skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Automated or not, mass transit is just geometrically way more efficient

Actually diesel busses are only "efficient" when they are full. They're barely as efficient as single occupant cars just on fuel use when you factor in the bus running underutilized much of the day. That's not counting the cost of the driver, and assuming bus capex is efficient.

So even a commute-sharing system like that being tested in Waze would be more efficient than busses.
Yup, ARC is good and open source! This blogpost explains its update to Chrome 'packaged app' - https://restforchrome.blogspot.in/2016/04/new-advanced-rest-...
I'd probably try to convert the RGB to HSV and then sanitize the values a bit. Get rid of too flashy or too unsaturated colors.
I do something similar but different..

I take a long sequence of random numbers, using only digits 1-8, like

29834572498741387972573179875938893507418675309

Let's say that goes on for 105 places. Each user then gets an auto-increment ID that I mod 100 (divide by 100 and take the remainder) and add one. I start at that index of the long sequence of digits, and take six characters. If your ID was 112, mod 100 would be 12, plus 1 is 13. Starting at the 13th character, I take six characters: 413879. Then prefix with # - #413879 - and you have a pseudo-random hex code, with neighboring colors being pleasantly visually related.

If it's a dark background, I use letters A-F instead.

If the contrast is insufficient, I'll change a character in the sequence here and there, but it's a lot faster than calculating a new color for everyone, and while everyone doesn't get a unique color, my opinion is that color isn't what makes them unique, it's their username; the color is an extra hint for those able to see it.

EDIT: I called this, when I came up with it a very long time ago, the "sliding doors" technique. I'm sure I'm not the first to do something like that, and it was before the similarly named (abut unrelated, functionally) image replacement trick was popular.
you don't even have to go as far as mexico, they usually just move to the nearest metro.
Sounds like one of those things that is awesome at the time (everything related to a new baby is), but more like something that will freak you out and make you think 'why!!' a few years down the line.
I don't like his Vanguard example. He's pointing to exponential growth and saying that for two hand-picked points, it appears as if nothing had changed.

That's sort of how exponential growth works. The growth in the most recent period makes all the other growth before it look trivial. I bet if he could zoom in on the '75 to '95 period he could plot the arrows in the same place and draw the same conclusion.
My friend recently had his bike stolen. It was recovered after it was thrown over a fence of a local business.

The thief most likely didnt know how to ride a fixed gear with no brakes, crashed, and ditched the bike.
Really depends. Investors can drag out meetings for months until they are ready. They'll wait you out if you're not able to exert leverage.
It's a lifestyle piece, not a societal analysis.
Read this, if it helps: How To Successfully Work From Home (Or Telecommute Painlessly)
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Well, it's sort of an interesting thing, right?

I'd suggest that perhaps the confluence causing this is:

1. The people in society historically tasked with making the first moves in courtship having a ready and handy (ha) alternative to expending great effort for sexual gratification.

2. The people in society historically tasked with receiving courtship proposals being exposed to a vast marketplace via online dating and mass media and devaluing local suitors.

3. The people in society historically tasked with receiving courtship proposals being bombarded constantly with messages of fear and victimization, to the point where any suitor is often seen first as a threat.

At least for people who are primarily socialized online and on social media, say Millennial college students today and five years ago, there is a vast disconnect between how dating and fucking is portrayed and propagandized, and how it is actually practiced.
Why are they confounding?

The other manufacturers offload that cost onto the dealerships, who provide show rooms, sales staff, service staff, etc. AFAIK Tesla takes this on themselves.

Do Telstra split the costs of new leases, refits, transformer installs, super-charger installs - for showrooms?

Also I'd guess they are pouring a lot into training and development. Assuming they have a long term view, they'd want to retain their top sales and management staff to move them up to more senior roles in the future. This is the opposite of dealerships, where a high churn in sales staff is unquestionable doctrine.
I too enjoy signalling my superiority over others!
Okay, suppose we grant this at least for the sake of argument.

What's your 'watch this space'? What technologies currently in prototype stage do you think have a bright future?
Due process lawsuits increased dramatically after Education Dept. overreach
Don't override my scroll. I didn't even bother reading the page, I _hate_ when people override my scroll speed and make it 10x slower. Let me read the page at my own pace!
Phoenix is by all accounts not helping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Jones#Arrest_record
Should have called back and said "Never mind, I shot him."
This is one reason I dislike the silicon valley and sf culture of "innovation". A lot of it is a variation on a well-known theme and the model is predicated on unsustainable hypergrowth followed by surviving until acquisition. Basically chasing fads and trends instead of doing anything truly innovative because the venture model can't follow through something that requires a decade of incubation.
I think this author is missing (or maybe the OTHER article covered it) some very valid points.

