skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand correctly it's like the Menu Bar, so only the application that's currently in focus will get to display stuff on it; they won't be able to hijack it from the background.

Frankly, if an app insists on showing me ads while I'm using it, I'd rather that they be on the Touch Bar instead of the main screen.
That matches my intuitive opinion about it. And it only gets worse with the sharing economy. As soon as you choose your peer, it introduced human judgement.

One interesting thing would be to measure which race is the most racist, so we can sensibilize the right population.

Another interesting thing would be to have objective metrics to judge whether a transaction went well (whether the passenger was at the predefined location, on time, and whether the car was used with care).

I'll say it: Sometimes racism is based on a correct evaluation of the risk. So what can we do to diminish the risk?
https://correctrecord.org/
It looks like the developers want people modifying their code to contribute back, either by giving back the changes or by paying them (they offer an option to purchase a more permissively-licensed version).
What do you guys think is the best-case scenario for this project?

Like if everything goes well, how do you imagine it will affect the web in 5-10 years? What are we going to be able to do with it?
Unlike Netflix, Plex doesn't have any interest in directly controlling content, so I'd be really surprised if they didn't participate. tvOS/iOS TV app integration would be a great selling point for the Plex Cloud and Plex DVR premium features.
We took a look at the operating systems out there, and realized it had been over 25 years since the major operating systems had been written. 25 years is a long time to accumulate baggage, not to mention the leaps and bounds by which the hardware has evolved during that time.
The HTML5-style shields are the most practical options. They fit with other web technologies, and they don't try to obscure the name of the project like the logos in the first comment (Pointing arrows and "assembled" people? Really?).

Also, the "negative space" logo is incredibly slick, and I'd love to see it used on some project even though the HTML5-style shields are more practical for WASM.

Fogaccio's binary-inspired WA ligature looks really professional, too.
I've frequently thought about it in terms of whether people consider the "average" stimuli to be potentially harmful or harmless - something that would take seed early in someone's childhood (with potential genetic factors as well). An "introvert" or "extrovert" would just be a heuristic to define someone's general state of mind - I know many introverts who have extroverted personalities in certain situations, and many extroverts who act like introverts in other situations.
What would class as a real difference?
> How many phones do you own that are 100 years old? How many of those charge with Micro-USB?

Not sure about 100 years old, but I can tell you my past 6 phones have all charged with Micro usb. The Blackberry Storm and the Blackberry Storm 2, a Moto Droid, LG G2, Nexus 4, and my current Samsung phone. I can still use the same charger, both wall and car, I got with my LG, with my current phone.
The presumption there is that the UI differences are at the skin level, and not tied to behavior, application architecture, toolkit decisions, etc.

The other approach they could take is the Mono/.net approach, which is to have some core domain logic, and then use that as a back-end for multiple independent UIs. A well-designed back-end allows the UIs to be relatively lightweight and hopefully maintainable.

The trouble is, some of what makes "existing Linux desktop staples" is non-trivial UI work. And sometimes adding a back-end front-end split can add a lot of complexity.

In the end, I think the reason we see such division on the question of custom app VS custom skin VS reusable back-end is that there are serious trade-offs in each direction.
For now, few video streams are anywhere near 100mbit.

App downloads would be faster for the tiny slice of people with > 100mbit internet who also aren’t using wireless. I guess that’s something? Probably not worth a smaller margin to Apple.
90% of users consistently and/or constantly look at and/or check their keyboards with the new touchbar. That sounds so AWESOME! Thumbs up! /s

The touch bar is a regression.
Really? You know what I expected on the keyboard? The escape key, but clearly Apple didn't have a problem with violating that expectation.
Mass Surveillance of Cell Phone Data by AT&T Service Provider
That appears to use https://github.com/WebAssembly/polyfill-prototype-1, which does not match the current binary format at all.

The current way to do the equivalent would be to use Binaryen's asm2wasm tool.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen
The abstract states "[p]eer transportation companies such as Uber and Lyft present the opportunity to rectify long-standing discrimination or worsen it", but the study appears (from my quick glance) not to have directly compared Uber, Lyft, and taxis with the same methodology. The (scant) evidence regarding likely racial discrimination by taxis seems to indicate that Lyft and Uber are much less discriminatory.
The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
Games are the first type of application to use this, but won't be the last. If you can run AAA games in a browser, you could run Photoshop, Maya, programming IDEs, and other professional tools. It's not just another framework.
Well, if you like science fiction, you should read some of his works. He is a mathematician and computer scientist who has written some fascinating science fiction. "A Fire Upon the Deep" is probably his best and most famous work. Imagine that in different parts of the universe people can have different intellectual abilities because of different physical laws. And we are living in the slow zone.
There are so many dirty things coming out about Clinton every day, it's hard to keep track. In a normal campaign cycle this would be huge news.
These comments make me feel almost like a Luddite. I don't fear technology, but I fear technologists and their apologists.
You can also learn it by playing the game.
Sure looks like it isn't, at least not when the story at hand is...inconvenient for certain parties.

