skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber criticised for raising fares during London terror attack
Oh come on.

Anyone seriously espousing the idealism of pure "meritocracy" needs to put aside their gradeschool naivete. Next you'll start quoting Anne Rand back to us. It's one of those ideas that sure sounds good... I mean, who can possibly argue with the idea that they should pick the best speakers with the best content?

Until you actually think about it.

What you fail to recognize is that, unless you can find me quantitative measures that can be used to determine a person's skill, meritocracy isn't about merit. It's about convincing fallible human beings of the level of merit. And that means running up against both conscious and unconscious cognitive bias.

So the reality is, like it or not, if you want a fair shot in the professional world, you damn well do need the help of people fighting the good fight against personal and institutional bias. Hell, 20 or 30 years ago it's entirely possible you wouldn't have had a job at all if it weren't for the actions of people who came before you who understood this and fought for a more inclusive society and workplace.

But it's rather easy to rail against policies like affirmative action when you've already benefited from them. It reminds me of anti-vaxxers who argue about the rarity of diseases to justify not getting inoculated, not realizing that that situation exists because people got vaccinated.
Google prepares publishers for the release of Chrome ad-blocking
Bitcoin is still totally the future though, right?
Trading stock is not pure profit speculation, there are a number of alternative strategies including for example statistical arbitrage. Much of this requires simple statistics understanding for the basics, and a Phd to be particularly useful.
Again, how so?
(I'm just picking your brain because now I'm curious.)

How about a noble gas? Presumably those are chemically inert enough to not cause anything chemical/biological at all?
This was my take away too. Objectively, a decreasing gap between wages and productivity probably is a threat to corporate profits. Reasonable people can disagree about the importance of that threat vs the well being of American workers, but the writer seemed to miss that that was not the point of the Goldman report.
Things like the interest rate you qualify for are unique to the buyer. How can a print ad in the newspaper know the interest rate the buyer will qualify for? How can a print ad in a newspaper know what the purchaser of a car is going to trade in? There's not even a customer yet.
My problem with claims like these is that they imply intent, which implies a coherent (and nefarious) effort behind large social trends.

Who precisely is it that's doing this?
Identifying the dimensions used by the primate brain to decode faces
Let's imagine someone organizes a conference and every single speaker ends up being a black woman. The organizers proceed to postpone it because it isn't "diverse" enough.

Now you'll tell me that you'd think they did the right thing and that you won't consider that a snub. And I sure will believe that.
I have yet to find a good answer to this argument, which is quite depressing.
"The Silk Roads: A New History of the World" By Peter Frankopan. This book tackles essentially all of human history, tying together the world's major cultural shifts with the socioeconomic forces that brought them to pass. For readers who have implicitly come to believe that the center of the world has always been Western Europe (I had), this book will greatly shift your perspective (Eastward). I've never learned so much from a book, and damn is it entertainingly written.

"Getting Things Done" by David Allen. I'm sure everyone here is familiar with bits and pieces of GTD methodology, but I encourage you to check out the full text. There are a lot of great ideas in there there that I didn't find reading online about GTD. I have been a serious GTD user for more than a year now, and I feel amazingly more in control of my life. Everything I've done in that time - from planning my wedding, to projects at work, to completely organizing my house - has gone smoother than I can remember projects going ever before.
I believe here that the use of "dual license" here is about open source + paid proprietary, not two open source licenses.
The idea being that you can claim damages.
If you assume I mean, contrary to my intent, that the units are individuals rather than groups, perhaps.

To restate again, for clarity:

1 type + 1 type = 2 types

2 types > 1 type

1 type = 1 type

How is this false?

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I am not sure what to say to your second point. I didn't make up the definitions, or the way language works.
Go fever
I guess the idea is that salt wears more on the car and as such the leasing option would be better since the second-hand value is guaranteed.

However I think car finance companies are clever enough to include this in their calculations and the second-hand value you get for a car in France is not the same as in Sweden where roads are commonly salted.
> able to compartmentalize something so critical and raw as a device driver.

QNX did this quite successfully; you could kill and reload e.g. a buggy network or disk driver. All that on top of being a realtime OS.
It seems like your device is completely replaceable in this scheme. The keypair is derived solely from the email address and the master password, so you can just generate the same keypair on a new device.
I was hoping to capture your last point when I said people need to assess party platforms as a whole. I understand that most people who voted Leave cannot really vote Lib Dem in good conscience. I hate to see parties lock up single issue voters into electoral blocks like that but that's what happens under our current (broken) system.

