skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They say the HIG that the black background is to create the illusion of a bezel-less display, which I guess it does pretty well. Not the best solution but it's not a problem for me.
If you live in San Francisco, you might consider getting a bike and/or using public transportation instead of ride-sharing services. Either of them are better for the city by reducing congestion and pollution, and biking in particular is surprisingly fast and convenient.

If you are interested in getting introduced to biking, there are a bunch of free classes by the SF Bicycle Coalition that I highly recommend you look into:

https://www.sfbike.org/resources/urban-bicycling-workshops/

For public transportation, here are a couple of "far too specific" guides for different types of public transit:

Light Rail: http://fartoospecific.tumblr.com/post/63733141599/fartoospec...

BART: http://fartoospecific.tumblr.com/post/100628937344/fartoospe...
CoffeeScript has no types. I have no clue why people keep including CoffeeScript when they talk about static type alternatives to JavaScript.
Look at the morality between your comparison. Jobs/Woz wanted to defraud a monolithic monopoly (Ma Bell) while Uber is talking about getting back at journalists (mind you I have no naive view of "reporters" and their employers).

Sounds pretty distinct to me - both are rules broken, just one is about silencing investigation and the other is about stealing from the rich.
It can, but not across dynamic libraries.

You just need to use profile guided optimisation.
Senate blocks NSA phone records measure
looking at your comment history you seem emotionally highly invested into a company, which according to your claim, you have used 3x4 times in your life.
IIRC they made a TrueType version of San Francisco, for all your retina display needs.

Perhaps the following would work. Otherwise it might be on some obscure printer disk.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/58243/can-i-get-th...
So taxi regulations are in place to ensure faceless execs don't make mean remarks? Uber might not be startup of the month right now, but given the choice of excellent service for customers at the cost of a couple assholes in a boardroom somewhere versus crappy service while the execs try to please everyone, I'd choose excellent service every time. Ignoring the fact that, of course, taxi regulations don't stop people from being assholes; after all it has never stopped drivers from not picking up minorities.
Don't forget domesticated cats. It's still a wild animal, but one that has adapted itself to live off humans in quite clever ways (essentially by mimicking human children).
The Taxi drivers in Seattle protested by blocking downtown traffic in their cabs on multiple occasions when the Uber/Lyft vote was going on. Uber and Lyft are now capped at 150 cars each.
WhatsApp will use TextSecure code for security
If they really did sign NDAs, their hands are probably tied.
That's incredibly disturbing. I guess a lot of the criminal justice system has a bedrock, usually unstated, assumption that people know what they did and didn't do. That assumption is already questionable some of the time, but I suppose falls apart further when evidence can be fabricated to an extent that makes defendants doubt their sanity.

I wonder if this will occur more frequently in an era when people can start to create highly realistic video that appears to be of a particular person performing a particular act (so someone can show you full-blown "surveillance camera footage" of you doing something that you didn't do).
Sure, I forgot the non-escort bit - although as you say, it is definitely about sexual attraction. However the defining point I made was that ManServants is explicitly joining that market of sexual market value, but Uber is adding that service to their existing commodity service which did not express interest in it. I consider it unnecessarily sexual to do the latter, but not the former.I consider it misogynist because they have looked at a large mixed gender audience and decided to cater to the sexual desires of the men in it. If you can point out the existing mixed gender non sexual audience that ManServants has started pushing their product on, I might consider it comparable.
I think regulations have more to do with the drivers not taking you on 20 mile detours, trying to sexually assault or yelling at a cancer patient (all Uber stories).
I'd wager they can pick up the cell phone pings to the tower. I don't know if these messages are encrypted; if they are, perhaps they also hold the keys, and that is the real secret.
There is plenty of very real, legitimate criticism.

- http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2014/07/28...

- http://www.cnet.com/news/uber-disputes-kidnapping-claims/
Uber also practiced ordering and canceling rides with a competitor (Gett) in order to recruit their drivers (and possibly to act as a denial of service attack). This was discovered and the company disavowed the practice as that of a rogue group of employees.

