skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because it would be expensive and risky to roll out something across a large, already existing network, but at the same time running an innovative "side project" may well be met by anxiety (and corresponding resistance) by those who aren't able to participate. It seems to me that both of these responses are fairly economically rational, given the corresponding risks.

Regulation could be useful here, if properly designed, by helping to alleviate the fears of those in the existing industry who are most likely to be directly affected by these useful innovations. Unfortunately, the allergic political response of some sectors of society to anything interventionist makes coming to reasonable arrangements quite difficult, so we just end up with something that isn't really that great for anyone.
"After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 they set up their own venture capital fund"
Well, I do object to booth babes and the Uber promotion, I'm not familar with the others you mention. So no need to force anything. Many people have previously objected to boothbabes with the exact same arguments, and I don't see anyone saying one is OK but not the other, so I don't know why you are acting like there is some hidden inconsistency to be exposed.
My website, my webapplication for member management + my clients are down :s, i really don't like this...

Didn't receive any calls yet, but i don't think that will take long.
Uber will lose a few principled customers when, for example, a tech blogger blows something an executive said way out of proportion for their own financial gain. However, the market as a whole simply doesn't care about an executive that vents at a party, or that they engage in anti-competitive behavior, or that the CEO is kind of a jerk.

People care that their ride shows up on time and gets them there safely. For the most part with Uber, that happens. Like it or not, Uber has attained critical mass and is here to stay.
I wouldn't think that "order" is what they'd like to maintain. But rather, keep the humanitarian crisis just past it's border from resulting in millions dying.
Yugoslavia will rise again
City biking does have a bit of a learning curve, and I do highly recommend you look into those classes that I linked to above (or find similar ones in your area).

You will get better with experience though, and the better you get the more you'll be able to understand how to bike defensively and reduce any sort of close calls.
GTD is a great system; once you follow it (in some form), it quickly becomes difficult to imagine how anyone lives their life without it.

I have found Evernote to be a great tool to implement a GTD system. Evernote's greatest strength is its flexibility. It works on basically every platform and integrates with most other tools you use. It doesn't really tell you how to use it though, which is where GTD fits in perfectly. (And it turns out to be really helpful to integrate as much of your system as possible into one tool.)

I found this site to be a great resource getting started with GTD and Evernote: http://www.thesecretweapon.org/

My current system is very similar to what they describe, although I added a 'Waiting' status, which includes both things that need to be done at or after a given time, and things where I want to remember that I'm waiting on something outside my control (a reply to an email, for instance). I set reminders on everything in there.

The one other significant tweak I made is to use notebooks instead of tags for the 'when' portion. Since every task needs to have a 'when', and since every note has one and only one notebook, this seemed like a logical fit. So instead of the 'Current' notebook they recommend, I simply use a Current stack containing a notebook for each priority level.

I also use Powerbot to improve clipping emails from gmail.

Anyway, the details don't matter and are easy to change. The main point is, give GTD on Evernote a try, and you'll be glad you did.
Go does have a goto statement, and one of its good uses is to transfer to an error handling block (from what I've seen).

There are also type annotations (tags), though I don't know how/if they relate to sql
Wrong.

5) Cloudflare's sni??????.cloudflaressl.com presents an error to you because the Host: header is either missing, doesn't match the SNI, or otherwise, serves the correct site to you instead of your phishing page.

You obviously haven't tested this. And it's Moxie.

Vhost-confusion is a relevant attack on TLS with non-HTTP protocols, HTTP/0.9 and sites which serve a default domain to clients with no Host: headers. Cloudflare quite specifically does none of these, and is not vulnerable in its deployment - it needs the Host: header to know which site you want it to select with its reverse-proxy, and you can't poison that because it's protected by TLS to Cloudflare.

Also you, the attacker, don't have the cert.

If you can DNS poison away from Cloudflare, please report it to their security team, but you'll find they're looking at deploying DNSSEC soon.
Probably referring to the study in the uk to examine how overtaking distances of passing vehicles is affected by the attire of the cyclist [1].

There's suggestions that making helmets compulsory reduces cyclists, which in turn makes cycling unsafer.

I cycle in London every day (for the past 10 years) and personally don't wear a helmet (though plenty of my friends do). I tried, but found for me it was a mild occasional obstruction to my peripheral vision - something I value highly on the road.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/5334208.stm
Re: 4, you forgot to mention that Peter Thiel is an investor in their competitor, Lyft. He's not exactly being altruistic.
Although reading infographics like this are interesting, for me it is more of idle curiosity. I mean, the author choose to include the number of marriages and affairs he had during his life. What is the relevancy? Surely there must be other highlights of Albert Einstein's scientific life more relevant than his affairs.
I've ridden my bike to and from work in SF nearly every day for the past 4 years and have only once come close to being in an accident with a car.

