skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The finger clicks work like 60% of the time, and the windows seem to vary in opaqueness which really threw me off.

This tells me that Microsoft still doesn't quite have the corporate culture for the level of innovation they are aiming at. They should have abandoned opaqueness in favor of a really wide FOV, and stuck with a reticle system or some other more robust for pointing and selection.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the idea. I personally buy from companies like https://us.whogivesacrap.org/ and seek out and pay a premium for sustainably produced food. In a city such as SF or Seattle where many people are wealthy and eco-concious I could see this working. I'm unsure if it would scale though.
That's sad. Directories are super useful, especially to help with serendipity... you can't know what you don't now.
Someone called Godfrey Elfwick claimed to have written the Guardian article as a spoof, although on closer investigation it seems there's no solid proof. That said, it reads like perfect satire, I can't believe it's genuine.

I recall a few similar instances over the years but I can't find links to all of them. Not sure if I can find an exact fit for an anonymous story made up to smear someone. The accusations of child-rape against Trump just before the election spring to mind:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/07/donald-trump...

More generally on fake accounts, there was the fake Syrian lesbian blogger:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-13760208

There was the fake deaf cerebral palsy blogger:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dave-on-wheels

There was this "meeting a troll" story from years ago which I always suspected was fake - looked it up just now, and while there's no hard evidence that it is fake, the writer (who made no claims to using a pseudonym), has since vanished from the face of the web, and it seems no journalists ever fact checked the story:

http://paulclarke.com/honestlyreal/2012/10/for-whom-the-bell...

My google search turned up this article from Breitbart which is actually pretty good, a rundown of fake stories that became national news over the years:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/11/22/12-fake-n...

Their comment on the infamous Stephen Glass I think gets to the heart of how fake articles get written:

Some speculated Glass fooled so many editors because he had “wonder boy” star power and great personal charisma. Others thought it was because he understood and flattered the biases and expectations of the publications he worked for – he sold them stories they wanted to publish, surfing the early wave of “narrative” obsession that has completely consumed mainstream journalism over the past two decades. Glass invented people, organizations, and events that lived down to his publishers’ darkest expectations of every social group and profession except their own.
> If the drivers aren't making enough from base fares then the fares need to go up - it's not my job to be a charity

The way I view it, I've already gotten a discounted cab ride thanks to the VCs. So the very least I can do in my fortunate situation is share a dollar or two for the guy who drove me home at 3am.

It's a dollar; you folks making six-figures are really gonna hold out against a person who drove you across town just 'cause you disagree with the currently (broken) system?
My personal laptop is still a 2011 Macbook Air. I was waiting for the new MBP's before I upgraded but after they came out, it was clear that Apple had lost me as a laptop customer.

It's not just the hardware. OSX has become steadily worse over the years, and there is no indication that this will be reversed.

I'm not looking at getting myself a fully specced ThinkPad T470s: Kaby Lake CPU, 24 GB DDR4 RAM and 1 TB NVMe SSD. I'll be running Linux on this thing.
"...and a CEO that seems a bit more restrained."

When distinguishing between two effectively identical products, something like "The CEO seems less of an asshole" is a perfectly reasonable means of differentiating.
Hence five years, when that machine is no longer a beast. ;)
If we go back to 1998, maybe network throughput was the limiting factor that drove up concurrent connections and killed servers. But I also don't think we can say nginx solved that, since nginx didn't start seeing wide usage until about 10 years later.

I guess I wrote what I did because the comparison to Slowloris seemed to over-emphasize the importance of handling high numbers of concurrent connections, since that is the only mitigation for Slowloris.

But, for a flood of real traffic, concurrent connections and throughput are related. The faster your web server can serve responses, the fewer concurrent connections it will need to handle. And as the percentage of dynamic DB-backed sites has increased over time, so has the value of caching. Basic page caching can speed up a Wordpress blog by hundreds of times for unauth'd users, for example. For most little sites, implementing caching will get them more than installing nginx.

And really, what good are valid concurrent connections if the throughput isn't there? For most users, a site that waits 5 minutes on a blank page is no better than a server that's down.
I've had more poor, "I'm in a taxi cab in all but name" drives on Uber.
> As soon as drivers routinely expect and rely on tips, that opens up Uber to reducing their rates to grab more customers.

In Atlanta this happened last fall. [Some] Uber drivers now have tip jars square readers ready.
Hypothetically, for $3 difference? Probably the quicker/more reliable service. I'd probably look into car pooling as well.

In reality neither, would find some other way (cycle / public transport / lift with friend / cab / own car)
Is paragraph 2 of the post not upfront enough? I clearly stated our goals of the project, and the fact that this also saves us through the incident was a great side effect. But I never set out to mitigate S3 failures like this.
> The fact that it's not an effective Muslim ban is a different question.

