skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backcountry.com's motivation seems to be that they've started to sell "Backcountry"-branded goods, and they're trying to claim trademark protection for that usage. Here's some more detail:

- Currently, Backcountry.com owns a trademark to the word "Backcountry", but only for retail services. So if you tried to open an on-line store called "Bakckountry.com", say, they'd have a strong case against you.

- However, Backcountry.com is now expanding into sales of Backcountry-branded clothing and outdoor equipment. Their existing trademark doesn't extend to this usage, so in 2018 they applied for an additional trademark covering a wide range of outdoor goods.

- The US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) rejected that application on the grounds that "backcountry" is a generic, descriptive term. USPTO also mentioned the likelihood of confusion with an existing trademark held by Snapperhead Inventions for the Marquette Backcountry Ski.

- Backcountry.com then applied to USPTO to cancel Snapperhead's trademark. USPTO rejected that application.

- Backcountry.com has now filed civil suit in California in an attempt to force Snapperhead to give up their trademark.

In summary, this is hardly seems to be a case of Backcountry.com protecting its existing trademark. Rather, Backcountry.com is pressuring other firms with similar trademarks of their own to give them up so that Backcountry.com can expand its trademark rights.
Does Ubuntu phone home during installation? Even for something like ‘increment total install count by one’?
NetCache: Balancing Key-Value Stores with Fast In-Network Caching [pdf]
Sure- freeware, trialware, and other licenses have a lot of utility too. That doesn't make them "open source" though.

Words have meaning, and trying to change the meaning of open source to benefit corporations is not something I'm willing to get behind.
Most people I know frequent it for that exact same reason! :P
Hey, could you please review the site guidelines and stick to them when posting here? We're trying for a bit better than internet default.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Google does, and IIRC Github does too.
It didn't take very long for people to tickle the dragon either. Of all the plasma confinement research devices made I have not heard of a single person even getting a shock, let alone an X-ray dose. Fission is an inherently dangerous process to work with.
I don't think it makes any sense to project economic growth as being exponential while assuming that its energy-intensiveness will just keep increasing. As nations become more advanced their GDP becomes less energy-intensive. Surely this makes sense at some level: we consume more services and more rarefied goods.

It feels like you're double-dipping here: I don't see how we extend "western standards of living to 5 billions of the worlds population" without concurrently extending the same GDP per unit of energy use to the same populations.

It's not like we all decide to just buy exponentially bigger houses and cars, for all that a look around certain parts of the US tend to suggest this in the near term. :-)

It also seems to me that a steady increase in GDP per unit of energy is a likely consequence of higher energy prices - while energy is dirt-cheap (and often subsidized), use tends to be profligate.
What verification tech/processes does Airbnb have at all? I haven't hosted in a few years but I don't recall ever uploading any document (i.e. a utility bill, a mortgage doc, a rental agreement, etc.) with my address on it to prove that I even live in the place that I was attempting to rent out.

Seems like they've let this all slide for way too long and it's all catching up to them at the worst possible moment.
Facebook, GitHub and Google are common sites which allow multiple keys.
Git: Preserving merge commits while rebasing with –rebase-merges option
> The system should have started applying brake at this point. If a 3500lb vehicle can't decide what it is about to impact, it needs to slow down (to a stop if necessary).

> Why were there no alarms going off at 5.6 seconds when the vehicle was confused!!!??

That sort of depends on the specifics of how their obstacle prediction and avoidance works - having a fuzzy view on what exactly something is at 5.6 seconds out is probably ok. The important bit is that it notices that the obstacle is moving out to the road and should stop it. Classification is not needed to avoid objects. The key words here are actually "at each change, the object's tracking history is unavailable" and "without a tracking history, ADS predicts the bicycle's path as static" which is a horrible oversight.

>> That triggered what Uber called “action suppression,” in which the system held off braking for one second

> This is borderline criminal negligence.

Yeah, this is. Even though it was too late to swerve, there was still enough time to slow down and attempt to reduce the speed of impact. _This_ is probably where an alarm should have fired - the car is now in a really unsafe state and the safety driver should absolutely know about it.

Disclaimer - Up until a few months ago I worked at a major (non Uber) self driving car company.
It absolutely IS fixed. We may not have reached its peak, but until we managed to start settling other planets we have a finite amount of:

Clean Water

Land

Natural resources

You can take your pick about which one runs out first/be consumed by a small group of ultra-wealthy, but one of them WILL run out first.
Nice! I learned programming using "Iczelion's Win32ASM tutorials" (archived here: http://www.interq.or.jp/chubu/r6/masm32/masm006.html ). Same API, but in assembler. The terminology and variable names look very familiar
I was in the same situation ( 3 to 10 and then 25 to 36 now).
It ain't going to stop untill 2022.

