skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I still think my testing procedures were better than nothing.

I am sure they were, but you also said:

>take the time to understand why they want 100% coverage

which to me indicates that they are under the false impression that this gives some sort of completeness, i.e. "make sure this plastic fence covers the entire stretch of mountain road".

We have a coverage threshold of 90% and it is helpful because it works as a reminder if you try to check in code that isn't covered by tests. I think that pushing that to 100% would add little value but a lot of overhead. Never tried it though so I fully admit that it's just my hunch.
I know. I had been tending large garden (roses and lawn) in my friends house in Toscana this summer. And I had been looking for a rain everyday :-) and observing the change in forecasts and acctual result.
what is 'snarky' about 'cute'?

I mean its not a very good rule, the general definition [snide and sharply critical.] could apply to most comments; but what specifically is you objection with 'cute', seems it could be taken as a compliment.

And fyi- summarizing this persons quote as 'dumb thing' could be construed as snide and sharply critical.
* How much is "way cheaper"? I've heard that VTC licenses are getting more and more expensive, around ~50K € (if I remember correctly).

* What do you mean by "concentrated in very few hands (mainly Uber and Cabify)"? Surely Uber and Cabify don't directly own those licenses, right?
I recently worked in a smaller German city without Uber. It was like stepping back into the stone age.

'MyTaxi' app would only produce an available driver 1 in 20 times I tried.

The only way to get a taxi is to walk out into the freezing street and wait like a penguin, or find one of those random locations Taxis like to park at.

Sucks for the customer. I hope Uber takes over the planet.
I would argue this is wrong on several levels:
1. The convenience offered by the app is obviously a good thing; Uber's labor practices are not.
2. The low price of Uber rides is subsidized by burning VC money; they could easily kill local competition then raise prices at will once they have established a quasi-monopoly.

However, it's correct in pointing out the vested interests and corruption of the legacy taxi industry.
> ...or you'll never get a driver to accept the ride.

Uber drivers don't see your destination before they accept the ride. They see the pickup address, customer rating, and the type of the ride (UberX, UberPOOL, UberSELECT).
That's because it assumes 96 dpi for every X11 client and scales it up, even for non-fractional scaling (i.e. @2x) if the experimental support is enabled. There is supposedly work being done to address the problem by using two Xwayland servers, one exposing real dpi for dpi aware clients, and one fixed dpi for all the rest.

Unfortunately, it is highlighted by the fact, that all current Linux browsers are X11 and not Wayland clients, so using it would mean you watch the upscaling ugliness on your display every day.
Your Taxi or Uber Ride in Manhattan Will Soon Cost More
yes that's why teachers keep a giant printout of the textbook next to the whiteboard. except wait, students get to choose whether to look at the textbook open in front of them.quite the flaw in your logic.

Teachers do need everything in front of them because they have to choose what resource is best to explain, students usually need to focus on one thing and learn it well.
The preferred way for writing Intel SGX applications from scratch
What is government for $500 Alex ;)
There is liability in frequency of transactions that requires human monitoring. The more frequent a transaction is the more liability there is. If the charges were automated would you risk the presence, trademark, and health of your business that your domain will always be there due to that automation?
Your comment appears to be not related with my parent comment, are you posting related to my consoloe comparison?

What are the regulation you are referring?
And slower, as the tricks employed to make Gradle keep up with Maven show.
Facebook and Google should also be banned for life then but that won't ever happen.
I understand no one likes change, especially businesses. But complaining and trying blame and shame your audience because your business model is no longer viable is laughable. It is on THEM to figure what is next for journalism.

That's not to say their point is not perfectly valid about fake news, it is.

It's that the attitude of telling us it's our fault and we should change our ways is already a losing mindset.
Persistence of services like this, and true ownership of media you purchase are important concepts.

VidAngel is currently in court fighting Disney over their version of a system I invented to solve these problems.
Cascading Style Sheet Processing, HTML and MHT Rendering Enhancements Using –NET
well, you should be going to interviews anyway right? i would just mention that you do interviews with competitors to see what level of skill and employment they would offer.

you aren't holding them over a barrel, but just make it known you know your worth?

sorry if my advice isn't as formed as it should be.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2012/10/26/the-d...
> A European Commission statement Thursday didn’t identify the institutions being investigated for "a collusive scheme that aimed at distorting competition" in trading sovereign bonds issued by euro-region governments from 2007 to 2012.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-01/tech-s-eu...
Parts of that article are a bit dubious. Good practices don't have much to do with a language being statically typed or dynamically typed. You can write awful, convoluted code with a wizardry approach in Java and C++, but clean, easily maintainable and testable code with an engineering approach in Elixir and Clojure, which indeed would be much harder in Python. The programming paradigm (and a lot of other factors) is probably much more important than static vs. dynamic.
I don't know... I have been cursed and spat at by multiple taxi driver in Portugal and Spain (always because they thought the ride was too short and they need to get back to the end of the queue so really shitty for them hence my 21st century sentiment). And you cannot really complain; you can fill in a form which no-one ever does anything with. With Uber all of that is just better.

