skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not op but I used to own a car and I could not be happier about not owning one anymore.

My daily commute does not necessitate a car, nor does grocery shopping.

I have a boosted board for when I want to shorten my commute or explore the city a bit.

I sometimes use Lyft or rent a car but the cost is ridiculously smaller than what owning a car would cost me.

It is dependent on many factors, for example a job change might force to buy a car but right now it works extremely well for me.
eat shit and fucking die, dang.
To be fair, there was a lot more not terribly complex yet still foundational stuff to be discovered then.
Free secondary markets is a great analogy for open source. What comes to mind is forks and plugins of open source projects, I guess they are a secondary market for the main project.
Education is what you make of it. Make of that what you will.
>"What if?
What if I run an operating system project, IDE project, email client, etc.? MSFT is going to steal or shutdown every type of software that competes with one of their products?"
Doesn't add up to me.

It doesn't matter.

The "what if?" is enough to cause a chilling effect. This will be the effective death of GitHub. I'm certain projects that are all-in on the platform will stick around out of momentum. But yesterday was the last day anyone would ever consider starting a new major project on GitHub.
HubSpot Sales, free edition can do that
> Nat Friedman is a legend in the open source community.

No not really, he and Miguel are known as sellouts and Microsoft shills/dickriders in the Linux community.
Our team loves Gitlab. We have had a bunch of slow responses today. Also lots of CI/CD glitches yesterday and today... but we recognize this is just due to the exodus so we know it will go back to normal - we're just laughing about it a bit.
That doesn't sound right. That's only 30 miles, total. This should be easily doable even with the cabin heater + battery heater at high highway speeds. Was this Leaf's battery healthy?
The article says much more than that:

> Two years later, when I was researching my book, I learned from a high-level member of the Pakistani intelligence service that the ISI had been hiding Bin Laden and ran a desk specifically to handle him as an intelligence asset. After the book came out, I learned more: that it was indeed a Pakistani Army brigadier — all the senior officers of the ISI are in the military — who told the C.I.A. where Bin Laden was hiding, and that Bin Laden was living there with the knowledge and protection of the ISI.

> The local police told me that they received the calls and could have been at the compound within minutes, but army commanders ordered them to stand down and leave the response to the military. Yet despite being barracked nearby, members of the Pakistani Army appear to have arrived only after the SEALs — who spent 40 minutes on the ground without encountering any soldiers — left.

Hersh's key claims were that the Pakistani intelligence was hiding OBL, eventually they (or at least one of them) let the US in on the fact, and that the US essentially went on a cakewalk to kill him, all of which are corroborated by other reporting. What are the major details that have been debunked?
Android P just provides this functionality out of the box. Anybody else can download these features from the Play Store today. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stayfocuse...
I'm starting to think it's a mistake to take on too lukewarm of a movement to try to get widespread appeal. I know this is basically Godwin's law now, but see the difference between Clinton and Trump's (or even Sanders') campaigns.
I thought it was actually Kepler that figured it out...
> But not doing so is not the inherent submission to evil that using proprietary software is, in their view.

No one says using proprietary software is evil. What you do with your computer is none of my business.

Distributing software without giving the recipient a right to inspect, modify and share it is what is evil.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch. The government already stepped in to make sure that you had to pay $8k for an electrician to get the job done (actually you're probably paying for the licensed electrician to send out an apprentice to to the job). It's all about who's special interest group hires the better lobbyist.
You don't have to buy when your number comes, you can decide to wait.
Shake – DECENTRALIZED BETTING EXCHANGE (On Ethereum)
The Volt's ICE is only used as a generator. That's much better from a maintenance standpoint, if you compare connecting two engines to the drivetrain (like a Prius).
So, are complaining about the economical factor or an ideological one?
GoDaddy domain appraisals
It's the best surely, and that article is decent, but there are so many areas wherein information is lacking or incomplete. One-line examples for entire modules or lack of explanation for specific parameters etc..

It's amazing that Google and Apple rely so much on browser use but they can't publish comprehensive information on them.
Contract software developers in Toronto Canada routinely make $100+/hour for 40 hours/week but it usually means working for a large enterprise like a bank, telco or insurance company.
I use Tmux, so this is the first time I notice it. Wow!
The state laws I have seen don't dictate the exact cost, though there may be other issues like unions which applies to many kinds of electrical work.
If I had to make a cynical guess, I'd say it's for CAFE standards.
There goes another great product, killed by Microsoft. M$ doesn't understand open source. They infuse their products with too much politicking and marketing, trying to lead clients when open source is functionally the inversion of this. It is product defined by user needs, not top-down high-priests deigning what we should have. They always get it wrong. Oh well.
Citation needed.

