skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point to bring up. The verdict is still out on that one, as far as I know. From what I remember the issue was that he wasn't going to incriminate himself because they already had separate evidence showing that there was child porn on that device and he was the one who downloaded it. So since this was already known to police it wouldn't be a violation of his 5th amendment rights since the information was already known.

There were other rulings for other individuals for whom the government didn't have the evidence against already and they wanted the device access to give them that evidence. In those cases, as I recall, it was said that a defendant could not be required to decrypt unless the device was crossing the border and was subject to the standard lack of privacy at the border. Otherwise, since they didn't have proof, what they needed was the "content of his mind" and that was privileged. As for the border, they might not even be able to require decryption if you are a US citizen. They might demand it and even confiscate the device. But if you are a US citizen, you can't be blocked from entry. So they might just keep the device in those cases and allow you in. I can't swear to the accuracy of that one, though. But I'm pretty sure that's mostly correct. Non-citizens can be turned down at the border for pretty much any reason, including refusal to submit to searches and other privacy-related issues.
In a way I hope they update the control schemes more than the graphics -- they're kludgy by modern standards, and I think it would be hard to enjoy the nicer-looking game if it controls the same as before.
It's astounding that you wind-up with stores which seem to intend to give nothing what-so-ever back to their communities. What is the long term plan here?
Here's a link to the HN discussion of the new loyalty program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18455104
Let's be clear, the free market this is not.

It's yet another perfect example of government gone wild. It's one thing for to use taxpayer monies to create jobs and job opportunity (i.e., education). That's a reasonable expectation within the scope of gov's governing.

However, it's another thing for gov to buy jobs - and thus votes - by effectively subsidizing some mega-corporation. If Amazon needs money, that's what Wall Street is for. If Wall Street isn't willing to give Amazon et al money then that's a red flag and taxpayers should naturally stand clear.

Some might say, "But without such things Amazon would have to raise prices, and that's not good for consumers." But it's the consumers that paid the __higher__ taxes to supply the subsidy. The difference is, with the latter method the gov gets to skim some off the top.

Bottom line: The taxpayer / consumer loses. Politicians and Big Inc win.
Totally agree. I don't actually have a Smart TV now. I've got a dumbass TV and it's actually fast and reliable for once!
They said they would build somewhere. The only question was which USA city.
I have found that the drivers for Lyft are much happier than the drivers for Uber. This holds true even when a driver drives for both services. I asked several drivers why this is and the universal response was that Lyft treats them better, so they are happier to pick up Lyft customers.

I switched over to only using Lyft, but like the OP states, if Waymo came out tomorrow I'd probably switch to that.
> Or blow up your code and run time with checks, I guess, but if that was technically feasible, to say nothing of political challenges, those projects wouldn't have been in C to start.

Most of the infrastructural projects you're referring to predated modern languages. There is no reason, for example, for an MTA to be written in C today. We use MTAs written in C because MTAs are old.
> How do you measure progress? For the past decade, we've severely deteriorated as a society - Yet politicians will call it progress.

Citation? By most metrics we've improved as a society in the last 10 years.
To my knowledge, valgrind doesn't catch overflow errors that overflow inside of an object.
NYC needs more diversity outside of finance.

This potentially puts NYC on top for retail again. I think incentives and payments for this purpose is a meh idea, it if you’re going to do it, bet on a winner.
And who the hell are you?
No I mean that the competition may have motivated cities to create better offers of infrastructure to compete. If they all sat back and said 'well Amazon will have to go somewhere we won't bother making any effort' that may not have happened, and Amazon would be less efficient and the whole country would earn less.

For example some cities were proposing building things like extra train stations, which benefit everyone, and aren't something Amazon could have done privately.
IMHO sometimes it's fine to use messaging within an application that runs on 1 device, purely for decoupling purposes.
I've been looking for something like this to send to some C++ newbies. This is almost what I need but not exactly.
Is there something similar that explains how libraries work?
Because businesses fundamentally run on Outlook and Office and support for that has been pretty amazingly consistent.

Yes I've seen SharePoints and Skydrives and OneDrives and Yammers but none of them are critical the way Office and Outlook are
Well, that was an interesting and disturbing read, what are you supposed to do if you don't have the facilities to flee that country? Bend over apparently..
It should be at least as good as the book about Enron, or the book about Theranos, or ...
'dang is one of the HN moderators.
"Homeless" for 9 years in the Valley. AMA.
"I have never felt more conflicted with empathy for and gripped by fear of an electronic conscience since."

