skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't taboo in the US. Though, less socially acceptable than it used to be.

It depends on the social circle you are in though if you know very frequently drunk drivers vs responsible drivers. Most people I met in adulthood don't think twice drinking and driving but most people I meet in childhood will tend to discourage it. I don't really know why other than maybe different peer influence? When people see me call a cab they openly say "I just drive home drunk." Like it's nothing. Similarly I've had cab drivers commend me for not driving drunk. "Oh, you called a cab, that's good most people would just drive drunk."

I have co-workers who spend most Friday afternoons (12-5) at the bar and drive right home after like it's nothing. These people don't think driving drunk is a problem.

Personally, I can't understand why you'd go out and drink if you had no way to get home. It doesn't come unexpectedly out of nowhere. If there's no transportation you are still making a choice in the matter. I don't buy excuses, when you choose to go out and choose to start drinking while you are out without a designated driver you are making both choices and making them sober. If it was that taboo, people simply would either stay home or have a designated driver. It's really not that difficult. In fact, I know people who will all meet at the bar and instead of car pooling with a rotating DD they will just all travel in their own cars independently and all drive home drunk.
Most of that is image cache though.
It might be helpful to remove the requirement to install a Chrome extension or to add text mentioning the requirement in a prominent place.

Good luck.
I disagree with that number. You're saying that 1 in 100,000 people don't get home safely while drink driving.

That's 10 times lower than the yearly death rate from simply driving. And 1/3 road deaths are caused by drink driving.
I remember reading a post from an Uber driver in a small town. Basically, instead of idling, he'd just use his house as a waiting area. So instead of just waiting around, he'd be at home, doing other stuff until he got an rider. Then he'd get in his car and drive them where they needed to be.
eating dogs is insane.

Pigs are very smart, but they're also probably _the_ most delicious meat. Its unfortunate.

Cows, I think, most people assume are stupid?
1M school teachers in Brazil will soon have their lessons on their phones
Hardly-used SQL Server functions that should be used more often
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2012/05/24/bank-er...

Every story I have ever heard, ended with the bank basically saying "You owe us money. Pay us it back in 3 days or we are going to the police"

Seems not a good plan.
> ... and for you to get the best experience, or at all, you're going to need it.

This simply is NOT true.
A company cannot make you give them any personal information without your consent. They can of course fire you for not doing so.
Unfortunately, not all U.S. states give students this right.

When I was co-editor of my high school's student newspaper, every issue was subject to administrative review. Our principal literally read every issue prior to publication and told us what could and couldn't be run.
Report all Promoted Tweets with "I don't like this ad." It confuses their system and shows them far less frequently. I get one ad every few days now.
Kinshasa, Lagos, Cairo, and Johannesburg would be good candidates I think.
It's getting downvoted because there will always be open source OS'es that can run open-source emulators. Since all computers are also Turing machines.

Dystopian reasoning in the 2 parent comments is slippery-slope fallacy.
Banning fake news is different from banning something that could cause a news story that would appear in fake news.
There are no datacenter class Maxwell-series GPUs. They never released a version with ECC SRAM and so Amazon and Google never used them in production.

Part of the fault was GDDR5's limitations that involved trickery to make the Kepler-series work.

Pascal is coming with ECC because HBM2 comes with ECC built-in.
In the react world storybook can help you with this.
It is. "ironic" was a French loanword, but when it was shoehorned into English, forms like "ironically" made the redundant addition of "-al" natural for some. Both have been in common use for many centuries.

I'm still far more used to the terser "ironic" myself though. "ironical" seems alien and strange to me.
As a Canadian, I always feel good running compute-intensive jobs in the winter. It's heating as usual, with a side-benefit of computation.
I doubt they'll attempt to disable execution of web content based on some "this is probably an emulator" heuristic. On the one hand, that'd instantly be circumvented into negligibility; on the other, the backlash would be epic.

