skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
didn't delete. I edited my other question (which has a different focus) and then posted this.
It's sort of like dialup modem providers.. You would be amazed at the volume of non-tech people who simply don't care. Small business needs a website and GoDaddy offers a mountain of either partner or full service offerings in one convenient place.
Don't forget

Notch, Markus Persson (Minecraft)

Toady One, Tarn Adams (Dwarf Fortress)
"We are all Keyensians now" - Richard Nixon, right before the wheels came off[1]. Of course, WIN buttons and wage and price controls were just ludicrous.

[1] not too awful badly, but still... "waiting for Ronald Reagan" was one of the main plot drivers in the recent season of "Fargo". It was kind of bleak then.

"Monetary" sure sounds like "monetarism" and one of the great recent aggregators of monetarist theory is generally considered to be Milton Friedman. One of the standard-bearers of that tradition now is Scott Sumner.
Yes, and there's also the problem that magnetization of material isn't permanent so your data may disappear after N days even if it were written correctly (typically, N > 5000). Should your "complete transparency" model also include expected longevity of the written bits?
Presumably they want to see if you are running Lyft.
Because local governments do everything they can to avoid collecting specific data in vancouver.
Basically everything is known about the Amiga - people have reimplemented compatible hardware on an FPGA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimig). Every piece of code that runs from power on has been examined in detail (there's even a free software from-scratch version of the boot firmware). The Pi still requires closed boot code that runs on the GPU in order to bring up the application processor, and that still isn't well understood.
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Anyone ever consider an HN for email newsletters?
The internet is also full of distractions. There's a risk that the stimulation-rich environment will reduce the level of boredom that can instigate creativity, as I know it did for me - I had an out of date Commodore 64 (until I fried one of its chips) followed by an out of date Amstrad CPC464, with no software so I had to write my own.
>the marketplace for on-demand drivers will become obsolete once autonomous driving becomes good enough to be adopted everywhere

I'm not holding my breath, it'll be a looong time (decades, plural) before driver-less cars work everywhere, in poor weather conditions, in areas with lots of cyclists and pedestrians, in developing nations and parts of developed nations with bad roads, bad or unenforced traffic laws etc.. Human drivers will have a reduced role, but they won't be "obsolete" any time soon.

Driver-less cars likely means people taking more trips, causing more congestion and more pollution on the roads where they can actually operate. I wouldn't be surprised if some cities ban them.
Very unnecessary overreach on android permissions..
Will be interesting to see how many of the fans of uber here on hn will try to spin this.

Just forwarded to some friends, they are uninstalling the rogue app as I type this!
Well, they're the subreddits that get cited whenever anyone talks about the glorious goodness of reddit:

/r/ama, /r/iama, /r/askscience, /r/syriancivilwar (cited by news organizations as a source and informing their methodology)...

Moderation doesn't automatically connote good subs, but the correlation is very strong.
So any other plans should be put on hold while doing this?

Access to sanitary facilities has been one of the prime agendas of Modi's elections and he is delivering on it too.

http://qz.com/505276/narendra-modis-most-popular-move-so-far...
Exactly.

This being said, the poor huddled masses of the authoritarian regimes generally get a little bit freer and have an improved standard of living because of it, generally.
"I simply use '215.54.387' and leave out the last '9' is that enough so that the IP address cannot be traced back to the user?"

A single company could easily own all 256 IP addresses in 215.54.87.*. (Larger companies can own even larger blocks of IP addresses.) So just dropping the last number doesn't offer much anonymity. For example, once somebody traced the address down to XYZ Company, that company might be able to give them a log of all outgoing traffic tied to specific employees' machines. Even an ISP might be able to link a partial IP address to a specific user if they can search their logs for a specific date/time/destination.

(Note: '387' could never be a component of an IPv4 address, since each component is 8 bits, or 0-255.)
YEP! +1
SF has 11,000 "newcomers" per year that come here by being born here. Some of my most active volunteers are in just the situation you're describing - frustrated by the stress on their families caused by the kids either having to stay at home or move far away.

The councilman from Mountain View who was instrumental in getting the 8000 new homes approved down there was anti-growth his whole life, until a couple years ago when both of his children, both in their 20s, were still living with him. It was a revelation for him. heh.
my industry certainly doesn't

What's your industry and what do you think is different about it?
MIT license [edit: for v10]: https://github.com/AmziLS/apls/blob/master/license.txt

[edit: for v9] Not too sure how that fits with the restrictions in the download page, http://www.amzi.com/AmziPrologLogicServer/store.php

But I do get a small itch to try the http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/advtop.php

"""
Adventure in Prolog ™ — Prolog Tutorial

A full tutorial for learning Prolog, using an interactive fiction game for it's basic example. In the course of the tutorial you will also build an expert system and a business application.
"""
Excellent, except it's half missing as the article mentioned. This turned out to be a dramatic demonstration of how difficult it is to preserve data even when you're trying and you're as big as the BBC.

