skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So negative!

Driverless cars allow for the ultimate carpool: Centralized car ownership. I pay a company a determined amount of money every month (say $50, because why the fuck not?), and I have access to a car. Think the best parts of City Car Share + cars that you don't need to somehow find your way to.

Car ownership itself, I can imagine would evolve based on this. Who the hell wants to deal with owning and paying for a car for things like hopping over to the grocery store when they can just phone one up, have it take them, and then pick them up.

The first users of driverless cars aren't going to be general public; it's going to be exactly what I'm talking about here, and that's going to set the tone of the whole driverless car conversation.
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The thing is, it's not just the frontend. Gmail's backend has outtages, too. Often in conjunction with the frontend. Sometimes just the IMAP/POP goes down. In any of those situations, it'll be fixed eventually, but you have no support available to you to let you know what's up or to report issues to if its something only affecting your account.

Google can easily pull the plug on any Gmail account they want. It says so right in the terms of service. You have no guarantee of service or access to your data. Even higher profile reporters have had access to all their Google data (gmail, calendar, contacts, documents, google drive, etc) disabled for having what appeared to be client payment data in a single Google doc. They were only able to restore it after a few days because they had some connections.
To counter your (valid) points...

1. What if self-driving cars ends the idea of car ownership as we know it. Self driving cars turn the concept of driving from one place to another, into getting from one place to another. You could book your commute to work the night before, and a self driving minibus will come and pick you, and 15 other people up.

2. With self driving cars, an existing car park could potentially fit way more cars; cars could just park themselves in super tight, because they don't need to worry about leaving space to give humans access to the cars.

So they wouldn't have to "circle around" while you're watching a movie.
Human nature is such that carpooling does not work unless you make it 'very' financially attractive. We've had decades to figure out a way to make it work, and it hasn't happened, nor will it. The only workable schemes of carpooling i can think of involve driverless cars.

The average users per car matters less than the total usage per car. The bulk of the environmental cost of a car is production. A car once made must be used instead of parked. Dual-purpose vehicles that move people during the commute and goods outside of it will boost usage a great deal, cutting down on the number of vehicles needed.
It's easy-ish to move from RSA to ECC schemes, because they have significantly smaller key sizes and gain efficiency. The same isn't true of lattice schemes, which have significantly larger keys.

A switch to lattice or code-based crypto seems unlikely in the near future.
Surely it will only be a minority that will actually own a personal car when a self-driving taxi will be cheap and without the hassle of insurance, servicing etc.

I envisage a variable pricing system where a journey booked earlier is cheaper as it can be fitted in more efficiently, and a significant discount for a vehicle shared with other passengers with similar journeys.

I don't see cars circling with no passengers, I see cars in constant use, only stationary to pick-up/drop-off or recharge. Way more efficient than what we have currently.
I've done free deals in the past, and sometimes it works out nicely. Getting lots of downloads tends to move you up in the charts and search results, some of which lasts when it moves back to paid.

There are also obvious benefits to having more users such as more word of mouth, more (hopefully good) reviews, etc.
Why wouldn't there just be on-demand car rentals? Wanna go to the movie? Request a car 5 minutes in advance and the nearest ones with capacity for your passengers show up. Let the car go right after you get to the theater and make another rental call afterwards. Far fewer cars will be in much more use.

Sure there'll be some negative aspects to just renting on demand, but it'll probably be a lot less than the negative aspects of everyone owning a car.

The biggest net negative is the continual replacement of labor with capital, putting more power into the hands of a few.
Except, of course, that since it's not an adversarial proceeding there isn't anybody to appeal the rulings.
Hit the nail on the head. Thanks for posting this graphic
There is a right way and a wrong way to add advanced features to the whole command line experience.

The separation between shells and terminals is a good thing and should not be ignored. New features should be added to shells, and only if necessary, we can add new features to terminal emulators to support those shell features. Many, if not most, of those supporting features are already in terminal emulators. For example, every single modern terminal emulator supports mouse input (pretty much by definition): this could be used by shells if they were so inclined. If you want to add some sort of menu-based completion that supports mouse selection, great! The shell is the correct place to do it. Want to display some images or vector graphics? Some terminal emulators will have your back even in those situations, though support for those things would need to be more widespread before that stuff could really be used properly.
"You’ve probably heard of the unique benefits of Swiss banks"

Yeah, I heard that's no longer true. There's few countries that have proper banking secrecy anymore. Panama gave up their last bit of secrecy after the US helped the last president get elected by spying on his competitors.

