skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxi costs in many areas are driven by high barriers to entry (medallions or tests) and taxi drivers spend a high percentage of their time waiting. The surge pricing system and apps can better match demand and supply so that you should be able to get the same hourly wage for lower costs to the passenger.

The problem currently just is that while Uber could be something like 25% cheaper, they are actually rather 40% cheaper and pay the difference out of their own pocket.
I found the OA's idea of 'sovereignty' of the user interesting.

Bit loquacious but worth engaging with.
There are various companies online that give you remote access to a macOS VM running on Apple hardware, reasonably inexpensively. I use one for Mac & iOS builds. The one I use says in the contract that I am actually buying fractional ownership of the computer, along with hosting. I guess this gets around some Apple terms somehow.
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Not sure where you live but in most big cities you already have the choice between some Californian company, at least one European company and sometimes Chinese (or chinese backed) companies. Someone will get your data but you can choose who that'll be.

Creating an app like uber is cheap enough that competitors will pop up whenever uber feels like making money.
hypothesis is a pretty different style of testing, it is not intended for exhaustive testing.

Which you can easily do in pytest directly using parametrized test cases.
Paedophiles create social media accounts pretending to be chicken nuggets
True, I agree with the statement that Kaspersky "is caught in the middle of a geopolitical fight where each side is attempting to use the company as a pawn in their political game."
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Most open source is paid work, according to statistics. That not a bad thing, why would you want that work unrewarded. Then there is a bulk done by people on universities who have time - not employed as software developers.

Moreover, even if open source would be written as side projects mostly, it is still just a tiny part of all software out there.

You assume they are lazy, for no reason. No, not just nerds work hard. No, not all nerds work hard - many spend majority of time playing with something easy they like. In particular, many nerds are unwilling to learn what they don't like.

As for your bad news starting early matters, it don't. I am old enough to have seen where people ends. Many men stared later or changed career and it was no disadvantage after initial year or so.

I personally have all the things you talk about as necessary advantage. They are not and that is not even bad thing. The only difference is that I am not as bitter as rest of thread who want reward for being associated with them (I bet they were not young geniuses they want themselves to be) while real world does not work like that. The other annoying thing is that you would assume I don't have them, cause I am women whole dudes who changed careers yesterday are assumed to be interested since childhood no matter what facts are.
Then you can't use exhaustive testing?
But I only want to eliminate patents that I don't own....
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> Now, LinkedIn I detest even more, thanks to the unsolicited invites from strangers that I get to my private email, even though I haven't even registered there, and I have no intention of doing so.

I stopped getting spam email from LinkedIn after I set up an account (which I never use).
Pretty infuriating on the desktop as well.

I scrolled down for an example, saw the screenshot of tiny text and assumed that either I've gone blind or that screenshot is shit; I'm going with the latter. Maybe it looks better on a computer with an apple on it, but not on ubuntu / chrome.

Hack seems to be a nice font, otherwise. I don't know that I would switch to it as my primary, but I'll gladly add it to the collection of 20 or so "programming fonts" i seem to have collected over the years.

Does anyone program in <= 12pt type? I'm looking at this "specimen" link[1] and 12pt seems unnecessarily small. I can read it clearly, but I feel like I'm working harder to do so. 16pt is more my style.

1: http://source-foundry.github.io/Hack/font-specimen.html
You can point few examples for any horrid behavior.
Saying things are not clearly much better is silly.

The PM of Ireland is openly gay.
I'm using this in Emacs on all the platforms I code. I love it.
How can that be profitable for uber? Never heard of that pass before but sounds like an awful idea for them (and a great idea for commuters with a 15-20 mile commute). Having a private driver and no costs for a car for ~$160 per month is cheaper than just the car when you drive yourself.

Would love them to introduce that in London, the price would be the same as for a tube season ticket.
The language of "sick paedos" is unpleasant, and possibly harmful (by preventing people from seeking help to avoid offending behaviour).

But there are some interesting bits:

> One sex offender even pretended to be a ROAD outside a girls' secondary school to entice teen students to accept his friend request.

[...]

> She [Dr Maureen Griffin] said: “Over 400 girls at the school accepted the road as a friend. The owner of the account was a known convicted sex offender who made no effort to contact the girls, he didn’t follow them or meet them in real life or wait outside their school.

> “He simply collected their photos, pictures from teenage discos, girls’ sleepovers and a range of selfies.”
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It's the most confusing part of Kubernetes IMO. It's a load-balancer with a very restricted feature set so what is it good for?

