skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber in India doesn't require you to key in otp or authorize the payment before the trip. The whole post is based on this false premise.

Or just link your Uber to paytm and preload $100. You won't have to worry about cab payments all through your whole trip.
For me the interesting thing is that the very lack of coupling seems like a problem to me. If A depends on B, I'd actually like B to be coupled to A. Back in the old days when I believed "generic components" were a cool idea, I'd always run into that problem. It's too general and so it has not structure. And then it is actually implicitly coupled (even if it has a network system and a communications protocol in the middle) -- it's just that you've abstracted away the interfaces with a bunch of adaptors. It's like having a plug on your electronic device that can fit any socket, but only one of the many sockets actually works.

I imagine the author has techniques for dealing with that kind of problem, but has unfortunately not shared them. Maybe another time.
It would be very Facebook-y to change that URL daily to break all the "how to delete your Facebook" tutorials that crop up.
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> And you just figured this out now? This is like saying "wow, who knew we would get so fat by feeding only on pizza, hamburgers and coke, aren't those companies evil".

No. Zeynep Tufekci (the author of the article) has written about this for years, including a book about social media in political movements (Twitter and Tear Gas), a popular TED talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...), a series of New York Times op-eds, and more besides.

A more productive answer to someone saying something you agree with is “I agree”, not mistakenly berating them for not agreeing sooner.
The SLA governs availability.

Details of durability here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/DataDurabili...
You've repeatedly attributed multiple claims to me I'm not making. I can't tell how much of that is willful, but either way I won't continue the discussion.
Minio and Ceph both fit this description, with the latter also offering block and file access. Swift is close, but a slightly different native API (there's an adapter but I'm not sure of its status). Scality has open-sourced their implementation as Zenko. Also LeoFS (which despite the name is not a filesystem).
I don’t think the reference to Postel’s law is correct here: Postel’s law is about robustness, not about abstractness.

Furthermore, taken at face value, Postel’s law was a phenomenal failure in principle and in practice (see e.g. [1]). In hindsight it’s probably a bad design principle.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-0...
Because historically money has had massive influence over the decisions made in the states. I side with the human over the faceless multi billion company.
It's a culture of silencing disagreements, and that of not having leadership with a spine; in reality this is less expensive for a company, with external cost to society of course.
> Should we all just leave Facebook? That may sound attractive but it is not a viable solution.

Leaving not just Facebook, but Twitter, Instagram, and all other social media of its ilk is an extremely viable solution. It's like quitting smoking. For the first month or so you feel off-kilter, but, after a while, you can't imagine going back. Life is quantifiably better without it.

Realizing that I don't need up to the minute updates on literally everything has done amazing thing for my mental health in the last year.
Stem cell therapy reverses sight loss and lets people read again
As someone who has practiced yoga for 40 years and started qigong a few years ago, the advice in the article seems fairly obvious. Still, great to see the article in the front page of HN!

I had not thought of deep belly breathing helping calm and relax me during meetings - will try that.
You've got the history right. (Or mostly... For the first two, investors bought both companies and merged them into one brand. Technically, TP didn't buy EV1, SL didn't buy TP)

Going back a bit further, EV1Server wasn't even the original name. They rebranded from Rackshack! Wonder if there are any of those RaQs still plugged in and working somewhere, with people now paying that money to IBM decades later...
DDoS Attacks Are $10 per Hour on the Dark Web
Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook data abuse shouldn’t get credit for Trump
Well, Paypal and Wechat proof the opposite. Easy, small transactions are very well a high demand product. And even if you can't make money with it directly, you can still use to drive demand and track users in whatever other service you have. E.g. as insurance company I'd be really interested in that kind of data. E.g. as Amazon I'd be very interested in that ease-of-use sale platform.
> But we still pay migrant workers to harvest fruit

Harvesting fruit is far more complex than driving. It's a 3D search through a complex space.

> Driving a car under non-ideal conditions is incredibly complex, and relies upon human communication.

No it doesn't. The rules of the road detail precisely how cars interact with each other and with pedestrians.

> We humans currently manage about one death per hundred million miles; Uber made it all of two million.

Incorrect use of statistics.
now the question is why is a car (autonomous or not) driving at 40mph on a road where people can be expected to walk right out in front of a car?

would you drive 40 mph down a city street with trucks and buses parked head to tail on both sides of the road?
Saudi Arabia should absolutely not have access to nuclear technologies.
Yes, DO spaces is very strict about both GET and PUT. I did a benchmark requests-per-second (literally just fetching a URL a bench of times). I get about ~180 requests per second, after which all requests failed.

Amazon S3 is much better in the sense that there IS dynamic scaling if it notices spikes.

