skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally, I'm wary of Uber and it's business practices, but I am soooo ready for this. The cabs where I grew up were awful - they took forever to come and the drivers were often rude and unhelpful. I could never count on them. Plus, drop-offs and pickups at the train stations were always a nightmare.
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Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access
Why is this such a controversial term?

> Despite the name, it does not actually involve running code without servers.[1] Serverless computing is so named because the business or person that owns the system does not have to purchase, rent or provision servers or virtual machines for the back-end code to run on.
Did you test e.g. LZ4 with a prebuilt dictionary? With a good way to find substrings for the dictionary it might generalize well to other kinds of data.
But how is that any different from getting enough sleep, foregoing tobacco and unhealthy foods, etc.?
I am extremely familiar with imageboard culture, and have spent a lot of time on anonymous boards. 4chan is not "all racist." 4chan also has a lot of organized and motivated racists, which have had a particularly negative effect on its culture. The general white supremacist internet centered around Stormfront before the term "alt-right" gained any traction was openly organizing and recruiting through 4chan, and to act as if racism hasn't been a core aspect of 4chan's community since the advent of /pol/ indicates a lack of experience with the board. Let me reiterate exactly what I said: the top poster indicated that the negative aspects of 4chan would seep into the rest of the internet, and I expected that instead, the lighter negative aspects, of immaturity and trolling, would spread to the rest of the internet, while the fomenting of racism, misogyny, and overall reactionary rebellion would go deeper underground.
Anyone knows if this is gonna be the "prime" phone of choice for Project Fi in replacement of the Nexus 6P and 5X?
> Are they including deadheading in their 'utilization' metric? Half the time (or more) the car is going to be self-driving to its next pickup point.

Author here. You are completely right, I didn't include self-driving time in the second table. To correct my omission, let's add a column for 3X utilization where self-driving cars spend half of the time driving alone.

Shared self-driving car (3x)

-----------------------------

Used: 3 x 5% x 2 = 30%

Parked: 70%

Number of cars in the city: N/3

Parking places needed: (N/3) x 70% = N x 23.3%

Parking reduction: (N x 95%) / (N x 23.3%) = 4.07x

-----------------------------

So, in that theoretical case, we would need 4x less parking. However, this is just a rough calculation, for better precision you would use some traffic simulation application.

Thanks for feedback!
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Android and iPhone Users Pick Different Colleges
And yet not a single hard detail in the article as to why the headline might be true. For going on ten years we've seen the "iPhone killers" come and go, and this article does nothing to tell me why this time it will be different. Perhaps because it won't be.

Of what very few details the article outlines, they just go on about nifty hardware. Have we not learned by now that cool hardware still sucks when hamstrung by crappy software? (A Samsung logo popped in my head while writing that, don't know why.) Now, Google is no Samsung, but they're a long way from Apple or even Microsoft on the UX front.

(EDIT: the Pixel phones could be all that, but I wouldn't know it because I'm currently content with iPhones and have paid no attention to Pixel. Point is, this article does nothing to relieve my ignorance, which is why I clicked on the thing to begin with.)
/endsynopsis "Accelerando", Charlie Stross (2005)
> Burke says the company will eventually be able to ship its own custom “silicon,” a buzzword for customized processors that make devices work better.

Silicon is not a buzzword. It is the element with which the processors are built. Perhaps it's colloquial or jargonistic to refer to processors as silicon, but it's not a buzzword.
Are they keeping the nexus line or is this a replacement ?
Does the PSA ever provide false negatives?
I didn't redefine anything. I pointed out that the "median wage of all wages" does not add anything in the discussion when we're talking about skilled labor. Trying to compare skilled labor wages to all labor wages of course is going to make it seem like the skilled labor is getting paid too much. That's what's dishonest.
Winter exists in NJ
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Yeah, I mean, I agree, but I got rear-ended twice in the past year and it's changed my perspective a bit.

For what it's worth, we have also drastically reduced exposure to carcinogens for most people.
I agree wholeheartedly with this. IMO, while Wikileaks is certainly not on some untouchable moral high ground, they do good things and that's worth it for the bs Assange etc pull from time to time.
Sweden plans to extradite him to the US, where politicians call for his death.
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> we've evolved into tough bastard but we've not defeated mortality.

Well. We evolved to be a collection of cells. Before, we were unicellular organisms, fighting against other organisms for resources and ultimately, survival.

