skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm interested to hear more about how Uber behaviour is inconsiderate.

Certainly, and I think I can sum up why you and I have different experiences in another quote:

> In the U.K.

Your government didn't bend to the "but they're just shaaaaaaring so being licensed is haaaaard" bullshit that many governments here did. (Austin, Texas tried to pull it off and the Legislature of the State of Texas smacked them, hard.)

I live in Seattle. The vast majority of Uber (and Lyft) drivers here are on the "UberX" platform so they're virtually unlicensed--except for a basic city permit and a regular driving license--and have no identifying markings except for a standard vehicle license plate. This makes complaining to any regulatory agency about them problematic and while their behavior in traffic is illegal, it is also difficult for traffic police to be everywhere to write the myriad of citations that could result.

Uber/Lyft drivers know this and the minuscule risk of getting caught is vastly outweighed by getting a crappy rating by picking up a passenger a few feet away in a loading zone versus right in the middle of the bus stop where the passenger has dropped the pickup pin.

That's just one of my huge heap of complaints about how the "ridesharing" drivers actually pilot their vehicles. Making a U-turn in the middle of traffic to pick up a fare that's just popped up on their screen is another. But it really gets my goat how they use bus lanes and bus stops as their own private pickup and drop off areas because that one person in that one car is stopping the 40 of us on the damn bus from getting where we need to go. And Uber/Lyft drivers are almost always the ones doing it. I've very rarely seen a liveried taxicab act like that.

Maybe taxicabs do actually drive as bad or worse as "ridesharing" drivers do. Maybe the don't-call-them-taxis are just more plentiful so they're more visible. I don't know for certain but I'm well and truly sick of it.
I'm generally skeptical of unsubstantiated Apple-bashing. Tell us a little more about your bold claim. Do you have any evidence that Apple has threatened anyone in the press with retaliation?
By indicating you want it and being a participant in the market for it. There are people who, knowing you are like them and enjoy that sort of thing, will make it for you. To make you happy. It's that sick.
I blame the governments. They admittedly don't like people talking privatly.
Right, that's a fullscreen thing only. I was getting it because i3wm puts Firefox in fullscreen mode when I do <Mod>+f.

Just remembered that about:config exists and disabled the vanishing menu.
A negation of Randian philosophy was necessary to fund the sort of abstract research that lead to the invention of the constituent parts for a world-changing repository of information called the World Wide Web. (funded by revenue obtained from income taxes voted into existence by politicians who freely stated their philosophical position on the merits of public revenue collection - if not their preferences for collecting it - were informed by Henry George)

On the other hand Wikipedia is a small subset of that web resulting from a collaboration between two people that met over a still-unresolved argument about Rand's merits or lack thereof, so Randian philosophy wasn't even sufficient for Jimbo to get anything done without the support of someone who thought she was full of shit. (Ironic considering Rand's aversion to diversity of thought). Having been on the web before Wikipedia even existed, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the repository of information would have existed even if Jimmy had never touched a keyboard, or had bonded with Sanger over Dungeons and Dragons instead (would that have made D&D the philosophical root of Wikipedia?). I mean, the idea that neckbeards obsessed with correctness would create an eventually consistent information store via dialectical process isn't exactly a philosophical starting point close to Randian principles, still less one nobody else would have been likely to experiment with.

Famed radical non-Trinitarian Bible-nut Newton was driven by the stated belief that he was observing the need for a deity to interact with the universe, but I'm not convinced that unorthodox Scriptural interpretation can claim any particular merit as a belief system on account of being the motivation for an individual influential physicist. Though physics is a lot more impressive than Wikipedia, so it has that going for it.
I'm really skeptical of this slippery slope argument. Germany has very rigidly enforced anti-nazi-speech laws and it doesn't strike me as being a totalitarian dystopia.
"On the 28th of July 2017, US authorities seized the BTC-e.com domain name."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTC-e
Off topic: This was the first PDF I enjoyed reading in the browser.
Russia sees AI as key to world domination
I'm not sure about competing in track and field but played professional team sport at the highest level, agree maybe in the gym or on the road you push yourself to the edge and beyond but on the field it is the repetition, the drills and the routines which allow you to express yourself - certainly not running around headless, constantly forcing the pace, will just cause unacceptable mistakes - there is no margin for error at all, you do not want to be 'it'. I'm not sure working at the very edge of your range is the correct expression - speed of thought rather than limb counts and though you are very close to max just to stay alive we were always told to 'play within' ourselves.

As for programming - I've seen countless noobs make things that were far too complicated for them to understand later - let alone anybody else. If I had only one piece of advice to any intern it would be 'keep it simple'. I don't agree with learning everything the hard way, by trial and error because maybe you'll never get the chance to fix that crap you made because y'know there will always be people who can do it to an acceptable standard first time. Life does not always give you do-overs.
Please. The initial commits on Moon were in 2016, and I was playing around with a forked version of Vue locally in late 2015. I think it's extremely important to know what goes on under the hood of popular libraries.

