skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the line between infringing and being a customer...

You know, this has another aspect I've been thinking about, and that is there is so much stuff...

Can't possibly consume even a fraction of it.

Maybe they should pay me to pay attention? It's worth thinking about. I really don't give it much attention now. When I decided to not infringe at all, I found a lot of it isn't worth the price. I also found there are a ton of things to do besides watch passive entertainment.

It's really hard to get me in front of a TV doing nothing for a couple three hours. I just don't do it.

So then, I might be talked into doing it, and I might be talked into sharing my experiences, recommending, etc... and that might come with some benefits too, like I might give a rip about some brand or other, or allow an AD impression to sink in.

None of that has to happen for me. Often it doesn't, yet there it is, massive piles of stuff out there, seemingly useless, easily ignored.

My mindshare is valuable. Maybe it's worth it to not just hand it over so easy. Maybe they should earn it, and that starts with some sort of investment or incentive for me to give it a shot, whatever it is.

Many cord cutters are finding this out. Just use less TV overall. It's not a bad thing at all.

So there are aspects here not always discussed, and depending on how things go, those aspects could turn out somewhat ugly, if unintended too.

So what does being a customer really mean?

Just some thoughts there to balance this discussion some.
I make no judgment of their intentions. Merely stating that even back in the day, Apple was known for making some questionable design decisions. Good intentions or bad intentions, it was not a highly functional mouse.
Would it be possible to establish a secure connection and exchange a secret key?
"I've lived here for nearly eight years and have never had any unpleasant interaction with the police. "

This is a tangent from your original post but I've noticed that Montreal cops seem much more relax than the ones I've dealt with in the US.

This is completely anecdotal but I feel like cops in the US are somewhat more prone to talk and act aggressively when they start interaction with people. I'm wondering if that's a side effect of their training. In general I've had the opposite impression from the Montreal and Canadian cops in general. (Also border patrol in both country are night and day in how they interact with you).
How MVPs are a life or death matter when your startup is a marketplace
Have you read any history? Riots such as these happened all during the late 1960's in response to much worse oppression during the time period. Virtually all these riots made the black community worse off. Their own business districts were destroyed, anyone with any money fled the city, the tax base collapsed, crime got even more out of control.

If the black community in Baltimore want to solve police oppression, here is a positive way they can do it: 1) form a neighborhood association with a neighborhood police force to handle issues of crime. These police officers would be elected and controlled by the community. 2) Tell the center city police that they no longer have to police the black neighborhoods, which the police would like, it is not a fun job. When a case of police brutality breaks out, tell the police to stay of the hood from now on or face reprisals. 3) Tell their elected officials - (who are black, the majority of the voters are black in Baltimore) to disband the police.
Nice job missing the point.
That not necessarily a bad thing if they're aiming for quality over quantity. They might need to be a bit more active though.
How many watches don't work on people with tattoos on their wrists?
Remember the adversary is boosting the signal, so their device doesn't have to be in a cupholder even if your key would.
I also was hoping for this BUT the security issues with a container system (runs in root and not user space) makes me think there is a better solution. There are a few Linux package management systems that use a folder to install all the libraries inside a application's folder. This would also run in user space and not within root space like containers need to run.
We use Icinga2, after having used Nagios previously. Icinga2's configuration files are a joy to use when compared to Nagios, and the interoperability with Nagios Plugins is really nice.

On the other hand, we're getting really sick of every upgrade breaking our environment (if it's not the post-install scripts choking on our use of a non-default DB name, it's the configuration parser choking on previously-valid configuration files, or...), and we wish that the new UI could catch up with the capabilities of the classic UI.

We also wish we could pin a package version, but the Icinga devs remove the previous version from their repo the moment the new package goes up. Our solution to this will be to host the truncated packages on our own repo; we just wish we didn't need to do that.
>> Has any taxi service, in any city, rolled out a self-dispatching app for end-users?

Do you mean an app where an end-user can request a cab, or do you mean an app allowing you to become a cab?

If the former then there are at least two I know of in my small-ish south-coast city in the UK. And one in Perth, Australia.

If the latter, no idea.
> > Well, that's the question asked by people who know absolutely nothing about the modern techniques

> Which is virtually everyone.

Perhaps, but its no one that has any ground to be taken seriously on the issue of whether we should selectively abandon one of those techniques (in effect promoting the others.)
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No. This could relay the challenge to the key, and the response back to the car. The attacker doesn't have to know any secrets to do that attack.
Let me just say this: Nothing you wrote is remotely true.

