skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"not wanting to take on some fucking responsibility for others."

They'll have to explain their sins themselves, but by observation I think its giving up that they oppose.

Going up to OPs question of who gets to decide, decades ago when my father died of some weird fast moving liver cancer no one religious had any issue with the numerous treatment options all somewhat fatal or with the concept of being able to select a treatment plan. So the oncologist says chemo option A means X amount of pain and 90% chance you'll be dead in Y months, and option B, C, D, all different tradeoffs, or we could try whatever else and you'll get Y months with X amount of pain, or do nothing and you'll be gone in about Y weeks or etc etc. Basically the patient and team of doctors pick a death date which results in an associated level of pain and medical treatment (medical profit). The Christians don't seem to mind "pick a death date" they just seem very unhappy with the idea of the treatment plan being "give up completely" "game over".

There seems this weird assumption that people can't handle picking a death date or it would warp culture too much, but any cancer patient with more than one medically approved treatment option is pretty much picking their date as it is today. Especially if its terminal cancer. Adding a third, fourth, fifth treatment option of "once we agree your quality of life is below level X then you're done" isn't going to be a huge addition or huge problem.

My wife has power of attorney or whatever its called over her Alzheimer's damaged great uncle, she has full control over all of his medical treatment plan. The only real moral or ethical argument I can think of is if it were made legal maybe only only legal agreements drafted after the law change should be valid. Although then again, the whole point of her being in charge is he trusted his niece the most so if he were competent he would likely continue to trust her the most anyway.
Not true for this phone.
Then why have they made this phone?
Anti-reflective coating stray can make lenses of VR headsets better
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723652
US remote ok?
First thing that caught my eye as well
¼, ¾, ⅕.

For etc, start here: http://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=fractio...

You can use "fraction slash" to make any fraction, using super/subscript numbers: ⁷⁄₃₃
I have a 5.2" (Nexus 5X) and I still want something smaller.
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Greed and selfishness seem to come from evolution in a very robust way. Every time it fails to come a little bit, there's a huge change in some ecosystem or all of them.

But then, maybe a species able to colonize a galaxy can only appear as consequence of those rare exceptions. We, as a not completely selfish species are evidence for that.
* Did Uber influence the politicians somehow?

Yes. They influenced them by convincing them that this was a better option than a major capital expenditure on a parking lot.

* Did Uber place or pay for the article?

Almost certainly not. This is a newsworthy story. They may have given the writer an exclusive, however.

* How many of the anecdotal cab complaints (EDIT: And anecdotal Uber raves) in every HN Uber story are part of that PR operation (my apologies to all the legit ones)?

Anecdotal cab complaints are probably real, and for verification, just be a person who has had to deal with cabs.
The product announcement page https://blog.google/products/pixel/introducing-pixel-our-new...
Yup. Volvo does have built-in booster seats but those are for the bigger toddlers, and don't work for smaller toddlers or infants which require the different designs.
If it's being sold by Verizon it's factory unlocked anyways.
You're not thinking of 'externalization'

Externalization is the key to Uber disrupting mass transit. It doesn't matter how much more efficient busses and trains are if Uber can continue to push the costs of its operations onto the environment, taxpayers, and the less wealthy who drive for the company.

(I know this article isn't about that directly, just wanted to chime in)
I work as a datacenter consultant and I can count on one finger the number of customers I've seen deploy 10GBASE-T at any scale (and they aren't a customer I would hold out as an example for how to do anything right). As others have mentioned, 10gbit is almost exclusively deployed using optics or direct-attach twinax.

Your point about upcoming fiber technologies is well taken and I hadn't considered the situation in that light.
I also enjoyed this Hacker News article about adding the electrical on, off sleep, standby symbols to Unicode.
http://unicodepowersymbol.com/we-did-it-how-a-comment-on-hac...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958682
On a hardware level they're not. They are built on the same feature size as other mobile SoCs.

But just look at the benchmarks. Apple SoCs slaughter Qualcomm and Samsung chips in mobile benchmarks.

Yes, they're highly optimised for their workload, but the point is that Apple is much better at doing this than everyone else making mobile SoCs.
Where did you get this info from? The link posted only has a line drawing rendering of the device.
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Look into verifiable shuffles, private information retrieval, and dining cryptographer networks.

By combining such techniques, it's possible to be much much better than naive broadcast, and also possible to use a client/server architecture so that low bandwidth endpoints can participate.