To the defense of DO, they are newer and their business model is "cheap,cheap,cheap", so they can't compete at the same level.
>AWS is blocked in China so you're forced to use Alicloud.

AWS has two regions in China
Saudis turning to nuclear tells you just as much about the country and technology as Venezuela going for Cryptocurrencies.

Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian dictatorship, is waging a brutal war against one of the world’s poorest countries (and not even winning) and is committing all sorts of crimes against architecture and urban planning with its brutalistic dystopia in the desert. They run air conditioners not just in their cardboard McMansions, but even outside, in the garden FFS.

Iran happens to find itself on the wrong side politically compared to the US. But in almost any category, from education to innovation to even democracy they run circles around those spoiled brats of heredity literally killing themselves on the highways out of sheer boredom.

Proponents of nuclear power should be quite scared to see this compass that reliably points south adopting their pet technology.
> one tricky thing to code is where you as the player look into a mirror, the trick usually is to create another exact replica of the room you're in and your player and use that like a skybox.

Actually mirrors can be easily implemented as a pre-render step, you just re-render the system from the right perspective, a virtual camera, and then paste that on the polygons that are acting as the mirror.
No, because what you risk is associating your brand with death, rather than AD.

Uber already has a terrible reputation with everyone in the tech industry for the sexism, bullying, law breaking, and IP theft. Do they really want to be the self-driving car company with a reputation for killing people?

It doesn't take a lot for people to think "Maybe I'll take a lyft" or "Maybe I'll ban uber from London because of their safety record"[0].

They aren't going to kill the market for this - the other players not only have big incentives to make sure they look safe, but you've got a really unique problem when your biggest competitor is a company that controls access to news and which adverts your customers will see.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/01/sadiq-khan-...
Selling a B2B SaaS product in the U.S as a U.K company – A tax nightmare?
We have great traction in the U.K and have been experimenting with U.S markets for the last few months. The feedback has been great and we're seeing early signs that it will be a great market to pursue.

However, I am conscious of what tax we will be responsible for.

From doing initial research, it seems I won't have to register as a U.S business and pay any federal tax as we don't have a 'nexus' within the U.S. We won't have an office or employees, everything will be operated from the U.K as it currently is.

It seems like the only tax we have to worry about is sales tax, however, quite a few states do not have sales tax on SaaS products.

If we are only focusing on these states that don't have sales tax on SaaS and we don't have a U.S nexus, are we good to go without worrying about tax?
Hi everyone. This is the results of my research on how Kotlin impacts defect rates.

Most people view Kotlin as a nicer Java with null safety so I was shocked to find that Kotlin actually avoids many more categories of Java defects.
New Visualization Techniques Make Fraud a Whole Lot Easier to “See” – And Stop
The comment explaining why is dead so I'm pasting it here:

"If you visit from HN, the site displays a webshit parody.
Otherwise it's text only and loads very fast."
Just like they are locked into every games console ever built and are completely fine with that.

The gamer culture is not the same as FOSS one, cool games, getting hold of IP and belonging to a specific tribe (e.g. PS owners) is more relevant than freedom of games.

Currently Vulkan only matters on Linux and flagship Android devices.

It remains to be seen if Microsoft will ever allow ICD drivers on the Store or what is the actual use of Vulkan vs NVN on the Switch.
I do this too, especially when my own questions are incorrectly flagged - but the dodgy reviewer invariably ignores me, and others soon follow suit without bothering to actually check what they are flagging - and if they don't, my question is ignored and buried: I assume nobody wants to spend time answering a question that has a close vote.
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I disagree.

Signal does a very important part but not 90%.

what about news feed, events, calendar, status updates, groups, pages, profile walls...

These are all mega useful tools that are used by 2 billion people for a reason!

I <3 Signal and I've converted many non-techies to it but I cannot easily inform everyone that I'm having a baby and they also cannot do this.

But I'm glad you're using it. it's a wonderful tool.
This is really scary. If you think about it I bet there are quite a few start-ups working on exactly that.
A massive genome-sequencing effort is coming to India
Changed the book title to "Getting up to speed with Python" which is a more accurate title for what I wanted to write. Made a new release with a few corrections and the new title at https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python/releases

Cannot change anymore the title or the link on HN though..
As a fecking Irishman, I also agree
Yes, I was seated at GDCE 2009 Intel session where they told us that Larrabee would be the future of graphics programming, yeah right.
This has always bothered me when I visit. I tend to over tip just to make sure.

