skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... but I commend their optimism :-P
Yeah, and they actually aren't dropping all that much. T-Mobile's prices have gone up the past year or two for new single/two person accounts with the same amount of data. Family prices seem to have dropped slightly but not very much. Sprint's situation is similar.
This is fantastic! It's a shame to lose eleven years of your life, but it's inspiring that a citizen was willing to put in the effort to clear his name.

Outside of the immediate help, it'd be great for Dateline to do a follow up story documenting your efforts.
To me it seems anti-competitive to disallow streaming services to use their own payment model. I expect a lawsuit to come from this and within the next two years either Spotify will be Daenerys, Breaker of Chains or Erlich Bachman, Waster of Cash.

It seems like Apple have created a monopoly within their own ecosystem. Whether their ecosystem is too big to be monopolised will be up to the lawyers as regulations are put in place. I expect American government to allow Apple to keep their monopoly as it'd be "unfair" to not let a company do what it likes with their own products.

If however the government decided this was a monopoly and regulations to be put in place, I expect Apple to get around this by "opening up" their eco system by making customers resign all Apple support for their products if they decide to "break out". Which is fair enough.
Most in depth I went was probably in http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUuYAksQWg4 but I discuss it in pretty much every talk I give.

You can also just ping me on Twitter and I can talk about it more. :)
Human programmers are even worse we make 15-50 bugs per 1000 lines of code.

Also don't forget that while each of us is somewhat unique in terms of driving, the cars are not, so a bug in a car's software can amplify issues even further.

There are issues also how cars will behave when they will have to interact with other self driving cars. Those problems are already difficult when writing distributed applications and with cars we don't have luxury of just letting things crash together until things improve.
Is it a capital gain credit? One with $3000/year deduction cap? If so, it can take a couple life times to fully redeem the prepaid tax credit.
Sean gave a (great) talk at RailsConf covering the attribute work as well as other Rails5 features "that you haven't heard of".

http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2016-rails-5-features-yo...
I am happy with Bose QuietComfort 20 in-ear headphones (or model 20i for Apple devices). They cost $300, and are not bluetooth. Also need to recharge their battery every 8-10 hours, but you can use them while charging. They charge from an usb jack. I guess you could buy a wireless (wireless in the sense that it runs on battery) bluetooth receiver separately.
>> If there is a known chance that a component of a plane might fail and cause a crash, it will not take off.

There is no component of any machine that is 100% guaranteed to not fail under any circumstances. What the bloody hell are you talking about?
I'm running Titan x's in SLI :)
But even at 1440p I can't run shadow of mordor on high settings on Linux.
Seriously let's stop pretending I said out of the bat that some companies like 2k release games on Linux but it's really a drop in the ocean.

Older games and some indies work just fine, some of the newer games require much stronger hardware on Linux.

But we aren't any closer to being able to download day 1 titles and run them on Linux today than we were 5 years ago.

Steam and SteamOS are nice but it's still not enough to dent the Windows domination of the gaming PC market.
And considering that Valve and Ocullus seem to ignore Linux at this point is kinda sad since VR couldn't captured Linux gaming easily.
Ask HN: What do you build, what tools and editors do you use?
Just want to explore what is out there that I am not aware of.
Ask HN: As a Python developer, what am I missing for not using Ruby?
Over the last couple of years I have been programming in Python almost exclusively (and some JavaScript, Bash and Go for some specific tasks, easily chosen for the task at hand instead of Python).

What I found with Python is that it is a great platform for doing my things, like web services, data transformation, general Linux automating, infrastructure monitoring, and so on.

As it is good enough for 90% of my needs, I settled down on it and now I feel that I am missing opportunities of being more productive and getting more knowledge from other languages.

I looked at Ruby and found some interesting aspects (as a former Perl programmer), with its expressiveness. I learned a bit of Ruby, but I keep doubting myself if Ruby language and platform would bring me more value or that would only bring fragmentation on my projects.

I do not look to replace Python, but want to know if there would be some clear decisions points to take when choosing between Python and Ruby for my next projects, or both are more or the less a tool to solve the same problems.

If any of you worked or work with both languages, sharing your experiences would be greatly appreciated.
If Autopilot had been on the truck, the accident would have never happened.
I was building http://bewolo.com I slowly started loosing interest in it. It was a market place for experiences.
Lol I meant air force
The Blackbird: First fully adjustable car rig that creates photoreal CG cars
You're ignoring the other half of the quoted sentence.

> a necessary nor a sufficient condition

As in, not only can you pay attention without having your hand on the wheel, but you can also have your hand on the wheel without paying attention. Having your hand on the wheel is "safety theatre"—something done because it makes you feel like you're in control, not something you do because it actually puts you in control.