There are several episodes of Black Mirror that explore that idea... what is ethical with respect to something ("just bits") that's also someone (a self-aware conscious being). They've done a good job filling that question with a lot of emotion; some of those episodes are really gripping.
I agree with the framing here, and I agree a small bit of syntax would go a long way.

FWIW, you will see a class called StringPiece copied all over a lot of open source Google projects, including Chrome, Ninja, RE2, probably Android, etc.

That is essentially a pointer-length pair. I agree it would be nice to have a dedicated syntax for it, and not a class that everybody has to copy around.

C++ 17 names this string_view (long overdue!)

I just Googled and apparently there was a problem with array_view ? That's a shame.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/5ya5pe/whatever_happen...
In comparison, over the next 10 years, the MTA is projected to spend 6 billion extending the 2nd avenue subway a mere 1.5 miles to 125th st.

I don't know that I approve of the incentives to bring Amazon to NYC, but I suspect New Yorkers will see a better rate of return on that investment than on other government excesses.
To attract users to these services, would Uber have to take a further hit to profitability? It seems they would in order to make customers lock themselves in.
Not sure why you would say that tech hasn’t been kind to Seattle — nearly the entire history of Seattle and surrounding areas has been based upon 2 things: resources and technology. Resources like trees and salmon and otherwise don’t actually employ that many people in the modern era.. one person can log huge areas and it takes many years for this trees to grow back so there is an upper limit to how many people can be supported by it. Technology companies like Microsoft and you could also call Boeing a tech company in many ways are basically the reason 90% of the people are in the Seattle area anyway — so amazon and others are part of the latest wave of tech happening in the Seattle area and brings in zillions or dollars from around the world. Many many many people in Seattle area have become very rich from that. If people making money is not what you like to see there are plenty of parts of the country that are full of struggling people who wish they could find a job that pays more than $10 and hour. Maybe people get pushed out in certain areas but often a lot of those people sell their houses at a profit so it’s not horrible for them. Anyway, I just think broadly stating that tech has not been kind to Seattle is a bit of a narrow view for an area that has more to be happy about than many places. By the way, construction workers basically can write their own ticket in Seattle right now.. huge demand and way too few workers. Same thing for trades. Where do they get the work? 95% from people who work for Microsoft, google, amazon, and many of the other tech companies in Seattle / Bellevue area.
Not a bad idea. Kids are getting old now and I hadn't worked this out yet :)

Back in 1985 I got a BBC Micro for Christmas. I turned it on. Beep Boop and I had BASIC in front of me. Anything that doesn't do that magic will get my fist shaking while the onion on my belt wibbles around damn it :)
In my opinion the outstanding question today is: are they both too early? It's currently a race to the bottom of driver oriented rides. As soon as driverless becomes viable the current rider fee suddenly shifts to being a more positive profit margin and also shifts opex back in favor of both. But can either last long enough to get there?
Like GDI? (Honest question, not much of a graphics coder myself)
Literally the opposite. The tax gains out number the tax breaks 3 to 1. Each one of these $150k jobs will net NY state $13.8k of income tax per year and (at least) $2500 of sales tax. The tax break per job is $4800 per year (the $48k figure you may have seen is over ten years).
My argument is that the Revolutionary war was fought in 1776, right at the start of the Industrial revolution, and we've been through several reinventions of war in response to technological change. It's not going to go like it did back then. It would, as you say, be more like Syria.

This view also presumes that there isn't a big chunk of the populace that voted for the authoritarianism and actively supports it.
Yeah, still works fine.
> The researchers recruited 218 participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online task platform. The volunteers were randomly assigned to one of six different websites that were designed to reflect a site with a crowd cue or one without the crowd cue, a site with a connectivity cue or no connectivity cue, or a site that reflected the community framing or no framing.

n=218 across 6 groups testing 3 different variables (also why not 2^3=8 groups?). Let me know when it replicates. :-|
Magnet paper reveals magnets in iPad Pro
> How do you measure progress? For the past decade, we've severely deteriorated as a society

If you are unsure how to measure something, surely you shouldn't present a result.
Citus Data (YC S11) Is Hiring a Support Engineer
This is a pretty weak point, essentially "Lets give that guy money, he might do good things with it, he's done good things with it in the past." except instead of being a personal investment this concerns tax payer money being funneled to a private corporation.

They'd be much better spending that money on their neglected public transit or their neglected public housing...
It's been a while (~2 years) since I last had to tangle with it, but off the top of my head:

1) Disk and network IO performance was extremely inconsistent, to the point of being unusable at times. 10kbps reads off of the msft-local mirrors of package repositories for example, making security updates a tedious pain in the ass.

