skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What are the apps connected Dropbox with “App Folder Access” permission?
"App Folder Access" permission seems to be a better choice for user privacy, but are there apps actually adopts the permission? or some successful/unsuccessful stories with fined tuned privacy settings like this?
Ubuntu. Because it's an old laptop and that it's not Windows makes no more difference on a laptop than it does on an iPhone. Because really messing something up would require sudo'ing and if your children do that it is a good thing. Because Ubuntu is supported and Vista isn't. Because the likelihood of malware is lower (not that it is terribly high on a well maintained Windows system these days). Because the difference between Excel and OfficeLibre doesn't matter at that age.

Good luck.
Windows Tablets Aren’t Competitive with the iPad Pro
I did that when I was younger.

Nowadays, we do weekly shopping. No way I would do that with public transport.
Entirely correct... but only for media outlets and advocacy groups I disagree with, of course! </sarcasm>
I believe its Douglas Crockford:

https://github.com/douglascrockford/DEC64
This is disappointing to read, but an understandable point of view from someone who isn’t into their cars.

The issue is there are two kinds of modders: those who mod for the track and those who mod for street racing. I’d bet that OP has experienced the latter and not the former, hence the negative comment.

There is a massive group of car modders who build their cars for the track. We understand that the road is not the right place to drive fast, and that there is almost no advantage in doing so. We seek faster lap times which often requires improving features of the car such as tires, brakes, suspension, stiffer anti-roll bars, gearboxes, clutch, seats, weight reduction, etc...
To clarify, you are saying 'the Internet didn't make us dumb, but now the dumbest of us now have equal access to a microphone'. Is that a correct reading of you?

If so, that's interesting. Because of feedback loops at multiple levels...

Your last sentence is interesting. You appear to be saying that people might not believe the stuff spewing from their very own fingertips...
IIRC 40% is enough in most markets to have “monopoly” charges stick. I know, pretty low bar..
There is official port of arduino for some nucleo boards. I've chosen one for making commercial product. I can use arduino libraries for prototype, and if it won't fit my needs I can always go with C.

Arduino port is just wrapper around stdperiph HAL...
>The problem, I think, is that you are phrasing it such that the intrinsic differences are assumed.

I happen to assume them, based on everything we know about biology and various species, and how human life on earth developed for several thousands of years.

I also know that it's difficult to take any grants and have any sort of career outside of fringe right-wing sponsored institutions if your research is to chance upon any of such "intristic differences" today, so I take modern findings in soft-sciences on the matter with a grain of salt.
My native Italy is voting today. The rise of anti-immigration sentiment and fascist nostalgics is horrifying, they’ve put out a very slick and savvy campaign.
We learn that there are no absolutes when using quantitative methods to measure human actions.
Yeah, but upon the public at large, or among more sophisticated audiences?
The actual study link is http://ceepr.mit.edu/publications/working-papers/681 but the full text is "for sponsors only":

> As a benefit to our Associates, the latest Working Papers are embargoed for a period of up to six months before becoming accessible to the public.

The list of associates can be found here: http://ceepr.mit.edu/support/associates
Much less scientific but interesting nonetheless: Mr Money Moustache ran some numbers on driving Uber and they are Not Pretty either.

It's not even hard to find the relevant data on amortization and such: relevant government agencies will tell you what they think is reasonable. In Canada, that'll be this page. https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/busines...

> The automobile allowance rates for 2018 are:

> 55¢ per kilometre for the first 5,000 kilometres driven

> 49¢ per kilometre driven after that

The logic goes -- you can be pretty sure to spend at least this much on your car, the taxman won't allow you to deduct more... So using these numbers, you can check the average Uber trip distance length, the time it takes you to drive it and the number of trips a month to figure out how much you are making. UberX in Toronto pays you 81 cents per km and 18 cents a minute. The Toronto minimal wage is currently 14 CAD an hour. If you do quite well and spend 30 minutes driving at a 30km/h average speed then you made 4.8 dollars on the per km part (.81-.49) x 30/2 and 5.4 dollars on the time part .18 x 30. The minimum fare won't save you because they don't deduct the 49¢ per kilometre car cost obviously.

Note https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/11/22/mr-money-mustache... used the rough equivalent of 40 canadian cents/km for the same cost above we used 49c for -- it's not too outlandish, everything in the US vehicle wise is cheaper and there's some guessing involved anyways.
It's more likely they don't hold as long term the rage and emotion they initially punched out their views with, rather than the views themselves.
Everyone thought I was some self taught computer genius. The reality was I wanted to play Wing Commander without having to choose between having sound or a using joystick. Autoexec.bat, config.sys, and himem.sys and an insane amount of time is all it took.
Jolla is very much in survival-mode. Their priority is to build a sustainable business. Making Silica open source is not aiding that sustainable business in the short term.