But every day I see plenty of other cyclists making overly-aggressive moves that put themselves and other people in danger. You may claim that I'm blaming the victim, but from what I've observed many cyclists kind of enjoy a little (in their opinion) justified indignation at the behavior of car drivers. And they'll intentionally put themselves in positions to feel that justified rage.

How many times have you seen a cyclist in the right-hand bike lane try to overtake a car signaling for a right turn while both are approaching an intersection, rather than yielding to the car who will clearly reach the intersection first? And then the cyclist acts surprised and offended when the driver begins to turn into them.

Of course this is a recipe for disaster, and I see it multiple times per week from my position a safe distance back from the turning car, which I can observe and then safely pass on the left.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be safe on a bike. Just use your head and ride a bit defensively.
And all taxi stories. Seriously, you think they're immune to stuff like that?

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/taxi-driver-se...

http://www.ksbw.com/news/central-california/santa-cruz/santa...

Rude taxi drivers and huge detours to charge you more money are par for the course when it comes to taxis. Regulation doesn't fix this. I'm not sure what does, really.
Why do I dislike Uber?

1) They readily treat their drivers like second-class citizens (I was one of them at one point in time)

2) They use "Special Promotion" as a euphemism for "this wage cut is coming in 2 months, you better start shifting your spending habits"

3) In aggregate, their public persona is one of douche-baggery
Interesting, but not really definitive. Seems like there's a big factor related to the size of the bike lane as well. There could also be a bias towards male and female cyclists, since this experiment was conducted using a wig to make the rider look female with no helmet on. Would still like to see more.

My current ride gives me a pretty huge bike lane, and so far I've felt better with a helmet on than without.
If you are willing to share more, I would love to hear more about your experiences with each. The Uber news definitely drowns out the Lyft news, and it would be great to get a balanced view of each.
Every language has good and bad parts.
I imagine this might affect startup times too? I.e. you are likely to have the 64bit frameworks already in memory while you have to load 32bit from disk when starting chrome.

(Chrome startup is so slow on my machine that this might be negligible anyway).
So to reply to both of you:

Correct me please, but from what I understand web workers are not a part of the JavaScript language. The same way AJAX isn't a part of the JavaScript language. I would consider those (AJAX/WebWorkers) more like "system calls" to the browser. And like any system call, it has privileges the application doesn't.
The vast majority of people don't care, though. We saw this in the latest election. Surveillance wasn't a central issue for most candidates, and the electorate was OK with that.
I want to make a joke about how you all ride on the wrong side of the road, but your points are all too good to snipe at :)
I wish more people would take your advice and learn how to ride defensively. I really feel like most people who get in accidents on their bicycles probably aren't paying attention to what's going on around them.
x86-64 programs run faster regardless of how much memory they use because they get access to more registers. There’s also the issue that loading a 32-bit application when everything else running is 64-bit requires loading 32-bit versions of all the libraries it uses, so ideally at some distang point in the future, all applications will be 64-bit.
Except of course the whole let their users list properties they know are against the law thing. Which if they really wanted to ensure no listings that violated local ordinance were posted on the site they would go out of business.
> This is just plain wrong. I'm questioning that, because WhatsApp has to add a back-door for sure. And Doctorow knows that. This is because of Section 215 US Patriot Act – at least there is a legal back door, which can be (ab)used by US governmental agencies at any time.

Care to elaborate on that? Because I don't think there's any law right now, not even CALEA, that demands a backdoor in a chat application. That's not to say Whatasapp won't willingly add such a backdoor, but I don't think anything legal forces them to do it. FBI has been lobbying for the past few years to pass such as a law, though, which is for now unsuccessful, fortunately.

I'd say wait a year or so after Whatsapp enables this and for iOS, too. If we won't hear anything from the US, Saudi, Indian or Chinese governments about how angry they are at Whatsapp's new encryption, then we should start to become very suspicious about that encryption. Because this should make them at least as angry as full disk encryption made FBI. Heck, the Saudi gov was even pissed off at Whatsapp's HTTPS encryption.
I think the solution is taxi cabs. If you want to disrupt taxis, petition your city/state politicians.
I think the paper is even worse, in that it spreads confusion about what an Interpreter for a programming language actually is, what it does and what it provides.

The paper fails to define the concept of what to call an Interpreter. A bytecode interpreter is entirely different from a Lisp interpreter, which actually runs from source structures. Mixing VMs into the picture makes it only worse.

