skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surveillance of 60 million devices? Do the users all know?

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-ride-ha...

"The company doesn't work directly with services such as Uber and Lyft, but a number of apps, such as Sherpashare (which is primarily used by ride-hailing drivers for services like Uber and Lyft), HopSkipDrive, eDriving and a variety of navigation apps use Zendrive's technology to monitor ride safety."

Hurray for malware. What other apps is this hiding in?
Is it still relevant? If you've read it, what's your review in one sentence (or not just in one if you wish :D)?
Apparently, one of the big motivating reasons for this was "cost".

> The foundation’s 2018 five-year strategic plan noted that infrastructure services account for more than 80 percent of the total ASF expense budget, adding: “Increasingly, project communities have infrastructure requirements that strain the capabilities of the ASF.”

> The report noted that, given burgeoning costs, encouraging the use of more externally provided services was its best option. (“Using a simple growth forecast to project expenses and effective governance and mentoring to ensure that using externally provided services does not in any way present barriers to entry to projects or reduce transparency, inclusiveness and diversity.”)

https://www.cbronline.com/news/apache-software-foundation-gi...

Given that I find ASF has always been very moral with their fundraising and careful with their money (unlike a couple other major non-profits I happily would name in any other context), as disappointed as I am with this decision, it is difficult for me to blame them for making it: git is extremely difficult to scale correctly (due to its reliance on interactive protocols), which led Google Code and then GitHub to rewrite large portions of it (of course, as closed source internal-only this-is-our-competitive-advantage projects); when you are a small non-profit, knowing that you would have 5x the resources for staffing if you just swapped out some mere tooling has got to be a really really tough choice for something that isn't quite your core moral (as it would be with say, the FSF).
Out of all these tools posted here, are there any that provide a way for you to authorize friends to also upload photos to your library?
Not parent poster, but ONCE, and ONLY once, haha.
I saw a similar post on reddit about a week ago ( https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/bgrl7n/canadian_mcd... )

From the top comment, speaking to support on the phone:

> "He then admitted that the issue was that The App would occasionally load the wrong user's account, which was allowing people to purchase using someone else's CC."

If that is what is happening, maybe it is similar to the caching issue Steam had when serving store pages a year or two ago.
I'm on and off again on my project, Vidcap. What keeps me going is that I actually use the product that I build. I see the issues with it and then get fed up that it's not fixed.

What I end up doing is just simply opening the editor, write down some notes on what I like to be done, and just work on it. Once you start, your body takes over. Its just getting to that point that's the problem.

Same thing with music for me. I want to have a stage show next year, but I need to learn the guitar to make it happen. I bought a portable guitar and bring it with me most places (since its getting nice out). Whenever I think of that stage show, I bring out the guitar and start working on it. What would be 5 mins of playing almost always turns to 30+ mins.

So, what I would say is do 2 things -

1. Think about the project that you want to work on. Just simply being aware that the time you spend playing games or watching TV you could be working on something. Heck, I have the TV on while coding and guitar practice.

2. Do something about it. Say to yourself "Let me do this for 15 mins". Those minutes usually double and triple.

(BONUS)

When I really need the pep talk and motivation, I listen to those motivational channels on Youtube. My favorite one is of Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about how he became who he was. It definitely wasn't hard work. You don't need to listen to him. You can find plenty of those types of videos in your field. Whatever it takes to get that jolt of energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoXYe9e01_Y

Goodluck!
We analyzed 13B log entries – what we learned
You could also question the validity/fairness of existing complaints.

Ultimately, I don't think taking the argument down this path of conjecture over allegations (or lack thereof) will help clear our view of what is or is not the reality at the company. That's what company wide satisfaction surveys or platforms like Glassdoor are for. And in both accounts I don't see many signs that Google is doing poorly.

Edit: and the results of investigations prompted by these accusations might shed some light as well.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this yet- a rust rewrite means you are more likely to invite contributions from a larger community.
Generally speaking, no one should ever use a debit card. But I wonder if it is more secure to use a debit card through Apple Pay for example?
"If it's boeing I ain't going"
I went over abuse reporting/sexual identity in another comment, but to your point about right to privacy, I don't think there's a reasonable absolute right to privacy as a kid, at least not before maybe high school or late middle school. This doesn't mean no alone time with friends, but at least at elementary school age, internet should be monitored, and phone location tracking is certainly reasonable before high school.
Agree.

The trade unions in many big cities really are like guilds. They monopolize a particular trade, fix prices, offer apprenticeships and certifications, provide benefits/retirement packages, and attempt to quash any competition by non-members.
Isn’t everything “you” experience due to a chemical reaction in the brain?
That's wild because Super Mario Bros contains a built-in code editor (via arbitrary code execution easter eggs), and Nintendo is OK with that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPcV9uIY5i4
The go vet command checks format strings. I expect that the command will be updated to check for correct use of %w.
Generating Realistic Pseudonyms with Faker.js and Deterministic Seeds
> I haven't said anything about them.

