skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Government does not allow Uber like systems"

Uber is banned in Denmark as well, but this is because there are absolutely no security requirements for Uber drivers, no mandatory first aid traning, nothing.

Proponents of Uber call it a "ridesharing system", but it really is a taxi system, and must abide by the same rules, namely driver training, verified fare metering and other security and fairness measures.

Uber has refused to respect the rules, so they have been banned from operating here, until they can abide by the rules, which are in place mostly for passenger safety and to prevent fraud.

"Why is driving a Taxi a profession in this age of technology? Anybody with decent driving skills can do this"

This can only come from a person who does not know what it actually takes to be a taxi driver (not just a person who happens to drive a taxi, but an actual bona fide taxi driver). There is a certain level of customer service, competency and training involved. You can't just blindly navigate by GPS, you have to know the city, know the traffic, know the shortcuts that a GPS can only guess at.
OT, but this jumped out to me:

> In the same way that a compiled Android binary bears little resemblance to the original Java source code

From what I recall, Java binaries actually look a lot like their source code. They're not human-readable of course, but you can decompile them very easily and get fairly good code back out. This made Minecraft an easy game to mod: just decompile a class, change a line or two, recompile, insert back into the JAR and you're done.

Is Android different?
It has potential in the field of data linking: Graph and database partitioning, merging, indexing, sorted-neighbourhood algorithms. And cases where you can't use hash-joins or comparison techniques because you're using the available ram and resources to hold something else.

Optimisation for cache-locality and branch prediction.

Any kind of repeatable scientific/datascience analysis operating across groups or cross-tabulation. Anything involving lag-like functions and relationships, time-series, relative positions (in households, neighbourhoods, countries, spatial relationships).

Perhaps i'm biased, I think i've grown up working with operations where having the data in an implicit order makes things a fair bit easier/more efficient.

Albeit, you're also right, it probably has to get up into the millions before you fundamentally care. But I do like to think I work on practical applications :P
It is interesting that so many people preface their comments with IANAL.

Isn't it that one is not a lawyer until proven otherwise?
> browsers like Lynx... less able to browse the Web.

they are still able to browse the web that they were able to browse back then. You can't expect that the web won't move on.

The only lament is that most websites don't cater for text only/low-resource/disabled users. But that's a different story to the OP of having lots capability/libs/standards.
> everyone has a right to expect help and a right to give help

This might make sense when asking a stranger for directions or for someone to help with your car problem, because the relationship is 1:1.

But this breaks down in contexts where scale is a factor.

When assisting users of your project, the relationship is 1:many. And if the project is popular, it is unfair to expect the author to be helping so many people.
The Aztecs had progressed beyond tribal society. They were an empire. If there had been peaceful trade, etc, they would likely be no different than you and I. They were certainly on the same path, if a bit behind.
I always thought the Audiophile option was an external DAC? Though the DAC that iOS devices have shipped with was traditionally quite strong.

I have an Oppo HA-2 and it works great with my iOS devices (though i use it as a portable amp for my work computer).

There's also the likes of Audeze who are shipping Headphones and Earphones with a Lightning cable DAC in addition to the usual 3.5mm TRS jack.
So what are the problems you're facing? Coordinating the deliverables? Not enough people to tend to all tasks? Something else?
From the first paper that you linked (available freely on sci-hub) it looks like they were unable to proove that their method actually works. They made simulations with small problems but are not sure if this method will work for larger problems.
The idea is to write tests that match your specs.

So your tests literally look like your specs, and then you write code that passes the tests.

It should not replace specs.
If you look at like purely a financial instrument, yes. Maybe not if you look at it like a social contract between the city administration and its populace. The aim - keep the taxi situation OK.

When that medallion system started to fail, I don't think it's unreasonable for the city technocrats and or politicians to take a step back and say to themselves - OK, this is clearly not working like it used to. How can we scale back without disrupting and hurting too much those, who were partners in this (now failing) implementation of taxi regulation?
Replace "Yahoo" with "Microsoft", and "Facebook" with "Yahoo", and you have basically the same justification given to me as a Yahoo employee to patent my (company internal) hack-day ideas.

The engineering manager responsible said Yahoo would only use patents as a defensive measure, to defend themselves against patent threats from other companies. Same promises, same logic. Two years later Yahoo launched their software patent action against Facebook.

Software patents can only be used offensively. Because their defensive capability is limited to the threat of using them offensively. If there is no substance to the threat they are useless. So the value of software patents rests solely on their offensive capability.
The hope is that one day it will be possible to implement an efficient concurrent GC in WASM. However, right now it still lacks the primitives (e.g. locking primitives, shared memory, and memory barrier instructions).
I think Angular2/4 already goes into that direction. Afaik it optionally precompiles all templates, which means what ends up in the user-facing HTML/Javascript is not the source but optimized generated javascript from it.
Neat meaning "does not have to slow down and can keep on killing pedestrians"?
Learning: I learned a big deal of web development (HTML, CSS and JS) from view-source.
Tweaking: I sometimes fix broken closed-source/proprietary applications or websites by checking the source and writing a user script.
Those two can probably fall into the "Nerd" category, though...
That is not the point.