... And then later in the year was caught doing it again, except this time to Lyft.

At this point their public statements on what their company's views or approaches are is entirely useless. Uber has proven multiple times that their statements aren't just typical PR spin, but tread directly into bald-faced lies.
So I cycle around SF, but am considering stopping. The data varies depending on which source you use, but it seems like cycling is about 3 times less dangerous than motorbiking, and considerably (at least ~5-10x) more dangerous than driving. Most people who've lived in SF have plenty of anecdotal evidence of friends who've been hurt, often seriously, by bike accidents.

I'd love to be proven wrong about this: I love cycling and particularly like getting built-in exercise in my routine. And I'll continue to donate to the SF bicycle coalition, and vote for improving infrastructure to support cyclists. It just seems most rational to stop actually cycling.
I'm a South Korean and can only partially agree with you. Yes, some of us don't want it but definitely much more young people long for the reunification. Except some extremists, most of the naysayers oppose it because of the economic burden of it not abhorrence for them you mentioned.

Secondly, I don't know the whole opinions of the rest of the world but for the stakeholders like China, Japan and the U.S., I don't think they really want us to reunite. Korea has played a role of a bulwark for superpowers. For the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the beginning, and now China took the position of the Soviet Union. After the unification they will lose their influence on Korea. And Japan will hate its rival (industrially and historically) gaining huge resource for future advancement. I mean, no one can exactly predict the results and effects of the unification. Your opinion about the intentions of other countries' heads seems too naive for me.

To sum up, most of us want to achieve the unification as long as we carefully plan it so as to minimize the financial burden. Probably almost all Koreans agree that the unification will make the country much more powerful in the long run though it'll deteriorate the economy in the early years. However, I don't find we can achieve it in this century because of diplomatic reasons as well as internal ones. Too many world powers are related to it so it's an extremely hard problem to solve. I consider it one of the open problems in diplomacy like the ones in math.
HTML for Uber's “Godview”
It's likely that civil enforcement of an NDA to recover damages for answering a judge's question in a judicial proceeding would be barred by a court as against public policy, even if the NDA didn't contain an explicit provision allowing disclosure in a judicial proceeding. The theory would be that public policy prevents enforceability of contractual terms that require someone obstruct justice or to disobey court orders.
Court sets legal precedent with evidence from Fitbit health tracker
Yes OP is serious, I don't think it's that hard to tell.
I feel like you're playing the devil's advocate here. Despite the recent witch-hunt surrounded the company lately (which I won't try to defend), you can't deny the fact that they've engaged in some fairly unscrupulous business tactics in order to 1) acquire drivers from competing ride-sharing services, and 2) significantly drop wages (primarily due to competition in cities with multiple ride-sharing services) at the cost of workers pulling fairly inhuman hours.

The latter point is not just Uber's problem, but the ride-sharing industry's as a whole. I point it out mainly to argue that as the leader in the industry, Uber has at least some obligation to treat the pawns on the board a little better.

To succinctly answer your question: there are real justifications, and it's a combination of Uber's business tactics, and the way they're treating their human capital.
The hardware should theoretically be fine. kexec calls "shutdown" prior to executing the new kernel and some linux distros use kexec for fast reboots. Additionally, you can replace your /sbin/init with a shell script which calls kexec instead of actually calling init, which would probably avoid initializing some hardware altogether.