It is precisely the question. What the ban is is much more important that what it purports to be.

For example, if it purported to be a ban on terrorists but actually was as ban on Muslims (and I mean, a bonafide ban on all Muslims), would that not matter?
I'd be curious to know what you want said robot to do
I'm not the original posted, but for me it's security and convenience reasons, mostly. I use Qubes OS which presents a very nice UI that makes using multiple VM's very seamless.
You must have stopped playing nintendo games before the gamecube came out.
Labor. The most expensive part of any business is still the labor.
Why is that sentiment (general sentiment, not just yours) different in case of restaurants?

When I meet Americans and when I leave w/o tipping, which is not common but normal where I live, they feel really offended and sometimes, I suspect, they might have thought they have to hangout with stingy persons like me. I am not sure whether I am meeting a very different kind of Americans or it's ingrained in the culture there in US.

Problem is they are usually not even willing to see that it's a different culture here, or that we tip based on the service and/or the fact whether the restaurant charges a "service charge" or not (it's additional to service tax).
Kotlin is a better Java. Scala is just something else.
My follow-up question would be: Is Scala still competitive to modern languages like Swift and Rust?

I experienced several drawback according to library quality and code-safety. There are too many small details that left me with an unpleasant feeling (I would take ScalaNLP/Breeze for example).

But my central issue is the VM/GC dependency. In times of GPU computing, native interface programming becomes a burden. The knowledge of object ownership improves code readability. I feel uncomfortable leaving object lifetime to a background process.
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> when people start making mistakes and bugs arise that infact hinders performance

That statement is true of any language stack.

> The reason Javascript is used in frontend let's use it for backend (even using the same programmer) seems flawed

I am a backend dev at my company and we use Node.js, and I can tell you while the frontenders are not great at knowing the APIs of the internal Node.js modules, for example, but can provide great PR reviews of the code in general, for overall logic, flow and readability.

As for your statements regarding in general, I think you'll find quite a bit of people in various orgs who do not know a ton about the intimate details of threading but are for example backenders using RoR, and they just install a server like Puma or Unicorn to abstract away a lot of that complexity.
There's a major problem with term limits. Let's say we fix the House of Representatives so that instead of constantly having to run for (re)election with two year terms, we change them to 4 year terms but limit them to 2. Ignoring the major changes that the committee chair/assignment system would require, no longer having a wide range of seniority, the entire body would suffer because the most experienced any legislator could be would be those elected to their second term, i.e. years 5-8 of their House career.

Why is this not good? Who also resides in Washington DC and interacts with legislators, with virtually no limits on their length of involvement in this game? Lobbyists. You set up a system where the Legislators are effectively perpetual newbies with an extremely broad scope of issues they must interact with and influence for the best. Lobbyists with just a decade of experience will know far more than any legislator. There's already a lot of legislation is introduced that's provided verbatim from lobbyists... expect that to get worse, not better, with an even more inexperienced elected officials.

We already have a system of term limits, it's called electing someone else. Don't make it impossible to keep an excellent legislator who has the broad support of their constituents; make it easier to elect someone new to replace a bad one. With the insane costs of campaigning and getting elected, we'd all be better served by simply reducing that barrier to a minimum. Publicly funded campaigns also remove the influence of financial contributions.
Reading this struck me: What is the difference between primordial volcanoes and human pollution? During the dinosaur age it was a lot hotter [0] and there were really extraordinary organisms. Further reading seems to go down a rabbit hole [1],etc.

[0]http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2014/07/11/what-geology-has-to-...
[1]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/apr/21/ice...
I think if I left my pregnant wife for three months she'd kill me
> - CEO never blackmailed journalists

Neither did Uber

> - Lyft takes a lower commission capped at 20%/25%

Same as Uber
> in a place that a reasonable person would consider private or in a manner which is actionable for trespass.

It would be hard to prove that a reasonable person would consider a ride share private.

- You know the driver can hear you

- Not your vehicle

- Others have recently ridden in it

- In some cases, you're sharing with another unknown party (Pool/Line)
If you work with other teams, especially onprem or offshore teams, they use netbeans or some other piece of shit IDE. It's just a fact. They know J7, can be convinced to try J8, once read a blog that mentioned Scala, and don't know what the fuck Kotlin is.
I think even a startup could do this. Could work with existing stations to promote themselves as being completely eco-friendly. They would add a small cost to each gallon of fuel (as andrewwhartion mentioned it should only be ~3-4%) and that cost would go to offsetting the emissions. The startup could charge another 1% or a lump fee and put the work into making banners / promotional material to advertise their eco-friendliness, and also handle the PR. In an eco-conscious city just the local PR could bump business enough to make it worth it.
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I give about 30% of my Lyft drivers a tip, and I'm glad Lyft includes the option in their app. I've occasionally wanted to tip an Uber driver but then not had cash on me.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect ride share companies to pay their drivers a fair wage when they are in fierce competition with each other and self-driving cars are on the horizon.