> # now attach/upload bugfix.patch

Where do you "attach" your patch file?

Also, if it's not GitHub/GitLab/gerrit/reviewboard/etc. and not mailing list, what other workflow for code contribution are you talking about then?
It hasn't won yet, but relatively few people would agree that the FSF approach results in the end-user benefits that the FSF claims it does. A large group of people for sure, but it's a long way off from being a consensus view. The FSF tends to drive away more people than it draws, even among those who are naturally drawn to a lot of what they advocate.

Which is a roundabout way of saying that Free Software is "a" movement around end-user benefit, with a very specific perspective about what that means and how to accomplish it that may or may not make sense to a lot of people, but it is not "the" movement around end-user benefit. I'm certain that the FSF and RMS see themselves as "the" movement, but that's actually their #1 problem in a nutshell IMO.
Show HN: Python virtual environment, but backed by Docker
My goal is simple: Make a platform called "Nocode", which helps non-programmers to control their application. No vendor lock-in anymore.

More generally, try to avoid "hype", instead, make yourself a goal which is good enough to save you and others from pain of code debts.

I hate code. It's the worst thing a person could do (though people do it forcely or for passion).
Git and email isn't sufficient, surely you need a repository as well, a listserver in your implementation I guess?
If it's the cloud hosted version (I can't speak to their on-prem software since I haven't used it in a few years), watch out for the nonsense that is having two separate markup languages, used it two different contexts. The original "Atlassian markup" (made famous by Confluence) is used, as best I can tell, in issue creation and descriptions, whereas some kind of Markdown hybrid is used in issue comments

Be careful if you use subtasks for issues, which may sound like a perfectly reasonable work breakdown idea but subtasks are snowflakes in Jira and become very hard to have visibility into, assign points to, etc

The rest of the rant I'll omit, since it's more rooted in my personal hatred for their products and has less substantiation
If I felt that Microsoft was delivering high quality software and was a meritocracy I would cut them a lot of slack, no matter what opinions they espoused and who they favored or excluded.

Unfortunately I have to use Skype for Business literally every working day and it's symptomatic of a company that is fat dumb and happy, secure in its cash flow.
Military arms procurement generally isn't a monopsony. Weapons manufacturers also sell to both civilians and foreign governments.

Moreover, the way people talk about "negotiating drug prices" is very silly. It's the patient who has to decide whether to take the drug. We're pretending there is a monopoly seller and a monopsony buyer and they have to agree on a price, but that's not actually necessary -- if Pfizer says they want $50 and Medicare says they want to pay $40, you don't actually have an impasse there, all you have to do is to say that the patient has to pay the remaining $10.

The negotiation shouldn't be between Medicare and Pfizer, it should be between Medicare and the patient, and then the patient and Pfizer.

The alternative is that Medicare says $40 and Pfizer says $50 and since they can't agree, the patient has to pay $50 instead of $10. Or $500 instead of $10, because the lack of any Medicare coverage at all reduces volume which increases unit costs. Or the volume to support development without insurance coverage doesn't exist and so neither does the drug. How is any of those better than the patient paying the remaining $10?
Topics in Advanced Data Structures [pdf]
Sometimes a corgi is needed.

https://teespring.com/shop/corgi-symbol_copy_1

:D
I didn't know stickhorses were a thing here in Finland until I went to a harness race event with some relatives who are enthusiasts. I was flabbergasted that the first event of the race evening was a stickhorse start, with dozens of young kids (mostly girls) lining up on the trot course. (This was about 10 years ago).
return errors.Wrap(err, "read failed")
As a general impression, it sounds like you might be putting too much
stock in external validation instead of looking within, and then
losing interest when society or your peers neglect to keep it coming
your way. To answer your question, here is my specific methodology for
long term personal projects.

1) Do some work on it every day if possible so as not to lose my train
of thought. Even if it's only a tiny amount of progress, it all adds
up. Expect it to feel like a chore some of the time.

2) Don't let myself start a new project until I've brought the current
one to a satisfactory conclusion (by some definition). For you that
could mean a minimum viable product, or if you've gone off the idea,
then it could mean documenting your efforts to an adequate standard
for someone else theoretically to continue it.

3) For something like exercise or personal fitness, I choose a routine
calibrated far enough below the ceiling of my endurance that it feels
easy most days but on the worst day out of a month I'm glad it isn't
any tougher. Then notch it up monthly by the smallest possible
increment.
I'm the CTO at Realeflow, CRM & Marketing SaaS app for real estate investors. Any chance you could email me (email in bio)? There isn't any contact information on your site.
> More division is something that CAN happen (and appears to HAVE happened here), but it's a bad idea for both employee and employer to SEEK that out.

