skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears the basic reason for a taxi medallion system is to regulate the industry and control supply to prevent a flood of random drivers being unleashed on an unsuspecting populous.

I'm fine with regulations to enforce safety. I'm not fine with the "control supply" aspect. Medallions shouldn't be rationed any more than driver's licenses in general; just require people to pass standard tests and documentation requirements to get a medallion. It's unfortunate that medallion systems seem to fuse a justification that clearly serves the public interest with one that serves the public to a much lesser degree, or even not at all.
Yeah but don't those medallion prices tank now, so anyone who got one recently doesn't have that overhead? Obviously those who bought into the pyramid ponzi scheme at the wrong point will go under. The use of medallions where it still exists needs to die - but what better time than when prices reach bottom?
I am also in favor of this--being able to fall well has helped me a lot in some winters!
The upcoming battery friendly ARM based windows PC will support x86 emulation 32-bit apps in near native speed. Not sure if it will support x64 now or in the future and perhaps someone can comment if this is a technical limitation or an economical or both.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14518290
Using UUID for external means you've just forced all the problems with UUIDs on your users.

I'm dealing with that from several vendors atm.
the ones who own the technology
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Stripe is waiting on Coinbase and I don't think Coinbase cares enough to speed it up. I sort of regret posting this now, I didn't expect it to get more than a few views.
"Another thing we learned through A/B testing was that changing the default screenshot and the default demo of a theme, along with employing a good copywriter, makes a big difference."

Yup. This is part of why I get aggravated that people are so negative about paying writers. Good copy makes money for a business.
Unsafe for what? Almost all of the fall forces should be dissipated by a dynamic rope, not the harness.
You can fly a plane into a restricted airspace and get off without criminal charges. It's completely unreasonable to expect a multi-decade sentence for something like this.

I also dislike drones around people (I'm a climber, and have had a drone fly by me while navigating rock 300' off the ground), but come on.
The kind of people who benefit most from being able to buy cheap clothes made in sweatshops is not Silicon Valley professionals, it's poor people.

Get rid of the unsafe factories and poor people won't be able to afford clothes anymore. And the workers of those unsafe factories won't be able to afford anything.

There is no easy answer.
Would they need to pass red tape to have their customers hail with an app rather than call a dispatcher? Sounds like the medallion system isn't the only thing wrong here.
What about a stochastic optimization techniques like this one described here?

http://www.human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/deb-myb...

The paper describes a real parameter function optimization problem, but the Gosplan was I think more of a combinatorial one. According to the author, the method described there can also be parallelized.
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Galileo's wasn't held back by religious intervention against science.

Even debates about heliocentrism weren't interfering with math.
Yea.. 4 years ago Reddit was much more like HN in this regard. It is a shame how bad it has become
There is Harvey OS, it's a direct descendant of Plan9 and they accept donations.

https://github.com/Harvey-OS/harvey

The development seems active, the last commit was made 7 hours ago.

Last time I checked the project was still in its early stages. Docs and stability have improved a lot since then.

Sidenote: I think 9P protocol and plan9 userland like ACME editor is available on linux.
> I don't think Windows 10 supports any of the 32 bit only processors.

I have Windows 10 32-bit edition running on a Fit-PC2 with an Intel Atom Z530. I believe this is a 32-bit-only processor.

I can't say it runs well with only 1GB on this old box - I'll probably put Linux on it instead - but Windows 10 definitely boots up and runs.

http://imgur.com/a/J9fGh (screenshot)

http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/fit-pc2/fit-pc2-2i-specif...

http://ark.intel.com/products/35463

(edited to include information about this 32-bit system)
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When my sister started grad school at Harvard she bought a brand new 64-bit Dell laptop from the school store that came preinstalled with 32-bit Windows. I was amazed.

