skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price was rarely a concern. Uber always felt fair in pricing to competitive markets like Chicago where cabs are better than St Louis or Seattle.

Seattle was the worst. Cabs were super late and never knew the city and gouged you. Took a cab 12 miles at 3am in Seattle once and it was 97$ another time (like 2012) the guy couldn't find the place 3 times and was 2 hours late. Finally showed up when I talked him there and fucker had a gps but claimed he didn't need it.

Uber and lift show up on time have good dispatch and reasonable fares.

However in Portland I always used radio can cause it was clean and had good dispatch and fair prices.

I use cabs in SF all the time from the airport cause company pays and I don't have to deal with the cf that is getting a rideshare there. Just walk out and pay $50 to downtown. It's $15-20 over rideshare but no wait. And yay moral hazard.

Anyway I love flywheel and radio can (I think related companies) cause they do it as well as Lyft and have fair prices. Cabs shouldn't be like healthcare for pricing.
What is your definition of "prove"?
I worked on a project that achieved 100% code coverage and still had loads of bugs. That’s precisely when I lost all faith in TDD.
Being banned from using their app because I’m not a US citizen, I really do not feel for them at all.
One of the many reasons I will not buy Apple. You're buying the brand, the name, not actual quality.

I dont know what the exact percent is, but you're paying a significant markup on hardware for Apple vs, say a Dell, for the same hardware. Yeah, OS X is BSD based, but Dell will sell you the equivalent hardware for about half the price and guarantee it works with Linux (with support).

I'm not a Dell fan, despite most of my prior purchases being Dell, but they dont do an insane markup on Linux installs.

Tangent: I've also seen devs work on Macs have their code fail when dployed because they assume OS X is nix and Linux is nix not recognizong that by default, the MacFS is case insensitive, like Windows, but Linux is case sensitive by default.
I couldn't access the article because paywall, however 'a)... synthetic textiles' would make more sense for inhalation vs ingestion.
Also American Chemical Society may be biased, despite the lovable name https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Chemical_Soci...
This is one reason I hate npm. Who really checks that sprawling byzantine dependency tree to make sure that there isn't some micropackage that has a GPL license that could get included and taint the whole thing?

I just have the horrors when I look at the package.json file after the front-end folks have been allowed to run free...
The iPhones that don’t come with a headphone jack come with lightning headphones.

A dual lightning adapter is $10 bucks on Amazon as is a lightning female + headphone jack to allow wired headphones + charging.
It works out to billions of dollars a year in losses so yeah.
Correct, they can provide the source for linux, or point you to where you can view the source for linux. The software running on the camera on top of linux does not have to be provided under GPL (in the majority of cases). You would have to prove the software on the camera is a derivative work of Linux to fall under GPL.

edit

> Yep you're right. We probably just misunderstood each other. I was specifically referring to GPL'd components like Linux & Busybox, not any applications that happen to be running on top of them.

Yeah misunderstanding there, my apologies! Modifications to the Linux source would require them to also release those under GPL.
The terms of the GPL apply if you have access to the game aka you bought it. You should have access to the code. Catch being you ask for it. Nobody installs Ubuntu and is forced to have all the source.... But it is available as per the GPL.
Pretty sure copyright law allows doing exactly what they are saying you are not allowed to do, through fair use
Why would this cost access? It's leaked source code of something that we thought wasn't permitted to be released, which we've now learnt was supposed to be accessible.
Indeed, it is unlawful to walk on a controlled-access highway, as was the case here (Interstate 88).
Correct and if nobody asks they are fine in doing so. But they must comply if possible. If the code is gone then I am not sure they can be forced to give it.
Aluminium cans have a thin plastic layer inside.
Ask HN: What are some low / no cost businesses one could start part time?
To spare you the details, I've found myself in a bit of financial trouble and while I have plans to fix it, I could speed up the process by utilizing the boatloads of free time I have particularly on weekends to make some spare cash.

Are there any sort of no cost businesses or services I could provide that I could perform on these weekends? I used to do web development for small businesses, but that's a pretty non-existent market these days. Also I don't / can't drive so that eliminates a number of options. I don't need to make much, even just $50-$100 a week would be helpful
Nope. Sometimes it's the right choice to leave something in that your heuristic would lead you to rip out.

Can we stop with these simplistic maxims? Engineering is about tradeoffs and dealing with complexity. Trying to reduce the decision-making process to a single sentence is silly.
So, I-88 is a controlled-access interstate highway, and the parent poster above you acknowledged that pedestrians are not allowed on those (at least in Illinois). THAT is what the italicized charge is for.

