skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It will have some software and the fact that users already downloaded an app - but will that really be worth the subsidies?

Uber has one more thing that they're funneling piles of money into - a self-driving vehicles department. They'll have a significant advantage if they're the first to "market" with fully autonomous self-driving vehicles. Right now it's a huge money sink, but research often is.
It's not paying people for performance that's the problem, it's paying them based on metrics.

When you incentivise people to optimize metrics, they will optimise the metrics. But the metrics are probably only intended as a stand-in for something that's harder or even impossible to quantify.

This applies to every profession.

If you pay programmers based on the lines of code they write, programmers will write more lines of code. But what you were probably trying to pay them for was productivity -- instead you may have ended up paying them for verbosity.

This is basically the Cobra Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Every single comment in that thread proves my point.
No, it's not a time travel. Bob will see that Carol travels backward and Carol will see that Bob travel backward, like we see EM emission from FTL electron in reverse order. FTL electron is not moving back in time, nor Bob or Carol.
My point is that they could all be treated better, and it's absurd to draw arbitrary lines between species when you're talking in general terms. A huge variety of creatures are very trainable when raised by humans from birth, and while selective breeding has made some more 'tame' and useful than others, it doesn't make them all that different from the less shepherded ones in ethics terms.

Yes, you can argue that for-profit display is a little different than decorative or companion animals, which is a lot different from utility animals (much fewer of these are necessary in modern environments) or food animals (technically none of these are necessary), but they all have brains similar enough to ours that they think and feel, and the ones with the largest populations which suffer the most (arguably mistreated cats and dogs) deserve every bit as much concern - if not more, due to their sheer numbers - as animals used for profit (some of which are treated better than others, which is a hard thing to categorize).
? They're doing their best to be linux. I'm just moving to linux.
That's moving the goal post. My point is that as technology marches on, unintended consequences are right behind it. What will be the unintended consequence of drones? Or the power grid connected to the internet, or driverless cars? Just imagine if someone is able to spread a computer virus to driverless cars once they are ubiquitous. Recent history has shown us that the auto industry is laughably bad at computer security.

This is a bedrock principle of computer security: no useful system can be 100% secure, because then even the intended user would be kept out.
What makes you say the frame is less durable?

It says that the frame is powder coated. Powder coating tends to last a lot longer and survive more abuse than paint does. Also its a aluminum frame so it is not going to be rusting either.
Actually, it's a testable hypothesis. This is the inverse of what you believe, I presume?

It seems trivial to find a counter example to your claim...

It seems difficult to support even the weaker claim, that there exists an HR department at a large company that defends your interests against that company.

I wonder why you seem so convinced of your position?
Thanks for the refinement.

Sometimes when I say poutine people think I'm meaning prostitute so I can definitely use the help :).
True. Early on when I used the Google Keyword tool it told me it could drive 400 clicks with a max bid of $0.50 per click. In reality I can get 10 clicks for $1.25 per click -- and that is when the conversion rate is an order of magnitude worst.

For me that means I am paying 100X more than what I had expected.
Yes, the HastTest.cpp in the "src" directory has a number of test cases.
Especially when signal's interface has similar, if less severe, weaknesses.
Agreed. With available open source libraries/tools, I could build a basic Uber clone on my own with no funding in maybe 2 or 3 months.

I could not build a clone of an Intel chip in any amount of time - Even with a team of 100 engineers - The capital cost is just too massive.
So this shows that Grace Hopper did not invent the term "computer bug" and it was not based on an actual bug being found?

I am all for women's empowerment but I now won't be able to honestly use that pithy soundbite that Grace Hopper came up with that term.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2515435/app-development...
Spurn the computer game industry
Once I had learned the syntax, it took me a few days while working on a real project with well-defined goals to internalize the borrow-checker and such. Clippy has also been a surprisingly useful tool for learning - it pointed out some things that weren't idiomatic and that also solidified some concepts for me.
Same with Jolla – my first gen is breaking and I can't buy a replacement running Sailfish at this moment. I like Sailfish and I'm interested in Ubuntu Phone, but clearly they seem to have some issues convincing manufacturers to release some hardware with these alternative systems. I hope maybe Fairphone and Puzzlephone could become open mobile hardware devices with at least semi-official support for multiple open operating systems because I'm not quite brave enough to start hacking mobile devices to run Linux.
Still not sure if the vulnerability is intended, but the idea of sending garbage is great. The vulnerability is definitely fixable even if you want to have security disabled by default.

Edit: after some thought, it is not that easy. If you resend garbage of the same size and then after some time you click "resend" and send batch of messages of the same size, then you likely have confirmation enabled.

So users who have confirmations disabled should send garbage too, when they open the application after some messages were resent.

