skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jan Koum Is entertaining. He was a frequent flyer and wanted to build an app that could tell people what time zone the person they are talking to was in, that they were on a flight, etc

He posted on flyertalk about it and got a "meh, you have to install something? Why bother?" response

5 years later, as a frequent flyer he was into collecting miles and using them on tickets, and he had managed to get business class flights to mobile world congress in Barcelona, but while the deal was going through to sell whatsapp to Facebook there were a couple of delays. Nothing major.

He thought to himself "these are non changeable tickets, they'd better get a move on", then reflected how absurd a position he was in.

1: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-tho...
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edit: I agree with other commenters that the NYT's labeling is a little too vague. My assumption is that the NYT wouldn't arbitrarily show the Uber vehicle in the far-right lane unless there was some factual basis. If it turns out the NYT did make an arbitrary choice, and Uber AV was actually in the left lane, then NYT needs to be called out to make a correction.

Frustratingly, so many stories make no mention of the lane. This is the only one I've found so far, and it's from the local news-weekly:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/federal-agencies-investi...

> The Volvo was in the lane nearest the curb, about 100 yards south of Curry Road, and going about 40 mph at the time of the collision. Initial evidence shows the vehicle didn't brake "significantly" before the impact.

My assumption is that the writer thinks "lane nearest the curb" is unambiguous to the average reader, which would mean the right-most lane. Because...why would average reader (who isn't looking at the accident scene right now) assume that the left-most lane on any road is "nearest the curb"?

However, from Street View, we see that there are curbs on both sides of the street -- i.e. the median itself has a curb: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4368426,-111.9428855,3a,75y,...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Excessive charges provide incentives to take a plea bargain.
Up front, I'm not an American of the USA variety.

I had a long argument with two Americans of the USA variety about tipping. The attitude they displayed about tipping was that it was "criminal" if a customer didn't tip. My argument was that, since I was NOT a party to the employment agreement between business and employee, I had no responsibility to make up any shortfall between minimum wage and what the business was paying the employee.

It was interesting that they felt very strongly that even though you, as a customer, were not part of the the business/employee employment agreement, you still had a moral obligation to ensure that the employees got their due. They could not understand that the employee was a representative of the business and that the charges for service (of whatever kind) to the customer were set by the business by their prices. Any other charges had to be up front (and not called gratuities).

The Americans of the USA variety do not seem to understand that a gratuity is a freely offered gift on the part of the person giving it and it is in no way a requirement to be given. Otherwise, it is not a gratuity.

It seems to me that the attitude towards tipping in the USA makes it one of the tenth world countries where the society has no concept of an employer paying an employee a fair wage for the work being done.

Now, I don't have a problem with tipping (at my discretion) for above and beyond the call of duty service. However, for normal service being provided by a business, it is not appropriate for that business and employees to have an expectation that I make up any shortfall in living wages agreed between business and employee.
The network effect is strong but it does not make FB use necessary or involuntary. You will not be put in a cage, fined, beaten, fired, etc, for not using FB.
Most people consider it a racial identity I think, it depends on the person. I have some jewish friends that might identify themselves as jewish, and some that might identify as both jewish and white. Seems that in practice its a ratial identity first and a religion second. One friend doesn't follow the religion whatsoever, but has jewish blood so is technically jewish, but still overall identifies as white.
Whatever it is, it's the same thing that a breach is. So either call it a breach or invent a new word for it. In any event, calling it a breach results in treating it with the degree of seriousness it deserves so I don't see a reason to not use that word.
Would you say the same about gambling software? What about software related to selling heroin?

All of these products are designed to be as addictive as possible (to varying degrees). The whole point of of an addiction is that your are there voluntarily. (Not saying facebook is as bad as the things above, just that they are all designed to addict.)
Right, but that's nothing to do with types in general, mostly just Java and friends with unimaginative type systems.
I just put CloudFlare in front of my soon-to-be-live consulting WordPress instance. Should I still use these methods or is CloudFlare [mostly] enough?
> If rumors are to be believed mass resignations are coming.

Is this just inside knowledge, or has it been published anywhere yet?
Dunno. I just deleted mine, was sort of annoying not being able to find mobile phone numbers or emails for people I'd like to stay in touch with. I think that it'd be good to have a script that scrapes facebook id's, names, mobile numbers etc from your friends list, or some automation to prepare for deleting your account.
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Sexist because men aren't welcome? While it would be the case that a social network for men could be considered sexist and maybe this represents a double standard, I'm sure there is a very good argument for why networks like Leap aren't sexist, just as there are good arguments for why pro-diversity hiring policies are not necessarily racist.
> It's very hard to imagine a scenario in which a 49-year-old woman walking her bike manages to cross 3 lanes of traffic so quickly that the Uber AV, moving at 40 mph, had no time to react [...]