When did he change his mind on this?
> Why would you want to pay someone to make something important to you like a wedding cake if they clearly do not want to?

You assume they wanted to get the cake. If you assume instead they wanted to get the baker - either in advance (knowing he'd refuse because of his beliefs that he didn't exactly hide), or after the refusal which offended them - then all of it makes perfect sense.

> I realize it is a matter of principle for both sides but why do both political wings in the US feel compelled to force those with opposing belief systems to comply with their belief system?

Because they can? Obviously it is pleasant (at least for some people) to have others to bow to your moral superiority, even more pleasant if you can do it using the vast powers of the government. I mean, a lot of people spend sleepless nights arguing with somebody wrong on the internet. Now if they have a chance to actually do something about it - like making being wrong punishable, make those outgroup bastards suffer, make them not have their wrong opinions anymore or at least be afraid to have them openly - why wouldn't many people take it? Experience proves they would.

> Tolerance goes both ways, if someone is being a jerk to you avoid them don't bully them into doing things your way.

That's the old way, unfortunately. The new way is if you think somebody is being a jerk, you are allowed to be as much jerk as you want to them, and then some, because you're Fighting For The Right Side. Yes, I don't like it either, but I don't see any significant cultural backlash against it. On the contrary, I see only more escalation of jerk-ness.
That should be Apple's new motto.
Model 3 is only available in the US. Other cars are sold worldwide. For example, the Nissan produces 8K Leaf / month worldwide, and could produce more if there were more demand.

Tesla is popular, for sure, but hard to produce at scale.
But I assume their online banking website works on all/most modern browsers? Do you need to use the app?
If you just have a Vue file script tag in your document, you're good to go. If you want single file components, hot module reloading, Babel features, etc, you'll need Webpack. Luckily, the current and beta versions of the vue-cli make these non-existant problems. Just install using the cli and it's good to go, no setup needed.
A Reddit user claims the Chinese Government installed malware on their phone
- BMW 3-series vs a fully loaded M3 is like 35K to almost 90K
- Audi A4 vs S4 can be 30K added
- probably any base luxury model has a huge sport upgrade path. The GT-R used to be a Nissan Skyline upgrade.
Huh.

Does Google also have an issue tracker?
The other half are anti vaxers
I think the new Facetime features are gamechangers in terms of driving usage. All this stuff was already available in Snapchat etc. but Snap's problem is that the impressive AR stuff they were doing 3 years ago is now built into the OS.

Allowing people to call each other as avatars complete with facial expressions or with flattering filters applied gets rid of one of the last remaining key barriers to mass video calling adoption: people tend to look like hell in low light on front-facing cameras. Teenagers will upgrade to Face ID just to get these features, grandkids will love calling their grandparents as cartoon tigers and grandparents will love responding as cartoon dinosaurs.

Also nice to see the fruits of the Workflow acquisition, this will allow people to do all sorts of customisations including using slang and profanity to trigger commands. "Hey Siri, order my favourite fucking pizza".
It means you should start looking for a new job.
I agree that glasses are the ultimate direction that mobile devices and AR are heading towards, but I don’t think holding a device up in the air is the worst interaction (compared to something strapped to your face with VR, even a helmet might be better?)

I think holding a device in the air and shining it around has a natural feel similar to a magnifying glass or a flashlight. More intuitive and not as intrusive. That’s just my opinion though.
This makes me sad. It was relatively easy to maintain a cross-browser extension that supported Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari. All browsers roughly supported the same WebExtension like format and I could use the same code with relatively few browser specific paths.

I don't understand the move towards requiring xcode instead of going full WebExtension support. I'm scared that I will be unable to support Safari users without a macbook in the future.
I’d like to know, what are people on HN using headless browsers for?
Yes, but OpenGL is so outdated that the people that should use it the most (game and 3D application developers) were avoiding it due to a hardware vs. API incompatibility.

Vulcan was created to get that same portability, with an API that fits modern hardware.
>What one CEO does, another can undo.

