skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" it's Draconian and unnerving"

Let's chill here, 'Draconian' is a strong word.

'What if Amazon is using the data for nefarious purposes'.

It's a reasonable conclusion, but also a big 'what if' :)

Their motivation is pretty reasonable - they just want you to be able to take a test remotely.

They 'dictate the process, right down to the extension' for reasonable cause.

It's reasonable to ponder the ways in which there could be bad things going on, but I don't think it's reasonable to assume that there is, or even malicious intent here.

It just 'seems' creepy.
>while clearly telling you upfront what kind data will be collected

It doesn't even satisfy the legal requirements for informing people their personal data is going to be collected (in my country at least). They don't tell you what happens to the data, who has access to it, they don't provide a way to let them know you want it deleted, and so on.
Why is the world bereft of things to be optimistic about?
I didn't realize there was 87/93 avgas. What's the difference between that and what goes in cars?
The UK does this with a lot of games - they're not on TV at all. Idea is to keep the fans going to the physical match.
Have you tried the Logitech G930? $70, wireless USB with great microphone and great range.

My ears are huge, they fit very well within these earpads. By comparison I use the Beyerdynamic DT770 as my music headphones (vs travel) as those are the only ones I've tried so far that fit my ears and are super comfortable.
But bytes/volume isn't a constant. You may be able to say a 100 PB is equal to about a shipping container now, but in 10 years it will be much smaller (probably not keeping up with Moore's Law for storage though).
Holidays: 25% Off on Document Manipulation APIs
I'd say Russian internet is halfway in creepiness between the Western and the Chinese, rapidly moving well into Chinese territory.
> Each Snowmobile includes a network cable connected to a high-speed switch capable of supporting 1 Tb/second of data transfer spread across multiple 40 Gb/second connections. Assuming that your existing network can transfer data at that rate, you can fill a Snowmobile in about 10 days.
Necessitated by artificially low interest rates in the US, and a flight to relative safety as compared to Asian and European currencies. The reckoning has been deferred for too long and an orderly adjustment will be impossible if there is more delay.
Great idea, especially as I use linux on my laptop as well. Probably some other keywords like gaming, bussiness, study would be usefull as well.
Right there in the article.

> Each Snowmobile includes a network cable connected to a high-speed switch capable of supporting 1 Tb/second of data transfer spread across multiple 40 Gb/second connections. Assuming that your existing network can transfer data at that rate, you can fill a Snowmobile in about 10 days.
George Friedman describes a ~2030/2040 military that uses batteries in power armor that are recharged by solar power satellites.
"car pretty much lasts forever, just swap out the battery pack now & then."

Not in Michigan. You will have far more problems from a car than just battery maintenance.
They can get some of that venture goodness. Agreed that enron was far more pervasive.
The world is actually full of things to be optimistic about - media outlets aren't usually writing about them though.
> issue a warrant to use remote access to search electronic storage media and to seize or copy electronically stored information located within or outside that district if ... the district where the media or information is located has been concealed through technological means

Remote access to a computer and they don't know where it is? This basically means a Tor hidden service or something like that?
...and the US Navy, who's actively monitoring sea level rise in the arctic to keep an eye on our crossarctic neighbors...
Oldest surviving Nikon fetches $406K at auction
In the Goldman Sachs case I do recall charges being brought in certain states where CFAA laws were more favorable for the prosecution, and those charges being thrown out on appeal because they were brought in the wrong jurisdiction. I don't see how this changes that.

This is a procedural change the Surpeme Court already voted in favor of. The title is clickbait from what I can tell. I'm much more concerned with recent erosion of the right to remain silent.

Hacking powers are not being expanded. A loophole that has stymied investigations had been closed.

Now what we do need is reasonable limits on the scope of allowable warrants to prevent dragnets. The more interesting question is whether the FBI should be allowed to use drive-by malware to infect all visitors of a site, and if so under which very well defined circumstances?

What TFA missed is the reason we are worried about this rule change is that it could make dragnets easier to get seemingly valid warrants for. E.g. Even if Hidden Services are not being used, investigator claims it's not 'reasonable' to get warrants for each IP accessing a site and so just infects all visitors with malware to scan the hard drive and local network for some evidence.

But that needs to be illegal for more than just the reason of not knowing what jurisdiction to get the warrant in.
Show me the same algorithm generate songs in a different genre from different images and I'll be impressed.
HTTP/2 In-depth analysis of top four flaws of the next generation web protocol [pdf]
It's a bit strange that some of the items don't include all languages from other items. For example Go doesn't allow "++" inside an expression, it's a statement by itself but that's not mentioned. Anyway, it's interesting but incomplete.
So, they want to encourage ride-sharing in the original meaning - carpooling. Not the "taxi company in disguise" meaning. Sounds fair enough to me.

