skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selling the same thing to different groups of people at different prices is called price discrimination and can be illegal.
I'll throw in the 'more fun' factor then, which by my estimate is at least 20 ;)
These days setting up a Windows or Apple system means fighting lots of relatively confusing dialogs and options to avoid using cloud services, etc. Modern consumer operating systems want to analyze every bit of your activity they can get their grubby mitts on and you really have to fight them and say "No thanks!" about 15 times on a modern phone and less, but still a lot, on Win/Apple.

I care about privacy, like most people, but I am able to control mine far better than the typical, non-technical computer user. I am reaching a point where these operating systems are becoming untenable for day to day computing use. They lure you in with "everything just working" including the privacy invasive "cloud" features. Increasingly these things are using ML to mine your behavior. I can run Linux. I don't even mind paying for a privacy with a little bit of my time and convenience. I don't want to look back 25 years from now and say "I really wish I had not given up this bit of privacy". Alternately, I am hoping when I look back I can say, "It was worth the relatively small time sacrifice to avoid these things."

(Not confusing for technically savvy folks, but still, pretty hard).
Map that shows the extreme disparity in population density across the world
I evangelically bring this up constantly in day to day life, and people just outright refuse to accept that psychology isn't rigorous. This cannot be reiterated enough, if anyone reading this is unfamiliar with the current replication crisis, please stop whatever you are doing and read up on it. It changed the way I view all social sciences.
Capital Bikeshare fought with the Parks Service for years to put stations at the mall. It was extremely popular before NPS finally consented. You're right that tourists now boost the numbers.

As far as DC being super small goes, stations are also throughout Arlington and Alexandria (DC+Arlington+Alexandria = 100 sq miles), as well as north to Silver Spring and Bethesda, and out in Tyson's Corner and Reston.

https://secure.capitalbikeshare.com/map/
>A 'thin iMac' - whose thin-ness was absolutely pointless.

For you maybe. Many of us (millions, judging from the sales numbers) appreciate the thin-ness, even if it's for a desktop machine.

I had to drag my old non-thin iMac several times to different locations, and it was no joy. Nor do I need a behemoth on my desktop.
The description makes it seem like it is Android only.
I had a manager once who had a prior career in government. One of their many cynical internal catchphrases was "the conveniences which you have requested are now mandatory".

Anyone with common sense and a knowledge of history knows exactly where this is going. As things continue to move online, internet access and associated technology standards begin to be declared a "public necessity" or some other nonsense along similar rhetorical lines.

You don't even need to look very far for examples. UK accessibility laws (not that they're an unqualified evil, simply a legislative 'gateway drug'), references to 'digital haves and have-nots' from a few US election cycles ago, etc.

I'd really hoped to be closer to retirement before this sort of thing started happening.

Edit for clarity: I'm not saying this is immediately going to turn into some draconian thing, but as a founding member of a standards body[0] with a narrowly-defined intent, I've seen how easy it is for something like this to become a de-facto industry standard that non-experts use to judge things against, even when it's not appropriate.

[0] http://www.php-fig.org/
In many systems, you can "check in" at a station---put the bike back, take it right back out, and reset the clock.
I worked with a startup CEO who'd frequently reply to Marc Andresssen's tweets and carry on Twitter conversations with such billionaires/tech moguls because he felt he was in their league (he wasn't).

Even though he would get little or no responses, he'd talk to his employees about the time he and Marc had a conversation regarding such and such business matter.
Ask HN: How do non tech (business) folks get rich these days?
I am wondering about this question lately. I have been in the tech for a decade now. I like writing code, designing solutions. But,slowly I am losing interest in coding.
There is also tremendous increase in CS graduates, bootcamp grads, data science grads etc. You have to compete with 30 to 50 people everytime you look for a new job. Competition is good but I feel like it's too much hassle when compared to getting rewards

I am wondering what kind of business skills a person should achieve? Sales, product management, Finance, marketing?

Would a MBA degree help in acquiring these skills? What about MBA from top schools if are early 30s? Does evening MBA from Wharton/UCLA count?

Any suggestions?
Amazon's Kindle Free Time is sensational in controlling what is accessed by your children. They have a fantastic control of what can be offered and tt supports multiple age levels and allows you to control what is displayed on a granular level.

You can also set a time limit for usage throughout the day and even the media type being consumed.

There is a monthly charge for each child, but well worth it.
What would you say if someone offered to mail cash to you? Or asked if you accept Bitcoin?
From the installation: Note: Using npm to install the Standards will include jQuery version 2.2.0. Please make sure that you’re not including any other version of jQuery on your page.

Isn't that pretty much precisely what peer dependencies are for?
I'm wondering if you are going to reply to the comment that Heath Maddox, SFMTA, left.