I also severely doubt they'll attempt to prevent installation of application binaries from sources other than the Windows store. If anyone were going to be dumb enough to attempt such a move, it'd have been Apple, years before now, and they never even came close. Microsoft isn't run by morons, either.
yall so mad lol
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In my college town, before Uber, you had three choices getting home:

- Taking the bus which didn't run anytime after 10pm
- Calling a friend which really only worked when you planned ahead
- Calling the local taxi service which was limited and was pretty expensive unless you had a ton of people riding with you. They did "drunk bus" kind of rides mostly.

Planning transportation (DD, drunk bus, etc) was really the only way to get home unless you just walked everywhere. The fraternities and sororities ran DD systems for their members and friends which I admired but couldn't take advantage of. After Uber came out, use exploded and the DUIs started going down.
> Is there a way currently to install baremetal Linux on a phone without emulating it? A small Linux, usb microphone and VoIP would get me 90% there.

Unless the SoC drivers are mainlined, you won't be able to upgrade your kernel on such a device. This is precisely the same issue with Android where people mistakenly blame Google instead of Qualcomm (driver authors) for the lack of Android upgrades.
SQL can do recursive rules too. SQL tutorials often do SQL a disservice by introducing it as a database query language rather than relational algebra :)

example=# select * from move;
place | method | newplace
---------+--------+----------
home | taxi | halifax
halifax | train | gatwick
gatwick | plane | rome
(3 rows)

example=# create view on_route as with recursive on_route(place, newplace, length, path) as (select place, newplace, 1 as length, place as path FROM move UNION select on_route.place, move.newplace, on_route.length + 1, path || '->' || move.place as path FROM move JOIN on_route ON on_route.newplace = move.place) SELECT place, newplace, length, path || '->' || newplace as path FROM on_route;
CREATE VIEW
example=# select distinct true from on_route WHERE place = 'home' and newplace = 'rome';
bool
------
t
(1 row)

example=# select path from on_route WHERE place = 'home' and newplace = 'rome';
path
------------------------------
home->halifax->gatwick->rome
I've never worked anywhere that actually checked references or verified credentials as part of the hiring process. I think it's something that is very often skipped over by employers if they like the candidate otherwise.
If you are interested in working on ME /CFS, please contact me.
There are pockets of it everywhere. There's a filthy bodega in uptown Manhattan with expired produce on the shelves, but there's a Bitcoin ATM and young kids hang out there and barter stolen Uber accounts for Bitcoin.
i'm using for twitter, netflix (which i find way better than their web stuff) and forza horizon 3 (bought on xbox one, got on windows for free).

i don't hate the windows store, i nothing it.
I'm not really sure what this agreement really means, but it seems like they already have made some big steps:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/29/jollas-sailfish-os-now-cer...
Waiting for completed pages simply takes way too long. Seems like there isn't a way to automatically 'skeleton-ize' the page either. So; it is the sites' responsibility to prevent reflows.
I don't disagree that the old web was aesthetically nicer, but nothing flew on 14.4 or 28k modems. I remember when 56k came out and everyone was like "WOW!".
You have to consider the intention of the service provider, which in this case is more geared towards mobile clients than web services. It's perfectly clear that binaries will include the API key, no interpretation needed on that part.

It's the source code part that is open to interpretation. I could of course just ask for explicit permission for that.
If you're named after your daddy and he had the degree or certificate, changing the date would help.
Absolutely. And he's lucky it was just $4k. What of it was $100k and included money you needed to live and pay the mortgage with? This type of negligence by the bank is downright scary.
Not all commands accept input as arguments, so it's still a good trick to know.
This one could be an option https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
Drivers, couldn't have said it better, someone needs to shake up how drivers are being handled right now by phone makers.

