skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link should change to https://roelof.info/projects/(2014)Pretty_Fly_For_A_Wifi/Pre...

Also a question to the community: which is the most bang-for-the-buck DIY antenna: does not need millimeter accurate measurements, increases signal by ~2x, and ideally small and stow-able.

Most common usecases are extending signal on 3g/4g USB dongles, and extending wifi signals at home (to one side at the expense of the other).
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It occurs to me that reddit is built specifically to deal with this kind of topic. It also attracts a politically oriented clientele.

I can appreciate that one of the attractions of using HN for this kind of topic is because the normal clientele are not overly political. A more reasoned discussion is possible. I'm old enough to remember a time when this was also true of Slashdot. I couldn't even imagine seeing the kind of discussion going on there today. Beware.
Failing to boycott is not the same thing as breaking a strike. If this whole incident has revealed one thing, it's the extent to which the labor movement has lost cultural and moral mindshare. Forty years ago, everyone knew what scabbing was, what it wasn't, and had social/political/moral ideas about it.

Now that the labor occupies a much less central place in our society, these common norms and knowledge have been lost. I happen to be appalled by this because of my own political views, but good or bad it's certainly a sign of the times.
Do you have a reference for this? The last I heard, Sessions was still his pick.
My first experience with Tesla service was when my car created an alert telling me that there was a coolant leak. When I called them, they told me that it didn't make sense as the car had no radiator. I had to send them a picture of the warning on my dash before they realized that I must be telling the truth.

When I brought the car in to the service center in Sunnyvale, they told me they were backed up and that they probably wouldn't be able to look at it until the end of the day. At the end of the 2nd day, having heard nothing, I called them and they told me they wouldn't be able to even look at it until the end of the week. It took me half a dozen angry phone calls to the service manager to convince them to look at it the following day, determine that it needed a new part that had to be ordered, and order the part. All told, the car was with them just over a week.

About 2 weeks later, my AC stopped working (South Bay Area Summer--hooray!) Again, they tell me it'll be days before they can look at it.

All told, from the moment I drove out of the Fremont factory in December 2013 as a happy customer, Tesla the company did everything in their power to lose me culminating in a bait and switch offer on my car after 3 years.

They want people to believe they are different. They're not. :(
I didn't just read it, I watched it. I heard it from his own mouth.

Here is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlibiQIy298

Let's put this in context

Donald Trump's quote: "Donald J. Trump is calling for a complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on."

Or the wording on his website: https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2016/11...

We can let the viewers at home decide.
It's not unprecedented for policies to be applied in phases, starting with a more palatable version before expanding it.

> because the fact is that Trump did not select the specific countries involved at all, and merely relied on the evaluation codified into law under the Obama admin.

You're making it sound like Trump was restricted to just that list. Trump isn't a civil servant carrying out the stated orders of the President, he is the President, and is not bound to follow the details of the EO of the previous president.
Right. And then a driver from one of those services breaks the strike and the parent company they contract for gets hammered in the court of public opinion for breaking the strike.
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We didn't choose Trump. He trailed the leading candidate by almost three million votes, an unprecedented amount. Making such statements is a slap in the face of the majority of American voters. There are also still substantial questions remaining as to how much assistance Trump may have received from foreign governments in achieving his victory.
I think throwaw181ay is making a different argument, which is essentially that you should license the people (e.g. like a driver's license, which indicates proficiency) and not the thing, which is (basically) the car.
Interested to see what Shroud of the Avatar will be like, whenever it's finished. I got thousands of hours of entertainment from Ultima Online, and Shroud is said to be "UO 2 with a different name." He makes a good point that the Steam audience is a different beast; as a whole they aren't very tolerant of alpha releases, with good reason.
Instead of a gesture, Uber chose to allow immigrants from the countries in question to keep earning money. Uber made it easy for protesters to get around the police blockade of the AirTrain.

There were no ideal options on the table. Joining the strike would have meant hurting a sizable number of immigrants and hurting the protests.
>Perhaps you can educate us, then, when the executive branch gained the power to create law in the form of executive orders?

The Wikipedia article looks like a pretty good general overview. While it is true that EOs as such are not explicitly accommodated by the Constitution, EO-equivalents with the force of law have been enacted by presidents from George Washington onward. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order . If you want more information, please consult Google. EOs are not new.

>Thought experiment: if Obama had issued an EO stating that his interpretation of the 2nd amendment referred only to state militias, and as a result he was proceeding to forcibly confiscated all privately owned firearms, would that be constitutional?