Be aware, making software open source involves a lot of work. You don't just throw stuff over the fence and be done with it. You need to maintain it, review and apply patches, answer questions, write docs. That doesn't come free, and doesn't help the cause of surviving in the short term.

Just look around at all the businesses that have failed to make a sustainable business out of mobile linux phones. Ubuntu Touch is dead, and forked into UBports. Firefox OS is dead, and forked into something else. Purism has a good marketing team, but they are just starting. It is not easy to create a sustainable business out of this. And users are very critical and often demand feature parity with iOS and Android.
The median is better for things like pay as it removes the extreme outliers - I doubt you'd like it if your negotiation for a pay increase was denied because your lavishly remunerated c level execs skewed the average.
Thanks for introducing this to me!
Nothing. But learning that different assumptions yield different results is useful in its own right. It tells you that this study is not capable of answering the question it set out to answer, and you will need to do a better study.

Perhaps you have come across interval arithmetic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic
The answer is that it has not passed any peer review, it is a "working paper" only available to "associates" of MIT-CEEPR: http://ceepr.mit.edu/publications/working-papers/681

If you read the back-cover of any of these CEEPR working papers, it includes a disclaimer stating that they have not passed any peer review:

CEEPR releases Working Papers written by researchers from MIT and other academic institutions in order to enable timely consideration and reaction to energy and environmental policy research, but does not conduct a selection process or peer review prior to posting
Amazing. I love seeing when lcamtuf stuff comes up here. Michal's classic paper on strange attractors in tcp randomness, and later, RNGs is still my favorite security research of all time.

It made some concepts in crypto accessible enough to pursue a career related to it and demonstrated how you can use data viz to reveal information, and not merely to represent it.

His comment about his father being a cinematographer who worked on large productions in Poland made me wonder if his father worked with Kieslowski, owing to his being of the few productions of the time and region that would be considered big ticket. If that were who he was making reference to, in addition to his inspirational research, the indirect impact this family has had on at least my life (as an obscure nerd in Canada) would be extra astounding.
Its economics its not called the dismal science for nothing
Depends where in US, it's not all roses. I would not enjoy trying to park in south Manhattan, without having a rented space.

I live in Europe, though.
Does anyone use emacs with colemak or dvorak.? The default key bindings seem unintuitive with it.
Uber Co-founder is about to launch his own crypto-currency
every day

I use k/q on and off and after a couple of weeks away, you basically need to relearn it. The massive advantage of R and Python is even after time away, it’s still perfectly legible.
> almost always reflected the ideas of the existing system.

The existing system has reflected the liberal democratic ideas (ideals in plural).
Well this is reknown here in Italy, not an urban legend at all, a Fiat 500 (the original model of the 60's) with a Porsche 911 3.2 liter engine:

https://www.omniauto.it/foto/19417/fiat-500-porsche/302209

Now (after having fitted a Ferrari engine) have made another one with a Lamborghini V12 engine (Italian, but not bad at all via Google translate):

http://motori.ilmessaggero.it/news/news_fiat_vecchia_500_pi_...
apache benchmark (ab) is a good alternative for simple test scenarios
I've done Chumpcar before, as a car/team owner. It's a great experience but not as cheap as they make it out to be (ie "just put a roll cage in an old car and go race").
"Halt and stop resisting, citizen 9874653792! Google has observed you engaging in the consumption of unauthorized plants. Prepare for re-education factory enrollment."

What could possibly go wrong?
There are millions of women out there that don’t watch videos of handbags and jewelry and mascara, as there are millions of men who don’t watch sports or cars or whatever.
The simplified version is that if buy 1500 tickets one of those will win you 1000$ and 1500/54=27 tickets will win 50$ each for a total of 2350$
I do. I actually found the defaults to be more comfortable with Dvorak. Which chords feel unintuitive to you?
An Analysis of CEEPR’s Paper on “The Economics of Ride-Hailing”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16513089
I had to search that couple of days ago

https://github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning

https://github.com/brson/rust-anthology/blob/master/master-l...
For the British English claim, I have no source nor can I find one. It's what I was taught long ago and that the Fowler brothers use it implicitly in all of their series.

However, I do have a rebuttal to your style guides. They are only that: descriptivist style guides. They clash with one another and are nothing more than another dialect of English. Whereas Loweth's English Grammar, the recognized beginners in English prescriptivism standard, does not recognize proper adjectives.
I carry a Bluetooth keyboard with me anyway so this sounds like the way to go. Or to skip the chroot bit (so things like '/etc/hosts' can be edited). Maybe 2:1 tablets with the detachable keyboard could be an option, however, why learn a new keyboard, a cramped one at that?
Of course, stacked odds! Thank you
Is that true? What about Vimeo, Dailymotion, and the countless streaming sites which pop up to serve pirated content?

