skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, none of the examples you gave above is good enough for me to give me location information to Uber (or any other company). I'm sure you have the best of intentions as an engineer to improve your service (and so do your co-workers), but I (and a lot of others) don't trust any company with sensitive personal data.

I can understand if you gave the "Always" option in addition to the "While Using" option with this explanation, but strong arming your users to give an all or nothing choice is bad.
How to Conduct the DC Bias Test for Single-Phase Power Transformer
> best-supported Lisp Machine operating system analogue

Hardly. GNU is far from anything Lisp Machine. The Lisp Machine was never a system hacked up by scripts running on top of some Unix copy with a fancy name.
I gotta agree with Schulz on one thing, whole milk for espresso drinks. If that's the way the Italians do it, then that's the way to do it.
Windows 10 market share growth just barely has a pulse
Smart Working Guide (Italian)
Post-snowden? We all know about it but the power abuse still happens.
You're the only person with the balls to show it. Thanks. There are so many willing to deal with what it takes but the most important thing is for people to bust out the qwerty and speak.
Member when Uber hired teams to book and ditch rides with their competitors? Member when they hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on a plaintiff who was suing them?

I member.
> For me, I go to and from home, the gym, and work. Every day. If someone was looking at that data, I'd be creeped out, but they'd learn almost nothing about me.

Ha, this sounds exactly like "I have nothing to hide, so I'm okay with the NSA gathering all of my data".
> I spent around three days on my presentation, mainly because I did it in LaTeX instead of PowerPoint, as any sane person would in about one tenth of the time.

This was the only part I could completely identify with. Perhaps even using Google Slides would have been acceptable! But what geek could resist the allure of Beamer... :)
Yeah, that's a dark pattern. It should default to not tracking me after the ride is done.
Insurance prices are often approved by state regulators. It requires approvals and the state provides backstops and other safeguards. Prices in the insurance industry are pretty controlled. This even goes so far that despite there being a state backstop to many forms of insurance, a broker or agent aren't allowed to even mention this safety net without violating ethics laws. As for "why", I'm not completely sure. My guess here is it's to minimize the chance of the state needing to get involved with bailouts and to reduce competition so that companies don't take on unreasonable risk playing the odds that they'll make it through another year on the happy path without paying claims.
"How diverse is a block of students with an age variance of 12 months, with little exposure outside of that band?"

Very. My daughters classmates are certainly more diverse than the kids she could meet through me, or the kids she met in karate or other extracarricular activities, (which all were nothing more than acquaintances).
also, after kindergarten, they have experience with the older students.
I'm thinking of the handful of formatting that Slack already supports, but only via weird markup. Text entry apps have been using Ctrl-I for italics for at least 25 years. I shouldn't have to remember whether this retrograde webapp expects me to wrap italicized text in underscores, asterisks, or slashes.

This kind of thing can also be annoying in sites like Hacker News--e.g. when I try to use an actual asterisk a couple of times and the damn thing italicizes a big random chunk of my post instead--but HN at least has the excuse of a consciously minimal interface. Slack coats itself in slick, modern UI but makes you type emphasis like it was Usenet. It shoves giant obtrusive thumbnails into the chat every time someone posts a URL, but doesn't let you make an actual hyperlink. It's minimal where it should be complex, and complex where it should be minimal.
Go GC pauses – from 300ms in Go 1.4 to under 1ms in Go 1.8
I don't buy that at all. Location data certainly is not recorded for (most) taxi rides today.

A receipt is the piece of paper or electronic record showing how much your trip cost.

Show me an example of someone using trip data as a primary form for handling CC dispute. Please also back up your statement that trip data has to be kept forever for government compliance.

Lastly, what if my driver and I both want to delete trip data? Per your argument, is there an existing option to delete trip data then? I didn't think so.
> is that you end up getting absurdly unqualified people teaching their kids...

Do you think schools are any different? I kid you not, do you know who teaches in Engineering Colleges in my place. People just out of college. Yea right. Professional courses taught by people just out of college...
I would love to get into hacking/tinkering based on processes like MBE/CVD etc. Does anyone know where to get started in terms of reading, what are the options for a hobbyist?
Calling bs on "uber as a company is very ethical" and "nothing nefarious is going on":

Spying on a journalist: http://www.businessinsider.com/ubers-new-york-manager-invest...

Tracking celebrities and sharing publicly: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/03/god-view-...
I look PH as a very good place to promote products, and it's born to promote products. No matter it's a good or bad product, they all don't want to miss a chance to reach their customers.

> True users vote for USEFUL and/or LOVELY products for themselves, growth hackers try their best to drive users vote for specific products.

I can't see that's good or evil, growth hacking may hurt the community, or may bring a lot of users and traffic in a short period.

And I think every community has possibility to become a place for growth hackers if it needs to attract more users and grow bigger.