And regarding the FreeCodeCamp profile--I made that account for my little brother (who was learning to program at the time). Along with that, I tried to help people out on the FCC Gitter[1] as much as I could, as teaching people is a good way to master something.

[1] https://gitter.im/FreeCodeCamp/FreeCodeCamp
Dear niche community using legacy extensions: We're sorry, but legacy extensions are holding back Firefox development in every way meaningful to the vast majority of users. In order to continue to exist as a viable option for an open web, Firefox must move forward. - (What I imagine they'd say)

Of the extensions you listed, the largest (Classic Theme Restorer) is only used by 333,000 people while the smallest (Edgewise) is only used by 218 people.
It's unfortunate that AI researchers pay so little attention to the brain (a single slide in your talk). We need more ML people evaluating ideas from neuroscience or from such initiatives as Numenta or Spaun.
It's never been acceptable. From the start, Airbnb should have never accepted ads from locations where short-term rentals are against the law. As you said, black list by Zip Code. In addition, they need a way to block addresses on a case-by-case basis where tenants are violating leases/rules (i.e. cases like the one in the article, condo associations, apartment buildings, etc.).
That turned out to be a fake.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6v6y1k/
Increasingly, AI's role in cyberwarfare and psy-ops becomes part of the larger geo-political narrative.
There might be an insight, but it's not particularly valuable.
I do not have numbers for how many users use extensions, but my gut feeling is that it's much lower than it was in 2011. We've been moving to e10s over last months enabling it for users who don't have legacy addons (so, they either don't have addons or they have e10s modern addons).

I found a status update from the e10s meeting from Jun 2nd - https://wiki.mozilla.org/E10s/Status/June2

It indicates that over 60% of beta users had e10s activated which can only be activated for users who don't use old extensions. Based on the telemetry data it seems that only 3% were not eligible.
I'm not involved in e10s project so I don't know the details and updates, but I believe that the number of users affected is actually quite low (which doesn't mean irrelevant, just that majority of users won't be affected).

> As for the opt outs, this may be true for most things, but I am not able to opt entirely out of Pocket's "Recommended by Pocket" trending adverts

In the home tab? The icon on the top-right corner allows you to uncheck the "Recommended by Pocket" and "extensions.pocket.enabled" about:config option allows you turn off pocket completely.

Now, that we own Pocket, I hope we'll merge it more seamlessly into Firefox Accounts because I feel like the sole fact that it uses it's own brand name makes it feel like Firefox comes with a separate piece of software bundled.
How would the government know who the tenant is? I don't know how it works elsewhere, but where I live (Florida), there is no legal registration of tenants for leased properties.
Illegal subletting isn't breaking and entering, though.

A home is ultimately the home owner's responsibility; if your tenants break the law, you're likely responsible, which is why contracts typically disallow subletting (as well as contain many other clauses to prevent putting the owner at risk). This is why absentee owners with no property manager are putting themselves at a risk, as they can't check on the tenants very easily.
There are other connotations to Samsara - in contemporary Telugu and Tamil it is colloquially used for 'universe' and 'family' as well.
But do you need any heating in SF’s winters?

If so, AC unit might be the most economical option.
The Race Is on for a 'Concussion Pill' as New NFL Season Begins
If you don't bother to understand the factors, then yes, it's very easy :)
Unfortunately, making opinions without learning about the factors in play is called "ignorance" and usually is frowned upon.
Then the police need to work with the prosecutor and the prosecutor needs to bring charges and get a trial underway.

Prisons are overcrowded enough and it costs a pretty penny to house prisoners without us starting to house people indefinitely who have not been charged with a crime.
Well unable to login. After resetting password, it gives an alert popup in Russian and no way to copy that text to translate it. Why can't alert text be copied !
"go fucking kill your self pls" is an awful thing to say, but it's not a death threat.
> There are people who, knowing you are like them and enjoy that sort of thing, will make it for you. To make you happy.

I doubt that anyone would make child pornography in order to satisfy someone else. I would be pretty sure that one would do it either for a huge financial gain, personal satisfaction, or both. The people who upload it for free would still rape children even if they were not able to upload it anywhere. Considering that I would say that this argument is even worse than saying that the media should stop reporting terrorist attacks to disencourage the terrorists from performing terrorist acts (assuming that they do it for personal fame or to scare people).

The first could be solved by catching people who are buying and selling. However none of these can be solved by catching people who simply watch or distribute but do not create nor buy child pornography - catching them would be arresting them for a thoughtcrime.
Essentially, they are giving people the opportunity to transfer out 55% of their account balances. In exchange, your account is deleted and you waive the right to the remaining 45%.

