skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see. So the OP is just saying that it is above the breakeven point, as in we are not losing energy from running it. Seems like a pretty low bar for energy production :). FWIW, that is a pretty misleading statement when not contextualized and some people could become very confused.
Nah. Any language is acceptable as a first language. I started writing BASIC. Gatekeeping is for losers.
The decision to allow self-driving cars in Arizona is going to save far more lives than it will take. I firmly believe it was a massively good decision. but time will tell.
> Facebook never gave me anything of value in exchange for constantly monitoring and profilingmy behavior online.

Then don't use it. I don't use it. It's not that difficult.

> In contrast, Google provides me with a very competent productivity suite, a superb photo-managing software navigation, maps, aggregate traffic data,and a host of tools to actually build a business and educate myself and others.

This reads like cringe material from google's social media team.

> Facebook gets my contempt and scorn.

Well both google and facebook get contempt and scorn from me. But then again I don't work for google or facebook so I can be somewhat objective.
Unpopular opinion: I feel Google should be punished for what they did to Java.

Maybe the mechanism being used is wrong, but Android bastardized Java and as an Android developer I feel real damage has been done to the health of the Java ecosystem by having billions of devices run fragmented Java-but-not-Java.

Google has started to make it right with the switch to openJDK and Desugar, but in a lot of ways it’s too little very late.
Heh, isn't this where Sandstorm was introduced...?
Are you saying that Volvo and Aptiv should have stopped Uber from running these tests in Arizona, because Uber disabled Volvo's proven safety features?
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Forgive me but, because I don't feel the effects of its influence, I do not care that much about its existence. (Remember: I don't use FB). Yes, I do have a moral objection to its practices, but not really an immediate repulse.

As per your last argument: I am not "insulting them". If it were an "insult", it would be for everyone including me. I also go through considerable effort to avoid obesity and would also be addicted to drugs if I tried them.

From a biological perspective we are all animals and as such we are all governed by "instincts", by the biological needs every animal has. Regardless of what they tell you in your biblical studies, human biology is very much like most of other mammals. Their "point of view" is just their biological need for little bursts of dopamine.
I have a Facebook account on which I have shared as little as possible. When I downloaded the data off the platform, it was completely empty which was no surprise.

But, as it turned out my friends were not so lucky. All of them had my number saved. Some had my birthday. Quite a few had tagged me at my work location etc.

So, even with efforts on my side to try and not share data, FB still has a profile on me. I find it hard to believe that there are lot of other platforms which can build such a cache of information about me, without me giving them explicit permission.
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I actually got good mileage out of Netgear stuff, but two years ago I changed it out with an ASUS Router (AC66U) and I've been happy. They originally weren't aggressive with security flaws, but they've righted the ship on that.

D-Link gear is hot garbage.
At what point do we classify buying magic weight loss wraps as mental illness in and of itself?
Yea, I have been using an exercise of periodically deactivating my account for most of the last year. I just reactivate now when there is some major event that I want to discuss with mostly my friends from college.

In the past year that has been:

1. Hopping on for Thanksgiving week/weekend to have fun trashing talking in college football rivalry week. Briefly stayed active through the end of the playoffs since Clemson was involved and MOST chatter was sports and families getting together for the holidays.

Got back off as soon as that was over and it devolved back to politics.

2. Stayed off until Clemson made the NCAA tournament and now that we're out and it's back to politics...I'm off again.

In the next year I imagine I'll probably sign on specifically for Clemson games when I'm trying to meetup with people at different tailgates or on road trips like Texas A&M.

That is pretty much the entire value proposition for me at this point...because as much as I'd like to just keep up with family and friends, Facebook force feeds me so much junk that is almost entirely aimed at "Show this very dumb, rant thing to try to get me to argue and engage".
> Clearly you want nothing done about this and are happy with this low level of privacy.

Facebook already locked down their platform in 2014-2015. There's no use asking Facebook to do anything now. What needs to be done is to hunt down the companies that extracted the data, one by one, trace every copy of it and delete it. But that is really hard to do. It's easier to just keep attacking Facebook.
You make an excellent point wrt discounts. We are often puzzled by unsound technical choices that make little sense until you realize the decision is not an isolated event.