(Pure speculation follows)

I wonder if it possible that the problem is that she was moving too slowly for it, not too quickly?

If for some reason it could not get a good read on the component of her velocity parallel to the lane, it might mistake her for another vehicle moving at similar speed to the Uber, and then see her transverse velocity component as being due to normal drift within the lane. It would read the situation as a normal passing situation, not someone about to enter its lane.
There's no problem with doing anti-aliasing digitally later based on samples you have collected. You don't need some kind of physical analog device to do it.
It seems pretty common after a newsworthy crash for there to be a lot of uninformed speculation.

Investigations take time. Just like with airplane crashes, it's probably best to ignore everything about this incident until we see the results of the investigation.
No, the debtor should eat the default, and the lender, with insight into aggregate market conditions, should take their default rates into consideration when advising institutions on pricing.
Where did you hear this, and what's the reason? Just various rats taking their millions or billions and getting out while the getting a good?
Can anyone recommend a good probiotic product?

There are tons of them, and the article doesn't really mention anything specifically.
Alert: this comment may be seen as self serving.

I work on an app that has been gaining popularity precisely because it's a way to keep in touch with family and friends with no social media aspect (called Marco Polo, a video walkie talkie). I'm curious if there is going to be enough of a backlash to return to more organic face to face (and actually interactive) communication versus broadcast mode and pretending to be something that will seem impressive. That seems to be true of our users anyway.
It's: we'll do as you do.

Here is the tariff picture around the world for example:

https://i.imgur.com/ucahKjK.jpg

It's time for the US to start reciprocating trade behavior. Just look at those agriculture tariffs that nearly everyone else is using.

No eyes are in fact lost. The US increases the amount of goods it produces domestically and reduces the amount that it imports (ideally buying less consumer junk from China), which is entirely feasible now that China's manufacturing costs are nearly as high as the US. Or alternatively, the US trades with more open partners (eg where the US can properly own assets & businesses), or chooses partners that are strategically a better fit (such as Vietnam, where trade is booming with the US).
you lost me after openbsd.
This article sums it up for me. FB makes the short-sighted decision to allow apps to scrape friend-of-friend info, because it would encourage more app developers, from which they get a 30% cut. When this guy asks a question about scraping, his boss replies "better not to know." The company continues not to give a shit about distributing PII until they realize that someone might use that data to create a rival social network. Then they shut it down and treat the fallout as a PR exercise.

Utter scum.
Considering you cherry picked that and skipped over how I know animators making a significant increase outside of the industry doing similar work makes it clear you're not really interested in a discussion here.

I leave my comments as is, anyone advocating for crunch has no place it any part of the tech industry, full stop.
I highly recommend the Cornish Mont. At low tide the beach seems almost infinite and the island floats like a mirage. An amazing hike. Wear rubber boots.
This is not true. They've been funding nonprofits for at least 4 years. And the (YC W18) indicates that they're already in YC.
I imagine phones will serve that role eventually. GPS chip accuracy is improving constantly and could be accurate to within a foot in some phones in the next year [1]. Google Maps / Waze already do something similar with predicting traffic times based on phone data (and other sources). GPS accuracy currently may make an individual's location slightly harder, but path prediction may help. (And, of course there are privacy concerns to consider.)

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/25/16362296/g...
127.0.0.1 baddomain.com

Run Apache on your localhost and serve up a message
The issue is regarding: this service (Sci-Bay) depends on Google Scholar, yet there's no public API for Google Scholar that it could leverage. If it's scraping Google Scholar results, then it's likely a ToS violation and unlikely to last long.
Except for the folks who didn't make an account whose friends have contributed to "shadow profiles" for them...

I mean, let's just admit that you don't have to be a Facebook user and you don't have to sign a Facebook TOS for them to accumulate data about you, so it's not quite as cut-and-dry as you make it out to be.

As far as the "good" and "evil" parts of the stack... fair point. I think most devs are somewhat abstracted away from the collectively malicious vision, since most of the constituent parts are relatively benign on their own -- "let's identify faces in photos!", "let's automatically identify faces in photos", etc. It's product folks, or maybe even higher up than that, who connect the powerful pieces produced by devs to actually make Facebook the monster it is today. I'd guess that even the devs who have impact on that vision don't really have the power to dramatically sway that vision, they've got a bit of technical input at best.

