skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot compare Jaguar back then with today. Both Jaguar and Land Rover have been owned by Tata for a while now and today both companies produce state of the art vehicles with proper electrics. They mostly carry the name and a bit of the company tradition over from the past, but little else.
Using React components in your Ember app
Difference was you were in Singapore, where they have clean and reliable public transit. Many people would definitely pay $10 to $15 more to take a private car rather than public transit in the US.
TRON to the Moon?
Nice, I’ll have to give that a try.

The Firestore API seemed quite similar to MongoDB which I haven’t used in a number of years. I might give that another try as well.
This is cute, but does little to address tracking via IP and basic behavioral sniffing. Facebook buys lots of third party datasets, including data from ISPs (actually, it is given to them).
Apple unveils new iPad 9.7“ with Apple Pencil support
This is so easy to type, but I imagine it would be much harder for you to devise any kind of system wherein I get to maintain a high standard of living and somehow don't have to work for a living.

My employers tell me what to do, yes; but have you ever thought that perhaps I like the exchange, and find it valuable to have someone who tells me what to do to get to an end result where I get a decent, reliable wage for doing so?

And how under socialism am I going to be freed from having to labour? If nobody labours, nothing will get done. Conversely, if I labour and see a massively reduced benefit from doing so personally, I will hardly be inspired to work hard.
“A self-driving car that won’t make you sick and kill you.”

Edit: ok I’m sorry I made one joke comment referencing arrested development. Sue me.
A self driving jag or land rover is high up on my 'eff it, I'll just walk' meter.
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> then suddenly you were defending incest and I was like “how the hell did I end up here?”

… Which nicely illustrates what different people find acceptable. But I agree that sex work would have been a better example. Either way, you felt it necessary to add the qualifier “in general”, and many (…) people, though certainly a relative minority, would fundamentally disagree with this qualifier (while talking about consenting adult without power imbalance in their relationship).
20 years ago they said "Fusion energy is 50 years away and always will be." Soon enough it's going to drop to "Fusion energy is 5 years away and always will be." Which is just silly.
But they care about "equality"
I didn't make an argument saying that the way it is, is the way it should be. I just said it is the way it is for reasonable reasons and I don't see how this new way could gain traction. Pushing up hill isn't a great strategy.
Birth control for men will never work. It's just a matter of trust.

To put it in a way that HN users understand quickly: it's client-side input validation.

(Don't tell me how condom works, you know what I mean.)
I suppose we could try lobbying Congress to change the copyright law to make an explicit provision for the fair use of software APIs.

Hey! Stop laughing!
In practice, the question is what sort of lens cognitive scientists and neuroscientists use for studies. When conducting a scientific experiment, you have to make some assumptions about what system you're studying, how you're modeling it, and how you're connecting model to hypothesis to evidence via experimental design.

My favorite argument by Andy Clark specifically is his take on the Outfielder Problem: if you study the brain with a "disembodied", action-free theoretical lens, you have a really hard time parsimoniously explaining how an outfielder runs to catch a fly-ball. If you take the "embodied", "action-oriented" view, you see that solving cognitive problems using bodily and environmental resources via continually-updated motor planning is not only the theoretically elegant solution (the one that makes most precise use of the available sensory data, has the fewest parameters, is cheapest to compute), but simply resembles what we observe people actually doing (linear optical acceleration cancellation).
Deuterium-Tritium fuelled reactors can produce Tritium by wrapping the reactor walls in a "blanket" of lithium. The lithium captures neutrons and transmutes into Tritium. It should be possible to produce an more tritium then the reactor requires, but no one has actually done it yet for fusion reactors. Fission "fast" reactors can do something similar by turning uranium into plutonium. This has been demonstrated by several countries but so far has been uneconomic.
This author made the mistake of trying to overgeneralize from the New York taxi industry, but most American job growth since 2005 has been temp work/contracting, Uber/Lyft are just the most visible for one industry - this kind of explains the general unease/longing for the past we saw in a sizeable percentage of the electorate expressed in the 2016 election in both parties.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/most-jobs-created-...
EFF Hosts John Perry Barlow Symposium
You could start by just paying them better...
Fines do work, but they have to hurt. If people only got fined $1.00 for speeding rather than the usual $300, there'd be a hell of a lot more speeders. With the banks and investment institutions, the fines are typically only a small percentage of what the net of the move was. ($1.00 vs $300).

Of course fines, only work so much. People still used drugs during the 80s and 90s when punishment was over the top (and still is).
> not commit crimes

If you take the US as an example (I assume you're American), then did you know that the US Supreme Court doesn't actually know how many laws apply at a particular time to a particular person[1]? The US code has an immense amount of laws that are all equally legally binding, but have different levels of "obviousness" as "don't murder people". If a US Supreme Court judge cannot be sure what laws apply in any given case, what chance does a layperson have to understand the tens of thousands of federal crimes in the US?