Staying in the jungle for a few thousand years leads you to optimize locally sourced flora and fauna to amazing levels to solve a range of medical conditions. That could be helpful to a lot of people in many social and financial conditions.
Timballo di paccheri ricetta facile
Hamba Gahle.
Ask HN: Much bigger competitor infringing startup's pending patents
Is there a viable strategy for this sort of scenario? I'm at a place that has an exciting MVP now in a rather successful public beta. We just noticed a (very) large competitor copying off our product (including/especially the patented bit). We're an ecommerce shop and the pending patent in question is an utility patent for a particular bit of functionality - we've sought 2nd and 3rd legal opinions which concur the validity of the patent.

Bottom line: what strategies can we adopt to fend this off?
Check Svelte out (https://svelte.technology/). From the docs: "... rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads."
Don't forget that AROS can be run on Linux, the so called "hosted" variant.

You don't have any noticeable speed penalty and can run it side by side with your normal Linux tools and you have more hardware support than in the AROS on the metal case.
It becomes relevant when one doesn't intentionally interpret it in the wrong level of Maslow's hierarchy.
Or you start getting into editing 8K+ images in Photoshop. That's not much fun on a Macbook 12" (I mean, it's doable but ... slow ... ly ... and ... clu ... nk ... ily.)
The difference is primarily in investment. If you stabilise the political situation and provide enough money to invest in infrastructure you're practically guaranteed to turn a developing nation into a developed nation.

The problem is you need a reason to give them money. If robots are more effective than human labor there is no reason to give them any money at all because they lack the education needed for more advanced jobs which also again requires money.

The only alternative to solve this problem is by letting them come to us and immigrate to a developed nation to send money back to their home country. Unfortunately Brexit has shown that this is not an accepted solution.
Also, the PHP tags (<?echo...) in the examples suggest that they are using an (very) old PHP version which might contains unpatched security holes.
Note he said OS. As far as I understand the android fork on those phones is awful. Also the hardware is always a generation behind.
I selfishly prefer that we limit the damages that can be sought from businessss by victims of cyber crime. I don't have the resources and capability to fight against state sponsored hackers, neither does the NSA, any major corporation or anyone on HN. It would be nice to know that I won't be risking jail or bankrupting my company by bringing my services to market. The call to arms to punish these companies can have far reaching ramifications on the cost of services and ones willingness on the margin to build them.
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Fascinating. Well, good to know, and that does change thing a bit.

So, better make sure nothing you use has any form of smart overdraw reduction, dom diffing, etc., before you pick a patent fight with Facebook.

Of course, a cursory glance suggests every modern frontend UI library will violate that patent, so I still don't see a reason to avoid React; Vue, Angular, and recent versions of Ember are all just as much in violation. Guess we're back to static HTML and PHP. :)

(More seriously, hopefully it won't go anywhere; it's pretty clearly got a ton of prior art. But given how broken the patent system is, who knows?)
I have friends who are twins and they both were issued same SSN number. Apparantly their primary key is first_name(first 6 chars)+last_name(first 6 chars)+DOB
My aggregator limits the number of items by feed and by domain. The problem is less of an issue if you add many more feeds and filter harder. Those rarely publishing do still get drowned out but it gives you plenty of other things to read. Thanks to volume, at times, if the slow publisher posts something awesome (they often do) it is reposted by the more spammy domains.

I do have other ideas to fix that issue but the ink is still wet on those.
Perhaps the reason they're running around in loincloths in the year 2017 is because they don't prioritize 'knowledge' and 'insight' the way we do?
Eruptions are preceded by earthquakes, venting and other events. I think there is a good chance people would evacuate from a smaller eruption (verses a life on earth extinction event)
> But it's quite possible I have the same phone!

Maybe, maybe not: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/vertu-for-bentley-smart...
"...a wide ranging discussion on what the thing is more or less supposed to do..."

This is called analysis. It's critical to success -- and the conversation should be on-going, by the way, not all at once. It's also for some reason overlooked in the industry. I have no idea how it's fallen so far out of favor. But it's not related to TDD.
That used to be the case, but Waze has turned the table on knowing shortcuts/the city/traffic. So we're left with the service aspect, which has basically disappeared from society in the last 20-30 years - I can't find any evidence of it in retail anymore for example.

