skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically its a hangover from the PayPal football days (A PayPal branded Verisign 2fa token hardware device) they used to sell.. No idea why they don't transition over to Google Auth Style TOTP Algo.

But They still haven't ported all their systems to 2FA yet. Some pages require you to enter your password and append your 2fa token to the end of it (Mainly when logging in on mobile) and I know of a couple of stores that due to their PayPal integration I can not get to the final "Pay Now" page on paypal even though I successfully log into PayPal. But when you would normally get to that final page to press "Pay" the page just times out. I have to disable 2fa and do it again.

You can use "Symantec VIP" (it was renamed after Verisign was brought out). Though they don't make the sign up very easy. You have to go to the 2 factor page ("Security key") under security, press "Get security key", when prompted to enter your phone number press "cancel" then press "Activate your PayPal or VIP (VeriSign Identity Protection) token" and then enroll up as normal.

Its not Google Auth and it kinda feels like I can now gaining a collection of 2FA apps (iirc Namecheap's non sms 2fa is powered by Authy but you can not use Authy) so I do which they would all adopt a standard.
It's a lot more to do with putting off investment for literally decades, then finally having to pay for massive amounts of work on pretty much all the lines.
There's MyTaxi, Gett and Addison Lee has an app. I used to use Hailo before it became MyTaxi. It's certainly not as cost-effective but what I did like were the flat-rate rides you could get. They weren't black cabs, but more like Uber Luxes or Uber Execs and probably 20% cheaper than black cabs.

With Uber gone, I'm sure the market would provide something else.
When I read the article I was thinking there was actually something quite simple missing from it. I found that just measuring the number of productive hours per day was enough to be very helpful in breaking some bad habits, because it made me mindful of how I was spending my time.

I was going to suggest the Qbserve tracker for this --- then I saw that that's actually your app! I guess you didn't want to plug it more, but anyway -- it's really good. I really missed it when I switched to Ubuntu.
Here's the statement released by the regulatory body, pointing out Greyball as one of the factors: https://twitter.com/TfL/status/911168235189489669

Edit: the url of the story has now been changed from the original bbc news link to this url
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I have been using Gonum for some time now (also contributed, mostly in the plotting area).

Last summer, I tried an experiment: have a student migrate a little python-based analysis to a Go-based one.
The analysis was fitting some cosmological constants out of the so called Hubble diagram.

I was pleased to see that, in the span of 2-3 months, the student who had limited knowledge in programming (a bit of python), managed to pull off the minimization of a 740 supernovae dataset with a 2220x2220 nuisance parameters matrix.

and the run time was 2x faster than the python one (with scipy/minuit for the minimization, so everything in C/C++, really).

success. :)

(and this motivated us to completely switch to Go as a teaching language for our master in particle physics / cosmology.)
That often doesn't stop them though.
It's not available in the UK at all.
To be honest, few people here in London bother with taxis. Public transport is very good, can be faster than sitting in traffic, and is cheaper. Most folks ordering taxis either don't know where they are going, missed the last train or are wealthy enough to not care about the cost. Uber literally made no impact on the quality if life to your average Londoner and won't be missed.
Actually it doesn’t. In many places your regular driving license becomes void as soon as you have a single paying passenger, and it becomes driving without a license, and you get a fine. Germany is one such place.

Good news is, a driving license for with passengers is just an additional test that will overall set you back less than 100 Euros.

And, additionally, your insurance becomes void as soon as you have a paying passenger, or are driving to one. But cars on the road need insurance, and Uber’s insurance only is valid while a passenger is in the vehicle – not on the way to the passenger.
Uber is already 100% banned in Denmark, for refusing to adhere to hire car regulations.
Last time my (getting rather elderly) mother came to London I told her and her husband to get an Uber as it was easier than them standing in the rain trying to hail a cab.

They flatly refused. They'd been told by a black cab driver the night before there was a 'strong possibility' they would get raped or robbed by 'foreign' drivers.
I felt like that when I couldn't configure GNOME to shutdown when I hit the power-button on my chassis, I could only pick to suspend.

It is not possible to change the power settings and it was removed by the GNOME developers[0] (the shutdown/power off action was considered too destructive[1]).

Bottom line: You can no longer power off your laptop by pressing the power off button.

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755953

[1] https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/69d9d8...
How much does that really cost though? Is that from central London?
I'd hate to fall foul of confirmation bias here, but as someone who regularly drives in London, some of the worst driving I've witnessed has been by Addison Lee cabs.
And Kabbee which just unifies all car hires.

In London Uber was the cheapest for short drives < 15-20 min for pretty much everything beyond that the reverse bid system or Kabbee provided cheaper fares.
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If they don't appeal their license expires on 30th September.