Some cells just decide to revert back to the old ways. I'd say it's a form of evolution, one that's pruned by natural selection, when the host organism dies.
There is an immense amount of software work to be done in biotech. Molecular biology research is in need of better automation, analysis, visualization techniques, and on and on. We need folks at all levels. I entered biotech as a web developer and have been able to pick more challenging problems to approach on a monthly basis. We know next to nothing about the human body. Im optimistic that tech will help out us on a stable path towards more robust research practices.
I use all of Apple's cloud services and am perfectly happy. Can you elaborate? I'm curious.

My only problem with Apple right now is they won't sell me an unlocked iPhone7 Plus. Every single person I talk to at Apple gives me a different story on how to buy one, but if I show up at the store with money, they won't sell it to me, or even reserve it. I even offered the store to just hold on to my credit card for a week or whatever and mail it back to me. They thought I was crazy! ;)
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Yes It is moving from an ODM/JDM relationship to Google being the OEM and HTC being the EMS.
I can't say enough good things about http://arpnetworks.com
They're a great provider and I relieve they offer a managed service as well as their standard unmanaged offerings.
Why would it matter if they were non-profit? Any brand confusion has the potential to harm the original brand.
It is great to see Unicode being able to encode almost every symbol people can think of, however I am still struggling to make them appear on my screen - is there a good font that has great coverage for unicode? Many times there are clever use of unicode yet I can only see empty rectangles.
Funnily enough, so many people are so polarised that anyone who can prevent themselves from being polarised is more powerful; they're the vote that politicians are battling each other for!
I agree, although my takeaway was that the way to fight them is to respond on ACLU letterhead.
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> A reasonable standard to maintain IMHO, especially for topics that are "such loaded".

Loaded perhaps. Disputed? Not with significant credibility in my opinion.

> but whether this still applies generally today I think is controversial.

I've used the past tense throughout, and even a footnote in my comment on that exact point. Nor have I referred to racism, only to institutional racism which is a very different thing.

A lot could have happened in the 7 years since the Macpherson report, but it's not "controversial" to expect evidence of change before assuming that all the problems have disappeared and everything is now completely fine.

> Are these findings public?

Yes. The one I mentioned was published last year. I don't want to post links relating to clients on here so will leave the googling to you if you're bothered.
Except for when they aren't. There are several examples of ex post facto laws that have been upheld. The Supreme Court would definitely get involved.
Part of the reason why people can learn to drive in hours is because they have been riding in cars as passengers since birth. Though new at driving, they have lots of contextual knowledge and awareness. If you took someone who grew up on a desert island and taught them to parallel park, it would take considerably longer.

Likewise, experienced web developers have years of contextual knowledge of CLIs, documentation and coding. An experienced dev can reasonably be expected to bootstrap a JavaScript app within a few hours, even if they only used jQuery in the past.
> I currently disallow donating organs upon my death, because I think if I'm a known donor, the doctors might not try as hard to revive me.

Sorry, but that really is such a nonsensical argument I'm not sure if you're serious. Why would a doctor not want to revive you? So another doctor somewhere could save a patient? Why would that be preferable to saving your life there and then? Why would the doctor risk their own career for that?

I presume that if you're refusing to donate any organs after your death, you'd refuse one if you ever needed one (unless you're a huge hypocrite). In which case, surely scenario A is far less likely than scenario B?
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> My only problem with Apple right now is they won't sell me an unlocked iPhone7 Plus

Why not just order it from the Apple Online Store?
Sad thing, to most 'muricans, even a 2 block walk is too far.

I would gladly walk 2 miles to/from work before I consider something else. In the 2-20 mile range I would glady bike yearround, as long as they keep the snow under control on the bike paths (which for example Chicago does a pretty awesome job at).

How do we change the culture of sit butt in car and push gas pedal? Killing the environment, and it is literally killing us with obesity and inactivity.
Google Goes After iPhone Users with Pricey Pixel Smartphones
So the real threat here is that the FBI wants to come in with a search warrant, install one of their famous splitters (a Windows machine btw) and routes all metadata traffic to the NSA.
To legally get contact data in real-time for one criminal under investigation. Essentially the Lavabit case.

Or is that what they called PRISM? Legal route splitting at the endpoint, i.e. legally declared as such by the secret FISA court, because there's oversight...
I prefer screen ones to hard buttons. First of all, it can make using a wallet style case awkward. Second, hard buttons click, wear out, and have other downsides. And third, they can be hidden - this gives you more real estate when you want it.
I have run into the problem discussed in the article multiple times. The first time was with Java, specifically J2EE. It isn't that these are non-existent problems, it is that all of the solutions require a full pull of the entire context. That is bad for both learning and software architecture. I was going to start moving in the J2EE direction (I knew Java itself fairly well), but I realized that getting the most basic program up and running would require knowledge about about 7-10 frameworks. That was ridiculous. Additionally, Java was terrible about framework installation at the time, so that made it even worse.