Again, the idea is great, but needs more thought to make a working solution. Cover traffic is not simple.
I think you're missing my point, which has to do not with the desirability of entering into such an agreement, but rather with how to enforce such an agreement in the absence of any sort of state.
The Vitamins in Your Tears
Never mind hardening windows, how about stopping Windows update behaving like some sort of particularly malicious malware by forcing me to rebuild my machines at random after an update?
AU forced one machine to be fully reinstalled, last week's update rendered another machine inoperable with admin access denied on windows system programs (mmc etc.) followed by boot device error (disc was fine) with no restore or roll-back available, so had to rebuild that one too.
Getting very tempted to set windows update addresses to point to Host.
> But while the changes may subject more Americans to warrantless surveillance, the last-minute timing of the announcement actually might have been designed to cut future privacy losses.

Obama has been immensely pro-mass-surveillance through-out his tenure, what could possibly inspire confidence in this drivel?

In upcoming news: Trump cuts back on emission caps for automakers so the next president cannot cut them back further!
> the permanent Republican Congressional majority might stop being so permanent.

> In fact, every single politician who utters the phrase "permanent majority", with or without a party name in the middle, should be jailed. A democracy never has a permanent majority, or else it ceases to be a democracy.

The GOP has controlled the House for only six years running. Before that, the Democrats controlled it for four - before that, the GOP controlled it for six, and before that, the Democrats controlled it for 61 years, with the exception of one term (1947, under Truman). During the vast majority of that time, the Senate was also under Democratic control as well, although the Senate has leaned slightly more right than the House fairly consistently ever since the Seventeenth Amendment was passed.

I agree that a democratic system should not be controlled by a single party, but it's rather silly to say that the GOP has a "permanent Congressional majority" given how recent their majority is.
In most cases, being liberal is a polite code word for being a pussy.

But really, anything empathetic, humanist. Anything playing devil's advocate in favor of reason. Anything anti-paranoiac, anti-xenophobic. Anything inclusive or pluralist. Anything that means playing fair, without being zealously competitive. Anything that engages the idea that we don't need to fight, or that there's no us versus them.

Anything that cares about the environment. Anything that cares about animals. Anything that hints at worrying about nice clothes and clean hands. Anything that considers the possibility and degree of high quality coffee preparations.
PostgreSQL inheritance
No it doesn't actually. It's a big country with plenty of space.
mixed Shimano/SRAM components

Is this an actual problem, or just something someone only would do if they were heavily trying to minimize cost?
The case I am making is I believe Google & Facebook mix "active" and "non-active" users to create an artificial stream of users such that paying by impression is always worst than CPC.
Electron is a fine choice if you hold your users in utter disdain.
In your opinion, what are a few "new problems" that require the new solutions like microservices and container orchestration?
Qubes OS has to most hardened security oriented distribution out there.
Now extrapolate to a large market Uber needs. They're going to need at least a million cars. That's real money.
Someone mentioned it is a "conti-drive system". Which iirc is one of Continental's belts. Continental is well regarded in the cycling community for making high quality quality kevlar-core tires that withstand a lot of abuse (gator skins) so I'd imagine their belts are fairly good as well.
If this bike was left on a bike
rack outside a college dorm for
a school year it would be
perfectly fine

To be fair, it would probably be stolen.
You could try to integrate it with whatever a screen reader does to read the text on buttons to its user. As a bonus, all your UI tests double as accessibility tests.
Wow! Really? My commute from the southern edge of Boston (Jamaica Plain) to the northern part (Allston / HBS) on Friday involved 2 road constructions, a car stopped inside a rotary that made the entire loop gridlocked, and countless pedestrians jay walking because the fine was reduced to $1 in the 1970's so no one cares.[0] I'm not sure people who live in grid cities and calm suburbs can even comprehend the madness here. Self-driving cars will take decades here.

[0] http://www.mass.gov/courts/selfhelp/tickets/jaywalking.html
Here's the problem: As a user, Windows APIs is more attractive to me than Electron.

Electron apps all have orders of magnitude higher memory usage than comparable native apps I use across the board (10s of MB vs 100s of MB).

They also have a look and feel that's just "off" most of the time (there's more to the "Flat UI" than having a flat UI). They also tend to not play as well with right click.

>I can make a desktop app that is practically indistinguishable from this app using Electron, so why would I use Windows APIs?

Because you don't want all your users running a harder to update embedded version of Chrome with multiple separate instances.

Because you realise that since the dawn of cross-platform UIs, non-native apps have always stuck out like a sore thumb once you got past the visuals.

As a developer I definitely see why being able to leverage web technology everywhere is attractive, and even as an businessperson I'd see it, but let's not kid ourselves. It's being intentionally selfish.