For context, the taxi regulation in Sweden is very light. There is no medallion system limiting the number of cars, and no regulation of prices. You just need an extended driver's license, an approved taxi-meter (same as how grocery stores need their scales to be approved), and the pricing plan listed clearly in the window.

There has been quite a bit of criticism of this lack of regulation, since some private taxi drivers will prey on tourists by overpricing their services by 3x and waiting at airports. Since their rip-off prices are displayed right there in the window, it's fully legal. Tourists don't know the typical price of a taxi, and fresh off an airplane are not sure what the local currency rate is (Sweden isn't on the Euro), and hence get ripped off.
I know it probably doesn't matter to you now, but the M360v1 is widely regarded as one of the worst android wear watches.

It was built on a platform that the company making it left the business partially through it's development. It was made with a different screen type (and processor arch IIRC) than other watches, it was significantly slower than other watches, and has had some QC issues where batteries at this point are beginning to swell up and make the watch unusable (it seems to be hitting everyone, the only factor is how long it'll take).

I loved my v1 like how I loved my first shitty car, and that might just be a mix of stockholm syndrome and nostalgia (not sure if that's the right word there...), but I currently have a fossil founder that my wife got me as a gift and it clearly improves on the M360v1 in just about every way.

Obviously you do you, but if you ever end up wanting to take another look at the landscape, just know that your experience with android wear was probably the worse you could have had, and that things are all around much better now.
You're making assumptions about the beliefs of OP that aren't in evidence. A "moralistic attitude" (as you put it) can give greater weight to concerns about government censorship than to concerns about corporate respect for privacy rights. The two are quite different, even to an avowed anti-statist such as myself.
""just to make sure people aren't cheating" is like justifying the police putting a camera in everyone's living room"

This is a completely false comparison.

You are taking a test remotely, they want to make sure you are not cheating, it's completely reasonable - during the duration of a test.

It's beyond unfair to suggest that this is in the same category of 'state authorities putting cameras in your house to arbitrarily spy on you' or putting a GPS collar on you.

I suggest it would help if in the terms that Amazon spelled out that they are not storing any data or what-not.

We live in a new world of tech, we have to think a little bit about what these things mean, and when we can apply tech reasonably and when we cannot, we can't just be knee-jerk about it.
Stockholm is full of 'fake' taxis that take you longer routes and charge you more money.

I'd much rather use Uber.
Could anyone confirm for me my suspicion that the phrase repeat this paper (he said "if I had to repeat this paper") is standard jargon for a lab following the procedures described in a paper to replicate the results?
Is pop music not cheap and disposable enough for you already?
> However besides sports the program just isn't there. It can't be since its priority is to find the lowest common denominator and please everyone. Which results in nobody getting what they actually want.

This isn't remotely true. I don't watch that much television but if you look at what TV critics are writing, there has never been a better time for scripted television ever. Now that networks like AMC, HBO, Netflix, Amazon, etc. can produce cost-effective original programming, it has allowed them to hit smaller audiences are still be profitable. That allows for far more creativity that the old network model where you had to appeal to such a mass audience.

I'm curious to what all this great YouTube content that keeps people entertained for hours on end is. I personally find some of the instruction content pretty incredible, as well as some of the music content, but I couldn't occupy that much time with it. Especially with instructional content, I need to actually apply what I was watching to what I'm trying to accomplish!

It seems like with music content, I'm constantly fighting off recommendations of low brow content.
Sorry, but either regulate it as the taxi industry or force the taxi industry to be a profitless business as well. If being professional is defined by having a certificate or such then simply have these services require their drivers provide such certification.

Honestly, just how many ways can we find to prevent innovation from disrupting the protected by daunting regulations from occurring? At times I am beginning to wonder if this is less about protecting current businesses as it is government losing control over its people.
No they don't, at least not in the hands of white people and rightwing fringe groups. We can see this by contrasting the treatment of the Malheur occupiers versus the non-armed Standing Rock occupiers.

The Malheur occupiers carried out an armed takeover of a Federal building in the middle of nowhere. No economic threat, no political threat, so they were basically surrounded and left alone. The Standing Rock occupiers are not armed and are standing in the way of money, so they get the water cannon and worse treatment.

If there was a time for terrorism to be used as a pretext, it was much closer to 9/11. Similarly for mass shootings. Most of the public accept them as routine and children are drilled about the possibility at school. That isn't enough to make even minor gun restrictions happen. Obviously nothing is going to happen under a Republican government, especially a Trump presidency. "Soon enough" isn't this decade.

