skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to the rumors yesterday that the big Waymo announcement was going to be announcing expansion to NYC, this is a big letdown. Who cares what manufacturer they use? The only interesting part is the 20k number.
At some point, certain things ought to add up to become a firing offense. I don't feel confident that Apple is going to get things much better without drastic changes right from the top. If anyone at Apple senior management is reading this, please do a shakeup and a rethink. It's badly needed for the software you have been producing.
Darwin is a custom mash of BSD, not linux. You could use a BSD kernel, but you would have to customize it a lot for device and feature support... which is how we got the Darwin kernel in the first place. They're already including some modern BSD projects.
There are some shortcomings on the UI side (you need to take care of DPI setting for starters, and you also need to configure some details separately to have usable button sizes for instance), but I'm using it on GNU/Linux with 3200x1800 13" screen and works just fine.
If you want to pay a company to do this, you could use Fastmail.com.

You can use your own domain, and set up many aliases (there is a limit though). You can also use example+anythingHere@example.com (but you can also do this with other email providers such as Gmail)...

They also have a long list of their own domains (maybe 20-40, I can't remember) that you can use.

Or you could set up your own server with a catch all email address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-all
I'll have to check out the key bindings, thanks for the tip. This is on OS X (High Sierra)
3D printed rocket maker Relativity raises $35M to simplify satellite launches
Not supporting FB or any company and their data mining BUT...
'that allow individuals to trade certain amounts of data with companies in exchange for money'
This is the premise to what they are doing. We made this cool application and you can use it without paying for it by allowing us to use the data.
It was for me. I'm not a professional photographer and I learned GIMP first (because it was free and worked on Linux). GIMP was never lacking anything I needed for some light amateur work or web dev work. Photoshop might be easier to use from 0, but anything that was moderately complicated or repetitive I simply scripted away. I have almost 18 years of script-fu plugins written in Scheme and Python.
This article disappoints me because Mozilla seems to be spinning the current facebook disdain to sell their offerings rather than providing clarity/solutions on this issue.
We've been using this extension for a while now at Algolia, great to see that it's now open sourced!

We heavily rely on this to power our analytics API. We use it precompute tops for billions of daily events. We can then fetch tops across specific time range usually in the order of the milliseconds on the fly. This was a game changer for us :)
I assume this rationale is why Uber has been pushing the limits with the technology theft and putting unsafe cars on the roads. Is this where Uber rushes to IPO?
It's no secret that Zukerberg is not very charismatic; IMO he looks kinda rehearsed and scared when he speaks in public.

Cox and Schroepfer both seem more comfortable in front of cameras from what I can find online, and to be honest would probably have better insight into what happened. After all, it's their jobs as the heads of product, and technology.
> I think the part that gets lost in all of this is that Sun offered to license Java to Google previously for $100M. Google turned that down and bypassed Sun because they didn't want to pay (or license).

I'm not sure I follow - Google believed they didn't need a license, just like everyone who used Linux despite SCO offering to license Linux to them.

If Google needed a license, and Sun had not offered one, it would not make a difference; Google would still be liable for infringement. There's no abandonware or compulsory license provision in the laws for this. The question is whether Google needed a license, not whether Sun was willing to offer one and for what price.
There are two options on facebook, I think if you deactivate then if you ever login to facebook, then profile is back. The other option is to delete the account in which you have to wait for 14 days without logging in. My account got deleted successfully some days back.
Ah, memories of the Nokia N900...
It needs hardware, so no, they won't backport support.
> webmasters should write a script that generates these public/private keys on every page hit

Not on every page hit, but on every donation or every few days depending on how many transactions you've received. It doesn't have to be completely new set of keys - you can use deterministic wallet to generate as many as you want from a single master secret.
Not necessarily! Other fingerprinting details can surface identity even when user agent and IP are unreliable. If you've got a specific screen resolution, you're tagged. If you've got a specific version of some piece of software (Flash, for instance) you're tagged.
Building on this analysis: Self-driving cars will DESTROY Uber. In the long-run, self-driving car networks will become a regulated utility.

Uber's current business:

Uber is the middleman in a two-sided marketplace. It connects drivers with passengers, and takes a cut for this service.

Uber's competitive advantage is that it had the capital to attract drivers - with lots of drivers on its network, costs & wait times are lower for passengers, so passengers use Uber. And so on and so forth, flywheel metaphor, etc.

Self-driving:

Assuming self-driving car saturation, Uber's competitive advantage completely disappears. As a passenger, all I care about is getting from point A to point B safely, quickly, and cheaply.

As a manufacturer of self-driving cars, why would I sell or lease them to a middleman (or if we're getting extreme, even to consumers!) to take the profits in this space? As Tesla, GM, etc. I am going to pump out a fleet of self-driving cars and have consumers pay for a subscription plan (X number of minutes / miles per month on my fleet). Because this is a very capital-intensive business, the government will then grant local monopolies to different providers and regulate the prices, much as it does today with telecoms.