In theory you can balance that out by using your savings from going with something like Electron to improve other areas of the app, but something tells me in most cases that isn't the driving factor (after all, something like Qt can offer cross platform without the overhead of Electron, it's just Js+HTML5 is more convenient than C++ if you're only trying for easily marketable/hireable skills)
One thing I am struggling with is that when I use several terminal windows then the history is not recorded immediately and history from one window is not available in other windows. Some time ago I was looking up how to solve this but didn't find a solution that would work for me.
How to make an autonomous car
Although i'm not sure exactly how their features compare, I use vimium on chrome which seems to be more or less the same: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
If that's not doublespeak I don't know what is?
Who develops vimperator these days? Some of their primary maintainers moved onto a separate project called Pentadactyl[0] a few years ago.

[0]: http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/
Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL (2014)
Yeah, if I had said Bush made "the priority date current" so that H1B could file 485-EAD; I don't think anyone would understand what that mean.

So, I tried to keep it simple by mentioning "job mobility".
I dont know where this idea comes from that animals in the wild are happy. Most live short brutal lives. Living in a zoo, free from predators, plenty of food, and veterinary care when they are sick. Its sort of like an animal utopia.
you get less and less productive the more experiense, as you can think of more and more stuff that can go wrong. Im glad she found an employer that put use of her experience
>Given that Uber bought CMU's self-driving car research department

This is a common misconception. Uber poached several engineers from NREC, which technically belongs to CMU, but for all practical purposes is an independent entity. And of their original ~40 engineers, not many had any real previous experience on self-driving cars. Almost all of the engineers from the DARPA Grand/Urban Challenges had already left (many went to Google). NREC had nothing to do with any of those competitions.

So what happened to CMU's self-driving car research department? Well, initially it was funded by GM. But it spun off into a company called Ottomatika which was later acquired by Delphi.

Uber hired a bunch of great roboticists. They didn't hire a team that had any real experience with self-driving cars.
E-waste in East and Southeast Asia jumps 63 percent in five years
- You're not paying US taxes in most situations like that because foreign taxes paid get deducted.

- You're still profiting from your citizenship by, for example, being rather privileged when it comes to visas, by enjoying the full protection of the US foreign service (an insane machine when in the rare cases where it actually kicks into gear), or simply by having the right to return any time.

And regarding your pedestrian pseudo-Randian central-bank conspiracy-babble: Nobody gives a shit what you think. Go play with your bitcoin.
I don't think there is anything wrong with favoring individualism (lets say 70% individual work, 30% group work) in education. You can get great work done in teams only if each indiviual is good enough to work independently. That is one of the reasons why startups are able to get so much done with their first (small) batch of (talented) engineers.
The last paragraph of the article answers your question:

"We only half agree: Abundant evidence shows that people
– including top managers – will in fact start to behave
differently if you make a large proportion of their remuneration
dependent on some measure of performance. But it will not be in
a way you want them to behave."
Disc brake --- the rear brake is a back-pedal job, unfortunately, which makes it a write-off from my perspective; years of cycling ordinary bicycles mean that I tend to automatically move the pedals backwards while coasting to a comfortable position, and doing this with a back-pedal brake leads to unhappy experiences.

I'm impressed by the add-on bicycle trailer, obvious being sold as a first-class citizen. A lot of IKEA stuff is modular and eminently hackable --- like, literally today I have assembled 40kg of random furniture into a workbench/desk for my study by bolting together bits of office with bits of bedroom. I'm sure there's interesting things to do with it. It looks like you can restow the towbar to make a convenient handle for pulling it.

Oh, yeah, it's an automatic gearbox, too.

Here's a random review:

http://cyclingbikebible.com/real-user-reviews-ikea-flat-pack...
I love this idea. I predicted it to a friend about 6-months ago. Both because Blockchain is in a hype, but also because healthcare needs to find a distributed database solution. I work in healthcare IT for a Fortune 100 pharma and this makes a lot of sense. Its a moonshot, but probably a good idea.
BlackRock demands cuts to executive pay and bonuses in UK
Trump won by 2% in that category. Lots of info here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/el...
That's fair.

One person on their own can only do so much, so on a personal level "buy as little as you can while staying happy" (or "save as much as you can and retire early") are good things. These are good for individuals even if we are wrong about climate change.

Cars, for example: When you buy a car, the car maker realises there is demand for cars and makes more cars. If you buy cars less often, they makes less of them, putting less CO2 into the air.

Your English is good, by the way. While "meteorologist" is a scientist who studies weather, and "climatologist" is a scientist who studies the climate, even many native speakers get "weather" and "climate" mixed up.
However, they will earn monopoly rents in those local markets. These rents will be used by Uber to cross-subsidise their 'tougher' markets that they've bypassed for the moment (either due to incumbents with bigger bankrolls or more insistent regulators).