The parent is correct in that pedestrians ARE allowed alongside an "ordinary public highway" like IL-29 or a county highway.
The Game of Pogo (2011) [pdf]
Great information but adding the "but telling the folks who invented the language they're doing it wrong is a bit silly." seemed unnessesary, not least I'm sure BBC do make mistakes from time to time. Nothing wrong with polite questioning no matter how expert someone is.
Some companies try to offer services that actually work. in general I don't think a team should have less than seven people on it if they're on an on call rotation and keeping a service alive without burning out the people involved. And if you can't afford that for a service and you're not really doing the right thing for the users of it.

Also if it's not being used why would you keep it up and running.

finally not sure why you're against someone getting rid of a facial recognition database
January of 2018. At the time, Zuckerberg said WhatsApp had 1.5 billion monthly active users.
> Do I always need to accommodate your preferences?

Of course not. I might think it's rude or disrespectful if you willfully disregard my preferences, but at no point did I ever insinuate you must take any action.

It's no different than requesting a certain nickname or shortened name over one's legal name.
Ask HN: Name an interesting startup in the Crypto space?
This thing looks like the future. But not in an aesthetically impractical concept vehicle kind of way. It's actually beautiful.
Which is provably false. (1) AppleID email address doesn’t have to be iCloud mail; they’ll be forwarding to my mail server in the first place. (2) iCloud account is free, whether or not you decide to stop using Apple devices doesn’t affect that. (3) They said Sign in with Apple will be available on non-Apple platforms. (4) I doubt third parties can’t offer an option to decouple Apple entirely if you so choose.
r/cscareerquestions is pretty good, though sometimes a bit too salary and BigN-focused (like Blind). All the sports-related ones, including r/nba and r/nfl, are top-notch.
Of course Samsung can handle that demand. They got plenty of capacity just laying around and ramp up more as needed.
Every door of knowledge I "crack" yields twenty more locked doors.
What a click-bait headline. The title suggests Apple was involved in a large effort to silence the negative coverage. The article lists only one instance where they asked the website to pull down the video because it infringes copyright! The article is still up, right?

Also, do people really believe that Apple makes their billions by selling dongles?
It can be done on concrete if rocks are mixed in, not uncommon.
This might not be useful directly but this is a super cool project.
You joke, but I've read a Google postmortem with that exact quote at the top. This incident would be more fitting though.
Shouldn't this be something that npm could support checking as a first class feature?
Digg SSL cert expired, tree falls in the forest
Yes, I know, digg is yesterday’s news... but I think it has actually done a good job rebuilding.

Unfortunately someone missed the memo and their site cert needs updating.
Well no. In this case, it's "premium" LTE market.
Does Apple have a feature in their app store that allows developers to mark their apps as "Monetarily free but you have to sign in with Google"? If not, how exactly do you expect developers to comply with your demands when Apple provides no way to do so?
Most enterprise hacking come in through emails. Should NSA deliver SPAM to make this happen? idk
There's tools [0] to help check the licenses of all your dependencies. I think larger companies build up a whitelist of libraries as they're reviewed and approved.

[0] https://github.com/davglass/license-checker
As a total noob what can I do with this and where should I start
Ah thank you. I thought they had roots in some open source project.

This thing has been pretty key to a lot of my hobby electronics projects.
Yeah its deeply hypocritical in many ways. I just don't understand how it's so hard for so many to just be good to each other, to take care of each other. There is too much angry, tribal nonsense and way too much opposition to humane and decent things like robust social systems and equal rights. There is a strange "nobody should get anything I don't think they deserve" mentality that supercedes the "nobody should suffer needlessly" mentality I think matters more.
"will"? This is why game archival efforts are difficult. Companies already know that this kind of thing goes on, and that's why so few games (or commercial software of any kind) get their sources released.
Lyft sues SF over bike share program
Google is terrified of anyone forking Android. Some malicious actor might remove all their tracking code. Maybe even disable background location permission and app ads.

A true national security risk of the highest caliber
This. For some reason it’s only the water and softdrink manufacturers who have this hardon for plastic containers. Everyone else is happily putting all sorts of condiments and liquids in glassware.
No, release under the GPL could be
(part of) a way to settle a lawsuit for infringement, but it's not automatic.
Love watching the signal path, especially the pooch appearances :)
"international" as in "multiple nations", not as in "everyone". It's a cooperation between multiple nations. If the US won't take you up you can still ask Russia, the EU, Canada and Japan if one of them will host you on the ISS.
You're assuming there's zero benefit to experiencing space second-hand. Even if that effect is very small, it applies to enough people that it quickly overtakes any large first-hand effect.

America watching Neil Armstrong land on the moon had a much bigger effect than Neil Armstrong ever could have, even if he was the richest man alive.
Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
Hi from Argentina! https://calendarific.com/holidays/2019/AR

* March Equinox Wednesday March 20: As far as I know, it is not a holiday here. The other equinoxes neither.

* Memorial Day Sunday March 24: It's a bad translation of the name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Remembrance_for_Truth_a...

