skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're seriously arguing that cryptography has no technical means for a driver to send an unrepudiatable attestation of intent to drive from A to B at time C to an anonymous passenger? And that an ombudsman armed with driver GPS data cannot compare the attestation to the GPS data and instead needs identification data on the passenger in order to verify whether the driver went to the correct drop-off?

There are at least three things you need here:

(1) the agreed trip, and

(2) that the passenger showed up and got in,

(3) that the passenger did not make some demand that ended the driver's obligation to make the agreed trip en route.
Install Firefox Focus. It has content blocker which cleans up ads and trackers on mobile safari.
I don't think anyone believes companies can operate without money.

However, Mozilla said we should use their software because they care about users and user privacy.

It makes sense to therefore complain when they break that promise arguing that they need money. Then, they're like everyone else and we might as well use Chrome.

Pocket integration is bad (and yes, I use Pocket every day) because you're forcing bloatware on your users without any advantage over an extension (for those who like me would install it). Then, there's the Mr. Robot fiasco. There goes their "users/user's privacy first" presumed competitive advantage.
Ask HN: How did you learn to program?
So currently i'm interested in learning how to program and what resources are the best for a beginner.
Some info : 23 years old, doing tech support for hosting company mainly having customers using *nix.

How did you learn to program and what resources did you use ?
I know very few people who would tolerate not being able to get a refund. I know many who would end up giving up fighting for it, but would never use the service again.

And, lets bring it up to something more relevant. The driver steals from or assaults a passenger. Having that data would be key in actually bringing charges against the driver.
there are environment variables for get all the bugging information you want.
Meanwhile, in capitalist America, Russian hacking group spies on YOU!
When I was in college I made every dumb trading mistake there is.

I traded on emotion, bought high, sold low, with margin leverage, and with options.

Fortunately I didn't have much money then, so my losses were a large percentage but a relatively small dollar amount.

In hindsight all those losses were inexpensive lessons that have served me very well now that I'm older and have more at stake.

So let the young and inexperienced trade. If you protect them from themselves, you deny them the ability to learn at a relatively low cost, and they'll wind up learning later at a much higher cost.
The really big difference between Waze Carpool and Uber/Lyft is that the driver is paid at most 54 cents a mile (e.g., gas money), and Waze will only match the driver with passengers for two trips / day.

So it is not designed to be something where the driver will make a living, but really just as a way for a driver to get some company, maybe take advantage of the HOV lanes, and it gets some cars off of the road to reduce congestion.

This has impacts to the sort of insurance drivers will need to get, since it's really no different from traditional car pooling. I would not be surprised if, over time, the system tries to pair people who have previously shared rides together for subsequent trips (unless either party rates the other as, "would rather not share a ride with this person"). Knowing that you are sharing the ride with the same person that you normally share your car with would make for a much better user experience, since people are, after all, social creatures.
Cool, enjoy that. I heard it's a really great place to work. Right?
Gamers who use macOS probably use a console for gaming anyways.
How about we let flip phones with the speaker visibly ripped out still be carried?

It has terrible video and audio recording capabilities, people know how to use them already, and there's nothing on that tiny screen worth distracting yourself/alienating yourself. Other than an SMS, and that's cool.

That's all the pro's of no-phones, without any of the cons of having to drop off the grid for a few hours.
OK maybe Thom Yorke and Jack White should do shows together and charge $1000000 and call it real art.
The built-in persistence mechanisms should be compatible with Streams.
The author does say fix.
frequently, these situations are not so much hypothetical as simply explanations of situations some of us have found ourselves in.

Perhaps you have never had the experience of taking a close friend or relative with a disability, social dysfunction, etc. to their first ever concert and knowing it's partly enabled by the fact that if you somehow become separated you are both carrying electronic devices that will let you reconnect easily. (I find many people evaluate situations based on a default expectation that everyone involved is able-bodied, of sound mind, and socially adept, and then get defensive about "hypothetical" situations that are realistic considerations for a lot of us.)
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> What's the damn point of doing something you love if it doesn't love you back?

Not everyone does it for the fame or recognition. Passion is a great motivator.
This is a really great discussion on carpooling and our team is stoked to see it. At Scoop (https://www.takescoop.com), we've been working to make carpooling convenient and enjoyable since early 2015. We love seeing more (and bigger!) companies prioritize tackling the problems commuters face getting to work every day.

We're really passionate about some of the topics that have come up in this thread. Our ScoopCare team (real people!) is available throughout the day to help make sure Scoop commuters are having the best possible commute experience. Support availability is critical.

When it comes to safety, Scoop has performed Motor Vehicle history reports on every Driver in the community since day 1 - no one ever drives in a Scoop carpool without a great driving record. We're the only carpool company to ever do that, which is something we're pretty proud to say.