Cars could do a lot of things to actually ensure the driver is in control. A start would be administering a breathalyzer-like automated attention test (dual-N-back?) before the car will start, and then every few hours of continuous operation after that. Tired drivers would be pulled over to the side of the road and told to take a nap and resume in the morning. (This would probably automatically cover drunk drivers as well, now that I think of it.)
I see your objections. My idea is you could base it in the US possibly or have more than one and have them just work out the global earnings using GAAP and apportion it to the various countries by how much they sell there so you get a earnings figure for each country. The countries could then use that to come up with a tax demand at their chosen rate and the company could either pay up or face sanctions in that country. So it doesn't require anything like a world government, just some accounting and possibly trade agreements.
I did miss that detail. Sorry.
Wrong.

One in 1.2 million flights crash. This is literally a "known chance".

Planes take off anyway.
Zenefits Loses Over Half of Its Value
Many have, but the way the stock agreements are structured, it effectively gives them a pocket veto on stock sales, which impacts the value that an employee can get for them.
This falls apart when you need multiple scopes as it can't tell how to group the 'AND' and 'OR's. The new Rails syntax avoids this problem.
Ask HN: Designers and Developers of HN, how can we make devtools better for you?
I've done some work on VSCode debug adapters, Edge, and chrome devtools. What is it that really irks you about current state of devtools?
Not who you are questioning.

There are already videos of assisted-driving cars avoiding accidents which likely would have been fatal. We already know they can potentially save lives. It's something we already accept for flying. Autopilot in planes has resulted in deaths of crew and passengers. So we have precedent in at least one mode of transportation.

Drivers get T-boned or rear end other people all the time. Those are two scenarios where driver-assist could have applied the brakes and actively saving lives for drivers inattentiveness. You'll also find no shortage of Liveleak clips of people being killed by drivers who failed to see them and brake in time. Many being scenarios that Google's self-driving cars have the technology to avoid.
I missed plenty of bithday parties because of facebok. I usually just call and congratulate in those cases, people feel awkward and then say "you need to get on fb". If I do show up after the call it often messes things up, like their plan for some number of seats of something. I thing facebookers perceive non-fakebookers as antisocial. I'm okay with that, I'm also okay that people erode the friendship because I'm not on fakebook, it means you weren't a real friend after all because you weren't also friend on fb, how simple is it really!
In Holmes' defense, the job of a Supreme Court justice is to establish common law precedent for the future, not to get the right decision for the case at hand.

So, for instance, if an illegal search turns up clear evidence that a company is evading taxes, justice for the case at hand says that the company should be punished. But the principle of law says that precedent must be set that the police can't violate the 4th amendment.

This is not a hypothetical example. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_Lumber_Co._v._Uni....
Unfortunately the publicly-available reports that exist on Bay Area Software Engineer salaries disagree with you. I don't claim to be an expert on this--just someone who can search Google.

$111,885 average [1]

$110,554 average [2]

$103,000 average [3]

I know this is HN, where everyone makes $150K and has $1M in savings and a supermodel girlfriend, but in the real world I think things are a little different.

1: http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-facebook-dont-pay-the-...

2: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-en...

3: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...
To be frank, it would have to be one of those offers you can't possibly refuse. I hinted at that and they went from a few hundred bucks to a few thousand "last offer". Given their apparent mindset I don't see them going to a point where, on my end, it would be stupid not to accept.

To be clear, I am not interested in selling. I am simply describing what I would do in a hypothetical scenario where it would simply be stupid not to consider changing my mind.
Does that work out for these small businesses? Since I'm not on Facebook, it would make them seem unresponsive to me, and I'd probably stop doing business with them. But even for my friends and family who are frequently on Facebook, almost none of them would think to talk to a local mom and pop shop on Facebook. They would just call. But I'm old, and so are my friends and family, so maybe we're the minority. How common is this?
>couldn't they have worded this a little more sympathetic and a little less lawyer?

Sure, if all the lawyers will promise not to take some statement out of context and sue them over that.. As long as such lawyers exist and that's the way the legal system works this is what can be expected out of statements from companies..
I was speaking mostly of general highway stops. Pulled over on a road in Nevada or one of the neighbouring states at 10-11pm so my wife could breastfeed our daughter. Car pulled up behind us and we had an initial nervous reaction before it turned out to be a cop just making sure we weren't having car trouble.
I was a bit surprised by its performance in the last TechEmpower benchmarks: roughly equivalent to Rails and other Ruby-based solutions (PHP, too).

It could be a case of not yet being optimized for the tests, but I was expecting much more impressive numbers out of the box (particularly after the full-court press on the boards and blogs).
And here is a Ruby vs Java meme from 2006 or so: http://i.imgur.com/1V6rdWV.jpg.

