skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are further examples that Apple takes privacy seriously: 1) end-to-end encryption of all iMessages
2) encrypted iCloud content
3) making password management accessible to a lot of people who would not pursue it otherwise (with Keychain)
4) attempting MAC address randomization to prevent WiFi tracking, though from this paper [1] it appears to be broken.

Having worked there for a time, in my opinion privacy is deeply ingrained in the company culture. Much easier solutions are avoided if they sacrifice the customer's privacy. Further, it seems many of the decisions are made to minimize the amount of information required at each step to the absolute essentials. These concerns permeate internal technical discussions -- it is not just marketing materials.

They also have pretty extensive privacy materials on their website [2, 3]. While that may not be useful to the HN crowd, hopefully it makes privacy more accessible to some segment of their customers who actually read it.

References:
[1] PDF warning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.02874.pdf
[2] https://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/
[3] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
IPsoft launches healthcare practice around AI assistant Amelia
Discover is still the easiest card for a student / young person to get without a cosigner. I used one to build up credit to get an Amazon Visa.
Uber will now let you know when you’re being a total jerk to your driver
Because the feature isn't free to implement so the ads offset the cost.
Not super viable though, as it's more expensive than renewables and the Western world no longer seems to be able to complete construction within 2x of dollar budget, or 1.5x of schedule. That's a huge problem on a reactor that's supposed to only take $10B and 5-7years.

If we started planning a new nuclear reactor in the US today, by the time it completed, a wind farm with 3+ days of storage attached will be cheaper than that nuclear plant.

Nuclear's days are done. We could have avoided massive amounts of CO2 emissions if we had been able to build them in the 80s (which is a pig-headed and poorly innovating industry's fault just as much as anti-nukers), but we can't go back in time unfortunately.
Google App Engine Java 8 is now GA
That what I hate most about Booking : you expect an hotel room with private bathroom and they propose a rental flat or a bed in a dormitory.

I often visit the tourist-office website to find an hotel.
Well at this time their "Save Your Uber in London" petition[1] collected nearly 800k signatures. I find it quite baffling because I'm not sure why on earth would I ever petition for a big multinational company known for its shady tactics but here you go. Clearly Uber's executives, or at least their PR department, must be doing something right.

[1] https://www.change.org/p/save-your-uber-in-london-saveyourub...
> Of course this would require funding

Well, yes, that's the trillion dollar question. How do you get it funded?
Good for Quebec. This could quite feasibly lead to the development of a local competitor, providing job opportunities for local developers and tax dollars for the region / country.

Ride sharing services are here to stay, but there's no particular reason that service has to be named 'Uber'.
Kubernetes client (kubectl) cheat sheet
Prohibitive in what way? One week of training to start your fabulous new Uber lifestyle reaping serious revenue and enjoying life.
We can't assume that advanced civilization will survive another 500 years. There's a whole art project dedicated to the problem of how we communicate to our stone-knives-and-bearskins descendants that the place where we put the nuclear waste is bad and not to be trod on.
Good riddance.

In Montreal we have [Téo Taxi](http://teomtl.com/), which is far better, IMO (although more expensive) and more fair with its employees (They get enough by working only 8h/day, compared to previously with Uber or other old-school companies).

All electric cars with free wifi in them.
The app is on par with Uber's, and the drivers are always nice.
This is/was common in china as well.
How do you feel about the suggestion that not using coal for electricity generation would save the USA 10 billion dollars a year? Why isn't this drive people allegedly have to save money and live in the future of cheap energy working to phase out coal?
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330355

Today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15335383
Would you agree that the tv show "Black Mirror" (on Netflix) has at least probed into the future of science fiction?
Prohibitive seems strong to me. 35 hours of training to work 600 hours over the next two years is a 5% burden even for your very-part-time driver.
Would this include shadow profiles?
I think the name is pretty brilliant, but I can see why you might not know exactly what it is until you see the app.
Lots of Americans don't understand it, either. Any national ID system get shot down because of some variation on 'left-wing government overreach', so we get the current crappy system where each individual state has its own identification card.
Firefox 57 includes these updates so yes Quantum is included in the Beta branch right now.
You could just spend a few minutes researching that before you arrive or something… it's hardly the biggest imposition.
Not a likely story. If the driver was an employee at the airport, turning on uber before his shift might result in him driving in the opposite direction for an hour and missing his shift.