Part of the reason may be that they don't understand what an Interpreter actually provides and why it is used.
This does nothing to prove WhatsApp is insecure, in as much as I could write the same rambling article citing sources claiming WhatsApp IS secure.

I'm not sure if this article was posted for us to have a chuckle at, or as a serious thing.
I was under the impression it was for battery life.

It does use an OLED display and we know black uses less power.
One of the things I've always hated about Uber is that they are in expert in euphemisms for wage cuts to consumers.

"February is a slow month! We're gonna make this deal sweet for you by lowering prices 20%!"

"March Madness, 20% off all rides!"

"Summer Special, 20% off all rides!"

"Summer Special is here to stay! 20% off all rides is permanent!"

Now, lets not kid ourselves here. Uber is always going to get their cut. If you talk to any Uber driver (I was one of them at one point in time), they'll tell you their hourly wage has dropped from $30/hr to about $18/hr now. Still not bad, but now factor in the longer hours, the maintenance fees, the city fines...not so much a good deal anymore for the other side.
but the soyuz was designed in the '60s, it's not much of an example of "the modern russian tech scene" as much as of the "USSR whatever it takes" practices, I think?
ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/known_hosts -R 123.45.67.89
Update: on the developer forum an Apple employee provided a more accurate breakdown:

1. Watch App

2. Watch App with Glance

3. Watch App with Actionable Notifications

4. Watch App with Glance and Actionable Notifications

5. "Fully Native Apps"

In other words, you can't have glances or actionable notifications without a Watch app.
Those two conclusions don't seem mutually exclusive. The universe created the mind in the most broad sense. The mind is basically designed to learn patterns in the universe. Getting closer to one should get your closer to the other.
10) Exec discusses hiring journalists to do journalism to journalists. You know, digging up stuff about their personal life, kind of like (1) on this list.

I'm sorry, but you're flat out wrong about this, You're also hilariously ignorant about the most basic aspects of journalistic ethics.

The million dollar "opposition research" effort that BuzzFeedBen reported on is NOT journalism. Do journalists dig up dirt? Yes. Do they publish it? You bet. But here's the critical difference: The do it under their own names, using bylines at the very top of the page.

Contrast that with what the asshat from Uber said when he was asked if his plan to personally violate unfriendly journalists might backfire with, you know, actual journalists. What he said was "Nobody will ever know it was us".

Now I realize that sound ethical reasoning is not your strong suit. I mean, your comment history speaks for itself. But surely, even you can tell the difference between publishing information that's in the public interest under a proper byline and conducting personal vendettas on the company dime then doing everything you can to conceal your tracks. I mean, this is not a subtle distinction. In truth, this is the difference between ethical and wildly unethical, between acceptable and borderline criminal, between journalism and manifestly not journalism.

Further down this thread you have the temerity to upbraid others for "intellectual dishonesty". I promise you, dude, getting this personal is not a game you are in any shape to play. If you try, you will lose. And as an aside, I'm glad to see that others are also calling you out for the dishonesty in the way you've framed (read: misrepresented) a number of the issues you listed.

I won't tell you to quit while you're ahead because you are not ahead. But maybe consider quitting before you fall even further behind.
Goldman Sachs Tech Confab in Vegas: “Uber F*#k-Up” Chatter as CEO Stars Onstage
Über's ran into legal problems in Germany, but a city like Berlin has a very same regulatory system. Taxi licenses are available at a reasonable processing charge, drivers have to be licensed for driving skill and commercially insured, and the majority of drivers are single or a few car small businesses. Also, the cars are plentiful, inexpensive, clean and modern (there's some variery, but a random hail will usually net a Mercedes with leather seats). It's mostly what Uber says they want, except that if they play by the sensible rules here then they don't have any competitive edge.

There are multiple apps like mytaxi which add a layer of usability, estimated pick up time and cost, pay from app, interactive maps, and driver rating.
That's the point -- you don't have to sit next to your pan monitoring anything at all. The Pantelligent app does that for you (and then sends you alerts), and it does it quite well! Even if you're an experienced chef already, this frees you up to do other things.

Yes, batteries are great! Adding a thermoelectric generator is a possibility -- the power requirement is certainly met -- but it adds significant complexity.
I think what he is saying is that if Whatsapp wants us to truly believe it is secure then it needs to publish it's source code.

Nothing proprietary can be considered truly secure because the government can just force its way into it.

