skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What edge does Uber have?

They have a service that already exists in the market so there's very little pivoting to be done, a brand that's recognized as a transportation network, a user-base, and I'd argue "getting an Uber" is becoming a neologism much like "Googling" is. I think those points give them a pretty strong advantage over the possible competitors.
Five Halloween Costumes for Digital Rights Activists
I do try to do my own archiving of things I'm interested in. But it's a lot of work, I don't get nearly everything I'm interested in, and I can't predict what I'll be interested in tomorrow, or what I'll need then. Not to mention there's all the things everyone else is interested in.

The best thing really is to do a wholesale archive of the whole site, and keep doing so at regular intervals. Just like archive.org is doing (at least for the sites it archives).
The frequency with which an autonomous driving system relinquishes control is one important metric for estimating the actual risk. Measures like this are better and faster than using the actual tally of catastrophic events, because there is more, and more frequent, information. Engineers working in high-risk fields have been doing this sort of analysis for decades, and there is no reason to make an exception for autonomous road vehicles.
This was his defense. I don't know exactly what code he took, of course. Here's what known:

- GS cites "500 million lines of code". This is most certainly including all dependencies (I deal with HFT systems and usually they are not _that_ complicated), so it is probably correct that 99% of the code was indeed open source.

- He uploaded the tarball with the code to his "server in Germany" (Hetzner, I presume). Sounds scary to the judges, but of course, having a server at Hetzner is perfectly normal.

- He deleted .bash_history. Quite a red flag for me.

And anyway, why repack and upload open source code as a tarball?

BTW, here's what Goldman Sachs published on Github: https://github.com/goldmansachs (GS Collections are well-known, but not a lot of code expected from a big company).
Andrea from Notion here. The web browser works pretty well and we're building an iOS app right now also. No web clipper yet but we'd consider it. :)
volatility arbitrage exists in pretty much every currency, so this isn't a vulnerability, it's a FX trade.
"A day later, Apple ended the long wait for laptop users yearning for an upgrade by unveiling a new line of MacBook Pros."

Meanwhile, they did nothing to end the long wait for desktop users yearning for an upgrade. I was expecting at least a cursory spec bump for their Mac Mini and iMac lines. I was hoping to replace my 6-year old Mac Mini sometime soon, but I don't want to do so with a 1-2 year old product.
Hmm, good point. I suspect that they'd notice if you create lots of transactions and only complete a fraction of a percent of them.
Why Did We Have to Wait a Year to Fix Our Cars?
Haha, he hasn't even seen or used one yet.

Low quality article.
NTSB has awesome investigators. Some of the smartest people I've met and worked with in my life. They are very serious and dedicated, while having to put up with a lot of roadblocks, nonsense, and other issues from both corporate America and other government agencies.

Can confirm at least though many years ago, the internal NTSB IT staff/programmers/DB were a joke. I guess that's just government though and like much of government, they relied a lot on outside contractors. For years they were a ColdFusion shop, so I'll let your mind start there.
They really blew a good oppportunity. The values they are offering are laughable.
Any chance you could start with an education component? I think most of us don't really know the nuances of a blind developer's workflow, especially which tooling breaks down where and if there is anything that is infeasible.
Unlocks the AHCI setting, so it doesn't flip back.

Meanwhile, Intel also made a driver for Linux that recognizes the RAID mode and works with that.
Damn. US only.
Cell Phone Location Data Is Off-Limits to Police Without a Warrant
Humbly and without snark, what happened to scribd that has upset people? Is it just the non-standard PDF viewer or have they been up to something underhanded?
Yea, things have changed... a lot. Back in the anti-trust days of bundling IE, bullying OEMs and undermining standards, MS was the evil empire of the day.

Now you've got Google backtracking on privacy and siphoning up user data to create ads that know you a little too well, Amazon as more threatening Walmart of the digital age, and Facebook trying to make sure that the only way you can experience the online world is through the censored lens of Facebook itself.

It makes all of the once-held fear of Microsoft dominance seem quaint.

At least Apple is still building pretty gear and killing useful ports, just like back in the day.
In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less
Function keys? How do you step into a function in xcode? F7? Continue? F6.
What about in Windows? As the right-click menu button doesn't exist, shift-F10 does what you want on a mac. But apparently this is now impossible. And I wouldn't like to imagine the wasted time in Visual Studio trying to click continue and step into etc compared with F10 and F11. I would get zero work done all day. Also on the Mac I use ctrl-F2 for the menu bar etc etc etc I cannot imagine life without function keys.

I drive projectors with my display port. I record my band with the FireWire interface on mine. I copy files off my camera with SD card (it's a Sony HX60). I use 16GB of RAM because I develop under OSX and Windows at the same time, given that Windows is running in a VM and running Visual Studio.