And dependable... I missed my plane a month ago because the cab driver stood around the wrong corner for 10 minutes, did not contact me and went away again. The company called me hours later when their office opened (this was a 6 am flight) and berated me for not turning up. It's rubbish.
> Universities have […] not fundamentally changed during [the past millennium].

I mean, that’s just completely wrong. The scientific method itself isn’t that old. The institution of Universities has been around for a thousand years, give or take. But if you were to compare them now and then, you’d find them mostly unrecognisable. Their aims, their organisation, their funding, their constituents … pretty much everything changed, multiple times, over the years. You might argue that they won’t change enough in 500 years to threaten the experiment and you might be right (I certainly hope so) but it’s far from obvious.
Show HN: pavoq – WebGL shaders as webdesign elements
Actually, now that I think about it, I have a weather complication on my watch–it's probably grabbing the weather every hour or so to keep it up-to-date.
Settlement with Sellers of Fake Followers and “Likes” on Social Media
Curtis LeMay wanted to attack the Soviets - from this perspective there was a grim logic to this - he (correctly) realised that at some point the Soviets would reach parity in strategic weapons with the US and he (incorrectly) thought that a conflict was inevitable - so he wanted to destroy the Soviet Union while the US could do it without any direct impact on the US.

Thankfully, he didn't get his way.
Yeah they try to get your destination upfront by calling which they are not supposed to and then cancel if too long or too short.
The cab driver jobs saved may offset the inconvenience for example.

On the contrary, the measure instantly caused the loss of thousands of jobs.
Yes and no.

AFAIK, licences are limited and no way near that price. When a taxi driver retires, he "resells" the license to another colleague for a huge amount (150k+). The buyer buys it knowing he'll be able to resell the license when he retires too, and so on.

This practice has been going on for years, so now taxi drivers are afraid of losing the status quo because they've paid an overpriced license.
The french typically call «bande dessinée» the french-belgian comics, while using the words «comics» for US comics (typically Marvel/DC/etc, and «Manga» for asian (manga/manhwa/etc).

The word «bande dessinée» is also the hyperonym for all the comics genres, although connoisseurs usually don't use it for «Comics» or «Manga».
It is not due design point of view. It is due to synchronizing painting chrome with painting the window content, for frame-perfect rendering. With SSDs/different processes having responsibility, you can't really do that.

Rasterman, of the Enlightenment wm fame, also wrote about this, and he holds the same opinion as Gnome folks. He also noted, that other OS-es (i.e. Windows and macOS) also do client-side rendering. You just don't get to choose, whether you will link the library doing that, when it is required to open the window surface in the first place.
> Yes; and what a lot of people omit is that if you have the full copyright to a GPL'd piece of software (because you don't accept contributions without extra license/assignment), you can publish it to the app store.

In this case, you're effectively dual-licensing your software.
Traditional taxi services are horrible all over the world, I don't think a lot of people will dispute that.

The problem with things such as Uber, and the "gig economy" in general, is that they provide a better service by condemning the people who provide it to an unstable and undignified life. The new underclass, the one that lives "below the API", is denied the opportunity to live something remotely approaching a fulfilling existence. The more this underclass grows (and it is growing), the worse society becomes. This social cost is not worth more convenient services. There has to be a better way. Taxis should get their act together, but not by being forced to compete with those who sidestep the laws that were democratically enacted to preserve human dignity, and to give the less privileged opportunities to improve their situation.
Yep, this is very nice of Uber actually; I usually have to travel (for work) to a remote area where there is no Uber (and normal cabs are always full); if you pay attention, you will find an Uber driving back to London passing by and just take that one.
Do you think that Apple servers will be up forever? That the app you bought today will be there for you to re-install in 20 years?

My point is that incidents show regular people the things that are usually "hidden" in big EULAs, is good to have such big incidents we can link to, like when someone tells ypou that is better to keep your data on Google servers since they have brilliant engineers you can link to incidents like the Google+ leaks to show that even Google can ignore security or make mistakes.
I agree it is a bad form of regulation. Uber has benefits to consumers but it’s unclear to me what other benefits they offer to society as a whole.

