skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it still possible to make a low-audio-quality call over the LTE _network_ (i.e. showing LTE when you make a call) due to negotiating down to older codecs if one of the other elements of the connection doesn't support higher-quality codecs?
I just bought and learned to drive a manual transmission BRZ about a month ago. The beginning was tough but was very worth the effort and time.

Sure, the transmission isn't as efficient and in some cases your mileage probably winds up going down, but the fun factor is very enjoyable.
As mentioned in the comments, you'll want to go here and revoke access:

https://myaccount.google.com/permissions

Even after deleting your unroll account, they'll have access until you revoke it.
I love my ST.
Actually if you know what you are doing your mileage will improve with manual.
Do you have to pay tax on your German earnings (earned in Germany, which you already pay tax to the German authorities on)? Almost all countries only tax you on the money earned (approximately) within their borders. So for most 'expats' it amounts to taxing interest and dividends, and maybe rental income on your old house.

Not so the USA, which has a claim on all money earned by Americans world-wide. There's a ~U$100k earnings exemption (so many people aren't paying much tax back to the USA), but high-earning USA expats are in a different tax-world from their overseas colleagues.
Thanks for mentioning this app. I didn't know it existed and it works really well.
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Yes. I think it's fair to say Unroll.me wasn't being honest about data use.

The service was supposed to identify spammy e-mail by address or subject, and file them away. It's part of the business model to screen e-mail addresses and subject lines, I suppose.
And I could understand them selling analytics on the contents of rolled-up items -- Wal-Mart wants to know what Target is selling, and demographics about those receiving offers, etc. You'd get some interesting data about what offers actually get clicks, too.

But the NYT article says they're selling numerical data out of Lyft receipts. That's not spam. At no point did they disclose they would troll through your non-spam e-mail for words or numbers interesting to the highest bidder.
There's still plenty of M/T cars available in the US. The article just highlights a small sample of those cars...
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The store them on amazon's...
> A manual transmission will always be cheaper to manufacture and repair, and can actually be worked on by mere mortals.

On the other hand, in these modern times an automatic transmission might very well last the (long) life of the car with nothing but ATF added. A manual is guaranteed to need some work, since the clutch is a wear item.

That said, some of these newer transmissions haven't really proven their longevity yet, and they're attached to some really overpowered engines in some cases nowadays... interesting times.
This has gotten less true as automatics have added more and more gears.
I totally agree. But, and this is a very big but: companies would no longer be open to potential acquisition partners during the due diligence phase of an acquisition if professionals in this space would talk publicly (or even at all) about what they find.

I'm seriously conflicted about this because I too have seen some extremely horrible stuff in the last couple of years, some of which I'm quite sure would rock the world orders of magnitude worse than what unroll.me has been up to and that was secured roughly in the same way (or maybe even worse) and with data best qualified as 'radioactive'. I do sign NDAs and I stick to them religiously but it is very hard at times to do that. Even so I understand that I'd make life miserable for those that employ me if I'd ever break an NDA.
> from this point forward, with clearer messaging on our website, in our app, and in our FAQs.

Yet when you try to subscribe, are freaked out by the permissions required and don't give access to your entire email you're greeted with the following message: "Unroll.Me takes your privacy & security seriously"
I'm learning how to make apps at the moment, but want to stay active on the business side, so this seemed like a fun way to do that and help out at the same time.
Example of the former.

http://shoparoo.com
I'm using "classic" to refer to the way things were done when the terms were first invented. Old languages like C or Fortran.

Python uses references implicitly without ever defining the term, so it's essential to talk about the high level semantics in this case. A Python reference (implied) differs greatly from a C++ reference in that it can be rebound with the assignment operator. If you're thinking about references in C++ terms then Python will confuse you. It's important to call out the differences.
DBM being https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibenzoylmethane

I'm going to talk to my family whether we should gice this (and trazedone) to my dad
Perhaps not, but if you say something negative about Google, and it gets a lot of attention from the public, I think you can agree that you're probably going to get fired. Let's be real here, NDA or no NDA, this is true of working for any company.

Which is why the "personal views" of a current company employee of any organization posted publicly is close to useless.
The ability to restrict access to specific domains would be really helpful for a lot of use cases.

For example, there are several travel apps that watch for flight and hotel emails, and then track them / notify you about them. If I could give the app permission to access emails from delta.com, united.com, southwest.com, and aa.com, I would be a lot more comfortable granting access. As it is now, I have to give the app read AND write access to ALL email.
Looks jumpy then blurry on a Pixel XL in Chrome. Not at all something I would want to embed. I'm guessing it looks better on iPhone and/or desktop.
I know! I takes at least three rewrites to make it that terrible.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

-- ISAAC ASIMOV
I remember hearing about unroll.me, last year or so. It made no sense to me, at first. But then I got that they needed full access to my email accounts. I was gobsmacked.