My visits are short, and the level of service would normally deserve a tip anyway.
Doesn't seem to be there. Was wondering the same.
I always though Giants animals have been on earth longer than we though and were the sources of our legend such as as dragons or sea monsters.
Wait till the American far-right hear about this...
I have a simple userscript that filters by the domain and by article title - blacklisting articles.

You can get more technical hacker new by filtering out all news websites. It's quite effective.
>they do it because they don't care much about the speed limit.

Oh, certainly, and I apologize if my argument came across as "It's not possible for people to not speed" or "People only speed because of the properties of speedometers or cruise control"

My point is that speed within a few mph is already inaccurate, and that 3mph is pretty much within the current margin of error.

>speedos universally over-read in my experience

I don't know that there's a common leaning one way or the other in actual variance due to speedometer construction, but over-reading is the most common occurrence due to tire pressure being low causing it, and a huge amount of people drive with low tire pressure. Overinflated tires, or moving to larger tires in general, will result in under-reads.

>I would expect a fully autonomous vehicle to be able to accurately obey the speed limit and I suspect the reason it wasn't/doesn't is because that behaviour has been programmed in or developed.

I don't agree. lagadu covers this plenty well in his comment, however.
> fascism

You have a specific definition of fascism in mind? Because closing one's frontiers is not really the only variable to look at it.
I came across the Alfa proof language recently (precursor to Epigram and Agda). Had this neat natural deduction editor: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/Tutorial/ndstyle.h...
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Again, I’m responding to people touting the safety of autonomous vehicles based on a tiny sample. Live by the sword, die by the sword. At this point the truth is that we’re surrounded by unknowns, and yet post after post features people claiming inhuman safety records for a nascent technology.

The data, such as it is, does not support that.
> I just wanted it to work out of the box, so used Hasura BAAS.

Funny how it ended up a Hasura github repo... hrm....
I prefer to return different interfaces from each (or almost each) method. This way also a predefined order of calls is imposed which you may want sometimes. A predefined order also makes similar uses look similar which I deem a benefit as well.
> There's nothing natural about that.

What does natural mean then? It's not like they disappeared by some magical event or an asteroid falling on the face of the Earth.
Can't wait for space colonization where we'd create an Earth-like planet with all organisms, but humans.
Yeah you can - https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText/blob/master/qua...
They showed their hand on a topic the news has taught the normies to care about.

Better yet, this will allow everyday people to see the problem because they're given a lens that doesn't make them feel like a rube. (i.e. They will think the data can be abused because it convinced people that are not them to do a thing they find stupid (vote Trump)).

Do you think because "we" know what they're doing, it has any impact on how they act? 95% of people with the vaguest notion of what they're doing find a way to rationalize it as good-or-neutral because they make money from a surveillance company and want to sleep well at night.
The debate over how much Volga Tatars should be seen as descendants of the Volga Bulgars and how much they should be seen as descendants of the Golden Horde, is something that will come up loudly at any academic conference on ethnography or linguistics in Tatarstan. Virtually everyone agrees that the modern Tatar people are mostly descendents of the Volga Bulgars (or Udmurts) who lived there before 1236, they just switched fron speaking Volga Bulgarian (or Udmurt) to Kipchak. But Tatar intellectuals can get oddly insistent about which aspect of Tatars' history should be emphasized more.
This is great, but I’m disappointed Backblaze B2 isn’t included. That seems like an oversight unless someone can point out how B2 doesn’t hold its own with these options in a glaring way. There are tradeoffs, but B2 seems to be very competitive overall.

B2 is cheaper than every option here for both storage ($0.005/GB) and egress ($0.01/GB).[1] Their transaction pricing is also cheaper.[2] Despite being cheaper, it’s still hot storage, so you can immediately download buckets, in whole or in part. I’ve personally used it to backup (and restore) terabytes of data for over a year. I doubt it has an SLA like GCP or AWS, but DigitalOcean doesn’t either, yet it’s listed here. I find the B2 API documentation to be very readable as well.[3]

I’ve used AWS S3, Glacier and GCP Nearline, Coldline. I can’t think of a specific thing that has disappointed me about B2, and the reliability has been excellent. The nature of my work is that I have very large datasets, and B2 becomes extremely competitive when you’re backing up tens of terabytes or more.

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1. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

2. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/b2-transactions-price.html

3. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/
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Without paywall:
http://sci-hub.tv/10.1007/s10584-018-2171-9
Epic Releases $12M of Paragon Content for Free
Good luck keeping their business alive with those 1% Linux buyers.
I recently moved to the UK and I now use HSBC personal + business, it is the worst banking experience. The problem is that there is no real alternative yet...
Better than average article about long term dangers posed by Internet super-companies like FB and Google. The author is a professor of information and library science.