Quickly killed threads include https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840068 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12840251
6 Email Subject Lines to Say Thank You to Your Customers
The article mentions two instances where Clinton received questions before a public appearance, yet in both appearances those questions weren't asked. I think we need some more evidence before pitchforks come out.
The science of this had better be a phenomenal breakthrough. By most conventional means, a 300 baud modem is the most you can manage over an HF link consistently. The shortwave spectrum isn't that big so there will be throughput bottlenecks.
Transmission is a newsletter about self-driving cars
Interesting, but the standard deviations of the metrics are as large or larger than the mean in every case. Also, there is a lack of trend between independent replicates.

So, very noisy data to say the least. I think their taxi figure in the appendix highlights the problem of discrimination much more clearly than their analysis of this dataset.
Clinton has been handed such an easy election- her opponent has made every mistake in the book, and then even made up new ones no one expected- and still, Clinton resorts to dumb things like this to try to get ahead. Why? For what purpose?

If this is for real and she loses, she'll deserves it.
2012. Still very relevant though.
No. Trump is much better than someone who will be arrested.
FOSS is a "thankless vocation" because it chose to be that way. Everyone who expects a thank you is an idiot and doesn't understand how people work. Linus Torvalds created the Kernel not for the thanks. His intention was that someone else has any use of it. Anyone who contributes bullshit code to the Kernel was and will be criticised even more severe than I with my rants here. Not because Linus isn't thankful, but because his project is important to him.

Now, with the above said, I also like it when people find any use of my software and I feel well damn responsible for anything I contribute. I take the blame if anything goes wrong and if I'm not able to keep up with bug reports. But somehow the FOSS-community got the idea that it's okay to just abandon a project, because no one wants to participate anymore. Once they've established a certain circle of users it's their goddamn responsibility to keep it running! It's a moral choice here, not a rational! It doesn't matter whether they have time for it or don't! You do not abandon your child when it becomes annoying and a burden.
Besides the value, how these companies avoid copyright problems? It's literally pirate bay but they host themselves.
Run Xbox and PsP Games in Android
I can't tell if this comment is sarcastic. Are you saying that apple's specified design is always better than anything else?
I would like to see a built-in natural-language interface so I can, for example, "ps -elf | grep something" with a voice command.

In the future we will need these interfaces so if this is built in to the OS that would be nice advantage :)
Flipping Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them:(2014) [pdf]
So you can transfer style from image A to image B. What I want to know is, can you use style transfer to "amplify" image A's style to, say, 500%?
> I want dynamic, context-aware buttons.

The buttons on your keyboard are already context aware. All this does is make them difficult/impossible to touch type (I touch type my F-keys), forces me to look away from my display to perform operations, and removes the good tactile feedback you get from a keypress.
I have real friends outside of work thank you very much, if you're my coworker please help me by doing a good job so I can go hang out with them.
Doubtful, mostly because there just isn't that much ad-supported software on OS X / macOS. And Safari certainly doesn't expose any access to it.
"Don't be creative with this new tool we made for creative people" -Apple

Typical Apple restricting the ecosystem. Guess we all knew what we were getting ourselves into.
I like your attitude. It doesn't matter if the DJ's job is easy or not, as long as people are happy with it. I don't think that's a widespread idea though: people think making a DJ set takes both enormous talent and loads of work.

I think it's because we react in such an emotional way to the music, that it'd seem odd if just about anybody could manipulate us in this way. And people pretend as if the work required to perform music had some kind of inherent value: if it took you half a lifetime to learn, it must be good, and vice versa. Plus, fandom is both familiar and entertaining.

That said, I'm not sure pretentiousness is that rare in either EDM fans or DJs: https://youtu.be/hOj0E_ryI2U?t=64
Is Finishing Side Projects Hard for You Too
You can submit it to get whitelisted here:
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>"Become a millionaire by just following my 7 simple steps!"

Looks legit Medium.com to me
I am not apologizing for anyone. It should be rather unsurprising that men are more violent to taxi-drivers than women, as men are incarcerated at a rate between 10-30 times higher than women.
How Ravers Became the New Flower Children
> That "function keys can do anything" is, in my opinion, the exact reason they had to go. They're scary for the typical user.

Then make the whole screen touch enabled and bypass the silly, tiny screen gimmick.
> why isn't this post on the frontpage?

