skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They destroy them for brand protection.
See this comment: http://hankstruckforum.com/htforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=1e65b...

I once saw a heavy wrecker flatbed in the late 00's hauling three ex-ups trucks with standard shift to the scrap yard. They were hastily painted white with a roller to hide the UPS color and logo but you could still see the logo through the shoddy paint job and brown patches along the edges.
Less cynically, the reason we have to warn people about crackpots is that it's human nature to believe them.
The Redbox thing isn't about copyright infringement as far as I can tell. That's basically what the judge said, right? If I understand it, Redbox was selling unused licenses rather than infringing copies.

You're right though that HN does have an aversion to DRM. How many movies has it successfully kept off of pirate sites?
Do you know of a Qt app that looks and feels fully native on macOS and Windows and maybe iOS and Android?

I'm genuinely curious. Years ago, I used several Qt apps, and they never felt native. They felt like Java Swing or Delphi apps. Clunky and not pretty. Slack, to me, doesn't _look_ quite native, but it still doesn't feel like an outsider on the platform.

I imagine that using native Apple kits are easy from C++ thanks to ObjC interop, no idea about Android.
AirBnB has also made it pretty easy to use their service for business travel. If you're under cap, you could possibly upgrade to a better plane seat. Personally, I prefer a cheap hotel and a good plane ride. A lot of the old-school business travel services like fax machines and gyms I don't ever use anyway.
The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader
Yeah, it would really suck if those files installed by my operating system--the ones that are trivially verified and easily replaced as they are literally the same on every single computer--were to be damaged. Things are much safer if I run them as the user which owns all of my data and which I spend all my time logged in as, right? I mean, at least I haven't stupidly added any part of my home directory to my path, so I can trust that the software I am running was installed by someone running as root... oh wait :/.

The only reason root even exists on a computer that has two users (root and the user that owns all the data) is to make sure that no software is installed on the system except by root. If you have things set up to also let you install software as the user that isn't root, then you have somehow missed the entire point of peiviledge separation and should just log in as root and do everything as root, as that is at that point fully equivalent.
That's too low. It's 120-140. 150+ is generally principal level.
Just anti-trust, as in the opposite of trust--something committed or entrusted to one's care for use or safekeeping.

"I really don't trust FB with my data anymore. I actually anti-trust them."
Yeah, half of what I flag is political articles thinly disguised as tech or science articles.
Airfare
Same in France, the stores starting charging for plastic bags (even before the gov introduced a tax) in the early 2000s, and it dropped to 800 millions back in 2010, from 15 billion in 2003.[1][2] Since 2016 they're completely banned.

Glad to see that more countries took similar easy steps.

The E.U. is forcing every member country charge for those bags by the end of 2018, and to make sure on average people use less than 90 bags per person per year by end of 2019.

For comparison, Danish and Finnish use only 4, France 80, and Portuguese 400+ [3]

[1] http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2013/01/03/l-interdict...

[2] https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2003/12/04/202430-la-chasse...

[3] http://www.liberation.fr/france/2016/06/25/sacs-plastique-ce...
I signed up for it weeks ago but they haven't verified my ID yet and haven't responded to inquiries about how long it will take. It'll be 4 weeks this weekend. Also, their process to link my bank account felt like a scam - they required a huge amount of information that traditional banking institutions don't need to withdraw/transfer. It needed my bank account password(!) and all of my security question answers! Plus copies of my ID.
This is a very rehashed point; but just because these cars crash into things in stupid situations doesn't mean that they are less safe than what we already have. Shouldn't you already be giving semi-autonomous, fully-autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles wide berth?

I assume you mean rides [a motorcycle], which is ~35x more dangerous than driving a car according to Wikipedia, and I'm guessing driving a car is already the most dangerous thing people do in a day. They would be completely illegal if we worried more about safety than about cost-benefit ratios. Even if AutoPilot/SuperCruise vehicles are 10 times safer than regular drivers they are still going to take out the occasional motorcyclist.
And technically the "dot com boom" happened 30 years after the invention of the internet. So even by your strange standard we are still in early days.
Is it not worth just paying what it costs for a subscription?
Anyway, isn't that copyright infringement?
U.S. cities with the highest rents (median gross rent, ACS 2016)
I agree in principle, it's just that I'm pretty sure BTC is pretty useless for the things someone needs to buy on a day to day basis in Afghanistan.
I think a brief look at the wiki page for 'Anthropocene' tells us exactly what the invisible hand is up to.
https://www.dayssincenpmbroke.com/

accepting PRs:
https://github.com/Ashtonian/dayssincenpmbroke.com
Net neutrality rules will officially end on April 23
But then again, they don't seem to make any hard commitment as a result of said inspection, something like "everything is verified in person so if something is missing/wrong we book you in the nearest five star hotel for free", only a vague promise about a more trained customer support agent if something goes wrong. Does not seem very reassuring honestly.
I understand all that; but in terms of liability, safety is a binary issue. There will be tolerances for safety that can't be lessened because there's a tire in the road that wasn't mapped yet. "It wasn't mapped yet" won't be acceptable, so the vehicles will need to maintain a lowest-common-denominator safety profile at all times based upon their sensory input - not upon networked debris information.

