to an accuracy of a factor of 10:

smallest theoretical scale is 10^-35 m, i.e. Planck length
smallest observed scale is 10^-19 m, i.e. quark interactions
smallest life scale is 10^-6 m, i.e. bacteria and viruses
size of vessel of consciousness is 10^-1 m, i.e. human brain
largest life scale is 10^3 m, i.e. Blue Mountain honey fungus
largest observed scale 10^26 m, i.e. the cosmic horizon
largest theoretical scale is unknown

Looking at this sequence of orders of magnitude, i.e. (-35, -19, -6, -1, 3, 26, ???) makes me wonder:

* is there a theory that encompasses General Relativity and defines a theoretical largest possible distance/time?

* perhaps consciousness, being in the middle, will never, via mathematics, unite such a theory with Quantum Mechanics
When people worry about the effects of ad blocking, they aren't generally concerned about the future of content farms.
go damnit... why are they still forcing explorer?
It would also imply that anyone with access to road marking paint can fool autonomous vehicles into misbehavior.
I remember several mods of r/darknetmarkets posting that they received NSL's forwarded from actual reddit admins.. Not sure if that post is still available though.
this is good for linux admins forced to use windows for stupid reasons.
user says: i need a windows server... admin says FUCKYOU! ... still makes windows server for user, at least this makes that process (in conjunction with choco) less painful.
It's pointless to compare the United States with third world countries. You should be holding it to much higher standards.

I myself compare the United States with our peers in Western Europe, Japan, Korea, etc. In this scope, our roadways are actually kind of sad, especially when you factor in how much we spend on them and double-especially when you factor in that we don't have solid railroads.

Our highways are generally paved really thin (compare to: German highways) and they end up cracking and breaking all the time. I've never driven between two cities on an Interstate highway without being slowed down by construction work.

Also, just from day to day observation: I live in Chicago and everywhere I walk, the streets look disastrous. They're broken apart, and some of them are half-repaired with concrete chunks sticking out (check out LaSalle and Randolph)--on some streets it's a miracle to me some cars get through without a flat tire.

We are a tremendously successful and advanced country. There is clearly a very big problem with the state of our roads.
2620's are the ultimate CPU per $ for pretty much all workloads except DB (where I like 2690's :)
Chinese people go crazy for iPhones, when the 6 was released my friend had a trip scheduled to go back home to Shanghai for a few weeks, EVERY ONE of his friends asked him to bring them one (or more) unlocked iPhones, and they were happy to pay well over store price, as the iPhone got released a month late there.

He ended up bringing them only for his closest friends, as otherwise he would have been arrested at customs :)
Maybe not, but a comment like this helps no one. If you know enough to make such a claim then you know enough to show what the problems are, and that would make a much better comment. We'd all learn something.
did it really take a survey to prove this lol
You want shabby roads? Go to New York City.
That Knobe effect that was mentioned sounds like people weighting negative effects more than positive ones. People often take things for granted until there's a problem. It's possible troublemakers are judged more harshly than problem solvers.
Unfortunately I don't think any judges would laugh...