skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before social media, it was much harder to find a group of people who have exactly your brand of crazy, and form an outrage mob. Now you can easily find your fellow Nazis, Communists or whatever, and make a big stink about anything.
> Google is no angel themselves. What they did to Windows Phone is no different than Amazon's behavior.

That's why breakups or heavy regulation needs to seriously considered for these companies. They have too much market power and have shown a proclivity towards abusing it in anti-competitive ways. The market has developed, and I don't think leaving it unregulated is working anymore.
>> BCG, a consultancy, reckons that by 2030 a quarter of passenger-miles travelled on America’s roads will be in shared, self-driving electric vehicles, reducing the number of cars on city streets by 60%, emissions by 80% and road accidents by 90%.

Besides the fact that it's obvious how these nice, tidy, exact-multiple-of-ten values are unlikely to be accurate, that last 90% in particular was totally pulled out of thin air and without any experimental, theoretical, or other justification whatsoever.

That's according to a study on the safety of self-driving cars, by the RAND corporation, Driving to Safety; How Many Miles of Driving Would It Take to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability:

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...

Quoting from that (bullet points, sidebar on first page):

Autonomous vehicles would have to be driven hundreds
of millions of miles and sometimes hundreds of billions
of miles to demonstrate their reliability in terms of
fatalities and injuries.

Under even aggressive testing assumptions, existing
fleets would take tens and sometimes hundreds of years
to drive these miles—an impossible proposition if the
aim is to demonstrate their performance prior to releasing
them on the roads for consumer use.

Therefore, at least for fatalities and injuries, test-driving
alone cannot provide sufficient evidence for demonstrating
autonomous vehicle safety

In other words, forget about knowing with any degree of certainty how much safer autonomous vehicles are than humans (or even if they are safer at all) before they actually hit the road. And let's all admit that if we're eager to see self-driving cars in mass use, it's because we think the tech is cool and not because of any justified belief in their safety.
What's fuelling the potential Bitcoin mining boom in Canada
One could say that electing an unqualified reality TV star as president was one way of expressing outrage at the status quo. It's all a matter of perspective.
The problem is that the initial, flawed findings fit the biased narrative that the many in the media (both traditional and social) prefer to perpetuate. As a result, the surveys and stories that support their biases get top billing as headlines for days or weeks. People are often so eager to hear claims that support their beliefs that they don't investigate the credibility of the claims.

When the truth comes out, the same media outlets will likely do nothing and at most will publish a small redaction (same goes for individuals who spread this on social media). I have no expectation that the true nature of this study will be widely reported or nearly as promoted as the initial false results.

The world needs more rational skeptics. We have to hold each other accountable by ask probing questions about the nature of "facts" that are presented us. Seek truth.
Bill Maher is one of the clowns they used to get democrats to support killing innocent Middle Easterners after 9/11.
You need to maintain it, review and apply patches, answer questions, write docs

I don't understand this. None of that is necessary at all in order to release the source code. Just make it available to download. Heck, you can even "protect" it (nominally) with a download code that you ship along with the device, like you find with music.
My entire argument in favour of the OpenPandora pretty much boils down to this: http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=package.starcra...

I mean... what else do you need?

I've never had much success programming on it, though. Not for want of trying. I even ported Propeller IDE for giggles. I think I've just never given the keyboard enough time to build up any sort of muscle memory with it. This is the same issue I have with the GPD Pocket- as much as I love the size and aesthetic, I'm convinced the keyboard will render the thing useless and relegate it to the bottom of my plastic tub of technology remnants.
>"Uber is not a full time job for a lot of people"

I don't know this to be true without seeing a citation. In Seattle and Maui (two places I've used a car service recently), it has seemed to me at least the Lyft drivers I've encountered were all full-time drivers.
He is just getting his feet wet with this first ev project.
Looking forward to his next one!

This won’t be his last electric build, either. Next up, he’d like to build a full-size version of an RC10 radio control car. That’s our kind of toy, for sure.
I remember the lack of region lock being a boon for the GBA and DS. The game "Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan" was popular in Japan, but Nintendo refused to localize it. It became an import favorite in the West, driving up prices on eBay and the like. Nintendo took notice and eventually made Elite Beat Agents as a Western-tailored sequel / successor to it.