For instance 16 U.S.C 3372 (the Lacey Act):

> It is unlawful for any person [...] to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation of any Indian tribal law

So if you have ever bought or been gifted a fish, animal or plant that at any point broke Indian tribal law (even if you didn't know about it, even if it wasn't the law where you received it, and even if the plant or fish is legally farmed and sold in another area) you have broken a federal law and you're now a criminal.

In short, "don't commit crimes" is not as simple as you may think in all cases. You even have cases where the US government has retroactively applied new laws (in violation of the charter of human rights) for things that were not crimes at the time (such as "copyright infringement" for a work that used to be public domain). Very few criminals were tried under these strange laws, but they are still just as illegal as more common crimes.

[1]: https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?t=279
Thanks for taking the time to read our blog post and for sharing your thoughts!

For us, the concept of “standard” technology is not about whether it’s proprietary or open source, more that we have a “standard way of doing things. So in this case it was moving toward saying, “hey, if you’re an engineer at Intercom, and need a scalable key-value store for the thing that you’re building, we think you should lean toward using DynamoDB, rather than any of the other technology options, because that’s the one that we’re committed to making a first developer experience for internally for the long term”.

The reason for having AWS alone as a Tier 1 option is similar. We’re already very heavily invested in making developing on top of AWS a great developer experience at Intercom, and we’re committed to doing so for the long term. Therefore we think that it makes sense for us to advocate for always exploring relevant offerings that put out.

I recognize that I could have elaborated on the philosophy a lot more, there’s always a tension between writing too much and too little. And the philosophy is just that, not dogma and not right or wrong, just trying to give insight into how we think.

Thanks again for the feedback!
Rich.
The modern syntax you're speaking of is catching up to the early nineties and it still doesn't have a good static type system. It is not a great programming language, it is hanging onto relevance.

With WebAssembly we now have a much more reasonable target for far more modern (and productive and enjoyable) languages like purescript.
Is it just by chance that this was posted on April 1?
He does give speeches at BJP rallies for elections to promote his party. Same with the app.

If the first is legal, what's wrong with the second?
You get your password leaked in this release!
Is GNU Taler an anonymous ecash mint?
This is ridiculous, he calls for a limit on Ubers on the road to limit congestion. But there is no such limit on private cars.
> They took steps

Sure, but not the steps you'd take if you wanted a functioning public postal system. They set an extremely short timeframe to fund the pension account, then cut postage prices right as it neared full funding.

A lot of Congress very openly wants to end the public postal system. Pre-funding the pension system was a reasonable move in principle, but like most changes to the USPS it's structured in a way designed to create a failing system to privatize.
I mean the company that can really capitalize on this right now is snapchat.
Yes, thanks.

"Math fabrication" would have been the best way of expressing it in the first sentence. But the basic message is the same.
Dear Apple,

Please design an iOS identity isolation UX for Mobile Safari, Apple Mail and third-party apps.

Currently we have to use several different iOS web browsers to achieve isolation of browser logins/cookies, but Apple Mail opens all links in Safari.

Ideally, there would be an OS enforced, per-app setting which defines which web browser (or Mobile Safari identity context) will be used to open a URL.
Drew Houston on himself, Dropbox launch plans and sweating the details
Every time male contraception comes up, someone says this. It makes no sense. Men get vasectomies all the time and their partners trust them.
The reasons commonly reported by heterosexual men to not use condoms are not much different to the reasons reported by homosexual men, so I think there's something other than burden-passing at play here.
My code fast like Usain... haha!
Magit had a Kickstarter recently (yes, an Emacs mode on Kickstarter; I was shocked too), to raise funds for continued development. I dropped some cash there; after all, it helps me quite a lot to earn my paycheck.
Male Survivors of Sexual Assault Face Unique Challenges to Recovery
Unprofessional?

No. There aren't any ethics rules implicated in the way we do this.

No client files are stored on these servers.
What is it with all these ignorant but highly opinionated folks seemingly astro turfing for Google? Java remains very strong on the server side and it hardly needs Android to "save" it.
Like school bullying, they assumed that they could get away with it, because Sun was out of money to sue them.

Here is the latest Gosling interview on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y&feature=youtu.be...
We know how to contain strong neutron flux. We know how to contain short to medium lived activated materials, we know to avoid cobalt is hardened materials, we don't have to deal with water based corrosion in a fusion containment, though neutron embitterment may be a similar issue.
Short answer: no

The law doesn't work as a set of naive rules like "If API->You need a license" because human life is full of nuances that can never be fully captured in a set of rigid rules. I know that people are uncomfortable with this truth, because our systems of courts often appears to the casual observer as just a bunch of "elders" making subjective decisions. Hence "smart contracts" etc.