Uber provides no value in this scenario unless it can figure out how to develop the best self-driving software that is installed in these cars (and that seems extremely unlikely). The winners in this space are going to be car manufacturers and the developers of the self-driving tech that get legal approval. I'd imagine these software companies negotiate a great licensing deal to the car manufacturers.

I suppose since the rollout of self-driving tech will be slow, Uber can continue to operate in a hybrid space with some self-driving cars and some drivers. Whether or not it will be profitable is a different question altogether. But I have no faith in the long-term viability of Uber's business model once we reach a saturation point of self-driving cars. We are going to look back on this time in 20 years and talk about how VCs subsidized a lot of cab rides.
Thank you so much! Now I know why half the time after a meeting when I connect my laptop again it'll simply hang then shutdown. (I didn't see the panic since it's clamshelled)
> occasional 200msec GC pause doesn't sound too bad

I guess you never used Windows.

But seriously occasional 200ms pause is in ideal scenario if you have some kind of memory leaks those might become longer etc.

Hard RT system has defined hard deadline for every operation and if it says it needs to react within 200ms it will or it will be considered a failure of the system.

This might not be obvious to many people, but as cars becoming more computerized you no longer directly control it, for example when you press a brake, it is not directly connected to car's brakes by steel line, instead it is just sending signal to braking mechanism. That system is hard real-time, and it is designed so if you press a brake, the car has maximum time it needs to react to that. There is no excuse to do it later, because it was doing something else at the time.

Same thing should be with autonomous driving. It absolutely HAS to react before a deadline.

Actually lets assume the GC will always take at most 200ms and the component needs to react within 300ms, if that can always satisfied then you can call the system a real time system.

The problem with GC is that typically you can't guarantee that it will finish in 200ms or even 400ms. You can see this quite often with our desktop computers and servers which are not RT and many times you see a slow application or not responsive.

The difference here is that that when GC is taking its time, your website might have slower response, it might get you annoyed, maybe it will even make you swear at the developer of the application/system. When this happens to a car, someone gets killed.
Yeah, I find this absolutely hilarious and overwhelmingly disheartening that it took a data firm connected to Trump for the mainstream media outlets to give a shit. No one cared that Obama had the same strategies in 2012, or Hillary did what Trump did (to a much more impressive degree with CTR and friends) in 2016.
Is this akin to React vs. Preact? Same API, entirely different codebase. Allows me to drop in a replacement if Facebook does a stupid.
>Do you oppose copyright on all software, i. e. source code, as well?

That has nothing to do with anything. Copyright is a human construct. Somethings are decided to be copyrightable and somethings are not. Not every creative endeavor should be copyrighted, other should, and other should with major limitations. APIs were never copyrightable. Ever. The computing and programming industry developed with this assumption - in fact, it may not have ever developed if that wasn't the case. Why does this need to change now? And not even through a new law but rather court re-interpretation.
Hah, then the communists, terrorists, etc have won. One side likes science and facts, today at least.
Simply set the configuration value privacy.firstparty.isolate in your about:config.

This will treat every first party domain as it's own container for cookies and other stuff.
Another nice thing to have, although Firefox already has extensions like Self-Destructing Cookies or Cookie Auto Delete to remove cookies as soon as the tab is closed. In which case, Facebook should have nothing to look at.
There's a possible win—people would have assumed he was sincere in his apology. Sure it would be bad for business, but perhaps some things are more important than business.
I think Chromebooks will still dominate because:

1. Chromebooks have a much better web browsing experience than iPads. The web is where a lot of classroom exercises and materials are distributed. It also provides a lot of flexibility in terms of loading new applications.

2. Physical keyboard means that there's more room to display content. Imagine typing up a book report on an on screen keyboard, or creating a presentation.
I know they're trying to catch the glow around Waymo's supposed safety in light of the Uber incident

???
I tried Git Tower for Windows when it first launched, it was pretty nice but didn't hit the mark for me to want to spend money on it. If they're going to make "hard" maneuvers like rebasing and cherry-picking easy to do in the UI though, it may be worth another look. GitHub hasn't given really any attempt to expose that sort of capability in their UIs, and as someone who doesn't Git enough to put the time into learning the command line... very interesting.
Quit shilling for your employer. No one takes this argument about a piece of technology (swing) that has not been relevant for over a decade and a half seriously. Look up the history of innovations that Java and in particular the hotspot JVM brought to the mainstream. Enough with this false narrative that java and the jvm sucked and was in decline and Google swooped in and saved it. Some of the creators of your beloved V8 and Go Lang were the very same folks who helped create the hotspot JVM. Google basically pulled a fast one by not buying a license and they knew the consequences even at the time this occurred.
GNU Taler wants to give the government a backdoor. That's privacy in the same way the Clipper chip in the 1990s was privacy.
Java was only popular in the first place because people assumed it was a free-enough language that anyone could implement. Everyone assumed the TCK license was a technicality right up until Apache Harmony was (entirely unreasonably) denied one; most of the JCP members expressed shock and dismay at that.