The debris type information should only be useful in terms of routing.
Oh, for Pete's sake. Breaking up utility or transportation companies is one thing, but this is an entertainment company - not a provider of essential societal infrastructure. And there are still plenty of other companies making movies and comics and TV shows, including other very large ones; Warner Bros, for one, and NBC/Universal, for another. Disney/ABC/Fox has nowhere near a monopoly.
Async iterators operators and streams for JavaScript
All irrelevant to the comment: how 'pretty' the creek is, is not an ecological metric of merit. Its all about Ph, CO2, erosion and a hundred other things.
A rather simple practical example I'm working on right now: moving a Django app from 1.9 to 2.0. There are a few code breaking changes in 2.0. All I need to do is create a new virtualenv with Django 2.0 and I can just switch between both versions simply by changing the environment. I may even need to change some further packages that do not work with 2.0 yet and swap them for something else. I can do that in the new env. Then, when all is working, I export a requirements.txt from my virtual env and can quickly set up the very same virtual env on my production machine.
Browsed around to find an easy answer and left a bit confused, is this compatible with the original chromebook pixel?(both the ME flash and the OS mod)

I remember those having all kinds of driver issues and weird custom hardware that hamstrung efforts like this...
Effect of longer-term modest salt reduction on blood pressure (2013)
Tesla's Semi Truck Looks Surprisingly Fast
If making a language compiled is a magic bullet for speed, why isn't every language compiled? Because they have different levels of abstraction that lend their implementation to compilation or interpretation. You're just citing a specific example of one of the tradeoffs made in the language design that falls along those three axes.
Airbnb switched to a "double blind" review system several years go, so you only see the other person's review after you've written your own. If you don't leave a review within two weeks, the other review becomes public and you no longer have the option to leave a review. I did a search to see if there was any press about this, couldn't find much but there's a bit about it here: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/building-for-trust-503... "The result was a 7% increase in review rates and a 2% increase in negative reviews."
First thought was 'Who is Meltdown Fix, and why are they committed to OpenBSD?' *smh

Edit: Just meant to comment on the mild linguistic ambiguity in the title.
Excuse me if this question is too basic but how does a purely functional package manager work with a side-effectful package installation?

In Python (or basically any other language package manager) you can run arbitrary scripts (post-install etc) and so this doesn't lend itself nicely to a reproducible, functional approach.
The law firm will have a claim on the assets during backruptcy. They usually get paid before other creditors, but not sure where they rank vs the govt
It's the perfect comment. The technophobes will upvote because they think it's sarcastic and an anti-crypto comment and the techies will upvote because it matches their world view of crypto becoming an important part of our society.
I'm Italian. There are applications in the automotive field for a mostly disconnected device such as this one. If it can deal with a noisy environment like a car that would make it even more interesting.
Listen to Masters of Scale episode 1 (https://mastersofscale.com/brian-chesky-handcrafted/) to understand what is (seemingly) behind AirBnB's strategy for AirBnB Plus.
Highly recommended!
In Seattle, this already happens in many (all?) grocery stores.
UPS’s 50 seems very low for 2018 in comparison.

Depending on how your delivery business is structured (customer density, and what type of driver's license your drivers have) your efficiency may be constrained by (a) driving time/distance, (b) vehicle legal curb weight, (c) vehicle reloading time or (d) at-customer delivery time.

If your company is constrained by (a), (b) or (c) current electric vans will make that limiting factor worse. Post offices are mostly constrained by (d) which makes it easier for them to deploy electric vehicles.

None of these problems are insurmountable, but current electric trucks aren't drop-in replacements for diesel trucks.
They can afford it. They can also afford to put a man on the moon, but it isn't necessarily financially reasonable for them to do so. Think of Microsoft as a collection of teams, each team can't afford to spend "Microsoft" money on its project unless its strategically important. The fact that we don't have native app probably indicates that Microsoft thinks Skype is past its peak of popularity. Thinking of many competing products I understand why.
Waiting for serviced apartments to show up in the US like they do in Australia & Asia.

When I travel over there, I always do it. The amenities of the Airbnb, plus a front desk and a consistency + cleanliness.