Basically what we're expecting is a full useful laptop that is capable of a variety of uses without additional dongles and hardware. What's the point of a slim laptop if you need a thick bag of dongles just to use it? It's truly stupid. My Mac isn't just for web browsing. And this isn't whining - it's having expectations of a device that it is not some form of glorified etch-a-sketch. If you stick the word "pro" on it, it has to be more than a consumer device.

What's next? The enter key is redundant?
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Regarding Mission Control: Do you use it from the keyboard? Is this even possible? If you use the touch pad you can summon Mission Control with a three finger swipe up. I find this very convenient.

> 1. It needlessly shifts the cognitive load from touch to sight

The Touch Bar is meant to be an input device and not a display,
or in Apples words: "Use the Touch Bar as an extension of the keyboard and trackpad, not as a display." [1]

> 2. Any function key available on the touch bar should already be visible on-screen.

Sure but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
All letters and digits are available from the screen (Character viewer) as well, it still makes sense to have them on the keyboard.

> 3. While it remains to be tested, the small touch area will likely not be accurate enough for most use-cases

Have you tried it? As it is controlled by an Apple Watch SoC it should have similar characteristics.

> 4. The touch bar is not placed thoughtfully, making its use an additional unwarranted effort (see point 2.)

The Touch Bar is an extension of the keyboard and there are not so many possibilities to place it so it can be used easily with your fingers. Where would you have placed it instead?

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us...
> So what's with the "because I need it, everyone would need it" attitude?

The problem with Apple (well, a problem with Apple; they've more than one) is that if you need more then you are completely and totally out of luck.

So it becomes 'since not enough people need it, I can't have it.'
As someone who lugged 17" lunch trays around for years, I beg to disagree.

I don't know about Apple's market research so have no idea why they think this particular configuration will appeal to the fat part of the pro-buyer bell curve.

I think you are 100% correct for photographers and music(ians/ engineers et al) in that they have big heavy cases of stuff anyway so the weight difference is in the noise.

But as a software developer I decided weight is paramount for me. Disclaimer: my development these days is mostly in the command line, with code running on remote machines, so even speed of compilation isn't as big a deal as it used to be. I had the 17" machines mainly for number of pixels on the screen and secondarily for disk space.
Consequence of the tv show ~reboot I suppose ?
> Maybe pausing DOM changes for documents that aren't visible?

We already throttle background tabs heavily in various ways.
In Lisp-1 dialects such as Scheme, macros are not in the "matrix containing normal variables".

You cannot say with a straight face that "all elements of a form are evaluated equally and then the rest values are applied as args to the first value" because the counterexample (let ((a 42) a) doesn't work that way.

The Lisp-1 has to treat the leftmost position specially to determine whether let is a macro to be expanded or a special operator. That will not happen in a form like this (list 3 let 4).

In the TXR Lisp dialect (which provides Lisp-1 and Lisp-2 style evaluation), I fix this. In the Lisp-1 style forms, macros are not allowed. So [let ((a 3)) a] is a priori nonsense. The let symbol's position is evaluated exactly like the other positions, without being considered a macro (other than a symbol macro, which all the other positions may be).

The combination of Lisp-2 and Lisp-1 in one dialect let me have a cleaner, purer Lisp-1 in which that half-truth about all positions of a Lisp-1 form being equally evaluated is literally true, always.

Lisp-2 for macros and special ops, Lisp-1 for HOF pushing: beautiful. (list list) works, no funcall anywhere, and even if let is a variable that holds a function [let 42] call the damn thing:

1> (let ((let (lambda (n) n))) [let 3])
1

The let operator is not shadowed:

2> (let ((let (lambda (n) n)))
(let ((a 'b))
[let a])) ;; let var visible across inner let
b

Basically, as far as I'm concerned, this whole Lisp-1 versus Lisp-2 squabbling is an obsolete debate and solved problem (by me).
Do you have anything in your home that you might wish to keep private? Any texts with loved ones? How about any intimate moments, whispered nothings that you would prefer not be recorded?

Oh, you say you have nothing to hide.

Do you have a bank account? An investment portfolio? College funds for your kids?

A skilled attacker can make all of that vanish.

Without many people noticing, the IoT has slowly invaded the average American home. Almost every TV is a Smart TV, internet gateways are smarter, Alexa, Siri, Cortana, light bulbs, door locks, refrigerators, thermostats...

With a little effort, an average pen tester could own your system, publish your secrets, steal your life savings, record you with your wife, and brick your iPhone, TV, and furnace just for good measure.

It's time to take IoT security seriously.

*It actually was on Mr. Robot. There was a subplot wherein Darlene compromises an E-Corp exec's smart home, causes the appliances and security system to malfunction to drive away the occupant, and then uses the place as a hideout.
My approach to this is that the comment can almost always be turned into a text. A test class called FooPCIDSSCompatibility with tests for all the bits both defines things more strongly and will start failing if you ever break it (either accidentally or because it is no longer required). Either way you need to update either code or test to get through the build process.

