skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or the glitch that makes your input disappear if you try to use the site in desktop mode on a mobile phone. Malicious bugs are at this point an obvious FB tactic for plausible deniability in bad UX directed at users with certain behavior.
It's really interesting seeing someone who has some intimate knowledge about the Linux kernel saying:

"In fact, with Linux v4.15 released, it is one of the rare times I've seen security win over performance in such a one sided way. Normally security features are tucked away under a kernel config option nobody really uses."

One just could be tricked into believing that the people suggesting that Linus doesn't care much about security could be right. ;-)
Nice! Too bad it costs money, otherwise I'd use it.
The Best Alternative for Every Facebook Feature
And WebOS, recently reanimated
Looks like I read that first sentence wrong...

"Vehicles must yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within a crosswalk that are in the same half of the roadway as the vehicle or when a pedestrian is approaching closely enough from the opposite side of the roadway to constitute a danger"

Growing up in AZ I was always told that pedestrians ALWAYS have the right away - something I always thought was strange.

I do stand correct however.
The game industry is not just coders, for one thing. Also worth noting this effort doesn’t preclude anyone from organizing a software developer’s union; in fact some people are working on that goal, and it’s also possible to join IWW as a software developer.

But to offer a different answer to “why just games” - this particular effort is newsworthy right now because it was organized to be promoted heavily at GDC, which I believe just ended.
Facebook’s New Data Restrictions Will Handcuff Even Honest Researchers
The story focuses on the safety drivers not being particularly safe. Uber apparently has internal cameras and they have to have reasonable CV to attempt the main task. Why not also try and get some sort of measure of if the safety driver is actually going to save the situation if it starts going south?
In NYC you expected to be at work at most companies for 9-10 hours a day, you are expected to go to all their social events, and you are expected to act like a logic lording startup bro (even when the company is far past the startup stage). Sure, they give you free treats, sure it's not hard to come by a job, but you are still ultimately expected to give up your autonomy to become a startup stooge.
Not if an extradition treaty applies.
Also, Netflix folks have just committed a „TCP Black Box” to FreeBSD-CURRENT, which seems to be something very similar in purpose.
What? The general public films all SpaceX launches and all landings on land, not to mention reporters.
What kind of updates do you want to RSS?
How YouTube Uses Mechanical Turk Tasks to Help Train Its AI
There's an element of that but imagine one of the other reviewers found e.g. a massive security flaw and you said the code was fine?
Experiments into other ways: The great wall of money
I feel like Hacker News should auto-delete threads that old, anyway. Chances are there's nothing there people will care about, and if they do, they can make their own archive.
Uber is cheaper than cabs ... Is there a reason why Uber needs to be cheaper than cabs?
Thanks for the response, fair enough.
Sorry, for context, it's actually worse than most of the tabloids, it pushes an agenda of hate to monetise anger - almost everything in it is lies.
The change in loudness would have to be proven to make a difference first, which you have not done here. A gun with a suppressor is still a very loud gun.

"A 30-decibel reduction in theory means an AR-15 rifle would have a noise equivalent of 132 decibels. That is considered equivalent to a gunshot or a jackhammer."
Are firearms with a silencer 'quiet'? - The Washington Post
> "in Austria we always do this in 'x' way" corrections

Just for "colour", can you give an example or two?
Ask HN: How to delete my hackernews account?
I would like to delete my account. But, can't find any option to do so.
Thank you!
We’re quickly approaching a place where I’m ready to send all voice calls not in contacts to /dev/null. Not even voicemail, but to the ether. If a company wants to get ahold of me, they can send me an email or a text message.
Am I correct that if there were stock options granted to the first employees of Dropbox in 2007 then they expired in 2017?
Phone numbers are abused these days. Never put one on. Email/Address is fine.
Spotify correlates streaming data with other behavior for advertisers
I would like hot corners on Linux, but all the programs that I find seem to be abandoned. https://github.com/brianhsu/xfce4-hotcorner-plugin looks most promising, but it needs updating to work with current XFCE.
Is it harder to stay attentive in an autonomous car than it is as a normal driver?
> This is unnecessarily cynical.

I think it's pretty clear that these strict agile processes work well for some and poorly for others - some people do better in a highly structured environment and others do worse - it's a bit like remote work on the other end of the spectrum.

The criticism and pushback comes from the negative experiences devs have had when management pushes a one-size-fits-all approach.

I've been involved in more than 5 failed agile methodology process improvement initiatives. I've seen great engineers reduced to a tiny fraction of their former productivity and seen other "hopeless" engineers get a lot better.
As a European start-up founder, I agree with this. The unintended consequences of the GDPR will be to (1) cement the power of Google and Facebook, since they have logged in consent (2) kill third party retargeting companies, ironically French company Criteo being one of the promient examples (3) generally make life harder for Euppean companies, and sharpen the incentive to ignore the EU market where possible.