I don't doubt serving video to an audience as large as YouTube's is very expensive, but then with an audience as large as YouTube's there's a lot of money to be made. Bandwidth cost scales with views.

Surely YouTube's advantage is a network effect. They make it easy and quick to upload videos which then have the potential to be viewed millions or billions of times. Plenty of people use Vimeo, but there's not the same potential for virality.
SimCorp is the largest industrial user of APL I know of. They even own part of Dyalog. They mostly use APL for business logic written by domain experts (primarily people who studied finance), while infrastructure and GUIs tends to be written in C# by trained programmers.
Depends on how often you release and who sets the schedule.
Assumptions are an essential part of science. Any modelling study (that's what this was) starts with a collection of assumptions (even true for ab initio simulations). Those assumptions are literally coded into the analysis. They should also be clearly stated in the analysis writeup.
String theory is still just a speculation by some theoretical physicists, albeit some of them high profile. It's not part of a model accepted my mainstream physics so bad comparison.
not much, which is a big part of the problem.
I do live in Central Europe.

However, the people who consider that hurdle are usually young people, living alone. Their focus now is to enjoy the life, travel, socialising, etc.

In a few years, they will have partner, kids, and they will find out, that the car saves them a lot of time. It they can do in 10 minutes, what used to take 45? Sure, bring it on. That's exactly the reason why I and my similarly aged friends got the cars: the day has only 24 hours, and compared to that, car-related costs are only an expense, and quite a small ones in the bigger scheme of things.
It's worth noting that for highly-compressible types of files, if you do need to use base64 for some reason it's still more space-efficient to compress first (before base64). If you can compress to 2/3 the size, base64 will only bring it back to the original size again.

This mainly applies when you have to transmit binary data using a text-based format like JSON or XML. I've also used this before to build a shell-script-based installer, where a compressed archive is base64'd in a variable.
It's very easy to take what we have for granted, you soon accept it as the norm. I'm not sure what the answer is, perhaps some enforced hardship now and then to remind us how things were.
Yes. This isn’t about open source idealism. You are teaching them job skills. MS Word is a useful job skill.
Interesting, shame it's iOS only. I'd pay $30USD per year for their free offering if it had a linux client.

edit: I see they have a web client coming soon. I'll keep it bookmarked, thanks!
It looks like the "Sign up for Beta" button is disabled.
If you buy 40500 tickets. 750 of them will win $50. 27 of them will win $1000. As a result, you spent $40500, and gained $64500. That's a nice guanranteed 59% gain assuming you have enough cash on hand to pull this off (in less than a week's time and effort).
> In normal situations where manual intervention is required, I believe the plan is to have a Waymo employee drive it remotely, not have the passengers drive it.

What if the car doesn't have a network connection for whatever reason?
Minor nitpick:

> he bet even more on the next roll-down, $8,000, and won $15,700, a 49 percent margin.

Winning $15,700 on an $8,000 wager seems like a 96 percent margin to me, not 49. (Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with betting jargon; might well be that you express margin as (your winnings minus what you paid) as a percentage of your winnings, but seems weird to me...)
I find them incredibly annoying and I'm not willing to lower my quality of life to have a kid. No regrets at all, people told me when I was a teenager that I'd change my mind one day but nearly 20 years later I'm still of the same opinion
We learn that the outcome we care about is highly sensitive to the initial assumptions and we should get data on those assumptions.
https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork
I'm in the camp that says the earth's carrying capacity is much higher than anything we're likely to reach.

I also believe that fertility rates are strongly tied to development, so that this problem will sort itself out if global development continues (especially in sub-Saharan Africa -- see maps [1] and [2]).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PP...
I do feel that the German auto industry is in better shape for the EV challenge than what is happening in Italy and France.

In both 2015 and 2016, the Renault Zoe was the second best-selling European plug-in car, and quite close to the BMW i3.
Here's a pretty good explanation of exactly how the study calculated the number it did, it's pretty embarassing:

https://medium.com/uber-under-the-hood/an-analysis-of-ceeprs...

I'd previously read a paper by an economist using Uber pay data to analyze gender wage gaps. The numbers they had for both men and women were way higher than this study and it's usually best to trust administrative data over self reports.

https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf
I've got the GPD pocket, haven't had much time to use it because of a baby being around (she's pretty interested in it though).
i wish the keyboard was better, I would probably use it more if it was.
Still lot more common than hw support for dec64
The advantage conferred by an Ivy League degree isn't really the education. It's access in the form of legitimacy signaling and in the form of an alumni network that includes powerful and well-connected people.
Since you bring up abortion, drugs, and gun laws, I think a lot of the blame goes to the erosion of federalism in the U.S. It used to be more possible to roll your eyes and walk away when people from California or Texas (or wherever) passed ludicrous or outrageous laws. Making everything a single national issue actually ratchets up the conflict, especially in a country as diverse as the United States.

