skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they will thrive in that scenario.

Uber's got a few advantages, but I think they mostly boil down to being the first ones to have an app, and having a whole bunch of VC cash to pour into a business that hasn't proven to be any more profitable for them in the past few years than it has been for everyone else over the past couple centuries.

They've got one big disadvantage, which is that the fleet maintenance costs for their service model are extraordinarily high. There are no in-house mechanics, and there's no fleet standardization. They've been able to get by without that through a combination of that VC money, and being able to shift the fleet maintenance costs onto the ledgers of their drivers, who presumably aren't generally factoring those costs in when forming a business plan.

I don't know when self-driving cars will be fully autonomous. But it seems a pretty safe bet that, by the time they do, their advantages in the app and the VC cash department will have eroded away.

By that point we're back to the same old commoditized, race-to-the-bottom industry that, minor departures aside, has characterized taxi service since the horse and buggy days. At which point there's no room for individual owners anymore. In that kind of industry environment, the people who have standardized fleets and in-house mechanics will always be able to outcompete the people who need to pay Volvo dealer prices for vehicle maintenance.

I also don't know when self-driving cars will be cheap enough that typical individual owners will have either the need or the inclination to massively jump their depreciation rate, or to subject them to wear and tear by random strangers. But it seems a safe bet that's going to be a long way along the technology's maturity arc. I, personally, wouldn't be willing to lay down cash to bet whether the long term looks like a bunch of individuals renting out cars they own anyway, or people mostly not owning cars because it's not worth the trouble to own one anymore. For my part, though, I'm more keenly interested in the latter - right now, for me, the main value proposition behind owning a car is that it's kind of a hassle to haul myself to a car rental shop when I want one for a weekend trip. That hassle disappears when they can just send the car to me instead.

tl;dr - Uber's "sharing economy" model, attractive as it sounds, never really made a whole lot of economic sense in the long view. Their more likely futures are to either become one of the traditional taxi companies, or be squashed by them.
Agreed. I'd lean slightly towards the troll, but maybe that shows that I'm detached from the new reality.
For average user "documents" and "Documents" is the same thing. Are paths also normalized to upper or lower case? Or file system should be case insensitive?
I'm not sure how easy that is to solve, because again, a rogue app could fake the URL bar. It's just the nature of desktop apps vs the browser as the browser is there the trust is. Maybe passing it to a browser for authentication is the only option.

Now I've been using Postman for many years, so I certainly trust the quality and intent of your work.
You can get to that "make life worth living" caveat after death is cured.
>>> A site with no distribution can't make money even if it improves its content.

Inaccurate. Good content can and will self distribute.

You're on the internet, your content is instantly automatically available to 1 billion people.

Search engine are incredibly good at discovering niche/targeted content, a good article will be top page in a few weeks even if you have zero reader (well, until then).

And good articles can and will be tweeted, HN, reddited to many thousands of people.

Maybe I should write a medium blog post about that :D
Without the multiplayer there's OpenMW: https://openmw.org/en/

Without the open world there's DarkPlaces (based on Quake), with games like Xonotic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonotic

Both are really good considering it's hard to make something like this tbh. Not sure if there's anything good that has all 4 of those things, though ;). People often underestimate just how much work game engines are. And also how useless they are without an actual game on them.
If human pilots have an error rate with a large variance, and you can choose your pilot (or fly your own plane) the decision is less clear cut. Especially in a world where human accident statistics include a significant proportion of people exhibiting reckless behaviours that many jurisdictions will take their licenses away or even jail them for.

I'd want autonomous cars to be a lot safer than the average human driver before they were allowed on regular roads without a human behind the wheel. In fact, given that humans and machines are likely to make systematically different errors such that the human can solve most of the driving issues that the machine has and the machine can solve most of the driving issues a human has, the case for getting rid of the legally-responsible human driver altogether (humans ought to have the right to be drunk or sending emails whilst in their own vehicle; taxis ought to be cheaper?) isn't particularly strong.
C++ is my bread and butter. I neither hate or love the language, just use it and observe the way it is evolving.

C++ is still popular because there are a lot of existing projects; nobody would throw away their products. Many things were standardized too late, like threads or strings. Lack of standard solutions had led to produce custom ones, often proprietary. Nobody would rewrite working-for-years subsystem just because C++ finally learnt what a thread is. Another example is variety of incompatible build systems; I wish C++ had something similar to PyPi or CPAN (I even don't dream about Go-like import system). Not to mention incompatible compilers, but I must admit there is a progress.