Great point about how PC hardware can always be expected to be generic enough​that we can just install Linux on it and not have too much trouble, yet there is no equivalent for phones, but there really needs to be.
Awesome to use so far guys, thanks for building this.
https://github.com/WICG/ScrollAnchoring/blob/master/explaine...
Slash to Broadcast Los Angeles Zoo Performance in Virtual Reality
So what? There are many Javascript-based emulators out there. You just need a browser.
This references my Git Horror Story article from 2012. Which is fine, but note that git has evolved a lot since then, and you should also seek out some of its more modern conveniences (this thread's article mentions a number of them). I've been telling myself I'll update this article for the past few years. I'll get to it eventually.

As an alternative to git's aliases: if you're sick of typing `git' all the time, feel free to adapt this little script to suit your needs (allowing you to type e.g. `a' instead of `git add' and such, with tab completion):

https://gitlab.com/mikegerwitz/git-shortmaps
I wish they had stuck around a little longer solely to start "looking into" areas. That was sometimes enough to trigger the current monopoly to start behaving more friendly. Even though Google didn't move in, it's now a lot harder for Comcast to go back to selling 20Mbs @ $100/month after they've offered 60Mbs @ $50/month.
Ask HN: Why do some hardware only have proprietary drivers?
Inspired by nerdponx: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050297

During all my years running linux I have only encountered binary, proprietary, driver blobs for some certain type of hardware. Most commonly graphics cards and wifi-adapters.

Why are just those drivers closed source, and not all? Is it that other stuff, like USB-controllers, are standardised in grater extent and therefore opensource reverse engineering efforts can be focused and deliver open drivers? Or do the manufacturers actually provide open drivers? If they actually do provide them, why do they? Or perhaps rather, why does not AMD/Nvidia do it?

In the case of binary blobs in mobile devices, I have read stuff about security aspects of keeping the baseband drivers closed source. Something about protecting the cellular network. Is there anything behind this?
Arguing a piece of software doesn't do what you want it to do has nothing to do with choice in the Linux world. I could just as easily complain that vim doesn't include a lisp scripting environment, ergo vim is not about choice.
Yeah... I don't think Johannesburg conforms to your ideas at all.
I agree with this article but this happens for a reason; it works. Those full page ads that you hate? Some % of people actually click on them.

Now, with proper competition this could be fixed. Sites using full-page ads would lose out to a competitor without them. But since no one can find a way to monetize a website without making it shit, shit is what we get.
This is pure speculation on my part.

I believe that, currently, if you iOS app uses any Swift code, you have to include the Switch libraries in your app. This has something to do with how quickly Swift has been changing, and Apple wanting you to reference your own library instead of the system one for now.

This has caused a number of apps to balloon in size lately, but the hope is that it is temporary.
There's another discussion thread [1] which takes a strict stance more explicitly: "I don’t see how something that contains a ‘secret’ key [...] can be Free Software. So we just don’t publish such applications."

[1] https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/api-keys-and-free-software-...
I'm seeing a lot of pushback against this in here. Executive compensation disclosure laws in the US led to massively increasing pay for executives, who are some of the highest paid people in the company. Seeing how a major problem in the US is income and wealth inequality, why wouldn't this kind of legislation lead to the same race to the top for laborers' pay that executive compensation disclosure laws led to?
There is a great video showing Norilsk from last year https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/my-beautiful-dead.... Very miningpunk, not sure about the cyber part.
Right now Mastadon might as well be off-grid, unable to add additional accounts on the main server. Popularity has stunted it's growth!

I am not sure how much thought has been given to the scalability of this solution, it sounds like it will benefit from most of the advantages offered by P2P in this department.

Eventually something like this could organically grow into the "next Internet", in much the same way that the current internet has morphed into what it is today.
Maybe Lagos? Lots of people. Wealth. Corruption. Cyber-criminals.

Mumbai could be another dark horse.
UK telephone code misconceptions
Yes, according to the first law of Thermodynamics, energy is conserved; regardless of whether there is computation being done, 100W of electric power will result in 100W of heat being dissipated.