It's actually possible to boot grub4dos via kexec, however it doesn't work out of the box in digital ocean. I'm not sure how to format code on HN so here's a proof-of-concept on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/5jcvG2N9

A kexec bootloader also exists, called petitboot, but I've never used it to boot anything other than linux, though scanning google, it looks like people may have used it to successfully boot FreeBSD on the PS3 or OpenWRT compatible routers.
Petitboot can be found here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/petitbo...
Google ended up developing Go because C++ was too hard to use, not because Python was too slow. The initial target market for Go was C++ programmers - it's only once it was exposed to the Internet that they found out there were more Python programmers interested in a faster Python than C++ programmers interested in an easier C++.
> Javascript is not the equivalent of assembly. Javascript is, itself, a higher-level language. You're talking about translating from one high-level language to another, and expecting the interpreter for the latter to care anything about the rules of the former

What of it? You can write Javascript by hand which would be good strongly typed code, even if there is no compiler or runtime checks to enforce this. OCaml has js_of_ocaml, which can turn 99% of valid OCaml code into Javascript. And OCaml's type system is a hell of a lot more strict than Java's. Whether or not there are runtime checks is irrelevant. The fact that it is valid OCaml code gives you compile-time guarantees when it comes to the types involved. It's a bit like the way that type erasure works in Java. It gives you compile-time guarantees, but the runtime has no idea about it.
You're confusing region with AZ. They've never had a multi-region outage (yet).
These CEOs make more than their companies pay in corporate taxes
I think what'll come out of this entire experiment is something very, very similar to the current taxi industry - simply with better apps and dependability, and I will not complain at all. A little part of me suspects that this will not be Uber (at least in America, where the regulatory blockade feels really impenetrable as an engineer), although at this point it's anyones game.
It has been shown that the biggest factor in bike safety is the number of cyclists on the road. The more bikes, the more aware drivers are of our presence. In SF, Critical Mass had (I've learned) a huge impact in breaking ground for bike infrastructure. Currently, the Bay Area Bike Share has become a strong factor. If we stop biking now until it's safer, it might never be so.
I have no idea why you believe I'm "emotionally highly invested" in Uber - could you explain?

I don't like mob behavior and intellectual dishonesty. There has been a lot of it on HN lately which drives me to comment (also, due to an injury, I have way too much time on my hands).
Choosing Your Religion: AngularJS, Backbone, Ember
Apparently, select corporate Uber employees have access to users' location data as referenced in this Buzzfeed article [1]. One of the co-authors tweeted about this view being referenced on a partner page if you Google "Uber God view". The page was taken down but someone saved the HTML on this pastebin. Easter eggs galore [2].

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-...

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/pbump/status/534936361569366017
No, taxi regulations are in place so this kind of nonsense gets your license revoked: http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-play...
Realistically, there is so much code in a linux system it takes a lifetime to review it all yourself. So, you end up putting your trust in the code reviews of random people on the internet. Is that better than putting your trust in BigCorp? I used to think so, but i'm not so sure anymore because i don't see substantiation of the claim that open source is more secure. I see similar volumes of security issues in open source and closed source, and i don't see that ratio changing over time, which is what the many eyeballs theory would suggest.

Sure, the many eyeballs theory is appealing, but it seems more aspirational than actual.
There is a lot more to Yosemite than just a font change.

1. Calendar/Contacts are cleaned up further from what they used to be.

2. The little green button no longer leaves you wondering what it does, it simply full screens now on a single monitor

3. There seems to be better consistency across many different applications when it comes to look and feel, and all of the partial see-through/blurriness actually feels pretty nice and gives interfaces a little more depth.

4. Improved Safari with a new JIT JavaScript engine that makes the web definitely feel faster

5. iCloud Drive integration, which is nice if you have multiple Macs

6. Spotlight has been massively improved, and is close to replacing Quicksilver for me.

The Apple Watch SDK was released today, and people are falling in love with the new font that was released, this hack simply replaces Helvetica Neue with that new font, there is no requirement for you to do so, and I personally won't be replacing my existing font with the one linked here.
JPEG XT Demo software available on jpeg.org
Why WhatsApp is not secure – while Textsecure may be
Thanks for the info Billy.

I think there has to be more touch events available than Force Touch. Seems a fairly trivial interaction.

Given the features page I assume the API should support more events. Digital Touch "implies" touch down-move-up:

http://www.apple.com/watch/features/

* Section 6-left, a heart drawn on the watch with the name Jamie.