Although it is important news, is it really a topic HN is interested in and does it have hackernews value? I'd say no on both counts.
How are they going to control this for non-App Store apps?
I'm not sure why cars eventually get scrapped, but I have a 13 year old car with 130k. Other things started breaking which make driving bothersome. Cloth started drooping from the headliner, the glovebox got loose and stopped closing, leather seats crack. I'm happy that cars last longer and longer, but I'm not sure how practical 400k is for any car unless a lot of care is put into it.
it's not a naive question, it's what's on a lot of people's minds, including mine..:)
Thanks for the spread sheet.
How many Uber drivers are black? It is not a discrimination if black discriminates against black.
I'm not sure why this would be flagged and tagged dead, I vouched for it.

As a matter of respect for the HN medium, you don't flag articles you simply "don't like". That said, this seems like important and relevant discourse.

While this article is technically "Off-Topic" [1]; with all the discussion over YC's Peter Thiel supporting Trump, I'd expect something as black-and-white as this to be non-controversial.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm deeply saddened that so many people I look up to and admire, publicly support Clinton. People like Brian Cardarella, DHH, Zed, Katz, Tom Dale...

Even pg, for some reason! https://twitter.com/paulg/status/786511993855352833

"These people are so smart, how can they be so blind?" Then I start second guessing myself, "maybe I'm the one who's wrong here?"

But the closer we get to election day the more it becomes clear that Clinton _is_ a poor choice and has successfully framed a great choice for president as a "racist mysoginist xolyphone polymorphy demoagog facist archanite."

So now I ask, "why do they still support her"?

Edit: This was flagged, I vouched for it. Nothing controversial about it. It's black and white.
Bringing the Drugstore Home: An Interview with Deanna Day
I don't think it's lack of confidence. It's just a realistic acknowledgement that it's a small start and in fact was unlikely to be useful. But he wanted feedback on how to make it useful.

I think Linus is just a practical person who is good at assessing reality. He doesn't get caught up in grand visions without action.

I don't think he is holier than thou now either. He's just busy and forcefully trying to get contributors to come to grips with things he has learned by experience on his project.

I've never really heard Linus preach about other people's projects, except where he intends to do better like svn. His advice is limited to the kernel as far as I can tell, and it's perfectly rational for him to be opinionated about that, because he has skin in the game.

In contrast, Stallman will preach about other projects -- in fact that is his main purpose. So I can see why people would call him holier than thou, but I don't see it with Linus. I do appreciate Stallman to a great degree too.
So a programming language walks into a bar and says, “Hello World”
She may have seen it as an "OMG art project" but Tobias surly saw it as "How to Make a Popstar 101".

She also happened to ride the wave of "we need more female DJs" (Jan 2014):

http://thump.vice.com/en_au/article/the-reason-there-arent-m...

The hook for promoters was that it was a twofer - two female DJs on the flyer for the price of one.

What she doesn't get is that everyone doing EDM thinks it's a joke too. Nobody takes it seriously (except getting best time slots).

I guess what I'm stuck on is, what was the "art" in the project? Being a DJ or fooling everyone? Seems like it could be a case of imposter syndrome, but I'll bet it's simply clickbait.
They always need to consider crime rates in these studies. One was posted about Amazon Prime a while back showing they weren't delivering to a number of mostly-black areas. This they said was evidence of racial discrimination. They didn't mention that those areas, which I recognized, were a bunch of "hoods" very high in violent crime and theft. Most truck drivers will resist going into such places not to mention liability or cost conscious companies. So, the truth about them avoiding dangerous areas got distorted into them just being racist.

Need to always account for that. In this case, they're talking Seattle and Boston. I don't know how much crime is involved in these areas or what amount of the study happened in ghetto areas. If these were minimal, then it would be evidence of racism. If not, then crime angle has to be examined.
You are incorrect. From Bloomberg:

>A day before the March 6 debate sponsored by CNN in Flint, Brazile allegedly wrote Podesta and Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton campaign’s communications director, that a woman from the town “has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint.”
During the town hall, Lee-Anne Walters, who had a son who had stopped growing and a daughter who lost her hair, asked Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, her primary rival, whether they would “make a personal promise” to make the removal of lead a requirement for public waters in their first 100 days in office, according to transcripts of the debate provided by CNN. Both did.
Now we need some kind of object recognition-enhanced version of style transfer that learns constraints on what "makes sense" given "sensible" labeled/captioned training examples!
> is designed to break even with costs to running the App Store

They've paid out 50 billion USD to app developers since the beginning of the app stores (1).
Since they are taking 30% of the profits, are you saying it has cost them around 21 billion USD to run the appstore?

(1) http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12371006/app-store-50-billi...
I'm pretty sure its only talking about App Store apps.
It's a gathering point for hackers - of course it would be flagged.

