skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not sure if Uber has the same requirement

It doesn't. I've a friend (who might be popping on this thread here soon) who's been working with adapt.org on pressuring Uber on this issue.

In theory, ridesharing should be much better for PWD than trying to hail a cab and cheaper than government services like the MBTA's The Ride. However it very much does not look like it is the case right now.
This seems like it should be true but I don't think it actually is. It's very easy to frame up a plausible argument which is actually false, and inexperienced people do it all the time. The problem is that if the reader of the argument is also inexperienced, he will be unable to recognize the flaws in the argument.

For people like that, post author is an excellent heuristic.
> A good argument stands on its own. Who the maker of it is, is irrelevant.

Damn straight!

I'd like things to go even further in the opposite direction. Usernames should be hidden for N days, say until the article is locked for updates. You'd want to make sure the usernames remain consistent throughout an article though (so you know it's the same person you're replying to).

@dang: If you want a simple way of implementing this that doesn't require any extra storage (per user), how about HMAC(JSON.stringify([username, storyId], secret)?
The big challenge is that this type of technical debt can be hard to see. But "We promised our VC 50% growth, and we're only at 35%, and this gets us to 60%" is very easy to see.
You can

* decide that you want to be an engineering consulting firm that charges only ramen, which will make your customer very happy

* become ramen-profitable on product Y without it taking all your time, build and market product X, then dump your customer and product Y (make sure you don't sign a contract saying that you have to keep supporting product Y)

* say no and find another way to become ramen-profitable
Personally, i prefer having a develop branch which all the development happens on, with developers creating feature branches from that, and then merge develop with master, when a new version is achieved.
That's the same function as "threads" in the main heading.
it seems sites find it to complex to implement.

slashdot nailed moderation, no one has attempted something similar. most systems are simple up/down vote or like/report

i am also starting to wonder if the agegroup being hired to implement "social" for websites is now young enough to have missed slashdot in it s prime.

the fact that people are still brainstorming from scratch instead of talking about how to improve slashdots model reeks of reinventing the wheel because they never heard of it.
Option 1 on that link stops updates from running on their own, but once you update you are forced to reboot. Also I had problems with that solution causing stalling forever on "Installing updates 0%".

Option 2 is for hiding specific updates, like broken drivers. Doesn't really apply.

Option 3 again will stop updates from installing in the first place, but will not stop reboots once they're installed. Windows 10 completely ignores the "No auto-restart with logged on users" policy from that same group.

The only way I have found to stop my computer from rebooting after installing an update is #2 in the link below. This works, 100%.

https://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wak...
There was a security/malware book bundle a good while back that had some interesting books in it. Sadly, I keep forgetting that I got that bundle and haven't read any of them, but I know one book in the bundle was used for a malware analysis class at my university at some point. I'm definitely going to get this bundle and remember to download and read the malware books I got.
By shifting more of the group insurance market onto the individual market, perhaps mostly by eliminating current incentives for employer group coverage, to minimize the adverse selection problem.

Incidentally: two members of my immediate family have the same problem he does. No history of serious illness, no current health problems, probably healthier than the median in both cases for their age cohort, but uninsurable outside the exchanges due to bogus pre-existing condition rules.
it's a guy who knows that he should throw a NotFoundException when his rest API has not found anything, but does not know that it translates to a 404 status code, and because his framework does not allow him to send anything else with that exception, that think that you can put a body only with a "non exception" response
Another startup in this space is UpTop: https://liveuptop.com/

I'm not sure what their revenue model is, but I like that they let you get a credit check done once and share it with all property owners, instead of having to pay for each one to do a credit check on you.
I've never gotten a correct result.

7 returned 9, 3 returned 8, 1 returned 9...
The Moto G does this. The cover I bought from motorola replaces the entire back of the phone.
That's probably due to the nature of politics.

It certainly tends to get a lot of people riled quite easily.

What's that thing about polite company not talking about politics, religion, or sex.

The average person, myself definitely included, probably doesn't have much worth listening to on the subject anyway. To paraphrase PJ O'Rourke: though there certainly are many political commentators who might be worth listing to. Under some circumstances. In a crisis. Maybe.
> If I buy groceries at Walmart or another discount grocer, my bill is nearly half of what it would be if I shopped at a "nicer" supermarket and well over half of what it would be if I shopped at a place like Whole Foods.

I like to do both.

We don't have a Whole Foods, but there is a small regional chain here that has organic local produce and grass fed antibiotic free hormone free meats and such.