And most importantly, Scoop is for everyone. You don't have to work at a big company or a white collar job -- that's why it's been so important to us to partner with local governments, transit organizations like BART here in the Bay Area, and business parks with 100s of employers -- in addition to major employers.

The more than 2 million trips taken to-date with Scoop have included commuters from all walks of life who are looking for a meaningful commute. The only thing you have to believe is that there is a better way to spend your time on the road.

If you're interested in learning more about Scoop, check out this article https://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2017/11/08/with-36-..., browse our open jobs at jobs.lever.co/takescoop, or send us a note at feedback@takescoop.com.

I'll also be watching this thread for a bit so feel free to reply here!

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Full disclosure: I started Scoop with my brother, Rob --- and as an avid HN reader, I wanted to comment directly to the HN community. We're really excited to be solving a problem that impacts both SV and the world and would love for you to join us.
Uber valuation did never reflect this risk. This should actually knock a few billions off of it
Agreed, and hilarious. The new Firefox recently replaced Chrome as my default browser.
"Sometimes you just don't have other options than C."

You always have other options if better languages can compile to C or integrate it via FFI. There's been plenty to do that, too. For simple and safe, Modula-2 was early one compiled to C that couldve had syntax modified to be more like it. If aiming for power, PreScheme was a systems dialect of Scheme that compiled to C at one point. The OcaPIC (Ocaml) project and use of ATS language for 8-bit show stuff like that could probably be made to wofk in areas C is used in, too.

So, I'd say it's a myth you need to develop in C just because a target has only C libraries or compilers that safer languages can use. Instead, we get a new claim that people just didnt do it for reasons that varied per project or person but wasn't technical capability.
in the West, children are delegated to third parties (often strangers, not family)

Several government programs act as a poor substitute for family support.

Lack of incentive, lack of community and an emphasis on individualism creates people like that.
I absolutely would say it would, especially where there's a very good chance that the home and work addresses are part of that list, and the idea that someone would use a database like that to spy on an ex and harass and/or assault them is an actual thing that happens.
That's not true. In the US at least as an adult you have a legal right to see everything in your medical record.
> The Pocket code tells Mozilla what ads are being shown

Really? It definitely shouldn't do that.

> and which are clicked on

That's pretty hard to avoid, though. How much of a problem it is depends on how precise the targeting is. But since you're showing interest by clicking the ad, there's not necessarily much of a privacy issue.
Thanks for the shout joncrane :)
When It Comes to Teaching Coding, Parents Won’t Get with the Program
Abuse of employer resources for personal purposes, probably.
Public Utility District, for those wondering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_utility_district
If there's no time to react then you are too close to the car in front of you.
I thought 'staffer' was only used when talking about people working in government or for a political party. Aren't 'staff' or 'employees' just as good for the headline?
I guess this is the perfect place to ask: what virtualization platforms run 32-bit OS X (since I guess that's what it was called when it was 32-bit) Really Really Well, and how/where can I learn about how to set everything up perfectly?
There's an article in Wired with video.[1] They have a robot arm putting seedling pots in trays, and a robot cart moving the trays around.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-hydroponic-robotic-future-of...
Side note holy moly this site has bad performance on my poor lil laptop
How did you get access to sniff the network? What IP are you going to sniff for? How are getting keys so you can MITM the traffic?

Basically none of the "advantages" you describe exist when you're in an environment like Google's, and that kind of environment is the sort of environment one uses gRPC (or Finagle, or others) in. IOW, if you can use Wireshark successfully, you have an argument for using JSON. Just keep in mind many people are not in such an environment.
These assertions are highly debatable.
Keen eye spies bee and spider bedfellows in 'world-first'
Great! It'd be useful to automatically apply a label (e.g "bug") for a certain issue template.
for, while, do...while, recursion, goto: is not a sign of "pragmatic minimalism" unless one choses to define it tautologically as "what C has".
Calling them "educated guesses" is overstating the evidence. We don't have the datapoints to estimate how common life is or isn't in the galaxy by empiricism, and we don't have the scientific knowledge to derive the numbers from first principles. Divorced from reality, that means that the educated guesses are really "we come up with numbers we want and then bullshit an explanation for those numbers."

Another perspective is that, as we've understood better how our EM radiation percolates for space, radioastronomy basically can't find anyone who isn't in our solar system (except maybe if they directly try to talk to us). That means that even our failure to find life via SETI isn't evidence of anything.
> digital things can't have value because they aren't real

That's basically what you are saying.

Here's the thing though. Crypto currencies can have lots of uses. And even "simple" ones "only" made for payment like XLM and XRB have a value when they let me transact fast and cheaply.