I do not disagree that it is much more enjoyable to drive around with a taxi driver who knows the city, proud of his work and has a "how may I help you attitude"; I paid 50 quid for a short ride in London 20 years ago and found that quite enjoyable - but if it wan't for the monopoly (which uber has managed to subvert, often illegally), you wouldn't have to wait until 2015 to get "just the transportation and nothing else" - which is what most people actually need.
If we take a look from a Global Perspective, US has the cheapest iPhone ( All prices excluding sales Tax ), and everywhere else had it more expensive. i.e The $1K Prices may be making a big waves in US, but elsewhere in the world they have been paying that much for an iPhone already.

And in terms of iPhones / Population / Apple Store, the US has it most. While in Japan 60% of the Smartphone are iPhone ( i.e Higher the US usage ) they have less then 10 Apple Stores. And it is the same everywhere else, which means any mark up in a certain countries has nothing to do with its Operation with in, and more to do with a Sales Tax, Global Pricing structure.

For Example, HongKong used to have the cheapest iPhone around the world, it was priced the same as US and because there are no Sales tax, it was 10-15% cheaper. Making HK the trading ground for all of SEA region or mainly China. ( Hence Tim Cook continue to blame HK market is more of a delusion rather then fact. ) Around iPhone 5 Apple started to put up additional $100 USD to ALL iPhone price in HK, as a way to combat the black market trading, and if everyone else where making money of it, why not keep the profits itself?

What has all these got to do with $1K iPhone. Well Apple already knew certain people are buying at those prices, again why not make a product that fit those segment? And to re balance the prices across the Globe?

And we have known for long there is no way to make the cutting edge devices every 12 months and ship 200M+ of it. They will need a product that only 10-20% of those 200M will buy, and have the best technology in it.

And mind you, shipping cutting edge technology to 20-40M user a year isn't any easier then the 200M+ iPhone.
We can be sad at more than one thing at a time. I am not overly sad about binary file sizes myself, but I wouldn't say they are irrelevant just because other issues exist, and the original comment is just using a turn of phrase. I doubt they really think this is cause for great concern.
How software learned to package itself [Free book PDF]
Will it be as reliable and fast as TouchID?
The whole idea of having the pretty lady in the tight top to demo the product itself is what threw me. Such a throwback.
I try to visit sites without RSS but most of the time I don't even remember them.
Those are almost exactly the same features I get from my PS4.
I can completely understand the reasoning, and it is very clever indeed. This goes in line with the first Apple Watch Edition, which sold for $10k+ but wasn't very successful at all, not even for a luxury product. So they quietly removed it from sale and instead pushed the ceramic model which is still a luxury product both in looks and in price, but not at that gold tier.

However, the price of the lowest-tier of the latest model has been going up steadily over time, which seems not natural at all. I'd expect them to keep the price of the lower-tier constant, at least. OTOH, if they push out an Apple Watch with LTE, you can combine it with an iPad and the AirPods, and there will be no need for the iPhone at all. How much either of these combinations is "reasonable," only time can tell.
They will figure out that they need some form of 2FA. There is a very simple and crude way of 2FA: Mail.

If you say "I'm bob smith with SSN 12345", then you gave them your id. You didnt' verify that you are in fact bob smith with SSN 12345.

Now they have to verify with some degree of certainty that you are. So they lookup your address, and send a regular paper mail describing what needs to be authorized, and you sign and return it (or call a number and enter a code, or visit a website, or whatever).

This kind of crude 2FA can still be circumvented by someone stalking you mailbox, but it's a lot better than nothing.

Now: what this requires is a mapping from name+ssn (or some unique identifier) to an up to date address. Having that has several other benefits when it comes to e.g. automatic voter registration etc.
You're right, the only technical wow factor left is in size-limited demos.
Not only that. In case an actual lawyer comments, they often start with something like "IAAL, but I'm not your lawyer". Because even their opinion is only to be trusted if they did an exhaustive investigation on the topic, which is a huge amount of work that they won't be able to do unless they are paid for it.
>the hardware support and tooling is unfortunately just too anemic to reasonable do this.

Not sure about tooling, but I think hardware, one of the two problems you mentioned can be solved by virtualizing. You can run the micro kernel-based OS in a VM and hardware support usually will get better because it is standard. If you don't like the feeling of running the OS inside a window in the host OS, you can assign the whole machine to a graphics card and a set of keyboard and mouse with pass through (io-mmu/VT-d) on Linux KVM. That way, you only have to worry about a compatible graphics card, and everything else is emulated and standard.

I haven't tried any micro kernel-based OS myself but I had a very good luck running both Windows and macOS virtualized on my Ivy Bridge desktop system I built 7 years ago running Fedora as the host OS. It's freaking amazing and I suffer almost no performance degradation.
> iPhone SE

Which is the best phone I've ever owned -- Nokia N9 aside, anyway. Excellent size, great performance, latest updates and I got it second hand (but BNIB, was her insurance replacement for a lost phone) for $350AUD. I get to use iOS with a reasonably modern day chipset, an excellent camera, but for the cost of a midrange android phone. Excellent, really.
I agree, But it's still a monopoly that charges monopoly rents, mostly because of "tradition".
We have "mail as 2FA" used pretty widely here, and identity theft usually involves someone e.g. opening a credit card or ordering products in someone elses name, and then stalking their mailbox in order to actually get anything.