This too shall pass.
Ok my mistake. But he's the best lead anyone has at the very least.
>My god, how can Apple be this bad at services

Apple services, from iTunes to the App Stores and iCloud are actually generating tens of billions of dollars per year.

Apple is just buying Tidal (if they do) for the userbase (and some content deals).

>Jay-Z is a $%^$ing hack

Good thing any such acquisition is not implying anything about Jay-Z's worth as an artist then.
The formatting is just so bad,
let's retry it here :

| Algo | compressed size | compression speed | decompression speed |
| --------- | --------------- | ----------------- | ------------------- |
| brotli -2 | 36223 | 220 MB/s | 670 MB/s |
| zstd -1 | 36655 | 480 MB/ | 1400 MB/s |
| brotli -1 | 38292 | 360 MB/s | 650 MB/s |
| brotli -0 | 41141 | 560 MB/s | 610 MB/s |
Instead of a big stage, maybe they should just make it into a badge.
Car drives sideways
"That said, you could be right that it isn't a problem most developers have,"

What I mean isn't that it isn't a problem, but more that it isn't a problem acute enough to make people go looking for solutions.

By sheer coincidence, I was actually writing some code today that implements an API that backs to many DBs, sorta a crappy NoSQL layer, backing to Postgres. And I had to write the test suite to work against Postgres. I already have the test suite running against SQLite, but there's enough differences that it's not a relevant test. I have to bring up the "real thing". I suspect that's just what most people do.
Apologies if you already thought of the following:

Post it on Reddit and also see if CNN will pick up your story. I have seen CNN post stories involving GoFundMe campaigns related to good/human interest stories in the past and those campaigns got a good boost. Plus, the folks on Reddit also always love to support a good story.

If Mr. Jennings does decide to open up in the future, maybe even try to get an "IAmA wrongly convicted man" story published where Reddit can interview him? That would be an interesting raising awareness attempt.

With regards to Reddit, you might try reaching out to Alexis Ohanian via Twitter or other channels to see if he has any suggestions.

P.S. Go Claremont :) Used to live there.
You should check out https://vimeo.com/171317253. The speakers addresses the database issue in a very interesting way.
If they just give away 1% every time they can do 70+ sales before they even use up half.
With a non-mobile browser.

You can pan with wasd control keys.
Nowhere in my original comment did I make the case that self-driving cars should be pre-emptively banned, or that I personally should have any say in the matter. Believe me — I am all for the legal system (and "society") determining the future of this technology. But at this point in time, I am not convinced that people against this future would, in fact, be out-voted. And if that turns out to be the case, it would do little good to belittle their very reasonable reservations.

You're also forgetting that the dream of safe and ubiquitous self-driving cars is still unproven and far in the future. What we're actually dealing with on the ground is a dangerous, nascent, and hype-driven technology that relies on a human fallback and has the power to kill.
"Ciphers are math at work" and then gives a substitution cipher as an example. This topic is challenging enough to explain without trying to explain the f(x) -> y concept without a real need for it, but pretty picture right? I know I am taking this too seriously.
What happens when you stick a microphone + noise-cancelling DSP to some powerful speakers (positioned to act as a point-source) instead of into headphones, anyway?

I'm guessing there'd a node where everything sounds perfectly quiet... and then everywhere else, it would just sound like two overlapping copies of the sound with a lot of weird dropped-out frequencies (which themselves would change over time.)
Could someone explain how and why it uses "0x1337" in order to validate the key?

Is that magic?

https://github.com/laginimaineb/android_fde_bruteforce/blob/...
Only he also says there:

>I can’t see Apple keeping the “Beats” brand around for headphones. If Apple wanted to sell expensive high-end headphones, they don’t need to spend $3 billion.

So it's not like what the parent implied -- whether Gruber saying it wasn't for the licenses also meant Gruber though it was about the headphones.

Plus, Gruber could be totally right about the licenses not being transferable.

Apple didn't buy Beats neither for the licenses nor for the licenses. It bought them for the users, the know-how, and the connections (through Iovine and Dre).
Very hard to understand how he was convicted in the first place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYYiAT0g3iQ
So NIH is the appealing factor of Elixir according to this slide?
Spotify: Apple is holding up app approval to squash competition
"Almost late" === "on time".
Be able to give issues priorities and sort them with user defined attributes like what release cycled they are planned for. The number of votes / +1s on different ideas e.t.c
Yes, that's the likely outcome I've been told. What sucks is that you have to wait until the publication period.

I've been wondering if there's a way to appeal to those funding this venture. I don't know much about top-level VC's (which is where their funding comes from) but I would hope ethical business is a part of their code of conduct.

I could see the startup acting without the express knowledge and consent of the VC's backing them. It would be interesting to hear from anyone on HN who has a better understanding of VC's.
I've been through the area several times.