Not. A. Single. Thing.
I found an incorrect/incomplete Knowledge Graph entry for a dictionary definition once, and there was no Feedback option even available for it.
I'd rather unclog blocked toilets with my bare hands than touch anything with "Rational" on its name
For the record that's West Quay Cars and Radio Taxis in Southampton, UK and Swan Taxis in Perth.

I'm pretty sure there are now companies selling OEM taxi apps to taxi firms, ready for deployment after some integration and rebranding.
Depends how old you want to go. For me is Woz's AppleII kind of Apple which was exceptionally quality driven and economically was a great success.
That's irrelevant to the point, which is that whatever prohibits Uber today also prohibited Uber in the recent past before Uber existed. Did unregulated taxi service make sense to a city 5 years ago?
"Thanks also to Ray Bradbury."

Nice.
The False Prophets of Efficiency Wages
mholt said that Markdown support can be enhanced in a comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453216).

There exists a native Go package to render GFM, see second from the top at https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#text-processing.
Nepal: 2000 mappers have recorded 17000 miles of roads and 280.000 buildings
Even with QKD, an attacker that just passes data along without trying to read or change it is nearly undetectable.
You pay zero for Google products also but it just as does canonical has plenty of full-time paid developers on their payroll.

In fact I can't think of a single real high end open source project which it's development isn't fully supported by an army of paid developers.
> non­exclusive, non­transferable, non­assignable (including by operation of law or otherwise), non­sublicensable

That does no one any good except the seller. For any seller, this kind of thing is table-stakes (no one wants to sell someone a gun pointed at their head).

But if the seller is specifically concerned about their patent being used offensively on others (which I suspect was the original commenter's concern), then this provision is useless.
I don't see how that helps. QKD stops eavesdroppers, not amplifiers.
It's depressing to hear that the carriers behave the same everywhere :( UK plans operate in the same way. I don't think anyone offers a simple per-MB plan with a reasonable fee, it's fixed data plans or be ripped off.

I bought a data-only SIM to use in Japan, there were a few to choose from, prices were around £25 for a gig of data. Oddly that's actually cheaper than your plan!
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I've written a fair amount of Go and his view is pretty consistent with my experience. Go has a good culture of doing things the simplest correct way and only that way. Rust is really interesting because of the stronger compile-time assurances and lighter footprint (looks like it'll be a good candidate for embedding into mobile apps), I'm learning it in the hopes that I'll be able to use it as an alternative to C for portable library code.
I wonder how long until the adhesives wear out?
This app could totally work with the taxi meters, not replacing them and the legal requirements. This is a non-issue to me. By innovation, I didn't think at all about pricing, just quality of service, being able to have service, ETA and easy payment.
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> I am wondering if there are "Linux Insurgents", which are groups of people with a particular agenda that find small bits of data which can be made to serve their cause and expose them. Or maybe they just don't like DBus. Or maybe they just want to feel like they are having a larger debate.

D-Bus is related to systemd (in that systemd relies on it), so this issue seems to have garnered a fair bit of spillover from the larger systemd debate.
Regarding window management: I use an excellent little free app called ShiftIt (https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt) that makes window management way better. Uses maybe 20MB of RAM and plays nice with multiple displays.
Awesome. Glad to hear it.
We have a pretty similar product called UpOut Insiders. Big differences:

> $20 per month

> 2 tickets to 2 events per month (4 tickets)

> Not just concerts. 250+ events in SF/NYC including comedy shows, plays, wine tastings etc.

> 2 movie tickets if you don't choose anything.

Would love some feedback on the product if you guys want to try a free month. Hit me up at Martin at UpOut dot com

Available in SF & NYC
At one point I had been so burned by this that any time I was asked to do a POC for something, my POC would output all of its data to console and nowhere else. I proved I could sort things in some weird way or read an impossibly large file, but there was no way in hell they could ship my prototype.

Then we had a calm discussion about how long it would take to productize it (usually weeks or a couple of months). It might not seem like that big of a coup but attempting to ship 2x as much as you actually can is a sure way to be absolutely miserable by version 2.1 or 2.2 of the product.
Sure everyone does it. But the rules are the rules. Just like a lot of people speed. But when you get a speeding ticket, you only have yourself to blame. The part about not entering the crosswalk after the hand starts flashing has been there for awhile. And they are just starting to enforce it more. I can understand getting upset about it but ultimately, they only have themselves to blame. I witness every morning what this does to traffic. We have an over-zealous crossing guard at my kids' school. And she is constantly caught out in the street against traffic because she was motioning more kids to cross far beyond what would normally be ok. And this causes turning cars to have to wait even though they have a green turn arrow. It can get bad. There is no excuse for crossing that way just like there is no excuse for speeding or rolling through a stop sign or any of the little infractions that many people do everyday. It is pretty simple: Just wait for the next light cycle.
I guess it may be when you realize the absurdity of the situation you are on (they are incompetent, irrationally demanding, etc) and that you really would not lose much just cutting those people, also to avoid unnecessary awkwardness when quitting (this may be inteprerted as you are in an indirect way saying that they suck).
I didn't know either of them that well. One committed suicide after coming back. The other after two years of perpetual travel.