So people simply got lockable mailboxes and that works pretty well.
Will Android support Java 9 after Kotlin updates?
Works for me. I may be up for the next SE Class :) Provided SE sees an upgrade. A genuine "thank you" for everyone who are paying for all the features that will be in my next SE purchase ~2 yrs later (I hope to keep it for at least that long).

On a different note, E-Class seeing most of the features of previous year's S-Class may be a bit far fetched, don't you think so? Maybe couple of features that make the newly launched E-Class visibly an upgrade from last E-Class but "most" and that too at half the price of S-Class seems slightly off. I would assume that the previous year model of S-Class would still cost the same (a little more or less) and will be in market - unless a new S-Class model is released every year.

PS. Know very little about cars (def. too little luxury ones). Just had some general doubts. And I hope E in E-Class doesn't stand for "economy".
Minix 3.3 or 3.4 RC 6. It basically uses clang compiler and the NetBSD package base.

Using a microkernel as a desktop leaves you in a generally no worse off position than using something like Linux or Windows. Unless you are intending to do specific high performance work, then you probably won't see much or any difference.

I am currently using a Toshiba NB500 netbook running Centos 6.9 as my machine due to having to support a number of other Centos 6.9 systems. But I am intending to shift to Minix 3.4 in the latter part of 2017 or early 2018 for doing certain kinds of development work that I am interested in.

If you have the resources and time, give a variety of systems a go and see what gives you a better bang for your buck for your circumstances.
Here we go again. A new great example how the neoliberal thinking and narrative just simply fails on humans. You want to give your data to corporate America and assume that they will be careful about protecting it? Than I am laughing hard at you. SMH The stupidity of free markets and the myth of self regulation. Ridiculous.

That's why it's more important than ever that we support and implement new important initiatives like that of Tim Berner Lee's. He wants a platform that gives users control of their data. Very good idea IMO.
When I said going away I meant a lot of sites have moved away from using it who used to.

The one I used the most was the local cinema.
I made a proof of concept for such a framework. There are some really cool benefits (like automatic server side rendering, really small js bundle, all code on the backend etc.) but falls short for things that require immediate response, such as drag/drop, or text input.
Show HN: Analytics as Automated Insights
Excellent read! Thanks!
She chose life – just not her own
Common pricing strategy is to have 3 price points:

1. a cheap stripper model used to bring people into the showroom

2. an expensive deluxe model with every bell and whistle. It's primary purpose is to frame the next one as being affordable:

3. the mid-price mid-range one you're expected to buy.

Of course, the price-is-no-object people will buy (2) anyway, and that's just extra gravy.

You'll see this technique used across all sorts of product lines.
Ah, OK, I’d assumed that as they shut their manufacturing facilities and went bankrupt they’d closed their concessions as well: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/13/15963656/vertu-luxury-pho...
Fredrik Edström’s Nordic VR Company Fueled by a Passion for Gaming
Free market should mean regulated to create a level playing field not no regulations at all.

Of course then you have regulatory capture to deal with but nothing is perfect
China is working to ban the fuel based vehicle
Only in a very primitive way.
I love the idea, but can't help wondering: did it actually convert into "sales"?
As soon as money is involved there is a certain expectation of quality and the work being done properly. If you start depending on that money then you are under the control of your customers and your hobby will quickly degrade into a regular job.
For me personally, 90% of it boils down to "unix baseline". I do most of my development work remotely on linux servers of varying flavors, but OSX + homebrew means that I can pretty easily use the tools I write for one machine on my local systems as well.

Beyond that, I've just got a lot of random applications for streamlining my workflow and day-to-day usage that would take a long time to find equivalent tools for, and I'm long past the days when "spending a weekend fucking with settings" was something I want to do. OSX, I just back up my machines and if/when I need to replace them, it's just "plug the new one into the backup drive, restore from backup".

Maybe someday the year of the linux desktop will actually happen, but I'm not holding my breath either.
I'm surprised its taken apple this long to realize a phone is more of a fashion statement than any clothes/jewelry/car. Esp to the poor. They should of had multiple teirs to begin with.
>We can be sad at more than one thing at a time.

Only if it makes sense as a concern. Else we're just being grumpy.
"that" as in multi-monitor support? Multi-monitor works fine on my Plasma desktop since at least 2012. Can't comment on high-DPI, but from what I've heard it's in the "getting there" stage.
Computers haven't gotten much faster in the last half decade or so. This includes the MacBook 12".

GPUs and SSDs are a different subject...