skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Spiritual emergency' and 'mental illness' are both pretty weird concepts. The latter, for instance, is a bit like attributing software bugs to hardware faults, isn't it?
Ah yes, a company that doesn't meet the modern % criteria for diversity and inclusion is obviously just a pack of "brogrammers".
Diversity of ideas are allowed. The videos are not removed. If advertisers don't want to advertise on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDJMZWzW8Ko that's not Youtube's fault.

If not paying creators advertising money is censorship, then most other platforms have 100% censorship. Reddit, Vimeo, Facebook, Hacker News, Instagram, Streamable, Imgur all don't pay ad money to creators.
Did you watch 38 days? Great dramatization that brought that to life for me.
There is also an absolutely harrowing anime Barefoot Gen. I remember when it came out on TV (90s Russia) all the kids who saw it were greatly affected.
Google, FB, Microsoft, IBM, Baidu and others invested $80m into every AI company
Someone should publish a scientific paper, “The Insufferability of Stephen Wolfram as a Self-Proving Hypothesis” and win the Turing Award with it. Maybe then we could all just stop wasting digital ink about it. And remember that there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Can somebody explain to me what is this good for?

Thank you.
I am an Indian and I don't see wechat gaining foothold in India, here, people still use whatsapp and cash.

People use paytm for paying bills, the taxman's website to pay taxes, amazon for online shopping, don't think wechat has the power/influence/differentiating product in India.
Their CEO thinks this is 'flying right'. F* him. F* Munoz. F* United.
Apparently not:

> hist /youtube-dl
76
youtube-dl --help

> !76:p
brew install sox
Dozens of Canonical Employees Resign as Ubuntu Switches to Gnome
Because they use a library to manage memory is one reason. Also they use linters which means that the C that they write is totally different from the C you see in tutorials. Of course it depends on the company/project.
There was a short story / satire article posted about this in the past. The author automated dating with open table APIs, tinder and facial recognition, uber for ride home, etc.

Does anyone remember this / have a link? My Google fu is failing.
Sane evidence suggests the customer stood his ground and raised his voice, and this was escalated by the police called by the corporation to support their false assertion of contract rights.

Customer was not belligerent. Stupid employees and stupid police or rent-a-cops escalated the situation to violence.
There are at least two issues you raise in this response, neither are directly an answer to IoT as an absolutely retarded idea.

First, you say you don't own much, therefore IoT won't help you. That's fine, but it doesn't generalize. It especially doesn't generalize to non-consumer tech of which you'd have little part even if you wanted to own things.

Second, you're life appears to be stuck in dire straights. I have no idea why your stuck in the life you're in. As a result, I have no idea how automation might help or hinder you. Again, it is not a real argument against IoT.
Will AI-powered robot lawyers still use cheesy billboard ads?
This is a difficult position to maintain when we promote many activities that kill many people every day (e.g., driving). Sometimes the profound benefits of certain activities are worth the the "tiny chance" of downside risk. Whether this is one of those is up for debate, but it doesn't seem you're attributing any value to using glyphosate, which there doubtless is some.
Your WeChat experience would be interesting, we can learn so much from it, clearly the app took over the Chinese ecosystem, so you guys did a lot of things right (which nobody has able to replicate).

I would love to talk to you about it!
The example he gave was about consensus, and when you want to stop fighting. No one else can actually force you to stop fighting and move on to commit.

You don't have to win or draw out every argument, and you don't have to be convinced of everything. Sometimes you just put a pin in it and go.
Brewers ballpark bot demonstrates AI potential of at the Ballpark app
Actually, in many ways they are. It's one reason the US is in a superior position today vs other countries. Some technology would not happen at all without startups, such as airbnb.

You don't need to go far to find reasons why regulation can be a terrible thing. Here's an example from five hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14103008

If regulation is so bad, why are there so many people stamping out any opposition to regulation, and reacting with expressions of shock and disbelief that anyone could be against them?

Because in recent years, it's become fashionable to hate business. You see it everywhere, from /r/LateStageCapitalism (a subreddit whose explicit purpose is to hate rich people the same way some people hate minorities), to the PR outrage at Uber (who certainly deserved it, but now everyone is gleefully waiting for Uber to burn), to this creeping distaste for anyone who would seriously consider startups' interests over the interests of the individual.
After seeing a youtube demo[[1] of how the aggressive parallelisation that is done in Servo (safely possible by using Rust) speeds up this browser, i'm really excited for Servo! Also, i think this will give us a great base for all kinds of browser embedding what is not based on ancient webkit-gtk.