My favourite place is Great Basin National Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin_National_Park

It's the EDIT: (one of the) least visited national park. And if you're going during the new moon, there's a glorious view of the milky way because of the lack of light pollution (one of the least light polluted places in the United States)
Does anyone have any insight on insightdataengineering.com? Is this just a "hacker school" job placement agency? They say its free but nothing is free. I've become very skeptical about these. 7 weeks is barely enough time to really understand the nuances of any distributed datastore let alone a number of them in a pipeline.
Known, calculable circumstances. If a component may fail, then redundancies are added so that failure will not result in a crash.
"What benefit do they really have of trying to go out on their own on this?"

Apparently, "substantially negative".

Grabbing an open-source ACME implementation really is the canonical value proposition for open source. Work together to make it secure, every individual contributor (once it exists) does less work over all, and even had they successfully implemented StartEncrypt the first time, the value would be in hosting it and attaching their reputation to it, not the API design. So even the usual objections to using open source in a commercial setting hardly apply. There's not much in the way of "look and feel", and no matter how this was going to happen the actual "polish" was going to be done by creating a new website that they could make as polished as they like with no trouble.

In other words, they have comprehensively flubbed this. Even once the code is fixed, the reputation damage is done.

Don't. Implement. Crypto.
Oracle Ordered to Pay HP $3B by Jury Over Itanium Damages
Dreaming about it, yes.
It's frustrating how morning people assume that their needs take priority over night owls. Like people who don't think twice about playing music at 7AM that can't handle someone doing the same at 11PM.
Elon Musk Is Wrong. We Aren't Living in a Simulation
Headphones with Bose-style active noise cancellation are an ineffective gimmick.

Not if you fly a lot (or even a reasonable amount). I don't have Bose ones, but active cancelling works amazingly well for that constant hum on airplanes.
We can't put a prematurely-worn brake line in jail either.

An algorithm cannot BE "careless", in the legal sense of the word. You are comparing apples and oranges. Carelessness (negligence) is a different problem than a design flaw.

An algorithm may be flawed, in which case blame lies with the companies involved in creating it and putting it in peoples' hands. Similarly, any mechanical component of a vehicle can be flawed -- and many can cause an accident if they fail. The companies responsible are legally liable already.

> In the end, we usually determine that the rights of individuals outweigh the utilitarian benefit

Cars. Airplanes. Vaccines. All of these benefit the majority at the expense of a few.

The idea that there is no liability here is absolute and utter NONSENSE. Minimally, Tesla can be sued for the flaw in their product and the harm it caused.
"Although all pleasures are good and all pains evil, Epicurus says that not all pleasures are choiceworthy or all pains to be avoided. Instead, one should calculate what is in one's long-term self-interest, and forgo what will bring pleasure in the short-term if doing so will ultimately lead to greater pleasure in the long-term....

"An example of a natural but non-necessary desire is the desire for luxury food. Although food is needed for survival, one does not need a particular type of food to survive. Thus, despite his hedonism, Epicurus advocates a surprisingly ascetic way of life. Although one shouldn't spurn extravagant foods if they happen to be available, becoming dependent on such goods ultimately leads to unhappiness."

http://www.iep.utm.edu/epicur/
It's actually kind of terrible. It leaves out a ton of the caveats and detailed information. Once you start using elastic search heavily, the docs are almost useless.
Devastating Amazon hardware review of a wireless power switch
Yes! As a fellow owner I agree with you 100%
> I guarantee Google really wants to build their own branded phones

Considering they just sold for scrap an entire manufacturing pipeline to do exactly that, I'd say they really don't. If they do, they're going about it in the silliest and most roundabout way.
>It seems like Apple have created a monopoly within their own ecosystem.

There's no such thing as a "monopoly within an ecosystem".

Either you cover the majority of the full market (not of your market), and you're a monopoly, or you don't.

If you don't, then within your own platforms, shops, and premises it can be your way or the highway.

Nobody has a right to tell you what to sell or not sell, and how much to charge for things in your own shop -- kind of like with a physical shop. It's not Apple wanting Spotify to be sold through their platform/store and asking them -- it's Spotify wanting to take part in Apple's marketplace.
There are many factors that can never be anticipated and we explicitly accept that they still exist.

>No plane will take off if there is a calculated chance that it could crash.

I don't get this comment. If there are statistics that prove one in every X million planes crash, then every plane taking off has a 1 in X million chance of crashing.

There is actually a very precise calculated chance that it could crash (but air travellers generally accept it).
I don't know as I do not have all the facts, or any context other than what Spotify is claiming. I think they should not be in trouble if what they are doing is the same thing Amazon is. I'm also of the opinion that Apple should get rid of the rule that prevents companies from advertising other forms of payment inside the app.

I was just responding to the original comment that made an incredibly childish argument agains the owner of a store not being able to compete with products from other companies.