Have a look at systems such as Dissent and Riffle.
Suprising to no one.
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Should be noted that the Oculus Rift is also made of fabric but agreed that it is a great idea, and unique in the mobile VR space.
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> How would uber get people to drive on the slow times??

They won't. You just described the benefits of Uber's system. Their driver pool scales with demand and allows for part time work.
Why would the timing indicate him not acting ethically? He might just realize that information leaks are time sensitive, that when you release them is almost as important as what they contain.
http://live.arstechnica.com/googles-104-pixel-event/ has a live-stream of the event.
>>Quite a lot of people fear dying more than they do death.

Hell yes. Kids are grown. Fat life insurance policy. I can accept having a fatal heart attack under the right circumstances :) The slow, painful fade is the thing that scares me. It's better to "burn out, than fade away."
What is the draw here?

I have been running my Nexus 5 into the ground (soldered on a new power button when the original broke) in anticipation of the next Nexus phone. Pixel is no Nexus.

Seriously, what does this have that the year-old Nexus 6P and 5X don't, other than incremental hardware improvements? And a massive price hike? Why should I buy this?

(Seriously, Google? You want $650 for a phone with a 1080p screen? I know there's benefits to a lower resolution but then why not drop the price? It's ridiculous.)

My perception is that Google no longer knows what it's doing. Reference Allo for an even better example. The company can coast on their existing products but only for so long.
I've never had that issue with a Nexus line phone. I got OS updates the day they dropped from Google.
If you ordered an at&t iphone 7 that way, it won't work because the intel modem chip in the att/tmobile versions doesn't support cdma bands: http://www.recode.net/2016/9/9/12863302/apple-iphone-7-intel...
I switched from a Z3 Compact to an iPhone SE and the 4" screen is great.
You're right, i could have been more pleasant, sorry.

I am personally offended that someone is using "We had hoped to provide this for free but need to make expenses" as a marketing strategy to make more than expenses. When others really are asking for money just to cover expenses.

It may not matter to some people. There's nothing wrong with charging money for providing a service in order to make a good profit. But the marketing is obviously targeted towards those who it _does_ matter to, if it didn't matter to anyone, you wouldn't need to give the impression that you were _not_ charging money for providing a service in order to make a good profit.

I am in the minority of HN in having this reaction I guess?
Excuse the Daily Mail link sorry and the other link is a police murder with the mayor discussing police racism. The Dutch police are very good by nearly all accounts, but it's not hard to find accounts of racism.
The UK police have a very long and much worse history of racism with the Met being front and centre (less so now than 10+ years ago though). I won't post a link for them as it is extremely easy to find many many cases unfortunately. Pick you examples with them, beatings, killings, harassment, illegal searches etc. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3163974/Boy-13-handcuffed-motorcycle-police-officer-run.html

www.nltimes.nl/2015/07/09/hague-mayor-admits-police-racism-chief-breaks-down-over-fatal-arrest/
Here's some more information from the company blog:
https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/daydream-bringing...
> Is class privilege completely nullified by racial privilege, meaning the white kid is likely to earn more than the black kid as an adult? The data doesn't show this, and puts a much heavier weight on class and geography being the bigger barriers.

What data? This is counter to any data I've seen.

> these emotionally driven discussions

To suggest that there is no rational, factual basis to racism in the U.S. is not helpful to a discussion of serious issues.
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Duplicate. Same story, a few minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637126
From: https://blog.google/products/pixel/introducing-pixel-our-new...

> Pixel comes in two sizes, 5” or 5.5”, and three colors: Very Silver, Quite Black and our limited edition for the U.S. only, Really Blue.

What's your problem Google? You keep being the only big company still pulling this "U.S. only" stuff.
Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system
Only if you're in a swing state.
I just bought an OnHub last year. WTF Google?!
They do sell iPhones in the US not tied to a carrier, but usually not until a few weeks/months after the release.
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Most probably the kidneys are vital enough yet inexpensive enough to allow a pair to exist. You do not get two hearts because that muscle is very expensive. Also because a vascular injury to a major artery will also end your life. Similar reason for the liver - too expensive and also easy to regenerate from a partial injury. The brain is well protected and partly redundant. Lungs are fully redundant and protected by the ribcage. Spleen is not critical enough, stomach can heal. The pancreas is probably an odd one.
Now that the nexus is gone what alternatives are for developer friendly phones ?
I know there's an issue with being too specific. If you're trying to get gut reactions you can't be too transparent or you bias later responses.