And if you believe Intel, it's 2021 instead of 2022 ;)

PS. Facts related: AMD Gains Chip Market Share in Nearly Every Category.
> Previous licensing models – the “open core” model, GPL, and permissive licenses like BSD and Apache-2.0 – are not sufficient for the way OSS is distributed and used today.

I think what they meant to say was "open source licenses (including GPL, BSD, and Apache-2.0) are not sufficient to prevent Google or Amazon from competing with our hosted service business."
From a year ago [1], engineers said jaywalker detection wasn't there:

> Employees also said the car was not always able to predict the path of a pedestrian.

The brake inhibition was very intentional and was the result of in-fighting as well as engineers trying to make the Dara demo:

> Two days after the product team distributed the document
discussing "rider-experience metrics" and limiting "bad
experiences" to one per ride, another email went out. This one was from several ATG engineers. It said they were turning off the car's ability to make emergency decisions on its own like slamming on the brakes or swerving hard. ...

> The subtext was clear: The car's software wasn't good enough to make emergency decisions. And, one employee pointed out to us, by restricting the car to gentler responses, it might also produce a smoother ride. ...

> A few weeks later, they gave the car back more of its ability to swerve but did not return its ability to brake hard.

And then they hit Herzberg.

The UberATG leaders who made it through the Dara / Softbank demo likely vested (or are slated to vest) millions of dollars.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/sources-describe-questionabl...
Hookstate: One Small React Library Saved MoonPiano
Facebook is the Excel of social. It's the bare minimum that everyone uses, can be used as an MVP for any community, but can be beaten in a specific niche by a specific app.
Which is both clearly spelled out in the article and irrelevant to my original comment where "Nothing about this announcement makes it closed-source software."

Being licensed under an OSI approved license (that their software converts to after their conversion period) makes it "Open Source" by definition, it does not make it "closed source".
Humans can learn and transmit lessons. There is usually more objective evidence especially nowadays with cameras everywhere.
This seems like a dupe no?
Knowledge does not have the same scarcity properties as physical objects. If there is one harvester, for example, only one farmer can use it. But if there is one new idea for how to harvest crops more efficiently with the harvesters that farmers already have, every farmer that learns of it can use it.
Show HN: Sun position app with 3D terrain shading analysis
Using old tech is why Boeing lost space though.
And the worry people have complained about, where negative feedback by a renter gets traced back to the renter, resulting in a retaliatory negative rating, remains a legitimate worry.
I don't think he means existing designs shouldn't be reused. I think he means that you shouldn't lessen testing because you are using an existing designs.

Boeing reused the 737 design to produce the 737 Max; however, because it was a reused design, Boeing did not go through the same certification process or testing that would have been done for a new airplane. Skipping testing because you have a reused design is the bad habit he is referring to.
Yes and no. There actually is a trust fund with actual money in it. That money is invested in Treasury bonds. Individuals don't have "accounts", exactly, but they do have benefits allotted to them.

Yes, it's a tax (though they don't call it that). No, it's not a savings account. And yet...
If a model shows that inequality is inevitable, then perhaps we can extend the model such that equality is achieved, e.g. by adding a certain amount of tax to the equation, where the tax is redistributed over the population. This could be called the "fairness tax", and of course would still allow inequality where wealth is created.
> Beating ad blockers is not hard. Just serve them from the first party domain.

But I've been seeing an increasing amount of talk and effort in the online marketing community about finding ways to bring this first party data into the existing third party data collection machines.

If websites start doing this, all it will do is bring the privacy heat down harder, directly on the publishers themselves. I hope that websites manage to operate without sharing that data with the martech world, but I fear that they won't.
I suppose you might as well stop breathing as well.
There's been hundreds of years of writing on this subject from political and economic theory, but the article doesn't touch on it at all; it's just a weird mathematical model.

Then there's this:

You might, of course, wonder how this model, even if mathematically accurate,
has anything to do with reality. After all, it describes an entirely
unstable economy that inevitably degenerates to complete oligarchy,
and there are no complete oligarchies in the world. It is true that, by itself,
the yard sale model is unable to explain empirical wealth distributions.
To address this deficiency, my group has refined it in three ways to make it
more realistic.

So, they started with a model that made no sense, and modified it to make it match "reality", and finished with this:

Given how complicated real economies are, we find it gratifying that a simple analytical approach
developed by physicists and mathematicians describes the actual wealth distributions
of multiple nations with unprecedented precision and accuracy. Also rather curious is that
these distributions display subtle but key features of complex physical systems.

Yeah... curious....
content of the blog post aside, this is just completely obnoxious and distracting: https://gfycat.com/sphericalfrailalligatorgar
Hot tip for guitarists: left thumb fluctuates least.
So, they make you write the password down.