There is another nice presentation on Rust and Servo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q9vIMXSTzc

[1]: https://youtu.be/UGl9VVIOo3E?t=1019
I just tried it out. It froze when looking at a reddit comments page, it froze when I tried to use the URL bar. Pretty exciting nonetheless.
By "make object oriented" I mean converting functions that return VkResult to functions that throw exceptions, returning instead of using out pointers, converting vkCreate* to constructors, automating destruction, etc. You're absolutely right that there's no heavy lifting or abstraction involved, like there is when you want to make an object oriented OpenGL wrapper.
We should advocate a halt to strong AI research
We're using xvfb and selenium* for testing and a proper headless support would be a hundred time more stable than the self restarting framebuffer can't wait to move to headless chrome

*Yeah I know phantomjs is more cool these days but phantom doesn't support windows height so there's that.
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It's a recent trend in many niche (but maybe somehow influential ?) social networks like HN or some subreddits. Controversial big players are having more and more supportive comments, despite previously being famous for dubious proven activities.

It wasn't like that at the beginning. I tend to put my tinfoil hat on when I think about what could have caused it.
> Cars kill people. At worst current IoT let a pirate control your light bulbs, see your heart beat or record your sleep patterns, waste your food and listen to your music.

Once you're home network is compromised it's much easier to infect other computers on it, a lot of IT people don't even run firewalls on PC's anymore. We largely rely on a single line of defense for home cyber security.

A compromised device becomes a launch pad for a bunch of other attacks, like data collection and credit card theft. Imagine how many pedophile rings would love to remotely watch kids using a built in webcam? All without the family ever knowing.

Or you could simply use them to stream illegal torrents.
A lot of people are calling for government action against IoT. Think twice, people. You are undermining your own profession (and I don't just mean IoT, I mean software engineering in general). The laws the state will come up with will not be great, they never are, and they will stifle innovation. The internet is pretty darn stable, I don't think we need good old state to tell us how to write software, we will fix our problems ourselves as we have in the past.
Add fourth!

But I quit the academic path due to economic reasons, i.e bad pay, and needing to apply to grants. I think unless you're explicitly acknowledged as an engineer/programmer it's hard to get anything remotely competitive.
We did what was in hindsight a small launch. We put our app on Betalist first, got good response, redid a bunch of things, got it out on Product Hunt, got some more attention.

Then we targeted reviewers of competing/related products. That's what the kicker was in the end. A small launch easily eats up all your time, so keep it simple. A continuous drip beats a big bang.

Is your product niche enough so that there's a handful of sites covering it? Reach out to them. That's all you'll need in the start, and honestly all that is possible for you to reach. Don't go the way of paid ads and such, put in sweat first.

PS: IMHO you don't get to decide if you reach MVP, it's the users that do so by telling you it's a useful product and they're happy to be using it. Then they'll start asking to add more features ;)
How to spot a historian: "actually it's 'an' historian, from the old English..." ;)
Whether it's true or a metaphor is very much irrelevant.

Consider a religious zealot who denies evolution on the basis of a literal interpretation of a Creator. Pretty ridiculous right?

The opposite end of the spectrum is an empiricist who only cares to discuss or consider that which can be posited and falsified by scientific experiment. If something can not be observed and measured then it is "supernatural" and therefore nonsense that doesn't merit consideration.

I am of the opinion that the empiricist is just as much of a bull-headed fundamentalist. Of course the empiricist is more rational on the surface, but as you peel the layers of logic away, eventually you realize that there is always faith in something in the end. Maybe you believe that objective knowledge can give us meaning, maybe you believe science can explain all phenomena, maybe you believe there is nothing real which can't be somehow perceived.

Well I am an agnostic. To me, the application of Occam's Razor is that my consciousness if evidence of some meaning. The idea that the configuration of my atoms gives rise to my consciousness is possible but does not seem particularly likely, yet many so-called rationalists somehow assume this is the case out of fear of a "supernatural" explanation. Setting up an image of God as a bearded man in the clouds is just a strawman to discredit what is actually a very reasonable idea: there is some purpose to the universe which is probably beyond our understanding and which will never be revealed by science.

Talk of a higher being necessarily implies not understanding. Being able to sit comfortably with not knowing is a valuable trait. Putting a framework like a "higher being" around difficult psychological conditions is one way to grapple with uncertainty and perhaps find a solution. Getting caught up in whether or not that is a metaphor is to really miss the point.
A *.zip file would be useful for users who do not have admin privileges, as well as people who do not like giving elevated access to development software and who do not have access to a development computer nor a virtual environment.
So the solution is to automatically give more business to every airline that isn't currently getting slammed in the media? That's not a good way to encourage competition.
> I'd like to go further: HTTP/2 is the present not just for content serving, but could be for APIs.

Very true. The talk around around server push has suffered a bit from tunnel-vision, only taking browser-media delivery into account, making it look like a browser feature only.

HTTP2 + server push can actually make GraphQL less relevant, same way that there hasn't been talk around supporting websockets in it (it just doesn't look necessary anymore).