I agree "mandatory" tipping like in US restaurants isn't a great system. I don't think including tipping in an app with a default of $0 makes it close to mandatory. Lyft could give stats on what fractions of rides have a tip given; my bet is it that it's relatively low. Making optional tipping easier is a good thing.
I don't feel Lyft is some paragon of virtue. AFAICT they're a regular Silicon Valley tech company with all of the usual tensions associated with that. The service they provide is a huge improvement on what came before, but there are privacy concerns related to the data they collect and use for business purposes. They'll probably push the envelope a bit on what they can do with that information, and then back down whenever there's significant pushback.

Uber, on the other hand, is a cesspool. It's run by sociopaths who think business success confers moral authority, and are quite annoyed with all the hullaballoo about "right" and "wrong" that their actions periodically provoke.

I have no problem with their business model, but I will not use Uber. I don't trust them with my credit card, and I don't want them tracking my movements.
Your search engine is assigning reputation values, that's what it's all about.

I'd like to see those have some foundation in truth and fact rather than SEO inflation.
There's a huge variety of automated machinery used in agriculture already. Tilling, sowing, and harvesting grains can be done by robots. Cows can be fed and milked by robots. A "roomba for weeds" sweeps the fields scanning every plant and spraying herbicides only on the weeds, leaving the veggies untouched. Self-driving tractors have been driving themselves up and down fields for over a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driverless_tractor

http://smartmachines.bluerivert.com/

http://www.precisionplanting.com/#products/

https://shop.deepfield-robotics.com/en/deepfield-connect.htm...

http://www.sweeper-robot.eu/

https://www.lely.com/the-barn/milking/

https://www.lely.com/the-barn/feeding/vector/

I don't believe it's true that everyone's working on self-driving cars to the exclusion of applications of robotics to farming... I also don't believe buying a $120,000 robot is similar to buying a tomato at a farmer's market.
LOL. Well put. This is totally the bullshit way things work in the US. You can work as hard as you can and still only make the same salary. Hell, most places I've worked have what amounts to a cost of living adjustment (the so called "performance review") of 2-5%, and, if you're lucky, a 3-5% bonus which is tied to company performance and paid annually. The inventive is always to find the smallest amount of work necessary to keep the job. That said, smart employers (like my current employer) focus on desired output. They don't care how much time it takes to get there, just so long as you do by the agreed upon date. So if you can achieve the objective that they're willing to pay you $X/year for in 20 hours a week, everybody's happy. Essentially they're paying on a freeform production basis. "We imagine that in a year you'll be able to get X done, and getting X done is with $Y to us." So far I find it immensely freeing and motivating. If I can work smarter then I can essentially work less, while still upholding my end of the bargain.

As a society we just need to stop focusing on hours and start focusing on output. But in a babysitter culture where we indoctrinate kids with the 8-hour school day and production process, this change is slow to occur. Just imagine if, in highschool, we said "here's the list of things you need to know to graduate. We provide resources on the premises--teachers, mentors, technology, books, etc--for achieving this, and it can take as long or short as you are capable and motivated. Go!" Yes, some would take forever, but I suspect many would blow through it so they could focus on doing whatever they really valued. But this will never happen because what parents really value out of highschool is the daycare aspect. While the parents are at work they can rest easy deluding themselves that their kids are 1) relatively safe, and 2) "learning" something. Safe, perhaps, but learning? Not enough, and super inefficiently. I've been in both public school and home school, and I've seen what I could do when properly incentivized. In home school I was efficiency in motion because I wanted to finish so I could go play. In public school I barely applied myself because what point was there. I'd be there for 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday, no matter what I did so...

But daycare, ahem, highschool isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
After doing this shit professionally for more years than I could care for anymore, when I see programming language or framework comparisons I immediately think of something like[1]:

"Why Klein Cushion Grip screwdrivers are better than Wera Kraftform screwdrivers", or in this case "The myth of using Kraftform as a better screwdriver".

And then I imagine myself going back to using my shitty old Phillips screwdriver set to screw in a few screws in a non-optimal fashion and someone might say "Wow, thanks for hanging my door!" and I imagine the surprise on my face as I realize that people want functioning doors and are not too bothered about which brand of screwdriver was used to achieve that.