Everything makes sense. If it doesn't, it's because you are missing something.
I was riding in a NY taxi in 2015. The driver owned his medallion since the 80s. He had never heard of Uber. I told him about it and suggested that this was the time to sell. I doubt he did, but the point is, is that this wasn’t an overnight event. Technology and markets change. If they didn’t the next generation would never get their chance.
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So you want Swing apps on Android?
Or this awesome issue on any of the newer MacBook Pro laptops, if you plug or unplug any USB devices while the system is either going into or recovering from sleep mode (I.E. after you've closed the lid, but before you see the login screen again after opening it), it will randomly kernel panic. I spent almost a month trying to figure out why I would randomly get a kernel panic in the morning since my evening routine was to close the lid, disconnect my keyboard/mouse/monitor, and then in the morning do the exact opposite (plugin keyboard/mouse/monitor, open lid). Once I read about the issues with USB devices and sleep mode I changed my routine to first open the lid, wait for the login screen to show up then plugin all the USB devices. Since I made that change I haven't seen a single kernel panic.
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I'm worried if this is again going to pose serious problems in using open source stack and building profitable solutions. So, If I'm going to build something profitable using R and Tensorflow/Keras then someday I could be sued by the consortium or Microsoft that owns Revolution Analytics (that controls R) ?
Generally speaking Cisco has largely blown the whole consumer business... repeatedly.

They just don't understand it, they're not built to run it.

They spent a ton on flip during the rise of the smartphone. Every executive probabbly had a device in their pocket that would replace the company they were buying for crazy money.
Author’s vision for Uber: regulated, price-controlled (“can’t charge less than a true cost of the trip”), number of cars not to exceed government mandate, with unionized and minimum-wage-guaranteed drivers.
I can do a google search and find at least three "school stabbing sprees" in the US on the first page. In fact, it seems like you're much more likely to be stabbed while going to school than shot.

Sharks kill, on average, about as many people as school spree shooters per year. Those deaths to sharks are preventable by offing all the sharks, are we doing that?

Making policies based on outrage is a losing proposition.
Massive scale hydroponics at all latitudes, too. Why be limited to what the sun can grow, when we can grow our own sun right here on Earth?
I agree with everything except that I don't see those broken connections as a loss. Instead I see them as a signal of a relationship that ran its course.

There are plenty of people I have fond memories of and wouldn't mind staying in touch, where that didn't happen even though it wouldn't require more than occasionally sending a message: "Hi! Just thought of you. How are you doing?"

I assume I could track down most of them, but doing so has this strange feeling of a misplaced nostalgia turning into benign voyeurism.

But that's just me. Clearly others feel differently and I see no reason why they shouldn't.
sure he is. he could have make criticism about alt-right with exact same harshness and might not say too much thing about leftists without too much changing his stance. this bothers me since i believe raising nationalism is much bigger threat than a couple thousands of university students. (although 'political correctness' is also a raising problem)
> Windows has effectively lost the generation that will shape corporate environments...

No they haven't. As evidence - there is an avalanche of young gamers and streamers using Windows. Almost every streamer and gamer using Twitch.tv are on Windows. Watch the programming streams - it's almost exclusively done on Windows.

Those "entrenched Windows shops" are everywhere as well. Throw a stone and you'll hit one. I bought a car the other day and everyone on the sales floor and in their finance office is running Windows. My wife is a teacher and guess what they use in their administrative offices and guess what every teacher uses to get email?

Every insurance shop I've seen runs Windows. Every call center I've ever seen runs Windows. Every sales office I've ever seen runs Windows, even in industries such as publishing where the Mac is popular.

> But Windows has largely lost personal computing to Android and iOS.

I wouldn't call this computing...it's more like consumption. People who need to work at home aren't using Android and iOS. My brother in law works for a big financial house. When he works at home, he isn't using Android or iOS. Same with my sister in law who works for a big insurance company.

> They have no attachment to Microsoft [people who went from school through university using iOS or Android]...

New employees don't start off by being able to change whatever they want. Furthermore, they will learn more on the job than they did in school. If they simply cannot find alternatives to things that need to be done on Windows, they'll use Windows and other Microsoft tools. And finally, I doubt anyone makes it through university using only iOS and Android.

I'd like to see some evidence for your claims.
Well, I think from Roy's point of view REST is only HATEOAS. So URL's are irrelevant; you can put version numbers in there if you want but no client should realize it.

What you should be versioning is your media types (e.g. HTML4 vs HTML5).
Smalltalk and Interlisp-D did it first.
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Basically GDPR says that you can keep backed-up data but you must have your backup retention age and processes defined. That is, it's ok to say "we retain backups and logs which may contain your data for 30 days".
I bet Larry and Sergey are thinking we should have bought SUN.
It will learn how to behave by treating an activation of the redundancy systems as a failure.

One of the big lessons of the Therac fiasco - your interlocks need to log every time they are activated.
I actually got my girlfriend on to Signal because of all of this. Her last use case was FB Messenger to talk to friends out west on the cheap. I got her to install Signal and she discovered a bunch of people on her contact list were already using it, including her boss. As soon as she tried it and found out there were video and audio chat as well, she was really excited.