I use Walmart for things like 2 liter soda bottles, frozen vegetables, lunch meats, bread, condiments, paper goods, and the like, and so save money compared to places like Safeway or Fred Meyer. I can then justify going to that small regional chain when I want a steak or fresh produce and buy their expensive grass fed beef and the locally grown organic produce.
That's funny. My bike is steel; I got it in college 20 years ago, so it's not new at all. At the time, it was pretty advanced I guess: it's a butted (triple? not sure) chrome-moly steel road bike by Trek. It's a little over 25 pounds I think, so it's really not that much heavier than comparable aluminum bikes. The frame's still in fantastic shape even though it's been ridden all over and not taken care of particularly well, been rained on a lot, etc.

Not long after I got it, it seemed that steel frames became totally passé; everything went to aluminum, titanium, and then carbon fibre. These days, road bikes all seem to be either aluminum or CF. And now history repeats itself...

Personally, though, I'm looking forward to ditching it and getting a recumbent trike. I'm getting sick of having a sore neck and shoulders and hands and having my arms go numb on long rides.
Switzerland, Germany and other countries lack single player plans. Israel has 4 different integrated health providers that compete to provide care. I am sure there are many other examples of health care systems that choose not to use a single payer.
I've always thought of technology as being the sole driver behind the fragmentation of communities into small niche communities. It's interesting seeing that comments appear to be one aspect of technological change that drive people to seek niche communities (going off of another comment that it's better to frequent smaller subreddits rather than the larger, default ones).
Keep in mind that i only work on small teams with smallish projects, this workflow would probably not work for big projects with a bunch of developers working simultaneously.
The author gave this (notional) example to simply point out that such users present a very different use case for the original company and are likely to be a huge distraction. And undeflected distractions are bad for a startup.

If it were a real example and you needed a legal way out (what country / jurisdiction?), maybe referring those cases to another service that is specifically set up to serve their needs would be sufficient.
Having payment linked to a name goes a long way towards deterrence, IMO.
It is really hard to do with, even API requires department for extra features. What about dividing screen with iframes and search for several(at most 4) categories.
Aren't healthcare list prices in the US really really distorted and nonsensical, due to decades of messed up incentives between hospitals and insurers?
> Hacker News is about the only civil place I'm capable of contributing to a discussion to at this point.

Funnily enough, right around the time I made an acct here (4+ years ago, after ~1 year of lurking), I saw an internal post by a well-known Googler talking about the recent drastic decline of HN comment quality and looking for a replacement. I still get value out of HN comments (clearly), but it's definitely changed substantially in the last few years, and not really for the better. I've resigned myself to every high-quality Internet community without heavy, opinionated moderation being a slow treadmill towards popularity and then mediocrity, or worse. Though this is of course something of a "you're not in traffic, you are traffic" problem.
You would not be able to increase any of the relevant rate limit counters without at least controlling a (sub)domain belonging to your competitor, or being able to send requests from the IP address your competitor is using to request certificates. There's no rate limit that would apply to your competitor short of that.
Ask HN: Books/Blogs on Talking/Networking with People Effectively in Person?
Are there any good books on being an engaging person and networker at parties or events?
> It's not as though they have the ability and are denying service - they are choosing not to develop a product or service with accessibility features. I can entertain a normative argument that it's ethically wrong to allow companies to operate in this way, but this is not legally considered discrimination.

The same reasoning would apply to "It's not as though we have an elevator and are denying service - we are choosing to only install a staircase."
This is my largest complaint with Windows 10. In particular, it resets file associations on every major patch. Supposedly this is because applications are no longer supposed to set associations themselves, the user is supposed to do it individually for a file of each type through the Windows interface, and Win10 is "fixing broken associations".

There's a regedit fix here that worked for me.

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/windows-10-resetting-file-...
There are a couple of studies out there that show that reading from a physical book (as opposed to an e-book) actually leads to learning the material better. So, when it comes to books like these, I wouldn't be surprised if people wanted physical copies.
I'm not sure I follow, what you can do with the bits of information you named when this vulnerability is not present?

In any case, the scenario for this exploit is that you have access (possibly only restricted, no superuser) to an internet-facing machine and are looking to expand your reach into the internal network. That's why they are keen to exploit these Cisco boxes, they are a stepping stone to the wider network that might be otherwise firewalled off and a pretty permanent one at that.
Yep, this is also the reason The Economist does not publish author names [1].

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec...
There are a couple of reasons why it's attractive to choose the MIT kids:

1) They presumably have other opportunities available to them that they gave up to pursue the venture. It's hard to gauge the passion of a founder if they couldn't have gotten a job at google instead.

2) Investors want innovative products that eventually turn into companies, which means they want smart people who have a cool idea and can tweak the model when needed rather than people who just follow a business plan. Snapchats business plan would have been horrible if they had one.