If you don't cash out, then they are claiming that your account will be transferred to the new site with balances intact, and withdrawals will be available through the new site with the remaining 45% tied up in a "debt token". The rough idea is that these tokens will be able to be redeemed in the future for some amount.

The calculus for account-holders is such:

1) If you choose to withdraw 55% now, that's the maximum you'll ever get (also, no one has even gotten anything back yet as they say it takes up to 72 hours). So you take the 45% haircut as cost of leaving your coins on an exchange instead of in a wallet you control.

2) If you wait, there's no telling what will happen. The happy path is you wait, then cash out your 55%, and then the 45% is eventually paid back to you over time. This path does have precedence. The unhappy paths are plentiful. The site could get shut down again, for good. They could bar you from withdrawing without proper verification. This could mean providing sensitive items such as your passport and address. Not great from an anonymity standpoint. Then who knows what the FBI or IRS would do.
But...like so many other abstractions created by people with puny hardware, shared memory parallelism is very fast.
The "Hard Way" books are not for everyone, but they are exactly what some people need. Not everyone learns the same way.

I like having Shaw around because his absolutism inspires other absolutists to step out of cover. It's good to know where all the absolutists are hiding...
You know Tor is a US Navy project that still gets a large portion of its funding from the US Government, right? If you're going to talk about something a broad as the system of government, there needs to be some nuance and specificity in your statements.
How did you not expect this to be here if your own account has 26 self promotion submissions? (and nothing else)
Makes print-it-and-scan-it policies seem less insane! Is that still what we've got in the USA? It was last I heard.
At first blush, allowing the owner to exclude addresses from rental seems reasonable. But if an airbnb host is willing to violate their lease, why isn't that person willing to fake ownership? How far should airbnb be required to go to verify ownership, and what happens when ownership changes?

To be honest, these people sound like shitty, lazy landlords who deserve their bad tenants. They

1 - didn't do a reference check;

2 - didn't swing by occasionally (even every couple months) to verify the condition of their property;

3 - were renting property out and hadn't bothered to provide neighbors their contact info in case of problems;

4 - quite possibly (this is highly variable / city by city) hadn't notified the city they were renting these units, or the city would have sent the fines to them rather than (presumably) to the tenants.

(I say this as a landlord). They feel they are entitled to take out a mortgage then collect checks without any work. It isn't that easy...
The article talks about the Cray XMT where each core has a run-list of tasks that it can quickly switch between each time one of them stalls on IO.

Here's an approach for the massively multi-threaded CPUs that may be complimentary: versioning the memory so you can speculatively execute tasks: http://people.csail.mit.edu/sanchez/papers/2017.fractal.isca...

Putting it together sounds like a dream.
> That's a lot of ifs... And again these are very technical aspects, not strategic/product ones.

Correct. Lots of ifs. And on top of that, ifs from a regular engineer which means I know even less about all the factors in play than I should to predict.

> Mozilla has been putting 110% of their effort on a Desktop browser recently. Fine, their choice, but I can't help but think that their are cornering themselves in a niche and are missing where the new tech users will be.

My personal take is that we have to start somewhere. We can try to come up with a completely new technology, and we're trying to - see Servo.
We can make Gecko the best web engine on the planet.
Or we can try to build amazing products on top of an ok engine.

I believe we have to start somewhere, and stating by bringing Gecko to excellence is not a bad choice.

> As you can guess, I really feel it's a shame that gecko is becoming really good, just not used in a context that matters.

yeah. I know :)
I agree wholeheartedly. The internet is an extremely useful resource for finding simple courses that teach complex topics.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxy-gestures...

Works great on my nightly installation, but have fun with Vivaldi.
> it is a private company operating a defacto public space, so it is seen as...employees disobeying their employer?

It is commercial bribery, and in many states - California included - there are laws specifically prohibiting it.
> My idea was more of a site like Facebook but ONLY available over TOR. Something people want/need to use and TOR is the only access method.

Silk Road ;-)
The dark web doesn't give online anonymity a bad name.

Charlatans use the dark web to advance their goal of branding anonymity as bad.

Clickbait hot take bloggers, "journalists" who should know better, and other useful idiots are all more than willing to assassinate character and tear down something they don't care about if it confers a benefit to themselves (attention, status, ad impressions, etc...).

Those are the bigger problem. Not the "dark web."

It's nice that this author is making the principled case for anonymity. But that should be secondary to showing people the bigger picture, and how to "smell out" when they're being mislead for someone's myopic goals.
Demystifying Startup Equity
Because it was just a tweet. I wasn't expecting a tweet to get to the front page of HN.
China sees new world order with oil benchmark backed by gold
Take the 55% IMO. Don't be greedy -- Bitcoin will very likely hit $10k someday. All you have to do is take the 55% and wait. There's no sense in gambling 100%.