At least that's what I think he's saying.
I'm not sure how it works for the US army but don't people get "mission" wages which are many times the base wage they'd get if they were at home?
In population wide studies the health benefits of regular cycling vastly outweigh (no pun intended) the increase in accidents/fatalities.
Let's not mince words - Uber is not a tech company, what is their unique and newly developed technology? They are exploiting a loophole and operating unlicensed minicabs, profiting from the arbitrage of lower costs of not having to comply with regulation. Why is anyone surprised that they have a generally fuzzy idea about "rules"? It is on the regulators to shut them down.
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The amount of quotes in that article meant that this was not a one-line joke, but a full-blown description of some fantasy. Like somebody going on and on about the ways they would kill their ex-wife or something.

It's one thing to feel antagonised by someone, it's another to build out some revenge fantasy in detail.
Once you have a battle-hardened product with your key features ironed out - absolutely. I'm pretty sure GitHub didn't launch with an MVP on-premise product, however. Obviously do-able but you can't help but increase friction in the early days of building out your product if you're following SaaS for your other customers.
The Soyuz programme is still in active development. It began in the 60s but they're still designing/making new Soyuz rockets/spacecraft.
Yosemite is clearly first version fully optimized for Retina, potentially at expense of non-retina users. Every time I unlock my MacBook Pro I think "wow, this is gorgeous" (I have another one at work not updated to Yosemite, so I see difference every day). Unlike controversial iOS 7 update, Yosemite clearly looks better than the predecessor.
Yup - thanks for phrasing that better :)

Price reduction has played out its tune in tech before - at cost pricing was how Amazon won (and continues to have a chokehold over e-commerce). At Amazon, however, employees from the warehouse stockers to their receptionists are under contract and regulation, and get guaranteed wages for reasonable hours. Compare this to Uber where there's basically a massive disparity between the number of effective workers (drivers + employees) and the number of actual 'employees'. As a bystander, I'm worried about the humans involved in this bet between Uber/Lyft and co, and hope they start finding ways to either pull drivers into the company itself, or offer better guarantees or securities for the drivers. The first company to do this will probably get a ton of good press, and will also up the ante on consumer perception of ridesharing in general (it's great, but feels 'evil').
Coming soon, JavaScript lambdas! What a novelty!
> Zfs doesn't support a bunch of things.

I am well aware of this, having been running production systems with it since 2008, shortly after it stopped silently and irretrievably corrupting data.

> It was designed for Sun's customers, for whom having backup for the whole pool, or having a whole second pool to stream to, is not a big deal.

The idea that I have to destroy and re-create pools for so many no especially uncommon events is one that runs pretty counter to the way ZFS generally does a good job of being an enterprise filesystem. "Throw it away and restore from backup" is not a good answer.
I use Gmail, set up in a similar way to this:
http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-t...

You can use a second calendar in place of GTD's 'tickler' file. Just hide the calendar, and set the default reminder to 'email'. That way, you receive an email when you need to action a tickler, and can then assign that email to 'next action' or whatever.
Well, you have to have some limit. Otherwise a user could register with a 1GB username. This might break all sorts of things that assume they can display or work with usernames.
You may mean something broader by "quality cooking". In the more specific sense of "cooking" being the controlled addition of heat to ingredients, Pantelligent solves that perfectly by enabling time and temperature control. It's still up to you to compose the meal, procure good ingredients, etc. Pantelligent is a tool, and a powerful one.
I'll do it... email me at editing at typewriterninjas dot com and I'll tell you about the project.
Why I'm Excited About Glassbreakers
Just get a cast iron skillet. Cheap, extremely durable, and lasts a life time. No having to deal with non-stick coating issues as well.
> This "many eyeballs" is giving us all a false sense of security.

Precisely!

This issue is further amplified by the fact that lots of people believe that "open source" means "trustworthy". If someone opens up their code, they must be good guys. This assumption is very easy to exploit. All a bad player needs to do is to distribute both the source and the binaries, but build latter from an alternative source. Just look how long it took for someone to actually try and verify that TrueCrypt binaries were in fact built from the source supplied. And that's for a security product with a massive installation base.
Chris is one of my must-read sysadmin blogs. Smart guy, good writer, lots of interesting things to say.
It's interesting how taxi brokers are also like other fads and people will align to them according to their own values. Since before Uber there are many taxi companies with their own Uber-like service and taxi brokers similar to Uber. I know of people who switched company or broker based on statements the owner of the one company made on radio about cyclists. When Uber is new in town it is a 'cool' thing to do, but once they are not so new people find reasons to change. This makes for an interesting and dynamic market. I think companies like Uber hope to dominate the market and keep doing better at it through economies of scale, but passenger personal emotive preferences will probably always leave room for alternatives.
Google rents 'world's biggest' billboard in Times Square
What would convince you of that fact, or convince you of the contrary?
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Thanks for being a beta tester! I think that sums it up perfectly!