I know what you mean. In my personal case, I started travelling because I wasn't satisfied with my life and didn't know what else to do.
I like stackoverflow quite a lot. I use quora on and off. I am also a member of gamefaqs. I have been lurking forever on rpgfan and rpgamer forums.
Ouya in trouble, seeks buyer, despite Alibaba backing
The Locksmith Who Picked Two “Unbeatable” Locks
Microsoft loses ~12 cents on every phone sold
The Unix philosophy has proven inadequate to meet the needs of real-world software integration

I'm assuming that's why it's so trendy to talk about "microservices" these days.

What's needed is the COM philosophy, wherein services register themselves under globally named endpoints and present typed structured discoverable APIs.

The Unix philosophy doesn't say anything against implementing service discovery mechanisms.

...if you look at the Plan 9 developer community it's a) very small and b) packed with the pathologically neckbearded.

My God, "pathologically neckbearded". That's just rich. Let's shit on everyone who shows us different ways of building systems that allow for greater composability and emergent features.
Detecting the amplified signal won't work. There are these things known as directional antennas...

The timer idea is a good one, although a ns-accurate timer is starting to get a bit much for something to put into a key fob. Especially give it's run off of a watch battery (power requirements) and often exposed to heat / cold (thermal drift).
Would triangulation of the signal not be effective?
Well what do you think of statements on the article on harm from GMO was really a list of articles with concern about the toxicity of Round Up? Do you think that is fair?
Sorry for asking off topic question. What is good resource you suggest for understanding go memory management. For someone I am unable to understand from golang docs
It is open source: https://github.com/wting/hackernews albeit that source is somewhat outdated.

Source code (news.arc): https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc

From the Arc 3 tarball: http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.tar
OpsView is mainly open source, though they have a commercial edition with extra features

It's only free for up to 25 hosts. Then it costs at least $65/mo (for up to 250 hosts) plus the fees for extra features.
I think you meant to link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat

All file needs to do is scan for some magic bytestrings, and optionally print the numbers at a handful of offsets. It currently does much more than that, which is why it's insecure and hard to fix.
> I don't like the Prelude. It has a lot of cruft - partial functions, weird names for things.

For the partial problem, you could rely on `safe` (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/safe). But I am sure you could take any other function on `Prelude` that you don't like and do a Hayoo/Hoogle (e.g. http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=[a]+-%3E+Maybe+a )search and find the one more appropriate. :)
Awesome. I have not tried serpbook, but I'll check it out. Thanks for pointing me to it.
I do grip mice "properly" with just my fingertips, and the puck mouse still felt incredibly horrible.
Most vendors did not release phones and tablets based on 5 because the performance just sucked.
Nicely done, this is fun.

I remember the last thread with Markov-chained mashups of HN titles, but it's been long enough that it's funny all over again, especially seeing it in a form that actually looks like HN. The site names make it that much more convincing.

Time to observe some amusing titles before it gets old:

> Rails Authentication With Bitcoin

> YC W13 Is Illegal

> Ask HN: Which companies are our feet, literally

> Ask HN: How do math

> Becoming Productive in Javascript, by Buckminster Fuller

> Dropbox Deprecating the Cloud
> suddenly advertising doesn't seem all that evil.

Speak for yourself. An ad is an ad, even if I like the company or product. I'm in agreement with the grandparent, ads would be even more intrusive on a watch than on my phone (where they are already annoying).
Interesting point of view to hear. RE: enums - There is an idiomatic way to do enums in go I believe:

type MyEnum int

const (
A MyEnum = iota
B
C
D
)
pretty even-handed.

> The other day I had to make a bunch of fields public to satisfy Go's encoding package, and code needed to be updated everywhere with a manual find/replace (the same string was used in other contexts too so it couldn't be done automatically)

gofmt has syntax-level replacements. So you could do:

`gofmt -w -r 'unexportedName -> ExportedName' *.go`

or something similar, and it would do the correct thing, ignoring the string matches where it appears in other contexts.
Thanks for the link; never looked into ServerHub before, but I will take a look. Their offering is appealing... wonder how they can afford that.
Highly varies depending on severity.
A bigger battery generally more than offsets a bigger display (see the iPhone 6+ getting better battery life than the iPhone 6 even with a larger display). All of the watches you list are still larger than the largest Apple Watch.
Agreed.

