skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fuck is that country where working sales at 35 is wrong and an indication you might not have insurance despite having a job O_o
Muffett is ex-FB and worked on messenger. He truly believes in it and doesn't see Facebook as the threat that you (and I) do.
> It also seems similar to VW's Diesel engine "Defeat Device". The future of technology will probably include ever more shady uses of programming to mislead regulators and the like.

As a FOSS enthusiast, I hope this becomes a good push to require those types of software to become FOSS.
No. The Vita also has FreeBSD listed in its OSS page because it used a lot of the network stack. That listing doesn't mean anything.
I seem to be the minority here, but I don't see how any entity (including Uber) has an obligation to make it easy for the law to ticket them.

Anyone who uses e.g. the Waze app to evade speedtraps is similarly guilty of "systematically avoiding the law."

Lastly, let me just disclaim that I think Uber is run by assholes and so is the police.
I can't believe there were enough stone-hearted jerks to flag this story off the front page on a Friday afternoon. I guess "hackers" don't like being reminded that other people have emotions.
The issue is that most urbanites like rich people, like poor people, but hate middle income people.

There are a few cultural reasons for this. The result is that new construction is inevitably high end, with some units set aside for low income, or public housing.

Middle income people aren't seen as deserving to live downtown.
Disclosure: I'm CTO of BitMEX, a Bitcoin derivatives exchange built on kdb+/q. We don't compete directly with itBit or any of the exchanges I mention below (we don't do spot trading, they don't do derivatives) but we are in a similar space.

Audits matter. Your books should always sum zero. Time and time again, we've seen bugs like this across the space: there was the infamous Bitcoinica "infinite leverage" bug [1], a rounding error in another's order sizes, and it's theorized that a similar bug was leveraged in the downfall of MtGox to create virtually infinite balances and use it to buy Bitcoin up to $1000 in 2013.

Whether it's in your engine or outside of it, whether it's a Bitcoin product or any other financial product, make sure there is something - somewhere - that is regularly summing up all accounts and ensuring that every cent or satoshi is accounted for.

We run such a system at every execution. If the system doesn't sum zero, we shut down. It's happened three times in two and a half years, each time due to tiny mathematical errors in our liquidation process, each time for less than 10,000 satoshis (~$0.10). We sleep much better at night knowing it's there.

Audits would catch the error caused by float math. And of course, don't do float math.

1. I can't find the original reference to it, but it was originally possible to simply edit the DOM to submit any leverage amount you pleased (such as 100,000x; never trust the client!) and then run your account massively into profit - or bankruptcy.
I see alot of mixed news about bootcamps. How did you make the decision to attend one, and how did you know which one to attend?
I'm not a geologist, but... Didn't the main spillway failure erode some of what was considered "bedrock"? Isn't the bedrock somewhat more erodable than the term "bedrock" would lead you to expect?
It's easy to imagine engineers working on small parts of the system, and never really connecting the dots that the whole point is to evade law enforcement.

I would volunteer to work on that project because its whole point is to evade law enforcement. A lot of us (hackers/technologists) take a pretty dim view of arbitrary State regulations and "laws" and are quite happy to work to evade them. Most people who fit the techno-libertarian or cypherpunk mentality would probably feel the same way.
Would you have been able to say the same if that focus started shifting in your late teens?

The advice to work hard is aimed at 20 somethings. As you age, your focus should shift. That's the part we often seem to forget.

My mum always said kids were her priority and that she focused on us and so on. As a result 3 of us lived in a tiny 2-bedroom apartment, she missed many promotions and was basically trapped in a just-above-foodstamps situation until I moved out.

Her dream of publishing poetry and art in general never even had a chance to get started. 2 jobs, no time. Now she's in her 50's and has both more time and disposable income with me and my sister out of the picture. But the spark for poetry and art is gone, she didn't nurture it.

Me, I don't want to repeat that.
That wouldn't work:

a) exempting themselves from specific laws by EULA generally doesn't work,

b) you can block specific people from a service and even police have to leave when told (barring further e.g. probable cause), but police are under no obligation to honor a general "no police" policy.

It's legal, though, to kick someone off a service because you think they're a cop. (e.g. biker bars that kick people out on that basis)
This answer certainly fits the current social fashion, but I don't find it convincing. There are many, many horrible/aspiring developers who are focused empathy and feelings but just aren't good at building things.

