skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To speculate: the AGPL is the most common license that keeps to the spirit of free software when it comes to licensing for anything that could possibly be used in a web-facing product. If they didn't use it, it's likely that someone would have made a company profiting off of their work by now.
The argument to ditch Windows felt kind of shoehorned in.

If Bing is returning malicious search results, that's a reason to stop using the search engine, _not the whole OS_. The October update fiasco is a reason to stop using Windows. These are separate issues in separate projects made by separate teams, happening at separate times.

The implication is that everything MSoft touches is insecure or otherwise out to get me is weakly supported. It may or may not be true, but a quick toss in of one data point about how Windows is bad and oh by the way Ubuntu is better isn't convincing.
DuckDuckGo has a deal with Yandex to display search results from them on some searches. If you search for something in Russian, you'll see a "in partnership with Yandex" message in the corner of the search results page.
Why recreate it, if it still exists?
Exactly. Just look at Japan where tipping is a big no-no, but service is taken extremely seriously and puts the US to shame.
They are artisanl rocks crafted in small batch organic fair-trade volcanoes which offer micro eruptions to support sustainable all natural disasters.
Sync up player movements to a humanoid robot and have the killed animal sold to a meat processor.

You could create a drone flight simulator with a Pokemon UI to "capture" the animal and return it.
I've been running OpenBSD machines on Vultr for a little while, it's been good.
So does C?

Also, php in no way makes it hard to write good code, it's just easy not to.
Current US law is that the insurance company can consider age and tobacco use.

That's it.

Good chance it won't last though.
For a long commute, no. But as a New Yorker, if I have the choice between walking four avenues in the winter, or taking an electric scooter those four avenues? Pretty sure the scooter will win every time. I mean, if you're outside regardless...
Every election is rigged according to the loser, or the non-incumbent
This article is so FUD that it hurts.

Honestly, yes, I want law enforcement to use DNA among other evidence they collect. I do not live in fear that law enforcement is secretly hunting me. If you do, speak to someone about your paranoia. My name and address have been on my public resume and my website WHOIS for over 5 years, and I haven't experienced any negative repercussions whatsoever.

I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
> I frequently have a driver who is obviously different than the one pictured in the app

Really? I've taken more than 1000 rides on both platforms combined and this has not happened to me once.

> Some of the drivers I get have been in the country for a matter of weeks or even days

How exactly are you inferring this information? I've never had a driver tell me this. Some of them have thick accents, sure, but so do some of my engineering co-workers who have been in the country for years.
Solid argument. Everyone that has a positive opinion about Google works for them. You might want to search for the threads of my not positive opinions as well though.
FWIW, the reason it didn't seem to me worth mentioning is that it seems the kind of book that no-one would get unless they'd seen it recommended.
When you write to stdout, you're often not writing back to where stdin came from. Pipes use this to chain programs, read from one, write to another.
TravisCI has been asked repeatedly to provide FreeBSD as a build OS, and it doesn’t appear they’re interested in expanding beyond Linux/macOS on x86:

* https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1818
* https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/6671
* https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/5473

Do you plan on providing Github integration? Providing other OSes and platforms (e.g. ARM64, ppc64el) would be really useful for testing low-level projects like .NET Core runtime, node.js / libuv, etc., and integrating with Github would make it really easy for people to start adding this to their existing projects.

If you do end up providing Github integration, consider listing a paid option for your service in the Github marketplace:
https://github.com/marketplace/category/continuous-integrati...
Another point is that there is not just ballot rigging, there is other types of rigging going on at the social level too.
Of course there are incompetent programmers in every language. But in absolute numbers, there are vastly more competent JavaScript programmers available to hire than competent Perl programmers. There really is no comparison.

Can you name any schools that teach Perl to undergrads on a non-trivial scale? Maybe there's a reason you can't. But I can name a lot of them that teach Python and JavaScript.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

And of course Python code is more readable and maintainable than Perl code, by its very design and nature, and also by its widespread culture and philosophy, which is 180 degrees opposite of Perl's philosophy and culture.

It's not just a matter of "There's more than one way to do it" -vs- "There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it." The Zen of Python goes much deeper than that.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

There's also the idea that instead of using arbitrary idiomatic and personalized punctuation and line noise in "more than one way" to accomplish the same task, you should simply use letters, by combining them to form words, connected by underscores or CamelCaseCaps to form coherent phrases, which have meanings, that communicate with the person reading the code, explaining the ideas and intentions behind the programmer who wrote the code. Subtle little things like that, you know.