"The Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998 includes provision to appeal a licensing decision within 21 days of it being communicated to the applicant. Uber London Limited can continue to operate until any appeal processes have been exhausted."

So they will leave it to late September to launch an appeal, and whilst the appeal process is ongoing they can continue to operate.

How long they can push it after the 30th September isn't known as I've no idea what the TfL appeal process involves.

Alongside the reasons in the link (crime reporting, medical certificates, DBS checks, greyball) it's probably also got something to do with the huge increase in license fee: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/uber-licensing-cos...
So perhaps adding the insurance for Uber drivers would solve the issue? I really don't see other reason. Except for the governments fighting with concepts which disrupt current, inconvenient and outdated state of things.
Yes, some valid code won't pass the borrow checker. But at the same time, far more invalid code doesn't pass it. Personally I see it as a tool to help me reduce possible runtime errors, and instead have them as compile time errors. This does mean that I often need to design my program around it, but that's try of basically every other language.

The few times I do have an issue I'm usually writing FFI code to interact with C, and I try to minimise that code as much as possible.
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This seems rather subjective?

Anecdotally, many of my friends and colleagues use Uber frequently, especially at night.
Uber is worse than random minicab businesses in London? This seems like a real stretch.
This happens all the time in black cabs. My wife and I rely on uber all the time. It feels right for a city like London. This is a step backwards in my opinion

I’d like to add that most black cab drivers make out like their card machine doesn’t work. It’s a total cash scam to avoid VAT. I’ve had a black cab deny picking me up before because I didn’t want taking very far (I had a twisted ankle and just wanted to shorten my walk home)
Thanks for sharing. "adding indexes to large collections" - how many records are we talking here?

Thanks.
Last time I was in the UK I tried Gett, and at least for the few rides I used it for it worked perfectly fine. Even at 2am.
Thanks for that. It's pretty bad that the BBC posts more information in a tweet than they do on their new article.
I ordered an Addison Lee to the airport a few months back. The driver spent the entire time chatting about Uber and how dangerous it is. It's like they get off on it. He was also being quite racist about their drivers. This was at 3am in the morning.

This is just one data point, but I wasn't impressed.
If they can't or won't reform then excellent, let's be rid of them.

I don't want to give any business to a company that are seeking to become a worldwide cab monopoly, and squirrel away any profits to the US. We have a perfectly healthy cab ecosystem in my city, app-driven and with fare competition and city regulation. Which I suppose is why Uber, though present, hasn't really taken off here.

That said, talk of profits may be a little early and AFAICT they're losing money by the fistful. Which kinda says that they're engaging in some dodgy market distortion to me...
Loads of complexity. I don't see the value.

Just give me files I can write data into and suddenly everything becomes very easy. Everybody knows how to write files.

I know this discussion is getting really old but when Alsa was a step in the wrong direction, Pulse was the highspeed train in the wrong direction that followed, trying to "fix" it. This overengineered mess is the result of the tragedy allowing former Windows users to do systems programming for Unix like operating systems.
Anecdotally, my friends do as well.

I used to take public transport but at the end of a night out, a cab is a lot nicer so long as it's within my price comfort point.

A black cab isn't really in that comfort zone for me.
I could not disagree more - often times, especially if travelling with multiple people it is far more convenient, comfortable and can even be more affordable than taking public transport. While I agree that London has great public transport, Uber has been a game changer for myself and many people I know.
But I don't have this right.

I can't tell Equifax to get bent and delete my record. I'm not asking for my credit history to go away (and shame on you for being the tenth person to suggest that I am), I am asking for the harmful company that appears to have chronically underfunded their security department, or ignored their advice, or whatever else has gone wrong to land us here, where we are now, to go out of business.

If I can't have that, then I'd settle for them being required to delete MY personal record upon my request. Next time I need to pull my credit file, I'll warn the lender not to try to pay Equifax to look me up, because they're going to get back a null reference with a timestamp of some September 2017 date on it. What's so hard about that? If the lender doesn't like it, I'll take my money elsewhere.

Lenders can keep their own records and report them anywhere they want, within the terms of our agreement and the law. I should not be obligated to remain in Equifax's database until fraud, criminal mischief, or negligence on their part is proven in a court of law. I am just asking for some modicum of control over where my records are stored, kept and shared.

But... that's not an option for me, we don't have EU style personal data privacy and protection laws!
While the sequence of events sounds like a valid sequence of events, it does not seem to be linked to the original thesis -

Ie: because people aren't worth more

Which is odd, because something obviously is worth more. The world economy has significantly grown, and keeps growing.

The capital owning section of the population are able to use that to invest or own some sort of value increasing asset.