As a user I do feel some privacy regulation is a good thing. There are certainly good things about GDPR (e.g. a lot of third party ad tracking deserves to die). However, I am far from convinced that the GDPR is the saviour some people think it is.
If they are struggling to meet 13 miles per "intervention", how was the "safety driver" not paying full attention on the road at night? That's baffling.
Not sure of an official way but they are pretty responsive to support: hn@ycombinator.com
Sure, if it's of the left-wing type (ie. the original one before Americans twisted the meaning of this word, just like liberal).
Needed a way to keep track of TV shows I watch and when see when episodes air. All existing sites I found were so messy and bloated with stuff I don't really care about.

Wanted to have a list of new episodes and a heads up about the next few days whats coming up so https://boldshows.com was born.
A day may come when your politics differs from theirs, and then you will discover the problem with aggressive political censorship.

In any case, I disagree with the premise that "no ads means no value" for YT. Instead of ads they are just being compensated in other less direct ways. Every video that you watch improves their profile of you, which can and will be used for better ad targeting on other YT videos and other GOOG sites.

Furthermore, some people may come to YT for Alex Jones and then stay to watch other monetized vids. Banning him would reduce that indirect ad rev.
You're not alone, someone else has already revived it:

https://maemo-leste.github.io/
I agree. I'd like the ability for reviewers to give different levels of approval. A reviewer who is in a rush can give a "looks okay, but I spent less than a minute looking at it" approval. A reviewer who takes their time can give a "I reviewed every line you changed and completely understand everything" approval. Before the change gets merged, X people need to give a quick approval and Y people need to give a line-by-line approval.

In my experience, bugs pop up more often in changes where reviewers aren't honest in how well they actually understand the changes, and are maybe afraid of admitting their confusion (even though it's usually the case that if one person in the room is confused, everyone is).
Seashore - it was a fantastic Mac-specific fork of Gimp with a great native user experience.

Last updated in September of 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seashore_(software)
It breaks my heart to see that the last blog post is from July 17, 1017 along with all the stagnant information on the community page. I had some hopes that momentum would develop after the project transferred to community governance.
Per US federal law, retailers are only responsible for collecting a given state's sales tax if they have a physical presence in that state. The legal theory specifically relies on considering the cookie on the user's computer as a physical presence in the state.
TOS can be amended. This seems more like the sort of thing you hire CloudFlare to handle, not AWS. Why does this service need to operate from "dozens of subnets"/"14 million IP addresses"?
...but now that you point it out, I would totally try AI log analytics.
If we could just sit down and agree to standardize most of the GNU extensions; nested functions, cleanup attributes and computed gotos to name some; that would take us much further than any attempt at reinventing the whole thing. I don't know if they all start misinformed, or if they get caught up in their egos along the way; but none so far has managed to produce anything that even comes close to replacing C.
Should, perhaps, but as a Brit my reaction was just a complete lack of surprise. I'd be shocked if most people even remember this in a few month's time, if they care at all. I also can't see it billowing out in the election - the misdeeds of the police aren't necessarily translated onto the government, and a lot of people will have bigger things to worry about come election time.
Extradition for? Doing something that is legal in my country while in my country?
> All it took was learning how and when to borrow.

That's disingenuous. It's really not as simple as you're trying to make it sound. But I don't understand the point of this guy's blog post, unless it's just to whine. There's so little real content in his post.
They were averaging I think 200 miles per safety critical intervention. So, every mile the driver would have to take over to do something like go around a truck blocking the lane or construction or whatever, but the car would come to a stop safely.
The history of Bender was pretty well explained in a long interview with Ton Roosendaal by Andrew Price of Blender Guru.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEWOTZnFeg
Moral or legal culpability is not a zero sum game. Recklessness by the pedestrian does not absolve Uber. Generally, if it's in your power to avoid killing someone, you have an obligation to do it. That's also why comparisons to a hypothetical human driver are beside the point. Uber should be judged according to what they could have done to minimize danger, not according to what a human driver would have done.
Whether the pedestrian is legally at fault is only part of the issue. Failure to yield is a ticket, not a death sentence. The driver also has no legal right to strike the pedestrian.

Every driver (or equivalent) has a responsibility, be it legal or moral, to use all reasonable means to avoid crashes, injuries, and loss of life.