Still, have you ever worked on a product you don't believe in? If you're just cashing in a check, I guess it could work, but if you're as idealistic as me you want to work on something that's doing good in the world. Especially when so many tech companies proclaim their intent to "make the world a better place" or "do cool things that matter."
Literally every discussion of note involves reading more into the original article, so yes, I guess you have me there, I am speculating. I didn't realize that was against the rules of HN discussion to bring in evidence external to the OP and state our premises?

Is it speculation to point out that the police and OP misidentified the gender and name of the driver (it's Rafaela Vasquez, not Rafael)? Or that newer articles have disputed the 35 mph limit?

edit: I'm not reading too much into the graphic by stating explicitly what it shows. I'm making the assumption that the NYT designer isn't being loose on the facts here and that the Uber vehicle was in the right lane.

So why can't I claim a logical basis based on the other agreed facts, such as the victim being a woman who is walking her bike across the street, and our general observation of how fast people are able to cross a lane of traffic? What set of physical laws and constants should we be using here?
horrible metaphors.
May
Cameron
Brown
Blair
Major
Thatcher

That's a lot of change in 30 years to be "forever"

In the u.s

Trump
Obama
Bush Ii
Clinton
Bush I
One can not lose what one has never had
Who has deep enough pockets to pay off enough politicians to get something like that passed?
That's a fair point but I would put much of the blame for that on the US government for not having proper EU-like privacy laws which make it illegal, or at least mandate an opt-out mechanism.
Correct. I also meant “need” and not “ned”.
No, there the extra polygons do nothing visually useful
It's the wrong question.

Social networks are nothing more than a reflection of our society. Blaming Facebook and Twitter is easy but the hard part is dealing with the polarisation in politics, the intransingence of Russia, the inability of people to know who to trust and what is real or not and the slow disintegration of our institutions.

The real question is how do you fix society ?
Yes. As the hosts file redirects to localhosts, you can run a local server, displaying a notification. As root:

while true; do printf "blocked by hosts file" |nc -q 1 -l -p 80; done
I live 60 miles or so south of Seattle. I pay ~300$ more in rent for a 3 bedroom house with a fenced in yard and a garage than I did in Kansas City for a 800 sq foot condo. I'm also not a software developer(who would make more than I do). A house would cost me more, but as a young renter with a wife(who also makes 20k more than she did in KC/MI) we are able to pay off our debt obligations(and save) much faster here than we were in the midwest(I wish like you that I hadn't gone to college, but it's too late)...and I still get to enjoy all of the things that only location can get you. Heck I just went for a jog on the Puget Sound with my dogs 15 minutes ago. You might say my commute is bad, which it is, but thankfully due to the nature of Seattle traffic, many Seattle employers- mine included- have pretty flexible office hours and remote work arrangements.

I'm not trying to convince you that the midwest sucks or whatever, but that there are options out here if you want to work in coastal job markets without the cost of living. That said, nobody move here, the weather is awful and the food is bad.
> Taking a person's freedom is wrong. It may be necessary for society to function, but it is still wrong.

I want to be charitable here, but it sounds like you're saying that it is unconditionally wrong, as in, prison is simply wrong. If you are, then, sorry, but that is utterly insane. If someone commits a serious crime, that person deserves serious punishment, and of serious punishments, imprisonment for a commensurate period of time is entirely appropriate. For the more egregious crimes, imprisonment is insufficient (think of Breivik who easily deserved the death penalty). What the appropriate measures against drug abuse are, I don't know.
unlikely
Which, given that the DA is likely to need that same cop to testify in dozens or hundreds more cases... probably not.
it's an advertising company's dream to be able to load code on most computers browsing the web....
Sci Hub is best, no games - - just the real deal.
This FAQ list is actually more informative than the press release which is targeted towards marketing/media.

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/apple-developer/faq

Resources here.

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/apple-developer/resources
To solve this chicken and egg problem, you could build a social network that interoperates with Facebook -- use a combination of public (and undocumented browser to server) APIs to proxy communications back and forth. Then anyone who wants to use Competitorbook can still talk to people on Facebook through it, allowing competing social networks to naturally grow without network effect problems.