About heating with computers, There is a Dutch company doing this, https://cloud.nerdalize.com/. It's interesting to think about how their economics work, because the heaters will be switched off for large parts of the year, and for much of the day. They must be banking that computation won't get much cheaper over time (in terms of FLOPS/$) because otherwise it'd be hard to recoup their initial investment. In a sense, this almost looks like a bet against Moore's law!
Would I be wrong in assuming that you have a technical background, and are not representative of the average computer user?

The current problem* is not that there is absolutely no way to manage your own computer whatsoever, it's that the methods for doing so are becoming more and more a niche only for the computer-savvy. The larger public is becoming increasingly more comfortable with, and encouraging of, closed systems. So long as the majority are willing to pay for such systems, it is not irrational to envision manufacturers eliminating other options over time.

*And keep in mind that I wasn't criticizing the present but, but a possible future 10-20 years from now.
I can confirm that enjoyment can be found up to age 46.
The new dropbox.com–files and team activity, all in one place
Yes its great --a super efficient and fast little VM and comfortable syntax and scoping. I realised how great Lua is for separating user-complexity from an applications core as my customisations got more substantial.
"unprecedented"

...actually precedented by all the resources we pour into forcing the climate TO change.

And, asteroid, seriously? This is the best we can do now? May as well not eat meals anymore because hey I could get hit by a bus on the way to work.
I just read that; it is even too optimistic in some cases: "Ten percent of those fees went to the researchers who wrote the papers"
That is an important distinction. But your page still won't fit on a floppy and is splattered with distracting animated gifs throughout the article and two giant full screen ads and a prompt to give over my email address at the bottom. It's a more thoughtful assault.
Your numbers are not up-to-date:

"In 2000, Japan's coal demand was only slightly bigger than LNG consumption, around 60 million tonnes a year versus some 55 million tonnes for LNG, but gas use has now stalled while coal imports have nearly doubled since then."

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-japan-energy-demand-idUKKCN...

Also, the numbers for Germany are for "installed capacity", not for actual production.

If you look at actual production, "Braunkohle" went from 146 in 2010 (pre-Fukushima) to 160 in 2012 (post).

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/156695/umfrag...

But please keep believing what you believe.
'Reverse Prisma' AI turns Monet paintings into photos
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Wait, it's not ironic? I thought it was like Web Pages That Suck. Where the layout was bad because you 'don't expect to read about bad websites on a well designed one' or something.

Huh, guess this is a serious effort.
To reiterate: imagining a better world does not mean "emptily declaring it to be so." Like, if I said that in my better world triangles were no longer slavishly limited to having 3 sides, a reasonable person would think I was missing something about what imagination can and can't do.

If pain can conceptually be whatever you want it to be, and there's no matter of logical necessity, then why don't you just imagine pain as something different in this world--in which case, this world is back in the running for "best of all possible worlds"? Why do you need a new world for pain to be other than a negative force?
It really takes away from the good will I might have toward the Nintendo brand. My son wanted the new Zelda game for his wii u. He earned it and we got a download code from Amazon. One week later, Grandma bought him a Nintendo Switch. Guess which downloadable game only works on the Wii U? If we want the same game (downloadable too) for the Switch that will be another $60!

When I buy a game on my iPhone 6, it works on the new iPhone 7 and it works on my iPad. Apple isn't perfect either but at least they understand that once a consumer "buys" a digital product, they don't like being told they have to buy it again and again.
> However, to get access to the DHT in the first place, you need to connect to a bootstrapping server, such as router.bittorrent.com:6881 or router.utorrent.com:6881

This is a common misunderstanding. You do not need to use those nodes to bootstrap. Most clients simply choose to because it is the most convenient way to do so on the given substrate (the internet). DHTs are in no way limited to specific bootstrap nodes, any node that can be contacted can be used to join the network, the protocol itself is truly distributed.