Line noise and random punctuation do not make self documenting code. That's why it's traditionally used as a stand-in for censored obscenities, because it's meant to obscure its true meaning.
> other than a porn conference

I can take that tangent…

Even at a porn conference[1, SFW], it looks like a "wall of porn" would still be unacceptable. (Also from searching "XBIZ show" on Google images — NSFW.)

Many of the attendees are payment processors or dating websites, others are LGBT, and anyway everyone is "at work". From the pictures, something like 20-40% of attendees are women (not counting models, but also not counting the male models).

[1] http://www.xbizshow.com/
Huh? The mission was a failure. This is the industry terminology, nothing misleading about that.
PayPal isn't the government.
You should have to tip a dollar for every star you wish to rate your driver.
I did not know that. :-)

You get what I mean though. This is valuable data that can be exploited.
That’s a tough situation. Let them fail and they should be put on a PIP. If an org fails to identify poor performers it’s difficult for me to trust their promotion criteria as well.
My guess is, it's not that people perceive the vest as a symbol of authority, but simply that they are tired and overworked, have no personal stake in the matter, and are barely paying attention to their jobs at all.
Or... are more private companies realizing their unicorn valuations are not justified on a GAAP basis?

Wall Street is not keen to underwrite companies with valuations 20x+ revenue.
It is so strange that this comment has been killed:
"This type of thing is so bizarre to me. Fall in love with a person you think is wonderful. There are plenty of problems to solve, don't worry about that"
-- I would reply to it with support, but the authoritarian moderators have taken that ability away. What is so offensive about this? Do you realize what you're doing by censoring any/all critique? Especially of the idea that we should fall in love with problems?! Insanity...
In Mind Illuminated, John Yates recommends starting out with 15 minutes and to add 5 after one week.
In the sense of the "ideal" of freedom of speech, sure. In practice, almost everyone uses this to argue that some speech they don't like should be suppressed, e.g. Joyent should be compelled to host Gab. Literally no one is a free speech absolutist.

In the sense that I originally meant it — the legal sense — this indeed has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
This might be a bit obtuse of me to say, but:

> This has everything to do with Edge, which is purposely configured to use a search engine that creates a liability for users.

You could say the exact same thing about Chrome and not be lying.

(The obtuseness being likening Google tracking to malware ads)
I made the switch on all my devices about 6 weeks ago. I lasted 5 weeks. At least for quickly finding relevant programming documentation, I didn't think the results were on par with Google.
This is you never hearing the end of it. And I have email evidence that you don't hear the end of it from others as well... And yes, all of the killed comments - except for a few here and there - are based on their lack of convergence with leftist and so-called accepted mainstream views.
Specifically that's how they found a serial rapist. The rapist hadn't submitted his DNA, but enough of his family had.
I have it as my primary search engine now too, but I find myself constantly using !g because the results suck.
> their adherence to other traffic rules, courteous parking etc. are indistinguishable from other vehicle users.

Having been to Beijing, this basically means "they don't follow traffic rules at all."
I took a course in college where we studied the basic process of DNA amplification. We were just learning at a theoretical level, but from what I understand almost anyone with access to a university biology lab and the associated training could easily create copies of a DNA sample. Doesn't that mean that it would be relatively easy for something like an intelligence organization to frame someone for a crime?
People like to add shaders to their emulation these days; crt filters, colour adjustment, samplers, etc.
Who said he just arrived? Assad has been murdering people for almost 8 years.

A driver's license may not be a good indicator of driving skills, but it's more than "0 assessment".
I already provide Github integration, but it's not very polished. That's how wlroots gets built, for example:

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/1341

(click "show all checks")

I may add it to the marketplace once it's open for public registration and more polished.
This is the variation that I have heard and enjoy: you should always meditate 20 minute per day. Unless you don't have the time, in which case you should meditate for an hour.
> What does seem to be the case is that every time someone attempts to deplatform the people writing about the subjects you listed, their audience grows instead of shrinks.

Alex Jones' audience collapsed after he was banned from the major social networks. Denying nonsense a megaphone works.
If they win they won't complain but if they lose they'll say the election was hacked because of the machines.
He's not delegitimising the concerns about the machines, which are evident. He's delegitimising the way journalists are bitching about it.

(I don't follow the American election so I don't know who will win.)
I always wondered why there are not airlines that offer no in-flight service of any kind.

