skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How on earth did you find any racism in my comment? I never once so much as hinted at race. I explained why a combination of large land area, low GDP, and bad/limited history of water management will put Bangladesh in a very bad situation in the coming years if sea levels continue to rise. None of that has anything to do with race: you're welcome to replace 'Bangladesh' with 'Kaliningrad oblast' and the entire comment holds (with the exception of one Bangladesh-specific statistic about Dhaka flooding.)

The only thing I said the Dutch were superior at was water management. You might find a racist person spouting nonsense about "nonwhites have a lower IQ", or some garbage statistic about violence, but I can't seem to think of the last time "bad at water management" was used as an insult. Additionally, this isn't some kind of made-up pseudofact pulled from totally-not-wrong-statistics.biz, it's pretty damn obvious. One of the few things the Netherlands is universally known for is good water management: without it, most of the population would be underwater.

The Dutch waterboards are some of the oldest continually operating forms of government in the world. One I bike by daily (Delfland) has operated continuously from 1289, and there are older ones still. Meanwhile water management in Bangladesh is considered an absolute disaster, on every level. Thirty million people have or will have chronic arsenic poisoning from their consumption of poisoned water, aquifers are being depleted, sanitation is unregulated, and most of the few extant water resource authorities survive on donations. The reasons for this are many, from idiotic colonialist rulers to conflicts with neighboring countries to improperly allocated aid dollars. None of this has anything to do with skin color: you're the only one to bring that up. When sea levels rise, skin tone doesn't matter: experience fighting water does.

It should be obvious that the Netherlands, which has successfully dealt with these problems for eight hundred years straight and has far more money to spend, will probably fare better than Bangladesh, which is one of the most impoverished nations on earth and does not have a history of successfully fighting rising sea levels.

I'd appreciate it if you read my comment again, think about it, and apologize. Thank you.

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Finally, for anyone else reading this: for all of my adult life (and even for years before that) I've been active in fighting for political and social causes I believe in, donating my time and money to NGOs and political groups large and small. In particular two of these I'd like to highlight are anti-racism causes and furthering the education of engineers in the third world. For the past several years I've also commented on the Internet using my full first and last name, as I have here in both these comments. If you have any doubts whatsoever about my lifelong opposition to racism, I encourage you to Google-stalk me and verify this for yourself.
I have the same car, as well as a Pixel phone, and I'm really pleased with streaming radio apps on Android Auto. The voice controls work for Spotify and not just Google Music. To control music I'm generally using voice control or the steering wheel stereo controls.

CarPlay really seems to suck for any audio app that isn't Apple Music. It does seem to work _great_ for Apple Music, so if that's your preferred music app then you'd be pretty happy.
Many people lack, or don't have enough of, the ability to deal with conflicts, emotions, unexpected outcomes, etc. Not to say that these things are always easy to deal with for anyone.

Advancement is also an infuriating process. Either there isn't enough opportunity to learn or develop the skills to advance, or the requirements to get someone or some organization to invest in you is difficult to obtain for a lot of people.

The maddening pursuit of self-interest makes people more discriminating in who to support and build up.

The way a lot of people put down others often tends to be very toxic and not everyone who is on the receiving end knows how to deal with that.

We definitely haven't tried everything possible to "get along". One thing for sure is that there is definitely advancement in this area led by thought leaders blogging and new trends such as the recent "triggered" and "safe space", the typical criticism by assholes like calling them "snowflakes", etc. And then someone will realize some new idea and the cycle will begin.

There is clearly a large amount of people who are deaf to these things, or perhaps it does reach them, just very slowly.

Education is so very important and yet we're gutting it here in America. I'd like to see more emphasis placed on teaching kids (and adults) how to deal with conflict with people and within themselves.
Obigatory:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/01/15/polic...

The TLAs use things like OnStar to spy on people.
Unless they have a store in every major city where I can walk in, say "my laptop is broken" and walk out with the issue resolved, or a firm plan to have it resolved, then no, it is not a macbook killer.
I do not think that you should view patents as the only way that you can benefit from your work, because the likelihood is that many people will benefit from your work. If this is true, you are most likely to be watching people benefit from your work, unable to enforce due to financial constraints. That said, in a consolidating market, acquirers are highly likely to value said patents. So, to think that patents are not an asset is false. To think that you will gain competitive advantages in a land grab is also false. I do think that patents, when your product does take as much advantage of your IP as possible, are a net benefit, but they will cost you dearly to get and simply maintain.
Contrary to your beliefs, one can have both self-respect and a sense of humor.
Check Out This Roboguard. Roboguard? Roboguard. Robot+guard = Roboguard. YES
> Hail a cab? You can even use a cab-hailing app? There is nothing magic about Uber/Lyft's service that a municipal taxi service couldn't use.