My preference, and I think it is born out by successful long-term projects, is to always keep everything to a minimum. A lot of people say things like, "that's not the optimal way" or "you could make the page load faster" or "you could integrate with xyz".

But, at the end of the day, you have to measure bang for the buck. Bootstrap - VERY high bang for the buck. Jquery, likewise. Pretty much everything else doesn't start yielding dividends until you are at a facebook-level application.

Which, frankly, is fine for Facebook-level applications. But the problem is that people are using these for everything, which is totally ridiculous. How they find people to pay for all of this is what really blows my mind.
I love 4chan. It's a bastion of raw unmitigated free speech and anonymity. Because of this, people naturally use it to say things they can't normally in public or with a account that might be linked back to their real name.

There are no points, only replies. Unpopular opinions aren't hidden. Popular opinions are boring and those threads disappear from a lack of replies. The most provocative threads are the ones which thrive. This is the exact opposite of voting sites like hacker news and Reddit.

We need a place like this to exist where people aren't saddled with long term consequences for making their real opinions known. Users on 4chan are rewarded with replies for thinking outside of the box and breaking rank.

Losing it would be a terrible loss for discourse. Sure there are lots of trolls there. Yes there is lots of racism and offensive content and gore. If you dont like that sort of thing you are free to not go there. But there must be a place for people to hash these ideas out and get unpopular opinions off their chest.

Convenient anonymity on the Internet is dying, and if it does ultimately go so will freedom of speech. Because nobody will be free to speak their mind when a deviant or unpopular opinion may incur the wrath of a targeted campaign against them to destroy their professional and private life at any point in the future. Especially when those opinions which were once common are now out of style. (See Brandon Eich or Palmer Luckey)

The lack of rules and consequences is precisely the reason 4chan has always been a creative powerhouse where trends and content are born at a rate that is unmatched elsewhere. Some of the funniest things I've read have come from the unrestrained banter between people from different countries on the /int/ (international) board.

Despite all this, it's always been difficult to keep that place above water. They need a sort of Reddit gold type epiphany.
> Against all expectations, there was no significant difference in complaints between officers wearing cameras that week and those going without.

Is no one else alarmed by this? Maybe I'm jaded by A/B testing, but if the A doesn't win or lose to the B, then I generally chalk up the effect as exogenous. Could it not be something else - anything else - that changed the number of police complaints from one year to the next?
You're forgetting the likelihood that such a lawsuit will be brought. Which isn't very high.
Do you have any examples out side products or services you've successfully sold through your business customers?

If you have a third party product you profited 100-200k I could see this a s a good buy for the right person.

Seems if I paid a few bucks on something 10 years ago and got an email pitching some else I would consider it spam. Assuming something like 1-2 cents per spam address you would need like 63M customers to justify your company valuation.
In this context someone explaining themselves would be nice, even without citations (they would be nice though). Instead I was getting downvotes for asking "why" just with a few more words.

At the moment there is no reason to believe either side and plenty of reasons to dismiss both, not as cranks, but at least as cranky.
Funny to see the americans in here torn between loving or hating the blatantly capitalistic OP ;)
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Actually what the illusion I linked to shows is that we "perceive" density by estimating it visually, and this can trump what our muscles and skin tell us about the weight of the object by means of pressure. So the answer is "both": we estimate density and weight, and what we perceive is a combination of the two, adjusted (biased) by our priors.

Specifically, a larger object with the same actual density but the same visual appearance will feel "lighter" when compared. And it's a very strong illusion, in the sense that it works even if you know what's happening.. it's very hard to shake the feeling that the larger object is lighter even though they actually weigh the same.
> A political decision to stop sabotaging technological solutions would be a good starting point.

In America, we have had those, and it hasn't helped. We have a First Amendment and a Second Amendment, and yet we have campaign-finance restrictions and gun control.

Political decisions simply don't stand. It's terribly sad.
Winter exists in Chicago. Never stopped me from walking a few miles. A normal healthy person should be able to walk 2-3 miles down to -10 degrees or so, which would cover 99.99% of the year. Yes babies and the old and the sick need something else, but the bulk of people commuting on these trains are 30-60 year old healthy (if not a bit overweight) individuals.
Laid off? The one thing you absolutely need to do on the first day
Wouldn't OWS be able to push an update specifically targeted at retrieving the necessary information to decrypt that specific user's data?
You're right that life is a marvelous gift. It is a matchless boon to be born and to live in a world of such joy and wonder as ours, and every morning I wake up in glad anticipation of another new day, and in the hope of discovering something wonderful.