Comments can be useful for annotating algorithms or referencing stack overflow though.
I hate being preachy, but Problem is that despite those tools being available, I literally never use them. Ever. Nor do I have a need for them.

You don't know what you don't know.
I agree, I use one for game dev and it works great. The build quality is top notch, and the new ones have amazing specs.
They test you first, but if despite passing the test you screw up sufficiently badly later they decertify you.

It's a belt-and-suspenders system.
The second item isn't a label. Renaming "Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy" to "Book regarding intergalactic travel with british humour" wouldn't be better.
I really hope the Windows Subsystem for Linux continues being expanded; having Linux natively on Windows approaches the best of both worlds.
A single phone poll of "a random national sample of 874 likely voters" (1 in every 350 thousand) does not a fact make in a nation of 300 million people. Sample size is just too small. Such a study would have to be repeated with a larger sample.
Propane has a very strong odor added to it (by the propane manufacturers), which means it'll be pretty damn obvious the moment you enter a propane-rich environment.
Still, the way the hinge does not make the screen rest flat against the bottom makes me a bit uncomfortable about compressing the closed laptop. It's a machine to be handled with care. It certainly can't tolerate the abuse a MacBook can.
It takes more courage to only allow 16 GB.
It was a secondary discriminating sensor, but the latest Autopilot 8 upgrade retasks radar to be "a primary control sensor without requiring the camera to confirm visual image recognition": https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-...
Due to Intel Management Engine - basically a binary blob, that you don't know what it is doing.

T400 is Core 2 Duo machine and works without IME. T420 is i5/i7 machine and IME is a requirement and you cannot make a BIOS replacement without it.
The NPR article linked below links a better one for discussing the history of presidents campaigning:

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/05/484817706/looking-back-at-a-ce...

McCain in 2008 and Gore in 2000 both sort of wanted the sitting president to stay out of the campaign. Bush was pretty unpopular and Clinton had a lot hanging over him (Bush left office with an approval rating around 30%, Clinton around 60%).

Reagan campaigned timidly for Bush I.

So in the last 40 years, it hasn't been very common for the sitting president to come out and campaign hard for their parties candidate. Of course they have generally campaigned for themselves, which has a similar issue of dealing with who pays for things.
He tweeted at three a.m. that people should look for a non-existent sex tape because he got his feelings hurt that a model he called fat was publicly supporting Hillary.

I for one hope our president isn't concerned about how much models weigh. And if they are, I hope they don't respond to criticism by slut-shaming that person, especially for something they didn't do. So, no suggesting at 3 am that people investigate the sex life of someone who attacked him isn't very presidential.
True. I have never said "what this laptop needs is to be thinner" whilst working on it. I have never ever said that, and I was happy with thick laptops a million years ago. We want features, not just slimness.
It's not pre-minded, but 10% that are mined will go to the company.
Well, I prefer a tiling WM over Gnome 3, and I prefer Debian Stable over Testing for anything I need to work on, but that's probably good enough for most folks.
Sure. In the US there are ~8 fatalities per 1 billion vehicle miles. Let's see some documentation from him that show he can beat that rate.
> Caucasians are a category that can be selected from that list too, right?

Not according to Gruber[1]:

UPDATE: Their filter lets you screen out Asian-Americans, African-Americans, and Hispanics, but it doesn’t let you screen out white people? How did anyone at Facebook think this was a good idea?

[1]https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-lets-advertisers...
One thing you're missing is how the market came to them, partly through their own making. Laptops and PC's looked "corporate" Apple products (blue, pink, green computers anyone?) looked decidedly uncorporate. The iPhone looked so not like a Blackberry (with it's accompanying belt holster!) However, the "consumerization" of IT meant sleek personal design was preferred to corporate design. The iPhone helped breakdown that wall and now MSFT and others went out the side door and are reentering as consumer looking devices.
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One thing you're missing is how the market came to them, partly through their own making. Laptops and PC's looked "corporate" Apple products (blue, pink, green computers anyone?) looked decidedly uncorporate. The iPhone looked so not like a Blackberry (with it's accompanying belt holster!) Hope, the "consumerization" of IT meant sleek personal design was preferred to corporate design. The iPhone helped breakdown that wall and now MSFT and others went out the side door and are reentering as consumer looking devices.
There's an interesting similarity with Air France 447 in your description -- a crash caused by information overload and the normal assist system going into an alternate mode.
I believe it's in the Preamble:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Keeping its citizens safe would likely fall under general welfare.
Malcolm Gladwell hosted a podcast recently called "Revisionist History". In one episode, "Generous Orthodoxy" (http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/09-generous-orthodoxy) that explored dissent, Gladwell states that we must "respect the body we're trying to heal".