Just like every corner has possibility to become a place for advertisements. If I don't like it, I just ignore it. And that also makes opportunity for competitors or products like ad-block to stand out.

Anyway I love PH and really feel sad for the acquisition.
Black Mirror, s03e01 in reality.
Now I really want to post this to /r/politics or one of the jill stein subs, with a title like "PENN VOTING MACHINES COULD HAVE EASILY BEEN HACKED, THE VOTES ARE INVALID".

It would get upvoted, perhaps to the front page, and then news outlets would likely pick up the story.
Read my post again.

TLS 1.1 & 1.2 are not enabled by default therefore will not work regardless of compatibility. Try it.
Getting tired of all these political posts. I come to HN to get away from Trump.
I'm not against throw away accounts, I adhere to the idea of free speech anonymity provides. But if HN was a video game with a karma mechanism, I'd make it so users can't get around that central mechanism...
I hate that name because they do NOT run on nuclear waste - you have to make nuclear material specially for them. Ordinary waste from a power plant will not work!

Anyway I think they use carbon for its electrical properties, not the strength.
Is it okay for them to offer $1 tickets until they gain enough market share?

No "until", the point is that they would offer $1 tickets forever, it's just that they would only lose money while they scaled. So competitors would still be screwed even after the "dumping" part.

And in a sense, isn't any new business temporarily "dumping" its products? If you're a solo founder writing and selling a SaaS product for $20/month, your income won't pay for the costs (e.g. your salary) until you get enough customers. Is that dumping? What if the competitors' products all cost $1000/month?
LibreOffice UI test tutorial (part 2): Improve the introspection library
Israeli government’s call for mandatory biometric ID system met with backlash
Just wondering, are there virtualization/sandboxing apps/solutions that would let me create full emulated mobile environments into my phone and control all the sensor data that the environment is seeing?
I've thought about homeschooling for middle school specifically because of what you're talking about. That time is just the worst.
Yup. Money can make anyone into a sociopath.
I went to public school through grade 7, and my parents pulled me out to home-school me through high school.

It worked out really, really well for me. Most immediately, it relieved a bunch of social pressure to "fit in". My curriculum was self-paced so I was able to work through the material I already knew at a fast clip. I did grades 9-12 in 3 years instead of the typical 4, and was able graduate the same year as my then-girlfriend, now-wife (hold the jokes please, she's not my sister).

Beyond my personal experience being home-schooled, I'm now a father of 5, and I think the biggest thing missing from the other comments in this discussion is the concept that the education of children is just one of the many responsibilities of parents.

As a parent, it's your personal job to make sure your children are fed, clothed, bathed, socialized, educated, moralized, understood, and secured. Everyone worries about the "socialization" of home-schooled kids. But the parent who is taking an active interest in the education of their child is almost certainly also taking an active interest in their child's social development.

I think it's rather more likely that parents today are all too happy to abdicate and outsource those responsibilities to whatever institution is willing to take them on.

Don't get me wrong. That we have freely available public education is undoubtedly a great thing. The capacity to read and write effectively and to think critically is an amazing economic mobilizer. There's a reason slave-owners in the deep south wanted to keep their slaves from learning to read. But having that education available is supremely preferable to having it mandated by the state.
"Uber collects your location data from the time of trip
request through five minutes after the trip ends, including
when the app is in the background" -- Uber.

Is this legally gray, or am I paranoid?

Not-scary Interpretation 1: Uber collects location data from t_0 to t_1 regardless of whether or not the app is in the background.

Scary Interpretation 2: Uber collects location data from t_0 to t_1 and when the app is in the background.

I'm surprised they didn't start doing this 4 years ago.

Location data is really fucking good data to have on people, which is why I would rather not be giving it away willynilly.
Additionally, Uber's service is one of the few services where getting this data can be justified and seems less creepy.
That's pretty awesome - like a real tip-jar. I wonder how much it gets abused...
This article is absolute humdrum. Functions are not the atoms of programs. We now have classes, lambdas, generators, events, streams, etc.

There are ways to organize code without sticking every little one time used code into a function.

Poor article by a pseudo computer scientist. Let him keep 'hacking.'
Macchiato: ClojureScript Arrives on the Server
"It's a Mossanite"

"...a...what-a-nite?"

"A Mossainite. Artificial, spurious, not-genuine and it's worth....fuck all"
Yeah, the people saying "at least you can count on parents to give a shit" really have me scratching my head. If I'm looking for someone to give a shit about a kid, I'd rather draw from teachers than parents.
he lost the popular vote, and only won it within income brackets above $60k+.