No one will accept autonomous vehicles that do anything less. If anything, an autonomous vehicle may be expected to avoid risk to humans by suffering self-damage.
This is a not-uncommon story. It's unfortunate, but it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of vetting that goes into AWS partners, just so long as their checks clear.
Just curiosity, have you made any $ through donations? I consider doing full time open source development in similar niche (game servers, twitch related tools). Searching now for success stories. Hope to make a little cash via donations but not going paid/closed software model.
Well, Amazon is already peered with major ISPs;)
It may mean industry leader by number of people using the software, not necessarily that industry leaders in who use this type of software are using theirs.
Discussing both sides of an idea is acceptable. Picking a side is not a requirement.
I was in the same boat, so I started just leaving my phone silenced all of the time. I almost never get robocalls anymore. Interestingly, it seems like whenever I turn my ringer on because I'm expecting a call I get a robocall. It's probably just coincidence though.
Well it's really bad luck for this guy to be in this difficult situation, though the resolution of these cases will clearly set important precedents for Canadian reporting in the future.

If he had been a police officer would he still be facing charges for the exact same actions? Both could be said to be acting in the public interest.

In any case it would nice to see a little collection to offset this guy's expenses while his suffering pushes Canada's democracy ahead by a small amount.
Sexier seems like an odd choice of word. I assume you mean, being a video game designer is sexier to the person doing the job?

Low pay. Low prestige. Long hours.

I mean, give me two of those and maybe I'll consider the sexiness.

Don't you think it's that a lot of young future-Salesforce-developers think that making games will be a lot more like playing games than it really is?

(PSA: Making games usually is not at all like playing games, unless you're really into grindfests.)
But why is the e-field strength an interesting metric for this? Power over [biological] volume/mass/surface makes more sense, no?
Pidgin. While it's not dead, v3 is still very far, and an up to date, all-in-one messaging solution is ackingly missing - especially for mobile.
Significantly, because you aren't engaged with the environment. You are just watching the car drive in circles, which is slightly more engaging than watching paint dry.
That's fine if you're actually running a bunch of graph algorithms, but it's not a good fit for, e.g., a parse tree where each node has a link to its parent as well as links to its children. At least, I for one don't want to have to pull in a relatively large library just to define such a simple data structure.
I don't think it is about technology. In general, unions don't like people to get fired (without proper compensation). If new tech does more work for the company but no one gets fired I see no reason why unions would have anything against it.

However, the whole firing topic is really only filling up a fraction of unions' time. Unions' main tasks are overwatching safety regulations, crunch times, etc... so that the actual time spent at/for the company is better quality whise. This leads to happier, healthier programmers which should be in their employer's interest as well, see e.g. negative press and lack of battle proven personel at telltale.
I don't think the grandparent's point is an issue of sides. It's more of a problem of gathering a useful heuristic of an engineer's performance. Given a variety of every day engineering tasks, how can you know exactly the difficultly of a person's work short of having done it yourself? I believe that experience is the answer in some cases, but others it is not. As another poster stated, it could also be done by working with the engineer through it all.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/faces-project/
Gradient: A Serverless Artificial Intelligence Platform
I agree, which I why I wrote: "these laws are clearly unsuitable"
> The journalist, who now works in Halifax for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

It's possible that his intent was to protest AND to publish journalism. What's the dividing line between protester and journalist?

For example, imagine an embedded journalist with a group of guerrillas that perform war crimes. At what point is the 'journalist' culpable for the crimes of the group? If the 'journalist's' intent is the making propaganda pieces for the group, is he still a journalist? If he takes up arms with the guerrillas, is he still a journalist?

I'm not saying this guy is a criminal, just stating that it may be a bit of a grey area depending on how much he is affiliated with the group.
They could always buy from someone else ... but uber seems to have extreme competitor paranoia when it comes to buying any services.

I think they also spent $500M to make their own maps when you could use any of the popular mapping APIs out there.
Don't mind the down votes. They don't see the big picture. A big portion of the population care more about Trump being the bad guy than the threat posed by some other nation or nations.

What's their opinion when a Democrat is in charge and war is being pushed over the nation?
Charles Stross incorporates economics into a lot of his writing. His two related novels Saturn's Children and Neptune's Brood are all about the economics of a post-human society. The latter of the two has a really interesting take on crypto-currency.

His Merchant Princes series is all about how a dimensional travelers exploit lack of economic knowledge in parallel worlds with less developed economies.

And Halting State and Rule 34, two near future novels, both touch on economics and related themes quite a bit.
Funnily enough I overlooked the short text until you mentioned it.
Remember WinMX in the early 2000's? It was mostly used for sharing music. That had good discoverability for self hosted files.
True. But having just one reviewer can be bad too: when two people review each other often, they often "collude" and start to rubber-stamp shitty code. Or the other extreme - they can go into an argument over some issue with no way to break the stalemate.

Two reviewers seems optimal if you can afford it. Possibly with one person doing the bulk of the reviewing and the other more in the role of providing oversight and breaking ties if they occur.
I don't see journalists as some special class of citizen with special rights. They use the same free speech rights that we all have. They just happen to speak for a living.