Are you arguing for or against ride-hailing apps, here? The original comment you replied to was that ride-hailing (as exemplified by uber/lyft) is a much better experience than existing public transit.

> And an aggregated bus service through Uber isn't going to be any better.

Compared to existing public transit (on a set schedule/route), uber/lyft are better because they're demand-dispatched based on where people want to go and when.

> Young people, old people, poor people, mentally handicapped people, people who have been away from power outlets for a while. Foreigners who don't have domestic SIM cards yet.

Many of those people will also have a hard time figuring out which buses (with which combination of transfers) will get them where they want to go. Assuming that public transit even goes where they want to go in the first place.

You're concerned about excluding people, but you're ignoring all the people who are excluded by transit routes/schedules.

> Bus lines and schedules aren't exogenous. They're put together based on estimations of where the demand for the bus line is.

Those estimates are exactly that, estimates, and the resulting routes are subject to lobbying. Plus, the bus lines don't change very often--if they did, it would be very confusing.

But demand-dispatched transportation like uber/lyft know exactly where people are starting from, exactly where they're going, and exactly when. If there's a popular show at a music club, the bus lines aren't going to adapt to that in real time.

> You call a car and it says you're waiting 15 minutes for the next ride, that's no different than going to the bus stop and seeing that you'll be waiting 15 minutes for the next bus.

The difference is that I'm waiting at home rather than waiting at the bus stop. And that the car is going where I want to go, without transfers.
I've seen one person riding with something that looked like a gas mask. It appeared to have a "bane" like square filter near the mouth. Not just a simple N95 mask.
Amazon Finds the Cause of Its AWS Outage: A Typo
I think the videos are still available to students. I'm sure someone will upload a torrent soon.
If Iraq is your model, you don't need conscription, just widely disseminate copies of the Anarchist's Cookbook for IED
As a sibling comment points out, the submission actually quotes from Richard Gabriel's Worse is Better. That, and the snarky tone of the comment may have been what caused people to downvote and/or flag the comment. 'swolchok could also have linked to the original, thus avoiding jwz's HN-referrer redirect.
While we're at it, don't forget natto. Though I guess it's cheating since it's not "fresh".

http://www.sakura-hostel.co.jp/blog/assets_c/2011/10/natto%2...
The CPU seems to be 2x Cavium ThunderX_CP for a total of 96 cores.
Linode Connectivity Issues
DNA could store all of the world's data in one room
There seems to be lots of news in Linux laptops. Purism has its Coreboot project done: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-13-coreboot-report-february-25t... or see HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768945. Dell has a 13" XPS Linux laptop: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/dells-latest-xps-13-d.... And System76 looks like it's starting to make competitive hardware.
While I kind of think WoW looks pretty dated these days I would otherwise agree. When WoW was released it was alongside Everquest 2, which was poised to be the next big thing with realistic graphics and a name everyone recognized in MMOs (though people certainly recognized Warcraft as well). I would be surprised if anyone even really remembers Everquest 2 at this point, but for a good year or so we talked about which one would win out. WoW beat it and proceeded to beat every MMO record ever by several orders of magnitude.
Exactly how teams fail, they skim on what's important, i am not saying you should be hiring A players from the start all the way, in my personal opinion, 90% of commercial software can be built with a bunch of honest average-joe-follow-instructions developers who will execute a sound idea/vision, this is assuming that YOU are the A player and you know what you're doing.

Once the revenues start to come in, feel free to go through the pain of hiring of A players, which is only half the journey, you need to also retain them by ring fencing piles of cash (bonuses, perks etc...) through out their time in your company, it is not for the faint hearted
I've always wondered why a new open-source OS has not arisen to claim the mantle of UNIX / Linux. There are so many ancient design decisions, piled up upon each other, which spawn millions of man-hours of frustration. It continues perhaps because of its esoteric nature. People don't want to throw away all the weird stuff they've learnt.
Yes, no escape key and no function keys clearly demonstrates that the Macbook Pro is not a Pro laptop.
Could some of this risk be improved by actually going to Russia and working side by side? I am a non-technical founder but I've been impressed with quality I've gotten from Russia-based developers. It seems to me if I spent time there with them we could move much faster. Thoughts?
It's public transit, it should be a reliable service for the public primarily supported by taxes so that we all benefit.
Also a teacher, and pretty sure there's maybe 1-5 high schoolers a year that would understand this.
I'm guessing your comment was inspired by this: http://www.squawkpoint.com/2014/01/criticism/
> Politically they "have to" align to gun safety, because who doesn't like "safety"

NRA membership is large enough that they also conform to similar values as the general public.

As such, they also want weapons to be as safe as possible, while still remaining effective weapons.

An anti-gun member of the public doesn't want guns to be 'weapons', they want them to be 'hobby tools' which would allow you to compromise effectiveness to an extreme just to get safety.