"You don’t even have to use words. The Digital Touch features on Apple Watch give you fun, spontaneous ways to connect with other Apple Watch wearers, wrist to wrist."

* Below, a flower drawn on the watch with the name Eliza.

"Sketch. Use your finger to draw something quickly. Your friend on the other end can watch your drawing animate, then respond with a custom creation for you."

Hopefully is already there or else we might have to wait and see the touch API public for WWDC. Eager to play with it, if anybody has more information please share. Thanks!
I see. So you check the CEO of all your apps before using them? You are obviously swayed left and right by media.

Why do you trust your media sources so much?
Agreed. And things could have been enormously worse (hint: VBScript).
Is that really not the case? Do you have inside information, do you work on gmail?

You speak with much certainty, like you work on the product. If so, I apologize. If not, then please defend your statements with supporting evidence. You present strong opinions but no reasons why we should believe what you say.
Notice that the article only inferred that McConnell was referring to terrorism specifically. Perhaps they anticipate domestic unrest (due to, among other things, egregious NSA spying, ironically), and don't want to tie their hands behind their backs in the fight against that. In which case, a good time to do it, is whenever they decide to stop the spying and the impoverishment to destitution of literally everyone save for the rounding error of a demographic that constitutes the ruling and elite classes, et cetera. So, never.
They do indeed use js_of_ocaml in the Flow test suite to compile the full Flow parser to JavaScript and then test that.

See the related discussion on packaging it in the OPAM pull request: https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/pull/3083
My honest hope when I first heard of Uber was that it would give a huge wakeup call to the industry. Let's face it, America is a service industry and many of its services suck. The attitude is marginal at best, horrifying at worst. I hoped this level of customer scrutiny on performance would bring it up to the same level as in Japan.

I'm still hoping someone will make it happen. Or rather, perhaps an entire army of services will make it happen as we've seen, a de facto monopoly, yields terrible results.
No, the European colonial powers had enormous technological advantages over the societies they subjugated. Just because both colonizer and colonized seem primitive to us doesn't mean that there wasn't an enormous gap between them.
Do you consider Reader, Buzz, Wave, and iGoogle all part of one service? How about the APIs they've shut down / blocked / deprecated?

I agree that this site is sensationalistic. But your comment is just as bad on the other side of the aisle.
http://flowtype.org/

Direct link
I was actually saddened when I saw people starting with their patches forcing Lucida back in OS X 10.10.

Helvetica was one of the things that made the iPhone so great.

Helvetica is neutral, timeless and easy to read. It's the perfect user interface font, especially the UI-optimized version OS X 10.10 is using.

As always, people just hate change.

That said, San Fransisco is a cool font, it just looks horrible as a computer font: too much space, and it's almost like all the characters look the same. But for a small device like a watch it's perfect.
Last time I tried Lyft it wouldn't let me login without a Facebook account. Has that been fixed?
>There are too many instances of immaturity, deception, corruption, and negligence.

As an uber and lyft driver (I prefer lyft) who has created a runway to launch a startup nonprofit by driving for both, lyft has had its share of immaturity and negligence, you just haven't heard about it as much. But only 2/4 is an improvement. What worries me is that in many cases lyft has looked at uber and done exactly what they do. In most cases so far it's been merely superficial, but I worry it is only time until it becomes more than that.

A common mantra in the dual driver community is "uber is evil; lyft is incompetent"
The bottom right picture in the evolution of hush montage is our final 1x scale prototype. We zoomed a bit but it's much smaller than the prototypes to the left of it.
A Day with IBM Verse
So you have 3 stories about Uber.

How about 1733 complaints against taxi drivers in 1 year in San Francisco alone? https://www.baycitizen.org/news/transportation/cab-complaint...