That was the decision that lead to Android being "Java-but-not-Java". If they'd been granted a TCK license like they should've, they'd've implemented proper Java (confirmed by the TCK) and we'd be in exactly the same situation as if Google had used OpenJDK all along.
Database Security in Oracle
> it's their data as much as it is yours.

Debatable.

The EU has decided that is in fact, yours.
> The issue is can a public API be copyrighted. That is the scary issue.

In Roman Law there is the principle "In dubio pro reo" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_dubio_pro_reo), which means that if there are doubts whether the culprit is guilty or not, he/she may not be convicted.
This is ignorant. The rise of Javascript had little to nothing to do with the fall of Java applets, which failed due to their own issues.

Java applets were already considered a dying tech when Google made their push to heavily-Javascript-dependent apps, and the performance requirements that led to.

Note also that despite the similar name, Javascript and Java have technically nothing to do with each other. It is a quirk of business history [1] that Netscape and Sun partnered to name Javascript as it is when Sun was first pushing Java as a web technology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Beginnings_at_Netsc...
"They choose to spend that time working 2 jobs."

Because otherwise you'd say they'd "choose" to starve or be homeless?
Mozilla is also taking anti-fingerprinting action, but that's separate from this. see:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting
Is this some kind of a joke? Global warming, full stop. Plants are not starved, they were ubiquitous until we chopped “most” of them down.
> a few million profiles deleted

Reference please?
More like a studio apartment today costs as much as a McMansion did per month 20 years ago. Wages went up 30%, price of housing went up 300%.

The relevant statistic is that there are simply not enough jobs paying living wages relative to the number of people that need them. Flipping burgers is not a livable job in 90% of the places where corporations want burgers flipped (ie fast food joints in cities where cost of living is astronomical).
Um Eclipse? Netbeans? ArgoUML? (just out of top of my head).

Your statement would be true if you have said "anything meaningful client-side on the web with Java". On the web Java was restricted to Java applets and was never really in competition with JavaScript.

Desktop is quite another story.
There is currently a good stock of tritium that would power many such reactors for a while. So it's not insane to put off the tritium problem for later.
At the very least states should have a threshhold of X number of miles driven without an accident, x number of miles without a fatality, out of tens to hundreds of millions of miles of testing.

Move fast and break things works fine when the at risk subject is someone's vacation photos from 2015 rather than a kid in a crosswalk.
As I understand the CAFC to work, subject matter jurisdiction only applies to determining whether CAFC can rule on a case. Once they so rule, that ruling is precedent throughout the land -- irrespective of whether the topic of their ruling fell within their subject-matter jurisdiction.
The FAQ says blind signatures which would definitely confirm it as an eCash mint. Wish they had a sentence on the website that said "we implement the CHL eCash scheme over the blah curve" for the technical folks.

>And while what consumers (people sending money) spend their money on is completely anonymous and cannot be correlated, merchants (people receiving money) can still have their income audited and taxed accordingly.

Can't be linked but they can be correlated since you have a weak timing channel from issuance of tokens to redemption.
This begs the follow up question: Why can’t my browser always send zero cookies for all third party requests in all tabs?

Presumably the like button wouldn’t work - but that’s what I want. So the Q is: what will break that I didn’t want to break?
Anna: A KVS for any scale – the morning paper
Well, they do that 3D printing thing. I do not believe this delivering much of economic gain.
Interesting news. All this newspace startup competition in the rocket launch industry is huge.

One concern:

> The Terran booster will hit what the company believes is a sweet spot between smaller rockets under development by Rocket Lab (and others) and the much larger Falcon 9 built by SpaceX.

The market is moving very quickly right now. I'm not sure the Falcon 9 will even be flying by the time this launches. Maybe that will mean more opportunity for them, it is hard to say. But it seems to me that all these small-rocket companies are banking on one specific idea: that the convenience or dedicated customer service they provide will exceed the pros of going with a more established low-cost provider like SpaceX. With BFR flying regularly in the same timeframe as this rocket gets its first launch, their only hope is that customers will not want to ride along as a 90th payload in a BFR but will want a dedicated ride themselves.

Or perhaps I am being close minded, perhaps the market will grow sufficiently such that SpaceX will not even be able to suck up all the new launches and new demand, and the small-rocket companies will thrive.

I just don't want to see them left in the dust. A $10M price tag is incredible (I mean, wow, that's low! for a dedicated launch!). But will that be the expensive option by the time their rocket is ready for use?