I haven't been able to get that statement out of my head since I heard it. It's simple, elegant and slightly profound. It (respect) is also precisely what is missing in the tech industries rallying cry around disruption.

Study and learn why an industry has evolved the way it has before you criticize it as "backwards". In doing so, you may very well gain a deep sense of respect for it.
The math example is more informative when it's not something trivial. For example, take the following notion about a sequence of X:

∀ e, ∀ d, ∃ N : ∀ n > N, P(|Xn - Y| > e) < d.

A more human way to say this is that eventually, we will become arbitrarily confident that X is arbitrarily close to Y. This is the notion of convergence in probability, and the formalism of that concept is way easier to process with a little human explanation. Density of notation helps sometimes, but not always. When the math isn't trivial, it's the case here too.
Lenovo laptops suck more than Apple, they not even able to plug Thunderbolt 3 port into the laptop, not a single port. No frame less laptops like Dell XPS or HP Spectre x360 (both have been recently updated to the Kaby Lake CPU). Lenovo is outsider.
hmm! Nice find. That Precision 15 5000 Series looks like it has fhd antiglare screen too, and can be configured with up to 32gb ram. A bit pricey but might be worth it.
It'll do both.

On the one hand, there'll certainly be some people who like the convenience VR brings. The possibility of visiting a virtual museum without leaving the home or (in many places) having to pay any entrance fees or what not. Some uses of VR (as the article referenced in the link says) will act as alternative ways to learn about the past. Like by experiencing historical artifacts and structures as they were thousands of years ago.

But at the same time, a lot of people go to museums because they want to see the 'real thing'. They don't want to see a 3D picture or hologram of a vase from a few thousand years ago, but the actual vase from said time. Or the actual sarcophagus/mummy of a long dead Egyptian pharaoh.

And at the end of the day, to these people, VR is 'fake'. Like TV, movies, literature or video games are. In fact, it's best not to compare VR and museums with the internet and libraries, but with museums and recreations of historical sites.

Because the latter exists. There are lots of places where you can say, experience life in a small village from Biblical times. Yet these don't replace museums, because they're closer to a theatrical performance than a history lesson.

It won't replace museums, it'll act as another way for people to learn, and (as people say) might be integrated into the museums and even original historical sites as a way to experience things from a news perspective.
Most of the "difficult parts" have almost nothing to do with the kinds of textbook algorithms and dynamic programming trivia these sites test.
The original iMac with its 2 USB ports was unusable for anything but the simplest tasks. It was equal to a dumb terminal.
Is there a reason why the company spells their name with an "e" instead of an "o"
Traction.
How to make e-mail encrypted for everyone
His particular endeavour is specifically outlawed (e.g. blocking the rear view mirror). The NHTSA is simply trying to establish whether or not he complies with the existing regulations - clearly, he doesn't.
Ignore the domain but... try this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/

It is a remarkably high signal to noise community.
> 10% for founders = 50 billion dollars. Isn't that just, a bit, ambitious in your opinion?

If they can provide 1% of global transaction services for 100 years then sure, $500 billion seems super reasonable.

I mean, that's about 10x of a SnapChat or an Instagram.
Where are your services hosted?
A computer is just a tool. It's not as important as what it enables you to do.
Someone needs to be given a lollipop?
Skype on Linux is currently abandonware and can't do multi party video calls, but MS is writing a new client which is alpha now. Still, the current client keeps working for multi party audio calls and one to one video calls and screen sharing, doesn't have ads. More important, it can be configured not to have all that white space around the messages. I can see two or three times as much messages than the Windows version. Sadly the new version seems to be like the windows and macos ones.
I've just started following along with the quick-start tutorial, and I have to say that the presentation is quite fantastic.

Combining the source, tutorial documentation and program output along with the ability to selectively enable blocks of code makes for a unique experience that I haven't seen elsewhere (Jupyter Notebook comes quite close, however). I recommend anyone reading this to give it a shot: http://play.witheve.com/#/examples/quickstart.eve

It's a shame the majority of the posters here seem to be preoccupied with the tagline, rather than the actual project.
IMHO, this is a marketing attempt to get the word out that Surface Pro/Book are competing for the same market as the Macbook <whatever>. They could spend a lot of money on advertizing and try to reach end users, or come up with a scheme like this where they might not actually fork out too much money and let news media do the job for them. At the sortof discounts they'll actually end up giving on average, its a win for them irrespective of how many people actually make use of the offer.

(Quite clever, methinks)
Ugh, wish they did the same thing as apple. Use the previous generation skylake with a decent GPU. qhd (let along 4k) is quite a few pixels for such a weak GPU.
As long as it has little icons you can click on, things should work out ok?