Additionally, when Phoenix Wright first got localized for the DS, the print run was very small. Someone realized that the English script was already embedded into the Japanese version of the game--you simply had to go to the language options and toggle a button to switch it to English. This made importing a popular option for people who couldn't find--or didn't want to wait--for the Stateside version. I remember vividly discussing with my brothers whether we wanted to "risk" waiting for the US edition and not being able to find one, or importing and having to deal with toggling the language at every startup.
You only have to convince five! And you're right, that doesn't seem too difficult. Getting the supreme court to unanimously agree on something would be a miracle.
Good summary, except that you are understating the fatal and very significant mistake in Wiles' original argument (which involved Euler systems), and the difficulty in fixing it. Also, Richard Taylor helped enormously in coming up with a new argument (using deformation theory) that actually worked...
Part of the problem is ugly or inadequate defaults. I wish more UX and UI designers contributed to open source projects.
Even then you need to vet it beforehand, if it all legal and clean to offer as open source download.
But my main question was: The system that handles my bank account is it written in SQL only (or mainly)? I really don't know, because I have never seen the source code of such a system.

For the average cashier / checkout system I would doubt that, although again I have never seen the source.
Local retail stores are always an option, plus you get to make your decision based on more than a grainy or staged picture and likely faked reviews.
If there truly are no differences between men and women and these traits get one to the top of the food chain, why are feminists demanding that workplace becomes more feminine (women friendly) so women can make it to the top without exhibiting said traits?
Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class
The fundamental problem with the author's premise, to use your example, is that the effort needed to climb to the top of a mountain every day, is ridiculous.

There's no outsized value in washing your clothes by hand every day, week, month. It's monotonous, very time consuming and physically punishing. There's also similarly no value in cutting your entire lawn by hand. These things are not comparable to climbing a mountain, which you're going to do rarely.

If you have to climb a mountain every day, take a vehicle. Your body will thank you. And so will your loved ones, because climbing a mountain is extremely time consuming, so you'll never see your loved ones again.
Uber's already a scam to begin with. It's not a bad thing to force them to compensate properly within the law.

1. It is employment, not a contract. They punish you if you don't do X hours a week.

2. They don't pay minimum wage, or other employment things like workers comp, unemployment tax, or others.

3. They actively seek to undermine all laws that protect the taxis and the citizens who ride.

4. They actively encourage lack of awareness with regarding commercial driving and the law. If one does not have commercial insurance, you are driving uninsured. If in a traffic incident, your license will be suspended.

It's just another company trying to socialize the risk and privatize the profit. And they're socializing the risk on the poor and needy by giving them hope and screwing them in ways they don't understand.
Please share the Karabiner replacement you are using
I spoke to several people during the election who expressed this sentiment. One said they hoped he would do "as much damage as possible." It was definitely a FU vote to many people.

Unfortunately the establishment has not gotten the message so I fear it will escalate.
There are loading times because it’s basically a solid state disk masquerading as a cartridge. The GBA was the last handheld Nintendo made where the cartridge actually mapped directly into CPU space.
Well, there was the tea party.

My question was about the original Boston Tea Party. Can we claim our country was founded on outrage?
Updating the Mac Twitter client to support 280 character tweets
The Return of an Old Friend
From a users perspective android doesn't really count as Linux.
I'm sure you're not claiming that society is no more polarised today than it was 30 years ago - but that's what it appears you're claiming.

If you agree that polarisation has become more extreme, then no, it's not 'dumb'
Never heard of this before. Looks like a great tool.

Check out the demo in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515299
> the Democrat's identity politics caused the Trumpian identity politics as a backslash

Trump's campaign made sure to groom this backslash and harvest the maximum amount of polarization from it. As did Hillary's campaign on the other side.

The next step in "bettering society" seems to be creating some kind of resistance towards that thing.
Bernays was a genius, probably evil, but a genius nevertheless. His Wikipedia page is a worthwhile read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Ask HN: What money management software you're using in your outsourcing agency
Hello fellow companies! :D

Can you point me to some software names?

In our company we want to improve our financial intelligence and wonder what software is used around the IT industry for money management & reporting?

P.S. We're looking for something which can help us with:

- make income estimates per client; contractor

- compare estimates with actual earnings

- have reminders for payments

- create invoices based on estimates

- handle multiple currencies

- have access control layer for transparent money management within an organization.

Have you stumbled upon something like that? Or you're using your own solution?
It’s interesting to see how it’s all played out. Fox News of course has only shown students blaming the FBI and pushing for armed teachers, also criticizing CNN. CNN has pretty much only shown the student activists pushing for gun control. And every network is out there for ratings. If they weren’t they wouldn’t be pushing the gore and brutality along with constantly talking about the perp, as you mentioned.
And... a link to learn more:

https://www.amazon.com/Grieving-Sacred-Art-Spiritual-Living/...
>> The first time an autonomous vehicle is involved in an accident that kills a few kids, you'll have a Challenger level probe to figure out what happened and probably a whole revamp of safety measures.

Although I have serious reservations about the safety of autonomous vehicles, or at least our ability to predict it (see earlier comment referencing a RAND corp study of the subject) I'm afraid that running over kids with an auto-car is not going to be such big news as it perhaps should be.

