skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone is interested in infrastructure, I highly recommend "On the Grid" (https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Average-Neighborhood-Systems-Wor...)

Excellent book that goes over all the systems making up a city. I read it a couple of years ago but off the top of my head, it covers electricity, telecommunications, roads, public transport, three water systems (freshwater, sewage, rainwater) and how they are all interconnected.
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Yes, almost everything on my network because I only get a few IPv4 addresses to allocate between hundreds of devices.
Github managed to escape that dynamic up until the last couple of years.
Article III section 1 gives a lifetime term to all Article III judges. Article III courts include the Supreme Court, Federal Appellete Court, and Federal Circuit court.
You can choose to report that.
That's true, but that's also not a random sampling so doesn't really detract from what the above poster is saying.

Most social science experiments do not initially handle random samples.

The famous ones like the Milgram experiments and others conducted by the same researcher do. If I have my facts correct, he used to mail out letters to people randomly chosen from the phonebook to ask them to participate in his study, then travel to their locales to study them. The Milgram experiment itself was redone multiple times, using different population segments---students, random people in the city, all women, all men, etc.

As an anecdote of how poorly correlated a social experiment can be to real life---in my university, econ & social science students were required to take at least 10 experiments per semester. Often we would go there, realize the material tested was identical to what we had studied in class then behave like 'rational market actors' in order to get the best result (econ experiments used small sums of real money, so you'd be paid at the end based on performance). This isn't anything like how a random person would have behaved.
Needs a [2012] in the title.

Does anybody know how to play the game today?
> It’s Googley to stand up for diversity and inclusion, such as protesting against binary gendering on toilets

So if I support binary gendering on toilets, I'm not welcome at Google? Why has it become necessary to subscribe to a particular set of political beliefs in order to work for Silicon Valley firms?
Now that's an honest commit message.
In iOS, most apps request your location "Always", "While Using the App" or "Never". I had Uber set to the second; that option is now gone. It's always or never. Set it to never; this makes their app less usable, but that just nudges me to use Lyft, Juno, et cetera.
In android you can prevent apps from sending mobile data to the cloud in the background. Go to Settings > Connections tab > Data Usage, and scroll down to the app. There's a 'restrict background data' checkbox.
I agree wholeheartedly.

I'm a Paramedic, and I can count on one hand the number of patients on shrooms, marijuana, or MDMA that have been any sort of problem. Meanwhile, I've seen more fatalities directly caused by alcohol than I care to remember.
It's easy to forget that there are collective action goals that go beyond better wages and more benefits. If you believe that corporations exert disproportionate control over policy in the US, collective action is a way to make that control more responsive to citizens.
I saw this earlier and had hopes that the update would just let me choose "While Using" in the app settings, like some other apps allow you even if they request access even while not using the app, but the settings only allow for "Always" or "Never" on iPhone. However, you can use Uber without allowing GPS, so it's not all or nothing.

I'm a little disturbed that they need any information after I use Uber though. They know where I was picked up and where I'm going, why do they need to know where I'm at after I get dropped off? That's a little intrusive to me. The proposed argument in the article, "Uber hopes to eliminate the most frustrating part of the experience: the game of phone tag that both the rider and driver play when trying to coordinate the pickup spot," is fine and I'd accept that even though I'm extremely wary of apps that have access to my GPS data while I'n not using the app because I can't see it in fine detail (as far as I know you only can see that some app is accessing your GPS currently, not which one(s) exactly). However, Uber has no need for the data after I am finished. I'm not a fan of being tracked in general, by governments or otherwise, but for a private company to request data after I finish using their services is intrusive and maybe this is conspiracy but I wouldn't be surprised if this data is sent real time and it's possible to see where a user is at any given time after they leave the car (during that 5 minute window).

I'm also curious how this will bump up against EU privacy laws. I'm in the states and this may only be enabled for certain markets, but I wonder if this would cause issues in EU if it's enabled there.
How did you apply? What experience, skills, and education did you have when you applied?
One thing iOS shouldn't allow is for apps to pick this all or nothing user setting. Apps should be forced to deal with user changing the location setting from always to only while using. If its an option in the OS , app developers, especially big ones like Uber will build for that experience.
"Mice Splicer" on your resume, though? That'd be an interesting interview conversation.
Not even for messaging app?
That doesn't work at all. Just look at sponsored posts on pretty much any publication/blog/forum. Every single one is paid and they race for the lowest tolerated behavior.
You don't need redux to build anything serious. There's Mobx.
This is how the Overton Window shifts.

Trouble is, now I have to walk 5 minutes in the opposite direction before turning around and meeting my dealer / going to the brothel / whatever you don't want posted on paste bin.