And, last time I checked, I don't get to violate the law just because I'm speaking.

If the law can be disregarded because of pursuing a greater good, that should apply to everybody that can demonstrate that's what they are doing. Not just people who are doing it as a career.
Isn't this where a humanoid robot (i.e. some sort of Boston Dynamics type robot) doing random, erratic stuff might be handy?

Maybe put a bunch of them in a test track area like this one in Concord, California. Gomentum is Silicon Valley's secretive test track for self-driving cars:

https://www.cnet.com/videos/inside-silicon-valleys-secretive...
Unexpectedly good play from Trump IMO. Classic set up: Bolton is a bad cop, ultra militarist hawk that, given the opportunity, will fuck up North Korea as badly as possible. Trump gets to use that as a leverage in negotiations. I don’t think Bolton will be staying very long after that’s done.
Not sure, I'm not the one that created the project and never had access to the PayPal. We do rely on monthly supporters of our open source work at https://hackclub.com and the #1 learning is to ask for monthly commitments. $5/month is much more meaningful than a one time gift of $5.
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While it's true that these people would likely be richer if they had invested elsewhere, it's still hard to feel that these people were wronged. They didn't have someone break into their bank account and steal money for a house. They were wealthy investors who invested in a shady pharma company with a shady founder because they wanted to make lots of money without having to do much work themselves.

Investments lose money legitimately all the time, and the investors weren't stolen from when that happens, it's just a bad investment. Shkreli abused the system and lied with the intention of making himself personally richer, so I definitely agree with sentencing him. But I don't think the investors deserve more than their money back. They need to assume SOME risk here b/c they chose a bad investment, and it probably would have failed anyhow, even if Shkreli had followed the law.
First, get an Inca. :)
that's true. I think something really unique in game dev is that parts of the team can fluctuate while another part has a larger commitment across several projects.

EDIT: I'll also add, although obvious to some but worth mentioning, that an effective game-dev union needs to help both those people equally.
Yes. This is a well-known psychological phenomenon; see e.g. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/5/201592-the-challenges-...

> When a navigation system performs well over extended periods, drivers may no longer feel they need to pay close attention. Indeed, many psychological studies show people have trouble focusing their attention when there is little or nothing to attend to. In such situations, they tend to reduce their active involvement and simply obey the automation. There is already ample evidence drivers disengage from the navigation task when the automation is programmed to lead the way. But how pervasive is this? Casner and Schooler found even well-trained airline pilots report engaging in copious amounts of task-unrelated thought, or "mind wandering," when an advanced navigation system is being used and all is nominally going to plan.
I wonder if there are any test cases from the other side of the culture war - say, a multi-day sit-in at an abortion clinic in defiance of an injunction, covered by an ambiguously activist reporter for a Christian newspaper who "does not identify as Born Again but recently accepted Jesus as his lord and savior" - so that we could see to what extent either the proponents or the opponents of this prosecution are acting on principle and to what extent they are simply rationalising tribal solidarity.
An easter egg that I fondly recall finding: If you ran the game on December 25th, the suit of armor in the entryway is replaced with a Christmas tree.
I mean, in terms of "conditions", it doesn't really get much better than Arizona. That's why most cars drive there. By most metrics, it's actually easier there than in California.
> So, Youtube and others are indeed censoring you when they do not allow you to publish certain videos.

Except YouTube does not prevent you from publishing your videos. They only prevent you from publishing them on YouTube. You can publish them on another platform, or self-publish them.

Censorship is usually taken to mean suppressing or attempting to suppress a work from being published at all across some reasonably large population, which is generally something only governments have the power to do.

One might make a case that a private organization that has acquired a monopoly or near monopoly could do so, but YouTube is not yet there.
The problem of telling the story of that transition is that it's like trying to go into detail about the physics in Cochrane's ship in First Contact—the writer would be trying to explain a completely made-up thing (warp drive or the TNG socio-economic system) that itself is nothing more than a handwave to allow stories to be told.
You don't think they bring value with the work they do itself? Just hype?
Ask HN: How do you validate your smart contracts?
Noob here so thanks for your feedback. I'm trying to get a better understanding of what smart contract developers are worried about, especially as it related to deploying and validating smart contracts, so how would you rank the level of importance of the following? 1(low) to 5(high)

- streamlining QA process

- securing contracts

- writing integration tests

- emulating real

- world conditions to uncover bugs
This was my one break during the year of my honors thesis! Once a week on Sunday morning I would stop work and play Dark Castle for a couple of hours. Good times!
They also happen to sponsor the development of Concourse CI, which is a great CI/CD tool.