The strongest developer I've ever met was on the aspergers/autistic spectrum. Empathy absolutely is a boon in life and in work, but it's neither a guarantee nor a primary driver of success in technical fields
It has a podcast counterpart too. Here it is, for those who like listening podcasts: http://www.npr.org/podcasts/469516571/modern-love

(I just recently listened to the very first episode of this podcast and I liked it/decided to continue listening.)
Consider what would happen if you were a high-income tech worker looking to move to San Francisco.

If there was a nice new apartment available, you might rent it. But if there wasn't, you would have to settle for an older apartment, which puts you into direct competition with poorer people over housing stock.

This is what is happening in San Francisco now -- high-income people are bidding up the prices of older apartments, many of which are pretty crappy, because the supply of new apartments is pretty small. This is how the city ended up with 70-year-old crappy apartments renting for more than $3000 per month.

If San Francisco built lots of new luxury apartments, the rich newcomers would live in them, and leave the older apartments available for the people who can't afford to pay more.
Maybe not a popular opinion but I find this entire thing pure genius.

Likewise.
> Having a connected home that runs on a cloud server is akin to having a lock on your door and being forced by a corporation to hand over the key.

No, it's worse than that. Law enforcement can completely bypass you in this case and just ask Amazon for the hypothetical "key."

> Your IoT should be Private by design, running without needing the cloud.

Completely agree. That's why I've been saying how stupid it is that Google's routers (you know the ones you're using in your own home) have to be configured over the Internet. Google is one of the main "bad actors" in this scenario, as it's trying to push more stuff like this with their "Physical Web" initiative, as well as the web Bluetooth and WebUSB HTML APIs.

They are also part of the Thread Group, through Nest. Thread is primarily a P2P protocol that can also enable devices to connect directly to the Internet. I don't think I've heard of Google using the P2P function yet. They prefer to use only the direct Internet connection, because that's how they can also gather your data in real-time.

This is also why I support the idea of using client-side embedded "machine learning accelerators" in IoT devices as soon as possible. Otherwise, Google and Amazon and Microsoft will tell us how you need to send your data to their clouds so they can give you "AI features".

No you don't. IoT machine learning accelerators will make cloud connections for this purpose almost unnecessary. Most of the "AI features" you'll probably want on IoT devices (like say your surveillance camera identifying cats, or even strangers) should be quite basic and the embedded accelerators should be enough for such tasks (or will be soon).

As a bonus, devices using local AI capabilities should work much better, too, because they analyze the data locally and they don't have to send it back to Google/Amazon or use your (probably capped) data allowance.
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the EP is doing tit-for-tat when there is no tit-for-tat!
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I second this feeling. Uber may be a terrible company led by terrible people, but they opened the floodgates for a better framework of cab transportation. I hope that sticks (the model, idc about the company)
I don't really have any deep insight into the status of Btrfs. A few years ago I was playing around with my Raspberry Pi and it required me to build the newest kernel just to work--I also remember hearing they wouldn't take bug reports until you were using bleeding edge tools. Not very comforting if you were looking to roll out into production.

On the flip-side, Synology just rolled out Btrfs in and update and I'm pretty sure it's the default partition type going forward. They don't expose all the fancy features like dedup, but the fact it's default shows some confidence.

So it sounds like it's being actively developed and getting closer to being trustworthy.
But here your problem is not with government but bad government.
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Yea, the only thing I'd like more is a firmware that would let me just straight up tweak it with C or Rust code, or Lua if performant enough.

I'm wondering if any of the DIY keyboard controllers are hackable. That'd be a nice future project.
You can see the "greyball" tag fields in Exhibit A in this lawsuit filing. It looks like they did some rudimentary device and payment method correlation as well as whitelisting at the database level:

https://www.scribd.com/document/334009796/Spangenberg-Uber-l...
I have a hard time understanding why augmented-reality applications need a different type of OS.

I get the low-latency part. But there're already OSs designed for low-latency.
This is largely a misconception about Japanese high schools.

Most Japanese high schools are ridiculously easy to graduate from.

That said, most of the _competitive_ Japanese high schools -- that is, the ones who send their students to the best schools -- require quite a bit of work to graduate from. There is a reason for this.

High schools are divided into tracks in Japan via entrance exams, so the competitive high schools get students who are largely on board with rigorous study. Their goal is to crush the college entrance exam, and the best schools are quite good at test prep (and often go beyond test prep into "proper" learning of the topic). The students know they will have to work hard, and they mostly do. I humbly suggest that the students in these high schools work about as hard as high school students in the US who are trying to get into highly competitive universities.