Another issue arises when a "bug" records your location for 5 hours instead of 5 minutes.
It's a software freedom thing. Proprietary software doesn't give users control over the software. Because Kodi is free software I can make the necessary modifications needed to make it work the way I want.
Good luck with that. This industry has too many people with egos far bigger than their accomplishments justify, in my opinion. There is a tendency in this field for folks to believe tech is about as close to a meritocracy as it gets, and that unions or even a trade guild would just hold "the best" back.
For one, hitting the Github API to put failed build markers against commits and PRs. CodeBuild doesn't appear to have the same Github integration that most other CIs do out of the box.
Is there public information available about why Netflix uses Linux as opposed to FreeBSD for those pieces of infrastructure?
Yup. I'm of the opinion that aging just is a "feature" of evolution. A population with aging has a significant fitness advantage over a population without aging so its not surprising that everything ages (the next generation is almost always more fit than the previous gen so the faster a population transitions to the next gen the more fit it is). But if aging just is a trait rather than some inevitable result of entropy, it leads one to be optimistic for reversing aging at least in principle.
> you may also notice that torrent use is massively declining in popularity because they're a horrible user experience.

The people that use Popcorn Time/etc would disagree. That has been a fantastic experience, so it's natural that the MPAA would go after it tooth & nail.
An option. Not a requirement for all apps.
Apple: Improve Maps Data with Drones and Catch Google
Counting down to the FBI NSL'ing [1] Uber for persistent, warrantless surveillance...

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters
So they'll just record the data in the background and send it when the app is in use.
I don't think they're suggesting a single toggle for the whole phone, just that it be a setting you can force for individual apps. You'd only do it to apps that have no business running in the background like Uber.
I'm pretty sure with most Android phones you can kill applications that are sent to the background immediately.
I will also personally confirm that nightmare torture death trips are possible. I've had one that was that bad, and it took years before I realized that I did learn some powerful things from the trip. I have never fully recovered, and it was almost 20 years ago. I don't think it was the best way to learn - abuse by a parent also teaches you things.

edit: in the interest of not misrepresenting hallucinogens, I wanted to clarify a few things. First, this was on LSD, and not mushrooms. I have never had a bad trip on mushrooms, whereas I always felt more out of control on LSD. Also, I've tripped dozens of times, and every other trip was either very positive or at least could be laughed at afterward. And overall I've gained more than I've lost by a long shot. My main point is that hellish psychotic breaks are indeed possible, but not the norm. The one time I did experience this, I was not following the guidelines of experienced trippers, which is to make sure your set and setting are good. My (mind)set was horrible, taking several other drugs in the same evening, and the setting was a shitty vegas hotel.

If you go in with a positive, respectful mindset, surrounded by supportive people in a good environment, the chances are almost nil that you will have a bad trip.
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I think you've fundamentally misunderstood m3ta's comment.

You seem to have understood it as: "A species dying off very easily is sometimes a good thing for evolution." In response to this, your response is justified.

When in fact, what m3ta is saying is: "Members of a species dying very easily is sometimes an evolutionary advantage for that species." In response to this, your response is a non-sequitur.
There's also the "god view" scandal which Uber definitely did get sued for (there haven't been similar lawsuits against Lyft) https://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-settles-godview
Facebook developing AI to flag offensive live videos
Colloquial usage really diverges strongly from technical usage.

For example, CPython could be considered to technically be a virtual machine because it does garbage collection on dead objects since v 2.4 at least, rather than being pure reference counting.

Yet most people would call CPython a straight interpreter.
Dissapointing lack of Clevo/Sager talk, lol. But other than that, seems pretty awesome. Discovered a couple of brands I didn't even know about.
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> How do you know Lyft doesn't do that?

They let me not let them. Lyft lets me tell iOS to share my location with it only "while using the app". Uber used to do this. But now that option has disappeared--it's only "always" or "never".
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Is it? I suspect the thinking is along these lines: "this shit is already really bad! And that's with a kinda - or at least, publicly - sympathetic government..... and the new guy has openly said he'd like to massively expand this program! welp"
They already had the data showing where he dropped you off, what do you think they're going to do with the extra data?
Android can do that if you enable developer tools. Not sure if it can be easily overridden by an app or not
One reason I feel busy - there are a great many things in adult life that require attention, but are actually intractable.

For example, all the goods and services we need that are provided by a confusopoly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly) of providers - phone plans, health insurance ("open enrollment" season), cable internet access, insurance, investments, real estate.

These are all areas of life that we must engage with, but are also huge time sinks - one can research for hours, days, or years, and not get anywhere further than a feeling of frustration and having been "busy", and we can't solve these things with any finality - next year, it's the same stuff all over again.