For instance- can you remember the first time in history when an automobile ran over a child, or even several children at once? Rhetorical question- you most likely can't. Because it was never such a big issue to go down in history as the "Minors Motor Massacre" or whatever. And there most likely was no Challenger-level probe into the whys and wheretofores of that first time, either.

Besides, remember that, for many, many decades people drove around in cars that had no provision for driver safety. For instance, seat belts were first adopted by big car manufacturers in the early '50s and made compulsory by law for the first time in the '70s. It's clear that most of the world cares a lot more about fast, efficient transport than about safe transport.
I have an applied mathematics background and I find it quite amusing that the descriptions of this article are so opaque and inscrutable that the ten-plus comments here are all penned by people that are absolutely fixed by what concept the article is trying to express (including myself, incidentally, even after checking the original paper because it’s a totally different domain and level of sophistication compared to my zone).
Sorry, I got this mixed up with the counterfeit chromecast devices that Amazon is ignoring. Its hard to keep track of all the anti-competitive stuff Amazon is doing lately. ;-)
Offshore windfarms: how the 'suction bucket' technique works
Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite?
> What items are people buying that are so frequently counterfeit?

This is exactly my question too.

> I've probably spent an average of $50+/week on Amazon for the past several years and have never once received a counterfeit item.

I’ve been averaging >$2k/month for about ten years (combined personal and business purchases) and have never had a counterfeit product, even in categories that others claim have rampant counterfeits.
I do too, but I mostly know people who live in a city center, or a close suburb. I saw the statistics about the various commute mechanisms recently, and it was an interesting reminder that my intuition about this was way off (I would have guessed 50%+ public transport, when it's really 70%+ car).
What problems are not about that?
Lovely idea. I used to use emacs with Firefox via plugin many years ago and I still miss it. Hope one day you can figure out Windows!
Another massive crypto theft?  What can we do?
>> I would love to bet in favor of the article.

Bet money, or bet life and limb?
I don’t think educational attainment would be a good proxy. A lot of the best jobs, like CEO or hedge fund manager, don’t require even a college degree.
What are the precedents?
Director of Innovation of the Good Food Institute Discusses Clean Meat
The entire founding team has literally no experience (or really any advanced, post college education), outside of working in cafes and small newspapers. CTO's LinkedIn is just this job.

Not that experience is tantamount to success, but this isn't a simple undertaking.
Performance of Performance Reviews
Ish. I still can't do a pointe, even though I've been sucking at it for [redacted] years.
I wonder if Google would ever bring the author of this book on to their campus for a talk about some of the biological differences between the sexes? I'd love to be in the audience for that presentation.
Must have been nice. In '82 I got a third-party 600 baud (nonstandard, can't recall the brand) modem which was better than 300 and Atari hadn't come out with a 1200 yet.
I’m sorry but I don’t believe that at all. Sure there are large groups pushing for change in certain areas but it’s significantly more likely these kids held these views before and now have an opportunity to voice them to a large audience. If you believe these kids really have no intention then you also need to believe Kim Davis the homophobic champion of the right or the cake bakers also did what they did and continue to do only at the urging of backing groups. I believe these people truly believe in their various causes, and while it’s possible some larger groups helped shaped them, I don’t think any of it can be called a scam.
As far as I can tell, parent mentioned Noodle Pi five months ago, and today is only the second time. Compared to that, I’m the biggest Apple shill around.
Sorry, I was looking at older data. Or maybe that's a 16% rate on 0.5% of their actual profits....

https://www.theguardian.com/business/ireland-business-blog-w...

https://www.zerohedge.com/article/how-googles-refusal-pay-us...
Plenty of programming problems are non-transformative, anything interactive for one. If you want to see attempts to make it transformative, there is pure FRP (not the fake kind, see Antony's Courtney's dissertation as a good example of how weird this looks at an extreme) and lenses. In either case, it feels like trying to shoe horn one solution to a problem into the wrong kind of abstraction. Much of the today's web work is also non-transformative.
Lacking from this article is the discussion on SolarPunks. [1] Tech optimists for a green future vs cyberpunks and anarchoprimitivists like those mentioned in the article.

However, as with the closing remarks of the article, we have to be careful about how technology affects society.

> The realisation that technological change isn’t always beneficial nor inevitable is long overdue, and that doesn’t mean jettisoning all the joys associated with modern technology.

[1]: https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2016/05/27/what-is-solarpunk...
Well, while I'm European, I can't say I speak for Europeans; I have no special knowledge. Take this with a big grain of salt.