Guatemala does have secrecy. It's built into the last constitution of the country (in the 80s). Not even the Guatemalan revenue service is allowed to review bank accounts. OTOH, it's probably not the most stable country to want to park your money in.
Stop using bad passwords. Start using Vault.
> Driverless cars are the anti-carpool - cars driving with zero humans going anywhere, pushing that average down.

How so? Who's to say that the driverless car doesn't pick up another passenger once it drops you off at your destination? Who says consumers even have to be the ones who own the car? There could definitely be a taxi-based system put in place to keep cars efficiently moving people around.

I agree that all of this speculation is wild, but why add artificial constraints on a system that's still in an infancy stage?
Correct.

Regarding companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo; the answer is not using their services at all since you don't pay them yourself but you do by viewing ads.
My personal feelings are that I am more economically conservative and socially liberal, aka a typical right-leaning libertarian. However, I am first and foremost a civil libertarian (Greenwald-esque), and I am willing to compromise on the economic side so long as it means civil liberties are protected.

So if that means the birth of socialism and the like just so we stop bombing brown people the government doesn't like, I can deal with that. Some things are more important than quibbling over econometrics.
I really question the current trend of creating big, complex, fragile architectures to "be able to scale". These numbers are a great example of why, the entire thing could run on a single server, in a very straight forward setup. When you are creating a cluster for scalability, and it has less CPU, RAM and IO than a single server, what are you gaining? They are only doing 6k writes a second for crying out loud.
Sure. It uses Adobe Stratus, mysql and Coldfusion Backend. I'll be happy to recode it using WebRTC if you're interested. I've not tried using Flippa, will make a post there too though. Thanks!
Why We Underestimate Risk by Omitting Time as a Factor
It's important to remember that these are the films that have been influential on English-speaking Wikipedia editors. 75% of editors are under 30, 90% are male. 76% of edits are to the English Wikipedia. I couldn't find any numbers but I believe there's a similar bias towards white Americans, simply based on the demographics of the US, UK, Australia, NZ, and Canada.

Influential films for white male Americans under 30 that also choose to edit Wikipedia? Sure.

To be clear, I thought this was an interesting technique and visualization. I like that it's influence by year instead of the top 100 influential films of all time, with Citizen Kane at the top.
I don't know about you, but my neighbor with the 5 beat-up old jalopies in his yard is a bit of a fucking eyesore.
I wonder how some of those effects interact.

If a van in my neighbourhood is ready to pick up anyone going to the closest bus-rapid transit stop, those stops can be even further apart.

Besides the dropping house prices, increased density will increase the number of pedestrians and cyclists, as well as those retail services that cater to the carless.
My father and I went on an equally in-depth guided tour of Hinkley Point station back in the mid '80s when I was a boy. We too got to walk on the reactor lid, view the cooling ponds, and meander underneath miles of thrumming piping. It was utterly fascinating and one of the very best memories I have of my childhood. Hinkley Point is a PWR rather than an AGR, but what the author writes about that collision of space age technology and Victorian plumbing definitely rings true.

Other highlights for me not mentioned in this article: a great video showing a high speed diesel train (not just the locomotive) crashing into a waste transport container; climbing around a whole fleet of tiny decontamination trucks with radiological protection gear for the drivers and manipulator arms for picking up material; and getting hands-on with the security system (not part of the tour; my dad made a friend) and broadcasting over the plant tannoy. No chance of any of that stuff happening for my kids, sadly.

I was happy to read this even if it is a repeat. A great write up that took me back.
parking tickets could become a rarity since cars would be smart enough to know where they are not supposed to be.

Unintended consequences spew from: "then what?"

How much traffic (and energy waste) will come from parked cars deciding "I'm not supposed to be here any more, the 0.5 hour max parking time has expired, now I must leave and find another parking spot until Master summons me"? What "strange attractors" may arise from the chaos of dozens/hundreds/thousands of cars programmatically cycling thru "go park yourself" scenarios? Will parking spaces likewise be self-managing, negotiating with driverless cars over "first come first served" vs "reservations" vs "highest bidder" pricing & availability? How well will a self-parking car deal with grocery carts left in otherwise available spots? How will people game/abuse the system? People regularly leave cars illegally parked because they know the odds of being ticketed in the couple minutes overage costs less than completing what they're doing; how annoyed will you be when returning to your parked car, only to find it left 30 seconds ago to find another parking spot (location as yet unknown), and summoning it will require another 5-10 minutes for it to get back to you? What of "can't get there from here" scenarios: the car reserves a parking spot, and along the way gets trapped in a one-lane road behind a stopped (breakdown, double parked, unloading) vehicle...now what?