The regulatory structures need to catch up but I don’t think Uber as it exists in 2019 is a viable long term solution.
The traditional way companies are forced to re-imagine/change is by consumers threatening the existence of incumbents by voting with their wallet. Guess what? In the global journalism landscape we now find ourselves, that really means _paying for nothing at all_ because _everything's free_.

If good journalism (i.e. not fake news) == people being payed to spend good time on a story, i.e. quality > quantity, then what's going to fix things other than cold, hard cash?
I see your point. Mine is, if a browser can do that, GTK and Qt applications can do that. Of course the compositor works on a different layer, but it still can resize non-compliant applications.
The law about VTCs (that is, vehicles rented with a driver [which are not taxis]) is, similarly to limo services in some other countries, that they cannot pick people on the street, and they need, previously to picking up the client, some short of "service sheet": A sheet detailing their trips and the client information. (I'm simplifying a lot)

In the past that meant they needed to go back to the base, pick their "service sheet" for the next jobs, and then go make their thing. If you needed a ride for "right now", the VTC wasn't your choice. VTC, are/were widely used, for example, on TV production. The VTC driver received their "work sheet" in the morning and they would go and "pick the host at 7, the guest at 9, the other guest at 10, take the host to the airport at 12...".

Now, with the apps, the app is your "work sheet", so even if you can't pick people on the street in theory, in practice it's like you can, because I can check in the app how many VTCs are near, and "order" one which will get here almost instantly, because they don't need to go back to the base to get their "work sheet".

So, that's the argument on requiring some minimum delay when ordering a VTC. For me, the 24h delay is ridiculous, as even with the classic "analog paper work sheet", you could call the base for a driver, and if they had somebody there, send you one in half an hour, so it makes no sense.

Anyway, my main concern with VTCs is workers rights, as, AFAIK, none of them have contracts, and are freelancers stranded with an expensive car renting, with promises of having steady work from their employers.
I’m sure it’s easier to predict weather in some places versus others, but in San Francisco I find the weather forecast to be wrong more often than not. I’m often told it’s currently sunny or raining when it’s the opposite. And forget about accurate high temperature predictions for tomorrow. At this point I don’t know why I even bother checking.
Didi driver sentenced to death
I think this woman has a crusade against current modern physics, and only in this kind of websites resonates. Wonder why.
Love this concept! The comment thread is fantastic as well.
Hmm. I spent my late teens in France, was/am an avid graphic novel reader, and I have never heard the term “roman graphique”. Is it a recent term? It actually sounds like a back-translation of “graphic novel”. The term BD is ubiquitous.

If you’re in Berlin check out Dussmann if you haven’t already (it’s hard to miss …). It’s nowhere near as well stocked as an average book shop in France but it does probably have the largest collection of BDs of any shop in Berlin.
A modern ICBM is able to deliver payloads to multiple targets at the same time. The technology is called MIRV [1], and U.S. has had it since the early 70s.

Since a space shuttle has a much larger payload than an ICBM and is also much more maneuverable, the Soviets probably couldn't exclude the possibility that it can deliver enough payloads to wipe off several cities and/or military bases in a single pass. They were already having trouble developing effective countermeasures to MIRV; a shuttle would have been a nightmare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta...
> [...] most articles are about dramatic [...]

This small snippet of your comment in combination with knowledge about click/ad-based revenue for most outlets is really all you need to make yourself aware of nowadays.

Drama is what drove gossip for millennia and with the advent of media it began to drive sales. Doesn't matter if book, TV show or news article. It's all entertainment.
Secure ELF parsing/loading library for forensics reconstruction of malware
Yes, but you get only reasonable resolutions, that look good on a given hardware, not any random choice. Apple doesn't have to solve, how to display 1920x1080 desktop on 2560x1440 display (i.e. @1.333x scale), because they don't offer the choice of doing so.
Weirdly, because I research suicide a lot I do sometimes get adverts for rope.

There doesn't seem to be a way to tell ad-tech companies about this.

Here's one example: https://imgur.com/hhOYUJb
If Taxi companies were actually capable of doing the job Uber did then maybe I’d consider using them.

I normally go out of my way in order to do the “right” thing... But I’ve never seen an adequate taxi company in the EU. Everywhere they charge more than Uber, expect me to download a specific app for their service, rarely support card payments and my personal favourite is when they round up the amount owed because they either don’t have change or you know convenience.

Also why don’t taxi companies have their own global app. Yeah sure it’s hard to build but welcome to the competitive market guys... you can’t just go on strike because the consumers prefer your competitors based on quality of service and pricing. How is this even a government issue? Actually why is it a government issue? Just allow competition between taxis and ride hailing companies. Let them figure it out.