That is just basic politics, strength in numbers. If you want align people with different ideological ideals/background or engage non participants, you use a common ground. What better way than to tell people they are being treated/payed unfairly. Not saying it is the best way or that they are intentionally doing this, but it works.
If you're going to track it, you're not going to mind ripping out the seats and putting something more sporty in with a five point harness. The vehicle is heavier, but adjusting to it would be similar (IMHO) to adjusting to sports cars with a mid engine layout.
I've heard great points and experienced myself how utterly legible go is. But nobody on earth has ever praised anything about the language design itself. I wonder if go came from somewhere not google- how would it fare.
Should people who believe in Russiagate be excluded from events?
Notch's twitter, for reference:

https://twitter.com/notch/
I'm not sure of the practical implications for someone looking to use it in a design project. Who would have standing to sue for infringement, and in what situations?
I had an idea, that I was going to implement over the month of May as soon as I finished my internship. I was very excited, I wrote up a pitch and mapped out the infrastructure. I just hadn't written code yet, I was saving that for when I could just write code for myself in May. This weekend someone else launched it. It's not as if I was thinking that my idea was novel, I just didn't think anyone else would get onto it let alone 'beat' me to market. I can still work on that idea for sure, but it really took the wind out of my sails.

Here's Overcast with Clip Sharing[0]

[0] https://marco.org/2019/04/27/overcast-clip-sharing
Sure, but now you've turned it from "You can't trust network time" into "you can't trust your wifi" and while 100% correct: now you're commenting on a different article altogether.
I don't understand why people don't just drive to canada/mexico for their proscription medicine.

edit---
Apparently people don't like the idea of affordable pharmaceuticals?
This is sort of like saying the only people who benefit from music are the music industry. A lot of the benefit of open source isn't easily measured in dollars, so it's difficult to say who benefits more, businesses or users.

Nearly everyone builds their software on top of open source libraries, so the beneficiaries or "free riders" if you prefer include both lots of other programmers and the end users who download their software.

But, that's the choice you make when you choose to work for free and give away your stuff. Isn't it a bit weird that we expect anything else? And yet occasionally it works, you can sometimes capture a small fraction of the value through Patreon or whatever.

If you want a less precarious income, there are jobs working on open source software. The 200th most popular open source developer probably works at Google.
>why am I having to repeat myself here

Because you are incorrect and not reading the responses.

>you set origin to the branch you own...
These impossible burgers are quite good, I've had them a few times now, but I'm a bit tired of the ceremony associated with them. They are pretty good veggie burgers, and that's a nice option to have. That's all.
> He's self-made

Well, Microsoft made him a billionaire—and they're also the ones choosing not to include him in the Minecraft event.
Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China
Discipline helps us to achieve certain goals according to a specific and highly effective plan.

For me:

- You should determine the long-term goal to achieve.

- Determine the benefits of achieving this goal and what you can lose (time, money, energy, comfortable, ...) when you achieve your goals (good mental preparation).

- Plan short-term goals and it is important to make small plans to complete (that's the biggest motivational way).

- Consider and evaluate the plan regularly.

- Follow the plan to create a habit, this process is difficult, if you change yourself, you must overcome it.

- Finally, you can share what you have accomplished with friends, colleagues, or through blogs. Since then get comments to improve the plan and create energy for yourself.

My cycle: goal -> value achieved -> motivation -> plan -> habits -> share.

ps: Small simple things will create great happiness.
If you clone it, are you really doing something you want to be doing?
I used patches and lists before, a lot. It was either hard or impossible to track more than one at a time, in context and with lots of conversations around specific lines of code. It was also a nightmare for maintainers to constantly want to tell people to rebase their patches based on other people's patches. To link patches to other patches to issues, etcetera.

The Github website and its fork/pull request flow has increased my productivity and the amount of things I contribute to or can maintain with some level of sanity 100x easily.
Ask HN: How do you reply to “You have a product not a company”
Moments ago I pitched a VC who told me that.

I disagree with his POV, but I wasn't sure what to reply or what the right way to show him he was wrong would be.

Super interested in reading your answers.

Thank you.
I don't think the MyMcD application allows use of Canadian debit cards, which can't generally be used online [0]. I think it only allows credit cards—I've tried adding a credit card to take advantage of a deal, but the app is so terrible that I gave up after 15 minutes.

[0] Canadian debit cards are secured through chip and PIN, and the number on the front isn't a secret. You can use things like online bill pay or Interac e-transfer (which is not really used by businesses), and some banks allow you to create a virtual Visa card that's attached to your chequing account, but debit cards themselves are physical tokens that can't be used online.
I think that Steam monoculture was quite healthy. Probably a bit stagnant, but definitively not as bad as it could have been. Valve had/has considerable power but didn't go evil. I'll give them a lot of respect for that.