I really don't get why people would be OK with that. Somehow the possibility of a cleaner inbox doesn't seem worth the risk of identity theft.
Thanks for your valuable feedback! I'm definitely going to learn it.
You should give Fallout 1 and 2 (preferably 2) a try, specially if you enjoyed NV, which involved many of the original producers. The carefully crafted dialogue and storyline is what sets it apart.

If you require a 'modern' game I'd highly recommend Wasteland 2 [0], it's somewhat of a sequel from the 1988's Wasteland which was the inspiration for Fallout, it also involved some key producers from the original Fallout series.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_2
There is the "art" of creating an offer that looks like an invoice. I thought that was the most common type of scam.

I don't actually know what the ratio is between these scams and actual fraud where a bogus invoice is sent.
If you're a European customer who deletes your account, I'd email unroll to ask if your data has been deleted, and then report them if not.
You can't be sure of that.
What would it take to get laws like that in the US? Purely hypothetical, of course, since I don't believe it's possible.
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I'm not really sure why Amazon's leadership principles are on the first page, but since we're talking about Amazon,
Here's a video with RBC Capital's managing director Mark Mahaney talking about why amazon could be the first trillion dollar business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8id_1gxOXc
It is. There is nobody here who hasn't heard it a dozen times, and the general public audience it should be aimed at doesn't understand it.

Further, it is cited as a rule but it is far from one. Paying for a product doesn't guarantee your privacy and using a free product doesn't mean your privacy is being violated.

For ex. you can pay for Google Apps over Gmail but the privacy policy and terms of use is still the same (I actually can't think of a single service with a pro paid level where you gain privacy - Flickr, Dropbox, Freshbooks, Mailchimp, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Office online - you name it). Likewise there are countless examples of free and open source software that do respect your privacy.

I don't think there is a shortcut to teaching the general public about privacy - especially not one that can be wrapped in a one line cliche.
Less lobbying, less money in politics.
"Overwork, underpay, and generally treat people like commoditized dirt."
Not everyone, but probably quite many.
Thanks for bringing this up. This is part of the Data Protection Directive (1995): http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/individuals/righ...
Is there an actual law that would prohibit them from selling un-anonymized emails or do we just have to trust the company's sense for ethical behavior?
You not get manual Land Cruisers in the states? I haven't bought an auto car ever, will only buy manual. Have always driven manual and find it quite humerous that people consider them difficult or more effort. I prefer manual as i find auto's suck for going up/coming down steep hills and are also a pain in the arse in bumper to bumper traffic as they always creep forward unless you have a foot on the brake.Not to mention they cost an arm and a leg to fix.
Gimme manual any day, from a 5 speed synchro to an 18 speed crash gearbox. Love driving manuals,my fuel efficiency is up there with if not better than auto's too (you can't coast in an auto).
Edit: i got >400,000km out off my last land cruiser clutch....You won't see a auto gearbox in a work vehicle that will do that(e.g vehicle used off road and towing heavy loads).
I'm not sure I can answer that in detail, or that it hasn't changed since the details were originally shared with me.

That might also be a case of an article that's written from the point of view of one feature ("what happens if I delete") and not what's going on under the hood. There are other references to deleting data stored with unroll.me, e.g. When you go through the delete steps you need to do it in a particular order so that data on their side is removed, as discussed in another comment thread.
Or possibly have to stop on a hill and accidently hit someone behind you or in front.

I take it no one taught you how to start on a hill in a manual using the handbrake?
1. Screw

2. Every last employee

3. Out of their last dime

4. Deny

5. Lie

6. Deny the lying

7. Work them to death

8. As soon as it takes the slightest toll on them, fire them

9. Their suppliers too

10. And may God help delivery services

11. Deny

12. Lie about that too

13. Deny lying about it, of course

14. Don't even profit from it (except personally if you're Jeff Bezos, of course, who somehow became a billionaire creating an "extremely frugal" company that pays badly, and in his own words "does not intend to make a profit for the forseeable future")

15. Screw the shareholders too by hyping up an utterly ridiculous valuation

16. Especially deny that !

17. There's really only 14 principles as far as anyone's concerned.

Really what we need for our economy ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/08/18/how-peopl...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-ac...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/amazon-working-conditi...

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/brutal-conditions-in-amaz...

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/its-like-every-s...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/amazon-devas...