He won because everyone voted along party lines + similar turnout to 2000 (Dem marginally above Rep turnout). All other narratives do not match the actual results.
A flaw allows to bypass the activation lock on iPhone and iPad
Quick check on my iPhone shows that it allows for (and is set to) "While Using the App" for location access settings. Running latest iOS release.
Good point. I just discovered it doesn't allow you to go more than 120km, and at 100km/h the speed to range ratio is 4.5 whereas at +20km/h ratio drops to 2.9 on the 75 model, and to 3.76 on the P100D model.

So, the 160km/h to 160km makes more sense now.
So what's the good kind?
"Record profits" by how much? I get the impression that the management were exaggerating. It would also be useful to know how much more senior staff got and especially the top managers. If your company is public, jump onto the SEC database and check the numbers for yourself.

You might have to also consider whether you were paid a generous bump up in salary and relocation expenses. Your manager, might have had to take your hiring costs into consideration when calculating your bonus.
There is something perplexing about Portal in that way that only a few other bands (Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord) have been able to match IMO. I don't know that I've reached the "physically sick" state but I do find myself transported into something akin to a Lovecraftian world and sense of darkness. Some records, while enjoyable, can be physically exhausting for sure.

Something about Portal reaches deep. It's odd because I'm not necessarily a huge fan of their music in terms of just listening to it as music, but I like how there's something exhaustively serene (in a twisted way) about the atmosphere, like a dark meditation/trance almost.
I think if you have to explain yourself you have already lost. I always use Uber but uninstalled it 2 seconds after I discovered I couldn't change the location settings to my liking. Literally typing this from a Lyft haha
Thank you very much, that seems to be what I was looking for. I had feared, the Solaris kernel hadn't been made publicly available.
I'd also love to hear an explanation from someone intolerant of dissent.

I attribute it to the history of feminism. First-wave feminism genuinely dealt with human rights issues where dissent was based on a twisted view of humanity (e.g. women are property of men, not autonomous subjects). The late third and fourth waves have kept the same assumption about the nature of their views. But the views themselves are very much more extreme and unintuitive.

Again, I'd love to hear someone explain it better from their own feminist point of view.
Installment Loans for People with Bad Credit – How Good It Can Be?
I mean, I don't understand how the compiler got out the door if passing an integer to a subroutine caused inexplicable disasters. It seems like ChuckMcM is saying the equivalent of

int increment(int x) {
x = x + 1;
return x;
}

int y = increment(2);

Would blow up your program's concept of 2, and I can't imagine that being missed before sending it out to users. But I've never used Fortran, so I may be seeing false equivalences to structures and practices in modern languages.
Cool article. But I always find it funny how people try to convince you that so-and-so in their company is a big shot ("our director, the fourth highest rank at Google, after CEO, SVP and VP"). Trust me, outside of your company, that person is quite irrelevant. For most people, that person is just someone working at a big company.
The removal of hashing from session generation worries me a little for two reasons:

1. The name might not be the most respected one after events, but the work he did and the technical points he made are entirely unaffected. In the light of Snowden revelations and NSA backdoors, Jacob Appelbaum once proposed a drinking game where you read RFCs and every time you encounter a requirement of putting random bytes "on the wire", you drink.

Now the NSA might or might not have been able to backdoor all common PRNGs, but Dual EC DRBG was one good example. There's just no good reason not to use hashing before outputting raw bytes other than the reason they removed it from PHP: "less complexity" and improved performance. Then again, in PHP the method was quite complicated with too many tweak options.

2. What if no CSPRNG is available? They seem to fall back and just "read 60 bytes extra for faulty PRNGs", which to my knowledge does not help much in preventing predictability. With a bit of bad luck, this would make sessions entirely predictable.

I really wonder whether they couldn't have kept a single hashing algo in with good defaults, rather than allowing to tweak this stuff. That would have been a big speedup and complexity removal already.
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> Browsers don't have to play by those rules. I'm basically saying they should come out and say "your av is shit".

> Edit: Big honking popup that says "Detected Antivirus software X is modifying our software without permission. This compromises the security of your system and the stability of our software."

So you think what the world needs is an arms race of AV detection?
Well the issue is whether a gene survives. Sometimes the individual is a good proxy for this, sometimes the population. Sometimes you just gotta consider the dynamics of a gene in a sea of other genes.

In the case of a supposed aging gene, consider that genes themselves preferentially want to exist in more fit organisms. If a gene could somehow manage this (i.e. be embodied with more fit genes), it will itself spread. But this is exactly what an aging gene does! Consider how an advantageous gene spreads through a population. This spread is a function of the number of generations that have passed. So a gene that could speed up the passing of generations will increase its own likelihood of existing in more fit organisms (increasing its own fitness), as advantageous genes within the population spread faster and are more frequently "paired up" with the aging gene. But the subpopulation with the aging gene is more fit than the subpopulation without it since the time for advantageous genes to spread is decreased, and so the aging population overtakes its counterpart.
Did anyone else watch the Bloomberg video posted yesterday about technology in Russia[0]? On how VK (Russia's Facebook) has had its CEO replaced twice (once directly, second time by removing its new owner, mail.ru's CEO) due to political pressure and censorship.