That said, most high schools in Japan are not terribly competitive to enter and don't have high academic ambitions for their graduates (and that's totally ok). These students often have a lot of fun in high school, much like American high school students who are aiming at low competitive universities or no university.
>so why would a developer purposely build shitty housing when the rental price wouldn't be appreciably lower?

Because it'd be a lot cheaper to build and you could charge the same rent?

I'm not really sure what your point is here. If the cost of renting was completely location based and not quality based, developers would construct the cheapest housing possible in the most desirable locations - they wouldn't be building luxury housing.
As much as I might agree with this particular story, I feel compelled to flag it like I do all the other [batshit] political posts.
OK. No corporation has nuked two cities full of civilians.
"Ignoring regulations so you can help people by providing a service they want (whether you make money doing so or not) is entirely different, and far more reasonable. "thats what Pablo Escobar probably thought at some point too -:)
>Are those actual arguments?

Well I'm not attempting to convince anyone of anything so no, not really. Merely my observations on a topic I find interesting. There are many things where I think there is a correct answer worth campaigning for, but folders vs directories is not one of them. It's a bit like whether you say "soda", "pop" or "coke", this might reflect where you come from [1] but that isn't an argument that one of the terms is right or wrong.

My comment was indeed full of subjectivity which was intentional - apologies if I didn't make that clear up front.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/12/soda-vs-pop_n_21037...
Yeah... Not going to happen. Americans spend billions on European vacations, and nobody is going to threaten that when push comes to shove (any additional hassle is going to send people to Cancun instead). This is just posturing.
Same advice as "don't use eval" in Javascript, applies to system calls too.
If you have to run “eval” on it, it’s not an s-expression. If the “eval” is implied, what you are describing is serialization of data, not actual data.

You could do what you describe with JSON too – it’s just encoding and decoding. Would you therefore be able to claim that JSON is capable of transmitting, say, tabular data? Of course not.
Not sure where you're located, but if you want mobility (be able to work in other countries), a degree will help a lot in getting work visas.
That's unfortunate. Razer was my leading choice to replace my aging Dell laptop. Thank you for taking the time to let other people know about these issues.
The reason being that the US still requires visas from 5 EU countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania.

And "The EU says it notified the United States in April 2014 that it was not meeting EU visa rules, and had given the country two years to comply."
NSA 100% . Some time around 10 years ago governments decided the internet was too "dangerous" to be free. Arab spring cemented that into their minds, and now a bastion of free thought has become the worlds biggest spying apparatus.
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Just yesterday my fiancee told me about her day:

A relatively healthy looking (and his chart agreed) 41 year old guy walked into the clinic with a severe headache around 10am. By around 4pm she had to tell his family he was likely brain dead.

Because of this and other things she's seen recently, we're planning more trips. See the Seven Wonders of the World.

I've only left this timezone a few times before. And we've both spent the first ~30 years of our lives in school... rethinking how much weight we've been putting on things.
Yes...That's correct. I chased money up to a point and did well enough that I could let off the throttle after the kids were on their way out the door.

I do see many of my peers, though, sort of trapped in trying to maintain the same lifestyle. I traded down to a modest house, drive old cars, etc.

Not saying I'm somehow smarter. I did struggle a bit with my pride at first...giving up the nice house, cars, job titles and so forth.
I especially like this approach:

> Often, the heart of the matter is the question of what to make implicit. In the rest of this post, I’ll present a basic framework for thinking about this question, and then apply that framework to three areas of Rust […]

What's proposed here is a universally good way to think about what to make implicit. The proposed changes to Rust are just some applications of this.
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I sympathize with where you're coming from but you've already overposted about this and now you've crossed into being rude. Please don't do that.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13786489 and marked it off-topic.

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IANAL, but In the US, banknotes specifically reference "debts." For places where you pay after receiving the goods or services (e.g. many restaurants) they must accept cash, but they may refuse to accept cash if you pay prior to receiving goods & services.
Ah ok, I think that a 51% attack is what I was describing. I would update my comment, but it appears that I can no longer edit it.
I'm a huge proponent of new building and I fully support the Bay Area groups in favor of more housing (BARF, SFYimby, etc.) but the wrinkles and complexities of building new housing shouldn't just be hand-waved away. In a region as attractive as the SF Bay Area (or Boston / NYC / LA), there is a significant competent of induced demand that affects housing prices.

If they built a 50,000 unit skyscraper in Mountain View and priced the apartments at $1,000/month, how many people would move from other parts of the country to be in Mountain View? How many people have relocated out of the Bay Area due to housing costs that would move back if things became more affordable?