Having said that, I don't think any of that detracts from my point - the electorate don't care enough about privacy to make it their hot-button issue. The people have chosen to prioritise the NHS, Brexit, Immigration and the War on Terror over privacy. All of those are important and the politicians up for election respond accordingly to their priorities. If a UKIP-like party that focused on civil liberties started hoovering up votes then the main parties would also respond; unfortunately I don't see that happening due to voter apathy on the topic.
I get your point.

However, I don't think it is useful to consider a compiler to be a replacement for programmers. Compilers are tools for programmers. The more time a compiler saves a programmer, the better it is.

I think there is a middle ground between writing inline assembly and fully automatic vectorization that would be less time intensive than manual vectorization and more predictable and available earlier than fully automatic vectorization. I wonder what would have to be done to find it and provide support for it in GCC/LLVM.
I wrote that on the Atom forums ... that's the editor in Open Dylan, which used to be Harlequin Dylan (and was Functional Developer after Harlequin folded and before being open sourced).

I had parts of Deuce up and running as a terminal-based editor at some point. Well, I didn't do input which is clearly a very important thing ... but I'd made good progress on the output side of things. :)
Steemit – Blockchain-based social network where karma == $
Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) Using Touch-Id to Authenticate Sudo
This site could do with a responsive redesign.

EDIT: Redesign is the wrong term, as that implies that it would take any effort at all.
Epic Marble Machine (2017)
That is a completely different article.
Odd, I couldn't get the link to work so I googled the title and that was the prominent result.
Too bad there's no package manager for ObjC libraries.
Let me know if that ever actually happens. I'd be happy to discuss when it does.
I keep trying FreeCAD every 3-6 months, but it's so full of little bugs and crashes it's not really usable in my mind. I'm using the version from Debian unstable.

The UI is unstable (very easy to crash just by fiddling around), and the geometric kernel has a ton of little issues that you have to work around. At every new project I have the liberty of giving it a try without many constraints (no import/export required, minimal assemblies of elementary geometry). I really wonder how can you actually go through the relatively complex projects I've seen as a tutorial, really. I would always give up after a dozen crashes.

I've used SolveSpace in at least 4 projects, and I absolutely love it. The UI is different than FreeCAD, but in a very positive way (after learning the basics, I genuinely prefer SolveSpace's a dozen times!). It's a bit sad that SolveSpace's kernel is definitely inferior in terms of capability to FreeCAD (notably: no offsets and no chamfers!), but what is supported _is_ stable. I cannot say the same in FreeCAD, where chamfers would sometimes cause degenerate geometry or downright crash. The only minor complaint in SolveSpace is that currently it's not always obvious to see the construction tree, as it's represented linearly.

I bought a copy of VariCAD that I use on linux. But while it's certainly a capable CAD, I really don't like the UI, and the parametric modeling is clunky at best.

I don't think there's much more available in terms of parametric modeling on linux if we exclude prohibitive stuff like NX. I'd like to be proved wrong here.

I still think the best modeler I've ever used is still Rhino, a joy to work with. But while it supported parametric surfaces, it didn't really allow parametric modeling when I last used it.
I'm thinking about getting the GTD book now that you've mentioned it.

Any chance you could give a TLDR?
But wasn't a big part of the '08 crisis the fact that you actually could walk away from all of it as a home owner and the banks were stuck with the loss? Sure it sucks to be homeless but it suck a hell of a lot less than being homeless with huge debts.
I don't see any discussion about what this does besides decentralisation. Care to explain how it is securing through decentralisation? Is this some blockchain based solution?
Ask HN: Best local password management on MacOS
I want to begin to use a password manager on Mac OS. I'm starting from scratch. Keepass is not an option for me as I don't want to install Mono. Also, Keepassx doesn't seems to be updated anymore. I'm hesitating: KeepassXC, KeeWeb or MacPass. Which one do you suggest?
On Facebook, you can subsequently take your phone number off.
I suspect the difference between a UK Home Secretary and many of the other roles involved in policing, security and the legal system is that the HS is probably only getting involved in the most serious cases, where there are already sufficient grounds for thinking someone is a very bad person to want to take things to a level that requires such high-level approval. If you're a lawyer who practices in court or a senior police officer overseeing a whole area, you see the bad people but you also see people getting found not guilty or people being arrested on suspicion but then released when the evidence points elsewhere. I claim no special knowledge of whatever sensitive matters the HS sees on a daily basis, but I'm guessing with the filtering that must surely happen before any particular individual comes to the Home Secretary's attention, they see a much higher ratio of actually very bad people to suspected very bad people than most.

Just to be clear, I'm not defending May's policies as either HS or PM here. I think she demonstrates both a lack of technical knowledge and a biased perspective that make her very dangerous to the public good, and as such I believe she is not the right person to serve as PM. I just think that those flaws are somewhat understandable and probably something that would affect any human being who had served in her former post for as long as she did, unless perhaps they came from a background particularly relevant to these kinds of issues. The real problem may be expecting any single individual to do what is currently required of a Home Secretary for an extended period, certainly without some sort of mandatory recovery period after they leave the post before they take any other high-level position within the government.
"Canonical" can't apply to music releases in an objective and definitive way.