In some cities Uber drivers are able to choose drop-off areas, but I don't believe Montreal is one of them.
Sidney?
As long as there is enormous revenue from selling ads, Google and Facebook and others have to do stuff like this, or their sky-high valuations might come down. So wether you take money from scummy fake rehab centers (and real ones who now have to play the game) or Russian election manipulators, its not likely to stop without costing a lot revenue. Looking the other way until you get called out is probably good business from their point of view.
Ooh, it's like Panoptikos but supports HTTPS. It would be cool if gif autoplay was an option.
Plus, why should part-time drivers receive less training? There's no precedent where drivers can opt to take an easier driving test if they intend to drive less on average. Why should there be a special Uber exception? That's cronyism.
Definitely. This is a very pretty redesign, but I think the real secret sauce of Reddit is post titles, and comments, and you definitely lose something not being able to see either of those.
Vanishing Antarctic Snowflakes May Alter Sea Level Rise
The OP says "I don't see why I can't trade it AND share it as well to get multiple streams of revenue?"

Maybe because the capacity of day hold futures (especially e-micro crude) is so small that there is almost no way that the revenues earned from your 365 a year subscribers is going to be greater than the decreased capacity of your strategy from having all those people trading it.

As someone who works at a quant fund, this kind of shit pisses me off to no end. It makes a legit industry look like Herbalife
I agree on the thin fonts, but text with low contrast can sometimes be useful to indicate that an element is inactive or unused (e.g. <input disabled> in HTML).
Doesn't that sort of attitude play into TfL's hand in London? Another example of Uber not willing to play by the rules, especially ones arguably safety-related?
One of the many things that influenced my decision to build with AMD Ryzen.

Sorry Intel, but you slipped up.
I have it on my Windows7 machine with Firefox Nightly, but not on Chrome.
@madchops1 This comment reveals just how seriously we should take your work. This article should be flagged.
Things to know about Lambda: The costs of Lambda vs. EC2
I wonder how easy it is to do the 35 hours of train. If it is a course that is only run a couple of times per year, then that's pretty prohibitive.
>"What the long-term effects will be: China's ruling class further cement their power at the cost of China's innovation and future growth.

They are are the bread basket of the Western tech world's hardware though. Does anyone else have the facilities and expertise to churn out that hardware that the dominant West tech giants rely on?
Couldn't you argue that they are already innovating?

With Huawei, Xiaomi and BBK they don't need the West's hardware designs. And being able to cherry pick successful ideas of the West's tech companies they have the best of both worlds. And with a population of over a billion people it seems like the West's tech giants need them more than the other way around. I am not saying I agree with their polices just that I don't see how they don't find those policies concerning.
How can I integrate pollen with my Meteor-React Stack website?
Couple questions:

1. Why QM?

2. Was this tried on any other future and if yes what was the outcome?
I mean it is possible that the model could work for someone with access to more capital and better fee structure than OP making $50 bets.

Still, this seems like a model that will likely work about 95% then fail on outliers ie "picking pennies in front of a bulldozer" model.
Actually, you can on Firefox even use different profiles per tab since a few releases ago.
Ok. So you believe the science but reject the message because of how it's framed? That doesn't make much sense.

