skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The government” isn't a single group of people. It's entirely possible for the intelligence agencies to be simultaneously sucking up a lot of data but not sharing that data with civilians in a separate agency. From what I've heard, that's expected because there's a cultural expectation that they're not involved in domestic politics.
Yup, all that's true--but just because I mentioned a laptop doesn't mean I'm necessarily talking about an in-network, out-of-network situation.
If, at the same time, driver and customer are being shown different prices, as the article alleges, then that is a problem.

If the price is an estimate, and the estimate is revised based upon actual time and distance, then that is within reason.

That said, this problem would be much more tractable if the drivers were employees of Uber. Perhaps that's what should be done? :)
I think Microsoft's depressed stock value and stack ranking are both symptoms of the fact that Ballmer was a clown.
> Debt is primarily a political obligation

This is question begging to say the least. Political obligation [0] is "the moral duty to obey the law". Debt is money owed to someone [1]. Is that a political obligation? Yes, if the laws concern themselves with debts. But what if the law didn't concern itself with debts do you cease to owe money to someone? Not if they are able to enforce the contract of the debt in some other manner.

> Banks are simply professional lenders. If the transaction were purely numeric and not political they'd be peripheral to the economy instead of central to it.

Yes, state intervention in money markets is of monumental importance in achieving the system we have now. But it wasn't always like this and those systems were far from peripheral [2]. Free banks put themselves in debt every time they issued currency and the state was absent from the interactions.

To clarify, I'm not advocating against the state's importance in defending debt money. The free banking days of multiple competing notes was one of volatility and disastrous crashes. What we have now is strictly better than before. But to say that fiat currency "comes from the state" as OP did is simply not a historical fact. Period.

0: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/political-obligation/
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking
Cephalopods adapt by altering their RNA more often than their DNA
I'm not on mobile and prefer the amp version. It displays larger images without needing to drill down into various gallery widgets.
Fourth story down starts with 'Fuck you and die', pretty much sums it up for me. Facebook is the past, most people just haven't noticed yet.
I don't think so. They have the right to not be arrested for spouting their trash. They are not entitled to a platform to shove that in everyone else's face.
I laughed hard at your brilliant comment. Thanks for that. I needed that boost while I work on my resume.
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>In addition, there are people out there who are constant scaffolding to everyone else. You have to watch out for them, but not because they’re trouble. Because you could be trouble :)

>Their individual productivity looks poor, but they’re natural givers. You fire them, as Microsoft did, then the teams they are in, literally collapse overnight.

1000x this. I've seen it happen. Some people are just naturally team players. They help other people shine. They see success as making the team succeed. One thing he didn't mention is these people tend to be well liked by their coworkers, so when you fire them the rest of the team goes into a deep funk which has everyone sending out resumes.

Stack ranking is dumb. At one time you could have made the argument it might be effective in its brutality, but not any more.
Whoever is doing this is the hero we need.

Sadly the law would punish them, not the manufacturers pushing out broken product.
That is a great question. It is plastic, so I would assume it is but I will confirm as well as find out if they are made from recycled material. Thanks for the comment!
As far as I know most of the rebranded ones will still list the Nvidia model number.

Check https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?N=100007709%... for instance. While some have their own separate model, it's not usually what people buying the card look at.
The fact that the layout changes and I can no longer really use muscle memory to do certain things makes it a pain for me to use.

It seems like a complete contradiction to the philosophy driving UX design on the Macbook prior to the touchbar. The trackpad gestures and the switch to 2 finger scrolling to make it the same as multitouch on tablets -- these are both muscle-memory friendly decisions. The touchbar goes against this!
The touch bar is a flop. You don't have a tMBp if you are writing this headline.
I think that logical logging was an obvious choice given VoltDB architecture. It's totally possible there was a talk that was involved for somebody though.