The main issue it tries to solve is how to get traffic from outside of the cluster to inside. The ingress resource is also supposed to be orthogonal to the ingress controller so that if your app is deployed on AWS or GCP (in practice it's not true though).

With the nginx ingress controller the main advantage I see is that you can share the port 80 on the nodes between multiple Ingress resources.
Desired traits on a resume, and what you enjoy are different things.

People go university not only to get job relevant skills, but learn things they find interesting. For a lot of people pure cs is pretty interesting.
Amazing reply by an Indian politician about British contribution to India
Chinese solar tariffs came in under Obama, not Trump.

It was also pretty clearly done at the behest of the fossil fuel industry and "greenwashed" by pretending to be done to protect US solar jobs. US solar manufacturing (as opposed to installation) is a pretty tiny industry with no political muscle.

The justifications were cringeworthy too. I took a glance at the US trade dept documents accusing China of protectionism and the first one I saw made accusations of "free advertising" because Chinese local government promoted a local solar company on its website.
Vue.js... Which is totally guaranteed to not be covered by any possible Facebook patents related to react, right?
We’re basically living in a new Cold War. The threat of superpower nuclear catastrophe has never been higher, and that’s no hysteria, but the assessment of sober respected analysts.
39.9% iPhone users say they won't buy a new iPhone after the iPhone Event
This is regional slang rather than dialect, but in the UK — specifically England, mostly northern England — "the filth" means "the police" (collective noun — you wouldn't refer to an individual cop as a filth).

I'm now wondering if this is parallel evolution to "Fenya" or some sort of cross-fertilization.
Not sure about that. Sure it makes sense, taking public transport in Europe also makes sense and many people use it most of the time. But there are times when you want your own car. And with a family that happens often. Also, many people love cars. I don't think many people (esp those with family) will give up their car. Can be more expensive and less convenient and most will still do it.

If cars were really just to get around, we'd see different kinds of cars on the road. Cars are a lifestyle symbol and for many people a place where they spend a lot of time. You don't want to rely on municiple fleets for that.
Eh, there's definitely some value in it. Despite a lot of web agencies and startups focusing more on Javascript frameworks and whatever programming language is in vogue at the moment, there's also a 'low end' web development world which just delivers simple sites and projects.

Like say, the freelancers who sell premade WordPress themes with the logo and content swapped out. Or smaller agencies that are pretty much either pure HTML/CSS or HTML/CSS as a WordPress theme with no custom functionality besides premade plugins.

These folks are less common at events (hence the lack of response to the article author), but they definitely exist out there.

There's also obviously people who do HTML/CSS as part of a different role (like say, desugn or marketing), or those few unlucky souls stuck doing nothing but email templates.

So there are jobs out for people who specialise in purely HTML and CSS, as well as opportunities to made in the market. They're just nowhere near as glamorous or high paying as say, working at a large tech company.

On another note, I definitely agree with the article point about how expecting people to 'know everything' can be worse than letting them focus on something they're good at. Way too many job descriptions ask for 'experience' like:

In depth knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Node.js, Angular,PHP, MySQL, Python, Ruby on Rails, Go, Perl, ColdFusion, WordPress, Drupal, Magento, SEO, content writing, server configuration and tea making.

Not sure who exactly is that generalist, but they probably wouldn't have much actual knowledge about any of those things.
Package availability issues -> there are PPA's for everything.

A less known thing about LTS releases is that the repos are smaller because of the testing they have to do to make it up to LTS standards.

Main reason I moved from 16.04 to 16.10.

I don't have direct experience with fedora but I heard that it's nice. Will have to try it someday ;).
Why put effort in something your not going to get benefit from? Or in fact may make you liable for legal action if you get it wrong.

In my opinion this is bad thinking, but its the reason.
People buy everyday coins in iOS games and no one seems to care. but why do they care about bitcoin ? because it has real value, because people use it and furthermore , you have ATM machines with BTC. They will try to drop the price , not once but a million times, the same that they do with stocks. If you trade you care about it if you HODL and don't read news, you care 0.0%
While 1 million miles sounds impressive, it's probably not more than any of the big OEMs has done so far. Every car manufacturer is working on self driving cars, plus some others (Waymo, Uber, Continental). The difference is that manufacturers don't talk that openly about it. They are used to keep advances secret until you can buy it. I'm sure Daimler, VW, GM and Ford test with a similar fleet.

If they come to market at the same time as others they'd need to find a manufacturer that doesn't already offer it. If they want to be first they need to beat manufacturers that have recognised the risk and can spend several billions a year without making a loss..
Can we please stop polluting the global namespace with names like "Hack"?
> nobody has found any patents filed by Facebook that would actually cover any part of React,

Somebody on /r/ posted this[0].