I would love to fly to Australia without any hostesses or meals if it gets me a cheaper ticket.
> Can you imagine what would happen to your rates and coverage if it comes back that your family has, say, a predisposition towards diabetes or cancer? There needs to be legislation enacted to strictly control how this information gets used. __Furthermore an individual should be allowed to control how that information is shared and be able to opt out of any scenarios they are not comfortable with.__

Emphasis mine... because I wonder, even if individuals opt into various things, what about their descendants? It's not too hard to imagine a family tree with people opted-in but a descendant who doesn't want their information to be available -- but the general risks/predispositions would be. I haven't seen anyone talking about the issue of privacy with respect to inheritance yet.
Yes, iff it's given relevant training data that includes a wider mix of ethnicities.
Universal health care
I like this one best of all.

https://mobile.twitter.com/getongab/status/10565833547645214...
Even New York Times, who holds itself as the smartest and most sophisticated people in the USA, sells subscriptions online but won't let people cancel a subscription without a phone negotiation.
Or, or, or… get this: You guys have a lot of problems in your election system. (And you really frickin do.)

That Vox is bringing it up now may be a partisan play, or maybe it's not. That doesn't matter, it only should influence your view on Vox itself, not the subject at hand.
coud a partial solution involve regulating the lift services such that they report (real time?) the number of minutes a driver has driven to some agency, and are required to check if the driver has sufficient undriven time left to perform a ride?
That would probably make it seem, though, that the buses actually don't arrive (on average) every 10 minutes, since you'd oversample the buses that take longer than 10 minutes.
> Coming to the point, isn't US using paperballots?

Not everywhere, no: https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...
The golden age of abundant club photography, roughly around 2003 iirc. Came as quickly as it disappeared again, starting with the availability of somewhat affordable DSLR and ending when people became more conscious about where their face would be published after the first of social media.
My county of over 600k people has a Bureau of Elections staff of five, and none of them are really technical people, they just do basic work on the machines and train the temp staff hired for elections. They rely on a contractor to handle just about every aspect of the technology, including the pollbook system, and that company is a larger operation but still the kind of operation where I've heard the elections staff getting on the phone with them to have them restart a service that had gone sluggish. Some amount of support is provided by the secretary of state, but the SoS elections office is also very small, and even the state's department of IT doesn't have a meaningful security department.

I honestly think that the election system in the United States is simply too decentralized. Counties, even larger ones like mine, struggle to afford to hire a staff or retain contractors that have any kind of serious security expertise - or even expertise in reliable services. The federal elections commission was created to address some of these problems by providing centralized resources to states and counties, but it hasn't gone nearly far enough in my opinion. I have a had time imagining a way to make a serious improvement here without moving just about the entire platform for voting systems under the federal government.
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>Can you imagine what would happen to your rates and coverage if it comes back that your family has, say, a predisposition towards diabetes or cancer?...

Too late.

They already know this. The DNA would only verify the findings they've teased out of the mountains of data they have on us presently.
Ask Republicans whether they think private businesses should be able to reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
Amazon ships to "over 100 countries and regions"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
Lol, I will now avoid “Kudzu” as the name of my app

Sort of reminds me of the Banyan VINES product name; a biological reference on how the banyan tree grew, making many connections across a grove of banyan trees.
Many of us were tired of the partisan sniping before this week's tragedies.

Election season makes the politically-minded think they can endlessly spill toxic discourse across all social and news mediums.
Their original logo was a variation of the stupid pepe frog. They’re not a neutral platform. They were built as a platform for the racist alt-right.
I've noticed this as well. It seems that when you are under stress several muscles in your body tense involuntarily, particularly in your back and your neck. It's very subtle, you don't really realize that your muscles are tense, your body simply gets used to it. Over time all that tightness and pressure causes pain, but because you don't consciously feel your muscles tense it feels like it's coming out of nowhere. It's like having a broken arm, but on the outside the arm is perfectly functional, all you know is that your arm has inexplicable pain from time to time.

Long term stress causes all sorts of fun on your body (and your mind for that matter). I don't recommend it.
I've noticed a plethora of build options over the past decades. I keep hearing how they are all "better" than make.

Then to build one particular bit of software, there is a dependency upon a particular version of cmake, which you don't have.

Or you have to upgrade Maven. Or install some software you do not have by default on your environment.

I've never had to do that with make.

I've been told that other tools are better because the are simpler ... that is ... until you run into one of those aforementioned compatibility issues with the build tool.

This isn't an infrequent occurrence for me, I see lots of hardwiring for various packages that I don't have installed by default in some projects.

Then you get the gophers/rust folk, and their need to run on the most recently released kit. With all its undiscovered bugs. The gophers want to replace make with mage ... well, to be more correct, they want to replace every non-go based tool with one built in go, because ... go. A modern version of the insufferable pythonistas of years past.