I do think it's a little short sighted to the ignore moral/philosophical implications of anything that effects large groups of people. But it doesnt really matter if you can stay reasonable The kneejerk "don't tell me what to feel guilty about or I'll do the opposite" reactions are pretty funny, though.
Counter-anecdote here. I've biked to work on and off for a total of about 5 years worth over my career, at distances of about two miles each way, in a dense city. I've never had any accident with a car. My one collision ever was with a pedestrian who started into his crosswalk against his light (I had green), thinking he could cross ahead of me but I was already leaning to go ahead of him; we both fell over but no injuries or damage.

It's really not that hard to bike safely. Most accidents involve the cyclist putting themselves in a vulnerable position somehow. You can't get right-hooked by a car if you don't put yourself on its right side. Keep alert with your head up, not looking down at your phone or cycling computer or pedaling cadence. Watch all the traffic around you. You read drivers' minds when they're going to turn without signaling. Look an entire block ahead of you for any parked car showing signs of activity and potential dooring. Forget about trying to assert your right-of-way and ignore trying to make speed and time records; those don't matter; slow down and look everywhere at every questionable intersection or turn or when in a dooring zone. Keep alert and read your entire environment, and you can go years without any cycling accident. I've done it.
React switches to the MIT license
A statistical model based on bad/dependent features is essentially just random guessing, which in this case the model just makes favorable guesses.
It's better for Chinese, in my experience. Between Russian and English, perhaps not.
What you need is literally a single Google search away.

https://www.google.com/search?q=austin+ride+sharing&oq=austi...

But hey, cabs are fine too. It's your call.
griddet?
grettid?
Here's the core of the issue.

Google may be making over one billion dollars from ads in this space.

However, they say it is "hard for Google to cut off shady treatment providers unless someone tipped off the company."

Surely, with a small portion of that one billion dollars, they could figure out a solution.

Of course, they have no interest in actually solving this type of situation, which is widespread across many verticals. In one of my markets, I have repeatedly complained about deceptive advertisers. They've done next-to-nothing to stop them.

I used to be against ad blocking software.
This attitude is exactly why some people hate bikers. It's not productive, if everyone takes this attitude then nothing is going to get better. Step up and be a model for the behavior you want to see around you.
Entirely agree. This site is like looking at a caricature and passing it off as fine portrait art.
Bullshit. It's the divisive politics. Anything your political opponent says sounds wrong or whiny. Tone policing, which is what you're doing here, is just another excuse to blame your opponent instead of looking into the issues on your side.
> but if I had to rate drivers vs cyclists in a "most likely to have a collision with as a pedestrian" I would easily go with the cyclist.

I don't want to start an argument, but I bet we could look up driver -> pedestrian accidents, and see how many were reported vs cyclists -> pedestrian accidents.

Personally, I would much rather get hit by a cyclist as a pedestrian, than a car, and that's simply physics. I've been hit as a pedestrian multiple times by cars (thankfully, at low speed), but never by a bike. I've been hit by a car while riding a bike.

You do not want to get hit by a car, while riding a bike. The car always wins. Thankfully, I survived.
That sounds like kind of a big deal; citation needed? How does that work, is it just the health benefits of air pollution + the damage to miners?
When good controllers go bad: getting started with Coach
> so if I design a car with a faulty steering mechanism that fails under unusual circumstances but, when it does, can cause a possibly fatal accident

What was the faulty product in this case? Struts? Why is Equifax liable?

> The Equifax breach here was caused by, at the very least, reckless negligence in that they failed to patch a published vulnerability for MONTHS after it was disclosed.

You have no knowledge of their internal security practices, or what the status of knowledge of the vulnerability was. Did they make a mistake? Absolutely. But no security is perfect. You have zero basis to make such a claim.

> What I'm talking about is having the same expectations, requirements and civil and criminal punishments that product liability would have with a physical product, at least when it comes to willful negligence of this sort.

There are already laws on the books that cover this, as well as the CFPB. I expect significant fines and additional oversight for Equifax in the coming months.

> The VW emissions scandal (rightly) is resulting in criminal prosecutions for fraud.