I didn't see the first point on this list mentioned once, and I got lost about mid-way through he article in a rage of searching for it...

* AIDS, it started coming out in the 80s, but the time period that it's been the most scary is exactly during the years that many in the covered population segment(s) formed their opinion of the risks of sexual relations.

* Consent is, very dicey.

* Feminism has empowered women, to a degree, but it has not yet achieved true gender equality, nor has it liberated men from traditional gender roles. In many contexts men are still held to the prior rules and even assumed to be at fault/guilty (not that it can't be the case, just that we aren't running a society based on scientifically provable /facts/).

* Economics. The price of housing, a stable job you can expect to exist for a long time, an actual career path in a single location with a single company, a reasonable commute. It's incredibly difficult to find that for one, let alone a pair, and then adding 'good schools' on top?
>What can we do? We can detect hosts in our networks sending or receiving large volumes of packets/bytes/flows per second. We can call an external script to notify you, switch off a server, or blackhole the client.

Watch out when implementing this stuff, it goes wrong way too often. At this point I have hard time not literally screaming at DC techs when my servers get suspended for "UDP flooding"[1] each other.

[1] Otherwise known as OpenVPN
If you have concerns about HN moderation you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com and make your case, but please don't take potshots like this on the site.
It's not about age distribution, it's about the obstacles you encounter when you're older. Even if it's only a desire by that younger majority to be around people who are just like them.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the political climate yet. Millennials aren't having sex for a very simple reason: the risk is too high. We live in an age where consent can be retroactively withdrawn. If you choose to have a one night stand and you choose your partner poorly, you run a serious risk of becoming a registered sex offender. That's a life sentence. You'll never have a normal job or a normal life after that.
'concurred the sky'? Sure, typos happen to everyone but this is definitely of the highest order.
Except the US already puts a huge amount of money into doing what you suggest. At least drugs have the claimed effects, unlike rhino horn.
I love a bespoke scroll behaviour. Makes the page feel so unique and artisanal. All these cookie cutter websites with the same boring scroll behaviour are just not for me man.
Would it be possible to do this for quantum mechanics, chromodynamics, etc. (to the point where I can follow the primary literature)? I have an undergraduate understanding of physical chemistry, but that was the closest exposure I got to the subject. My mathematics background is petty weak, too (only a modest background in PDE, no ODE, and a faint memory of linear algebra).

I'd pay handsomely for a personal tutor / teacher.
I always just liked the stereo splitter. No batteries, cheap and it worked, whats the issue.
Apologies, I was mistakenly thinking a Licence Pro was prepared in 2 years but you are right and it's 3.
BPlayer – A great replacement for audio elements
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Doesn't this $20 item on Monoprice do the same thing already? https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=9722
Are these symptoms of a trend?
A bit of a rant and very anecdotal, but... taken together they seem like a trend... or do I just have really bad luck?

Two months ago, I had intermittent internet problems. I bought a new modem only to be told a month later (after it worked) that the modem belonged to someone else! I had to rent a new modem but after a couple days of more connection issues. This time I had detailed logs - we escalated the issue to on-site support.

The tech came by, swapped the modem and 'fixed' the issue. I hadn't noticed until this evening that the "fix" was to run a bright orange cable from the connection box, across my lawn, to my house. Amazing it hasn't been cut by the lawn guys, or the neighborhood kids haven't tripped over it.

Then, my smart phone died while I was looking at the time. I had to get a new phone...

Now, my new, 2-week old smart phone has problems...

- Downloaded at least 50MB of data /while I was sleeping/, even when Restrict Background Data was enabled

- Continues to report daily increases in data usage, even though mobile data is completely off.

- Fails to receive group (MMS) messages, but only when WiFi is turned on.

- My provider will replace the phone with either a new /or/ a refurbished phone. (Huh? $700 for a possibly refurbished phone?)

Then, I had to turn off automatic updates on my Windows 10 desktop after the computer restarted /while I was typing something/! (?)

Even with automatic updates turned off, the Windows 10 box just did something scary. It popped-up a DOS box and downloaded a bunch of Ubuntu stuff (flashed by too quick to see specifics, but I did see 'Ubuntu' a few times.).

Now, my 2-day old Dell laptop failed to install Google Chrome. Also, it will not open up a few select emails from within MS Edge.

Ugh.

Are others having to deal with so many quality issues? Is this 'normal'? Or, maybe I'm on the fsociety hit-list?

It just all feels like anti-progress.
And less megapixels for the camera, although this is not a conclusively bad thing...
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I always wonder where this never ending market for stolen bikes is. I live in SF I'm on my 3rd bike in two years, this time I learned my lesson and bought a beater.