AirBnbs are great, but they're still very hit/miss.
pipenv is basically the next level of this process: it records every install and locks only the things you installed rather than their dependencies which often change over time.
Airbnb employee here: Re: the check-in and on-demand requirement, this means that there is 24 hour check-in available vs. a pre-set check-in time that you would have to coordinate closely with a host. This would mean that there's a keypad, lockbox with a key and/or a doorman or local key person who will bring the key on demand when requested.
I'm sure they write lots of code. But I've heard, from people who would know, that the code quality in cars is pretty bad. That's what I meant by not being good at it.
On my OnePlus 5T the standard sort() was twice as fast as the radix sort for the UInt8 array, but it was only 30% slower for the Float64 and regular arrays, whereas sort() was hundreds of times slower - strange...
T-Mobile also went more or less IPv6-only a few years ago.
Did you read the article. It's very much about copyright, and I suspect this will get appealed.

In my opinion, the courts have this wrong on 2 fronts:

1. Redbox != Regular end customer, especially when the good in question contains DRM-ed digital content

2. Redbox doesn't have the authority to sell digital content they haven't produced, just like an iTunes user doesn't have the right to sell an MP3 purchased off iTunes.
Was any reasoning made public for this decision? It seems bizarre to have left the *BSD projects in the dark.
I think it's more that there is a big dangerous gap between semi-autonomous vehicles and fully self-driving cars, and car companies are trying to figure out where to draw the line. Tesla, I think, takes too many chances, and GM probably is erring so far on the side of caution that most people won't use it.

Personally, I don't really have any use for a self driving car that makes me pay attention to the road. The primary 'cost' of driving isn't that i have to move the steering wheel a bit, it's that I can't do something else when i'm driving.
How do you think they make money with a no commission service? Order flow has value.
U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art
It is mentioned in one of the papers (or possibly the doctoral thesis, which is nice as it gives an overview of the whole chain of improvements) that it can still happen but that it is much better compared to what they benchmarked it against (boehm, iirc). Hard to tell if it delivers what it promises though..
Industry insiders already know it: smartphones are old tech, wearables are new
Github paths can change way more easily than npm packages, users can rewrite git history + break your stuff and versioning when using it with npm is horrible.
NPM also now protects projects from namesquatting and prevents you from deleting them when multiple projects depend on them.
This is the kind of comment that really hits hard how unwilling tech workers are to stand up for ethics.

"My cog in the machine is not hurting anyone, why should I care" is how things get very, very bad.
Perhaps an additional feature to explicitly mark your post as "rebuttal"? Then only the non-rebuttals would inherit the downvote?
Enjoy it while you can. The Texas executive branch is trying to reverse that ban, along with every other single-use plastic bag ban imposed at the city level. See https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/11/texas-plastic-bag-ba....
DeviceID is not anon.
Show HN: How much is your org spending on SaaS?
Tesla's autopilot is functionally identical to a boat or plane autopilot. If a pilot or skipper relied upon autopilot as a full self driving system they would most likely be dead before the end of their trip.
Kerwin Rae & Gary Vaynerchuk
PostgresConf US 2018, Schedule nearly finalized
Absolutely, Im not stating otherwise. Im saying you shouldnt have your authentication inside your business logic. It should be a separate service. Limited access, and transparent to the application that is calling on it.

If you want that to be a REST service, great.

If you want it to be another table/schema/database/server, great.

If you want it to be something else, great.

Just stop putting it right inside the application that is taking user input.

Don't roll your own hashing, use something solid, like Argon2, salt your stuff. Store your salt someplace secure, not in your frigging rails config.yml or inside env on your webservers or anything else that is publicly addressable.
But where does the larger carbon footprint of reusable, or biodegradable items come from vs the one time use plastic versions? Theres a good chance a lot of it comes from power generation. If we have plentiful clean energy, then higher energy costs to manufacture things in ways to reduce waste results in a net good. So focus on the carbon footprint of the big stuff, while simultaneously reducing physical waste.
That's so different from my experience. I often read the comments on HN before the linked article. I generally find reddit comments, even in subs dedicated to topics I care about, to be garbage. In contrast, I learn a lot from reading HN's comments.
Is there any kind of diligence for seed investments? I know there is the obvious YC application process, with an interview or two. After that, are there background checks? References? Anything like that? I know there isn't much to do diligence on with companies that are often just an idea.
Notice he says he's excited about providing high-speed internet to "rural Americans."

So it's not for anyone who lives in an urban area. He'll be sure to outlaw it because radio signals might interfere with "emergency services" or some BS like that.
Note that even currently, lockfiles have the effect of locking you to an old version of the software. You could choose to automatically update all dependencies to latest in CI, but then by that token you can run vgo get -u, to get the latest versions here as well.

One of the issues which the vgo developers point out is that the "latest" behaviour has the perverse effect that a module A may declare a dependency of version 1.1 of a module B, and may have never been even tested on that version because the package manager always picked the latest.