Sure, the problems will be solved. Getting to the point where they need solving will enjoy much schadenfreude, and solving them will be interesting - and profitable. Eventually it will all sort out, akin to us living today what Clifford Stoll decried as inane to expect from 1995. In the meantime, I'll be looking for a manual-transmission manual-drive Jeep to get around the strange attractors of flocks of low-IQ vehicles.
The only way to add bands you care about is individually by hand, or importing facebook likes?!

I thought this was going to be an useful, like songkick. I guess not.
To me it seems that the HTML5 is a bit feature-creep.The term "HTML5" in layman's eyes is expanded by some new tech every 4-8 months, isn't it?
I'm a fan of driverless cars but I enjoyed 'jellicle's take. Applied in their most selfish mode, driverless cars could really suck.

Sharing cars might work for people currently using taxis, but 1) why aren't they using taxis right now already, and 2) there are things people like having in their own car. Car seats are a big example for families. And LATCH doesn't work anywhere near as good as it does on paper.
Exactly. You can easily do that with Docker Desktop :)
Honest question: do you audit every line of code you ever download and execute?

Edit: Ironically Docker itself has the potential to help solve the problem of running untrusted open source code. I think every open source project should include either a Dockerfile or Vagrantfile to help users get up and running quickly, and safely run untrusted projects.
There's a pretty significant different between EFT ( what you're referring to ) and ACH, which is the transfer of money directly into an account electronically.

It makes business sense to have all of your clients pay you via ACH if possible, however, you're correct that EFT is not a good idea.
One thing I have noticed about all of the 'edit your hosts' posts seem to ignore/forget is ABP also collapses/removes/hides the element housing the ad as well as not showing the add.

I have used it for so long that I forget ads might even be on sites/pages I visit, as I am not presented with a bunch of holes in sites.
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True, there have been calls from very senior USG officials to do just that though. Still the chance of that happening near 0 (but not exactly 0) especially given the frequency with which that particular charge is mode.
Final Term Install - Error starts at "cmake .." -- my terminal code (with the errors): http://pastebin.com/K2e2ePW4
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Honestly, they'll just drive 10 minutes out of the city to where land is cheap and parking plentiful.
"Before it launched in private alpha in March, Drizly formed a vital partnership with Gordon’s Liquors in Watertown. Gordon’s is currently the main store out of which Drizly’s deliveries originate. The service delivers to most of Boston as well as parts of Brookline, Newton and Cambridge; however, Drizly is looking to expand their liquor store providers and delivery zone very soon."

This is what will put Drizly under in the end, the liquor stores in those towns who are not part of Drizly will complain to the municipal government and then all the laws they were afraid off will suddenly appear. Local brick and mortar stuff is still really expensive and profits are still marginal and they are often owned and run by people who aren't qualified to do anything else, so if Drizly thinks the other liquor stores are just going to roll over and get 'disrupted' when they can protect themselves with a phone call they're delusional.
No there's a quick 2-step signup system that makes picking artists really fast. We did a lot of polling and most of the people who go to shows weren't using iTunes on their phone :/ and they liked picking genres and artists. Good to get another data point though!
Create your own fleet of servers with Digital Ocean and salt-cloud
I am following the instructions for installing, as noted in the README on GitHub Source page, can anyone tell me how to fix? http://pastebin.com/K2e2ePW4

Error begins at "cmake .."

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Honda's Asimo Gets New Job at Museum
So? Most decisions the USG makes aren't adversarial, and yet SCOTUS routinely intervenes in them. Again: the best way to think about FISA is to remember that it's not a real court. It's an internal review board staffed by federal judges who can issue warrants.

This point is, I think, frequently misinterpreted. It's not a defense of FISA. FISA is a terrible system and a dereliction of the duties of Congress. But it's not an intractable legal obstacle. The reason that it's difficult to engage FISA in the Supreme Court isn't that FISA is shadowy, but rather that the Constitution doesn't have much to say about foreign intelligence, and there aren't a lot of opportunities for citizens to get their hooks into FISA/NSA in order to get standing in court.

That would, of course, change rapidly if the FISA process started being used to make criminal cases in the US.
rxvt-unicode allows you to have multiple fonts at the same time for falling back when a character is not present in the default font. For example my terminal uses a different korean font for hangul and a specific japanese font for kana and kanji in addition to my default font for european script.
I think it's more important not to discourage it. It looks awfully artificial if you go out of your way to promote it and will raise suspicion that one is not there because of the technology but because one is of a certain sex. I can't think of any instance in which I saw it be discouraged.
This is purely anecdotal on my part, but I've been working on a project for a few months and I've been developing it in Go and it has just been a pleasure to use. It's like C with the edges smoothed out using Python sandpaper.
You can curl the URL and see what it is you'll be executing. You don't get that with an obscure binary you download from the web.