[1] http://blog.cnccookbook.com/2015/08/19/8-brands-to-consider-...
It looks very solid, but it in my opinion it has to be very impressive to persuade me to use a third party tool instead of the automation tools that are integrated with my DAW.

I'm not trying to degrade your product, which, again, looks great, but you just targeted an area that is handled quite well in most DAWs already.

Have you considered turning this into a mobile app? Having this run on an iPad next to my keyboard with immediate access may be a better use case than alt-tabbing between my DAW and Bezie. And of course there are countless iOS DAWs that could make use of your advanced automations.
As you likely know, if you have any insurance and have looked into your coverage in any depth, insurance covers a lot less than one expects. Also when an insured event happens typically the insurer will amend the policy (without changing the premiums, of course) to exclude that eventuality (also typically excluding your "neighbours" as well). Further insurers will typically require say homeowners in a flood-prone zone to take additional precautions periodically. So far example maintaining barrier walls, etc.

Therefore insurance premiums or losses may be difficult to compare year to year. Certainly insurances companies have factored global warming into their models and are changing their rates accordingly. To not do so would be grounds for shareholder lawsuits I should think.

There are as many climate deniers in insurance companies as there are atheists in foxholes. :>
Are there any other active directories? Seems Yahoo Directory is also gone for good.
I agree it doesn't have strong opinions and every developer has a different flavor of writing it making it difficult to code review without a ton of personal opinion type comments. That said it is a fun language because of how flexible it is too. It just, at times, does not seem practical for projects that have a ton of hands on them compared to other more opinionated languages.
This isn't helpful.
I'm a data scientist and this certainly is true for me, too. I think it applies to any knowledge worker.
I am impressed when someone can make a credential provider. I think Microsoft's documentation and samples are still for Vista.
>>how would you fix the oceans

Use your bike whenever it is possible instead of your car. By the way it is also good for your health not only for the environment.

Buy products that are produced in your neighbourhood and are not shipped twice around the world.
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Kinda surprised that every version bump gets a lot of love on HN [1].

How does it compare in terms of memory usage w.r.t sublime ? I've a sublime project open for months that has never had any impact on system performance and it stays within 70MB RAM. Is VS Code even close ?

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=visual%20studio%20code&sort=by...
Thanks for this example. I wonder how much ethics contributes to Patagonia's success. I own at least a few things from Patagonia, but I wasn't aware of anything to do with their ethics. I bought them because of (perceived) quality.

My point being that, in response to the original comment, I think it would be pretty difficult to disrupt the space by "being more ethical."
Here is how I see it. I rely on those rides to go to work every single day and here what it (would) costs me.

Uber: $250 a month.(Majority)

Lyft: $500 a month (Whenever Uber is too expensive)

Bus : $100 a month (1h:15 for 6 miles and 3 buses... No)

Politics and all internal conflicts aside, there is a need for these services whether we like it or not.

When I need to make a decision in the morning I take whatever is the least expensive and more convenient. I don't want to spend hours on the bus and I do not want a good chunk of my paycheck to go to simply getting to work.

Speaking with drivers everyday, I understand their frustration of driving all around town only for very small profit. Just today, I took a ride with a driver that seemed very frustrated. I didn't want to intrude but he ended up tell me how much he hates UberPool (that's what I use). 70 cents per mile, and when a second rider joins the rate goes down, and for the next even lower. We were 3 different riders.

In the riders perspective, we want the cheapest and most reliable. Sure I want to support those who work for a company that respect them but at the end of the day it is not a charity.

What is the answer in the consumer's perspective?

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I once invested in a can of Pringles. Hours later, it's value was down to zero. A terrible financial decision.
Yeah, it was really hard on our relationship. I work from home now though so that has helped heal any damage that was done.
You're assuming that all equity is equal. It isn't. For example, shares given to employees are often non-voting. A company could have 99.99% of the equity in non-voting stock, meaning whoever holds the 0.01% that have voting rights controls the company.

When it comes to shares "ownership" does not directly correlate with "control".
> I don't think it's reasonable to expect ride share companies to pay their drivers a fair wage

It's always reasonable to expect companies to pay their people a fair wage.
I thank you for your service. I think the Stoics are criminally underread. Yet I am having some mild discomfort accepting such profundities from someone named, ah, fapjacks. Just sayin'.
Now that's an idea I like. Somehow be able to have the virtual midi as an app on my IPad that can sync over wifi or even with the IPad plugged into my mac book. Be able to control the envelope automation, or other automations, with touch.

OP, have you looked at BitWig's midi controller API? I wonder if something could be done with that. I use BitWig.