"San Francisco taxi drivers routinely flout the law by refusing rides, declining to take credit cards, charging unauthorized fees, speeding, smoking, and talking and texting on cellphones while driving, according to a year’s worth of passenger complaints reviewed by The Bay Citizen."

How many of those drivers lost their license, do you think?
We can't really be creating accounts everywhere for minor donations. I support your sentiment, but the official PyPy bookkeeping has to be done in a proper way via the Software Freedom Conservancy, so going through all those services for a few $$$ is simply not worth it.
Biggest expenses AND biggest liabilities.

If I could take a self driving Uber/Lyft/taxi I would do it in a heart beat, my experiences with Uber/Lyft have been much better than a run of the mill taxi which is why I tend to use them over taxis whenever possible. That being said, a self driving car with no personal motives, road rage, cell phone, etc. sounds like an even better experience.
Partial Evaluation and Immutable Servers
I'm simply pointing out more or less nonsensical arguments and mob behavior. The Uber CEO may be an objectivist jerk, but that doesn't mean everything he does is evil.

2) significantly drop wages (primarily due to competition in cities with multiple ride-sharing services)...

Companies competing for workers drops wages? That's an interesting economic theory. I guess the Uber people who were hiring lyft cars in order to try and recruit the driver were saying "come join Uber, we'll pay you less?"

I'm confused here.
It's obvious that departments have these devices, and everyone assumes they know how they work and what they do.

So then why the secrecy? If we know what they do and how they work and that law enforcement has them what are they hiding?

I propose all this secrecy is to hide the fact that they can either update the baseband firmware OTA or exploit it OTA and basically root the phone. As an extra incentive to shut up if they disclose any info in court they stop getting new exploit updates and/or baseband updates.
> "... ethics is a secondary issue ..."

scary
Absolutely. Can't stress this enough. This image is worth a thousand words:

http://i.imgur.com/cpgbU6o.jpg
He believes in anarchy.
Uber won't be using driverless cars. They'd have to buy and maintain them. That would kill their "lightweight" business model.

Their "car financing" deal is awful for buyers. See
"http://valleywag.gawker.com/uber-and-its-shady-partners-are-...
You can now do it via email only. If you are often in heavily crowded areas (like bars around 2am), I strongly recommend uploading a picture so the driver can recognize you in the masses.

I can also get you a referral code :) pm me.
Avions was a marketing promotion for uber lyon where people could sign up for a free 20 minute ride with one of the models. I don't know if I see how that is "pushing" the service on the unwilling, but I acknowledge its not the same as having specifically gone to a single outlet vendor for a specific kind of service.

More like offering to have your photo taken for free with a cosplaying booth attendant at a convention for a non sexual product or using sex for advertising (terribly uncommon right?)
It's not the most perfect example, but

"In McKenzie v. Lynch, 133 N.W. 490 (Mich. 1911), a husband settled a civil claim with a man who had engaged in "criminal conversation" with his wife. As part of the settlement, the husband promised not to "do anything whereby this matter will acquire any publicity whatever." Id. The court found this provision unenforceable because it could prevent the husband from "becom[ing] a complaining witness, in a criminal proceeding" against the other party to the contract. Id. at 491."

(Alan E. Garfield, "Promises of Silence: Contract Law and Freedom of Speech," Cornell L. Rev. 83, 261.)

That is to say that under these circumstances, one party could not sue the other for breaching a non-disclosure agreement by testifying as a witness in a criminal trial. I'm sure there's more recent and more relevant legal authority out there somewhere.
Your point reminds me of that recent New Yorker article on learning [1]. In particular, the author points out how particularly niche industries (competitive sports, theatre, orchestras) have seen significant improvements in median performance over the past few decades. However, this has been limited mostly to fields where there are a small number of potential openings and a pool of candidates significantly larger than the number of openings. One of the big questions I think about sometimes is how America can push its citizens and employees to be a little more disciplined/dedicated (ahh not exactly clear how to phrase that..) purely through economic manipulation (and not cultural impetus a la Japan).

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/better-time