C++ has many substantial problems and when I see that the committee wasting time on such unimportant things, like a 2D graphics library, it makes me upset.
Finder really needs some attention beyond adding features like tagging that add complexity without, as far as I can tell, bringing any real benefit.

I want a Finder that's keyboard-accessible, that lets me easily restart it when it crashes, that doesn't frustrate my efforts to view certain hidden files. I'd still take it over windows explorer, on balance, but only barely, and that's pretty damning.

I've recently started using fman [0] which seems a promising alternative.

[0] https://fman.io
>and set up a redirect to your @gmail.com address.

What do you recommend for this?

I've been wanting to do this for some time, but that means I either need to:

* Use GMail for work, which does not seem tailored for personal used (it's paid, I can't easilly find the price and it seems a bit odd to use Google solution to avoid problems with Google)

* Send all mails to my personal server and setup a redirect there to GMail (which forces me to make sure that my server is always up, so I might as well use my own mail server)

Is there a better solution? I wish there was some way to define e-mail alias at the DNS level.
An interesting comment but it shows the preferred language of the contributor. ;)
Assuming your application is the only app that will ever interact with a file is only correct in very specific circumstances. This is terrible advice in the general case.
Don't edit for the same reason I stay away from Stack Overflow as long as possible:

Less chance of being bitten by people who seems to think they does the planet a service by rejecting and deleting content.

I recognise this might only be a misunderstanding, I rarely get bitten myself but I have seen enough useful questions and answers being punished on SO and enough Meta discussions telling everyone how great this is to learn that the site is mostly not for me.
Yes, their disregard for privacy stems from the last 8 years of unchecked warrantless wiretapping, Snowden revelations, etc.
That's it, thank you!
C++ is becoming Java.
That's QWERTY-centric. On my AZERTY keyboard, I can't press Alt+left with one hand, because the right Alt key is replaced with an AltGr key which doesn't work like the Alt key.
So on Chrome, I have currently no way to go back one page with one hand.
But Safari is still WebKit. The only real problems I have with Safari are with Flash content(eww).
Can't get that out of the URLs, would need to actually crawl the stories.
Browse with Chrome, job done.
If Medium was 5 people in a basement I'd forgive them for not quite having a business model sorted out yet.

What I fail to understand is how something like Medium turns into a bloated ~150 person company that's burning VC cash like crazy with no clear path towards becoming an actual business that makes decent revenue, let alone profit. Whether it's a bubble or not is semantics but it's these sorts of 'companies' that the market needs to flush out of the ecosystem ASAP.
Sorry, I was misinformed. I did my research and it seems you are right - actually it is even less, than £200, because some fees are for 3 years.
Discovery enables 'mass produced blood'
"satellite spying agency" returns direct links to the NRO's and NGA's Wikipedia pages.
The much stronger defense in this case is to just cut to the chase and point out that, at least according to the police, the self-driving car was not the one at fault here - it was the driver of the other car blowing a yield sign.
The whole, "in case of emergency, grab the wheel" is just a legal formality.

It's looking to be just the opposite, with several of the autonomous projects mumbling about how they don't think it is a workable level of automation, exactly because people don't stay engaged.

They are going to try to jump from assistive systems like automatic braking to vehicles intended to handle unexpected driving conditions without immediate human intervention (maybe the system can't proceed, but it will safely stop).
You've fell into a trap. That's a narrative that was pushed by the slave proponents and has lived on in many circles. it has a veneer of reasonableness that sounds very logical. That argument was used to both justify slavery and to ensure that the people on the second to last rung on the ladder (the Irish) hated the blacks and would failure to see their common ground.

In fact people abuse their cars and slaveowners abused slaves. Both by ignoring human needs, committing acts of brutality, including rape, beating and execution. Following your car analogy, slaves were also leased out, and their renters treated them like rental cars -- even worse.

Like every business decision, chattel life had ROI. Eventually old milking cows are sent off to slaughter. In the case of chattel slavery, read about the Caribbean slave economy, you'll read of high "turnover" among slaves in the sugarcane. I'll assure you they weren't going to school and getting better slave gigs -- "turnover" was mostly from death.

There are good, first person accounts of this world. Read them. The first link is from interviews with former slaves in the 1930s. The second is the tale of a slave auction and the third is the related, very readable acccount of the wife of a plantation owner.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/n...

The Weeping Time
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/the-wee...