(The only thing which could provoke serious disarmament efforts would be an armed Black Lives Matter movement..)
German BND Inquiry Materials
Can you say which train line? I use C2C and I've heard occasional loud bangs that scare people, but never know what causes it.
How is that possible? You just download them and save them on your server... Unless you are worried about breaking some TOS?
There is an unofficial plex pluging for Kodi (PlexBMC) that I've run for years. I've found that it actually works far better than the official Android Plex client, which is somewhat ironic.
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Matt Taibi Interviews Bernie Sanders: Where We Go from Here
The melody is all over the place, and the rhythm is hard to tap a foot to, but one thing is certain: it's absolutely convinced that Christmas trees get decorated with flowers. Lots and lots and lots of them.
I'm 25 and I never had TV when I moved out of my parents house. I mean, I obviously had "a" TV, but never used it to watch TV, cable - I basically use it as a display for my PS4 and to watch netflix, that's it. My ISP wanted to bundle a TV package with my broadband, but I just have absolutely no interest in watching it, it's a waste of time.
This feels like a straw man. They hammer on the costs and then hand wave around the driverless car potential. Of course Uber is driving for driverless cars and they're applying a simple formula. If the Customer acquisition Cost (CaC) is less than the p net present value (NPV) of that customer over that customers lifetime the you should spend to acquire customers. Driverless cars will increase NPV even if the economics don't make sense today.
Excellent overview for the novice trader.
Fitbit to buy smartwatch maker Pebble for 'small amount,' phase out product
Maturity, architecture, community, standard keymap (e.g. Bash, most IDE's, many applications), support for nearly every programming language, cross platform capability, mail, StackOverflow, Git, etc.

As they say, Emacs is an operating system that's missing a decent text editor.
I'd like to summon James Otis, Jr:

"I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is."

http://www.constitution.org/bor/otis_against_writs.htm
Can someone explain what goes through the head of people that propose such things? Do they not understand basic economics?
Curious case of string concatenation in python
Probably by plane. Shipping would otherwise probably be slower than using the network.
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Weirdly enough, I don't mind that as much as actual ads - at least I'm still watching the show.
With the Dollar as strong as ever against every other currency in the world, and China taking action to prop up the Yuan, I'm guessing Trump will shelve efforts to get China labelled a currency manipulator for deliberately weakening their currency. Right? Or is that not how that works.
Have you seen their Dash / chffr phone apps?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-train-self-driving-cars...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.comma.chffr
Taxi regulation in Sweden is very lax and it's trivial to become a certified taxi business and get a taxi license. Uber could have the paperwork taken care of by early next week if they wanted, they just doesn't want to comply with the few necessary regulations.
> RISC OS (the ex-Acorn OS) has a similar problem when running on later Raspberry Pi devices.)

Yet the speed of it puts other OSes on the device to shame.
looks good, thanks for posting
> Sorry, but either regulate it as the taxi industry or force the taxi industry to be a profitless business as well

What is the difference between "ride sharing" and "taxi" anyway? Sounds to me like they're saying that ride sharing is people sharing their car, and taxi is if you're for-profit. If Uber wants to be for profit, they need to follow the taxi regulation.
Plex's blog post: https://www.plex.tv/blog/plex-media-player-now-ambidextrous-...
One way or the other the conclusion is the same, though. The oil industry would have to radically shrink, even if it would probably not go away.
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"So, they want to encourage ride-sharing in the original meaning - carpooling. Not the "taxi company in disguise" meaning. Sounds fair enough to me."

I'm not necessarily a fan of Uber, but this is ridiculous.

If 'taxis' are legal in Sweden then there's no reason Uber should not be able to operate so long as they are obeying the laws.

Ostensibly, this is about a specific issue - distance travelled and the lack of ability for tax authorities to measure that.

Two things to know about Nordic countries:

1) They are super, super aggressive when it comes to tax things. Cheating on taxes is worse than some major crimes!

2) They are culturally anti-business and anti-entrepreneurial. I know this may seem odd given the number of startups - but their version of 'socialism' is cultural. To be a 'business person' or 'CEO' or to 'have your own company' even up until the 1980's was considered a 'dirty word'. They have this view that 'private business is immoral' in some ways. It's hard to describe. They are just default skeptical of anyone creating a business. Obviously that has evolved a lot over the last 30 years, but the underlying cultural phenom is still kind of there.

Finally - this may simply be political. Taxi entities around the world are trying to find ways to get Uber banned, and so they find an issue or concern that gives them a legal footing.

Again, I'm not for or against Uber really ...
The advertisements are subsidizing a portion of the bill. What portion, I'm not exactly sure. Even if it was a patently false statement and cable companies started showing TV with no commercials (or maybe 10 minutes per hour at the worst), $60 is too steep of a price. There is too much shovelware (or whatever the TV term is) for that price.

