skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, if you want to go all out on the "propaganda" and "alongside the NSA" claims, don't just look at advertising. Google Ideas is pretty explicitly about political and government-linked activity. Any tech company can operate alongside the NSA (they don't have much choice), but most of them don't employ Jared Cohen and send their executives to tour Iraq's green zone.

I don't want to veer into conspiracy territory here - I absolutely think DDoS protection is a great project, and we need it no matter who it's being provided for.

But reading The New Digital Age was a creepy experience that made me stop equating Google's political standing with that of Apple or other US tech companies. It was very openly a love letter to state power in a way I haven't seen even from topical companies like Palantir.
On Windows 10 you need hyper-v to run windows container. So only pro and enterprise.

On Windows Server 2016, you can choose between hyper-v container or "native" container, but this is only possible thanks to a new architecture that is not present in W10 (hence why you need Hyper-V).
I'm pretty convinced this is less efficient than doing it locally. The issue here is that when you talk efficiency, you need to ignore monetary issues - moeny is exactly the bullshit complexity that makes those things turn out so weird.

So let's talk energy. Does this pipeline - oil from Middle East, through India, through China, to the West and to the ground makes sense? Probably not so much; I doubt the oil extraction and manufacturing scales that well to justify shipping bulk resources halfway around the world. And definitely nothing justifies just throwing the things away after one use.

What makes things less energy-efficient is monetary considerations. The current chain of production is established on monetary efficiency - which is based on labor costs, transportation costs, etc., which all stem from trade deals and political power of different countries.

Comparing what we have with what could be, the real (and too often forgotten) question is: can we do better? The emphasis is on "can". Maybe the current state of affairs represents close to the best we can reasonably achieve from where we are now. I don't know. Which honestly makes me want to throw my hands up in the air and give up. I don't see a simpler solution than "invent free fusion energy", or something.
Which is called predatory pricing. (Courtesy of your pension fund.)

There is no way that Uber is not losing money on $5 rides.
The reality about breakeven with loans doesn't change their expectation of money and social status. Also the current generation of doctors received their education when costs were much lower and becoming doctor had better financial incentives.
> 'Disrupt online radicalization and propaganda'

> 'End repressive censorship'

These are at odds. One person's (politician's? corporation's?) "propaganda" is another's "Declaration of Independence." How will can you possibly tell the difference?
This. Why aren't more people thinking about this?
Just start a company, get a partner or two and you're good to go.
Brooklynite here. In theory, I want to be behind taxi drivers. They're a local business owners with ties in the community, and I would rather support them than a Silicon Valley startup with a questionable stance on privacy and poor treatment of their workers.

In reality though, taxis need to fix a few issues:

1. I don't need to be able to hail a cab anywhere--I can't really hail Ubers, either. But if I call a cab, I'd like to have them show up within, say, 15 minutes. The reality is that the explicit promise given by dispatchers is usually an hour, and after an hour, the taxi often doesn't show up. And if I am in an inconvenient area, the time I most need to call a cab, that increases the chances of lateness or no-shows. This could be fixed by fining taxis for lateness or no-shows.

2. Auto-playing ads in taxis. The last thing I want after a long day is a screen yelling at me about some TV show I would rather have a root canal than watch. Unfortunately, it seems more likely that Uber will add ads than that taxis will get rid of them, and I don't see a way to prevent this. Advertising ruins everything.

3. Taxis that will actually take you somewhere inconvenient without a fight. When I lived in Flatbush, most cab rides started off with me having to threaten to call 311 to get them to take me home.

4. Racism. As a white person in a black neighborhood, I've watched black people try to flag cabs and almost universally the cabs just drive past empty. I've gotten in the habit of flagging cabs for black people, and even after the cab stops, sometimes when they realize that it's a black person getting in the cab instead of me, they drive off.
Well that sure is substantive.
> Rebases automatically set the committer of the rebased commits to the current user, while keeping authorship information intact. The pull request's branch will not be modified by this operation.

What does "keeping authorship information intact" mean? It says it resets the committer - when I'm going through `git log` or `git blame` output, doesn't this mean that I won't actually see the correct author? I don't want to have to dig through commit messages to get an accurate understanding of who wrote what.
More like renting an apartment after someone neglected to pay their rent, and then continued to not pay day-after-day for the next 75 days. And afterwards, creating a fair bidding process to allow interested parties an actual chance to get that apartment for themselves without having to own sophisticated technology to be the first person there.
There was recently Onnibus in Finland. They sold cramped two storey bus trips at very limited lanes. First ticked sold at 1e and price going up so that the last goes for 35e or something. Similar to cheap air travel schemes. You extract more accurate info as it's not just two price points but a curve of ticket-price/time.