In some sense, the vgo approach is saying that across hierarchy of module owners, each one should keep upgrading their manifest to the latest versions of their direct dependencies, and ensure that things keep working, rather than relying on the topmost module to pull in the latest of the entire tree of dependencies. This seems to be good for the entire ecosystem.
CA taxes haven't quintupled in the last year. Its always been high.
GalliumOS wiki is a good resource about this. They have your answer here:

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility

You can do the coreboot firmware without the ME mod entirely within the Chromebook itself without needing a Raspberry Pi as an external programmer. Only when you want to eradicate the ME do you need the Pi.

Hardware wise: It's Ivy Bridge. You can flash an Ivy Bridge with Raspberry Pi+Flashrom because its chip is 3.3V.
Ask HN: Is anyone willing to defend the manifesto for data practices?
I’m looking for people involved in the creation of the “manifesto for data practices” (datapractices.org). I have major ethical concerns about the document as written, which I’ve outlined here:

https://towardsdatascience.com/an-ethical-code-cant-be-about-ethics-66acaea6f16f

At its core, the document’s authors have committed the same kind of ethical breach that the document itself was designed to prevent: they’ve turned out a minimum viable product without fully considering the downstream harm the product could cause. The code rewards virtue-signaling - and nothing else - which allows individual data science practitioners to benefit from something other than actually doing their jobs well. That hurts the profession, and by extension, those who turn to the profession for solutions.

I’ve reached out to individuals in the Data for Democracy Slack channel where the document was drafted, and on Twitter when I see the document mentioned, but have not been able to find anyone willing to engage. Considering the bold claims with which the product is marketed (“the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork”), and the values enshrined in the document itself (“invite fair criticism while promoting...open discussion of errors, risks, and unintended consequences of our work”), I find this frustrating and concerning.

I’m not trying to be a jerk here. I have an honest concern about the ethical soundness of the document. If the people who wrote it actually believe they’ve created a viable and meaningful ethical code, they should be willing and able to defend it.

So, again, if you know anyone involved, please share this with them. If you were involved in the document, please address my criticism. We can have that conversation right here in this thread, or if you're not willing to talk publicly, reach out on Twitter (@SchaunW) and I can get you my contact info.

EDIT: Here's something you can retweet to point people to this page: https://twitter.com/SchaunW/status/966768206114361344 . Or better yet, use your own words.
Using C guarantees future employment. Someone needs to keep fixing the firmware until EOL.

(Embedded & device driver developer here).
Works great with the double blind system Airbnb uses
In general, inertial navigation has one significant difference over traditional dead reckoning: it is unaffected by currents. This is effectively irrelevant when traveling on land, of course, but then again, I don't recall seeing 'dead reckoning' being used to describe navigation on land.
Assuming their ID verification system is not down, which is rare.
The left-pad debacle was a registry issue but the current issue is an npm client issue. In my experience, NPM 5 client versions have been shaky and unreliable, and there are problems with popular ecosystems like react-native [0]. I always roll back to npm 4, even on node 9.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/14209
Unless you have native modules and are building on a machine that is different (windows, etc) from your deployment target.

And sure, there are ways around that too, but it's not always as simple as copying and pasting the dependencies.
New IdeaSpaceVR release v1.1.0 is out
It's only available in a small handful of cars and only works on certain roads. I have no doubt that one of these super-cruisers will be surprised by something and crash into it once they start racking up miles. Driving is dangerous.
Yeah I think this may be partly an issue of what people are used to. In most countries the dryers are terrible anyway so everyone hangs their clothes to dry.
Where I can read about this? I wish to have a solution that replace dockers and globally installed stuff for me (I need to manage python, .net core, ios/android and several rdbms) on osx/linux. Is nixos the way?
Most people? At the bottom of the windows laptop barrel you now see laptops with 32/64gb of EMMC storage and the guts of an Intel bay trail tablet.

These are acceptable for people who use their computer as a Facebook machine but "modern" software really taxes them.
>Your reading is purposefully uncharitable and makes it impossible to have these kinds of discussions rationally.

That's an assumption of bad faith. Now that is something that makes rational discussion impossible. You seem to see yourself as totally above the person talking with you, because you're just "rational". But you continually appeal to emotion yourself, and that emotion is fear:

"it's a slippery slope", "prohibitionists", "using the long arm of the law" (to describe a 5p charge), "regressive", "dangerous question","interminable lists of laws" etc
It requires a majority of trustworthy nodes to be online - it cannot deal with a force majeure, such as a massive power cut.
enjoying the brutalist-inspired design of the pdf
OpenBSD has a reputation for not respecting embargoes, even as recently as the KRACK wifi thing last year.

If you have a history of breaking embargoes, you're going to stop getting included in them.

Edit: Changed to reflect the explicit nature, as it seems the answer is not all BSDs ;)
If you have local land marks then you don't really need dead reckoning at all. Cheap dead reckoning sensors have so much error and drift right now as to be mostly useless for driving. The expensive sensors work but aren't economical for cheap passenger cars.