Trump is not re-interpreting the Constitution via EO. He is not overriding binding precedent from SCOTUS by EO (only Congress can do that, and sometimes it requires a Constitutional amendment). He is not running a national confiscation program by EO (though FDR did do this when he used EOs to make it illegal for Americans to own gold) [0].

He is doing something that is considered well within presidential power -- directing the Department of Homeland Security in its duty to vet and screen potential entrants to the United States. Foreign nationals have no right, implicit or explicit, to enter the United States.

Border control is a universally recognized duty that every country not only acknowledges, but actively enforces (and many of our first-world peers are much more aggressive than us). Without such screening, borders are irrelevant. Within U.S. law specifically, it's undisputed that such matters are under the DHS's purview, and that the DHS is under the executive branch's purview.

It seems, therefore, that an EO directing the DHS in these duties would be completely logical, right? President Obama issued several addressing the same fundamental types of issues, though his EOs generally liberalized migration policies rather than tightening them. Why is it legal for Obama to give orders of this nature, but not Trump?

I'm not a lawyer and I don't know if there are specific statutory details imposed upon the DHS in its screening process, but it doesn't appear obvious to anyone that anything about Trump's EO conflicts with any existing law. Even Ms. Yates is unable to elucidate the nature of her purported legal argument.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
The strike was widely publicized and the protest visible. Everyone involved was allowed to act as they saw fit and we can think what we want of those decisions as well.
One of my ex-coworker took his Toyota sedan to dealership for every single service need, like engine oil changes. And you know they advertise people should bring in cars to dealership despite the higher price because they do complete inspection in every visit.

Guess what. In of his his visits to the dealership, the mechanic came around and pointed out with 'pride' that he had found completely worn out brake pads. His brake pads were worn out to the point where simple replacing replacing wasn't enough. Because the brake pads weren't replaced in time, the repair was going to be more complicated and $$.

The thing is my coworker had been taking the car to the same dealership since he had bought it there like 3 years before. And apparently no one had inspected or bothered to inform customer about the worn out brake pads.

Think about it. Elon Musk, the man who very possibly could put first humans on Mars, is annoyed with car dealerships enough to the point he refuses to sell his Teslas through dealers. He is going through needless hassle with sales channel of Tesla because he's sick of car dealerships.
You're doing a lot of arguing For someone who has no position on it.
I haven't heard anything about Trump looking for someone other than Sessions, who's been his pick for a while now. Have you heard otherwise?
In the end, what really differentiates these companies? There aren't many reasons to pick one over the other. Any opportunity that Lyft has to say "Hey! We're different" is good for business.
.NET core is a complete rewrite with incompatible API, it has little to do with the old .NET legacy framework. That's MSFT, one days hip API is tomorrows legacy cruft, you better stay on the edge or choose a stable non-MSFT open source solution.
Cited paper http://science.sciencemag.org.sci-hub.ac/content/355/6323/39...
Ahh yes, the advisory board with other fringe right-wingers such as Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, and Sheryl Sandberg. How could he possibly be so two-faced as to throw his hat in with these marginal characters?
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Most of the day we are aware of our 5 senses. We notice new sounds, new sights, and new sensations. But many times we don't notice new thoughts, new emotions, and new feelings. We're blind to ourselves most of the the day.

When we practice mindfulness we practice listening, seeing, and feeling our thoughts. The whole point is to strengthen the awareness of our mind. Allowing us to notice changes to our inner world as we notice changes to our outer one.

The way we practice this is by focusing on our breath, and noticing when our mind wanders. I first thougt the important part of meditation was the focusing. It wasn't. It was the noticing. That's what we're training when we meditate. And that's the part that we're rewiring.
How does taxi airport strike help travelers?
Harder to reason about, and with more boilerplate to write.
Agreed. Bloom filters are amazingly useful for checking membership in a set while taking much less space than a database or hash table. They achieve this by being crazily "probabilistic", sacrificing a small amount of accuracy for speed and compactness. Still, this sort of broken, degenerate hash table has found a ton of uses in everything from spell checkers to distributed content networks.
I don't think the parent said he wanted yogis to run the world.

I believe he said that if yogis could really project their thoughts, it would be a super-power which would enable them to run the world.

The conclusion is that since they do not run the world, they likely do not possess such super-powers.
Can this app store download bump be judged independently of the fact that Lyft just expanded to a bunch of cities[1]? Lyft being available in all these cities would obviously give it a large bump.

Not sure why techcrunch doesn't mention that this may have NOTHING to do with the #deleteuber campaign.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/lyft-expands-to-40-new-u-s...
It's easy to talk about a corporate death penalty, but that's not really in the interest of society.