I look forward to a future where my money is mine. Where no bank can arbitrarily decide to FREEZE MY FUNDS that I have LOANED TO THEM. The banking system is broken. Sure it gives us some nice things in return like fraud protection. But increasingly I begin to wonder whether the advantages of trad-banks are worth giving them control over my money, and increasingly the answer seems to me to be no.
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what, like google, it's Ted Nelson and we are on hacker news, and the OP passed a comment that showed they obviously already know how to use the internet, what would be the point of me linking to sources, Ted Nelson, Computer Lib and Dream Machines, if you've not read it, what have you read?
That's a lot of bots trading back and forth, though. Different to actually try to sell a crap ton of newly circulating currency. Not to mention that transactions are traceable, so people would immediately know that Stripe is selling
So you prefer the "imagine gravity like aaaa curvature of space and time"?

We explain our science in analogies. We think in analogies. And DNA like a programming language is a useful analogy.
Probably Chrome or Firefox. Haven't used Windows in a long time, but I'm using Firefox Dev edition on mac.
Doesn't say the net profits from "any sale" go to the Stellar Foundation, only the net profits from the "auction [of] a majority of [their] stellars." Presumably they could sell for profit their 1 billion stellars for profit without violating this pledge.
And trying to exercise that right by using tools you have access to as an employee of your own health care provider rather than going through the proper channels that any other patient goes through to request such access (which involve the employer having documentation of the request, and auditability as to the purpose of any access involved in serving that request), is likely to violate internal procedures designed both to protect PHI and assure that all access is within job function.
There's a simple solution you're missing here:

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This is so neat looking — and it has Cherry MXes too! If only my toy budget weren't shot …
If you feel you can shift the narrative, more power to you. I just think it would be incredibly difficult to change the conversation to that.
Nope, actually a very good analogy, which is miles better than the gravity as a sheet.
I've found the Airbnb experience in the U.S. to be much more uneven than overseas. I don't know quite what it is, but I've gotten more places in the U.S. that just weren't quite what was advertised, and most of the places outside the U.S. are at least as good as advertised...even right across the border in Canada.
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Ask HN: How do you track user behavior/engagement inside of your SaaS app?
I'm curious if anyone has a way to track the behaviors (time spent in app, pages they frequent, steps they're taking, etc) of applicants INSIDE of their SaaS app? I don't mean hotjar :)
Good marketing. They came to me
Actually, yes, that’s exactly why I carry my phone: for contacting emergency services when something goes awry. Your lightning analogy sort of falls down a bit here (even though I agree with your overall point of not fearing terrorist attacks)
The screenshots from the leaker mention that they are using "redshift", which is the name of Amazon's RDB product. Which means this is about people who have access to the database. This is unsurprising that they could access customer data given access to their database. I'm not sure how you prevent this without preventing access to the db (and there are legitimate reasons people within the company would have access -- DBAs, Engineers who are writing direct queries, etc).

Not defending people accessing PII, but just saying there are legitimate reasons why someone could have access.
One of the things we've found most exciting about matching carpoolers together is the organic way in which people from totally different backgrounds (genders, ethnicities, nationalities, professions) get paired up on a simple ride to work.

After all, carpooling, when done right, really starts with just basic geography - who is near you, and who is not.

We've seen incredible stories of the people we're connecting - from job advice to new tennis partners -- and even consolation over lost loved ones. One of the beautiful things of that type of community (that we think we have with Scoop) is it's an unexpected forcing function to look outside your normal bubble - which seems harder and harder to come by these days.
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First time hearing of https://h2o.examp1e.net (assuming that's what you are talking about).

I guess your experience with it has been positive?
Just so you know, machine stats feature is not ramped to all the users yet, so most of them won't be able to see the fancy UI you were seeing. We will push it out to all users late next week ;)
I worked there. I was an engineer and definitely needed access to these data. Fraud and abuse is constantly evolving and touches every part of the business. Everything was audited and I never saw or heard of a single abuse of access. Privacy was talked about seriously at onboarding and other trainings. I have no doubt if somebody was caught abusing this they’d be fired.
Behold, an enlightened meta-contrarian.
This isn't something new.
Scoop is already doing this and Lyft had carpool for a while before they shut it down.
Whereas folks I worked with at a support vendor for AT&T HomeZone, when that was a thing, regularly looked up celebrities’ private phone numbers in the unified customer systems with no repercussion, despite the same onboarding spiel. HomeZone was unique in that support reps by necessity had access to AT&T, Dish, and Yahoo! (email) CRM, which covers a very broad range of people and activities; I didn’t do the looking, but I overheard a sampling of notables and legislators who subscribed to the “500s” (Dish lingo for porn at the time, don’t know if they’ve moved the channels since).