So far the result has been all bus services lowering prices, train tickets going lower too and overall people traveling more. It was needed price cut as some people we're switching to air travel as plane ticket was cheaper than train.
The navigation column on the left is clipped in Chrome and the monochrome theme is hard to read.
Thanks, that was helpful. I had the general idea that this was good, but for some reason I'd never seen it spelled out.
Sometimes when an employee stops showing up and cuts contact, they are dealing with mental health issues and good employers see what accommodations can be made.

In this case, it turned out to be something else, but that's why I wouldn't have rushed to fire if I were in HR at the Verge.
I have Flux on a 1 hour shift, so I don't notice the colors changing as it happens, but it absolutely makes a huge difference. Disabling it at 10pm after a few hours of 'flux-ed' viewing feels like staring directly into the sun.
I'm not exaggerating.

Development servers are absolutely not held to the same levels of scrutiny as our payment card processing servers.

Not using letsencrypt due to other regulation is perfectly valid- but using wildcard certificates has a strong potential to cause more harm than simply using another SSL provider.
I'd love to see a similiar study for Chicago. The cabs here are, at best, customer hostile and at worst dangerous. My wife is sexually harassed by drivers or is on the receiving end of political talk. Complaint calls go ignored and every cab request is a like playing psycho whack-a-mole. One time I had to walk out of my home with a weapon to make sure my wife was able to get out of her cab safely as the driver kept pressuring her to get out a block away and to be 'helped out.' Oh, the CPD couldn't care less about these kinds of things.

Worse, there's a $1 'gas surcharge' for every single ride that was voted in a few years back when gas prices got high. So, a 8 block ride in a Prius means I have to pay an extra $1 in gas? Its incredible how corrupt the entire system is, especially considering how the meters here run on both time and distance and a tip is expected. What should be a $5 ride via a sharing service like uber, turns out to be $10+ with tip and charges. That's on top of inconveniences like loud auto-playing ads in the back of the taxi and constantly being pressured to pay cash or with the driver's swipe account on their personal cell phone (not sure if this is easily read by card reader apps, but shortly after I do this I often have fraud warnings).

Thus far our uber rides have been pretty low stress and problem-free. Its mostly younger people from the suburbs looking to make some extra cash. I think driver screening and taking complaints seriously is something uber can do to differentiate itself. I'd say a good 25% of cab drivers in the city have serious mental health issues, if not are wanna-be criminals, and should not be allowed behind the wheel. I think the narrative of safety is often ignored with the cab vs uber debate, but its important to many.
Doing things outside helps me. Which makes sense, the whole point is to ease work for the ciliary muscles and allow them to fully relax. That happens by de-flexing the lens...which happens at a focal distance of 'infinity.'

(I'm a layperson, hopefully all of my terms were correct.)
Its funny with the rise of more remote work with flexible hours I wonder if there's not more then one person who's double dipping.

I imagine a pretty good engineer could maybe work two full time jobs pretty easily remotely working 4-5 hours per day on each gig.
And yet, answers with demonstrations of the many ways to do so are extremely useful! Sometimes I think the side of this debate you land on is something of a personality test: do you seek order above all else or do you embrace and try to grapple with chaos?
No official accident report yet, it seems:

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...

From the article:

> The car was operating in its autonomous mode at the time of the crash, but that didn’t stop the human driver from slamming on the breaks when he spotted the oncoming van. Unfortunately, his reaction was a little too slow.

Is this just speculation, or is it confirmed that the car did not act optimally by itself once the van could be seen running the red light?
It's the pointer lock API:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_Loc...

The browser tells you when a page calls requestPointerLock(), and tells you how to exit it, similar to the fullscreen API.
Looks perfect!
Solving the self-driving car problem in busy urban centers is vastly more difficult then solving it for freeway driving. (Where this technology still manages to fail in a very spectacular way.)
Then this today -- wonder why?
"New report shows rents falling in San Jose, San Francisco"
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/25/new-report-shows-rents...
Total speculations on my part:

It's probably a reasonably small codebase with well specified requirements, it's a standalone app already, and it's not likely to cause underlying OS performance or stability problems if it lost a little bit of performance migrating to Swift. I'm guessing it could be an experiment to see what parts of the OS are reasonably replaced with Swift?