At some point there's a pattern.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Grouch Marx
"No one is entitled to real estate."

Why not? We are born onto the earth, and yet under the current system it is already owned by someone else, and we have to slave to those owners just to "earn" a place to be. IMHO We are each entitled to a share of nature as a birthright, and a way to achieve that while still allowing "ownership" or exclusive access to land is to apply a 100% tax.
Should one be able to own the air? Or the world's water? It's not far different to land ownership.
I definitely do not deny any previous instances. I am very against backdoors and will never defend them. But it is an extreme accusation to make against Microsoft in this case without evidence, so the fact that there is no evidence should be stated clearly to ensure people do not get confused.
How does that work? If I have a server in my US living room, and someone from an overprotective country visits my server, and my pokemon trading site sets an is_deleted flag to keep foreign keys valid, can you really say I'm breaking the law?

It doesn't seem like laws specific to some European country should apply anywhere outside of that country. I can maybe see the EU(since they like to apply laws everywhere).

You did call them 'customers', which means there's an exchange of money. Is there a restriction on European banks to prohibit them from dealing with sites that don't comply with the country's law?
Isn't Silicon Valley on tonight?
> Balkanized APIs are a historical fact.

Dark ages were long and historic too, which doesn't mean they didn't have a lot of problems :) So I find it a proper comparison. Those who insist on keeping things balkanized today (MS, Sony and Co), are slowing down the progress.

> maybe everyone will switch from Direct3D to Vulkan for the same reason.

I definitely hope so. Current messed up state shouldn't exist forever.
>"We offer a service at no charge, and in order to make money, which is what we need to live and so do our employees, we mine data from inboxes and sell it. This is all in our privacy policy which I advise everyone read before they hand anyone access to their email."

You can deal with that. I can deal with that. Most people here can deal with that. A lot of people can deal with that. The news can put some spin on that, use it to enrage a bunch people who don't know any better causing a problem that makes shareholders unwilling to deal with that.

Welcome to the modern world. Being frank about things isn't a risk worth taking.
Everytime some story about amazon comes up I see someone on HN complain.

Not very productive if all we do is complain. I'm not quite sure how to solve the problem but complaining sure isn't helping.
They were mentioned in the popular article today about Travis Kalanick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397
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Would it be crazy to say sitting on exploits is effectively "inserting a backdoor"? Maybe it doesn't have a doormat but it certainly still grants you access. To me this would seem against the mission statement of protecting national security when a whole list of them are published, like now...

EDIT: I would agree that without intent to gain access, it's not inserting a backdoor.
Fully agree. It wouldn't surprise me if acting 'scummy' was considered, by at least one party, to be non-consensual.
At least for Go, I feel like this should be quite obvious to most developers.

The first time I saw a go stack trace I strings-d the binary to confirm, as I suspected, that they embedded this information in the binary. I filed it away and didn't think about it much since then (I'm not saying nobody could care, I just don't do things that require that kind of privacy)
Don't do business in the EU if you don't intend to respect the laws. I find the word 'overprotective' out of place in your comment, it says that you feel that once someone gives you their data it is yours to do with as you please.

As for laws specific to a country applying outside it: you can do whatever you want but the moment you hold assets abroad or intend to travel you are exposing yourself to potential legal action, something always good to keep in mind. The United States has a long history of enforcing its laws outside its borders.

Also, you are wrong about how you'd go about implementing such deletion. You don't need an 'is_deleted' flag at all to keep your foreign keys valid, all you would have to do is to overwrite the record with random data or blank the personally identifiable fields and delete anything that that user has given you. That's not that hard and purposefully mis-implementing that would not look very good if it ever came to a lawsuit. Pro-tip: consult with a lawyer versed in the matter if you want to do this stuff at all it is better to do it by the book.

"Keeping foreign keys valid" is not an excuse to break the law.
That's alright, and that's subjective. But they certainly are facilitating a large volume of rides daily, in multiple cities, with tens of thousands of drivers and millions of riders. There UX is working well, but anyway the evolution of the ride sharing market isn't going to be in UX. Right now the market problem seems to be sustainability for Uber, drivers, and riders, since Uber and Lyft are losing cash.

But who knows? Do the riders and the drivers really need Uber or Lyft?
Never heard of this, is it common? (Old gf is a subi mechanic but she has never mentioned this but i usually hear about what common problems exist in subi's)
What good would open-sourcing DirectX be without the Windows Display Driver Model? And how easy would it be to get that working without the NT kernel? And how interested would the Linux kernel be in supporting this?
Billionaires are people too...
Emotions, feelings and naive people who think the world is black and white. That's why.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know if the following image depicts programmer working conditions at Uber?