Put less delicately, they'll use monopoly profits in other local markets to prop up their predatory prices until their local competitors go bankrupt. At this point they'll start charging the monopolist profit-maximising price.
“Last-Place Aversion”: Evidence and Redistributive Implications
iOS doesn't have an NFC API. Thanks Apple.

https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo...

Works okay on Mac OS with GPGTools and QTPass.
"AI is now the technology shaping our world more than ever before."

This, the first sentence of the article, does not express a thought. Read it carefully. It's on a par with "More people have been to Russia than I have."
Yeah. This is great for those seeking contentment alone. A lot of it struck me as making excuses for letting herself go. I realize that my wife and I have a much more "power couple" style deal. Of course it's going to vary from couple to couple. Perhaps there should be a browser extension that just inserts "to me" or "in my opinion" after declarative sentences.
Thank you for your suggestion,I will think seriously about it or add it.
I have trid vimium on chrome, vimperator is more configurable, you can change the theme, the suggest, hide the navigation bar...
map data, user data, etc. that stuff isn't free.
The frequencies are roughly the same as what is used for LTE cell phone traffic. Which means they are probably looking for a frequency that has the same atmospheric, foliage, and construction material absorption, and range.

Not sure it tells you much. They are obviously also limited to what portions of the spectrum are available.
Trump's talked about reducing the number of intelligence agencies and in particular removing staff from the CIA. That's different from reducing their power, though.
This is exactly what I mean.

I know I should move binary data around as bytes. I'm not saying I want to (or intend to) move binary data around as strings.

I'm saying that, in Python 2, you get a str - which happens to be binary and you don't have to worry about it. Even if it's unicode, it'll still work - it just won't matter. In Python 3, it depends on what the library gives you. Did it give you bytes? Maybe a str? You'll need to check and do the proper conversion to bytes. The behavior that Python 3 forces on you is safer and more correct, but it's behavior that you did not have to go through in Python 2.

Sometimes, in Python 3, the library gives you bytes and you want bytes and you're fine, but it's common that you are not.
Repository: https://bitbucket.org/bunny351/prolog/
Are you really denying that you're relying on the courts and police to – for example – protect your property?
Very unlikely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_(attorney%27s_...
I'm working on DNS right now: trust-dns. I have been considering a DHCP client/server (separate) as well.
1. the hair on fire alarmism over imagined issues distracts from some very real issues.

2. some of those very real issues have very real solutions, but people still cry bloody murder because those solutions don't solve every imagined problem.

3. Exaggerating the scope of the problem conveys a sense of helplessness. What purpose is served by making people needlessly afraid? There's a point at which the harm caused by surveillance panic exceeds the harm caused by surveillance.

4. the hysteria results in people making stupid choices regarding email, messaging, etc. like "I can't trust the companies I know, so I'm going to trust companies I don't know". That's ridiculous. Or the fact that while Comcast may inject some janky notifications on web pages I visit, it's not straightup malware like rogue tor exit nodes inject.

5. It becomes impossible for anybody to actually discuss what's happening when every little molehill is a backdoor, or rootkit, or malware, or existential threat to cyber existence.
Does anyone know if the trailer can be used with other bikes? I don't see anywhere on the site where it explains how it attaches to the bike.

edit: nevermind, i missed the manual. It looks like it will attach to just about any bike as it just attaches to the bicycle's rear wheel.
Don't normal people already sort of assume that? What's in doubt isn't the potential for the USG to learn these things, but the credibility of their unverified claims that they actually have learned them. I seriously don't see the connection between global surveillance and the USG's ability to lie convincingly: they can already lie convincingly.

Later

BTW: I felt like I responded to what you asked in other comments on the thread, and by the time I saw your comment, many other people had already responded. Nothing personal!
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I'm saying there's no evidence that this terminology has anything to do with paper tape
+1 for ear-marking

I'd also allow projects that remediate the offense. E.g., for red light violations, I'd allow red light fine monies to fund studies of various intersections to see if e.g., the yellow light duration needs to be made longer, etc.

Or e.g., fines from moving violations in general could go towards improving transportation so that people can safely move about in a hurry.
I hate how Windows 10 silently installs updates and then rolls them back every time I boot it up (and then forces another reboot)... all because I have a Linux bootloader installed and C: isnt the active partition.

Fuck you Microsoft. This is 2017. You've had 25+ years to perfect dual booting.
That is not a misconception at all, at least not for bicycles, and it's highly dangerous to suggest so.

Have you ever tried braking while going down a steep hill? (e.g. San Fran hills?) You know, to stay at a safe speed? Front brake will flip you over in an instant, I know because I've done it, even at slow speeds, when my rear brake cable snapped. After a couple tries I walked home, since bicycling without a rear brake was clearly suicidal.

And your linked article just talks about the rider flying over the handlebars because the rider isn't "bracing themselves against deceleration" -- whatever that means. I'm talking about the bike itself flipping.