People have also complained for several yearly releases now that OSX isn't improving as an operating system. It's also been around in various incarnations for like 18 or more years and has likely accumulated some deficiencies that needed addressing. Maybe things need some rewriting now to be positioned to become better in the future and a Swift migration is a good excuse to do both. Enough people are also complaining Apple isn't dogfooding Swift enough internally, so there you go, macOS is starting to dogfood it.

I'd also guess Apple probably has a reasonably hard time hiring for Objective-C positions to work with OS-level code (e.g. they've probably hired all of the existing, interested and qualified people willing to work in the Bay Area already), and the up and coming labor pool of people coming from iOS development is likely to be more interesting in or previously experienced with Swift. Modernizing your codebase where possible now seems like a reasonably way to hedge for the future hiring needs. Apple's been around long enough they likely have people retiring out of some critical positions.
And when those people go to the doctor with complaints related to not taking care of themselves, the doctors tell them they need to stop drinking, smoking, or whatever. Why would obesity be any different?
C++11 with review-enforced RAII. Boost if you need special stuff involving odd data structures. gtest/gmock. Depending on what you're doing, add some Qt5, OpenCV, OpenMP, RapidXML/RapidJSON, any C library ever written - and there are BSD/LGPL libraries for pretty much anything. Make plugins with Lua. Run tests in Valgrind.
This is one of those cases where it's important to remember that not all equipment is born the same when it comes to ergonomics, even when it features similar specs.

I have a 2012 MBP Retina, in retina mode (scaled at half the native resolution).; I can look at it for hours and hours without any problem. I also have a larger 4K screen from Iiyama, also "in retina mode"; after about an hour staring at it, my eyes are so dry that they are forced to cry, and headaches are much more frequent when I stick to that.

Somebody should do for monitors what Hermann Miller did for chairs.
It's also fairly standard to suffer 1-2 weeks of outages when changing ISP's, which is somewhere between unwelcome and prohibitive for a lot of people. Worse, even places with "competitive" markets often have only one provider giving decent speeds - 1-5 Mbps maximum is not a realistic option for a lot of uses.
Tools? There is a minimal set of tools that will cover a very large number of common household and automobile repairs.

I have had a great track record with nothing but a pair of vice-grips and a 4-bit combination screwdriver (2x flathead, 2x Phillips).

Add to that a claw hammer, pocketknife, roll of duct tape, can of WD-40, toilet plunger, needle-nosed pliers, and a few cheap plastic-coated wire coat hangers, and you should be able to bodge or jury-rig anything long enough to get a real repair done over the weekend.

For instance, did you know that one arm of the tweezers in a Victorinox pocketknife can tighten eyeglasses screws?
In my old washer this coupling will routinely break almost each year. After ten years I have mastered the replacement process (removing the case, turning machine upside down, and detaching the motor) in under 15 minutes.

Pro tip: if you decide to DIY, order half a dozen of these [1] couplings in advance.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/3364003-3364002-REPLACEMENT-KITCHENAI...
Why has SO entered the hiring market? Are they losing focus? I use SO profile as part of my hiring process but does the world really need another job-board?
Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck, 2016 Edition
The first pop song written by artificial intelligence is pretty good, actually
The law will always be abused by those in power be it corporations, individuals or governments so I think technology is actually the main part of the solution.

Google along with other parties can contribute to technologies(i.e. end to end encryption) that protect our liberties but this friendship/network sharing proposal seems just wrong to me. They can't stand to MPAA requests, let alone NSA or its friends(i.e. UK's GCHQ).

In live threatening situations you can't trust a corporation not to give your data to the local governmental authorities. I'm not even considering that their network could be hacked or they are simply a rough actor. `Fairly transparent` is not enough. The latest revelations just proved it.

If you can't publish sensitive information there can't be a debate/case for government overreach/abuse in the first place thus the reason why technology became so important.
That was my thought as well. A better example would be if the third class seats had less padding, despite the expense of a more comfortable level of padding being the same.

This article reminds me of an article on Unpleasant Design that has been posted on Hacker News before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12041639
Or is it possible that the car would have accelerated to avoid the van if the driver had not intervened?
Being economically successful in the western world, does not necessarily translate to more (surviving) offspring.
What a load of shit! I have lived in LA for 15 years. Taken my share of taxis but a lot more Uber. Uber has been 98% of the time fairly priced, clean and safe. No Uber ride has ever taken twice as long as the taxi ride. If anything I had to watch the taxi driver like a hawk to make sure he didn't take the wrong exit or shoot off into a canyon to run up the bill. Good luck actually finding a taxi by the way, in LA. I hope Uber and its ilk drive taxis out of business.
There's a saying that we can't block the sun with the palm of our hands. What gp says is definitely a fact. A lot of people just want a decent life for themselves. I would like to deny this because I know when I throw a brick in the mud, it can come back to my shirt as well. However, we shouldn't run away from the truth because it is unpleasant. A lot of people go to school to become doctors, lawyers, (and lately software programming) because they think this is a good way to make a good salary. If it is not about absolute value of salary, it is about opportunity cost. "What would I do if I don't go to medical school?" Military recruiters know that there is something similar going on in potential enlistees as well.