If the underlying network provides some hop-limited multicast or anycast a DHT could easily bootstrap via such queries. In fact, bittorrent clients already implement multicast neighbor discovery which under some circumstances can result in joining the DHT without any hardcoded bootstrap node.
When I want/need to customize this much, I tend to think poorly of the tool.
My Honda did this. I replaced the battery and the passkey system got confused. Allegedly there is a VIN-tied procedure for temporarily overriding it (e.g. Turn on car, pump brakes 3 times, turn to accessory, back to on pump brakes twice, etc.). Shockingly, the dealer declined to share it with us, forcing a tow to the service center.

If you are buying a new car with a passkey system, make sure to extract the code before you sign the papers.
Siraj is _the_ bomb! Fellow wizard here :)
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Last Ubuntu I enjoyed was 10.04. They switched to Unity and I didn't use Ubuntu since, I liked old Gnome and switched mostly to CentOS. For me it was like Windows 8 — may be it's good, but it looks completely different so I don't want to deal with it. Now Microsoft returned good old windows with Windows 10, Ubuntu returning to Gnome and Apple's not abandoning macOS. Good times.
So rot13 should work as fine as that, I'd assume. You wouldn't publish API_KEY this way, would you?
Siraj has great material.
I thought ironical was the word that describes what one is doing when one makes an ironic statement?

That is to say when someone says something ironic, they are not themselves ironic, rather they are being ironical.
I mean, in a way it is. You're advocating for readability, yet use a color that many find directly hurts it. You use arbitrary icons and moving imagery, images that are impossible to scale up (and read). It's no surprise that people are wondering if you're ironic...
Seems like they used to at least tip their hat (no pun intended) to free software, GNU, etc. --- the whole free software ecosystem on which much of their distribution is based. Though maybe I'm remembering it wrong.

Now I can't find any mention of free software on their site's About pages.
Am I the only one who thought this article was going to be about an ISP startup because of the title, and was disappointed when it wasn't?
Sensors quality does have something to do with it, but regardless, you won't be able to get the accuracy and consistency from GPS you need for localizing a self driving vehicle.

Unless you get a DGPS unit (super expensive and require 3k subcription from satellites) you get north of 1m accuracy.
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That might seem like the common sense answer, but is the danger in exercising options and holding them. In this case, the previous poster was correct -- once they forgive the loan, the $25 million becomes taxable income.

The reason it doesn't seem to make sense is that no actual value was gained in the end. However, the IRS (and our tax laws) don't see it that way. Instead, they back at the value that was gained at the time of the transaction. They don't care what happens to the value in later years.
I completely disagree. Blue Origin is not far ahead on the ground, either. SpaceX did a bunch of suborbital hops before retiring their Grasshopper/F9Rdev1 program.

However, Blue Origin's technical approach with New Glenn is sound and could easily give SpaceX a run for its money (but SpaceX likes to run anyway). Blue Origin is the only real long-term competitor for SpaceX that we've seen so far.

Even in spite of the fact that SpaceX is so far ahead, Blue Origin at least isn't making the same mistakes that 90% of SpaceX's competition is: using really outdated ideas that don't stand a chance at competing with SpaceX if first stage reuse works very well and /definitely/ no chance if upper stage reuse ends up working, too. Blue Origin is ultimately pursuing full reuse just like SpaceX, not partial gimmicks like engine pod reuse (which might be better than full expendable, but that isn't the standard any longer).

Blue Origin can and will be able to compete not because they have any kind of technical edge (they don't) but because their launch technology is going in the right direction and because Jeff Bezos has more money than God and wants to use all that cash to open the space frontier.

It's worth noting that Blue Origin was founded /before/ SpaceX and had been pursuing VTVL reuse while SpaceX was still messing with parachutes, but they basically squandered that initial lead and now are playing catch-up. But a billion dollars non-diluting investment each year certainly helps a lot, and I have no doubt that Blue Origin will succeed.
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The Twitter app uses swift and does include some 20 libSwitch* frameworks that account for a grand total of 20Mb - most of them are pretty small.

It is unfortunate that apps can't dynamically link to standard swift libraries in the OS, but that still doesn't explain the other 150Mb of binaries.