And while the criticism isn't completely wrong, the system as it exists in the US today is actually working quite well, with the professional ethos and rules of the court system being somewhat successful at overriding any individual judge's predilections.

Anyway, in your case the difference is obviously one of scope. Even in the original ruling that affirmed APIs to be subject to copyright, the judge ultimately dismissed the case because they considered Google's actions to fall under "fair use".

While this was now struck down on appeal, it is absolutely certain that copying a single method's signature would still be protected as fair use. Moreover, in the case you mention, a method such as File.write() would probably not fall under any copyright because there isn't much of any creativity involved.
I too found The GIMP easier than Photoshop to pick up, but that was well over a decade ago. The problem for devs with established UI is when there are significant changes you risk alienating your current user base who have got used to the UI. Like MS Word getting rid of the ribbon UI.

I tend to use Inkscape for creating, GIMP for modifying (eg photoshopping).

What are the other better FOSS alternatives to The GIMP?
> Facebook themselves allowed the Obama campagin to pull demographic information in violation of their own polices, which was arguably impacted far more people (https://www.investors.com/... && http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...).

Neither of those citations say that what the Obama campaign did violated Facebook's policies.

The "But the Obama campaign did something similar!" is an argument based on false equivalence, used to muddy the conversation.

(Further, both of those citations - a right-leaning source[0] and a tabloid, respectively - are articles written about some tweets. Which is not to say that they're wrong, but without further confirmation, one might want to take them with a grain of salt.)

[0] The "You might like" links at the bottom are to the articles "Russia Scandal: Did Obama Tutor Hillary Clinton In Electoral Conspiracy 101?", "Will Mueller Ever Admit That There Was No Trump-Russia Collusion?", and "Hillary Clinton Still Can't Believe She Lost ... Or Why".
> Last time I checked, Photoshop and most of adobe's products barely function on a 4k device, yet Gimp works nicely.

That's a surprise and nice to hear! I thought the support wasn't too great and it requires GTK+3.x or newer. It still uses GTK+2.x (see https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap).
"knowing your driver has been working for 16 hours and still hasn't earned enough today to pay rent or pay for fuel?"

See, that's the part I take issue with. That's pure assumption. Lots of my drivers have been college students working part-time for some extra cash on the side, not full-time workers trying to support themselves. I usually tip my drivers too since I know the base price isn't much.

That said, I know it's not a perfect system and it has its own problems. Still, I do view it as a voluntary arrangement, and often driving is a better option for people than working at a fast food joint or a similar minimum-wage job.

What type of regulations on Uber and Lyft would you propose?
If they get $40/user through ads, and thought they could get $40 out of pocket, they'd be making $80/user by doing both.

Where did the meme that paying for a product means they won't advertise or sell your data come from? Everyone is aware of cable TV's business model, right?
I don't think that golergka is talking about discrimination. This thread is about discussing with Facebook employees. Mocking the people with whom you attempt to open communication doesn't strike me (or golerka, apparently) as being very efficient at that.
>It is not that it cannot be translated into knowledge by professionals, it's that they'll never be able to comprehend what exactly is going on unless they've also suffered from mental illness.

This sentence reads to me like "It's not that professionals can't effectively use other peoples first hand experience , it's that they can't effectively use other peoples first hand experience".

They don't need to know exactly what's going on. It's impossible for anyone to ever know exactly what is going on in another person's mind. Psychology as a profession is completely useless if that's the bar for it being useful.

I apologize if my response comes off as aggressive, but I strongly believe that propagating the idea that mental health professionals can't really help people is dangerous for those that would benefit from their help.
State-based tuition would work out in America, but case in point on how awful our educational infrastructure is:

National Accreditation is basically a joke. Only regional accreditation matters. If people actually want to have "free college for everyone in the USA", step one would be to actually DEFINE a college education on the national level.

Which the USA does NOT have yet. We are very far away from the point of "sink money into this project". Ever talk education in the USA? How did "Common Core" do? The political culture is incredibly sensitive and paranoid about education changes.

Just think about how such a "free tuition" project would work. You'd have to have a national team standardize a curriculum. You'd have to then inspect various colleges to make sure they're up to standard. The ones that aren't up to standard lose federal money (aka: free tuition money), so it would be a death-spell for any school who fails.

Its not compatible with US Culture. US Citizens are too particular about how their children are taught, and would never accept people from far away telling them that... well... Thomas Jefferson is a founding father (https://thinkprogress.org/texas-board-of-education-cuts-thom...) or that the Earth is older than 6000 years old, or that Radioactive dating works.