Then they take the Yubikey.

Then they take your eyeballs and your fingers.

I'm not so sure I want to encourage them to do #3.
I've had really good experiences with Better World Books. However, I do wonder how they source some of their stock. I've bought several books from them that have historical value and never should have left the Smithsonian.
Does anyone know if there is a git repo or something of the sorts that lists customer scoring companies and how to contact them for your data?
That's not the point I was trying to make. I agree they are essentially unrelated. But they do both try to reduce requests made.

From the article:

> Not only that, but HTTP/2 has a new concept called Server Push. Without going into too much detail, server push allows servers to preemptively send responses before the client requests them.
That's not the whole story.

The use case we're all familiar with is that the YubiKey acts as the second (physical) factor. In that use case, this is great, because now you can opt to make the login three-factor: something you know (password), something you have (the fob), and something you are (your fingerprint).

However, Yubico has also been pushing the password-less login angle. If you look at the FIDO 2/WebAuthn standards and the new capabilities in the current generation of YubiKeys (YubiKey 5's), there's a new capability called a resident key. This removes the dependence on passwords entirely. Currently you can protect that key with a password. I believe this new thumbprint reader allows you to unlock the resident key with a thumbprint. That's what would bring it to parity with built-in thumbprint readers on laptops.

Passwordless login currently exists in the form of thumbprint readers (like on Thinkpads and those Samsung phones that recently showed they had a major flaw) and face recognition (laptops and phones). In the case of facial recognition, I think the convenience benefit is worth the security tradeoff. However, I'd be nervous about using passwordless fingerprint authentication on my YubiKey because that thing is so much easier to lose track of, and I don't trust fingerprint recognition.
> Equality is unavoidable as long as people are allowed to compete for stuff.

It’s deeper than that. Inequality is unavoidable as long as people are allowed to own some proportion of the fruits of their labour.
Mapping Thanksgiving (2017)
They also publish transparency reports and have a policy of notifying users whose data was subject to subpoenas. See the full text of the linked page for more details.
Yes.

(1) Yes, I know that Amazon sells some millions or some such different products, but my experience shopping (recently moved and have done a LOT of shopping) is that the company making the product can have a good enough Web site that shows much wider range of products, e.g., for wool blankets many more colors and patterns.

(2) To me the key to Amazon is their quite well done Web site that makes it easy (a) to find products and (b) to get relatively good information about them. But can do well on (a) with just keyword searching at Google, Bing. For (b) can do well at the Web site of company making (importing, whatever) the product.

Then, yes, Amazon also pleases customers with better, faster, cheaper shipping options, their Prime program, good returns policies, relatively close warehouses (Walmart stands to do really well on this as they get their Web site polished), customer reviews of products, Amazon Choice house brand, one account for all the wide Amazon product choices instead of (having to type in banking, shipping details for) accounts at each of a few dozen companies, etc. I have found that if just go shopping at whatever on-line retail sites, can get some bad products, worse than my experience at Amazon; so, Amazon can have some trust from selecting relatively good product. It may be that Amazon can be responsive: The mid-tower case server I built supports error correcting coding (ECC) on both the motherboard and the processor; so I explained to Amazon that for their main memory sticks (DIMMs, duel in-line memory modules) they should offer ECC; they did, and maybe my suggestion helped. Still, IMHO the keys to Amazon have been just (a) and (b).

From the shopping I've done recently, it appears that a lot of retail Web sites just copy a LOT of software architecture and design from the Amazon Web site. So, we can expect that building such a retail Web site is becoming a widely, well understood art and, thus, no longer an advantage for Amazon. Indeed, the company might host their site at Amazon's cloud server farm AWS -- irony here!

Net, it looks to me like the US manufacturers and/or importers can start to do well cutting out the middleman Amazon. Ah, Internet disintermediation!!

Uh, shipping from many local warehouses? When I was at FedEx, and maybe still, shippers could just truck their inventory to Memphis and, thus, get faster, cheaper delivery to their customers -- order in before midnight and delivery before 10 AM the next day, that is, in about 10 hours. Well, FedEx and UPS could still do such -- open a few hundred warehouses, let vendors stock the warehouses with big trucks and deliver to customers with little trucks (bicycles, taxicabs, drones?). Again, a dozing if not sleeping giant here is Walmart.
I don’t believe we should think of this person’s profession as a safety driver. We should think of them as a fall guy.

It’s not reasonable for a human to sit around for hours doing absolutely nothing, then suddenly be thrust into an emergency with seconds to respond without warning. Most humans aren’t capable of that level of vigilance. If they aren’t watching a video, they’ll be daydreaming. It’s very unlikely they will be able to recover from any kind of situation requiring an immediate response. At a system design level, by placing a human in that role you have already failed.