I understand that live TV has blocked times for simplicity. That's fine. There is going to be filler to stretch the episode. However, don't stretch the show out for 25 episodes! If you cut the filler, you can have 13 episodes of quality with more shows per year.
This concept of "more interesting than explosions" confuses me greatly.
I think Pebble benefitted a ton from being the first company in the space. There were definitely a ton of hiccups with the original Pebble watch. There was barely a store and when the store did come into being it was buggy as hell. The hardware design decisions have always been pretty great though. Even today, I'd probably take the original Pebble over an Apple watch or anything from Android wear for practicality.
> Uber is currently seeking to convince Europe's top court that it is a digital service, not a transport company, in a case that could determine whether app-based startups should be exempt from strict laws meant for regular companies.

Uber found a way to abide by New York State's existing regulations for a special license for drivers and commercial insurance. Everywhere else it plays make-believe - 'we're just a technology company' - for as long as it can.

The end-game in Europe is probably that Uber Technology will abandon its ambitions to be a not-a-taxi company, and provide its app to local transportation companies who are already regulatory-compliant.

The taxi company that I used to drive for was large enough to build its own modern [1] app-based dispatching system. So they don't need uber's technology anymore.

[1] http://www.taxiwars.org/electronic-taxi-dispatch-v1.0/
Just what I came to the comments for. Thank you.
I'm fairly sure this would have tipped you off - they made the offer with no technical questions or onsite, after talking to only one person, and asked for bank account info before a start date. A little more effort and they might well have gotten me, though.

I can only imagine what a placement company or recruiter could do, just by doing the real job for a bit then bailing with the personal data obtained. It's not pretty, since job offers are such a standard reason to cough up PII.
Earlier this year, an AI-written script was made into a short film. It's got the same sort of absurd vibe.

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-th...
Even with x-rays theoretically providing a future 1 Gbps link to Mars, the underlying issue is that the growth of data vastly outpaces the advancements in speed technologies.

In other words, by the time x-ray communication is a reality to the Mars colony, we'd want to copy 50-petabytes (~15 years transfer[1]) or 50-exabytes (~15000 years transfer). The 6-month rocket journey is still faster than those scenarios.

[1]http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(50*10%5E15)+%2F+((1*10...
> Got money back after a forgivable issue, rubber band stared peeling off.

They replaced mine when that started happening about three months in. Now, four months later, it's happening again. Maybe they'll send me another replacement, but it does seem like just switching to Pebble is a sensible idea, if those products remain available and supported.
There's good reason it's in the standard. Many applications of computer science rely on being able to accurately measure time.

Having every second increased by a non-trivial amount (~0.001%) on some days, and not on others, will produce subtly wrong results in all kinds of fields, from manufacturing to astronomy.

This was a bad, bad choice by Google.
I think in this case it may be a 'fine point - but that fine point is fair.

Tax authorities are gods in Nordic countries.

'No meter' = 'no way for tax guys to know what's what'.

Swedes are not stupid though ... Uber might respond with giving up GPS data of rides to tax authorities. This would not be entirely unreasonable and would quash the specific legal point.

My bet is there is more going on here though ...
Even my mom is done with cable and she is far from a techie. It's getting easier for the masses to not have cable.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13074285
most sitcoms on tv worth viewing have adult themes / content, not available to large networks.
I'd like my account deleted
I was an idiot. I was need to find love in my heart. I would like this account deleted. Trump was created by a rise to fascism and it must be stopped. Please delete my account.

I think I was conned by rhetoric and bought it. We have to love not hate. But I would like my account deleted. I contacted HN.
What to expect as a Gen P user? Will it determine my molecular age?
I'm not familiar with Active Oberon or Modula 3, but Java and .NET absolutely do not. You can bolt on message passing but it's a constraint of the VM to properly handle prescheduling and heap per process isolation.

Mimicking the patterns doesn't replace the VM.
> "So, they want to encourage ride-sharing in the original meaning - carpooling. Not the "taxi company in disguise" meaning. Sounds fair enough to me."

> I'm not necessarily a fan of Uber, but this is ridiculous.

> If 'taxis' are legal in Sweden then there's no reason Uber should not be able to operate so long as they are obeying the laws.

I think you've misunderstood what was said in the original article. This doesn't make Uber illegal at all in Sweden, they can continue providing taxi services like they have done. However, it makes the ride-sharing part of it, UberPOP for example, illegal. I.e if you want to ride share then that's fine, but you shouldn't be compensated for it. Bringing it back to the original concept of carpooling.

However, Uber Black or UberX would be, from my understanding of it, perfectly fine and they can continue to offer those services.
There is a ton of overlap in the functionality of Plex and Kodi - what are the benefits (or the primary use case) of running both this way?
Startups indeed do not typically require employees to shell out hard cash for their equity, but one could argue that they're just extracting payment in employee time instead.
Its like the governments all around are going rogue, instead of being a government that should be as lean as possible doing collective bargaining on behalf of citizens with their welfare in mind and improving their quality of life as much as possible with the technological advancements without damaging the environment. It is just crazy.
Yes, it would be bad. Privacy is not a slider. You either have it, or you don't.