Fanny Kemble diaries:
https://archive.org/details/journalofresidenceongeorgianplan...
Anyone using ML knows there are points of diminishing returns. Otherwise I would be writing this from atop a pile of money.
I think the point here is not that the self driving software is already beter than humans but rather that the upside of cars driving themselves is so big that it is worth pursuing until we get it right.
Seeing as nobody was seriously injured and that it wasn't the fault of the autonomous vehicle (reported by other news outlets) I think it's fair to bring it up. 0 deaths in the past six months vs 9 in the past 10 hours. That isn't even all vehicle deaths by humans in that timeframe either.
There's no power button. Lip flip is your new button except when your computer is stuck in some kind of sleep mode and won't wake up. Flipping g the lid doesn't wake it up. Tried multiple times. Tried force quit keys.. nope. Tried attaching power... Nope. About 20 minutes later it decides to come back to life.

Luckily this only happens to me in the morning while working from home. But it could happen before a big presentation, meeting, etc. It's terrible.
Recommendations for web privacy impact assessment
So he should use that computer for the rest of his life? He had to upgrade sometime.
The reason is that you can now press backspace on a website with 100% certainty that you aren't going to lose all the state you just spent 30 minutes on filling out.
>I'm willing to take a slight performance hit if that allows me to use the same app on any platform, even if it's size becomes 200 megabytes bigger.

From personal exeprience, it's beyond slight perf hit. Often js apps are the ones hogging most of the resources on my system.
Hosting it somewhere on your own will not give you good analytics, a good clean theme, and a CDN. A wordpress does. You're going for a ton of extra work.

AWS is madness for personal projects. You don't seem to realize how bad you're about to be bankrupt when an article hit the front HN page. If you have a high quality picture, a gif or a video, it's game over.
In that scenario the one thing they bring to the equation is a famous brand. That doesn't give much of an edge when it is easy to try a different service.
InnoSetup was very easy to get started with and get the expected results, while NSIS looked more complex. I'm not particularly opinionated about installers as long as they install and uninstall things :)
Ask HN: How to infer website quality from HN data?
Sentiment analysis, front page appearance to total submission ratio just to name few ideas.
Yes. Easily. Very convenient having three context switches. First you drag out the tab, it maximizes in its own window, you minimize that window, you go back to the other window, close it, then find the window you just created. Much better than two mouse clicks, I'm sure.
Your raspbeery will be crushed to death when the article will go on the first page of HN.

You seriously overestimate the capabilities of a raspberry and undestimate the traffic you get.
Maybe, but what would be the point? I knew Qt already (although it's pretty easy to get started), and the UI of the application was quite complex and even with Qt had some custom, complex UI widgets (a node-graph editor, keyframing widgets etc.) -- although these were quite easy to implement on top of QGraphicsView. I'd expect that it would've been more effort to develop that with something like Tk.
First, all the compilers already implement pretty much all of it. I'm not sure if by widespread you mean "included in a distribution" but you can use these features today, if you want to install a compiler.

Second, C++ is popular by pretty much every measure I could think of. Whether you want to measure lines of code, or number of projects, or number of developers - it is very high on the list.

It is true that is not popular with web developers and gets shouted down in those echo chambers, but the web entirely runs on C++ because all browsers are written in C++.
Just read your comment again. The charging light was useful, and you suggest looking at the menu bar?
> I rather move to linux than to Windows

I use Linux daily on my desktop. Never really liked Windows because cmd was always a terrible cripple compared to *NIX.

But recently I've heard very good things from people about the new Linux subsystem in Windows 10.

There's still a lot of software that doesn't run on Linux (e.g. management utilities for enterprise systems, old/obscure utilities) even in WINE.

Can anyone who regularly uses Linux comment on how it is to us the Linux subsystem on Windows? It is good enough or still rough on the edges?
>Autonomous vehicles will have challenges that human drivers do not

Wait a minute: I don't think the argument is whether machines can drive better than humans. It's whether these companies that are desperate to make money (Uber, Tesla) are pushing potentially dangerous technology on to society before it's ready.
I bought a $20 itel smartphone in Guinea, West Africa that does everything I need and nothing I don't.

3G, Android, Tethering, apps, $20. Perfect.
I live in a small university town in Appalachia Ohio. A few months ago 70 people were arrested at a peaceful sit-in at the university student-center.

The State Highway Patrol, who had nothing to do with this, requested for its intel unit, information about everyone arrested so they could begin tracking them via social media.[1]

It does not seem far fetched to me that any president or really any person in a position of power would wield that power to target any group they view as dissidents. The FBI's surveillance and meddling with MLK is well-documented [2].