IT seems more likely that there is more economic value being created - but the competitive strengths of a higher position in the decisions making hierarchy provides assymetric power.

Meaning that the higher you go in terms of ownership of an organization, the more you can bring people at lower levels into conflict and drive prices down.
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That's a new thing to me. I was driving in Germany several times with passengers and I didn't know my current driving license isn't good for it.

I even rented a car at the airport and Hertz clerk haven't mentioned anything, despite seeing me approaching with friends. They only asked if there are drivers, not passengers.

So how does it work?
It works again, strange.
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Why not suggest one of London's myriad of other options, which don't have so much in the way of unethical baggage?
Thanks, I hadn't heard of that firm.

Looks like I might be needing it.
When it comes to blogging, you should always act like you have an audience, even if you don't. Just write and write and speak your mind. Talk to someone as if they are so interested in what you are going to publish.

I started a website called Confessions of the Professions ( http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com) a few years ago.. and my only visitors were my mom and my girlfriend. I didn't care.. I remember loading up WordPress Jetpack and my visitor count was around 10 a day... then it increased to 35. I just kept at it.. kept writing blogs, kept soliciting for people to write for me, posting sometimes up to 3 or 4 times a day.

Eventually, I would lose interest... and about the time I did that, people started emailing me asking me if they could contribute.. and I happily agreed. Every time I start to lose interest.. I get dozens of emails with praise and asking if they can contribute an article.

My visitor count ranges anywhere from 500 - 1000 visitors a day. I get universities and well known companies asking if they can contribute. I work with a lot of marketing agencies and consultants who have clients and are looking for a niche website to publish on.

Honestly, it keeps me going even when I'm ready to give it up. It motivates me and revitalizes me back into my own passions and desires for keeping the website going... we all have to go to work... and I am curious about what everyone is doing and the struggles of everyday.

But it all started with no audience and an assumption that people might read it, could read, and would be interested in reading it. If I had to do it all over again knowing what I know now.. I totally would do it again... the website has helped so many.

So just keep going! No matter what! You never know whose reading! :)
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A properly done article would account for this. It's like doing a medical study and failing to account for the sex/age/etc characteristics of the people being studied. I.e. it's sloppy and can't be taken seriously. Even worse, such omissions may be intentional on the part of the author, and then the article tips into being propaganda.

I have seen articles (in the WSJ) that used total compensation. Meaning it is possible to do.
> In the wake of the Equifax breach, Congress should require stronger cybersecurity measures at credit reporting agencies, as well as for any company that stores large quantities of sensitive data about individuals, even if those individuals are not the company’s customers.

Yes, they should, but that's not what they are doing. They are doing the opposite. [1] It doesn't matter what the majority want Congress to do when they don't listen or care and instead do what their special interests tell them. The 'bigger problem' the article mentions is not that the laws are tilted towards the corporations. It's that they will continue to be tilted towards them due to corruption.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-republ...
>> Uber literally made no impact on the quality if life to your average Londoner and won't be missed.

As a Londoner I dispute that claim. It's made a huge difference for a lot of people. Until the night tube's arrival last year getting home from late nights out was expensive, difficult, or impossible. It's quite useful when moving flat - something younger Londoners tend to do quite a lot. I had to go somewhere with some heavy equipment last week and if it weren't for Uber I would have spent a fortune on taxi's. When I was ill for several months which prevented me taking the tube I used Uber to get to/from work. It was expensive but affordable. Taxi's would have been too expensive and I would have been screwed.

Finally - I received half a dozen messages from friends within minutes of the news being announced. Looks like it will be missed.
There is a difference. Writing to config files doesn’t set properties at runtime.

PulseAudio needs to allow UI tools to set properties with sub-second latency.

And just reparsing the configs every time something is changed would be extremely wasteful.
>تطبيقات المكالمات منتصف الليل

this is hysterical. they actually call these apps "midnight-call apps".

Bernays would be proud.
You're looking at roughly twice the cost, usually more if it's late on a Friday/Saturday night. I used to regularly travel from Zone 1 to just inside the M25 to the West of London ─ an Uber costs ~£40, whereas I've paid between £80 and £120 for other private hires for similar journeys.
Nope.
https://securityequifax2017.com/ is the site referenced in your linked article
https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/ is the official site
Thinking it through - Uber (indirectly) leads to 40,000 drivers being employed (if I read correctly). I suspect this is just TfL flexing their muscles and Uber will use these 21 days to find a compromise...
If the meter is on, it's reported and recorded income, is it not?
> to prevent bad guys from using them in missiles and other nasty stuff

I was confused. So here's a translation: Bad guys = US enemies or non-allies. Not bad guys in any moral sense.
40,000 jobs..

No coincidence this comes a day before Labour Party conference.
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All I got from that comment is that you prefer not to pay for an artist's work.