I feel the biggest problem is that politicians who bow down to the taxi drivers only do it for the votes and not because it’s better for the general public.

/stop rant
Next, he'll sue Earth for cutting off his solar power 11 days ago.
Chrome is right to remove its bad webRequest extension API
I don’t disagree, I just wanted to point out that there’s a close equivalent in the English language that’s a much better fit than the word “comic”.
I actually wonder why these missiles were not left in orbit. Surely a missile launch directly from space would require much smaller missiles and even less lead time.
Software Anti-Patterns: How to destroy a codebase for developers
My childhood favourites were Buck Danny, Tin Tin (Kuifje)
Terrorism is a rather specific activity and this is not it.
That is not related to GPL, yes you can use a different license, that is not the point, the point is there are many libraries and programs under GPL that can't be used on restrictive stores and it is a shame.
Could multiple projectors (at e.g., 120 or 90 degree angles) be used to speed the process further?
The reason VTC licenses are expensive is that it were first illegal, then EU forced legality with a directive, then government found a loophole to forbid them again, so there was a window of a few years when they could be obtained.

So artificial scarcity.

Edit: Oh and BTW it was taxi drivers who mostly benefited by the price boom. They bought the licenses for less than 200 and sold them by thousands.
> Cosby's "lovable american Dad" character is incongruous

I'd argue that it is congrous, but maybe in a different sense than you meant. It's in the very fabric of our culture to be two faced, because presentation is valued so much more than content. From that perspective, the rapist lovable american Dad is a cartoonish embodiment of this.
I use 1.5 scaling in KDE and it mostly works fine except for a bug where horizontal lines appear in the terminal.
> give the less privileged opportunities to improve their situation.

Isn’t that exactly what the gig economy does? What would Uber drivers be doing if uber ceased to exist? Why aren’t they doing that now?
> Not really disingenuous; from looking at his resume, I hadn't noticed his bar membership had expired.

Ok, I'll remove you from the disingenuous. He stays though because he should definitely mention it on his CV.

> a legal degree, one-time certification, and some legal practice are kind of relevant

Yep, he's definitely probably got more standing than anonymous commenters. But that's a low bar. He didn't practice contract law (it was transactional IP) and it was 14 years ago - it's an almost certainty he isn't au fait with current contract or employment law.

> Is it your reasoned argument

I don't have one knowing nothing about US contract or employment law. My layperson viewpoint is that it's quite clear they weren't Facebook contractors in the terms of the Apple agreement.
There's no good reason why those names should be hidden from the EU population. None. It's a disgrace that governments continue to cater to large corporations and allow them to get away with small fines and "admitting no wrong" (despite receiving the fines for the crime done).
>macOS doesn't expose fractional scaling to applications, it is done by the output encoder by scaling the entire framebuffer. For software, it is strictly integer only.

Wayland works the same way.
I work in finance (although on the buy side), my gut feeling is that it's the usual suspects: big investment banks. The people manning the prop desks in these institutions get to know each other eventually as the landscape is fairly small and they all work for/with each other eventually.

This means that cliques along the lines of "I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine" form naturally. It's almost impossible to prevent as a lot of the trading happens directly between traders and never crosses exchange boundaries and even then, it's often tricky to prove collusion purely based on the trades. Official trading communication channels are monitored, but this is irrelevant if the deal can be pre-arranged privately off channel.

There are too many conflicts of interest in the entire industry really. It's not in the best interest of the banks to monitor their internals too closely. Sure, there are plenty of theatrics and checkbox-ticking exercises, but really, as long as it is cheaper to pay the eventual fines than to employ armies of auditors and actually give them the motivation and power to enforce the rules, it's not happening.

The internal controls themselves can be fairly annoying too. I remember a 6 month effort to get our legal department to clear a US fund launch because their incentive was to just reject every proposal. They don't directly get to see the benefits of a successful product, but would certainly feel the pain of one that gets into trouble for whatever reason.
But he may have been right under Stalin. I think what saved us is that Stalin died before Russia had built a large enough capability. And its successors were less indifferent to the loss of life of tens of millions of their citizens.
And we hit the typical problem with software evolution.

The apps would have to cooperate, and that would need rewrite. In many cases, re-architecturing them.

Who is going to do that? Nobody. We need to live with the legacy that we have. How resizing non-compliant applications works (and looks), see the experimental fractional support in Mutter.
After World War II, the fossil fuel industry was studying CO2 pollution
Yes, this is why we need to stop supporting companies that run such centralised walled gardens. This includes google, facebook, youtube, instagram, whatsapp etc.
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