I'm also not sure what I want done about it. On one hand, feeling that your personal property is unsafe makes it very hard to build a healthy community so it's worth policing small thefts. On the other hand, I know the cops around here have way bigger issues to tackle.
Taking the High-Speed Train from Shenzhen to Guangzhou
You can't stop someone from reporting a crime to the authorities, but you can definitely stop them from discussing the matter publicly (which includes talking to the press or self publishing).
The Free Trap – Why You Should Be Afraid?
How old is that? There's supposed to be some new head honcho that will fix things.
Minor, but: the URL has a bunch of params like a user ID from a mailing list. Is it standard practice to remove these on HN? I wasn't sure but thought I'd mention it.
A Productivity Framework for Developers
I am a developer and I always feel that I can increase my productivity.

So I am building a desktop app to increase productivity of developers.
Need your suggestions on what features can be added to the app?

Share where you waste most of your time while coding.
What stops you being more productive?
What tools you currently use to increase productivity?

#collaboration #opensource #productivity
What kind of problems did you face with Postman?
I'm from Africa, and very aware that there is a lot of blame to go around, not the least of which are local poachers who sell our heritage.

But while we're understanding each other, imagine if Africans were a large source of demand for dead Pandas for use in traditional medicine? The emotional response would be off the charts.
That's correct. Steal them in Amherst, sell them in Ithaca. It may also be a "Traveler" practice. They are involved in all kinds of organized theft of middling value items, e.g. shoplifting infant formula, and home repair scams. Anything that can be sold on Craigslist.
And if a SpaceX rocket explodes because someone simply failed to do their job properly, then what?
When I think "cross-platform app", I think of Java. Maybe I'm getting old...

P.S. All the data in the screenshots is fake :P

I've seen a few instances where the data would decode to something like "if you can read this, we're hiring".
Hmm, this might be because the code block is too big.
While this characterization is somewhat accurate (they're still discriminatory in where they choose to show presence and enforce after all), even a typical run of the mill city cop shop isn't going to investigate bike thefts. You might as well ask them to find your Creedence tapes while you're at it.
The problem is that while great innovations frequently go unnoticed, going unnoticed does not automatically imply greatness.
That's weird...

Can you give more details? What do you mean by the center div?

Thanks for the feedback :)
There's always some new head honcho that'll fix things. The FOP won't have anything to do with fixing things. They're above the law.
You mean he has more than a single arrest with no charges?
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Maybe just a goth?
haha :D
Downvoting is a form of feedback. If you are participating, then hopefully you are open to the idea that people could give you negative feedback. You can still participate, but if you keep participating in the same way, then I'm guessing you'll continue to get downvoted.

(I didn't downvote you)
10 Trends Proving That Visual Marketing Is Booming – Piktoria
Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents
> Thus the new work is a derived work, or at least a lawyer can argue that easily

And this is totally stupid. This amounts to claiming that musicians derive their work from others. Of course they do.
This is quite frankly an excellent list of why we won't be changing any time soon, with key points being:

> Things like virtual hosts, logging, security, etc.

> Newtonsoft now defaults to camelCase

> Log4net doesn’t work and neither do countless other dependencies, unless you target .NET 4.5

I mean a lot of those things are the reason we're using .Net over more other technologies to begin with.
Extinction happens not because people consume the animal but because they don’t. For example, the cow and the chicken are at no risk of going extinct because they are consumed.
Wang is an extremely common Chinese surname, yes. It's a romanisation of a couple of names which also sometimes become Wong and Ong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_(surname)
LinkedIn's former director of engineering cuts ties with WrkRiot
File-source: Read binary files in chunks, on demand, with promises
@rakpol thank you for pointing this out. I've already corrected it.
This, I think, is a beautiful example of what empirical research can uncover: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...

> almost all (92%) of the catastrophic system failures
are the result of incorrect handling of non-fatal errors
explicitly signaled in software.

The exception-handling code is there, it's just that no thought has been put into it. They say that their simple linting tool could have detected and prevented a good portion of those very costly bugs.
Born in '89. I suspect the reason millennials are less sexually active is less related to a disinterest in sex (or whatever the ridiculous claim about consent fears mentioned elsewhere in these comments) and more because of the same major issue that plagues most of my generation: money, or the lack thereof. This is also the primary reason that we're buying less cars, and going on fewer vacations, or whatever indicator of brokeassedness you prefer. We're broke as shit and in a ton of debt: http://slate.me/1udY1Ux. Spoiler alert: it's really hard to get laid when you're living with your parents and a night at Applebee's is a splurge. I'm lucky; I've got relatively little student debt and I write code for a living. I'm doing ok. But I've got lots of friends on or near the wrong side of 30 who are living with multiple roommates in crappy neighborhoods, and lots more who are back home with mom and dad. I've got friends with worthless law degrees from T3 law schools and $200k in debt who work retail. Almost everyone I know, except for some of the trust fund kids, has a frightening amount of student debt. Most have little hope for paying it off. Almost everyone I know came out of college into a labor market with little or no interest in them. Some of the STEM kids, the programmers and doctors and engineers, are going to be ok. Most of the rest are screwed. Somehow I suspect that's got a little more to do with sexual inactivity than any of the stupid ideas proffered in this link or the original study.
It is for running Swift code without an operating system.