Yahoo! was the only one that limited access reasonably. It always struck me as odd that auditing didn’t pick up that query behavior. For your main job, PeopleSoft would take care of everything and limit you to who you needed to see, but there were a plethora of other systems and places to look.

This type of thing certainly isn’t limited to Lyft.
I was objecting to the misleading title (which is currently "Some obscure C features"), not to the content of the article.
Here it is. The first Chrome OS tablet
Why not? The majority of engineering professions say use the right tool for the job. Whatever is most cost-effective. Programming is one of few things where people try to do the opposite. Fortunately, many in the profession do right tool for the job philosophy at least for whole domains like OS code, web apps, and so on. Still an insistence on sticking to same language too much.

Python has incredible productivity and versatility with ease of learning. It's readable. It's easier to prototype things like verification tools in it than C. There's also tools like Hypothesis to test that. Then, there's tools to speed up the code like Cython.

If anything, Python would be a safer, faster way to write tooling for modifying or testing C code than C itself. One could also convert Python generated tests to a C library of tests with automatic validation of data types, coverage, etc. So, I think it would make sense if someone did anything from prototyping C in Python to using it to test C code.

And do note Ive enjoyed reading your experimentation with macros in C. I learned about defer through it. Just commenting on that one point.
"Would you be okay with the back door existing if it were used under such a court-ordered scenario?"

No, because it would not stay that way. The problem is, that backdoor would get out, and all of the bad guys would know how to use it, and be able to use it. Now I have no protection anymore.

Most of the time, when we're arguing against back doors, it's not because we're worried that the government is going to collect evidence to use against us in court. It's because we don't want our payment transfers to be intercepted by bad guys. We don't want our computers hacked.
Only if they attest that they are "uncomfortable with the guest" as their reason for canceling. Abuse of any type of cancellation in general on the host side will trigger thresholds for follow up action. This type of cancellation is not the norm.
This point is dead-on and the key distinction between ridesharing (or really, ride-hailing) and carpooling.

With Scoop, for example, all the people who Driver are just everyday folks. They're commuters like you, me, and the Riders they get matched up with. The economic incentives are like a bonus - where the real value is the improved time in the car and the time savings from the carpool lane (where applicable). And of course, other benefits around sustainability and parking that really impact and motivate some commuters.
i have to assume that would put you at at least $70k. Would you take another $70k bump? Or $100k bump?

Everyone's marginal utility is different, of course. An extra $20k a year wouldn't have much impact on my life, but an extra $150k would, and I'd make sacrifices to handle it, because it would have a larger/faster impact for my family's plans.
> I thought 'staffer' was only used when talking about people working in government or for a political party.

Nope.

> Aren't 'staff' or 'employees' just as good for the headline?

No. Staff has a different connotation; as a mass noun, it implies things that are true generally* of the staff. “Employees” would be about as good as “staffers”; the latter is shorter, though, which often is preferable in headlines.
If it was growing 100% per year do you think the ggp would be interested in selling?
These laws already exist as part of Sarbanes-Oxley but aren't as strict as what you're proposing. Certain public companies are required to implement safeguards that prevent most employees from having access to customer PII(personal identifiable information). Non-public companies don't have to comply with SOX regulations but maybe some of them should be expanded to include large private companies.
No idea why you're getting downvoted.

Sincerely,
A person who uses MacOS and games on a console.
I don't think it does, in part because the list is stuffed with platitudes. Except #9, which is awfully convenient.
> Here, they are literally being rewarded for failure,

Because who else would 'risk' so much - like only getting a $400k bonus instead of an $1m bonus? It takes special character and fortitude to steel yourself for such challenges!
What's notable but not stated in this article, is that the "collapse" is from peak, almost all are still way up from before their announcement.
What we've learned most at Scoop is that this is all about human experience. Commuters are regular people with regular, complicated lives - they have family obligations, schedules, meetings, work priorities, personal desires. Having accessible, thoughtful support is, to us, a critical part of that experience.

We believe that software can certainly scale your support efforts and solve a lot of the core problems / answer a lot of the questions. But commuting is an everyday, twice-a-day activity and having a place to go for questions and needs is natural.
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it's a performance point of view. You will never beat a binary format to transfer data over the wire. Sure it's not as debugable, but if you want speed you don't have much choice. HTTP/2 did the same thing and ditched the textual format of HTTP/1.
Very disapointing that with all that investment African has been left out.
He's proving just how slimy he really is. Facebook and Google are some of the few companies truly innovating and growing in the economy these days. The BANKS and PRIVATE EQUITY are the real menaces to society, rent seekers who take advantage of lobbying, bailouts, and interest free loans and other shenanigans from the Federal Reserve.
You mean doesn't.