Epic on the other hand scares me. They spend heavily on exclusives and will have to make that money back. I doubt this will be possible on just their share in a highly competitive market. Thus I doubt their long term plan coming to fruition will be in us cumstomers best interest.
The biggest issue I have with most error messages is that they say things like you have here but don't reflect back the data that caused the error, i.e. show me the phone number you think I sent you.
I tried clicking the links about Notch's non-pc comments. Those took me to newsweek articles which also talked about twitter but didn't link to the offending tweets themselves. Only one article linked (someplace called "the root") actually referenced any of his words per se. Among the problematic quotes were:

"Privilege is a made up metric used to silence and repress. We are all different, and that is ok. We listen to individuals and help each other based on individual strengths and needs.

We do not generalize based on skin color, bigot."

That's a far cry from the sensationalized title of "Notch hates diversity".

So in answer to your question, my guess is Notch basically a DeMoore type character and is being crucified by the media.
Yes, exactly. Literally anything that has an upload button in the bugtracker for you attach your patch that fixes the bug.
It seems like Zendrive is something you can integrate on your apps. Their target market seems to be companies that have fleets to manage, like Uber or DHL.

From Zendrive's FAQ page[1]:

> How does it work?

> Zendrive measures driver safety using only phone sensors. Integrate the Zendrive SDK into your driver app, and we’ll measure your drivers’ Caution, Control, and Focus while on the road, as well as detect collisions. This is done by measuring a wide variety of safety factors, like speeding, hard brakes, sharp accelerations, phone use, swerving, length of time driving, time of day, and many many more.

> Who’s it for? How are people using this?

> We built Zendrive for any On Demand company with a growing fleet, to help them manage their growth. With in-depth analysis showing any particular driver’s safety, or fleet-wide safety, it gives fleet managers the tools they need to improve their fleet’s driving to ensure safety, reduce risk and liability, and increase savings.

> Since launch we’ve found additional types of companies getting value from Zendrive, from fleet management platform companies, to activity tracking companies and expense tracking companies who use the driving detection in the technology, to hardware companies looking for new safety features.

[1] https://www.zendrive.com/faq/
Without knowing more details about your resources, your skill set, and the other company, nobody here can possibly provide a helpful answer to that question. And even if all that information had been provided, you would run the risk of somebody slightly-better-positioned stealing your idea.

Here's a counter-question: why do you think you would be able to compete with them on price? If you have a good reason to think you can, then I'd say you have a chance, but if your reason is "Saas X just feels like it should be cheaper", do some more research.
JavaScript and Haskell get to enjoy the productivity of using a tracing GC though.
I hope you don't think it's going to be a US congresscritter.

"Why do you hate American jobs!"
This is not true; there have been studies showing that the effects of smartphone addiction are similar to those of alcohol/drug addiction.[1][2]

[1]: https://www.androidauthority.com/smartphone-addiction-drug-6...

[2]: https://www.promisesbehavioralhealth.com/addiction/new-studi...
That's what I do now with pkg/errors, but I don't see a xerrors.Wrap in the docs or any mention of it in the proposal.
Nice demo in your sales page. Love it!
I assume they can tell who the "driver" is by checking who is using their navigation apps.

Although I know this would hurt some really nice passengers who like to set up the driving directions for their partners.
There were some freaky images on the owners Instagram account that has since been turned to private and I wish I had never seen them
You conveniently left out Linux, why :)?

Linus Torvalds recently did an interview [0], where he talked about, amongst other things, just how hard it is to get an OS off the ground.

Excerpt: “I used to think that some radical new and exciting OS would come around and supplant Linux some day (hey, back in 1994 I probably still thought that maybe Hurd would do it!), but it's not just that we've been doing this for a long time and are still doing very well, I've also come to realize that making a new operating system is just way harder than I ever thought. It really takes a lot of effort by a lot of people, and the strength of Linux—and open source in general, of course—is very much that you can build on top of the effort of all those other people.

So unless there is some absolutely enormous shift in the computing landscape, I think Linux will be doing quite well another quarter century from now.”

0: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/25-years-later-intervie...
You don't need to be touching your phone _while driving_ to do those things. Set them up before you leave your parking spot and use a robust mount so you can safely glance at the GPS without fiddling.
> … comparable programs…

For someones definition of "comparable".

> How can I show what a website doesn't do?

You can try to show your claim — "… chooses to present data in some aggregate way that seems to defy any familiar forms of aggregation and reasoning…" — has some basis in reality.

> … when something means nothing other than itself, we say it has no meaning.

That may be what you say. Show why we should think that's what people interested in "Why did Clojure gain so much popularity?" would say.

> … why not compare the second fastest programs between languages instead of the fastest?

Inexplicable! Or obvious: there would need to be two programs for each, rather than one.

> Anyway, we're going in circles.

I agree, you repeat your assertions without establishing anything.