* Bridge Public Holiday Monday October 14: It's ordered in the wrong place

* September Equinox Monday September 23: As I said, it's not a holiday. But on September 21 we have the "Student Day" or "Spring Day". It's not an official holiday (perhaps only in some states?) but nobody goes to the secondary school or university. Sometimes there is a convenient "building disinfection/debugging" that day :). I'm not sure how you consider unofficial holidays.

* (somewhat missing) September 11, "Teacher Day" or "Sarmiento Day" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo_Faustino_Sarmiento#Leg... Not a holiday, but IIRC no class in the primary schools.

* (somewhat missing) December 24 "Day before Christmas" We usually work only until 12 noon (or less :) ).
I know you make some effort a few paragraphs in, but if you could provide the slightest context for what this page is, right at the top, that would be very helpful. I still have no idea what I'm reading.

> I'd describe what I'm doing as wrestling with the question of the meaning of technology as way of getting at the moral significance of our tools.

Tools have no moral (as in morality) significance, I'd be prone to say; at least not any more than other organs.
Facebook has had anonymous email redirects for years. Developers hated it, and circumvented it; it hands control over the communication channel from the developer to Facebook, and not to the user. The same will be true with Apple login.

There's obvious pros and cons to the developer owning that communication channel, or to a middleman owning that communication channel.

What Apple is doing here is using their total control of the application distribution channel on iOS to hold apps hostage to add an option to sell users on handing Apple control, or possibly reduce their growth by forcing them to remove the other login options.

It's mildly pro-consumer, but I think it's anywhere from mildly to very developer hostile. I'm not positive it will have a sustained effect, as developers may do what they did with Facebook and detect the proxied email and ask for the real one in its place.
I'm not arguing it's more real, I'm arguing you can't cryptographically guarantee how many dollars some entity owns. In this context real life mean off block chain information. Basically the block chain can only verify whats on the blockchain. It can't make any guarantees about off block chain things except that someone with a possession of a certain private key said something at some time.
I do a lot of interviewing... I've found that folks who say "I don't know, but I'd guess x based on y" is a fantastic answer. Lets me know how they are thinking as they walk through an educated guess.
Bloomberg's reporting on such issues is notorious. Just recall their report about SuperMicro. In the article you link above, Bloomberg calls a bug a "backdoor." Vodafone disputed Bloomberg's story, because there's a big difference between an unintentional vulnerability and an intentional backdoor.

> So, it's OK to do it then? The U.S. should pretend they don't exist?

The US should provide evidence for whatever claims it makes about Huawei. All there is, at the moment, is evidence-free innuendo. You don't use the power of the state to destroy a major company on the basis of pure speculation.
Large chunk of European mobile traffic was rerouted through China
I wonder if there’s an ML approach that could be used to fingerprint binaries compiled from GPL code. Then I wonder if that could be used to justify discovery / win a suit.

I have no idea how this would work, but it strikes me as plausible?
Sam’s Club is going all in on AI, AR and scanning technologies
Entities in the US/Europe have been trying to take down China for a long time, the excuses to do it will be manufactured if required.
Half price books has solved this in a rather ingenious way: they just sell the book for half of what the MSRP is on the cover. No need to tag anything, decent markup, and the price data is already there/doesn’t need to be created. It’s little efficiencies like this that make HPB one of the most successful brick and mortar bookstores out there.
It’s around 50% — the main problem being that there’s no obvious way to make it significantly more cost efficient. Driver compensation is already hovering around minimum wage and there’s plenty of competition if they raise rates. If would be one thing if they were running at a loss in new markets / for new customers but trending profitable but as far as I can tell they’re banking on being able to starve the competition and jack up prices or getting self-driving cars at a price where they can afford the capital costs because they’re not paying the drivers.
Ask HN: Proper way to generate confirmation numbers
I've noticed that when I pay my bills online there doesn't seem to be any single method of generating confirmation numbers. One credit card uses a 4-digit number. Another uses 9 letters. The electric company uses six alphanumeric characters. Are there best practices for this sort of thing, or is everyone winging it?
Which is why it's nice that current-Apple is committed to not collecting data.
A citizen can sue using classified material as evidence in the US?

A lot of money should've changed hands in 2013 after the Snowden revelations if thats the case.
I'm sure there are hundreds of CxOs coming and leaving within one CEO's reign. Is there any reason to single our Marissa Mayers?
You're right, the title is kinda clickbait but the argument still "stands": a $1k stand his basically taking users for cash cows (while a majority of them are sheep)
Microplastics were found in bottled water, but I see no evidence that they actually came from the bottles, and I can't think of any mechanism that could cause particles to break off from the insides of the bottle under normal storage conditions. It seems more likely that they were already present in the water when the bottles were filled.
CAUTION: There's a redirect loop bug when you open this link in Safari. Seems to be an error in their JS. The only option is to close the tab. Works fine in Firefox and Chrome.
You have to pay $10 million, and presumably enter into some contracts / business arrangements, to run a full node
IANAL but I don’t think this is true.