But I'm objecting that data was unrecoverably lost here. Most respondents (including me) report using clear rules that were incompletely revealed by the questions. That's not something you can rebuild by averaging lots of results and seeing "what people valued". I applied a specific decision tree, and reducing it to "valued lives a lot, valued law some" produces outcomes I consider immoral.

So I guess I phrased my initial complaint wrong: I think that reducing this to a statistical assessment of choices discards the most important data.
It sounds like Yahoo will fit right in at Verizon... It also sounds like another leak designed to damage Marissa Mayer:

> According to the two former employees, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's decision to obey the directive roiled some senior executives and led to the June 2015 departure of Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, who now holds the top security job at Facebook Inc.
Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
Simply put, what are your favorite talks or trainings? It could by a one-off lecture about a specific concept or a series of talks about a language. Maybe it's a TED talk or a session from a con. Either way, what's that one talk that changed the way you think and you feel everyone needs to see?
Criminal mishandling of classified material seems like it ought to be a big deal. Considering that you or I would be facing a lengthy term in Leavenworth if we did what Clinton or her staffers that haven't taken immunity bids have done.

Bribery seems very likely.

There are a number of suspicious bodies that have piled up over the years related to the Clintons.

Her husband was probably involved in more sketchy sexual situations than any other president since JFK. At the least, that should cast a Cosby-esque pall over the whole situation.
sonification of data sounds wonderful. any examples?
3G call time (minutes):[1]

HTC10: 1859
LG G5: 1579
S7: 1492
iPhone 7: 712

The results would be closer on pretty much any other test, but it's hard to do an apples to apples comparison on anything other than talk time. Most review sites still find that this generation of Android flagships have longer web browsing times than the iPhone 7.

1: https://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/smartphones/iphone-7-fi...
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> Whether or not you think they're doing public good probably depends on your perception of Hillary Clinton

This implies that one builds a perception, then evaluates information in that context. Many people do this and it is sad.

We should be using information to evaluate, and not our preconceived notions.

The only way Assange has "damaging" information for either candidate is if those candidate did something wrong and covered it up. Shouldn't we the information (once vetted) to evaluate our next president?
> I have to say, this strikes me as an odd way of filtering out bad developers.

I don't use this in my interviews, and I'm surprised everyone took this literally given that we have a weekly blog article about the villainy of technical interviews and how they destroy the very fabric of software development. I'm using a hyperbolic example to demonstrate what I perceive as a negative trait; A reach for unnecessary tooling to solve simple problems. My hiring experiences have pointed towards it being indicative of a comfortable one-trick-pony.

> Given your code example above, I wouldn't want a candidate to know the difference between each `forEach` method, but I would expect them to know that each provides a means of iterating over a set of values.

Likewise. However, if I'm hiring someone for a back end role, I'd expect them to be able to know basic SQL and not just their language's ORM. I'd expect them to be able to type `cd` and not just navigate through their IDE. I don't think there is anything different between that and the relationship of jQuery/angular and vanilla js. jQuery isn't written in jQuery. Debugging rarely stops at the script tag/require statement.
I am saying that you demonstrate why the article wasnt exaggerating. Cloverich stated that using jQuery was fine and the article was exaggerating how far it has fallen out of favor, but you have stated that anyone using jQuery is out the door when interviewing with you. Therefore theres at least a group of people that article is accurately describing
I thought it was a reference to the Beatles song Maxwell's Silver Hammer[1] from the Abbey Road Album.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_Silver_Hammer
http://bgr.com/2016/02/10/snapdragon-820-vs-apple-a9-iphone-...
I thought they were talking about fractions too, but then I realised they're probably talking about fractions of stars.
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Now that the nexus is gone what alternatives exist for developer friendly phones ?
Just as a correction, it is only Verizon as a buy from carrier method. It is being sold unlocked and directly in the US as well.
Big fan of Rich Hickey. I found most of his talks really great, and applicable beyond the Clojure universe. My favorites: "Are we there yet?" and "Simple made Easy".
Now gotta wonder if Google has succumbed to government pressure to do the same.

I'm really hoping and trusting they haven't.
OnePlus? I think that the Nexus 6P will age well if you can get it for cheap soon.

There isn't any indication that these phones will be any less developer friendly than the Nexus phones, if you don't have a problem with the price.
If intentions were horses, beggars would be eating steak. Impact matters - magical thinking does not.

What was the actual, observable impact of unabridged Wikileaks documents in court cases?
The interesting part will be for how long will the Phone + Software be supported. Now that the price is the same I think it's fair the support should be the same as the iPhone.
Anecdotes aside, let's find some data:

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/mobile-phones/1402071/best-ph...

http://www.gsmarena.com/battery-test.php3

https://www.statista.com/statistics/280508/smartphone-batter...