There is some hope, though, in that at least the drug laws seem to be moving back to a state-level issues (depending on what the Attorney General can get away with).
How I built a crypto currency news aggregator
That would be great, if not having the ability to drive was the only reason you wouldn't normally send a 7 year old out on their own in a car to travel a number or miles without an adult present.
> The law is very specific about the fact that it permits the title "Ingenieur" only to graduates of technical or natural scientific fields

At least in the case of BW, Computer Science is clearly listed as one of the possible fields: "[...] wobei dieses Studium überwiegend von den Bereichen Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik geprägt sein muss [...]"
It depends what you value.

Measured by capacity for processing information? Much better.

Measured by incidence of cholera and dysentery? Much better.

Measured by the net increase in sublime human experiences minus human suffering? Much better.

I know a lot of people don't find these values very satisfying and are looking for something else though.

When you imagine a world untouched by humanity, what is the foundational good, the bedrock value that it represents?

Stability? A dead rock is stable, I don't think that's it.

Biodiversity? Biodiversity is just correlated with heat, highest around the equator where there's more abundant energy for systems to incorporate into replication. I don't think you just want a warmer planet.

Maybe sustainability? To preserve a habitat for humanity?

I just suspect inventiveness is more helpful for humanity's long term survival, of the sort you get from an abundance of people so that we can put some to work not just on farms, but on space stations.
Fixed focal length lenses are also easier to make. My Nikon 35mm is inexpensive, light, and takes great pictures. The downside is I have to zoom with my feet.
Decision analysis is the area which deals with this kind of problems: how to structure your decision processes
European Digital Rights EDRi is the closest equivalent to the EFF in Europe. EDRi is an association of civil and human rights organizations from across Europe. It has existed since 2002.

https://edri.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Digital_Rights

https://edri.org/members/ (EFF from USA is also a member)

GFF is more German centered organization. I don't know how it relates to other German organizations like https://digitalcourage.de/ and https://digitalegesellschaft.de/
My open letter
Is this the same technique described in this old TED video?
https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_rothemund_details_dna_folding
Rook: Cloud Native On-Premises Persistent Storage for Kubernetes on Kubernetes
> Plus, I miss the instantaneity of cartridge-based games.

I'm glad you said this in present tense, because yeah, there are still loading times from Switch cartridges, in some cases pretty bad ones. (Zelda shrine entrances, anyone?)

I was expecting instantaneous access like I remembered from the old days of cartridge systems but it is not to be, on the Switch at least.

Your ergonomic points, though, are definitely spot in. It feels good to use the system and it feels very well put-together. Nintendo has always been good at designing hardware, though - which is something that I think the other manufacturers still don't get 100% right. That, and the "just fucking play" experience that Sony and Microsoft refuse to give you.
Bytecoin Wallet
We developed a nice wallet project in Turkey. Just bytecoin wallets.

http://www.bcnturk.com
A truly fair study would also research the real income of 'normal' taxi drivers in the same places. Because normal taxis are generally also part of some kind of organization that takes a cut from their earnings. From the drivers point of view there might less difference then implied.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394027
Personally I've thought government and democracy both work best the more the local they get. The problem with that is there's just more inherent power when you have power over larger groups of people. If you have a fix or even a "fix" for a problem or even a "problem" then the temptation to implement it over the greatest number of people you can is extremely high. If it's a good idea (and why would do it if it wasn't?) why do it just for the city? Why not do it for the state or the country? And once you're doing something for (or to) everyone, how can you test to see if stopping that is a good idea?
Happy Colemak user here. I have been using Colemak for two years, and Emacs for a little more than one year.

However I use Spacemacs with Vim keybindings :D
Helicopters are generally safe, but Robinson helicopters are the exception, and are unfortunately incredibly common due to their comparatively low cost.
So driving for uber is better than the alternatives. What's the problem? Uber is paying them and to them it's better than anything else ... isn't this a good thing?
There's a problem here, though. Drones can't autorotate, and autorotation is kind of an important safety feature for helicopters carrying humans.
How populist uprisings could bring down liberal democracy
Uber's complaint was that he assumed that when the questionnaire asked about the hours per week people worked across all on-demand services, their answer only included the hours they worked driving for companies like Uber, but that for the next question about money earned across all on-demand services their answer was their total income and should be multiplied by the percentage of their total income that came from driving given in a later question to get their Uber income. Those assumptions are basically incompatible with each other. See https://medium.com/uber-under-the-hood/an-analysis-of-ceeprs...
Statistical learning by using gradient descent on functions with a special structure, which significantly improved classification accuracy in the tasks some people tend to associate with intelligence.
We used cardboard spinners. A thumbtack was pushed through and bent over to form the pivot. We got the cardboard from the back of notepads of paper. Concentric circles had equal divisions to form the d4, d6, d8, d12, and d20 ranges.