You know the Elder Race trope in sci-fi? I think we Europeans think of ourselves a bit like that. Having suffered so much in both world wars, and having since mostly stopped fighting, we see ourselves as mature. Between the 50s-80s, we also mostly embraced a style of social-democracy with strong safety nets, which made us think of ourselves as compassionate. And our ancient heritage - cities, traditions, etc - make us feel wise.

Americans are seen a bit like the ancient Greeks and Romans saw the Barbarians. We might like some of you (hell, some barbarians were made into Roman emperors!), but you are still seen as violent and dangerous; be that due to your foreign policy (Vietnam, the Balkans, Iraq) or your way of life (love of guns, poor social safety net, anti-science beliefs, etc).

But the real problem is that you are powerful, and you use that power. The previous poster might be incorrect regarding that particular policy, but their misconception comes from the fact that the US has been forcing IP treaties (e.g. ACTA) on other countries. And it's not just those treaties, it's your products and even your culture. You mentioned Coca-Cola. You know how that used to be called in my country, especially during the more left-wing days of the late 70s? The "dirty water of imperialism". The fear of being Americanized exists - and it's not unreasonable.

But you should also know that the US is not seen as the source of all evils, that's probably just what reaches you. There's plenty of internal strife. In my country, during the crisis, the enemies were Merkel and Schaeuble, for example.
You can generate pdfs with headless Chromium/Chrome pretty easily.

chromium-browser --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=output_file_name.pdf file:///path/to/your/html
All that is necessary for this analogy to become literal truth is to classify blasphemy (perhaps only against selected religions) as hate speech.
Does anyone know why they haven't released a new version going on 8 years now even though it looks like it's been continually worked on according to http://source.dosbox.com/dosboxsvn.txt?
I didn't know how many of my second-tier friends, and friend-acquaintances, were assholes, belligerent politically, and or just downright mean when it comes to things they disagree with (small or large). It's a very odd thing to be exposed to so many of a distant person's thoughts on so many topics over years of time.

I think part of the aspect of Facebook sucking so bad now, is that people have become 'friends' with vast numbers of people that they really are not in fact friends with, and never would be. Previously they would have remained unexposed to all the things they don't like about said persons. Now that exposure is a daily event, and it makes a product like Facebook horrible, because it sinks to being a shit-show 24/7, where your thousand 'friends' on a network like that end up overwhelming the less than 20 or 50 people you'd ever care to communicate with regularly. What's the subtractive value of being exposed to one terrible post by an acquaintance 'friend' on Facebook? How many good posts does it take by your actual friends on there, to offset that negative? I'd bet it doesn't take being exposed to very many personally negative posts in a day to drop the Facebook experience into the sewer.

Fundamentally, I think this means that the hyper-connection experiment known as Facebook is doomed to fail (ie be a miserable product), unless you heavily restrict it down to a small core socially that you actually get exposed to. And then if you do that, is there any point to having the thousand 'friends' on your fake friends list to begin with (I'd say no).
OT, but this is the first time I have seen someone use Sway outside of Microsoft. Is Sway popular in APL circles?
Well, reaction time is not all you need to drive safely. You also -and in fact, first- need to be able to generate the right reactions. Otherwise, you'll just end up reacting in the wrong way very quickly. And causing accidents very quickly.

In fact, if you have an autonomous vehicle with the wrong reactions and very short reaction times, it will pose a much greater risk to agents with slower but safer reactions (like humans, or just safer auto-cars) who won't be able to get out of its way fast enough.
One might consider that the average drivers wage is highly depressed by a large number of people who are inexperienced or not very serious or not very smart at making money driving. I have a cousin who drives as his primary employment. If you have been driving for awhile, have an aptitude of understanding how to maximize your benefit in complex systems, and have a flexibility on when you work, one can do quite well. Knowing when and where surge is likely to happen. Knowing how to up your odds of getting a nice long trip on a freeway at your max Lux level when the traffic is clear. Having the skills and interest in buying used cars so you can get a good deal on the cheapest car that passes for UberXL or UberSelect. When and where to set your two daily destination options. Keeping up with all the bonus plans and other rules of all the ride sharing platforms in your area. Chatting up other skilled drivers to try to learn more tricks on upping your income.

It does not seem like such a bad idea for society to have some entrepreneurial like jobs that are easy to get but don't pay very well until one becomes good at it.
A question to self: Would I have done the same had I noticed the same kind of exploit? Probably not. I need to get off my ass.
Yes it's ironic that all our utilities ended up as state owned after all!
Give people the opportunity to fine sites for things they disagree with (Pay to show your outrage)

IE you donate money every month to a site and get to nullify (ie move it to a charity) some if you disagree with a particular article.

It could move more money to publishing and allow the punishing of clickbait articles where it hurts.

As compared to the current system based only on a reward model, even hate shares profit companies in a click for hits system.

It's hard to say as a model what it would do, but it could be quite positive.