/s
Think different... as long as it is well within the defined manufactures guidelines.
"This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3). Minoca offers alternative licensing choices for sale. Contact info@minocacorp.com if you or your company are interested in licensing this software under alternate terms."

https://github.com/minoca/os/blob/master/LICENSE

Basically, the old MySQL business model.
After reading that, it seems like it is going to be a low-throughput network. There's only so much space you can occupy with a signal between those band markers without conflicting with other spectrum users. Even if you multiplexed a couple conventional signals you'll still wind up below EDGE-type throughput.
Consider a world where you are assigned a random phrase (i.e. "Correct Horse Battery Staple") when you request a ride. The driver is never shown a name. When they are shown the set of people they could pick up, they are not shown a photo or passphrase until they accept the ride. As soon as they accept your ride, they are shown your passphrase and your photo (the former to ensure that they are picking up the right passenger, and the latter to ensure that a previously vetted passenger isn't cheating and providing their account to someone else / buying a ride for someone else).

Wouldn't this go a pretty long way towards removing obvious sources of discrimination?
I mean the old MS servers are 9.5" wide and the new Skylake servers need to be wider than that so they're going to 19". Facebook/Google/Rackspace use a 21" rack but MS and LinkedIn are using 19".
While the questions might not have been asked verbatim, they were very inline with the topic that was hinted.
Would be cool to put a code editor minimap on the touch bar.
>You can share stuff and then not reply to people's comments.

Good. That's what I meant in the original comment: "Make what you want and don't actively share it". Share if you want but don't waste time sharing/commenting/documenting/crowd pleasing.
Less known, but also important is the 30-70 or 50-70 time, which is actually even more impressive in the Bolt, due to no lost time to downshifting and engine spooling.
That's not just capitalism; that's all systems.

If you had a great new idea in the Soviet Union, for example, do you suppose you would be just given the resources necessary to execute it well? Of course not, and moreover the incumbent solutions were a lot better positioned to crush your novel way of doing things in order to protect their own positions than the incumbents are under capitalism.
Yeah the Fogaccio one is one of the better ones. It also has the domain-specific benefit of working great as ASCII art. That's not usually a requirement of logos but it's a nice benefit here.
Here's the other one they link to in passing, just for reference:

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https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/38478

Subject: One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash

Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint. Folks, I did a service project today. It's so tragic. And what's worse, some homes have not been tested and it's important to encourage seniors to also get tested. Sent from Donna's I Pad. Follow me on twitter @donnabrazile

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Reading /r/wikileaks has been fascinating this year. There are all sorts of things going on, like Tim Kaine having been assured of the VP nomination a rather long time ago and speculation that this was why he stepped aside so that Hillary could pass the top DNC spot over to DWS and effectively take control.

There were also emails showing how early they planned to backstab Bernie. One Bernie "supporter" appears to have doing it for the sole purpose of being in a position of drawing the Bernout vote back to Hillary afterwards. Not to mention how they planned to make people feel like he "won" something in the end:

"So if we "give" Bernie this in the Convention's rules committee, his people will think they've "won" something from the Party Establishment. And it functionally doesn't make any difference anyway. They win. We don't lose. Everyone is happy."

https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5423

There's a good, long list of the Bernie/DNC-related emails here if you want more with links to the original emails.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/wikileaks-emails-clinton-berni...
Can you provide any reputable data that proves this to be accurate? Please share the link or provide evidence, otherwise you are exasperating the problem that the article outlines.
no, but averaging over most developers it's way better.
How would that be different than just putting ads right on the main display?
Dose of humility? Questioning American exceptionalism? I wonder why there was $3.2 million spent on hats saying the except opposite? [0] And how do you make a country normal again by electing someone that broke all the rules for normal political behaviour?

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/25/do...
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But "full colour multitouch interfaces" are awful compared to keyboard keys! Getting to switch back to my mouse + kb after using my phone is so fantastic.

This bar is all the bad stuff about a touchscreen (limited/no tactile feedback, reduced ability to rely on muscle memory) plus the bad stuff about keyboards (primarily that they are not where your eyes are naturally). There are a few tiny niche uses cases that will be nice, like video scrubbing, but 90% of the time it's just going to be functionality that is more difficult to use than it was previously.
We've generated an awful lot of waste and not a whole lot of progress.

For some to succeed, others must fail. It's not possible to keep every CPU design ever conceived in production. PowerPC lost. There's not an infinite amount of software engineering resources to support every discontinued architecture.

I'd go back to one of these old machines in an instant if it didn't mean that reading articles on the web would be so painful.

If you really feel strongly, this is an opportunity for you to get involved in Linux maintenance.