I lost 100% of what I had in Mt Gox and it took a long time to become ok with that. To get 55% of your stuff back is a rare opportunity.
Some implementations provide placeholders that are quick to render (e.g. a single static image, no deep DOM/view tree) to work around this kind of thing. In my experience on both android and web it tends to work pretty well - even very low-end hardware can do this quickly enough to be invisible, and if you are able to drop down into something that can do instanced rendering it's about as close to "free" as possible.

Whether the placeholders look any good is a different issue. We generally thought they looked / transitioned to real content a lot worse than showing nothing, and eventually just ripped them out. But e.g. Pinterest did it fairly successfully for a long time (they tended to replace images with a solid image-background-color so the content just kinda emerged. neat effect, but works far better with product images than user-generated content :) )

But ultimately, when you exceed your tolerances, you have to render something or nothing, or disallow it (e.g. block everything). You just have to choose which one. The point where you exceed will shift depending on what you're using/doing, but it always exists.
I run a cannabis company in CA. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15157674
Channels like the one in the link are pretty easy to create. However that's more like Javas BlockingQueue than like Go channels. The power of Gos channels is in "select", which enables a lot more sophisticated synchronization mechansism then just getting data from thread A to B. E.g. waiting for events from multiple sources or cancellation support.

Building channels with select functionality is a lot harder.

An interesting thing is the equivalent of pthreads on windows (WinAPI synchronization primitives) actually provides something which has some similarity with select out of the box: WaitForMultipleEvents, which is also quite powerful. However that is also a still a lot harder to work with than Go's channels, since there are additional sources for errors like HANDLE invalidation, which you can't have in Go where channels are garbage collected references.
Of course, of course, I forgot the actual question the post was about as I got far down into the thread. Thanks for your descriptions, I'll be checking out FP.
You're right, for the individual.
TOR's site actually recommends using TOR no matter who you are, in order to provide cover for people you might care about who are in danger of being attacked from using TOR eg. activists
You've undersold the problem.

The way we operated was to issue warrants.

But now these dirty things operate in more and more virtual and less and less physical ways. So the old tools aren't working like they used to, and people are looking for ways that do work.
Yes, its a silly "feature" nobody asked for or needs.
True. I started playing soccer and I've found that I can't cut carbs and have a useful amount of stamina at the same time. I've actually found the energy loss from a low carb diet is not as noticeable when just lifting weights though.
Even so the whole idea of naked binoculars pointing at the sun sounds dangerous.
Erm, your comment makes me think you didn't quite get what I was saying.

Using the holes in a Ritz cracker as a pinhole lens to focus the sun on a sheet of paper seems eminently fine, as you're only subtracting sun from the case of looking at the paper outside (as opposed to using a glass lens to image the sun, which gathers light from more angles and concentrates it). It seems like poorer optical quality given its thickness, but could be handy if you don't have access to a piece of paper and a staple, or if you're a clickbait journalist trying to entertain a dying audience.

Looking through the hole is idiotic. It'll cut down on some of the light sure, but nowhere near the attenuation required - a quick search shows a #13 welding shade lets through about 10^-5 of the light.
My biggest pet peeve is to not to be able to filter the search results by "in app purchases", "ad supported", etc. Being able to check or uncheck those boxes will make it 100 times more useful.
It looks like Zed just doesn't get it...

> If they give a valid email address I usually rip them a new one.

In an article all about hostile online communication, he has to realise by now that replying to a troll is exactly what they want. If you're getting all frothy with righteous fury, they've done their job well.

But I suspect Zed does understand all of this and that this article is just him trying to breathe new life into his little Python controversy.

Snuff it out. Nobody cares, Zed.
> Consuming a product whose manufacture involved coercion of participants is not a neutral moral choice.

I would claim that it is as long as it harms nobody and as long as it does not benefit the creator.
It could also be that these people renting out camera equipment are guaranteed to have seen much worse damage, expected worse damage - and that in this instance - the customers appears to have taken responsibility for the damage to an unusual extent.

There's certainly enough positive surprises in the above to warrant an upbeat post, one that can also be used to educate about how camera systems can be damaged, and the limits of their insurance.
Real-Time World War 2 Tweets
This means the code has issues. I have virtualized data grids holding thousands of records with each cell incorporating d3 visualizations and this does not happen.
The firm attempts to use that value to make the platform itself more valuable. The employee captures it more directly, because fuck the platform. Many problems in business are principal-agent problems.
Ha ha I was thinking the same thing. Wouldn't surprise me if they had some of the article written / drafted in advance. Excellent PR and free advertising.
I have a lot of respect for Zed.

Having said that, if we could dedicate the effort we spend on protecting adults from other adults towards protecting minors from the abuse of other minors, it would be so much better.

Because compared to minors, adults are like supermen already. They have so many powers. And I didn't even see one plan on fighting what is now widely called bullying and therefore considered to be solved by naming.