It could be used to write a kernel in Swift.
> Not sure about "many" European countries. Switzerland is certainly the only one who went to extremes on it.

From what I can read, it seems to be mainly Switzerland and Scandinavia.

In Sweden during the cold war it was a requirement for many building permits to add a bunker to the basement, so we still have 65,000 bunkers with about 7 million seats. It's very common to go into the basement of e.g. a library or apartment building and have to pass through massive protection doors with air filters. I doubt any of them are still stocked with food/supplies anymore though.
From The Success Manual,

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http://www.thesuccessmanual.in/chapter/healthy-life-the-35-m...
>I'm not sure if The Director of the FBI knows what the phrase 'The Man' means...

Given Comey's inability to grasp the infeasibility of a mandatory encryption backdoors its a safe bet to say he doesn't.
But these phones are not that wide when it comes to CSS pixels. This is just resolution.

I believe latest iPhone is 414px.
Well, to be honest, i'm not so sure that they should be. Why should you be prosecuted for looking at child pornography? Because you and I find it morally abhorrent? You may be able to argue that it creates a demand for the product, which leads to more abuse, but that argument is tenuous and ought to be born out by something other than conjecture before it's etched into law.

That being said, I suppose it's irrelevant what we think the law ought to be, the law does define the consumption of child pornography and therefore the facilitation of that consumption to be a crime, and by extension to be causing some kind of harm. However, all investigative agencies via undercover and covert informant based work engage in this sort of behavior, that either supports indirectly or prolongs unnecessarily some level of criminal behavior in order to infiltrate and stop a greater criminal syndicate from operating. This is not even remotely unprecedented, and, in my view is a fundamentally sound principle to follow. If you can prevent substantially greater harm (actual child abuse) by temporarily facilitating a very small harm (consumption of images of child abuse), you should do so.
Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030 [pdf]
The project supports for interaction to smartfox server 2x, 1.1.3 released
BadVPN – Peer-To-peer VPN System, and NCD, a Network Configuration DSL
Unfortunately we cannot get visa for new employees at this point. So we can only accept applications from people who are authorized to work in Hong Kong or France.
From my understanding, applying for a visa in France is very complicated but it is manageable in Hong Kong.

I updated my profile with my email address.
Postman has native apps out for Win/Mac & Linux "soon"
https://www.getpostman.com/apps
Why do you even need to upgrade from old one? It's css, for christ sake.
Yes, but that is a tradeoff that has been made in nearly every non-trivial investigation of organized crime in the history of investigation or crime. You can always get the people at the bottom first, but you let them roam free committing crimes for a time so that you can take down the entire entity.

The tradeoff ought to be evaluated on a case by case basis, of course. Because you are trading some small harm for the theoretical reduction in some greater harm. However, I think it's pretty clear that stopping actual child abuse is much more important than preventing the dissemination of child pornography.
You can just have free market, but then you get tons of renters who complain about both the high rents and any higher capacity buildings being built nearby, as if there's some simple way to prevent new buildings and to keep rent from going up at the same time.
The first chatbot arrest, but what are the implications?
The assembler and Makefile are x86 only. I'm not seeing support for other architectures.
No, but you need to be aware when you are defending your employer that you are obviously a biased participant in the conversation, and people will generally look at you as such. (Not disclosing where you work isn't a good idea either, it's blatantly obvious and easy to identify biased discussion members.)

And you therefore need to focus on things you can clearly demonstrate and/or prove. Which is good advice for all discussion, really, but especially when people are going to be evaluating your commentary with more skepticism.

If you know someone is wrong due to confidential data, there's a couple ways of tackling that. Saying you know they're wrong because of info they can't see is generally not a productive way to correct someone, because nobody can really be sure you're being honest, or see what you mean. You will change no opinions with that approach. However, you may be able to use public data to at least demonstrate that someone is probably wrong.

Quality of candidates and success of hiring practices tends to be pretty subjective, mind you, and it's going to be hard to provide hard evidence of it. Long term success of a company would probably be the best metric. (Of course, which Google has in spades.) Though the counter to that would be many of their more recent stumbles that show that trend may be coming to an end.

As an additional question, apart from the rest of my comment: You've said you're an SRE. Do you have a hand in hiring at Google, perhaps for a team under your management?