Mentally, this is so much worse than actual, proper work, where we can sit down, do it for a few hours, and at the end of it have something that is done, will stay done, and never need redoing.
could anybody point out the reason behind the spike during october?
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Sorry, it seems like some kind of pseudo-utopia for people who want to feel special and intelligent all the time. People in silly spaceship themed rooms, meditating or hacking upside down, or maybe in sensory deprivation chambers for deep focus? It all screams: I'm entitled to coddling and acceptance--nay, encouragement of my eccentricities--cause I'm special. I just don't know if that's healthy or necessary, if Google is so successful in part due to this, or despite it.
When I visited them, I found the company was full of very young, very naïve, kool-aid drinkers.
I denied permission to location as soon as this change happened with the intention of enabling and disabling before each ride.

It's now more convenient to use competitors apps, though, and i haven't actually used uber since the change.
What about using m.uber.com with a browser that sandboxes location data requests effectively?
iOS gives you the option to disable Background App Refresh either for all apps, or for individual apps: Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh
> I wonder if there is a limit to how dense a single atom can be.

Yes, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_drip_line

In particular the Neutron drip line is not known, so we don't know how large an atom can be. But there is such a number.

It's easy to understand why protons drip: Their electric repulsion pushes them out. For neutrons it's more complicated, but basically you need energy to force a neutron to attach to a nucleus, and at some point the energy released in falling off is high enough that they will no longer stay attached (this is a simplification BTW).
Yeah, I have encounter this interesting problem. To put it simple, -128~127 is directly stored in the RAM, when compared, the program only compares the real value of the number. But when a number is 128 or other, the program will compare both the location and value of the number.
Hey, I know others on here have already chimed in, but I joined Google not that long ago having been rejected twice before. Please don't sell yourself short. Give us a try.
Seems like if you stood in the middle of the 14 dimensional space - every idea is 7 dimensions away - our typical mental stack depth. Perhaps if you could go to one more extra step away you could come up with really new ideas that haven't been thought of before.
>You could not pay me to listen to Burzum.

It's funny how tastes in music work. No 2 people are ever the same.

Personally Burzum is my favourite from that scene. It's beyond stripped back. There's something that resonates with me about picking a nice simple melody, played on a plain old MIDI keyboard (presumably) with a basic sine-wavey type instrument and just riffing on the atmosphere for 8 minutes.
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But the worst was when my parents decided to “draw circles” for my friends’ parents. I think this only happened a couple of times - I'm pretty sure I even asked my parents not to do it.

My parents are good people, perhaps very naive. I think they are still involved with Amway to this day. I’m sure they never made any money from it, and I shudder to think how much it has cost them. Since I left home for college I don't think we've ever discussed it. I doubt they know how much I resented it.
It's to analyse where riders actually go after being dropped off; for example understanding that if you want to go to building XYZ you have to get off here.

Collecting data for self driving cars probably.
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Isn't it reasonable to want a taxi service that doesn't track its customers beyond 1 single ride? For example, a regular taxi paid with cash?
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I've always thought Fenriz comes across just like any elitist music nerd. He seems to have an interesting sense of humour, which I find kind of endearing.

The first album, for me, that gave me that physically sick feeling like you describe was Portal's Vexovoid record. We can debate whether or not Portal fits into the general category of Black Metal, but damn that album is just frightening.
FYI this map is based on 26 year old data.
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I don't think we'll have anything close to a pure "driverless car" until at least middle of the 21st century, if not later. People have been making wild predictions for hundreds of years. Most of them aren't true.

The "autonomous vehicle" hype circlejerk on HN is friggin' strong as a 1000 Suns. I'm sorry to say this, but it's just not going to happen on the timeline that you want it to. Give it a century, then we'll see. You're basically asking for the computer to be a human and anticipate dangers on the road and have instincts like a human. That's H U G E.

I'm sorry but you guys need a major dose of salt with your claims. Major.

EDIT: What do I mean by "pure driverless car"? I mean a couple things: completely unaided driving...that means if I go into a large parking structure with a toll booth at the beginning, the car should be doing all the work. "Driverless car" only on freeways and some minor roads just doesn't cut it. When I think driverless, I think "no more steering wheel" ...if we can get there, then we'll talk.
This is an interesting one.

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> Recent security stories confirm that errors like buffer overflow and use-after-free can have serious, widespread consequences when they occur in critical open source software.

This project is awesome and incredibly valuable but what alternatives are there to making the libraries it checks more secure besides rewriting them in another language? When languages exist where buffer overflows and use-after-free are essentially impossible it's a bit depressing that we have to rely on fuzzing unless fuzzing can find these kinds of bugs with high reliability?
False. By a long shot.

Just look at LabVIEW & Operations Orchestration.