It seems to me this is entirely something to be concerned about when it comes to censorship and state controlled media. This is very much to appease the likes of China and Russia, it will also benefit places such as the USA where Facebook doesn't want to make those in control look bad (police, elected officials, oligarchs, autocrats etc). It's bad for business to be against the rulers, and Facebook has to contend with a lot of different rulers if it want to expand throughout the world. A benign, bland shade of beige that everyone buys into and is inoffensive, is more likely to be appreciated by rulers and advertisers—just look at network television.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-hello-world-russia/?...
How else to widen it?
The fog catcher who brings water to the poor
The children will have to enter that society at some point. Would it be better to wait until they leave for college and let them experience all of that at the same time, for the first time?
Who Invented the Reverse Mode of Differentiation? [pdf]
I think you should study the field of tax incidence a bit.

Corporate tax actually falls on shareholders and workers. It sounds nice: tax those faceless corporations and not us nice citizens. But the actual end result is not necessarily what one may think.

You will of course find lots of material claiming this and that about corporation tax, because people are passionate about it, but for some balance, this is a summary I picked at random:

https://hbr.org/2014/08/who-pays-corporate-taxes-possibly-yo...

(And in case of Sweden, consider that it is a particularly open economy.)
"easy"

Proceeds to introduce multiple points of failure.
Six months is kinda too short to expect a huge bonus. $100 is pretty paltry, but I'd talk to your manager about it.

If you feel like your manager is bull-shitting you, then yes you need to leave. I regret not leaving my job earlier when I was in a similar position.
Deep Learning: What, Why and Applications
Because the purveyors of diamonds, and you could argue jewelry in general, have positioned themselves as proxies for love and sex. Those are the things we value and the reasons we spend money, but we're not allowed, either by societal convention or law, to spend money on them directly. But we're allowed to spend exorbitant amounts of money on a glittery status symbols that serves as a measure of devotion. It's not the rock itself that's important, it's the willingness to sacrifice a substantial amount of money.

So if the point of buying a diamond is to show your love for someone by sacrificing a meaningful amount of money, it becomes important to distinguish between stones that someone actually sacrificed a substantial amount of money to purchase and stones where someone didn't sacrifice as much.

We'd do better to address the insane custom of needing an expensive proxy for love. Think about it...if the custom were for a man to take two months salary, withdraw it from the bank in $100 bills, drop to one knee and present it to his girlfriend while asking her to marry him, we'd find that insulting. It would be like he's paying for love/sex, which our society deems dirty or objectifying to women. But substitute a glittery rock mounted on a hunk of metal, both largely obtained by heaping further misery on various third-world locations, and we somehow find that acceptable? Accepting the money would make her a whore, but accepting the ring just means her boyfriend loves her?

It's illogical and hopefully more women start making it known to their boyfriends that the ring isn't necessary and all that extra money, if it needs to be spent on something impractical, can be spent on making the wedding just a bit more lavish.
Maybe normal people wouldn't trust this site as much as one with some "branding" or at least some other styles. Maybe it could increase conversion.

By normal I mean the general public. And yes I know about craigslist, but that one has decades (?) of background.
I also come from poverty and in my experience there can be a dangerous area making just enough money to be disqualified from receiving assistance where you're just a few mistakes or irresponsible decisions away from having serious money issues. But there are also a whole lot of people that qualify for all kinds of assistance and don't ever even bother to check because they are hard working people and take pride in that.

I think the solution is pretty simple: raise that income maximum well past where you would normally put it and make it trivial (like sign up on the internet trivial) for anyone who qualifies to receive assistance and make it just as simple to stop receiving it. Someone should be able to sign up and receive assistance on the next distribution cycle. This makes it easy for people in that dangerous spot to get assistance because you remove it and those with pride can get it quickly, easily and as temporarily as they want with no humiliation.

Here's why: Today you must commit a lot of time and effort as well suffer humiliation to get assistance. You have to stand in line, wait in a waiting area, fill out forms and finally talk to a worker about what a fuck up you are. If you have kids and can't get/afford a babysitter your kids are right there with you losing their minds. If you can't take time off work you don't get assistance because this government office is closed in the evening and on weekends. It may be hard to imagine something worse than the DMV but that's exactly what this is. And then you have to deal with doing it all over again because they are looking for the tiniest possible reason to turn off your assistance and force you to appeal.

Why is it so painful? Because welfare queens, drug dealers, drug users, lifers and frauds can't be allowed to get assistance even if the cost in terms of dollars and opportunity are much greater to prevent them from doing so. We've let it become about who we deem "deserves" it rather than a simple monetary calculation.
This site is so cool. Thank you.