"You may remember collecting data for the 'National Disc' which, unfortunately, we have not been able to re-publish at this time."
A new map for America
> For technical and legal reasons, self-driving, on-demand vehicle services will be at least a decade out.

At least the legal reasons are now moot at least in Germany, as all the laws required for self-driving cars have already been passed.

All the harbors and airports have been using fully automated vehicles for transport on their area for quite a while now, and the recent showcase where autonomous trucks from all european car manufacturers drove to the netherlands has shown reliability on streets as well.

At least in the transport market autonomous cars are less than half a decade out.
so much more possibilities with a dedicated platform including the tags/filtering, favorites, recommendations etc
I expect most people would prefer self driving uber rather than individual ownership. And I wonder if buses (analogous to subway cars) offer any advantages.

Think of the average utilization of a subway tunnel. Despite the high density of people in a subway car, the vast majority of the tunnel is empty.
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The problem is the "rent seeking" the use of politics to artificially constrict supply to create market inefficiencies. This is a basic concept in Microeconomics.

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, economists such as Paul Krugman, Edward Glaeser, Tim Harford, and many others who are "domain experts" make this statement.

I find it interesting how people listen to aircraft designers, nuclear power plant designers, civil engineers about buildings and bridges, but ignore economists who basically all agree about the market inefficiencies caused by zoning codes that artificially create scarcity and constrict housing supply thus driving up housing prices.

Remove the market inefficiency and the cost of housing will drop. This is independent of Google, Facebook, foreigners buying homes, etc.
Edit: interestingly, this comment had five points before the uber fans modded away. Easier to click down then explain rogue apps I suppose...

They were lucky they didn't try the beta version of the new forthcoming uber app - that version wants access to the phones of all your friends, family, neighbours, your postman, the sister of the locksmith that helped you get the spare key last year, and the chap you met on the train to work last week called Brian. Still, go uber!
If you are running the app on Marshmallow, with iOS-style permission requests, in what contexts does the app ask you for these?
probably https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.falconware...
1933 was terrible. There were effectively five more years of terrible to follow.

So we just need encourage totalitarian empire-madness in Asia and Yurp and it'll all be fine. Because that's what's behind '33 to '78.
That's how democracy is meant to work.
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf...
Rockstar game developers exist today as they did then.

Hidetaka Miyazaki, director of Dark Souls and now president of From Software, is quickly becoming one.
I appreciate you doing that. This article is phenomenal work as it's so thoroughly researched with so many perspectives and details published. It's such a void of a topic to most despite the fact that it actively shapes democracy, innovation, and evolution of human culture. I might have to re-read it a few times to let it all sink in haha.
Marketing expertise. They are good at:

- Initially low prices that go up at renewal time

- Cross sell and upsell

- Stickiness. Like the (since removed) 60 day lock on domains if you changed the whois info...even if it was removing privacy so you could transfer it.

- Affiliate (kickback) programs

- Advertising
Perhaps, but you have no evidence that card is a gay person with the desire to molest children. And if he were, then his public stance and behavior (assuming he has not actually molested children) would be noble rather than creepy - resisting urges he considers wrong rather than rationalizing them.

Look - I don't agree with him. He dislikes my womanizing lifestyle as much as he dislikes the gay lifestyle. Doesn't mean he is also secretly a womanizer in addition to being gay (as you seem to want to insinuate). Most likely he is a virtuous person who simply disagrees with both of us.
No middleman and no competition? No business is really altruistic, despite their public image of being the good guys.
Interview with Kyle Vogt of Cruise (2014) [video]
Not too sure how that fits with the restrictions in the download page

Looks like a standard case of "the source is OSS and you can use it for free if you build from source, but if you want pre-built binaries, you have to buy them from us". That's basically what Red Hat does with RHEL... you can get the source and build yourself, or you can buy RHEL binaries from them (for the sake of argument, for the moment lets forget about support and indemnification and all the 'other' stuff buying a subscription gets you).

Of course, one difference with RHEL is that there's a vibrant community of people who take the RHEL source and rebuild it and release things like CentOS. Presumably you could do the same kind of thing with the Amzi source, so long as you respect their trademarks and what-not.
When you update (and the permissions have changed)
Props to whoever's responsible for itemized permissions requests on install/update--stories like these probably wouldn't exist without it.
One fun (if not particularly practical) path is to learn the Atari 2600 video game platform.

Documentation is readily available, along with source code to a number of classic games. There are several emulators and even a small community of people turning out new games for the platform.

The 2600 was/is quirky, and of course it's ancient history, but it does provide a path to learning some basics that still apply today. Most importantly, it's fun.