As for upward mobility, pedigree is not something you're born with. Anyone can go to MIT, Stanford, or Harvard (and they give out quite a bit of financial aid as well).
> Individuals who are young and healthy will opt for a lower cost plan,

This doesn't jive with the Obamacare marketing: They specificially needed to get a lot of young healthy people to sign up, because their fees would pay for the older generations who have higher health care costs.
I'm not well enough informed to give a complete opinion on what's better, because it's a complicated solution. I do know some reasons why a public option might not be good. (This doesn't mean it's the wrong option - just considerations)

1 - When you eliminate competition, you lose innovation and smart cost control. Look at most monopolies for evidence of this.

2 - You wind up forcing a "one size fits all" on everyone. What if some people prefer a bare bones service, and others prefer an advanced one?

3 - How many things does the government really run well?
Airbnb isn't increasing the inventory, just enabling owners lease out existing inventory. Even there, it's focused on short-term rentals instead of long-term.

If you want to increase the number of residences on a given piece of land, you have to replace single family homes with high-rises, no way around it.
So then this vulnerability is pretty much only useful (1) for persisting onto networks you've already compromised (2) and only in cases where you can apply consultative effort to discover the SNMP community string?

Or maybe there are lots of overseas networks where they enable SNMP and leave the community string "public"?

(Also: how batshit crazy is it that the ASA will let you use "public" as your community string, let alone default to it?)
Seeing as this a conversation thread about raw system calls I assume we were working C not a HLL.

Are you just a professional contrarian?

Why are you concerned about system calls in a HLL?

Why are you concerned with concurrency guarantees in a HLL?

You care about none of these, you care about your run time. This is why you are working in a HLL.
That assumes you believe Microsoft, that they are not deliberately lying to their customers. Not plausible? Microsoft claimed Skype has end-to-end encryption, too.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/newly-published-n...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...
I am still waiting for the Republicans vote for abolishing Medicare and the VA. Those programs are pure evil and seniors and vets must be liberated from them.
How would you do that from the IP different from the one the domain points to?
For one, Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/16/0121213/theo-de-raa...

OpenBSD's documentation is also known to be a tad better than FreeBSD's.
This is just another reason why the US has a healthier startup culture. There are a lot of things that take effort to do that US companies can get away with not doing until forced to by law or the market, or when the opportunity costs diminish that they do it out of the goodness of the individuals' involved hearts.
Role Based Access Control with Django Rest Framework
Nice job channeling Mao. I didn't make any normative statements, but merely pointed out that China's trade policy is emphatically different from America's.

Personally, I think the costs of Chinese protectionism (to China) outweigh its benefits. Yes, you can definitely make the infant industry argument and it has merit—after all, most of the West used mercantilism to develop. However, I think there are 3 major ways that it is counterproductive these days:

1. Chinese consumers simply have less access to the best tools and products. Yes, there are Chinese versions of everything but frankly they are often inferior to the foreign alternatives.

2. Incomplete access to world tools can cripple Chinese startups—especially if they're trying to expand abroad. This isn't a theoretical point: every time I've been in China, entrepreneurs have complained about the difficulties in using basic international tools like GitHub or Slack. If you don't have access to the best tools, it's harder to build a globally competitive tech company.

3. Companies are insulated from competitive pressure. The firewall gives plenty of insulation to build a company on the Chinese market, but once it's ready to compete internationally

> It's also not exactly a fair playground if foreign multinationals with decades of established dominance, experience, R&D, and human capital from the developed world compete against Chinese companies which most would be upstarts or recent companies

This is a really flimsy argument. Many of the companies being shut out of China aren't huge multinationals with decades of experience or capital—they're startups trying to quickly expand. It's not like China doesn't already have a domestic goliaths which are being competed against. WeChat shouldn't need protection from Line to succeed—Tencent has plenty of money to throw around.

The rest of your comment reeks of decades-old propaganda. Revenge for the opium wars and anti-imperialist dogma hardly have a very encouraging history.
Which does at least HINT that it might be what it claims to be. That's a pretty impressive 0-day which they just gave away as a freebie, who knows what they didn't give away.

I will say we'll never get real confirmation if this was actually stolen from the NSA, but if the other bundle contains a bunch of nice original vulnerabilities people will presume it was.
I'm not so sure. johnfn claims "There's no objective judge of listening". Why not? Students are familiar with the idea of a standardized reading comprehension test. Is it impossible to imagine that we could construct a listening comprehension test? If so, you could then demonstrate that its possible to flunk the "perceived as good listener" test while acing the "listening comprehension" test -- underscoring that notion that these are distinct concepts.
In the Netherlands there are many Tesla taxis, especially around Amsterdam and Schiphol airport. Taxis drive more than regular cars so I see them all the time, to the point that most Tesla's on the road are taxis.