A person or company that violated the GPL would void the permission granted to them by violating the license and would be liable for having done so. But it would take a court ruling to decide what that means for the parties involved.

For example, the court might give the violating party the choice to either release source, OR to keep the source closed but to financially compensate the copyright holder(s) of the code that they violated the license for. For example. Another possible outcome could be that they could say that the violating party is given the choice between releasing the source OR recall the product and financially compensate the copyright holder(s) of the code that they violated the license for.

Like I said though, IANAL.
Drone Swarms and the Future of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons
I honestly can't see a problem with this so long as police posted a BOLO before ring.
IANAL.

I believe the answer would be "no". Essentially, the owners/holders of the copyright could, in theory, reach an agreement that would permit the publisher to keep publishing the game under a commercial license. That is, just because the code was licensed to you under the GPL (or available to you under that license), that doesn't mean that it had to be that way for everybody if the copyright holders struck some other deal.

Of course, here, the copyright holder is … everyone who has made changes to the kernel? Significant changes¹ to the kernel? (And see a court for the definition of "significant"?) IDK. For proprietary stuff owned by a single entity it is more straight-forward, but the very nature of FOSS makes this more interesting.

I wonder if it would only require those that worker on that file? (Can it be separated from the rest of the project? Again, IDK, ask a real lawyer!) At least that might be a shorter list of authors, and presumably you only need to involve those up to the point where the code was copied.

¹I say significant because I believe that "significant changes" is what would cause the work to become a "derivative" work, and that person to be the author of that derivative work. But in Oracle v Google, rangeCheck was sufficient for a copyright violation despite being a "trivial" function to most of us, so the bar seems pretty low?
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Link to the original reporting, instead of some other web site re-writing someone else's work:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/05/apple_stand_copyrig...
I agree, the potential impact of the individual is lower. It's not to say that the individual can have the same impact; it's primarily the system that promotes the opportunity that could have the impact on society, perhaps inspiring many, many more people. Not just to go to space but build technology, to manage organizations, etc that are part of space industry. Making space seem more accessible, rather than a luxury experience for the super-wealthy could have positive effects too.

Who knows, it’s all hypothesizing with dashes of optimism.
That's the "excepts as may be permitted by law" part.
The attacker isn’t going to follow your SDLC and QC processes.
What are the violations? The twitter post just states that GPL was violated, but no evidence offered.

Edit: I'm looking at it on mobile, and the only link seems to be a self referential link, not to anything of substance.
My 401k is now worth about 5x what it was in 2008, mostly due to compounding, which is why I don’t understand “people losing everything”. They would of had to sell it all at the bottom of the market.
Because it generates clicks and clicks mean money.

The concept of real value was thrown out a long time ago.
Scientists have done thousands of studies and haven't identified a root cause.

Then there likely isn't one, beyond maybe natural evolution itself.

Remember when leaded gasoline reduced a whole generation's IQ by a few points and caused a crimewave? Sometimes the negative effects of an enviromental choice take decades to figure out.

That was actually a very noticeable effect that plenty of studies showed evidence of, unlike this one.

It's past time to switch into a "cautious until proven safe" way of thinking when it comes to health and environment.

We'd still be living like cavemen if that were the case.
"what if I lived in any other country, which requires a fire extinguisher in every car?"

...and most of them aren't even a matchbox like that place.
Apple is absolutely not benevolent. It is a company; it exists to make money. They would not have spent the resources to develop this if it did not benefit them in some way.
I could see it if the stand provided some benefit other than looking cool. Like acting as a heat-sink, or being a massive Thunderbolt hub.

But even I, who has bought half a dozen launch-day Apple items, was surprised that this price point made it through the marketing department. It came off as really tone-deaf. More than half of the Macs in my office use reams of paper as monitor stands.

Maybe iFixit will do a teardown and find out it's made from mermaid scales and unicorn farts.
Find someone senior and talk to them about basic software architecture. If you know the difference between tight and loose coupling; know what the single responsibility principle is; and have a healthy dislike of copy and paste code; then you're good to go, frankly.
> . I’d rather save my cash than put it into another person’s hands hoping for modest interest returns at the risk of knowing we’re just around the corner from another 2008-like crisis.

I'm not sure I understand; if you had a basic passive portfolio during the 2008 financial crisis, you did pretty well for yourself: crashing rates meant that your bond-heavy portfolio increased in value. On top of that, rebalancing the longer-term portion of your allocation into stocks at the nadir means you got a ground floor ticket to a historically good bull market. All of this is with the most conservative, mechanical, low-touch investing strategy possible.

I might be misunderstanding something about the above, but failing that: what is your actual concern about another 2008-crisis-like event?