Start here as a resource - http://www.atariage.com/2600/programming/
And it wouldn't do anything for if you had two phones, right? This is pretty annoying as someone who still wants to use Uber. Enough that I would consider a competitor.
My Samsung phone came with the Uber app baked into the ROM. Fortunately I know enough to disable it, but I can't completely uninstall it. And most users will be prompted ad infinitum to update until they give in.
Sadly also a Canadian problem. We're nominally a metric country, but we're very much a hybrid. When we went to metric, many things still stayed in customary units, but with metric names. I'll likely never ask someone to go get me 454g of sugar from the grocery store, it'll be a pound. Your 2x4 is going to be 8 feet long. You're going to use 1/2" bolts. My generation does consistently use litres and celsius though!
A long, long time ago, they were one of, if not the, cheapest domain reseller(s) out there.
Even the simplest "real world" programs do things like: communication with a database, string manipulation, calling library functions which can fail.

Sure, but these things are exactly what I’m talking about with accidental complexity. You’re talking here about databases and strings and library functions, not about whatever real world problem you’re ultimately trying to solve. Complexity that comes from the tools you use or how you use them is exactly what I’m arguing we should ideally minimise when programming, but we often don’t for various reasons.
> I'm always a little puzzled when I read the argument that "nil costs billions of $".

$1bn over the history of computing is about $2k per hour. I would not be astonished if a class of bugs cost that much across the industry.

> most of the expensive bugs in C/C++ programs are caused by undefined behaviors

Sure, there are worse bugs. Why, then, waste our time tracking down trivial ones?

> Why does Haskell let me write `head []` (and fail at runtime) ?

Because the Prelude is poorly designed.

> How is that different from a nil dereference exception ?

It's not different, really. It's a very bad idea.

> People never complain about this

Yes we do. We complain about it all the time. It is, however, mitigateable by a library[1] (at least partially), whereas nil is not.

[1] http://haddock.stackage.org/lts-5.4/safe-0.3.9/Safe.html#v:h...
Ok, sorry, I just remembered seeing the question shortly before and couldn't find it again ;)
Wouldn't that be a case of horizontal and vertical expansion?
I've said it before but I'll say it again: this is why you create a second throw-away Google account and use that to create a new profile on your phone dedicated to snoopy apps. Seriously: screw anyone that thinks harvesting my personal data is the cost I must pay for a cab ride.
Taking more trips to get to places they want to be. Traffic is a good thing, not a bad thing.
The problems you describe are the complexities resulting from overworked representatives and complex societies. The proposal to increase the number of representatives does not directly change this (it should help by having a wider pool of individuals to draw on when composing committees), but about getting the need for money out of the system. This is the core cause of corruption.
Now it makes sense why Elissa is on the CNCF TOC.
Most people don't have 2 phones, and put lyft/uber on different ones. I'm presuming they're doing it so they can target lyft users with more promotions.
Seems like India is leap-frogging way past where the U.S. financial system is. On the other hand, I worry if all this personal ID data got hacked.
> In the same article he called for them not to be enforced.

Except "when necessary to send a clear message that those who flagrantly violate society's regulation of sexual behavior cannot be permitted to remain as acceptable, equal citizens within that society." What's he talking about there? Not rape, or child abuse, or public indecency; those are already illegal. He's saying that consensual gay relationships can be grudgingly tolerated as long as they're aware that what they do is shameful and wrong, and don't start thinking that they deserve the same rights as normal people. See also the next paragraph: "The goal of the polity is not to put homosexuals in jail. The goal is to discourage people from engaging in homosexual practices in the first place, and, when they nevertheless proceed in their homosexual behavior, to encourage them to do so discreetly, so as not to shake the confidence of the community..."

This is still bigotry and discrimination. Don't expect me to praise a man who punches me in the face just because he refrained from shooting me.

But all right, that was 36 years ago. (Not 23; the paragraph that you copy-pasted from Card's website is from 2003.) How do you explain the 2008 quote where he calls for the overthrow of any government that legalizes gay marriage? What context did I miss there?
ZFS does do this. Changes are atomic, so they either happen or do not. There is no in-between.
Does this recovery attempt of a bad feature deserve praise? It wouldn't be an issue if permissions were properly implemented from the go - i.e. user had the control over what permissions the app gets.
Web development only moves at fast speeds if you want to adopt the frontier solutions. If you want, you can still use Wordpress or Joomla or whatever, you can still use Bootstrap, you can still use Jquery. These are all optional and have been stable for a decade.

A person without interest in web development, such as a scientist who wishes to publish a blog, should be fine with a pre-baked solution like Wordpress. Even if they're comfortable with Python, there's no reason to replicate what "core" Wordpress does, which is no small undertaking. Also, a person working in a field that just happens to use a sprinkle of programming would have to learn a lot of tangential junk just to replicate what pre-baked solutions do, and they would probably do it poorly.