[1] http://www.athensnews.com/news/campus/emails-clarify-ou-and-...

FTA:
Specifically, the day after the protest, the State Highway Patrol’s Athens Post commander, Lt. Virgil Conley, emailed OU Police Capt. Brian Kapple, asking him for details on the protesters.

“Can you advise how many were arrested last night? Also, I have a request from our intel unit if you were to provide their names and DOB, they can begin to track them through social media and open resources,” Conley wrote. “As we know, these folks tend to move around a little bit and are involved in other instances across the state, and that would assist other agencies in identifying those subjects and mitigate future issues.”

[2] http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/14/us/fbi-and-mlk/index.html
Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how attitudes in the American South toward slavery evolved over time and what we can learn from that evolution about the role culture plays in our lives: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/08/munger_on_slave.htm...
Nah. It's long-haul trucking. There's a much easier on-ramp to profitability because you don't have to solve the whole problem at once.

You start by just automating the highway driving, which is a much easier problem than city driving. You might still need the human operator to deal with the off-highway driving at the beginning and end of each journey, but in the middle they can just hang out in the cab and work on their PhD dissertation or whatever. At that point your business has become quite a bit more efficient, because you've gotten rid of the need for your trucks to be stationary for 10 out of every 24 hours.

So that's already a big win for tackling a relatively small piece of the problem. You can keep chipping away from there, and each increment will net even more returns.
Is there any plan, anywhere, to try to provide a standard, modern subset of C++? Sort of like Perl and Javascript have strict mode.

Something that could be enforced by all the compilers.
...but there is work to make things more efficient and perhaps the author could invest more time in thinking about that.

Not all in life is about efficient things. Anthropologists and philosophers are involved in something else.
SPQR by the same is a good book for gaining an understanding of what Rome was. One of my takeaways from it is that mapping a contemporary term to something similar from the past is a tricky thing and can lead to poor interpretations.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0108U7IHO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
> Without the multiplayer there's OpenMW: https://openmw.org/en/

From what I understand there are rumours that multiplayer is something they plan to develop after their 1.0 (feature-parity with the original Morrowind engine). There are already people making patchsets that add some form of multiplayer support.
I think that a more interesting statistic is that almost 3% of the respondents do not identify as "Male."

Are men more likely to complete surveys? Perhaps women are less likely to participate in online surveys.
Did you read the whole article? The author is decrying a society where people are forced to work 50 hot weeks so they remain docile(he claims this is in contrast to the 60s where people started to get free time and used it to protest).

Remember, according to Keynes we should we working 15 hour weeks by now(and if that's sustainable people would be paid a reasonable wage for a 15 hour week).

He then provides an example of a rock musician who was providing a measurable benefit to people's wellbeing, but is now working as a corporate lawyer(and aparrently generating nothing of value). The author's central question is basically asking why we live in a society where there's a finite number of artists, but an infinite number of lawyers(all kept busy for 50hrs/wk and paid well).
It depends on the author and subject, FP has some decent writing and some excellent geopolitical analysis.

Although I haven't been reading it as much since the election - maybe the editors are pushing the anti-Trump angle hard like NYTimes has been shamelessly doing recently. It's writers are very 'internationalist' and focused on geopolitical diplomacy so a lot of them are falling under the 'I'm appalled at Trump and must bring it up at every moment to show that America is still okay'.

It's tough being a news junkie and not being a typical foaming at the mouth US mainstream liberal these days (which to the surprise of many in that category does not make one a right wing Trump supporter, nor American for that matter).
Where does it say that "thou shalt not kill" does not apply to gentiles, in any Jewish religious text from any time? And by that of course I mean "does not apply to gentiles, period, kill them as you'd kill animals, no biggie" as opposed to laws about waging war etc. - which is the only non-weasely interpretation of "does not apply to gentiles"?
>0 deaths in the past six months vs 9 in the past 10 hours.

But this is misleading because there are far more non-self-driving cars than self-driving cars.
- In order to live, one needs money

- In order to obtain money, one needs to work (except for the lucky too few)

Thus work needs to exist to provide people with money, to the point of creating bullshit jobs if needs be.
You can't remove jobs if it so directly means no more revenue for those people unless you introduce something like basic income.
This is wrong. The world on the other side is so much greener.

https://wiki.qt.io/Handling_PDF#Using_QtPDF