Maybe if you take the most qualified humans with the best reaction times, they would have a chance, but the qualifications for that job would be more like those of a fighter pilot. This job is not recruiting our best and brightest, it’s recruiting people who want to sit around doing nothing.

This person’s role in the system isn’t to provide safety - it’s to absorb liability. Ergo, a fall guy.
Yeah, that definitely sounds misleading. Hopefully they'll fix this.
Not really. It's your savings that are forcibly being taken away, at the time you earn the money. Your benefits are (within limits) proportional to your contributions to the system.
Isn’t Typora electron too? Or is their Linux version a native app?
I'm not saying responsibility + blame > 100%, if that's what you think I said. Read it as two statements: "Responsibility is not something...," and "Blame is not something..."

If doesn't clear things up, I don't know how it could be incoherent.
> Fee-splitting with non-lawyers is the bigger issue. That is impermissible for all sorts of good reasons.

Out of (sincere) curiosity, what are some of those reasons? Thanks.
If you are inside of Emacs you could change the input method to TeX and type \leftarrow, or press C-x 8 ENTER and write LEFT ARROW, or enable the Compose key system-wide and do Compose + < + -, or copy-paste it, or buy a new keyboard, or curse whoever thought that building a programming language out of modern hieroglyphs was a good idea and then jump ship to Julia. Or something.
They've been around for a long time. I fractured my knee on one in Brussels in the 99's that looked like they'd been there for decades, if not centuries.

I think they're more popular now because building owners are trying to keep their insurance rates down and there is an industry to take advantage of that.
Can someone please explain what GraphQL actually is? I've looked at it multiple times but never got super deep... my limited understanding is that all it is is basically defining a schema so that when issuing API requests, the client itself can make it's own "query request", rather than talking to an app backend which has SQL queries programmed/written in an ORM or some database wrapper.

I feel like I'm missing something, as that seems incredibly limited, especially with things like performance (where queries need to be tuned and refined and custom written. Just a simple SELECT * FROM X INNER JOIN Y and horrible N+1 isn't good enough)

Can someone please explain what is GraphQL once and for all?
So, "source available"?
> Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company because to them tech takes a back seat to entertainment in the public eye. That can be frustrating and humbling as an engineer, at times, but its definitely enlightening.

Weren't Bob Iger and Steve Jobs close or at least friends?

That kind of echoes Jobs' sentiment about "technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”

Tech to these guys is a means to a goal.
And let's not forget (4) your fingerprint can still be used while you are asleep.
> topic matches ads

Or, how about letting the publisher specify keywords they want to attract? I 'd love to have some control on which ads show on my site and do my own tests. If you have setup the tracking right, the advertisers have nothing to lose
But they can if they want.

Fundamentally, I think PINs in the traditional sense are just passwords with a tradition of particular password requirements.

You can also mention passphrases and say how they're different from passwords, but you can put passwords in fields labeled passphrases and passphrases in fields labeled passwords. They're all functionally the same.

EDIT: From the Password Wikipedia article[1]

> In general, a password is an arbitrary string of characters including letters, digits, or other symbols. If the permissible characters are constrained to be numeric, the corresponding secret is sometimes called a personal identification number (PIN).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password
Because landing on land allows for faster retrieval of the astronauts and cargo, and is better for the capsule.
Since the dollar is the world’s reserve currency, if the US goes down, everyone goes down.

There are negative interest rates all over the place; there’s the inverted yield curve, etc.

The US debt just went to a new record of $23 trillion; this won’t end well.
Sub Force Drafting New Vision Document to Succeed in High-End Environment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465873
mek here from Internet Archive's openlibrary.org project. We've been in broad talks w/ folks like OpenAI about how the contents of texts may be used to power better discovery and to increase usefulness of books. Open Library is pretty far from GPT-2, but we do have fulltext search across ~3.5M books: http://openlibrary.org/search/inside

We're also an open source project [https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary] and happy to collaborate w/ folks on such projects. I'm personally very inspired by the https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/25/apple-booklamp/ Booklamp project; building a genome for every book and surfacing as much content as we can to help patrons discover citations, quotes, and other useful content which would inform their reading choices and otherwise be completely inaccessible behind a borrow.

If anyone is interested in helping us move the needle on such an effort, please do get in touch and we'd be glad to invite you to Open Library's slack channel.
Pretty sure if you are on call as a doctor or medical professional you get compensated for that time, yeah.
To be honest the reputation I see in Disney is they just buy everything - and they're very good at that. However, I don't think it's the same thing for Disney to create fantastic to CG animation, and Disney to buy Pixar.
Berlin Wall 30th Anniversary, New Bout of Animal Farm Antics in Free Software
Qubes OS with Whonix should help...