[0]: https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242
Sorry, but nothing beats the good old IBM 3270 font.

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
I have some important stuff on my phone, but not important enough to give up a finger.

When the bolt cutters come out they are in. Sue me.
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Cuba is not the only country in the world with alcohol. If they really were stationing drunks in embassies, I'd think that alcohol hallucinations would first appear in the worst places, where they send the worst performing people as punishment.
Whether that's really Russian hackers or just playing the blame game is up for debate of course.

If you are implying there's any doubt about Russian involvement in hacking aimed at the US election, there really isn't any credible doubt about that.

No one argued that ATP-28 and ATP-29 weren't Russian when they hacked the IOC and drug testing labs right after the Russian athletes were banned from the Olympic games.

Nor back in 2014[1] when the FireEye assessment was first done.

Nor in 2015, when they hacked the White House[2]

Nor during 2016, prior to the election when they were identified[3]

It's only after the election that people suddenly don't want to believe it.

[1] https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2014/10/apt28-a...

[2] http://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-to-putin-stop-hacking-me

[3] https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
Vue is also based on React, it uses the same exact principles internally, although in a less concise and more complex way as it leans heavily in Angulars direction on the outside. All templates are either transpiled or evaluated into createElement-like functions, from then on it has a v-dom and works/diffs/renders/composes like React.

This could "violate a react patent" according to you:

const Test = () => createElement("div", null, "hello word")

No one has ever seen nor referenced a patent for this, but if we're really at that point then i'm afraid everything would violate such a patent.
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those passive bugs need power to operate
> We don't even know of any React patents

This might be the one[0].

[0]: https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242
Some people also thing that "we must all move on" also involves not trying to rectify or unravel everything that was done that was wrong, and/or think that it is hypocritical to e.g. want to undo acts related to colonization without e.g. also push for radically reshaping all other property relationships, which have similarly problematic origins.

To assume it's all racial is just as sad.
If I had some R&D spying budgets and no health regulation concerns, I would try to see how I could make remote RMI or tomography work, possibly through walls.

But I suspect something more mudane: a microwave beam, intended at powering a listening device seems more likely.

The weird thing is why the Cuban do not switch it off now that it has been detected.
My favorite is Inconsolata: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface#inconsolata
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Thanks for that explanation, I think I get that. The part that still worries me though, is how absolutely everything in the app is decoupled, even where tighter coupling makes sense, like where the coupling doesn't pass through a security boundary. Also not sure how the terms facade and interface are overloaded?
> So yeah, if you're entertaining enough, people will throw money at you.

Which was a well known fact since the beginning of strip clubs... Twitch and co are no different from sexcams.
Hack is rather different. If you're looking for a free alternative to Consolas, check out Inconsolata: http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
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If you're referring to a vertical 1080p screen, which is pretty common for developers, then you'd need a 4.5-pixel-wide font, which would be extremely difficult to read (5-pixel-wide + 1 border characters are probably the limits of having recognisable characters for the full ASCII range), but with it horizontal then only 8 pixels wide would be sufficient, and there are plenty of fonts in that range.
Various 8-pixel wide "VGA"/"DOS"/"IBM terminal", as well as the classic "6x13" and "7x14" fonts which are my favourites, would qualify.
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This changed long (10-15 years) ago.

When I (resident in Finland) buy stuff from web shops in Germany, I pay tax at the higher Finnish rates, and it is withheld by the seller.

(When I buy from e.g. China, I pay VAT at the customs, including VAT on freight.)
Really? It worked out of the box for me. Also Windows 10.

Both displays' native resolutions were automatically recognized. I don't remember if I had to manually select separate scaling factors or if Windows did it by itself, but I was relieved to have a working desktop so quickly.
Dumb move. YouTube did this and it sucked.
Huh? Usernames are essential as they scope the credential.

If you just uttered the magic word to a service logon page, anyone uttering the word gets in.

You see the weakness in this type of scenario with Touch ID. If my wife's fingerprint is on my phone, she can access my Touch ID enrolled banking app.
It seems what happens here with your fridge is only a sign of acoustic resonance
The new wireless case for AirPods could arrive in December this year
> Or just pay the person who worked hard on the project and not be a selfish prick.

and got granted $50.000 to maintain an open source project. Maybe that person who "worked hard" should give back the money, instead of being a dishonest "prick". And let's be frank, caddy is a fucking mashup. the great majority of its functionalities come from Go std lib or 3rd party libs, maybe caddy should give money back to them and all its contributors as well.
Did I say that they didn't or that it wasn't?
Am I the only one here who actually clicked on an ad... no more than a handful of times?