But the URL should be HTTPS.
Congratulations on launching. Suggestions seem like a good place to start. For revenue, you could partner with venues to offer discounted ticket purchases/admission, promotions, merchandise sales, etc.
You're trying to conflate two different things. "Secret laws" are dangerous because it's impossible for individuals to conform their conduct to laws that they don't know about. There is no such danger with FISC rulings because FISC rulings don't great any standards of conduct for ordinary people.

A separate issue is the process by which executive discretion is exercised. Take a simple, less politically charged example: drilling on federal lands. The President has the legal authority to set policies for drilling on federal land. It is not illegal for the President to conduct this policy-making in secret. I don't think it's good government, but it's not illegal.

FISC is similar. The most important thing to understand about FISC is that it was a Congressional response to executive surveillance activity that was previously happening without any judicial oversight. Three Constitutional principles give the executive substantial latitude in engaging in surveillance activity: 1) records held by third parties are generally not protected by the 4th amendment; 2) non-citizen and non-residents generally don't have 4th amendment protections; 3) the executive has supremacy when it comes to matters of national security and war.

These three principles give the executive a lot of latitude in conducting surveillance. It can tap the phones of foreign agents. It can collect information like phone numbers dialed by citizens. It can do that all Constitutionally without getting warrants. FISC was an attempt to insert at least some judicial accountability for things that would otherwise be entirely within the executive discretion. That's not "the stuff of communist China." That is a compromise intended to get around the fact that the Constitution really doesn't look favorably upon the courts' second-guessing the executive when it comes to war and foreign affairs.

There is also the underlying question of whether all Constitutional violations can be remedied in the public courts. This is not clear that this was intended to be the case. Many people think that in some cases, especially when national security is concerned, the executive is empowered to interpret the Constitution in good faith, and while it is obliged to act within its bounds, its interpretations cannot be second-guesesd by the courts.
I don't, but for install script one can look at least from where the stuff will come.
if the download link was using ssl...
http://telehack.com/telehack.html is a late 80's version of the internet you can hack your way through. It was a lot better before they added the ascii captchas to stop botting.

http://www.darksigns.com/ is supposed to be a clone of Uplink. I haven't played it, so I can't tell you if it's any good or not.

There's also Digital: A love story, and Analog(ue?): A hate story, but they're point and click adventure games dressed up to look like hacking games.
Thanks! Definitely something we're interested in, there's a great startup here in SF called WillCall that is working with venues to sell last minute tickets too. They rock!
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Tell HN: I want to buy your side project
As hackers, we all have side projects that we have started, but no longer have time to work on for any multitude of reasons, whether it be work, family commitments, or just a lack of interest. What I propose is the opportunity to take those projects that you no longer want, so that I may further develop them. For this opportunity, I will compensate you commensurate to the maturity of the project.

If interested, you can email me at the address below. I suggest you include a short description of the project, as well as a link to the site, app, or demonstration of the technology. I will review it, and if I feel this is a project I could do justice to, I will send you an email with 3 to 5 follow up questions. After we address these follow up questions, I will extend an offer that you can choose to accept or reject. There is no pressure and there will be no hard feelings whichever you choose.

Payment can be handled through escrow, or other means you may suggest. We will spell out the terms of both the transfer of ownership and payment in a contract. I am willing to consider all proposals.

If interested, or if you have any questions, you can email me at hnsideprojects@gmail.com
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I understand this point approximately well enough to determine that it's not relevant to any of my points. The FISA process operates under legislative authorization. The congressional motivation to create this dumb process is less relevant to me than what the process actually is. You say FISA is a power grab by NSA; I say FISA is an abrogation of congressional authority to regulate foreign surveillance. Both conclusions lead to the same place, so why bother arguing about it?
EDIT: If anybody else wants to add anything destructive to the movement, just keep it coming...
Why don't we just add "click to execute" to browsers while we are at it... /s
Ask HN: Is AtomPub still used in REST APIs?
We are currently discussing general architectures of REST APIs as we're replacing our SOAP interface with something more light-weight. It appears to me that although modern and widely adopted APIs are using RESTful designs, the represented data definition is pretty much custom.

AtomPub is designed to define clear relations between resources in REST and allow for typing of data fields, but nobody really uses it (Google's Data API used to, but most of it is deprecated nowadays). So, do people just use a pragmatic approach and document the API manually, or is there something fundamentally wrong with AtomPub, beside failing to gain a critical audience?
Comparing JS libraries with web server frameworks is pretty apples-to-oranges, first of all. But MVC frameworks pretty much have to be "everything". Can you use a desktop UI library without going with it completely?