2) There were two administrative consoles, "new" and "old." New had a more modern-looking UI but didn't reliably work, old was cruddy looking but did. The set of features present in them was not congruent either ("new" had some some "old" didn't and vice versa). But wait, there's more! see #3

3) Not every operation was possible via the admin consoles. Some things you had to use their powershell cli tools to do, which is great fun when you have no windows machines around to run powershell on. This was for something stupidly obvious like "assign an IP to this instance" or something; mercifully I've forgotten the details but it was something you'd think would be trivial.

4) Whoever designed their payment model was ... to be charitable, extremely set in their ways. Instead of being able to set up a payment method and pay by the hour (or whatever), you had to buy "entitlement packs" at $X per license and apply those to your account, sort of like the boxware model but awkwardly shoehorned into cloud billing. Woe betide you if your "microsoft bucks" ran out in the middle of an extended compute run!

All these were for comparatively simple and straightforward uses of their infra (i.e. pretty much just compute and block storage, no fancy database or machinelearningAIwhizbang-as-a-service stuff). I can't imagine the more complex features were better off if the foundations were so haphazardly implemented.
Well, the GP is the one that can encourage it or not, by staying with Uber or not.
I'm in NYC but don't have the loyalty stuff in my app. Damn.
Plus the construction spend + attracting tech people et al
If you dont like the price, decline it. The fare is what uber thinks you will pay for the service, not some agreed upon rate by the locals.
What part of my description does that contradict?

Edit: Also, the "no data was shared" is a lie or two inches short of one. It injected http headers on requests to NBC sites once activated. No one was logging that?
No. More than a quarter of Americans and half of "young people" have not reported anything about Facebook.

In point of fact, a quarter of the 4,594 people surveyed by Pew Research between May 29 and June 11 report deleting the Facebook app.[1] Of those, half who qualify as young deleted the app.

Stop getting your statistics from news. This kind of casual stats citing frustrates me beyond belief. Audit your sources.

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1. http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1/201...
You can use GDI and GDI+ on Windows 10 from VS 2017 without a problem.
Jump bikes are 250 and yep, pretty good for SF hills. 250 W goes a lot further on an ebike (as a compliment to to leg power) than a scooter.
It's free to contact the driver. You only get charged to pay the driver to bring you your lost item.
Apple Wins Stop Slavery Award from T Reuters Foundation for Supply Chain Efforts
Talk this with your wife. Explain her what you want to do and why. I'm sure she will support you. I did it without telling my SO and without kids, and I didn't pay attention to our relationship and it went bad, really bad.
You can also add to home screen/install Progressive Web Apps from Android Firefox, and they'll appear in the Chrome OS launcher. Should've demo-ed that during the talk :)
I doubt that his vision “to make the world more open and connected" was anything more than, "hey guy you left box 38 "vision" blank on your company starter form."
Credit scores aren't based on your political activity or used to deny you from boarding transit.
Yes, it would be valid CSV. I suppose my point is that naive attempts to roll-your-own CSV parsers tend to fail on the points I listed. Hopefully Q does not do that.
Yes, nonstandard natural numbers are what I meant. Sorry!
Still not free market though.
> The expansion includes 151 new packages, bringing the total number of protected packages to 2,873.

Where is the full list of packages?
Oh no, I totally understand the social influences like everyone does. My issue is that I can’t understand why there aren’t >0 biological/hormone related ones as well.
>It's a strange world we live in when people speak poorly of 38% revenue growth.

It's also a strange world where you need significantly more than 38% growth just to stop losing money while still valued at $50 billion.
It's a pervasive cardinal sin for "working really hard yet still poor" people to hate on homeless people: to say they're faking, using drugs, crazy, lazy, etc. It's mean and evil, but unfortunately very common.
Doesn’t UBER know this and that is why they are aggressively working on self-driving. Cut out the middle (hu)man and cut rates?
Not specific to this case but there are forms of investment that are closer to money laundering than anything else.
Mark Zuckerberg ordered all Facebook executives to use Android phones
If you're trying to characterize what I said, no. I'm saying we need to work on convincing the world to frigging drop Unix-derived OSes already.
> it is enabling mob violence in India and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and election interference in the U.S. and corporate emotional manipulation and the transformation of the news media and also probably just making people sad a lot

I always find it curious how Facebook, which is principally a new communications medium, is being blamed for things that happen over virtually every communications medium and are in fact just part of the human condition.
Yeah, packing is a pretty well defined to mean adding additional empty bits to keep fields word-aligned.
To be fair, predicting unquantifiable future growing pains will always be presented as an assumption. Also, whether something is a negative impact or not is rarely objective. So asking for contrarian debate on negative impact to be objective is unfair. But yes, there are clear, quantifiable benefits to economic growth.
> They'd be much better spending that money on their neglected public transit or their neglected public housing...