Education barely even is a money problem. Its mostly political. Frankly though, I'd prefer if we fixed our High Schools first. Clearly a high school education isn't enough for most jobs anymore.
Thank you for posting this honest revelation. I sympathize as I also had similar infatuations with Rand in my teens and Chomsky in my twenties.

However, let me also warn you that this path of becoming infatuated with "thinkers" like Peterson is a dead end.

People like Rand, Chomsky and Peterson look heroic merely because they are willing to shout the loudest and attract the spotlight.

If you are really searching for authentic meaning, you're probably not going to find it among those in in the spotlight.

Instead of Rand, seek out Robert Nozick.
Instead of Chomsky, seek out Murray Bookchin.
Instead of Peterson, seek out Alasdair MacIntyre.

There are smart, brilliant thinkers of every ideological stripe. However, the best and brightest rarely make the NYT bestseller list. Continuing to be attracted to "thinkers" like Peterson will only lead to disappointment. Almost everything he is saying has been said before by someone who was smarter and a better writer, and most importantly kinder, than Peterson.
Java on mobile was (virtually) dead before Android. Now it's thriving and relevant again.
That’s what they are pursuing with trials now. Efficacy as a contraception is proven in animal models and they’re pushing for human studies of that.
> This was a well-known design choice where the user could balance between transaction size and privacy--people who preferred faster/cheaper transactions chose to sacrifice untraceability. Nowadays, the default option enforces higher untraceability.

I don't think you understand the flaw behind this "design choice". While its great to give the user the choice in how they want to balance things, the individual's choice affects the whole system. If you - as kess privacy-conscious user - use 0 mixins (as was possible) or the min. no. of mixins, when your transaction is used as mixin for a privacy-focused user, you make that user much more identifieable. The choice defeats itself when you depend on others to take at least the same number of mixins for their transactions.
The court isn't going to care if what Google did was damaging to the Java ecosystem. They only care if Google broke copyright law. Also, all software stacks are fragmented. Consider the alternative - some kind of machine overlord dictatorship ;)
There's a "Same-Site" cookie flag that helps prevent CSRF by preventing cookies being sent in that scenario. Can the browser be made to treat all cookies as "same-site" for a quick 'fix' to this issue?

Obviously this would need a white-list (and a pair<from,to> whitelist, not just "this domain is OK list) to allow SSO scenarios.
I'm constantly shocked by how few people know about CouchDB or PouchDB. Both are amazing projects that integrate perfectly.
There are several leaner alternatives for application scripting, is it really worth dragging V8 around to get that capability? Lua would be one alternative. The reason I'm asking is that I'm working on a more Forth-inspired alternative[0] for application scripting myself, and I'm curious about the reasons for defaulting to the crappiest language ever invented and an implementation controlled by one of the biggest corporate bullies around.

[0] https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl
I am not sure you are familiar with the entire case regarding Sun's public approval of Google's Java use. Oracle argued it was the CEO's personal blog, but the CEO definitely did give a form of "green light" depending upon your interpretation. It's a defense I feel like is easy to do against a large company that "should have known better", but would be considered unfair against a smaller company that was essentially given approval. I won't address the rest of your comment that is out of context since it's missing this important fact.

Here's some old HN discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2806771
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All irrelevant. If I check out an open source project, expand it significantly, fix tons of bugs, increase performance, and commit the changes upstream, I have contributed back. The fact that I have built another product on top of that isn't 100% open source does not nullify the huge contributions of the former.

Chrome isn't open source. Chromium is. Chromium contains V8. V8 alone launched the huge nodejs community. In your mind, because Chrome isn't 100% open source, the fact that you can use pieces of it that are for tremendous benefit to the community doesn't count?

Handsets aren't the only thing Android is used for. Virtually every consumer product I see launch these days used some part of Android. TVs, smart speakers, IoT devices, thermostats, car entertainment systems, set top boxes, watches, and on and on. If someone wants to do a Kickstarter on a new piece of HW, the first thing that they're going to thing of is forking a chunk of AOSP, and to deny the immense value this has enabled for people building such devices is absurdly blind. Without ASOP, many of these projects wouldn't even exist.

Your positions are transparently hypocritical for someone who was a Windows Mobile fanboy, and rarely says a negative word about Apple or Microsoft's 100% proprietary platforms.
If Google cared 1 second about Sun they would have bought it, after being a major contributor to its downfall.
WASM will also be used to port applications in other languages to the web. And if you're a Rust or C++ shop, maybe you don't want to write your frontend in JS.
There is no way Volvo is equipping cars with LIDAR for this kind of use case as radar will do for much much cheaper.
> but right now I'd rather not have static typing than go through the additional hoops of setting up transpiler builds

Agreed. I've found that using JSDoc with an IDE that supports validating against it is the best of both worlds.