There are far too many attacks that get ignored because they don't match the company's threat model, in general, and this is no exception.
I think this is an easy problem to fix, no?

Why not just make the keys responsible for starting the car again?

We've traded too much security for convenience and it's time to take a step back.

You can still start the car with the push of a button.. only now that button is on the key.

Problem solved.
I work at a Telco - you just described my daily activities perfectly.
We had this argument already. I think 'bane won, but you may disagree.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3592345
I didn't mean to offend. This is merely how it was described to me. I have read a little, but I could be off. I have seen things like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Language_Act_%28Quebec...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois_de_l...
The “3-2-1” backup rule, part 1
One of the first things here is about the relationship between problem complexity and solution complexity. But how is this complexity measured empirically?

We have the notion of cyclomatic complexity, an empirical measurement that can be used to assess the complexity of a piece of code, and presumably that code is the solution to a problem. So, OK, we have something like a measurement of solution complexity, but how is problem complexity measured, and what is its empirical relationship to the measure of complexity of the solution? Hell, what are the units we would measure such complexity, even?

I think people who do what we do have a certain insecurity about how much of what we do is decidedly not science. And we have this tendency to talk in science-y ways about what we do, which sound good to our ears, but aren't quite rooted in anything concrete.
Metro Extracts - City-sized portions of OpenStreetMap, served weekly
Yes, that's what I was talking about. Current dbus is is using local AF_UNIX sockets for transport -> the current transport is plenty fast enough to push encoded video over.
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There's no good idea that can't be turned into a bad idea if you just do it hard enough.
The comments in /r/programming are much more light-hearted, which is a welcome break from the near-extreme seriousness of HN. I certainly appreciate having an "intellectual community," but sometimes you want to read honest, anonymous comments, even if there's a joke in there.
Thank you, I did misunderstand and was a bit disappointed my comment was taken as useless. It concerns me when I misunderstand protocol...
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> If they keep laying off people, eventually they will be a small company.

They'll be a small company, but they'll have the innovation and speed of a large company :)
There is only one reason and it is very simple: taxi owners use their political influence to extract rents. It's a scheme to legally steal from people who use taxis.
Strangely, I find I'm quite the opposite--rarely contributing on Reddit, fairly regularly on HN.

Probably because I'm interested in quality discussion and generally more knowledgeable about the topics here. I'm also not impressed by typical reddit humor (pun threads, meta-jokes, purposeful mis-reading of comments).

I really like the AMAs and other than that I mostly stay out of reddit comment sections. Conversely, on HN, comments are the whole reason I'm here.
Miniscule multiplied by massive.
#1) Nothing says Agile like top down process design!

#2) I didn't quite believe Michael O Church's anti-Agile essay [1], but nothing justifies it more than this quote:

> The system is designed to foster accountability. And with that, finally, comes speed.

[1] https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/on-programme...
I don't think the problem is that people in possession of the vehicle's key can open it from too far away. The problem is that people who don't have possession of the key can open the car and drive off with it.
If you put the car's public key on the fob, the fob can validate that it is talking directly to the car over a secure connection and then the car can validate the fob's secret.
Hey, I'm curious. How are you producing the build for all those platforms?
We use the SEC Edgar API/XBRL/FTP datasets with a good amount of success over at http://cymetica.com

This may seem counter-intuitive, but we are glad to see more advancement is being made in this area which results in greater opportunity for information arbitrage.
Nice to see more open-source solutions in this area. I've used the popular Django Rest Framework [1] to implement and manage APIs. Would there be a compelling reason to use Kong for the management aspect?

[1] http://www.django-rest-framework.org
If it isn't obvious, announcements like these are purely PR. Once the general public starts reading the stories like "Facebook is agile and uses open offices", they begin to associate the experience of their Facebook iPhone app with the result using agile and open offices. They then ask their boss why their CRUD accounting/finance/analytics app can't look and feel like FB and then those bosses (the CRUD vendor clients) put pressure on their vendors (such as IBM) to change or they're going elsewhere.
As usual, the Three page is less than helpful... I don't know if it's my plan (Classic Flex - Max), I can't get to the terms and conditions and I can't check if tethering is enabled for my account

All I can say is that I've been to the UK and used my laptop with no issues and that I'll try in Spain in a couple of months.

Anyway, you are much more informed than me in this area, so I'll shut up now :)