There's often an alternative. Myself, I left FB behind a few years back and subsequently lost contact with a lot of people. I didn't try hard to find alternatives, though. Just the same, I've been far more happy and present without it.
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Do you think if the situation was reversed like Hillary was elected because Chinese hackers used FB, fake news etc the situation would be different? If yes why is that? I am not from US so I do not understand why that would be true since the 2 camps are very balanced.

How big is the group of US citizens that dislike both Trump and Hilary and would have been similarly outraged regardless of who would have used this tactics.
I found Sumologic to lack features that ELK has such as packetbeats. But you still have to manage the Sumologic forwarding agent and keep under your ingest limit. Additionally my mind never exactly flowed with their query syntax. They refreshed the UI recently and I liked it (aside from compounding my overutlization of tabs haha), you now more easily/graphically select time series from the graph. I can see how it is nice to not have to worry about re-indexing and what type of device the underlying data rests on. I have not tried the ELK hosted solution so some of my criticisms could apply to it as well.
Is that article two paragraphs long without source or attribution or am I doing the web wrong?
Bulb effect.
That sounds like a good solution that would benefit drivers. Hopefully this can be realized
They made billions of people access and use technology. Java was just a tool to help them achieve it. Sorry, your complaint is not really making sense here
i really like HN comments so much (not joking) this is great. It summarized the entire article perfectly I can already tell. Thanks vtail.
One thing you can do is to actually read the Bible. You don't have to become an evangelical to get meaning and use out of it.

Here's a great example of how to read it:

https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2017/08/everything-y...

You can keep the supernatural stuff at bay and just use the Bible the way it's intended to be used, as a repository of wisdom. It's got a bunch of really cool stories in it that are also really dark and rich. They don't just have one moral. You can see yourself in any of the characters in any of the stories and it will show you what to look for and how to respond.
> I think a whole lot of pro­gram­mers would rather work in high-level lan­guages like Ru­by and Python

That doesn't mean that C++ programmers aren't looking down on those people, though.
After running w, “The next thing I'd do is to go get in touch with that person. It would be foolish to continue when the answer might be a few short chat messages away.”
Then it's probably not a great idea to use a personal phone to make those communications then. Whoever wanted the NDA should provide one.
Zuckerberg seems confident he doesn't need to really give a crap. FB will be fine either way. Why bother? He's got better things to do with his time.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith's translation is eminently readable with comprehensive notes - https://www.amazon.com/Travels-Battutah-Macmillan-Collectors...
Is that more or less regulation than taxis currently have in the US?
This is what Oracle does with every acquisition. You wring as much revenue out of a product as possible and when you cant get anymore you toss it aside and go acquire another product/company. This is what will happen to Netsuite which was recently acquired.
Event driven programming has been the norm for GUI systems as long as they have existed. I think that the heritage came from Simula in the 1960s, which influenced SmallTalk in the 1970s, which was a major influence for most object-oriented languages and GUI systems since then.

Erlang and JavaScript come much much later on in the evolution of programming languages; Erlang originated in the late 1980s, and JavaScript in 1995.
> So what good is keeping the coins in separate addresses then?

Publishing of your public key slightly decrease security of your coins. While ECDSA is strong it's still safer when only hash of your public key (bitcoin address) is known. After all you can always end up with weak key due to software or even hardware bugs.

> Am I missing something?

You're completely right, but you underestimate how important that little detail is. If you only receive money to different addresses each time then until you actually start spending it's will be impossible to prove that you actually control any of these addresses.
It is sad. When I was young, about 16-19, I had a friend who worked for Sun Microsystems and he was an amazing mentor, and maybe twice a year I got to meet some of his colleagues too. They embodied 'the hacker' spirit that I believe hacker news represents - long grey hair, very open minded, very friendly, and loved being passionate about tech discussions while keeping an open mind and a willingness to be wrong.

These people turned me into who I am today by showing me a form of non-vain, open, intellectual curiosity that I try and emulate - the persons age, race, gender, religion -- all irrelevant -- it was about the ideas. Though they would look down on you if you used the wrong editor (go vi!) but they would smile and show you the way.
The article also uses a unit ive never seen before, the "metric butt ton"
Here is the basic science on personality traits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

Now if by "did it work?" you mean "did it change the result of the election?" I think that some people are going to believe that it did no matter what because the election was as close as it was. That is, to change the course of that election you would only need to change maybe 50,000 votes in the right places. This election therefore is a "ground zero" for counterfactuals -- one can easily blame Comey's last-minute announcement or many other factors and people probably will.