Context certainly matters (first, modified, compilation, remaster, remix, audiophile pressing, and so on) but you can't even nail "canonical" to first release, especially for singles, because there may be early promo mixes, radio mixes, vinyl mixes, iTunes mixes, and so on - all mastered differently.

Most people's idea of "canonical" is really "The version I want to hear without having to specify other details". But that's subjective and likely to be significantly different for some non-trivial percentage of users, especially in different territories.

Spotify probably just makes an informed stab at "most popular" - which is a good heuristic and will work most of the time, but is hard to calculate when you don't have Spotify's stats.
If you want to know why political and religious violence is worse than drug overdose and why we have to resist it, look at Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan. Although we can say it was Bush then Obama who destabilized the country by removing the tyrants, in the tyrants' absence, religion-influenced political struggles (ie. Sunni vs Shiite, Islam vs Kurd) blew the countries apart, and continues to blow the countries apart.

So drug addictions can be bad, but religously-motivated wars are worse because they will destroy everyone. Even stable countries like Saudi Arabia is not immune, and people are worried that the more radical elements there will take power if the country loses its wealth, wealth which is used to pacify the population.
> 1 type + 1 type = 2 types
> 2 types > 1 type
> 1 type = 1 type

Yep, that is good and I agree with that, I'll let it pass that i wasn't what you were saying earlier giving the context.

But it still doesn't justify postponing/cancelling something just because it's "1", it's discrimination against that "1".

> I am not sure what to say to your second point. I didn't make up the definitions, or the way language works.

I'm not arguing that the definitions exist. I'm arguing your assessment that only using a particular one stifles discussion.
With the risk of being downvoted, let me cite George Carlin regarding the "sensitivity training":

"Hey, if you need a special training to realize you can't shove large cumbersome objects up somebody's ass, then maybe you're too fucked up to be in the police force in the first place.
...
Let's try something else -- intelligence and decency. You never can tell, it might just work, it certainly has never been tried before."

I feel that in such areas USA just refuses to acknowledge the existence of a very, very basic common sense.
In many, many circumstances, code that "does the thing [well enough]" is more than enough. Not everyone works on avionics or pacemakers.
And initial coin offerings!
Gimlet Media's "Reply All" podcast has a fascinating episode partially devoted to the etymology of "yass", "throwing shade" and other phrases: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/69-disappeared/
Yeah, we're not very far into this case from my understanding. Might want to wait to see if it gets appealed and whether the court of appeals even addresses that question.

That said, aside from the occasional FUD, I don't think many people have doubts about the GPL holding up.
Atom's Nuclide remote feature does that. We edit codebase on remote servers.

The alternative, and maybe a better way to do this, is a FUSE-like system, like Expandrive. Lazily fetches files from remote.
No, but they expect the value to be a certain amount in 3 years time. If a lot of consumers jump on this and a majority of them jump on the next 3 year contract after that then there's going to be way more used cars on the market in 3 years time than initially expected, causing values to collapse. You don't have to assume a rising value in order to have a bubble.

It is true however that it's a really small market compared to housing, car companies also aren't critical to the economy as a whole in the way banks are but it would still be bad.
Rails Programmers: The Hassle of Managing Internationalized Text Is Over
I never understood that logic.

If all of your revenue is from sales to your own employees, fueled by the wages that you're paying them, then your business is, by definition, not incurring a profit.

Maybe that's fine if you're like a farming coop or something, but it certainly isn't going to get anyone to invest in your enterprise.
On an electronics forum I lurk, there has been an ongoing discussion about uBeam ever since it began, and the general consensus is that it doesn't work:

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/the-ubeam-faq/

(There's more discussion about the recent developments in the last few posts.)
That lecture has been the most interesting thing to come out of this thread so far, and everyone here should listen to it and ponder it.
> Let me know if that ever actually happens.

As I knew, this is what you hope starts happening. So don't pretend that what you want is diversity, it was patently obvious from your first statement that it isn't what you want, and your backpedaling in every single reply didn't work.

Glad you're back to your original intent, though, it's honest.
I learned from "An Easy Introduction to the Slide Rule" by Isaac Asimov.
It's amazing what this generation will go through to keep their dopamine dispenser (their phone) going at all times and available every second to them.

No technology is too inefficient when dopamine is on the line. Kilowatts of ultrasonic beams aimed at your head to give your phone a trickle charge.
Archive as the site is dead at the moment: http://web.archive.org/web/20170604130327/http://www.bytecel...
What is aoliti2for?
In the UK this does not happen.