That said, we <3 determinism at VoltDB and rely on it to achieve what we achieve.
Machine learning with humans in the loop
Contact patio11 directly by email (it's in his HN bio) and ask for an invite. I remember him making an open offer to all HNers who don't have an Atlas invite but need one.
Completely agree. Having too look to use it makes it not very pleasant to touch vs a responsive key. While it's a neat feature for the day doesn't seem to help with productivity since I can do anything quickly already blindly with the keyboard. If the next MBP I buy has a version without (but top of the line in all other respects I'd opt for one without the touchbar. I'm often using that space to adjust the sound or sometimes manually the brightness and that always becomes a conscious chore with the touchbar.

I like many are sticking with it hoping someone will find a user for it that makes it a killer feature even if niche.
I read the court documents and believe that you are correct. It was my fault for reading the secondary summary and not the primary source.[0]

Tangentially, I don't think the last sentence in your third paragraph is a fair characterization and, frankly, unhelpful to your argument. I wasn't purposefully "concocting a hypothetical fantasy." I misunderstood Uber's relationship with its drivers, which I should have done more research on, but a simple correction would have sufficed.

[0]: Specifically on page 4, in sub-section (16) of https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/uberdrver...
Car magazines publish this sort of stuff whenever it's available, except they call them "prototypes" instead of "release candidates." Some people like cars, cars are technology, it fits
The alternative is to find a more qualitative means of evaluating people without bringing in arbitrary concepts like "average."

Learn or learn not. There is no fail.
None.

That doesn't mean that anyone shouldn't be able to do just that, however.

Censorship of Wrongspeak is perhaps the most pernicious form of censorship, because it's easy to dismiss as justified.
Soliton-molecules-dance-in-a-kaleidoscope-of-light
Ex-vegan for health reasons
How many of you are ex-vegans for health reasons only? Which means you tried hard being a vegan but stopped due to (perceived or otherwise) deteriorating health. Mention how long you were vegan.
Hi, we are working on a web interface (like an admin console) where you are going to be able to get the API Key without downloading and installing PrexView Studio, the new interface will be ready at the end of next week.
Easy mobile dev
The post makes clear she was already a single point of failure in the project's power structure well before the allegations were made. Unless you have some facts that indicate it was her mental illness that was responsible for her "rise to power", your conclusion is not justified by evidence. In any case, if you care about reason and truth it was disingenuous of you to make that assertion with no attempt to support it.

It's a common tactic of overzealous critics of SJWs to categorize their own assertions as "facts" when they are just opposite opinions.
I like the touchbar but it isn't make or break for me. At this point maybe Apple should focus more on practical issues rather than "innovating". People often want rather simple improvements like card readers more USB ports, easier change of batteries, memory, hardisk etc. And for us on a Mac Pro, we really just want a regular box with some flexibility in what you put in.

Also I wish Apple continued making displays.

In general companies shouldn't be so desperate to innovate just for the sake of innovating. They should come with new stuff when it is really worth it. In the meantime better to do the "boring" stuff: make software more stable, add less glorius but desired features, upgradability, performance improvements.

Top of my list of wishes are:
1) Modern filesystem.
2) Getting the old Spaces from Snowleopard back. I could not care less about mission control.
3) Replace Applescript with something with sane syntax. What Applescript can do is super cool, but despite knowing over a dozen languages, AppleScript just weirds me out. So despite being a professional programmer I don't get to enjoy the possibilities it offers. Just give it some Swift looking syntax (probably without static typing).
4) A radically improved Siri. Something much smarter which can assist me in more daily stuff. Probably what we want is some sort of AI assistant platform or infrastructure so people can offer more specialized services. E.g. I'd like some smart agent which could help with writing code or editing video.
I'm actually working on one.

https://pantryplan.io

It uses up ingredients on hand before it starts adding new ingredients (or that is roughly what it attempts to do)

The plan is for it to plan meals, manage pantry and put out a grocery order.

It is alpha-ish but I am constantly working on it.
I agree with you. I'm erring on the side of exaggeration.

The thing is there's a large, quiet, ad hoc network of people and it "computes": Who's paying attention? Who's doing the work?