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/22/business/24travis...

If so, I don't see how anyone can get any serious work done there.
>>Having fun on your daily commute?

Prolonged periods of bumper-to-bumper traffic inching along during daily commutes will take the fun out of stick pretty quickly. Hopefully this doesn't happen to many people, but for those that have a choice, automatic is the preferred option.
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Even further back, there was an NSCalendarDate class that was supposed to represent the human concept of a date. IIRC they got rid of it because they felt like it muddled presentational concerns with data structure concerns. It was pretty convenient, though.
In hindsight it's nice to think this but Apple would have been raked over the coals by the HN Walled Garden Liberation Brigade if they did that.
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> OpenGL 3.3 is a pretty nice target

Intel HD 3000 (6 years old, much newer then Windows XP) only supports OpenGL 3.1 on Windows.

VmWare workstation only supports OpenGL 3.0 for Win7 guests.

Direct3D 11 works flawlessly on both of them.
I work for Amazon, and my management line all the way up to Jeff is sensible, comprehensible, and human; I have good work-life balance and am able to offer that to my reports; my compensation is fair; and I would escalate immediately if I ever saw anyone abused, mistreated, or cheated.

Amazon's a big company and I'm sure there's terrible managers out there and true harrowing stories. And there are problems, here and there, and things I'd love to change. But if there was a pervasive, total cultural failure at Amazon, I'd have seen it by now.
If you're interested, I built www.minute7.com which is a time (and expense) tracker that does integrate directly with Intuit's QuickBooks (we're even near the top of their app store listing on apps.intuit.com as the only major player without major funding and a huge sales team :)
Hey, it's less awkward than asking him what he's wearing
Well, I said the spying mission of NSA should not override the security of the U.S., and pointed to the contrast between the old sometimes-improvement of crypto standards and the new backdooring of them. You answered that my "suggestion that SIGINT should handicap itself is ludicrous on its face." I don't care if the NSA's SIGINT department does not value our information security; we, the citizens, do. Their narrow departmental interest goes against our interest. The NSA as a whole used to better approximate that interest, back sometime in the 20th century, even if very imperfectly (see Bamford's history). This conversation was missing this point about the NSA's broader mission.

Iran with nukes seems to me a lesser threat to us than an uncontrolled U.S. government.
You really don't want library code providing or dictating malloc behavior, that's how things like OpenSSL and Heartbleed end up happening. It may be slower, but dealing with the politics of a particular malloc can be uglier than just making your code work well enough most of the time.
> I haven't bought an auto car ever, will only buy manual.

A manual-shift self-driving car may be hard to find.

It's interesting how the word "auto" (self) has evolved with respect to cars. An "automobile" is self-propelled, an automatic transmisson of course shifts itself, and we went right back to "self" for self-driving cars.
I don't understand what people find fun about shifting, but it is not worth the pure agony of traffic jams. Let off the brake, pray the person isn't too close behind you, accelerate a bit, decide if traffic is moving enough to accelerate more, brake. Repeat twice a minute. Add in hills and snow for more "fun."
To be fair, the article says "20 best cars" not necessarily those are the only 20 cars.
If USA is so innovative and Europe so backwards how come USA has trade deficit with EU?
Yep. Working in Systems as I do, my word that I'll keep my employer's secrets is pretty precious. Still, we share war stories over libations with our peers. These stories have value; they're how we know as a community what products to use and what employers to seek or to avoid. While I didn't intend for this to get quite the audience that it's getting, I will own up to having shared the story.

My boundary, and the legal boundary that NDAs (even despite what is written in them) are generally held to is "trade secrets." I would hope that everything in my post is three or more years out of date, and would no longer qualify as such.
Intel HD 3000 has better OpenGL support on Linux (thanks to Mesa). It's at 4.0 with software implementation of ARB_gpu_shader_fp64. And I doubt it supports all of DX11 properly as well.

I don't think you need to worry about that when gaming is concerned though. It's too old and below minimum requirements of huge amount of games already.
In that situation I'd probably giving my best "grumpy old man from Up is not amused" face for the camera to quickly get across that 'yes, it's me, now let me back in' or such.
Among small or early stage startups? No. Oracle charges kingly rates to go along with their kingly title, rates which pretty much only big companies can pay. Oracle DB setups often tie into other Oracle products as well, which can be more useful to established and larger companies.

Your professor is correct in that it's widely used amongst such companies, though other competitors are very often in place as well such as Sybase or Microsoft SQL Server.

The right tool for the right job (or in the startup world, the tool you can afford.)