Lets not pretend that it is not going on. Lets face the facts. Many people (if not most) are not motivated primarily by their need to make the world a better place for everyone else. We are too primitive for that. I'd argue we aren't even programmed for that yet. In a world where people think it is acceptable for people to starve if they can't or won't work, it is too much to think that our doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives are a different breed or species.

Sorry I have tremendous respect for our doctors as I have for our soldiers but that doesn't mean everyone who goes in to medical school or military training went in with perfectly altruistic purposes.
This seems like an unfair characterization of the article. Denial of care, or dangerously mismeasured care, is not acceptable simply based on BMI (a non-scientific measure invented in the early 1800s). If you look at the statistics on weight loss success rates, asking a 500lbs person to lose 200+lbs before you're willing to treat their disease with actual evidence-based medicine—looking at symptoms, pathology, etc—is tantamount to outright denial of care. If doctors, after examining the patient, have reasons for postponing surgery that can be explained medically, fine. But just saying "we have a BMI cutoff" is pretty much discrimination masquerading as medicine.
Committer and author are tracked separately, and by default you only see the author. Try: git log --pretty=fuller
> your history is relatively clean, you don't get multiple overlapping branches

Right, but what's the benefit of that? You still need to understand a history with merges in, in which case it seems like you might as well get the safety advantages of not rebasing.
flux&al adjust colour temp, but be very kind on the backlight any time of the day. Some screens are so stupidly bright it's like staring at a bright bulb all day long. If at all possible use a screen that adjusts backlight automatically according to ambient light. And no, you really don't need that much brightness, just don't turn it all the way down either!
I really wish there was a fourth option: "Squash and Create a Merge Commit." It's nice to have a single commit per feature, but also see when it was merged into master and by who.
> This is pretty much what is happening around us. As we get hold of better resources, we reproduce more to make it impossible to have everything for everyone.

How does that jive with the fact that every developed country's reproduction rate has dropped as they developed?
Actually, they do. I believe at least electronics companies pay a small fee for every device to pay for its disposal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Waste_Recycling_Fee
Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks!
Both of you are right (or wrong). Microscopes for kids are good no matter the access to more basic needs, but not all the children should get them - only a small percentage.

Author, as well as many other smart people, got consumed by his own world and his activities and mistakes them for everything that matters. Actually, what author, or programmers, or other specialists, are doing is but a fraction of things people should do. So not all kids should have microscopes, not all kids should be taught how to program etc.
> It is useful for when you want the commits to be clearly grouped in the log (because they belong together conceptually)

Surely there must be a way to tell git to show history in that form even with branches that haven't been rebased?
That's a little like saying software developers spend all day googling for syntax. The "factoids" aren't very useful unless you know how to put them together and what to do with them.
Experience design and prototyping the Airbnb way: Q&A with Katie Dill
>Please do not do this. Webgl and Webrtc are fundamental technologies needed to efficiently do basic activities like process an image or send sound data to another user.

>fundamental technologies

>basic activities

>process an image or send sound data to another user.

We must live in different worlds, those are not "basic" or "fundamental" to me. I'm not sure I've ever used either.

>the AR/VR age

You're overstating how important these technologies are. Maybe in 10 years but only time will tell.
A couple days ago I noticed that the status box on the PR page now includes a list of conflicted files. Not sure if that was in any way related to my request here, but wanted to thank you if it was. That is very helpful.
Too snarky. It seemed like you wanted to raise a potential discussion point without actually committing to discussing it. Just to score cynic points.
Data shows your neighborhood NYPD officer isn't likely to be your neighbor
What? Not served by any single train line? I've always taken the train to and from JFK.

Also, airport-related taxes are disproportionately paid by visitors, rather than residents.
People in Finland have a higher standard of living. That standard is higher because wages are higher. I don't think it's unreasonable to not want to lower the standard of living of your country.
It does both at the same time. It allows them to service less time sensitive customers or extremely price sensitive customers without losing revenues as they would if the cheaper ticket didn't have the large downside of travel time uncertainty. So it's the same thing with an added bonus of decreasing the potential need to run more trains.
Okey, so what is appealing to you then? (just curious)