Because that was a real, provable, honest to goodness fraud, where there was provable criminal intent. Just like Enron. Where's the criminal intent with Equifax?
Feedback is welcome! I wrote this library for my own use, but I'm happy to hear any suggestions, code improvements, etc
I'm a Plex user, but let's not be naive. They are a business and a cloud-based subscription model is way more profitable than giving away software for free to let people stream from a local server.

You can't blame them for making logical decisions for the health of the business (even if they negatively impact you).
#2 is a big issue for me. Filtering, subsetting, these are all really arcane-feeling transformations, there's a lot of weirdness with view vs copy, etc.
Austin did something similar and it has worked out great (for the most part) since we have Austin ride share which helps the local community.
Then why insist on better training for ride-sharing drivers than all other drivers?
My assumption would be that most people aren't aware of the shadiness, or at least the level of it.
It depends a bit on the jurisdiction and type of case. For instance, SESTA modifies Section 230 of the CDA, which chiefly grants companies like Google immunity from civil and criminal cases stemming from state and local law. Federal criminal law is explicitly excluded, so the DOJ, for example, could still go after them[1]. Intellectual property is also excluded from Section 230, but, that is covered elsewhere: The DMCA grants them significant immunity in copyright infringement cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
Bitwarden can import Lastpass-made CSV exports (plus exports from literally everyone).
It turns out that the problem of deciding whether a predicate is universally valid in an axiomatic system is also undecidable (and, appropriately enough, called the decision problem). That is to say, declarative systems "corresponding to" general computation are also undecidable. Which isn't really surprising, since logical recurrence is isomorphic to functional recursion. Hence also why the examples I could readily find of program synthesis are decidable problems, like deciding the maximum of two numbers or deciding membership in a list.
Vim.org is down
FWIW, the only major company that I know of that uses Innovis is US Bank.
How come there are no tech companies from SF there?
Or even just... take a cab? Other than the lack of VC subsidies, even in cities that don't have great taxi services generally, taxis usually work reasonably well getting to and from the airport.
Correction: the URL for [2] should be http://geer.tinho.net/geer.source.27iv17.txt
I think what he is saying is that when he was taking it for drinking he also noticed it effected his sex drive.
FDA moves forward with health software precertification pilot program
The states (most, at least, and I think all) already take care of the verifying: you need a license to operate a treatment center. Google should require that they submit information about their state licensure to run a treatment facility. Patient brokers and sham operators presumably aren't licensed treatment providers and wouldn't be able to meet that standard, and if they're found to be falsifying their documentation, rather than just being booted from adwords they should be turned over to their respective states for criminal prosecution.
I don't think so. I think we are stuck with the SkyX and XeonW (whenever that becomes available) for AVX512.
Bell Calls for Blocking System and Total Criminalization of Copyright in NAFTA
Show HN: Esportshire – An automated jobs aggregator for the esports industry
This is a very common trend in Texas. Big cities, especially Austin, are liberal, whereas the state government is conservative. So the latter will do anything it can to spite and annoy the cities. The Uber debacle was just one example.
Not just relevant; that comic and this website are nearly indistinguishable.
My son had both the CPU kit and the screen kit. Whenever a friend comes over, he proudly displays the computer he built himself. He is a god to them. Then he goes to use his macbook. In any case, this is a great, cost efficient introduction. We eventually built a monster desktop for "work".

I will definitely get this for him next summer.
Want your company to get better? Go to Comic Con
One thing that disappoints me about Pollen is that I haven't seen any easy way to produce output in the Epub format.
They destroyed evidence while they were under investigation in Quebec and they won't pay any taxes... good riddance!
Show HN: Readwise – Review and retain your Kindle highlights
I think that is a great way of thinking about it! Composite types and user-defined types are very useful and it makes sense to see them as inspired by object-oriented ideas.
When our admins actually care to migrate to java webstart and I can drop java plugin and firefox esr, I'll probably move to chrome, because selenium works better with chromedriver for me.