My only agenda here is that I want more bikes around SF, so I like your proposal - but I would also like to know what's the truth behind both parties allegations.

https://medium.com/@heathmaddox/i-want-to-point-out-that-you...
That would not be ethical either.
I don't see a problem here. r receives a copy of a, not a reference to anything.

Or have I suddenly gone blind by looking at C++ code one too many times? :)
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> I wish I know what Apple was thinking.

It's literally incomprehensible. Just make a really good fast desktop computer. They're one of the largest companies in the world now with essentially unlimited financial resources, and decades of core competency in making high end desktop computers. So like why don't they just fucking do it.
Is yarn that big? I'm really curious as to why you think it should be 'required'.
If you've ever used Mirth[1] then you've used E4X, for better or worse (usually the latter). It's still used very heavily inside of the transformers, even though Mozilla deprecated it years ago.

[1] https://www.mirth.com/
I see in the article:

"Taxpayers are paying $5,249 per bike"

However another bike share program referenced in the article NYC "Citibike" is subsidized by Citibank, and bikes are painted in citibank livery. I would be curious to know what the difference is price per bike is with a corporate subsidy.

That being said I personally find the idea of riding around on an advertisement for Citibank agreeable. Is the NYC bike share program an anomaly then in terms of it's model? Many European bike shares also seem to be closer to the non-corporate subsidized model as well.
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>Yes, are technologists so effete that they can't handle a 5lb laptop anymore?

Apparently they are. Just read this effete technologist's comment:

I’m personally just hoping that I’m ahead of the curve in my strict requirement
for “small and silent”. (...) I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing
in the room – by far – should be the occasional purring of the cat. And when I
travel, I want to travel light. A notebook that weighs more than a kilo is
simply not a good thing (yeah, I’m using the smaller 11″ macbook air, and I
think weight could still be improved on, but at least it’s very close to the
magical 1kg limit). -- Linus Torvalds
Why not modify the CSS syntax? For example, what now is

src: url("path/my.otf") format("opentype");

can become

src: url("path/my.otf") format("opentype");
src: url-hash("path/my.otf", "md5:86fb269d190d2c85f6e0468ceca42a20") format("opentype");

This way, due to the double declaration, older browsers can opt to download the file as usual while a modern browser detects the hash and can look up the file from its cache. Note I chose md5 here as an example, it may very well be possible to use any hashing scheme here.
This article is statistics-based propaganda, designed to promote the message that SF's bikeshare system is failing and that Spin is the remedy. The evidence presidented ranges from irrelevant to outright lies.

Take, for example, the density statistics presented on DC. The numbers used, 440 stations, 3700 bikes, 680000 residents, and 68 square miles are facially accurate. But the resident and size figures are of DC itself, ignoring the fact that only 239 of those stations are actually in DC - the rest are in Maryland or Virginia [1].

Looking at the station maps, it's easy to see what's going on. SF's program is much less developed than many of the others mentioned [2][3][4][5]. This is fine. It takes a lot of time and money to put all those stations in place. That doesn't mean the program is a failure.

Bikeshare programs, like all transmit programs, have a major network effect - you need a station both near the start and end of your journey. As SF adds stations in more residential neighborhoods, you'll see the ridership statistics climb. In its current state, there's nothing bad or surprising about any of the numbers presented.

Spin is trying to divert interest in SF bikeshare programs to its model before the current program becomes too successful and entrenched. Don't let it distract from the fact that we're off to a great start.

Oh, and I can't believe they have the gall to say SF is a great biking city.

[1] https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/press-kit
[2] https://member.bayareabikeshare.com/stations
[3] https://secure.capitalbikeshare.com/map/
[4] https://member.citibikenyc.com/map/
[5] https://member.divvybikes.com/stations
Unregistered, short domains, for web services in a market as popular ones:
Glad to see that you have acknowledged the problem. I am sure you will fix them :)
Definitely does not brick the machine.

Just that you restart and graphics are weird or audio is having issues, so you have to figure out how to resolve those issues.

By waiting a few days and seeing what issues you may encounter in advance, it's easier to avoid issues.

(That being said, issues from updates has never actually happened to me)
I didn't submit the link
It was 5 months ago; perhaps things happened to change since then. :)
I believe hackintoshes are unable to boot from NVMe drives at the moment (this may have changed)
That's my go-to reference when looking for new routes. We can really think of its reliability as a signal-to-noise ratio: inexperienced road cyclists might cause the map to show significant traffic on bad roads while experienced cyclists choose good roads. There are presumably fewer cyclists entering the realm of road cycling than there are experienced road cyclists. The new road cyclists are likely aware of the dangers of the sport, so in most cases, they probably seek resources for planning rides (e.g., cycling groups).