Possibly the people at CA will deny that it was effective if they are facing trouble in court, but I am sure they would tell you it was very effective if they were selling their services to you!

I think it is also consistent with the way Bannon thinks which is certainly a few steps ahead of most people on the left and the right in terms of psychology. For instance, the "new right" and the "politically correct left" are always at arms with each other, but Bannon believes that really they have the same psychology. He realized early on that BELL HOOKS was on to something: if a black women can put together a custom marginalized identity, somebody else can feel like they are "down" because they are a conservative on a liberal campus, got bullied as a kid, misunderstood as an anime fan, has alopecia, etc.

Bannon does realize some things, such as the fact that white and black people in the U.S. could possibly join up in opposition to immigration (look at the way race is pictured in the movie Falling Down) but what he doesn't realize is that it takes one stupid racist comment and there is a black person who will never vote for you for as long as they will live.
No that sounds like a fake society kids think is reality. Capitalism is reality.
There's a painful math error in this piece. Uber's financial losses currently amount to about 10% of gross bookings. Details are here: http://www.businessinsider.com/ubers-losses-grow-in-q3-but-b... Ergo, Uber could operate at breakeven by raising prices slightly more than 10%. (Not every dollar of extra revenue would benefit parent Uber, but let's assume that most of it would.) Uber could be highly profitable by raising prices 20%.

Author Stephen Hill, a "journalist in residence," makes a rhetorical point by implying that today's $5 Uber fare really ought to be $10 if Uber weren't subsidizing passengers, and that today's customers are "only paying half the cost of the ride."

Uber's willingness to incur losses in the name of growth is still quite astonishing, and a measured analysis of its growth strategy would be worth reading. But the gap between 10% and a rhetorical 2x is huge. Many other journalists are taking time to do the math. I'm not sure why this math-impaired version found itself a big headline.
Is there a demo version? I couldn't find one quickly navigating their site. I'm hesitant to drop money on something like this without at least being able to try it out first.
Which comment are you referring to? A link would be helpful.
Will this push Google to move towards dart lang even more now?
It looks to me that the relevant part of that video is at 2:06, where he mentions a news camera filming. That section is much darker than the earlier footage, but the camera is waving around making it difficult to get a clear idea.
They clearly have a case because they just won it.
Ok those numbers wouldn't work out. I picked $40/yr since it sounded reasonable.

Maybe this is an opportunity for a startup to create a paid social media platform?
All good points, but student loans are important too. Many people who went to college are paying between $200-$500/month for the foreseeable future, which is a large additional cost that seems less common for Europeans.
It's not weird at all.

The point is that Uber should only be disabling these safety features on public roads if their technology is superior.

If their technology is less safe, and in this case it appears to be that it is, they shouldn't be driving around on public roads. Keep it to test tracks.

Volvo's system would have either stopped or slowed enough to make this crash non-fatal. That's worth pointing out. There is no point in Uber testing technology that is worse than what you can buy any number of cars today.
Another reminder never to do business with Oracle.
exactly, these slogan almost look like a doctrination campaign. but this is off topic.
Yup, in this case I'd be inclined that on the one side, the government dropped the ball by not banning Uber / "black market taxis" outright; on the other, they created artificial scarcity with the medallion system, creating a trade product that only the super rich could afford to own, which they could in turn lease out to make a profit over decades.

I can see why they needed the system though, to prevent a flooding of taxi drivers. And they were proven right, because now with gig economy drivers, the floodgates have been opened and the market has been flooded with drivers in a race to the bottom.

Probably also because for a lot of people there's no other work. This is in part because of the local economy, and in part by the US education system, which is (from an outsider's perspective) a system that ensures highly educated / rich families stay rich, and prevents social mobility - unless someone expresses some special ability and gets a scholarship, probably from a commercial party e.g. sports.
Android arguably saved Java by making it much more relevant than it otherwise would have been.
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>"There is a world of difference between objective reporting and biased propaganda."

So lets examine the "propagandist" here - Bloomberg News. Selecting just a single Bloomberg tech reporter's(Sarah Frier) coverage of FB in the last year.[1]

We see stories such as:

"Sheryl Sandberg Calls for U.S. Policy Changes to Aid Working Mothers"

"Facebook Is Determined to Build Ties With Automakers"

"Facebook Hires Apple Veteran to Run Oculus VR Hardware"

"Facebook's Strategy for Augmented Reality Starts With Phones"

None of these stories contain any negative portrayal of FB. So clearly Bloomberg is not an anti-FB propagandist.

So a news organization can be a part-time propagandist then? In other words they are only producing propaganda when the story contain unflattering details about a subject?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AP-41JG4_zk/sarah-frier