I completely agree with that as a general principle, and I don't disagree with anything you've said outside of this quote. But are you suggesting that Nadella is going to leave Microsoft anytime soon?
His point is that gas spoils. It polymerizes creating a bunch of hunk that clogs the fuel lines
I don't have kids, but I'm curious - you're finding that children don't blame the parent for putting the internet-limiting software on their device in the first place?
Oh god. This type of comment is becoming the patent troll/ADA troll/insert other types of baiters and trolls.
Personally, for testing.
Monsanto is dead
Nvidia Isaac Launches New Era of Autonomous Machines – Nvidia Newsroom
You can add CD ROM, the diskette drive, SCSI, ADB, FireWire and the LaserWriter to that. How dare they!
My bad! I'm not sure either!
Blocky nose, plain interior, and panel gaps? The Model 3 is about as attractive and utilitarian as a Taurus. No nice lines like a 1970s Porsche or Dart, and doesn't look nimble like a Civic or Corolla. The people who buy it for appearance are likely the same ones spending $78,000 to "save money on gasoline".
Well, string theory is kind of the anti-epicycle. The epicycles in Ptolemaic astronomy were added to make the math conform to reality, but people didn't believe that the planets actually moved in epicyclic motion. Superstring theory started from the opposite standpoint: the Standard Model is math that works out, but the theory is messy, so superstring theory sought to make an "elegant" theory that checked out with the math... and ended up with a theory that is so general it can't really be disproven.

The end result is the same, but the paths to get there are completely different.
The claim is that it is the case here, as in

> "prevented" apps from abusing their API through policy, while simultaneously doing nothing with their construction of the API to prevent apps from breaking the policy
Ah, I get it, it's value is making the people use it feel special because only "the right kind of people" will get their jokes. Just a new generation of children using slang. Why was that so difficult to use words to describe?
I think the difference is that instead of shipping a modified copy of the software, you ship a "patch" which fixes the software. That was very common years ago, whole markets existed for providing improved functionality of some portion of various OS's (macos, dos, s390, etc) via hooking and patching.

Of course its seems that that freedom is now restricted as well, but that is a fairly recent development that can be laid at the feet of the DRM advocates.
Considering that we're talking about politicians from Chicago and Massachusetts I'd say that something shady went down unless it can be proven otherwise. That said, fixing elections in multiple states implies a level of competence that, considering the parties involved, pushes into the realm of science fiction so I'd be inclined to say they didn't fix the election.
How does this affect Valve and Blizzard?
Other reporting has corroborated some of Hersh's reporting, but not all of it. In the article you've posted, for instance:

> I cannot confirm Hersh’s bolder claims — for example, that two of Pakistan’s top generals, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the former army chief, and Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the director of the ISI, had advance knowledge of the raid. But I would not necessarily dismiss the claims immediately.

Here's a roundup from the Columbia Journalism Review that criticizes the mainstream press for being so dismissive of Hersh's story:

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/seymour_hersh_osama_bin_laden.p...

Here's a less pro-Hersh roundup by the NYMag, on the topic of whether Hersh's account should be trusted:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/how-solid-is-th...

But AFAIK, the main claims haven't been "proven" or disproven. Though I think most people agree that the initial accounts, including the August 2011 New Yorker story [0] (which was not by Hersh) and "Zero Dark Thirty", have had worthwhile questions raised about their veracity.

If you want a deep dive on the topic, this October 2015 NYT story is one of the longer that I've read. Not sure what's changed since then: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/what-do-we-reall...

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/08/08/getting-bin-la...
Super Mario World
Super Jungle Adventure
Actually, I did miss some of that quote, not "quite a bit", but some. Here it is:
“That’s the attitude,” he continued. “We’re gonna change mosques into cathedrals. That’s an attitude that pervades, I’m here to say, a large percentage of the Joint Special Operations Command.”
He then alleged that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who headed JSOC before briefly becoming the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and his successor, Vice Adm. William McRaven, as well as many within JSOC, “are all members of, or at least supporters of, Knights of Malta.”
Which, again, kinda makes my point for me; "pervades a large percentage". Not "theres a cabal of catholics running JSOC"
More importantly, none of this is constroversial, at all. Which was your original point. Jerry Boykin, Erik Prince, McRaven, McCrystal, all of these people and many others are, by general consensus, right wing christians and most of them are far, far right wing theocrats. Jerry Boykin in particular has been a fixture of the theocratic speaking circuit for years and was quoted in the middle of Obamas administration as saying that "he's been asked to raise up an army to take out Obama". Again, ad naueseum, Jeff Sharlet, Mike Weinstein in particular. You can play wiki lawyer all you want about the quote but the substance of it was utterly uncontroversial to anyone who didn't depend on access to the pentagon and congress for their livelihood. If you want to back out of the discussion now because I've made you look bad, so be it.

The remark about "second and third hand" was a point about their being, to my knowledge, no transcripts or video, it was poorly phrased.