Keeping the normals from gumming up that network is very important, and calling [the wrong kind of] attention to it won't help...

Cf. Tao Te Ching, chp. 3
Firing the lowest 10% isn't as obviously insane, but it's still insane, at least as an ongoing policy.
Is there not a reasonable argument that he was fired for being an avowed heterosexual? I don't think any company would touch the issue with a ten foot pole.
Hopefully they will be able to deliver on quality [1]. The bad quality control at the high price is why I dislike Tesla cars. Maybe once they fix that they will convince me. Right now I find the lucid air more interesting.

1 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/04/tesla-owner-finds-t...
Is it hard work shifting those goalposts so often?
Yes it does. There many ways you can do it too.

See the docs for NOTIFY/LISTEN for an easy built in solution. Use a trigger to write to a log table for durability.

And the time travel functions.

All with the powerful query engine.

There are projects to stream all operations straight into Kafka.

The nice thing about Postgres is that it's also extensible. PipelineDB, Citus, etc.
My thoughts precisely. TouchID is neat, but it's a little slow compared to an iPhone home unlocking, and most days rarely need to use it at all since I'm wearing an apple watch that automatically unlocks the mac anyway.
We have a whitepaper here: https://www.voltdb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/lv-technic...

My brief summary comparison. VoltDB is a bit less general in some key ways. It tends to have the same performance no matter how much contention there is, which is rare. It's also getting pretty mature, with lots of integrations and hard corners sanded off.

It also typically has much lower latency than these systems, both theoretically and practically.
> There are legitimate, appropriate ways for the government

Governments are neither legitimate nor appropriate so just stop there
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
That thought occurred to me too --- root the phone, patch the exploit, tell the user they now have full control, and don't do anything else malicious.

It's somewhat amusing to consider that giving the user full control of the device he/she owns may be regarded by some as malicious...
Yes, and I seem to have been wrong about their relationship. @abduhl pointed out that their agreement with drivers does say that they merely take a % of fares.[0] That agreement, though, seems to have been before the implementation of upfront pricing, so I don't know if the Technology Services Agreement had been modified.

[0] Page 4, sub-section (16) of the court documents https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/uberdrver...
[Reposting my comment]

Contact patio11 directly by email (it's in his HN bio) and ask for an invite. I remember him making an open offer to all HNers who don't have an Atlas invite but need one.
>Because seriously, Unity is nowadays the most usable of the Linux desktops.

Oh yes. I tried all the DEs and it's by far the most pretty. I use Numix themes and it's so great. I love my pastel colored, flat icons, with brutalist window edges.
Uber V. Waymo: Everything you need to know
Worse-is-better is rather a class of which unixy-approach is just one instance, or perhaps a derived class.

There is all kinds of worse is better. A $20 Shimano-branded rear derailleur made in Indonesia on your bicycle is worse-is-better; nothing to do with Unix.
Stock sales by executives is normally not a big deal, but 30% is a pretty large number, especially when TWTR is at a pretty depressed price at the moment.
Then again, if he needed the cash, the low stock price increases the amount of stock he needed to sell.
Which is why I am surprised seeing this come from Google. Everyone has already admitted they are fine sending all of their data to them which benefits them greatly.
On my HTC it capitalises Of The ... I have no idea why, I can't see why anyone would want that.
> Just because something has no cultural value doesn't stop someone, int he country, from having the right to say it.

Nobody is denying them that right. You don't have a right to a twitter account. If someone won't allow you to post on their website, you're free to post it on your own website. That's free speech.
Great points, and as short as your comment was, I somehow missed the distinction between right to free speech and right to harass people. I do think that line is, also, a bit of a gray area.

I also have to admit, I don't know exactly what happened with Yiannopolis' account (seemingly removed for violating TOS, although the alt-right seems to cry "censorship!!").