It would be better if such individuals just paid for an affordable solution or used something like Wordpress.
Federation Is the Future for an Open Web
I don't think that will solve this particular problem. It wan't your browsing history from the device.

What we desperately need is a UL for privacy. Just like UL tests electronics, we need a lab to test these apps for what data they access and how they make use of that data. Then assign a score so consumers can chose not to use services that request unnecessary permissions and misuse your data.
There's an Android mod which deals with apps like that. They can try to read all the user's info, but what they get is all phony.
Why reward those you want to screw with cash?

Just say no to an Uber install, even with a throwaway (TOS-violating) Google account.
I hate that AI support-replies are a thing. He sent a serious mail, and got a bogus reply back. I've had the same issues myself with other vendors, for instance Steam.
With Marshmallow, you can just turn off or deny certain permissions. So for most people who really want to run the Uber app, the question is really whether it runs OK without all these permissions.
> Every word has meaning and a reason for being there.

That would be "Rent is due", for most professional writers. Or so they say.
> I am a consumer who has purchased an internet service package that advertises 100Mbps down, 10Mbps up,

You purchased a package that gives you access to your ISPs network at that rate. Not even the highest business packages will provide an end to end SLA unless you're paying for a leased line from your location to the location you want the SLA for. Once your packets leave their network they have no control.

You're only purchasing access to their network, and their network happens to be attached to other ones. If they weren't connected to a network with Netflix, you wouldn't have any recourse because you're not buying a connection to every computer on the network. Of course, practically they provide access to every site. But that's not what you're actually paying for if you check your contract.
I agree with you that postal voting is very harmful practice to democracy. The solution to people not having time to get off work to vote is not postal voting, but to move the date to a weekend or holiday.
>Traffic is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Until your kid gets asthma so people can have the privilege of spending 2 hours in a car commuting.

Not to mention making the roads less usable for everyone who isn't in a car.
And Paris was started on a muddy riverbank. Also not ideal substrate for heavy stonework.

There are plenty of quarries nearby, that I’ve seen in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. It would be a better idea to build using reinforced concrete, though.

But even wood is not so limited. Most parcels here are limited by zoning to 2 stories. We could easily build 4-story wooden buildings, and double the city’s density. Some of the oldest wooden buildings are 5-story buildings in earthquake country,[0] and allegedly there are plenty of 10-story wooden buildings that have survived earthquakes in Vancouver.[1]

I think some of the appetite for reinforced concrete is because housing is so difficult to build around here, that it’s only worth going through the effort if the prices are high enough to justify expensive materials. Also, steel and glass allow you to have big windows.

[0] http://gizmodo.com/5846501/how-japans-oldest-wooden-building...

[1] https://www.minnpost.com/earth-journal/2015/07/how-tall-can-...
Most people don't read the needed permission, even fewer knows about those settings.
SQLite does solve the problem because it knows exactly what fsync()/fdatasync()/whatever calls are necessary to persist a file, and it also knows that for the many operating systems that SQLite is implemented on. It's also tested regularly.

I can't believe the level of ignorance in this thread.
It is not possible for an app to get browsing history on iOS right ? ( i have never seen any app ask for that permission personally)
I think the downloads are v9 which is still a commercial product.

The very stable 9.x release of the software will remain as a supported commercial version.
Modest proposal: Firms ought to refuse to do business in jurisdictions that do this authoritarian shit. Seriously. As it is, nobody in their right mind will do business with US firms where privacy matters. Maybe Apple, Google, Microsoft etc should just leave. Build a fucking island. Get a decent military. Isn't it about time?
I would say that a 386/486 PC ISA is well know how works.
Related: There's a plugin for chrome that lets you speed up all html5 videos. I usually watch youtube at at least 1.5x. The plugin is better than the youtube settings because it lets you set the speed on small increments.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...
I entirely concur with both your points, especially about how little appreciated this subject has been. I was dimly aware of it, I mean it's no secret there's a lot of really terrible stuff on the web, and it's shocked me when I've stumbled into it. It's disquieting to realize I never thought about what it takes to keep a site like YouTube from being a complete cesspool. Never crossed my mind, but the question should've occurred to me, why didn't it? I wish I had an answer.

Of course, now I know how good a job moderators have been doing, and better understanding of the toll that role can take. They deserve a lot of respect. The idea this is a subject worthy of systematic study sticks with me though not yet clear about the next steps. Any case, the implications of the story cover a large space in economics, politics, ethics, law, and medicine. It will be fascinating to see how it develops.
I was kinda disappointed by the book, but the movie sounds really awesome.
So he's not a bigot because he believes that he's right? How is that different from any other bigot? Do you think that the KKK, or lynch mobs, secretly know that they're wrong and are really just trolling? Or do you consider them "virtuous people who simply disagree"?