Finally maybe leave off the pseudo-moral posturing about being "attacked", given I went out of my way to qualify what I said, and, in a subsequent comment, clarified the "spy" remark and did so precisely because thats charge is a serious one and I had seen you be smeared with it, thanks for literally attacking me.
String theory was originally exciting because it had a graviton that worked, and to my knowledge it is really the only theory that contains both the standard model and gravity. LQG is not yet at the point of reproducing 3+1 space as far as I know. So, here's my proposal: saying that the earth orbits the sun in a universe where QED also is true isn't proof of string theory, but it does falsify the standard model and so far to my knowledge most of string competition.
Yep, it was busy and we had to scale up but we're on top of it now. Thanks for your patience! https://twitter.com/mdelaossa/status/1003805667394834432
Is there an algorithm to humor and/or journalism?
Apple Requested 'Zero' Personal Data in Deals with Facebook, CEO Tim Cook Says
I'm still a bit confused as to the facts here, but it seems this is about the client software having access to data via apis authenticated with user credentials. If it's the software acting on the client's behalf, I don't view the client as third party (it's the user itself). Something along the lines of the old Farmville app would be third party.

Now if blackberry or apple had carte blanche access to data via an API that was authenticated just based on the company credentials, that would be different.
Thank you. This is the most insane day in our history. Cheers!
G5, the first 64bit desktop mac. [1]

Another fun fact, I named the Apache Velocity project after the 'velocity engine' in that chip.

[1] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/faq/powermac-...
I do not think the word "canonical" means what you think it means.
We took external investment so we need to either get acquired or IPO. Since 2015 we're aiming for an IPO in 2020 https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/ and so far we're on track.
The complaints here about how the new macOS does not have anything exciting or interesting is weird. I thought the best thing about the new macOS (and iOS) is that it's supposed to be Apple focusing on stability, rather than new features. Given all the bad things that have happened with macOS in the past year, I thought this was going to be appreciated.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/30/apple-focus-on-software...
A law _implies_ a causal relationship because a law is thought to model a universal relationship (B always occurs when A). How you interpret the causality depends on your metaphysics. It can be descriptive based on constant conjunction, if you're so persuaded.

Scientists will state that B happens BECAUSE of A, when A is thought to be a necessary condition for B. That's the causal implication.
No, that's not Hersh's key claim. Hersh's key claim is that UBL was captured by Pakistan in 2006(!) and ransomed to the US in exchange for increased aid and influence in Afghanistan --- that the UBL story we all heard was an elaborate ruse to cover up a quid pro quo conspiracy that involved not just Pakistan but Saudi Arabia.

In fact, after UBL was killed, we cut aid to Pakistan, and increased our military presence in Afghanistan.

Again: it's not a crazy argument to suggest people in Pakistan may have had intelligence about UBL's location (after all, we got intelligence about UBL, and we suck at this) and that someone who was read in ratted UBL out for the reward money. But that's not all Hersh reported! This is the problem with a lot of Hersh-style reporting: it sometimes starts from a plausible kernel and extrapolates wildly.
Really? I've been using and selfhosting it for years without issue.
And buying and using that software is submitting to evil forces. Which is what I said.
They could win if they could ramp up production to hit their touted targets, and sell both models.
Ask HN: Can I use a TLD for a site that's not in the domain's intended category?
For example, can I use a .house domain for a website that has nothing to do with real estate, homes, or construction?

What kind of authority does domain registry companies like Donuts Inc. have? Are they able to seize domains as they wish?
Vulkan really along with OpenGL latest. The whole Metal thing was wrong headed - both iOS and macOS should have supported Vulkan.

But that's nothing that affects me personally. What bugs me about macOS is how sloppy, buggy and limited it has become. Finder sucks big time. SMB doesn't work all too reliably. Wanna domain join - tough luck. (Even Linux distros are advanced in that area - Gnome 3 on Fedora allowed me to setup Enterprise Login and just entering ID / Password for my AD account during initial setup and it all worked flawlessly!). The OS updates are atrociously slow - at least they are infrequent but just goes to show how much attention they're really paying.

That's just from memory - I haven't used it for last year.
You’re forgetting about performance. Cadillac and Lexus are usually rear wheel drive or all wheel drive and quite a bit faster than their non-luxury counterparts. And all of them have more technology than the non-luxury brands.
The investors are welcome to do that work themselves.
My question is genuine.

I have no idea why you would say something unpleasant like that.
Apple issues new App Store rules aimed at streaming PC-based games
Can you link to the talk?
Beyond that, it's just hard to commit to a huge purchase like a car 1+ years in advance. Once the day of arrival comes near it seems like there would be a lot of people who decide to get refunds for various reasons. I think the rate would be high even if things were going perfectly (which, to be fair, they are not).