And yeah, I don't care much about which one loads page 0.5 secs faster - I used to download porn on a modem:) https://xkcd.com/598/
I see no particular reason not to have high standards for other drivers too. 35 hours of training seems perfectly reasonable before being allowed to pilot tons of steel at high speeds. Here in the US, driver training requirements are incredibly low, and this results in atrocious behavior on the roads.
Absolutely. That also says something about the difference in the times. Zuckerberg forced people onto Facemash probably because he thought it would be easier than getting people to sign up voluntarily.
If you arrive anywhere and assume the corporate alternatives you are used to aren't available, you will choose to use the local available services? How is this unreasonable?
Learning platforms I: Problems
I was blown away by Firefox Focus as well. I ended up making it the default browser, so its used when I read an article on HackerNews, Reddit, Twitter, etc. But when I need the "logged in" experience - autofill passwords, bookmarks, cookies, etc. - I launch Chrome. Best of both worlds!
How disreputable rehabs game Google to profit off patients
Lasers.
Show HN: Dependencies.io – pull requests for any kind of dependency
For what it's worth, the purpose of the regulations is clearly to give the established taxi services an advantage. Fares clearly prefer Uber over the "competing" car services. Both drivers and fares are willing to take the relatively small risks involved (most of which are not specific to Uber anyway) and pay significantly less for a service.
There is no good comparison website I'm aware of, but Bitwarden ticks every box Lastpass does, and is already working on ticking boxes Lastpass doesn't.
> Training requirements should be based on safety requirements, which are the same whether you're on the road for 6 hours a week or 60.

While I agree with you in principle, there's no indication that this is anything but regulatory capture. There's no municipality in the western world that requires this much training for Uber drivers; would you say there's a problem there that needs solving, and that Quebec's legislated response is a reasonable solution? I'm personally skeptical.
The Top 20 Public Tech Companies by Revenue per Employee.

There are some private ones with far higher revenue per head than any of these.
It's not just the quantity; it's the overall efficiency, of quantity compared to the cost of infrastructure and operations. Buses hold more but cost a lot more to build and drive, including stations and maintenance facilities, and externalities like emissions and gridlock. Bike infrastructure is cheap and operations are free to a city.
Have a look at Carver's book 'Systematic Trading' and maybe 'Expected Returns' by Ilmanen. You also need to get a proper backtest going. A black box and a diary won't get you very far.
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Even so, it's a bit surprising to me given that the new CEO is singing the "I can change" song. If Uber is really trying to turn over a new leaf, why do something that sounds like the old Uber? At worst, why not wait a couple of years and push for different regulations then?

I suppose the answer is that Uber doesn't believe they really have a business if they have to meet existing safety standards.
I'm surprised to hear people say the local competitors were better. That's really not true. It's possible they were as good (never actually were in my experience) however I can't think of one way that any of them were actually better than Uber or Lyft.

Edit: I should point out that I mean "better for the rider." From what I understand some of the services had much more driver friendly policies and payment structures. I have heard of people choosing based on that.
"Transport Minister Laurent Lessard agreed to renew that pilot project Friday, but with stricter conditions, including a requirement that drivers undergo 35 hours of training, the same amount as traditional taxi drivers."

Sounds like they are normalising the requirements with other commercial services.
The two issues are separate -- they didn't change the extensions system to make Firefox fast, they changed the extensions system because the old extensions system was a security nightmare.
Were the companies you worked for dealing with data at the scale of Equifax? Were they under the kind of unceasing attack that the Equifax systems are? Do you think you could have withstood that kind of assault on your systems?

All the CRAs endure attacks at a scale that are difficult to comprehend. It's frankly a surprise that something like this hasn't happened before to any one of the big 3.
Isn't the point of a drivers license to certify that you're qualified to drive on the road? Why isn't that enough?