Take Arthur Andersen. After the Enron scandal, Arthur Andersen was basically split up and absorbed into the other accounting firms, especially Deloitte and EY. Are we really better off having the Big Four accounting firms instead of the Big Five? I'd say we need more competition, not less.

Not to mention the many innocent parties around the world who lost out due to the actions of a few.

I'd be in favour of sanctions that target those responsible and the chain upwards to the top, rather than a business as a whole. Even clawbacks of past bonuses, although that would be logistically very difficult.
Tax avoidance is cheating? I guess I better not max out my 401k this year for the tax advantage! That would be cheating!
More illegal than the foreign brides that have existed for decades?
It's rather ironic that the front-end developer handbook doesn't support mobile devices.

Doesn't inspire confidence.
Did you miss that the strike was only against picking up fares at the airport?
All of the people involved in the protests from top to bottom are just virtue signaling. The CIA went into Syria in 2006 and started funding and training opposition forces leading to the current civil war. The Obama administration is responsible for a quarter million deaths in Syria alone. And that doesn't include the use of cluster bombs, an act considered a war crime in most of the civilized world, on several of the countries listed in this "ban." And yet now that a relative hand full of people can't travel here... that's the real monstrous act. Don't get me wrong, I think the "ban" is pants on head stupid, but the people protesting don't give two shits about Syrians or the citizens of any of the other 6 countries we're bombing.
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Since Uber actively works against their drivers' collective organization and intentionally atomizes their labor force, a coordinated action for all drivers is only feasible in the context of Uber suspending service. If individual drivers chose not to service JFK, that was their decision and we can respect them for it. There were, however, Uber drivers breaking the strike and that reflects on Uber accordingly.
I wouldn't think being "right wing" would be sufficient to explain using the phrase "jewish elite".

Like, can we not treat "the people who say things like 'jewish elite' " and "people who are right wing" as being the same group?

I mean, I'm not saying they don't have an overlap
( It is probably true that P(a person is right wing | they say stuff about "the jewish elite") > P(the person is right wing) ),

but I'm concerned about the social incentives that might be created/contributed-to if they are treated as if they are the same.
Strikes should not be a feature of free societies. What do we achieve by striking and making it hard for normal Americans to go abut their lives ? Trump and his officials probably laugh at you from their taxpayer funded jets.

An Uber or Lyft driver is poor than me and I do not want him to earn less because I want to engage in virtue signaling. I would suggest putting up donation boxes and raising more money to donate it to ACLU and other organizations instead of disrupting normal life.
Thanks for the response. You state as much in the FAQs.

I will show my ignorance here but see if we can make some headway.

Your own token doesn't have to be fungible with other tokens so it doesn't have to be worth anything.

The cost of mining therefore is just the time and electricity which you would charge your users for.

So my question was around user cost,fungibility of your token and added stress to the Bitcoin blockchain.
So that I understand, if you were at the head of a $1bb company, would it by default become "evil"? Further, do you feel that capitalism is intrinsically bad?
Peter Thiel is a direct investor in Lyft. And Thiel donated $1M to Trump and was part of his transition party.
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Twitter's absurd character limit played a part in this
New Zealand even changed labour laws to ensure The Hobbit would be filmed there. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/oct/31/warner-bros...
Both Thiel and Icahn are investors in Lyft, who are even closer to Trump. How does it feel directly support Thiel and Icahn?
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Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, Flywheel, etc...
As of right now it's rewards. After the beta, we will include payments attribution of work, equity in an org and the feeling that you helped contribute in building something
God, this. I had my car drift one month out of warranty when the alternator failed at 45,000 miles. Was not happy. Was MUCH LESS HAPPY when they called me to tell me "this is weird, but the B post under the hood has melted. Do you know anything about that?"
"Do YOU know anything about that? I never jumped the car. I drove it to your driveway and you told me you had to jump it to get it into the service bay."
"Well, it's about $600 to fix."
"That sucks for you. You guys nuked it. I dropped it off with a working B post. See: HOW DO YOU THINK YOU MOVED IT FROM YOUR DRIVEWAY?"
"Oh. Well, we'll take care of it this time."

I haven't ever left a BMW service center NOT feeling like I was being fleeced.

I did have my Model S throw a 12 V Battery Needs Service error 3,000 miles in. Called them on the way to work, they remote diagnosed that it was NOT the HVLV connector (Tesla's take on the alternator, effectively), and offered to have a Ranger out to my office to swap the battery later that afternoon. Done and done. Though I've heard plenty of complaints for very long waits for more complex fixes, I've also heard of those for every manufacturer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4168950/Rudy-Giulian...