To me the anti-gun lobby is disingenuous by framing gun ownership as a "hobby". Why in the world would there be a constitutional amendment about a hobby? This is like writing a constitution where the 2nd line talks about the rights to own basketballs.
Passwords are in HTTPS requests, and should never be in HTTPS responses (especially not cacheable responses).

Only GET responses should be cached (not requests), so it seems unlikely a password would leak.
I've posted this before, but it's relevant so I'll post it again. Not sure if this has changed since I last posted, but it's a hell of a warning sign on how they practice:

So, I'm an Australian. We don't have OnStar but I've heard about it via the net.
I keep getting emails for 2 different people's OnStar accounts to my Email address... and OnStar won't do anything about it.

I have a pretty short Gmail address because I signed up early (6 characters), and Gmail's autocorrect/fuzzy email receiving means I get emails for all sorts of people that have mistyped their email and mine is "close" to what they typed.

To give you an idea of how bad this OnStar situation is:

- The emails have all the personal details inside each one. Name, home address, car make/model and various ID/registration details, home phone number, etc.

- It gives me full access to the cars maintenance records via monthly emails with EVERYTHING in the email relating to the car, INCLUDING LETTING ME EDIT IT via a link.

- It gives me a link directly to their OnStar account, and the password is the persons postcode, WHICH IS IN THE EMAIL. There's quicklinks to access the full account, change vehicle details, remotely access various aspects of the vehicle's features, etc.

- I can send directions to their GPS from my browser, which comes up on their screen.

- ... lots lots more "could" be done if I was inclined.

I've emailed OnStar support about it a few times, they don't reply. The closest I get to any form of reply is an automatic message telling me to call them on a "toll free number" (not free for me to call from here!)

PS, Mr Buchner, your 'tires' on your GMC Terrain are low and your oil needs changing urgently. It's overdue by months.
root@baz # shutdown now
W: molly-guard: SSH session detected!
Please type in hostname of the machine to shutdown: foo
Good thing I asked; I won't shutdown baz ...

Surprising to see such a simple protection neglected.
Cars are the real "American carnage". There were 40,000 deaths from traffic accidents in 2016. MIT estimates another 53,000 from traffic pollution[1]. That's more than 5 times as many as the number of homicides.

[1] http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-e...
Do you know a good place to learn more about this? I'd love to see what might be available for my Mazda.
It is now indexed by Google, at least. Doesn't look like they are actively trying to hide it.
Much of the data I analyse has a spatial/geometric/geographic component and for that I wouldn't want to do my job without FME. In fact it's probably may one of my all time favorite pieces of software.

Otherwise jupyter with numpy and all the other great python libraries is where I spend much of my time.
I owned the previous 14" 1080p Haswell powered Galago Ultra Pro built by Clevo. Build quality was terrible and battery life was horrific when compared to Dell Precision 15 (aka XPS). I quick quickly sold it and haven't missed it.
> genes aren't so much randomly scattered in chromosomes as much as they are grouped in ways that maximize useful insertions/deletions/frameshifts.

This isn't true. Almost all mutations are either harmful or neutral, so any such gene grouping would be selected against.
> I think you'll find a larger (but still small) percentage of the dreamer type within the business community than within engineering.

Can you expound on that a little? It's completely contrary to my life experience, where people with business degrees are mostly system followers and ladder climbers.
>History shows that car manufacturers have not given near enough thought to the security of access to a vehicle

Yeah! No kidding!

I read last year about how Nissan's Leaf API was entirely unauthenticated, all you needed was the VIN to mess with people's climate control.

https://www.troyhunt.com/controlling-vehicle-features-of-nis...
> "To err is human. To fuck up a million times in a second you need a computer."

If you made that up, I tip my hat off to you as payment for all my future uses of the phrase.
The point is Snap knows how to make things people want. Contrast with GearVRs or Oculus Rifts. They're not selling for above retail on eBay.
Sounds reasonable, I guess you're right.
"beat the pants"? Compared to Ryzen, E3-1240 V2 has: half the cores, half the L3 cache, half the memory throughput of Ryzen, no AVX2, etc. Plus average price is more like $300-350 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R210-II-1U-Rackmount-... And it's still comparing apples to oranges favoring Intel. Wait a few months and compare used Ryzen gear to that old Intel gear...
In a democratic society, the people are the masters, enslaved to... themselves
Its a negotiation that happens with the bank that is taking the company public. They are trading off the 'optics' of a bunch of people selling their stake at the IPO vs value. The lockup period for executive (officers) and non-officers is also negotiated.

The bankers want to strike a balance between employees (especially officers) who have concerns about being whipsawed with the stock price and the perception that they feel the company will grow in value over time so holding the stock is a "good" investment.
I feel like calling one thing MIPSter and another thing mipster was a poor choice
> $1,000 worth ... 0.01 BTC

It could very well reach 100,000 USD, but being snarky doesn't help your argument.