I think this creates an "interesting" marketing challenge for Tesla here: taxi drivers are not well respected and most people do not want to be mistaken for a taxi driver. Being seen as a typical taxi brand will impact the image of Tesla in a negative way, like it has done here with Mercedes (another typical taxi here, if you see a Mercedes E series here it's usually a taxi, so normal people looking for a premium car buy a BMW or Volvo)
it's pretty hard to do this these days with a dumb firewall, given CDNs
You never had to increase it. "the warranty extension will apply retroactively to all Model S vehicles ever produced"
Not really. As the preceding comment points out: it's pretty unusual for an ASA to speak SNMP to the Internet. Not having SNMP publicly exposed is CISSP-level (read: elementary, and idiosyncratically specific) best practice.

Rather, my (uninformed) guess is that this implant is exclusively used to persist onto networks that have been compromised through some other vector. It's not a pivot bug.
Many no-fee listings aren't really no-fee. It's just that the fee is baked into the rent. I found this out when scoping out places with Nooklyn, a Brooklyn-based broker. The landlord in one instance revealed a rent that was a good deal lower than the one quoted by Nooklyn. Of course, you're rarely able to bypass the broker in this manner.
The misleading stream of articles about scientific studies
What exactly is the benefit of living in Canada if you're outside of the cities, anyway? From what I can see (having lived in both urban and rural Canada, and the US) Canadian cities have a unique character, but rural Canada is pretty much the same as rural America. If you don't care about living "near" anything, why does it matter what country you're doing it in?
Linus Torvalds: "That's a cool show HN and all, but it's actually garbage and complete s---, and the creators of it should be thrown in prison"

Worshippers: "Oh, yeah, now that you mention it, it is garbage! Grab your pitchforks!"
The only way this is going to work, is if some company with a lot invested in the gaming ecosystem (e.g. Valve) spends some of those billions of dollars to make a ground up OS from the Linux kernel, similar to Android.

The ONLY usable Linux "distros" at the moment are hobbyist projects. This includes Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, etc. etc.

No serious company or individual that relies on a predictable and reliable user experience is going to use any of the modern flavors of Linux. Someone has to spend the money to do this right, and do it right once and for all.

Obviously, Stallman was right and every closed source OS is going the way of 1984 by making the users the product and gathering every single keystroke and mouse click in order to monetize you. As a convenient side effect, they are creating a perfect turn-key totalitarian system that could be used to devastating effect with the necessary political will.

Greed is good? Apparently it isn't good enough, because Gabe Newel would rather hoard his billions than spend on critical infrastructure for his company's future.

A Linux OS needs to be built from the kernel by professional and well paid developers who don't fork every single repo if they don't like tab spacing.

Democracy doesn't work in engineering, it doesn't work in business, and it probably doesn't work in politics. Linux works because Linus is a "benevolent" dictator. That's why the kernel is such a marvel of engineering. Because he oversees every commit. The same needs to happen downstream.

Here's to dreams of the Linux desktop in 2050!
>But most people probably want updates and the data
necessary to determine which updates you've got installed
on your computer are considered telemetry data by
Microsoft and that information is essential in order to
determine which updates are applicable or available

I have telemetry completely disabled and Win10 updates work fine. This is completely false. It is not required for normal operation.
Well, given that economics doesn't amend itself to double-blind experimental verification, what sort of evidence would you even expect to find?

Keep in mind that economists tend to focus on problems that their own societies face -- if protectionism was only really useful to small, underdeveloped economies, you wouldn't really expect mainstream US or European economists to get a lot of funding to look into it, would you?

Note that this is an idea that has been tried under many guises with different names and details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industrial...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prebisch%E2%80%93Singer_hypoth...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism

Maybe the real answer is that whether these efforts are beneficial for their countries depends on the context, and that sweeping generalizations aren't helpful?
Yeah, those people shouldn't have made the choice to be disabled.
They should also add a way to turn off Jekyll processing so you don't have to remember to add a .nojekyll file.
There's a great Ember addon for this: https://github.com/poetic/ember-cli-github-pages
Do disabled people actually bring in profit once you account for building code changes needed to support them at any brick and mortar location?
troughs are so much better than urinals, gets you in and out without waiting for a specific size unit to open up, way more people peeing at once, much bigger target to aim for.
Microsoft let us turn off all the telemetry, Cortina, etc. Please. I don't want to hate you.