We should absolutely build more housing, especially around transit, but overselling the price impact isn't going to win many friends.
Thanks for pointing it out. We have identified the issue and are fixing it now.
And yet Xlib ran happily on machines with 4MB of RAM and would only use 512K of that; mind you that was X11R3. I used to run this very config on Apollo Domain/OS machines in 1990.
> Middle income people aren't seen as deserving to live downtown.

I don't think we have to assume that. Might just be that rich people need poor people in close physical proximity (as nannies, cleaners, dog-walkers, gardeners etc) but don't have any corresponding need for middle-income people.
Also true of undergrad at so-called elite universities in the U.S. The "top schools" have something like 95% graduation rates.
Right, but the fact that it's debatable at all means that you don't automatically get to automatically classify breaking a law as a moral evil.
They do this every few sessions and the commission never acts on it.
But cash is an untraceable anonymous currency, used by drug dealers and child pornographers!
The poor don't need to be displaced unless you artificially restrict growth. It's one thing I appreciate about NYC. There's essentially three types of neighborhoods, organized by price:

1. Cool neighborhoods
2. Convenient neighborhoods
3. Cheap neighborhoods

You can find stupid cheap housing in Queens/Brooklyn/Bronx/Jersey and still be able to take the subway to Manhattan. Why is NYC like this and not SF? Because as the city grows they re-zone neighborhoods (e.g. Downtown Brooklyn and LIC) and expand subway/bus-service further out.
Yeah I think that "trickle-down" with regard to individual income taxes is different than the "trickle-down" of asset-prices due to depreciation and increased supply.

I don't think the author's car comparison is apt here. Cars are not stationary assets. I can have a Denali in suburbia and and Denali in midtown and it's still a Denali. However, a flat above retail in suburbia is probably not at all the same as a flat above retail in midtown.

I agree that the over arching law of supply and demand is still at play. But if I go look anywhere in my city center at prime locations with nice housing built 30 years ago, I don't see that being anywhere near affordable for lower or even middle income families.
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You're right, I was wrong. I forgot to check because the fees are set by federal rule but then billed in local currencies at different consular offices around the world, and the fee schedule is (oddly) not centralized at state.gov.

Thanks for catching my error.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/08/28/2014-20...
Today's luxury housing is tomorrow's middle class housing (and eventually becomes affordable housing).
Some entrepreneur or company in silicon valley would have invented stg better and cheaper.
Thanks. What does he say about it?
How does immigration mean that you're "destroying their own culture"? Please stop talking in hyperbole and being sarcastic, it isn't helpful.

I can't see why a unique culture ought to be 'preserved' as people say, either. And I can't see why the 'bad' parts cannot be slowly eroded over time. Nor do I see why certain 'races' ought to be kept. This has always been an argument that's been relatively ignored - why exactly is it desirable to keep a certain race or culture, especially when certain elements of that culture are horrible?

Please do not misinterpret me; I do not speak in terms of some 'white man's burden' in a colonial way. It is ultimately the decision of the Japanese citizens. But I do not see why they should be motivated in the name of nebulous and vague concepts of pride rather than what is best pragmatically.
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That's from Saint Augustine (famously quoted by ML King Jr in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"), not Thomas Jefferson.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. Your comment has broadened my perception of sexism beyond "Can this person win in court?"

> If a Male manager told her she probably isn't doing well because of how she dresses (and she dresses reasonably) that would be sexism, so it's the same thing if it's another women doing it.

Yet, this isn't what happened! ;-)

According to the author's own words. Manager in a 1:1 a) asked if the author noticed the lack of eye contact with the other manager b) tentatively asked if the author thought it was because of the tank top and c) suggested the author wears long sleeves. The author's convinced the tank top isn't an issue because she gets ice cream with the subordinates.

To me, the author's drawing wild conclusions. Maybe her manager knows something or heard another manager make an off-hand comment about the dress code. I would appreciate that advice so I can decide for myself whether to make a simple adjustment to my wardrobe.
You have a say in government - that is its stated goal and purpose.

On paper. In practice... well, that's a whole different story. See: gerrymandering, voter fraud, ballot access restrictions, voter id laws, etc.

Of the people for the people

Even if that were ever actually the case, I think those days are long gone.
Sure, if we stick with Uber and transportation topic. Labor laws, minimum wage, vehicle inspections, registration. systems and rules that were put in place as a response to what citizens felt were "wrongs" that needed to be addressed.

When a organization ignores those laws then they are going against the will of the people.