The only way, I think, that we in the USA can solve this problem is to pass user rights and privacy laws similar to those in Europe. Given our corrupt political system this will be difficult but I think possible if enough individuals keep contributing to the EFF, ACLU, FSF, etc. It takes money to fight back.
There’s two purposes for using such a corpus, one is to get an accurate representation of how language is used. Another is to use it as part of a machine human interface, in which case you want to be careful about whether you offend your customers or users or whether you’re even violating the law by biasing certain decisions somehow.
I didn't mean to suggest that it was relevant in this case. I was merely providing some context for the parent post's observation about an automous car exceeding the speed limit
well tosser, my aptly named friend, what has this got to do with the white rhino? Getting your Far-right propaganda in?
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Speed isn't the issue, reasonable speed is the issue. As a human driver, if there are a lot of pedestrians - or I notice pedestrians stumbling/fumbling or seemingly not too conscious of where they're walking, I slow down.
I am not overreacting. I don't care for Facebook or CA. But people knew this could happen.

> We shouldn't allow one instance of evil to slide just because other instances have gotten away with it.

What evil exactly? People gave their data to FB and decided not to listen to everyone warning them. It's in FB's ToS that they will sell your data and they did. What evil did happen here? People may didn't like what was done here but seriously they could have avoided it.

> G+ are you listening!!

So the next big headline will be G+ sold data to CA?
Timing is important. Oped and Ted talk is not the same as frontpage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-obama-campai...
ok now do France and Japan
The issue is this action isn't benevolent. It's nice, but as said previously it's to promote their engine. So they will profit from it indirectly.

If on the other hand they would release the assets without strings attached (for use with any game engine / in any way) then I'd say this word would apply.
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On the plus side, the other subspecies, the southern white rhino was down to only a few hundred individuals a century ago, but is now estimated to have a population of 20,000.
Show HN: Powrbot – Automate searching the web for company data
It’s fun to think about how related that is to maritime navigation and in particular Dead Reckoning.

The same thing has been taught for hundreds of years in that realm. Her you take it 3D.
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Nothing happened that wasn't completely in the scope of warnings privacy advocates would repeat for the last decade.
It is not a complete match. A quality of the actor concurrency model is unreliable message delivery. The system described in the post could be done with reliable delivery expectations.
The Expanse series (7 books, by James Corey) is an entertaining escape.

Ann Lecke's "Ancillary*" trilogy was in a similar vein.

Pierce Brown's "Red Rising" series is also recommended.
Got it, thank you. I had misread "every last check" as in "every last one" i.e. literally all of them, but actually a "last check" is just the last time the company pays you.
What's the over/under on any asking "Are we the baddies?"
Some ppl argue that legislation would strengthen Facebook and hurt competition.

https://stratechery.com/2017/the-gdpr-and-facebook-and-googl...
This is the truth. The average person does not care about data mining. It's a non-issue for them. And no, it's not a matter of intelligence, or that they need to be educated on the matter. Leave them be. Ignorance is bliss - in a positive sense.

If you're going to teach others anything about the perils of the internet, focus on the truly serious things: how to avoid phishing scams targeting bank accounts, fake virus warnings, etc. Everything else sounds like tinfoil hat material because, for most people, that's pretty much what it is.
My reading was that that only came up after the employee explicitly asked for a tip.

Otherwise how has he refused to tip "even a single penny"? He's merely failed to do so.
That's not true.

1) Anyone can submit a certificate to the CT logs

2) It will become mandatory that certificates are logged for Chrome to trust them in a matter of weeks (other browsers will follow): https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/ct-poli...
Accounts in Tempe police report disagree about fault of self-driving crash. 2017
This is a project of Wenting Zhang and she also gave a talk about this at dotCSS 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0_FMCji3iE

She also has a video where she explains her project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOiRwXOIsx4
Those interested in Wodehouse will also enjoy Stephen Fry’s article on Wodehouse: http://www.pgwodehousebooks.com/fry.htm

Fry played Jeeves in the TV series Jeeves and Wooster and quotes some of my favorite bits of Wodehouse, such as

> Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.
Thanks for the video link. I am going to share that with friends and family who are sceptical that there is a problem with Internet super-companies collecting data and using it to change our behaviors to make money.
Sorry to disappoint you, but as developer with Stockholm syndrome that left Linux back for Visual Studio, C++ and .NET.

Also former IGDA member and attendee of a few GDC conferences, game developers only care about shipping games and their IP.

AAA studios don't care 1 second about APIs to make a better world.

Adding a new rendering backend to a games engine is a trivial task, when compared to the pile of features a game engine needs to support.

Also most Windows developers don't care about Stack Overflow surveys.