Two concerns, it turns out. Will these rockets be reusable? I'm guessing not, since the article didn't mention it and these days in the rocket world, if you're not reusable, then who cares? You will be left in the dust.

Edit: Wait a minute. I just went to their website. It says nothing about reusability either. But it exclaims how great it would be to build and fly rockets in days instead of years. Are they very specifically making a disposable rocket? If so, fuck this company and fuck everything about it. It's not the way of the future to build large objects and throw them away. It's evil in fact, to research something like this in the modern era with an attitude of 'fuck you' to the materials' sources where they are mined from the Earth.

I'll hold off on an actual opinion until I know more. But I sure hope Y Combinator didn't invest in a fake-new-space-actually-oldspace company. I hope this is better than it looks because it looks awful.

Edit 2: What does the success case of this startup look like? Will they ever research reusability? Or are they aiming to make 1,000 new rockets per year? That's the success case based on the financials (=$10B revenue/year) and it sounds gross. Without reusable rockets that whole thing is extremely wasteful.

The efficiencies of 3D printing things quickly are not correctly accounted for in the loss that the planet takes due to increased mining and wasteful dumping that would have to occur (and which the investors and company do not pay for).
If the ZCash trusted setup was compromised, it would allow the compromiser to create ZCash "out of thin air" and effectively rob other ZEC holders through seigniorage. It would not allow them to spy on transactions.
It would be much nicer to just build more housing, rather than taking away landlords' profits while not addressing the lack of supply.
Supposing that the focus switches from Facebook to these other platforms how long until you see exactly the same patterns in these applications? We're talking about Facebook's core monetization strategy here, if they feel it's threatened I'm sure they'll do everything they can to "correct" that.
Apple continually misunderstanding that you need a keyboard if you're going to go against Chromebooks in education.
Yes, but as you say this breaks a large number of applications. The web browsers aren't super likely to break existing behavior since people simply blame the browser that whatever thing doesn't work.
It's not autonomous it's automatic.
> This is due to less-expensive pig-feed prices and larger farms, but it's also because of loose business and environmental regulations, especially in red states, which have made the U.S. an increasingly attractive place for foreign companies to offshore costly and harmful business practices.

Come on. Chinese government does not give a shit about "offshore costly and harmful business practices". The price of pork in China is 3 times of that in the US not because the Chinese government has some stringent environmental protection scheme regarding hog farms. It's because corn is extremely cheap in the US. And yes, China is now also importing cheap corn to raise hogs domestically: https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/china-buys-up-t...

And if you read Chinese: http://finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing/cyxw/2016-04-07/doc-ifxr...
NASA’s Webb Observatory Requires More Time for Testing and Evaluation
You can still formulate opinions based on facts instead of on sensationalist fear-mongering.
Yeah thanks, I understand how it works. I happen to think it is a bad thing.
Panic, Fear and Regret
Appreciate you breaking that down, and I agree that the sensationalist language is not helpful (preaching to the choir, etc.), but I think discredits goes too far. I can say something completely true in the most obnoxious way possible, and it can turn off a lot of people, but it doesn't alter the truth.

I believe that he's harping on CEOs of ride-hailing companies, because they're the obvious example that everyone is familiar with. His overall statement, as I read it, is closer to:

>humans in general with unchecked power can become dictatorial maniacs.

And, I think that's the salient point. Others have hit on it, but if a society is too Capitalistic or too Socialistic, the power-hungry people (who always have and, presumably, always will exist) will take advantage of the imbalance, and the people (general population) will suffer as a result. On a large scale, it shouldn't matter how evil/greedy any CEO or politician is, because their power should be limited. The problem, of course, is finding the right balance.
Question: Can a NN dream about accident scenarios, and thus be more carefull- if a scenery is "scary" ?
It's been sent back to the lower court to determine damages. After that Google can appeal to the Supreme Court if they can find some grounds on which to do so, and then the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear it or not.
A new Cortana popup's been showing up on the Windows 10 machines this week, where you can enable it, or have it "remind you later". >.<

I feel like every mode dialog needs a "f--- off" response. When YouTube asks me every fifteen minutes if I'd like to try YouTube TV, my answer isn't "no thanks", a polite declination of this generous offer. It's "f--- off", you incessant greedy tools.
How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes
Seems like it’s really just an excercise in lawfare. The underlying legal “principle” is flexible.
Though it has little to do with the parent post's point, technical development of both V8 and HotSpot was led by Lars Bak.

V8 didn't come about because of the JVM, but it was done by the same guy who wrote the JVM.
Java applets were huge, and still are quite big in enterprise.
IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1 Released
Perhaps I misunderstood
your point. You seemed to ask why people would want to use JS once WASM effectively
puts it on a level playing field with other languages.
How, after like 20 years goofing around on linux, have I never heard of `w` ?