The last ad I clicked was an image, organically hosted and relevant to the web site.

It seems this is not about commerce - selling goods and services - but about malware, scams and PR by giant corporations for "low information" people.

Cue the ad industry apologists: how would I know about their great products? I would research something I NEED (not WANT) WHEN I need it.
I understand what you're saying. There's the Show HN guidelines as well. One could imagine them all as three sections on one page. The guidelines are for what you should do; the FAQ for general information. Then again, they're short. It's not a lot of effort to check both.
> Is it possible the sounds heard were illusory, as a result of whatever caused the brain damage?

I thought of that too. Possible PTSD among many of the affected?
OK, an example: a LOT of .NET/Java codebases have these (IMO smelly) constructs:

class FooService : IFooService{}
interface IFooService {}

where there is an interface with a single implementation. In this case, the "service interface" isn't a port, because it's not actually decoupled from the domain.

It has the potential to be one, but only if the FooService is extracted, dereferenced from the domain, and the application composes the FooService.

Saying "we need to make this into a port and adapter" gets the point across very quickly.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10140728

Tl;dr: the monospsce font seems to be (have been) an almost direct copy of DejaVu Mono. I don't know how much has changed over the last 2 years.
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It'd be interesting to see them plotted by frequency on a color map. Which are the most colors? Which are less common?
> A startup that conquers fast/easy/cheap currency exchange, I think will likely do well in Europe as well.

^ This is what Revolut is doing right now in europe
I question the utility. In my 27 years in this business I've never come across a database migration, for example. And the only reason you'd put all that effort into a port for data access is to hedge against a future switch to another database vendor/technology. It feels like ports and adapters are intended to indulge a desire for "the best" architecture, where "a successful" architecture would do.
Yes, and you don't have to pay to use a packaged distribution of Apache free of adware.

> I think it pretty much covers the case.

I think it pretty much doesnt.
Whilst it's not true that the world can only progress on one issue at a time, I think that there's a fair point to make about prioritization. You as an individual can only focus or fund so many issues and we do have to make choices on what to focus, eg. first world identity politics vs wealth inequality.
I don't know if these editors support it, but being able to access git blame from editor is convenient, also the editor can highlight all the changes you've done since the last revision (especially useful to hunt down unnecessary whitespace changes).
The EULA says "Accept these conditions and if you fail to meet them, we termninate the service". The post says "I refuse these specific conditions (that were probably invalid to begin with) and if you disagree, just terminate my account."
Same on Chrome/Windows and Firefox/Windows
I think microwave. Heating of the ear could cause perceptions of sound.
It seems that facebook saved information also about people without a facebook account each time they visit a web displaying a sort of 'like' buttons so even if you just browse those webs you may be watched and 'classified' by facebook (without agreing with any terms of contract document with facebook).
I was skeptical whether sound could be focused into a beam, but apparently inventor Woody Norris has developed a technology called Hyper Sonic Sound that accomplishes this feat. As one experiencer puts it - In the sound beam's direct line, you hear the audio signal as if through headphones, regardless of background noise. Outside the beam, you hear nothing. HSS works by generating two types of ultrasonic waves, both inaudible to the human ear. Once those waves reach an object (like your head), they crash together and re-create the original sound. Ultrasonic waves also conserve sound for 150 yards without distortion or volume loss.

Here is his TED talk demo...

https://www.ted.com/talks/woody_norris_invents_amazing_thing...

edit: so I've been reading about this Woody Norris guy; I don't think anyone could possibly be more conceited. From his own website (http://www.woodynorris.com/WhoIsWoodyNorris.htm):

Who is Woody Norris? Quite simply, Woody Norris is a visionary, a futurist. He looks into the future, gathers insights into what will make life better, and applies them to the world of today. He sees things that the rest of us do not. And, as the future arrives, it finds his inventions and products already in place.
According to Harvard, she "is a Washington D.C. based network security expert and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst. She speaks on the social, technological and economic ramifications of Artificial Intelligence through her op-ed columns for The Guardian and The New York Times. As a trans woman, she advocates for queer and transgender rights as @xychelsea on Twitter."

She was expected to help "fulfill the Institute's mission of engaging students in discourse on topical issues of today, including ... issues of LGBTQ identity in the military".

You know that 'fellow' is a catch-all term, right? Even for Harvard, it doesn't mean there must have been a great contribution to humanity.
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