That brings up another point: Group rides will generally use good roads, and there will be multiple cyclists simultaneously contributing to the same route on the heat map. The boldest paths on the heat map may then very possibly be routes ridden by group rides, suggesting they're very safe.
Oooh, making it a standardized postgres extension (rather than its own compiled fork) is suuuuper-compelling. I've toyed with pipelinedb here and there, but the mental overhead of maintaining it separately from postgres is a little heavy. Even if the benefit is largely psychological, I think this is a great move.
If you want to verify some of these claims, the data is already loaded in BigQuery and ready to be analyzed:

- https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/bay-bike-share

Btw, I was surprised to see ridership go down in 2016 compared to 2015. Wondering why here
Really excellent video.

The material is good but also the guy shows an amazing teaching technique .

I wish commercial tutorials producers would put such care to their courses.
Problem is, Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now. I'm currently hackintoshing, but with every "dumb it down" decision (like remove the battery life time estimation), hardware mishap (LG monitors not working near wifi, come on) or new hardware announcement that still doesn't serve my demographic i wonder if i shouldn't just switch back to Linux.

I used to say that their laptops are fine, and it's only the desktop where i need to hackintosh, but ... touch typing hostile emoji keyboard?
Isn't SF's system becoming Ford-sponsored? Will the bikes soon be painted in Ford livery?
I use Hubway very often in Boston and must say the system works very well. Three reasons I think it works very well here:

> They have stops everywhere. Near every major T station, near grocery stores, etc. You can always go, park, take another again and ride back.

> Since its so cold out half of the year, I can't leave my bike outside and need to carry it down an elevator from home, through 4 doors and, an elevator at work and back every time. Hubway is low maintenance.

> Hubway has partnerships with most universities and major businesses here. As a student at MIT, you get Hubway yearly at $25 which is a steal. I have a flat tire on my bike, started using Hubway and not looked back.

I think its just an awareness/implementation issue. Once people start using it, I am sure the numbers will look better. Edit: The bike itself costs < $1000. The station itself might be expensive which explains the price.
Thanks ! I'm glad you liked it. I think might be some sort of artifact of the asciinema rendering the screencast. I don't see that in the terminal.
I'm pretty sure the author was trying to use the Solarized color scheme: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
I generally dislike stations (since they're never plentiful and rarely conveniently placed). But I think they're a good idea in high-traffic locations - e.g., next to Caltrain stations. They tamp down on the chaos of bikes piled up by the careless.

For a bike share program to be useful to me, it needs to do a few things:

1) The bike must be within a 3-minute walk of where I am right now.

2) I must be able to ditch the bike within a 3-minute walk of where I want to be.

3) The bike must actually be where I'm told it is. Or they must be so ubiquitous that I could trip over them if I'm not looking.

4) The bike must be in good working order and be obviously faster and more efficient than walking. For the Google campus bikes, for example, this is a problem. Most of them are slightly broken most of the time, such that it's usually faster to just run.

5) Be cost-and-time competitive against rideshare, personal bike ownership, mass-transit, and running shoes.

I wish you the best of luck - I think there's a lot of room for human-powered transportation to be super awesome in an area with such benign weather.
> "the disadvantages of noise and distraction associated with open office plans outweighed anticipated, but still unproven, benefits " [0]

I'd say that the CFOs of the world are a bit selectively biased when it comes to analysis of employee satisfaction and productivity of open office vs. private space offices.

Other studies discussed on HN have pointed to the importance of a space you can personalize as well, so even shared private spaces may not be optimal. [1]

Prime office space in SV (Palo Alto) is currently going for $100/sq ft per year [2]. So an 8'x10' private space would cost $8,000/yr. at premium rates.

If a company is paying $200,000 for a fully burdened engineer, as many do in SV, it seems a relatively small investment (4% of cost to employ said engineers) to offer them private offices as an option. Other functional positions pay nearly as well, so really, at least giving the employees the option of private vs. open office should be considered.

Outside of Palo Alto, it would probably make even more financial sense.

[0] Previously discussed at some length: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13373526

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668762

[2] http://www.cityfeet.com/cont/ca/palo-alto-office-space#
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I've written an in depth blog post on "generic jsx", which turns JSX into function bind/currying syntax that would work fine in any framework (or not framework at all, as we currently use it).

http://tolmasky.com/2016/03/24/generalizing-jsx/

We use this generic-jsx in DemoKit: https://github.com/runkitdev/demokit , and it's really cool because you can do fancy stuff like:

// Curry your JSX tags!
const wordmark = <span style = "font-face:custom; font-weight:bold" />;

.... <wordmark>hello</wordmark>
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>"Could it be, most people who bike in the city already own a bike or need something better to handle the hills?"

Don't they post the "Wiggle" routes?