Shapeshift is a very good service that will keep Bitcoin relevant, and I'm sure there will be more services in the future that will keep Bitcoin valuable.

Right now, Bitcoin is supported primarily by technically-inclined companies/people. Those that want to figure out how to use it to buy illegal items, pay ransoms, or skirt other monetary restrictions will turn to those technically-inclined people (and their websites) to learn.

It's easier now for people to share information and for better ideas to replace older ones. Not so much when e-mail was in its infancy. Now e-mail is ubiquitous, Bitcoin not so much.

Like another person wrote, it's not a zero-sum game. I'm not saying Bitcoin will be worthless. I am saying that it might not "go to the moon" like you think it might with your hypothetical valuation, and another crypto currency might.

> Tell me, what is your best argument for how something like Monero will surpass bitcoin?

Privacy, and as a result: fungibility. It's true, most people don't value privacy today. I only imagine most people here do for the many reasons that have been hashed out over the years, but I guess you're not one of them. The HN community is a very good cross section of the movers and shakers of the digital world. If most people here decided to switch, it would happen.
Scratch business problem, replace with "legal problem". Copyright law makes it virtually impossible to compete with Netflix. Netflix was only allowed to start because they wedged their way in as a rent-by-mail service.

After pioneering streaming and realizing that the studios were asking themselves why they don't just load up their own computers with movies and get paid to stream them out, Netflix was forced to start its own content division to keep subscribers onboard and prevent the studios from poaching all of their customers by failing to renew contracts for content.

We have a similar problem in online services. It's impossible to compete with Facebook because the law allows them to hold data hostage.

We badly need copyright reform. The current incarnation is impractical in the digital age.
We are storing database backups and static assets (e.g. images in mails) on S3.
Barack Obama called for jury service (2010)
> private vehicle for everyday transport is a luxury

This is called a car and the vast majority have one.

Ride-sharing is actually less luxurious than your own car. It's still shared transit, designed to lower costs and increase affordability by pooling resources and increasing total utilization. It is not meant for only the wealthy.
exactly this.
The answer is Dealers. Their dealers would sue them if they lost all the revenue they get from updating customers vehicles. On the flipside, it would save the manufacturers a ton of money because they wouldn't be paying dealers to perform these updates when they're under warranty. This also explains why Tesla has to do OTA updates... no dealers.
Windows 10 already sorted out the filename limitations.

A few more releases and in around 10 years, Win32 will be drinking beers with Carbon.

Mono and Qt don't change the architecture of UNIX and their adoption across UNIX variants isn't a game changer.
If you think this submission (or any other) are inappropriate for HN, please do flag. As for political sides, humans are generally biased to see actions against their own beliefs and miss those that are congruent. Political submissions in general regardless of political persuasion tend to attract flags, and this one likely has as well: it has 170 points and is only 8 hours old, yet is no longer on the front page.
> Containers describes the implementation, not the user experience or benefit.

This. Sure, "contextual identities" sounds too academic, but who knows, maybe Containers (as a word) will become as ubiquious as Tabs are today (very common word in German today): Hey, dude, open a container ;)
> The protection model is a mismatch for all those purposes. (Programs have the authority of the user. Not so good today as in the 1970s.)

I disagree, I think this is still the sweet spot between security and utility. Users have been trained to just click approve on any privilege escalation dialog.
I don't use extensions and still find Firefox better than Chrome on Android.

It is a really good browser.
Why do you think high speed trains and designing our neighborhoods to provide walkable basics are incompatible ideas?

Yes, we need better public transit. But the cheapest, most ecological transit is the distance you just don't travel.

There is no reason, even at Manila densities, you can't have a green grocer within a few blocks of every city resident.
I don't hate them and they don't make me gag. I'm fine with a nice Caprese Salad with fresh summer tomatoes. That said, I routinely pick tomato slices out of sandwiches and generally avoid them in situations where they're the norm. With me it's at least as much of a texture as a flavor thing.
On the other hand, if you want organic, grass-fed meat, you can get that at Whole Foods.

The the thing with regulations is that because they apply to everyone, every man and his dog (and his lobbyist) gets to have a say, and you end up with one size fits nobody.

Maybe it's better to avoid regulating any particular standard of quality, and allow people to buy and sell more or less anything they want so long as it's not misrepresented. Dog meat as ground beef is not cool, dog meat as dog meat, maybe that's ok?
Yeah Test Pilot just is there to help us gather more data on how people use Containers so we can shape it's future. Lots of people are asking for features and we would like to concentrate on the ones that users would like.

Containers are indeed internal to the browser using origin attributes which are a platform feature. We have opened this up to extension authors also in WebExtensions so they can play with ideas also.
Should you invest in a Bitcoin ETF?