But joy and wonder are not the only things our world has to offer. Misery and terror live here, too, and they have the power to turn that gift of life into a curse, and to make the occasion of waking in the morning cause not for joy, but for sorrow, because a new day brings nothing but suffering without hope of remission.

If there is one true thing our faith tells us, it is that we are more than our flesh, that there are other lives than these, and that the sorrow of death is but temporary - that death is not the end, and we will be together again, if we wish to be, in the world that is to come. This is the sine qua non of our faith. If you don't believe that, then there's no point in us even trying to have this conversation. And if you imagine yourself to be Christian and you do not believe that, then I pity you.

In light of that truth, what sense does it make to counsel that we cling to flesh when to do so brings only agony, not only to ourselves, but to those who, because they love us, cannot bear to see us suffer? Why not shrug off the burden that only weighs us down, and discover what comes next? Were death only an ending, I could only agree with you that to do so is terrible. But death comes to us all; the rest is merely timing. And if death is only an ending, then why do you bother with faith? Why should any of us ever bother with anything save nihilism, except to say: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
I love this – but does it bother anyone else that the outlined and filled stars have different sizes? What's the reason behind that?

HN strips the characters out from comments, but they're displayed in the beginning of the article.
Honestly, I have no clue about the proportion of police abuse vs. false claims. I assumed the latter was more important, but I'm probably wrong, now that I think about it.
To turn this around: why did the old phones insist that the hardware buttons take up valuable face space that could be used for more screen, where the buttons could be dynamically drawn and repositioned based on the content and orientation of the phone.
The one I'm surprised about is not the stars, but actually the bitcoin character. It's just a form of branding to me, and while I think there's interesting uses for blockchain technology, public interest seems to be a bit inflated. Plus that blockchain tech will likely outlive bitcoin itself.
They license it to businesses that cooperate with the government. It wouldn't backfire, honestly.

The fact no one has done anything major about any of the other surveillance state BS is proof enough of that.
I'm not sure about GitHub but Google insist you use naming like "X for Google Chrome" where the Google product name is in smaller letters when it's part of a logo to avoid brand confusion.
100% agree with the point "start out with this sucky stuff and then choose your framework based on what you learn about your pain points, rather than the other way around."
1) "desired" by some. not by all. not by me. i didn't mean to suggest it is a bug. i agree it is a "feature". some people may not be interested in certain "features". and to suggest that there are not many alternate solutions to a centralized synchronization solution with google at the center of it all is to either a) be blind of some of the most important IT developments in the works as well as some very established technologies or b) to simply be putting forth an argument based on the logical fallacy of a false dilemma

2) "my data" is converted to "our data", where "our" is understood to be the user, google, and anyone google "partners" with under the ToS. to the things i value, that is an important distinction. let's consider: nudie photos, dishing ish on friends, personal IP, company IP, etc. no longer mine, now ours. important distinction.
It's quite useless to state that "it doubles the trips, regardless of trip size", isn't it?

Yeah, when all directions are congested it will add a lot of very short trips.
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I realise that not everyone is in the US, but Verizon Exclusive, really?

Edit: Ah, I was mistaken. Contract exclusive, still outright.

Oops!
Probably a case of the editor providing a clickbait headline. Remember, the title author and the article authors are often not the same person.

PS Plus, it's Bloomberg. Not really expecting much in the way of technical details from them.
It isn't ex post facto if it has an effective date of 1/1/2017, regardless of what came before.
Right. UC Berkeley is following the letter and the spirit of the GPL here.
Hm. RISC-V processor?! That would be cool. Or it may just refer to some machine learning co-processor to be added to the Qualcomm SoC.
Not orbitally stable, and shares many other issues with a Dyson sphere.
And people should also eat their vegetables and floss daily. Even ignoring bad weather, the city needs to plan for transportation the way people actually behave rather than how they ought to behave.
So then how does the math work out?

Most people would not Uber for only $10 an hour, knowing that their car needs gas and depreciates.

Short term Uber can subsidize the drivers, but long term? I guess a lot of uber drivers come during the busy morning rush, but 0 come at say 1pm or 8pm when it is very slow. How would uber get people to drive on the slow times??
My thoughts too. A collaborative SoundCloud? A Git repo for music sheets?
It's synecdoche.