I think after reading your response, while I share your views on a lot of things, I still think things like racial cleansing should be protected speech, slippery slope or not. I think the people who subscribe to these ideas are vile people, but I do think they have the right to express their ideas, whether or not I want to hear it.
Who are you responding to? The author of the Quora post? I know it probably took a long time to craft your argument, but you might want to read the post. He is not advocating this.

As for "my programmers", this is a shorthand and maybe not worth losing your cool about. I refer to Australia as "my country" without implying that I own Australia and "my company" without implying that I own Intel.
Evan Williams' post on the sale: https://medium.com/@ev/why-im-selling-some-twitter-shares-e5...
An aero glass like theme would be nice.
And one of his biggest clown tricks, bigger than "Developers Developers Developers" or throwing chairs, was messed up HR policies.
Drawing this distinction is logically correct but also largely irrelevant.

Both actions stand in clear opposition to the principles of free speech.

Twitter is a platform, and it's chosen to be a platform that does not allow free speech. That is Twitter's prerogative, but that doesn't make it acceptable.
This is a really useful post. Are you this self-centered all the time?
Microsoft brings the hammer down on emulators in the Windows Store
"Levandowski's side-companies were acquired by Google in 2011 for around $50M"
Mr. Williams, Twitter’s largest individual shareholder with a 6% stake, cited personal reasons for the selling plan, which kicked off Monday. He said he plans to remain on the company’s board and then keep the “vast majority of my assets” tied up in Twitter shares.

“It actually pains me to be selling at this point, but this sale is all about personal context, not company context,” Mr. Williams wrote in a post on Medium, the blogging startup he now runs as chief executive.

Interesting, and 30% would seem to support the notion that it isn't a lack of faith in the company, right? It really does sound like he just needed to be liquid.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Any

- HEADLINE: Do changes in upstream when possible

- DESCRIPTION: Whenever possible, please make the changes in upstream, rather than keeping ubuntu specific patches (except for ubuntu specific features).

As notified in the blog[0], if there are changes for the installer, Let the changes be in Debian upstream (if Debian developers agree with, and if the installer won't remove advanced functionalities). The same for GNOME, Linux kernel, and everything else ubuntu is committed to.

Also Let the license terms of ubuntu packages used be acceptable to upstream. Say for example, the ubuntu fonts are not yet in Debian due to licensing issues. For a long time I hoped it will happen, and eventually I dropped ubuntu font and switched to inconsolata. I hope that the ubuntu font set will be relicensed properly (something like GPLv3+ with font exception or whatever that upstream is okay with).

Thanks

[0] http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2017/04/thank-you-note-to-hac...
I've used Uber in NY, CA, and FL in the past 6 months. Every time I've done so I was shown exactly the price that I would pay up front. It's a static price. I pay that amount to go from X to Y, regardless of minutes, miles or extraordinary circumstances.

I have no idea what the driver's compensation is based on but it isn't transparently obvious to me that it would be fraudulent for Uber to offer me a static fare that, over the course of the ride, turns out to be different to the value of that ride to the driver.

Imagine: When I am offered a fare based on expected traffic that doesn't materialize, the miles+minutes value to the driver is well under what I paid. Other times, when I hit unexpected traffic, I pay Uber less than they pay the driver because of the extra minutes.

I'm not saying "this wasn't fraud". I'm saying, "I can imagine a pricing and reward scheme by which it's not." If at some point Uber said to drivers "We take an x% cut of the fare.", then yes, it seems clear that drivers would be defrauded by the scheme. Maybe we'll get to find out :).

edit: Other comments have links indicating that my "x% of fare" idea may, in fact, be in Uber's contract with drivers.
I have to say, on my physical keyboard, I still have to look at it to change the volume. It's simply not something I do frequently enough to have proper muscle memory for it. In fact, anything past F1-F4 I have to glance at to make sure I'm hitting the right button.
"The selected model reaches 1.12 bits per byte." (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01444.pdf)

For context, Claude Shannon found that humans could model English text with an entropy of 0.6 to 1.3 bits per character (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/Shannon1950.pdf)
What sort of big decisions does knowing you have Huntington's disease help you make? It's a debilitating disease with no treatment or any way to prevent it.
How 4 Mexican Immigrant Kids and Their Cheap Robot Beat MIT
If anyone else is curious I found the following link that talks about why people wouldn't want to find out. After reading this I can understand why someone wouldn't want to.

https://en.hdyo.org/eve/articles/53
Or declaring that this is not the time and space for those discussions.
6 months, felt great initially but after 6 months felt sickly. I ate really well, no bread or other filler. Very low amounts processed foods (if any). Took a supplement for B12 but after a while felt weak.