This would threaten FB and immediately lead to an API blocking arms race, to be followed by a legal challenge. If you're well funded and win the legal challenge (which hey, IANAL at all, but the comparison between FB today and Bell in its time is not crazy) you win.
No. This is a fad and will blow over in a few days. No one cares that this happened outside of the security community.
I don't get what changed? We've knows Facebook tracks everything, we've known Google does the same thing. If you've ever developed anything in messenger even today, it's amazing how much information is given. We know all these sites track everything you do outside of Facebook too. Everyone has been trying to get them to stop, we know it's illegal to build a profile on someone but Facebook gets around that by building a profile but not assigning it to your direct name.

Regulations should have sprouted in Obama years, but the admin and tech execs were too buddy buddy and no way Trump promotes this because it makes him look like he is accepting Russia interfered and it's not politically expedient for him to do so.

Same thing with Harvey Weinstein and all the metoo that was known by everyone. I mean I'm happy with all of this coming out, but why now? How is it so coordinated? Usually these guys pay journalists for fluff pr counter views or to shut down stories. Weinstein did.

Is this Data just a metoo thing? Is google next?
Actually by the sales numbers GCE lags far behind and IBM Cloud is almost tied with AWS. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/01/26/amazon-to-...
Link to CELab post on Mil Std 810 - Gunfire shock.https://celab.com/en/laboratory/environmental-tests/mil-std-...

The application portion has a nice explanation on the effects of gun fire on systems. Keep in mind that "gunfire" covers everything from a 9mm handgun to a 30mm Gatling gun.
How can I do that? (osx or linux)
I'm glad that a light is finally being shined on the sliminess of facebook's business model and that the public are starting to understand what an ugly company facebook is.

I am dismayed at the state of journalism that it took until there was a trump connection until they seriously reported on this
Well...except everyone who trusts anyone to pick up their kids.

On average...

Unless they're picking up their kids from lake wobegong elementary or something...
TL;DR

Can't read this. It's behind a paywall.
You can also turn on Tracking Protection in Firefox:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection

It runs after any add-ons. It's a useful second step that can catch things add-ons miss.
I have not been advocating crunch. If I was trying to convince you it was a good idea I would say you're expenses are already paid, so a little extra money at 22 can quickly snowball. A little suffering now is an easy ticket to retire by 45.

But, again I am not saying it's a good idea as general practice. Just that it's not nessisarily irrational behavior.

That said, you seem to be ignoring what I have actually said in favor of your own personal rage. I suspect you would be happier setting that aside.
Zuckerberg can’t launch nukes but he can manipulate the emotions and attitudes of entire countries and societies. In many way his power is more terrifying because he can exercise it in secret and with no repercussions. I mean, if this Cambridge Analytica story is to be believed, he had a large influence in selecting Trump as president, and continues to have this power even if Cambridge Analytica does not.
"If you want to speculate that the Uber driver and police are covering up negligence, that's fine" - the conclusion of the comment you're replying to.

My beef is with 'Please don't accuse me or other commenters of spreading "rumors and speculations", without evidence or logical arguments.' The problem is fooling ourselves into being more certain than we can be. While this is common human behavior, especially in emotionally fraught situations, as people attempting to engage in reasonable discussion on a discussion board, we need to do better. Acknowledging our biases and limited perspective while researching and before replying improves the discussion for everyone.

addendum: what everyone agrees and states is uncertain - where on the road the victim was hit. Another area of uncertainty among us non-witnesses is the immediate traffic at the time of collision.
The world would be a much better place if people weren't so utterly ignorant of their personal bias.
the whatsapp cofounders strike me as accidental billionaires, it's not like we're talking about standard oil, jp morgan, the louis dreyfus company or a typical old money davos-attendee billionaire.
Lots of good stuff here, I'll also add that most UIs are hardware accelerated so tons of stuff in that space.

If performance constraints are your thing embedded systems are almost a drop-in as a engine dev.
Because it's apparent that's not Facebook's goal.
Maybe we shouldn't replace cancer with cancer, and should simply get rid of it.

Edit: I honestly don't think it's hard. Delete your facebook, stop using it and don't replace it with something else. People lived without being used by social media services for a very long time.
But it isn't. The customer has no part in the wage negotiations between business and employee. All it shows is that they (business and employees) are not being honourable towards each other or to their customers.

A business should set it prices so that it fulfils it responsibilities (including to it staff). If the business cannot run at the prices so set then it fails. That is not the responsibility of the customer to make the business successful. It is the business' rite of passage to provide services or goods that customers want to buy,
While it might seem arrogant of the author to take this stance, the Sampling Theorem generalizes extremely well and is considered an extremely stable result. My favorite generalized Sampling Theorem is https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0324
Annual recurring revenue
That's definitional whataboutism.