You are required to get your own fully comprehensive insurance, and can select from the whole market. The vehicle will not be released to you from the car dealership without proof that you possess such insurance.

Please declare which country you are talking about, as the article described the UK and your claims are not true with regard to the UK.
FreeCAD is great because it's free as in freedom.

The technical weak point that will always hold it back is the kernel, Open CASCADE, when compared with Parasolid, which powers OnShape.

Parasolid is in effect subsidized by the Industrial-Military complex.

It was started in 1987 - around 20 developers then. [1]

I would guess (conservatively) that they have at least 10 developers still working on it now in 2017. An average of 15 developers over 30 years - gives around 450 person-years - all paid for by the Industrial-Military complex that funds the opaque behemoth that is Siemens PLM. [2]

Disclaimer: Parasolid dev 1989-1995.

[1] That doesn't include customer support etc - IIRC department headcount was over 40.

[2] To quote GrabCAD founder Hardi Meybaum in his Kindle ebook The Art of Product Design: "Although Siemens is a public company the PLM division is such a small part of its total business that very little financial information specific to the PLM division is released."
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I think there's a 3-digit code (611?) that direct dials whoever your service provider is.

As long as that's secure, I think that's the solution to knowing who you are talking to.
.ng is sooo expensive!! (xx,xxx$?)
Care to elaborate why am I being downvoted?
A lot of people just use sketchup and read the exported files as levels
Rusrc nightlies are the compiler. The only notable compiler i am aware of.
There is no standard, ecosystem or any -std=v1.0 that old code can rely on.
>who cares
People who want to invest time in Rust.
Popsci has geo-restricted content.

This should allow you to access it from anywhere:

http://archive.is/mSo7F
> I see few advantages of switching my large existing codebase to swift

There are none. Don't transition an existing, stable ObjC project. I don't understand why this is a thought anyone would entertain, especially since ObjC itself isn't going anywhere.

If you are starting a new project in Swift and it will be pure Swift, that's fine. Go for it. Do not attempt to migrate existing ObjC projects or use Swift in them.
Really loved the slides. I'm in no position to need PG-Strom at this point, but it's very interesting work and I hope it keeps progressing.
Indeed! That said, library quality, much like school quality, can vary enormously by geography. Also like school quality, it's not entirely random, there's a pattern where wealthier communities often (though not always) tend to have better libraries.

(I'm defining better as wider and deeper selection of books and ignoring anything else, like other library services, library hours, whatever.)
Court Rules Against Registering Drones
Was there an actual surge of ride-seeking right after the attack? If so, it's only an example of the system working as expected under unexpected circumstances. Sure, we may quibble with the morality of it, but isn't that the whole point of delegating decision-making to a statistical algorithm?
Why you should check out ClojureScript
Is this this book you guys are talking about?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workwe...

The reviews seem pretty mixed but I might pick it up just to see for myself.
Here's the paper: http://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(17)30538-X.pdf
Google Assistant Now on iPhone
What's new: https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x...
He's also the most unpopular politician. What's your point?
Thanks, will definitely drop an email to them.
http://eclim.org/eclimd.html

> The most mature usage scenario that eclim provides, is the running of a headless eclipse server and communicating with that server inside of vim.
The LispWorks 64bit Hobbyist edition is $750, which makes it less than 'thousands of dollars' for a hobby user.

Actually SLIME has some support for mouse pushers, too.
It's great to see this type of evolution in database performance, maybe this will become the standard someday.

The only thing missing is that there isn't a comparable project for MySQL.
I didn't know about Supercavitation so that was still really interesting. thanks.
>Yep, that is good and I agree with that, I'll let it pass that i wasn't what you were saying earlier giving the context.

But it is what I said.

>But it still doesn't justify postponing/cancelling something just because it's "1", it's discrimination against that "1".

As to whether it is appropriate to postpone or cancel the event, I'd say that's up to the organizers, their goals, etc. If they specifically only want to put on a >=2 event, and they cannot, the justification seems adequate.

I'm not sure how, in that context, it equated to discrimination. I'd expect them to have cancelled regardless of the "1" in question, in this case.
Great idea! Exactly this is implemented across pretty much all "important" services in Sweden (Tax office, banks, pension funds, money transfers etc), it's called BankId: https://www.bankid.com/en/

It's a great concept but currently somewhat limited to government and financial services, I would love to see something similar get good traction!
What of the turbulence just from the sub passing through the water? Can we distinguish it from the background noise?
The way I try to sort this phone-change-re-authorise Auth Codes are that I save the QR code each time I opt into some two-factor service. That way I just need to savr that QR code with service name in KeePass database, and I could scan it in any new phone to keep using the Google Autheticator.