From time to time I will still go vegan for a few weeks but not extended periods.
Twitter Sues to Block the Unmasking of an Account Critical of Trump
Measuring the Cost of Living Worldwide
Kara Swisher: Dear Tech Bros: It’s Not a PR Problem at Uber
I'm not sure how this project in particular handle it, but i see quite a few project that handle it by simply using the "follower" for a user as their replica.
Since the message is signed there is no risk of being alterated or forget, so i can get the message of user FOO from user BAR as long BAR is "following" FOO.
This scale well since the more popular you get more peer can replicate your messages and post.
The New Chinese Diaspora
Yes, that's the parent poster's point.
This is also commonly the case:

Group 1: I would rather others deal with harassment and hate speech than risk erroneously silencing someone I need to hear.
Yeah, okay. If A) that's true and B) Users paid a different amount than what Uber indicates to drivers was paid, it seems like drivers have an excellent case against Uber.

In which case we'll see Uber, a company that seems set on self-destruction at this point, pay a moderate settlement that's unlikely to be material compared to their funding.
I hate to say it, but; "Too Soon"
That may also be disturbing (if true), but in no world is it more disturbing than the executive branch of the federal government attempting to punish dissent. This is on a very short list of the most important things our system is designed to prevent from working. It hasn't worked yet, and the courts seem to be broadly willing to check the administration's behavior, but it's telling that they even had the gall to try.
Not a Dot-Com Bubble, Not 2007, but a Nasty Mix of Both
It makes you wonder if this isn't a coincidence. Nvidia and Mac have pretended like the other one doesn't exist for several years now (since Apple adopted AMD and dropped NVIDIA about 4 years ago). Now, less than a week apart Apple breaks its iron curtain randomly to come out and tell us that they are making better Mac Pros and promises that they actually listen to customer feedback and NVIDIA announces mac support coming to their high end GPUs. Its a bit too crazy of a coincidence for me.

Once of the biggest requests from Mac Pro users was the ability to at least have the option to use NVIDIA cards. I had a Macbook pro (2013 i think) which had a dedicated NVIDIA graphics card in it, and then i upgraded to a 2015 model Macbook pro with the same specs (100% decked out) and noticed a huge drop in graphics performence due to the fact that I was stuck with the AMD graphics card (as Apple had dropped NVIDIA as their dedicated graphics card provider during those years). I really regretted upgrading my Mac and wish i could have my older one back which had the NVIDIA card.
> Otherwise, I absolutely love my MacBook Pro.

What did you upgrade from?
Don't let the worst be the friend of the bad
What else would he say since he still owns a ton of stock even after the sale?
I respect his personal reasons but the stock is public and he is in charge.

I couldn't care if he liquidates 99% of what he has -- what would put me to ease as a shareholder is what is that "personal" reason. Buy a house? New startup? Fight a cancer. Sure, I'm fine... but if that personal reason turns out to be no reason at all, then its a short sign!
I wish they acted like Apple in this regard.

People can understand and deal with having products sent in for repair, but only if you treat the issue of customer service professionally.
That... seems pretty obvious to me, does it not to you? I don't know, I for one would knock back plans I might save for retirement to much earlier in my life.
Actually it was only an output neuron, and for me it is the same if you call it cluster or not. It just learnt sentiment without any hint. Now I wonder if they can train it again and get the same sentiment neuron, that would mean something. Like sentiment is necessary to predict the next character? (word?)