Throughout this, I've been using and building with Make just fine. My make files do the heavy lifting in my projects. And I get a good laugh each time I hear "oh I have to fix my magefile/CMakeFile.txt/yadda yadda yadda".

As the great philosopher Inigo Montoya once opined ... you keep using that word [better]. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The Google-ification of everything...

Sometimes people in customer service need to hear a human voice to fully understand the frustration of trying to do things "right" in an often poorly-designed UI.
As someone who has tried riding electric scooters on a plowed street --it's like walking on an ice rink. You can do it, wouldn't advise it.
The Significance of Incremental Reading in SuperMemo: Part II
Yes, it was too short on material. The title implied more.
I don't see how he is stuck at all; I see current events as validating his fears. The problem with (1) is that it doesn't solve (2) at all; free software has spread on the backend thanks to permissive licenses, and yet proprietary facades are rampant. A good example of this is Chrome (built on FOSS webkit) displacing Firefox. And that's despite Mozilla being just that kind of non-profit trying to ensure freedom.

Non-profits ensuring freedoms is a nice thought, but it's very hard to compete with the abusive business models of large software corps, so unless you somehow convince regular people that they are better off paying for the stuff they use, licensing is the only real tool you have to avoid having your work contribute to those proprietary facades.
You are talking about a country that expects most of their students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily.

Of course, you are right. But nationalism is way ingrained.

US multinational PR may be all about globalization and inclusiveness, but employees will always chant “USA”.

On the flip side, here is how SCMP introduced SpaceX:

> Tuesday's successful launch into orbit of private company SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule may have marked 'a new era in space exploration'

https://www.scmp.com/article/1001821/talking-points
Hello! One thing I'm curious about, beberlei: is your company colocated, remote, or a mix of the two?
Interesting project! I've written compiler frontends for both GCC and LLVM, and surprisingly found it easier to write one for GCC, despite LLVMs reputation on modularity. I'd love to hear the reasons why you chose LLVM for code generation over something else!
I’m not sure why you think this is relevant. You can’t get out of the trouble you’re in for stealing candy at the store by saying the other children did it too.

I’m well aware there are other problems, but I think that’s actually part of my original point. ISIS is a problem, but it’s a problem we’re actively fighting. No one seem to be taking the radical right in America serious in any manner. Even though these years, the radical right is killing quite a lot of people.

I live in Scandinavia, the worst terror attack ever in our part of the works was Brevik, a far right terrorist who murdered hundred of political youths in what he viewed as a crusade against the left.

In my own country we’ve seen an increase in hate crimes committed by the right being doubled every year since 2015. So it’s not like we’re not familiar with the problem, but unlike America we actually treat these people as a serious threat to our democracy.

The radical right, the radical left and radical Islamists can all be dangerous at the same time, and I think they are, what I don’t get is why you treat them so differently.
> Coming to the point, isn't US using paperballots? All the papers in my nation say US holds elections via paperballots and not EVMs.

It's different on a per state/municipality basis. Some are paper, some are EVM. We're trending towards EVM despite warnings from computer security researchers.
Countries Push Digital Taxes on Tech Giants
That's exactly the phenomenon the article explores.
When I'm crossing a street and a car flies through the intersection nearly hitting me, it's usually an Uber driver. Were taxi drivers so desperate to speed through cities and reach their next fare as quickly as possible?
By this time people will be absolutely frustrated. Not sure this is a great plan. Certainly not something a company that cares about customers would do. We shall see.
OneBusAway is surprisingly accurate, at least in my experience. Google Maps has very good transit support too.

One reason buses are late is because a bus must travel a circuit. Cars provide linear transportation, so the delay can only happen in the direction of your travel. Since buses run a circuit, they are impacted by delays in the direction opposite of your travel as well.

Your bus might be late because the return route has traffic or other delays. Or maybe a drunk or drug user got in a fight with the driver and the police were needed. Or someone in a wheelchair had a problem getting onto the lift.
If a driver is committing fraud against the company by allowing someone else to drive in their place that day, who else do you think is going to report it?

It's no different from checking your dozen eggs at the supermarket to make sure none are broken before buying. Whenever you purchase any service or good, any responsible consumer verifies that what was delivered is what they ordered, and raises the issue with the company if not.
The first paragraph of the wikipedia article on the Sagnac effect has the word relative in it, soo, must be relativity or something. Besides, it sounds cool! >_<
I’ve seen this dark pattern with everything from credit cards to newspaper subscriptions.

They intentionally make canceling a hassle when the technology is there to make it easy.

Is there a name for this?