No, they are protecting their interests even in the face of discrimination. And guess what, those bombs are continuing to be dropped and Trump wants more bombs dropped.

http://time.com/4644036/donald-trump-russia-syria-joint-stri...
Zimride (Zimmer founder of Lyft) started the first carpooling site. I used it many times to offer rides to Tahoe.

Uber started their service with black cars.

Later Sidecar started the first service to allow non taxi/black car drivers the ability to drive their car and pick up passengers.
Ah, yeah, const-correctness definitely gets way more tedious, but eh, just like the ugly as sin typedefs, I think it's a net win.

I've been contemplating doing a little project that scans all the SDK/DDK headers for SAL annotations in use and making a big cross-reference where you can, like, click on the #defines in <sal.h> and see all the places where there are real examples of it being used.

Some of the complex uses are really hard to grok just from MSDN documentation alone; I've found looking around at the WDK/DDK headers much more useful.

Unrelated question: why'd you leave Microsoft? Were you doing NT kernel development there? Is that what you've done in the past?
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VC subsidy or no, a car service with the medallion capital cost will end up costing more than one without.
You're misinformed.

Nobody from Microsoft, Google, Apple or Facebook are in this group.

https://greatagain.gov/president-elect-trump-announces-addit...
I don't think anyone working in science believes any model they investigate is going to work without qualification for all time (for a limited time, with current ability to verify, sure; Newtonian gravity worked that way for a long time, too.)

Science approaches the underlying reality asymptotically.
All Travis has gotta do is just, uhhh, disrupt all of that, uhhh -- disruption going on? The stuff with the judiciary branch, and whatnot.

To be clear, I don't mean to be incredibly condescending, but: Do you actually think the POTUS or someone like Steve Bannon actually gives a shit what a nerd who owns an app actually thinks, in light of everything happening right now?

I'm being serious. Fundamentally, "nerd who owns app" is all someone like Travis Kalanick is, in this situation. He is not some magical negotiator or politician because he accepted a position with the administration on the Policy Forum. I don't know why to expect him to be anything more than just a soundboard/printed name. Why would I? Because he and Trump are business men?

And if he IS anything more than "nerd who owns app" -- why would he want to be associated with what appears to be a completely unhinged administration? People do not look at someone like Condoleezza Rice and think "I bet she tried real hard, talkin 'em down. Good show."

This idea "good ol' Travis or Elon" can just talk him down off the wire seems to be nothing but a dream, rooted in some fantasy, as far as I can tell. Maybe all the shit going down is bad for them. But if it isn't - why would they stop it?
Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

So far as I can tell, this is still his view: our government's priority needs to be the physical safety of its citizens, and we should not be willing to trade this safety for the comfort (or even lives) of non-citizens. I'm personally uncomfortable with this degree of nationalism, but I know that lots of Americans agree with this sentiment, and I don't know that it's unconstitutional for him to act in accordance with this belief.

It's difficult to determine what exactly is Trump's position on this, or anything else, in my opinion.

I agree, and this is why I'm dubious about media coverage that declares his position to be clear and unambiguous.

Here are some past actions that I keep in mind when judging whether to give him the benefit of the doubt in doing the right and ethical thing:

Those are all big warning flags to me as well. I particularly don't know what to make of the tax returns, since I presume (hope) they will be leaked and published at some point.

this may be a desire to withhold judgement until seeing additional evidence.

For greater clarity, I strongly supported Sanders, and was distressed by the way he was treated by the press and the Democratic Party. I voted for Jill Stein, mostly in hope that greater support for 3rd parties will eventually help change America's two party landscape. I (still) generally prefer Trump to Clinton, but some of his recent actions make me scared that he might be too narcissistic to be an effective leader, although I can't tell how much is real and how much is media exaggeration. I still have hope that he's less likely to engage in wars of aggression than previous administrations.

For my part, I'll continue to strive for reasoned consideration, but I'm no longer willing to err exclusively on the charitable side. I've seen enough that I no longer feel it's prudent to withhold judgement or grant him the benefit of the doubt.

That makes sense, both for Trump and with regard to the mainstream media. Also, I think it might be a good idea to focus more attention on Steve Bannon, and less on Trump: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/what-to-make-o...
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which is enough reason for me never to use Lyft.

#hasta-la-lyfta-baby (work in progress delete Lyft hashtag).