Looks like Apple is middle of the pack among premium phones these days. My experience was with NEXUS 4 and 5, which would often be out of juice when I needed them.
And imho, the main appeal to the Pixel is that it's Google-controlled and provides the same benefits as Apple-controlled iPhones do: timely updates, strong security, things that "just work", tight 1st party ecosystem integration, etc.

You may or may not be able to flash custom ROMs to you Pixel, but if you choose not to, you'll probably have a fairly optimal stock Android experience. If you absolutely have to have custom everything, there are hundreds of other Android handset options, which is a boon for everyone.
Not in all cases. Which is why apps have an API where they can turn it off if they want to reclaim that space for their own use.

Interestingly, no on ever figured out how to implement this trick when apps wanted to use their hardware buttons for extra screen space. I suspect this is a big reason for this particular compromise.
Thanks. For others interested, here's a picture: http://live.arstechnica.com/googles-104-pixel-event/images/I...
Ya know, I don't know why I can't remember that. She writes an article with a working title "First Preview of Google Pixel Phone", subtitled "Light on Details, but Here's What We Know" and we end up with this instead.
Google phones are updated by Google, the same way Apple phones are updated by Apple.
> Unfortunately, the protocols that enable truly traffic–analysis-resistant messaging (I believe the Pynchon Gate[1] is currently the best-of-breed) tend to have increased latency and consume greatly-increased bandwidth.

One recent project that validates this is from ACM SOSP'15 titled "Vuvuzela: scalable private messaging resistant to traffic analysis"[1] (open-access URL):

> Vuvuzela has a linear cost in the number of clients, and experiments show that it can achieve a throughput of 68,000 messages per second for 1 million users with a 37-second end-to-end latency on commodity servers.

> Vuvuzela works by routing user messages through a chain of servers, as shown in Figure 1, where each of the servers adds cover traffic to mask the communication patterns of users.

Similar to the P2P project Bitmessage[2] where clients receive and forward traffic not related to themselves.

There were some comments on HN discussing FreeNet and how it similarly forwards traffic unrelated to an individual client, but which has led to conviction by police, unfortunately.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/authorize?N93273

[2] https://www.bitmessage.org/
It sounds like the city described in the article (and others mentioned) is subsidizing Uber fares for people in the city. So, if Uber displaces public transport agencies, I suspect it'll end up being the city which gets stuck with the bill.

That said, I don't think the situation is as dire as you're describing. Getting around in smaller American cities is _already_ difficult for many people- as you mentioned, those living on very limited budgets, but also the elderly and other people that can't drive themselves around and must rely on family and friends.

So, in the end, I think it's less a matter of "replacing public transportation", and more a matter of "creating a realistic model for publicly-funded transportation in suburban and semi-rural America".

This is not to say that I'm super chuffed with Uber being the one to do it. But I can see a future where municipal governments become comfortable with the idea, which would open the door to competition, just as we've seen in major cities where there are plenty of alternatives to Uber.
I like the apple video more. The music pairing and faster cuts made for a more frenetic experience that is extremely effective at building hype.
You'd also think the officers without cameras would act.. as if they didn't have cameras. Neither question is answered.
iPhones receive OS updates for like 4 years after release where as most Android phones seem to be forgotten as soon as the next model comes out. As an Android user, this is one thing that I have to admit Apple wins at.

Not to mention the fact that Google seems to have a habit of deprecating their own apps for seemingly no apparent reason.
This line from their product announcement page indicates that even though they're teaming up to have the phone available in Verizon stores, they're also selling unlocked directly from the Google Play store:

> We’re also offering Pixel unlocked on the Google Store and, for you Project Fi fans out there, you'll be happy to know that Pixel is the latest device to work on the Fi network.
This is an extension of the new PushToCompute capabilities which makes it the easiest platform to use with native GPUs.

The original PushToCompute tutorial is here:
https://www.nimbix.net/pushtocompute-tutorial/
Some examples of when a law can be retroactively applied:

When the Securities Exchange Commission decides that something is a security, it retroactively applies the civil and criminal compliance back to 1934 because it was always a security. I mean, you can argue it in front of a judge if you want, but thats how they established jurisdiction.

Same goes for discretionary tax law at the IRS

or any regulatory agency

I agree its a problem, but if you live your life under your version of reality it is easy to get railroaded in the dragnet
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