But for all this to happen, server push needs to become cacheable. And I really hope that the cache digests rfc takes off and gets more implementations.
What an interesting contrast in attitudes toward privacy:

He makes an extraordinary effort to maintain his bash history whereas I jump through hoops to delete my history (on logout using a .bash_logout file).

I also set my browser to maintain no history, disable saving of chats in everything, delete caches wherever possible, and generally wish that apps and programs had an option to save zero information on exit!

If I want "history" beyond a session, I'll explicitly make a shell alias for a command that I want to remember, or make bookmark for a site I want to revisit, etc.
Mine focused on Therac-25... not quite the same problem-space.

It's possible Uber's devs were misled about the nature of the software they were writing - for example I read their other secret system, "Greyball", was written under the guise of protecting Uber drivers from being physically assaulted by militant Taxi drivers - a common sight in certain parts of the world - nothing to do with the dual-use of shadow-banning public officials and journalists.
Title says 'exploit homeless for sex' - starts with a negative label. Then it proposes filtering out the ads, changing the law to make it illegal, etc. I think it's pretty clear what the author's view is (or what kind of sentiment they thought would attract more ad impressions).
I actually think that it's a social and business problem, more than a technical one.

Some SaaS providers already choose to run an OSS product which they develop for their needs but also share (like GitLab, Discourse and Sentry). Others choose not to publish their code, and lock the software to their infrastructure. These are business strategies as well as ethical decisions. Different technologies might change the cost/benefit ratio, but people that really want to be OSS already are.
Siri already lets you train the "Hey Siri" prompt to your own voice
> Isn't it likely that males are just more interested in technology than woman?

Why would that be likely?
Kyoto taxi operator prohibits drivers from instigating small talk
I said "Cars kill people", not "cars could kill people".

You are talking about potential. People don't care about that.

Potential that I mentioned by the way, with "scandals with naked people, preferably famous ones or underage, or both."

They will care only once pedophiles will have watched THEIR kids using their web cam. Repeatedly. With media coverage.

Not before.
Hackers can steal PINs and Passwords capturing data from smartphone sensors
It's only because Uber's view of its own drivers is known as heaven/god view.

edit: discussed in article.

Call me a pessimist, but I am betting that, despite the long and rocky road ahead, Uber is eventually going to succeed. And we're going to see the emergence of a new corporate template.
You should

ln -sf /dev/null ~/.bash_history

!
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Do you have some examples of Southwest's good culture? My only experiences with Southwest have been negative.

a) They're always more expensive on the flights I take.

b) They hide their fares from aggregators like Google Flights.
I strongly prefer lyft's side, haven't used uber in years and the last year I drove for ridesharing I exclusively drove for lyft and not uber, but I really don't have a problem with this. OF COURSE you should collect intelligence on your competitor's activities - if they expose information publically (e.g. showing the cars on the app / API) and cross-correlating with the uber drivers that still are logged on - what is the objection to this?

Mind you, some of the other things uber has done, like hail a lyft and repeatedly cancel, are totally not ok.
I would ask about how long people have worked on that team, how many have come on and left in the last year, and how many headcount they are getting in OP1.

This will tell you a lot about whether this team is growing and successful, stagnant, or on fire.

Getting paged a lot is a hallmark of teams you don't want to be on, but in the last couple of years, Amazon has instituted policies that make it easier to internally transfer (no strict time limit on how long you have to stay with a team).

Getting paged is sort of a proxy for the real thing you want to know: how many people are voting with their feet.
Tried Servo in Linux, even though the browser is slow in starting up, the page was loading very fast and scrolling the page is butter smooth! This Servo with Rust will redefine Browser and i wish this will restore the Crown back to Mozilla Firefox!
I don't agree with the parent post (I think all traffic should be encrypted now that let's encrypt exists) but this is an interesting point.

For example, Google is making it as difficult as possible to install certificate authorities in Android.
Root certificates are encrypted as if they are client certificates, requiring the user to set up PIN or password protection on their lock screens. Removing this protection immediately disables the installed user certificates.

Google has changed the Android 7 API so that by default the user certificate store is not used to validate the validity of certificates (only the system store is used). Apps need to opt in to still support user certificates.

Of course this is all done to prevent malicious actors from performing MitM attacks on users. Still, I would not be surprised if Android P removes the user certificate store all together.
Does it really take years and years of education to comprehend that the Earth is spinning around the sun?
Very, very nonresponsive. Sometimes when I press a letter in a form, it won't respond at all, but when I press it again, it will show up... and then when I press the next letter, the previous letter shows up. Which I thought was strange behavior.

EDIT: When I say "won't respond at all," I counted to 30 before the next keypress eventually just to verify I was really seeing what I was seeing.
With an article about how he used python and tensorflow to "hack tinder" and replace his ex lol.
Agreed. I think Uber is terrible, but I also think this is just no-brainer competitor research.
> AFAIK, the Assets Pipeline in Rails is not designed for HTTP2...