> I wouldn't have a problem, compensating an artist a reasonable amount for his songs.

You can. Buy the album. Don't stream it on Spotify, Apple Music or Google Play, which are very different distribution channels that are closer to renting than buying.
Edit: my first response is all too detailed. The broad effect will be that employers aren't encouraged to provide health insurance, and people trying to buy coverage individually may be completely unable to do so because the combination of "no individual mandate" and "no denial for pre-existing conditions" will lead to insurance companies dying and/or premiums being raised astronomically. Or they'll bring back rejections for pre-existing conditions and then if you ever get sick you'll be actually refused insurance after that.

---my original answer:

Here's one example: If the current bill passes, every health insurance plan that offers coverage for elective abortions will stop being eligible for subsidies on December 31. Every plan in California is required to include this coverage, so effectively all subsidies for individually purchased plans in California will end this year.
Another: most federal funding to Planned Parenthood will be banned, leading to the closure of almost all their facilities. About 1 million Californians visited Planned Parenthood last year, perhaps you or your partner were among them (more likely if you are lower income). Or perhaps you weren't, but any medical care you needed was better because your doctor wasn't also trying to meet the needs of all those people who did use Planned Parenthood.

Some links which cover these in more detail: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-tax-credits-abort..., https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/05/if-feds-strip-planned-p..., http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/09/graham-cassid...
The problem with generic engines, is that the type of game has a diffrent performance requirement. RTS can live with physic-sim updates every 0,25 seconds, which is not usefull for a jump & run or fps game. Thus the highest requirement defines the engine, which is a complete waste for some games and limits performance.

I dont know if you can configure the framerates and engine internals here.

Next problem is that you need to write a lot of partially performance intensive game logic code (pathfinding etc.).. which again makes sense to write in the engine native language.

There is a reason why game specific engine exist- and if i would dev a new game today, i would choose- the one os-game that is allready as close as possible to the idea port that to a dedicated engine.

Its way too much work to fork a generic engine to a high-performance specialisation.
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Show HN: Read top article comments out loud with Python and AWS Polly
Repo: https://github.com/jdc-cunningham/python_aws_polly_hacker_ne...

So I came across AWS Polly through some Object Recognition demo and I read HN regularly (under a different account)

I mostly read the comments though and seldomly click on the actual links.

I'm new to writing Python so I apologize if there are some dumb things on there. In general too my code could use work as far as being optimized, etc...

I ran into some encoding problems that's why I used a dumb "splitter" eg. [split] instead of key:pair as I was re-encoding (double json)

It can use some work, the synthesizer will read symbols like > as "greater than" I suppose as it should, but if a person wrote "something -> this" it would be read as "dash greater than" or something.

This assumes you have either a free tier account with AWS or you're willing to pay for it.

This is just code, you can try their demo at their site (after you login).

In my opinion regarding the English Female voices Kendra was the best.

I have a Raspberry Pi Zero always on at home and it has some things bound to the Crontab, I wanted to use it to run this as well and since it doesn't have an audio jack, I had to do the PWM GPIO audio output mod (tutorial linked in repo from Adafruit)

Pretty cool project, not sure how long I will keep it though the voice kind of drones on, but it's cool. It runs every hour.

The most recent script does a check for changes though I noted it isn't accurate as far as exact "Number 1 on the page on HN is called Number 1" but it does go in order from newest to oldest. Maximum read out loud is 10 comments, their is a synthesizer limit of 1500 characters. Part of this is because if an article does not have any comments yet it is skipped, the and the counter is a general loop iteration counter.

Max articles traversed is 30 (front page only)

The firebase API from HN is solid

I would appreciate any coding tips that you have to offer
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Germany has practically banned Uber for sometime now.
Not really?

I mean I know factories in India which have buildings with asbestos roofs.

China has grizzly videos of workers moving metal scaffolding and then accidentally getting electrocuted as it moves into exposed high voltage cable.

And that is still a step up from the misery there was before.

I don't see how you can afford environmental protections, worker safety, when instead for a small fraction of the cost you can just send the request to a contractor, and then say "Oh we didn't know the conditions in the factory were bad. We thought those quaint third world concepts were just rumors! Oh those poor souls!".
Moreover, we seen/remember the world before nuclear weapons. Nowadays though, modern protection systems negate the effect. If something should be banned, it is "total nuclear umbrellas", so pushed by military countries.
Agree with the first part of your comment, as it relates to black cabs. Only wealthy or hapless Londoners use them. Otherwise they’re just a tourist attraction.

Strongly disagree with the latter part.

My impression was that Uber, through price and convenience, created significant demand for Private Hire travel in London where it didn’t previously exist.