>""Tax payers are paying $5k/bike that no one is using!", which surprises me that it has made on HN"

I'm not following, why does this surprise you?
Macintosh is 6-7% of worldwide PC units. At an average sales price of $1200 a unit vs. average Windows PC at $500 a unit, Apple has at least 15% of world wide PC revenues. At 15-20% net margins vs. Windows PC makers average 2-3% margins, Apple's Mac profits are as much as, if not more, than all the Windows PC makers combined.

Over $20B in annual revenues with at least $3B in net profits, that's a hellofa niche. So the question is, why is Apple not updating/refreshing Mac lineups more often, and why don't they have a decent pro model?
"RESULTS
At 48 weeks, the least-squares mean percentage reduction in LDL cholesterol levels with evolocumab, as compared with placebo, was 59% [...]"
Jamie Dimon was going to get involved because the buyer of the shares was Highbridge Capital, a hedge fund owned by JPM.
No. It's called Windows Home and Windows Professional.
No, but the question is what would the syntax actually do? Would it be an extension/wrapper around document.createElement? Could you have custom parsers? What would it mean for React?
Deep Learning Networks on High Performance, Neuromorphic, and Quantum Computers
Get your feet wet:

* http://cs231n.stanford.edu/ (the course notes are excellent)

* http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

* http://www.deeplearningbook.org/

Use Tensorflow to train a few small neural nets. Move on to CNNs and RNNs. Make sure you actually do this. By this point you'll have read a lot, and retain none of it if you don't put it to use. Look at reinforcement learning. Use the book by Sutton and Barto, the new edition: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book-2nd.htm... Read the first 4-5 chapters, then go online and read about Deep Q learning, policy gradients, DDPG, etc. Then try to solve some problems on OpenAI Gym.

Once you have an idea of the kinds of problems you can solve, and have a couple you're interested in, go back and learn the foundational math, and start reading research papers.

In general, start with modern books that mention deep learning. With older books or high-level-overview books, you'll get frustrated when you see something cool on /r/machinelearning and can't find any mention of it in the book.
I have written something similar before here: https://github.com/FreeFull/termimage . My program though is just a simple toy, since it doesn't even consider the size on the terminal, and doesn't play animated gifs. On the other hand, the source code for my image viewer almost completely fits on my screen (if you ignore its use of libraries for terminal handling and image reading).
Thank you for taking the time to post the basis of your belief.

The problem with your argument is twofold. First it's anecdotal, not a statistically significant sample with a control group. Second, it's temporally insignificant, therefore does not account for those periods of most significance - years 5+.

I hope you personally do well over the next few years but, based on observations conforming to principles we understand to constitute reliable evidence, such would be an exceedingly rare exception.
And they clearly make substantial profits on the Mac line, so again why don't they just fucking do it?
>"I pay 1 EUR/30 minutes, capped at 9 EUR for a whole day."

Wow, thats comparatively a good deal. What city is this? Are the bikes advertising subsidized?
It's been one of my best investments (I live in SF, and work and live close to stations).

I have my own bike which I use daily, but whenever I need a quick trip covered by the stations, it's the best. Also if for any reason I leave my bike in the office overnight, I can still bike back the next day.

Overall I've saved a lot of money compared to Uber trips, and my bike doesn't get stolen when I go to places I don't want to leave it on the street.
That's true, but selling marginally different "models" or "editions" of the same thing, in the hope that people will self-select according to their budget, is called market segmentation and is ubiquitous across many different industries.

It's not discriminatory, because you allow any customer to buy any product they wish.
Epic’s Tim Sweeney Confirms Robo Recall’s Funding
Are you saying that legislation to make sure people with disabilities or low incomes still have access to services when all the alternatives are shut down is a bad thing?
People downvoting this are missing a huge point.

Sure, 9$ is a much better price than what other products are sold for, and you and I might find 9$ perfectly reasonable. That doesn't mean Joe Schmoe who's between jobs and is milking the dregs of his savings has 9$ to drop.

It sure as heck doesn't mean that if Joe needs to use A, B, and C, and they're 9$ apiece that he can still afford to pay for all of them.
I can see why you'd wanna go to something like DO/Linode for that. It's a relatively fixed cost up front.

This is all anecdotal but at work we recently switched from marketing sites/blogs on internal infrastructure to farming them out to DO. The biggest concern with the person who manages our fleet is the security implications of handling multiple machines outside our network. In just a very minimal amount of Google fu I found a plethora of management services that do the work you're talking about on your VPS infrastructure. Some specialize in just DO but a large number are relatively cloud agnostic.

We have also just recently invested in using Laravel Forge for provisioning and it's relatively trivial to write a script that will run 'sudo apt-get update' but proper security usually requires a bit more than that. Package upgrades to major versions can sometimes cause quite a bit of havok. Having a service or team of individuals that can keep this brain power to handle your case properly is often more than worth the price to someone like me. Finding the right one is its own chore but from my limited search there's quite a lot out there to cover just how hands off you want to be.
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