Not true. You can define as many manifests as you want, and design your own heuristics around resources in rails. It doesn't need to be an HTTP feature.

You have to patch rails to fill up the link header with the assets however. If you do it, proper reverse proxies like h2o can serve assets using server push.
Better yet,

unset HISTFILE
>Yeah, that really sucks. There's definitely a lot of pretty apparent white privilege here, which I try to be really aware of and not take unfair advantage of. But it can be tricky to navigate at times.

Trust me- they treat me better than they treat you:P There are other cases where White makers/hardware people can be a bit problematic on the local scene, but not so much in the markets. I've seen African, Middle Eastern traders accommodated in much the same way. And the good treatment probably comes with a slight markup so evens out in the end.
After the NYT article restrictions around transferring teams were relaxed significantly:

Previously I believe you had to stay on a team for a year before you could switch. Now it's something like a month.

If you find yourself on a bad team, pop open jobfinder and don't be afraid to abandon ship! Don't needlessly suffer.
I couldn't find a single news article referring to any such challenge that happened in 2009.
Potentially this: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/why_peopl...
For complex pages, there is Kantu, which is based on Chromium: https://www.a9t9.com/kantu/web-automation

Not headless, but ideally suited for automating complex websites (date controls, etc).
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Collecting intelligence is one thing. But deliberately abusing your competitor's systems in a way they did not intend to allow in order to collect intelligence is not only ethically wrong, but also likely illegal, as this article mentions.
If they're bad but not uniquely bad, it's still helpful for consumers to boycott them. Once they cease to exist (yes, that far!), a strong message has been delivered to all corporations.

Many other bad companies (that keep United from being unique) haven't stumbled in such a harmful, public way. United did, and we consumers need to make an example out of them.

(Edit: grammar).
That was more about what lax security could do, which you were downplaying as nothing significant.
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Ask HN: Top Searches “Burger King, Whopper, Lincoln Navigator, Samsung Galaxy”
Hi, I'm designing a dataset related to trending terms on Google. Are there other kinds of ways to acquire data on trending terms? I'm actually quite surprised and skeptical that the terms in the title are the world most popular search terms being searched for at this moment in time.
>The flip side is that I think western makers/hackers are more focused on coming up with completely new ideas, with less of a focus on quality of execution, whereas a lot of chinese makers/hackers/manufacturers are more focused on iterative improvement - how can I be really clever to make something cheaper or easier to produce, that looks like a professional product. Both sides are very clever and creative, but focus on different aspects.

Yes, I agree
Just to elaborate On the priority bit. Page count during on-call rotations is probably a huge metric to watch.
Headless browsers are frequently used in buildserver testing of web apps.
How about we do it so that I and anyone that cares can make an informed decision? Just because not everyone reads the nutritional information on food doesn't mean it's not worth having.
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I think it's useful to differentiate between empty formality and an effort to raise an occasion above the humdrum of normal existence with rituals and behaviors that connote its specialness.

The formality isn't empty in the sense that it's purposeless: it's done for a reason.

After all, marriage itself could be considered an empty formality, so if you're going to bother getting married you might as well embrace the formalized aspects of the occasion.
Lyft said “We are in a competitive industry. However, if true, these allegations are very concerning.”

Notice the careful non-statement by Lyft. It's hard to believe Lyft isn't doing exactly the same thing.

It's not questionable behavior to track what your competitor is doing. That's the first step toward beating them. And yes, Uber is trying to beat Lyft, just like Lyft is trying to beat Uber. That happy balance is a good thing for consumers.

It's pretty strange that I have to second-guess whether to post this comment since it could be interpreted as a defense of Uber. But the PR spin is getting to be a feeding frenzy.

Is all tracking now unethical? Under what circumstances should you be allowed to track other people? Google knows more about you than your significant other. Should they be allowed to do this? Is this ethically questionable? What is the categorical difference between Google and Uber? These are questions which have no clear and easy answer, but it's painted as if it's so clear-cut.
"Resign". Even the article claims 80 people are axed, not "resigned", and only one guy resigned. Unless they are using United's definition of "volunteering".

Also, this has nothing to do with switching to Gnome. Employees were axed for business reasons.
tldr; Mark to become CEO again

I'd assume their are some behind the scenes politics that will leak in the coming weeks.
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Talking is easy, Coding is Hard. Servo is still the most important aspect of Mozilla in terms of Security and Speed, I really think after the full development it will definitely beat the Google Chrome.
> It's hard to believe Lyft isn't doing exactly the same thing.

No, it's actually really easy to believe that Lyft isn't tricking Uber's computer systems into giving Lyft real-time info on Uber's drivers and fare prices. Please stop trying to make excuses for Uber's shitty behavior.