But some cities were suggesting that! They were going to invest in infrastructure, knowing that the extra income from Amazon in the area would pay for it. It was not a zero-sum game.
You'd likely need to look at the local tax laws to state that they aren't getting similar incentives. I'm not in NYC, but I can speak to where I live and many of the laws, obligations and even taxes that apply to an Amazon-size corporation, do not apply to a mom & pop. For example, food labeling/testing is required (not cheap) for larger corporations. Healthcare options and covered sick days is tied to size of your corporation (again, not cheap). There are also numerous loans and incentives for smaller corporations that the bigger companies aren't eligible for.

I'm not trying to paint this as being equal, but to call it evil is a gross mischaracterization of what is happening here.
> They could have set up in the midwest, paid everyone 75% as much as the going rate in NY or silicon valley, and the employees would have 50% more expendable income than they are used to. This wasn't for the employees.

SDE's in Detroit, Madison, and Twin Cities are paid exactly the same as the SDEs in Seattle.
uber is pets.com. lose money to get market share with the wrong assumption you can charge more once you get users.
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less of a question of maturity (being self-sufficient, which Facebook and its employees clearly are), more of integrity

integrity implies that you are unified or "integrated" as a part of a stronger whole, and working towards the betterment of that whole

that you share certain core values and ethics with another group of people

in the past large companies might have been integrated and integral to a certain city, region, community, country, cause, etc. - or as you put it, "our democracy"

facebook, and most large tech companies, no longer have or need such ties towards individuals, communities, or countries

they pay their taxes in all different jurisdictions (or sometimes mostly just in ireland) and then are free to do as they like to their users who keep coming back for more screentime because they're addicted

facebook has no sense of care for the user, or a sense of being in it together as a relationship, nor is it really possible to have one at Facebook's scale

i wouldn't be surprised if Zuckerberg still considers the majority of Facebook's users "dumb fucks" and sheep to be monetized, an ethos that will inevitably trickle down through the company from the top

facebook's integrity is aligned with their customers, the advertisers, and that's about it

we can only hope that facebook employees are doing what they can to preserve their own integrity with their friends/family/community, and that this push is strong enough to shape the development of the platform for the better, instead of towards further addictive, attention-grabbing, echo chamber construction
> just another mechanism for wealth transfer from the poor to the rich

I'm not sure this type of competition is a great thing for citizens, but is this really a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich? Doesn't most tax revenue in the US come from the rich, meaning they're covering most of the bill? In that case it would be more like wealth transfer from rich people to rich companies with some of that wealth making its way back to a subset of rich people and companies (i.e. investors).

I'm sure there are secondary effects impacting the poor but I'm not sure it's as simple as mean rich people reaching into the pockets of the poor - there's not enough money there for it to be a compelling strategy.
the $500K (200 base with rest in stock) yearly compensation of yesterday at $200/share has became just a meager $400K as of today. No morale can withstand such a hit :)
And I said his problem is with YouTube kids not YouTube.

Not sure what part of that you disagree with.
> " this brings talent to fuel my startup,"

Yes it brings talent. But that doesn't mean such people are startup talent.

It's also going to drive up demand for housing (read: the cost of housing). So for those __not__ employed by one of these, the question becomes: how much __startup-centric__ talent are they driving __out__ of your area?

Long to short, the market is being manipulated, and it's being manipulated by the government. The gov created the house bubble and the student loan bubble. If there are examples of the gov manipulating the market and that ending well for taxpayers, I'd like to read about it.
God, I hope we get a third Blade Runner movie.
Stake holder profit this quarter and a sweet holiday bonus for me.
Try Gett. They have less drivers, but their quality is much better – they actually know the city, have excellent manners, and I've hardly ever heard any horror stories.
That's fair, but how much of that will go towards compensating people who will be driven out of north/west Queens and north Brooklyn as a result of rising rents?
Because that would make Uber illegal. They call themselves ride sharing to escape taxi regulations
It's easy to grow a company that's giving away $2 of goods/services for every $1 it charges. Until the money runs out that is.

Uber just has very deep pockets compared to other companies that used this model (e.g. Movie Pass).
> A better deal would have been not paying 48K per job and still getting Amazon to NYC.

And an even better one would have been free ponies for all and rainbow shitting dinosaurs. Also wasn’t on the table, however.