I wiped the computer and installed a 64-bit OS, but there are definitely people out there selling 64-bit PCs running 32-bit Windows out of cluelessness.
Windows 10 requires at least a 1 GHz processor. Every Pentium 4 released (most all of which were 32-bit only) had a clock speed of at least 1.3 GHz, so ALL of those meet the requirements. The pleasantness of using such a system is a different story.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/windows-10-specifica...
Well, pure DI also has practical downsides. E.g. anything that wants to log something has to be able to access the logging configuration — so it needs to be passed into everything.
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If you're trying to suggest that autonomous cars aren't a field with the potential to make a lot of money, you're in a very small minority.
Yea but none of that happened. A week in jail is sufficient.
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The first thing I thought of was McDowells in Coming to America even though they weren't reselling McDonald's food and then it turns out that the guy behind Pirate Joes is (was) planning to open a "Big M" fast food restaurant.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pirate-joe-s-...
Great selling point. bad business model. every time my kid breaks another cable you're going to keep replacing it. I started buying them 10 at a time from china just so I'd stop spending $10 every month on the same cable.
It creates a voltage gradient radiating out from the contact point. A gradient of more than 15VAC/m is generally bad news. The resistance can be enough to prevent automatic circuit protections from tripping as well if there's not a high current, such as dry high-resistance soil.
> I own a Windows 10 tablet with 1GiB RAM, for example.

I own a Dell Venue 8 (3845) and the reason it's running Windows 10 32-bit instead of 64-bit is because Intel inexplicably decided to ship 32-bit UEFI on Bay Trail instead of 64-bit UEFI. As far as I know, all Bay Trail devices are running a 32-bit copy of Windows because of this.

For Linux this isn't a problem, you can have grub x86 load an x86_64 kernel, but Windows doesn't have something similar. So 32-bit bootloader forces you to have a 32-bit OS.

So, thank Intel. I'm sure Microsoft and OEMs would have put x64 Windows on it if they could have.
> all pre-Treble devices are still doomed

The only devices that are doomed are those that:

A. have no reasonable support for third party firmware
B. have no user base or community to maintain security

The Galaxy S series since the S3, for example, is unlikely to ever stop getting some degree of support from community ROMs. Of course, those community developments don't have the resources of the OEM - they can't fix the proprietary parts that break, and security hinges on the willingness of volunteers to merge patches, which they don't always do.

I don't think its that black and white, though. Plenty of "supported" devices get updates and ignore security vulnerabilities. Companies can and will stop updating arbitrarily, and you have no way to know who is actually looking for vulnerabilities to fix. All you get is a set of known exploits elsewhere and the means you can test them yourself on your own devices, or someone else did and you already know unpatched vulnerabilities on your end.
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> A naive use of a UUID, which might look like 70E2E8DE-500E-4630-B3CB-166131D35C21, would be to treat as a string, e.g. varchar(36) — don’t do that!!
“Oh, pshaw”, you say, “no one would ever do such a thing.”

> Think twice — in two cases of very large databases I have inherited at relatively large companies, this was exactly the implementation. Aside from the 9x cost in size, strings don’t sort as fast as numbers because they rely on collation rules.

Eh, I've done that before because it made some interaction with Entity Framework easier (don't recall what now). Hasn't really mattered. The space for storing GUIDs has never been a meaningful constraint for anything I've ever worked on (9x is also nuts and assumes that your database uses 4 bytes per character). Sorting UUIDs is also generally uninteresting since they aren't meaningful by themselves. Maybe if you're doing lots of joins you might care about this.
If not it should be very close. It's pre-1995 (priority date 1985, Filing 1988, Publication 1990) [1], so it'd be the longer of 20 years from filing date or 17 from date of issue as the basic time. However, there are compensatory adjustments for certain delays in issuance that could apply, Intel could possibly have submarined it to some extent (pre-WTO Uruguay Round), and #5,321,836 looks related [2]. I vaguely remember there have been issues with uneven expiration around the world for some older stuff too. So I have no idea exactly all that would add up, it'd be neat if the FSF or EFF or someone had done some calculations on it. Still, it's definitely an interesting question, we should relatively soon be approaching the point where, even taking into account 1990s IP extension shenanigans, all patents to tech from that era will expire, and expiration will become a lot more regular once the WTO-normalized ones are all that's left. There was a pretty rapid curve of basic developments in the 90s and early 00s, and as all that becomes available over the next decade there might be some interesting new possibilities in development.

1. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=H...

2. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=H...
I've never been furious about Taxis before I heard of the medallion system in Chicago and New York.. Sounds like something the mob would cook up together with crooked politicians as an alternative source of revenue.
Agreed. I understand some level of discretion will be applied, but a blanket statement like this, without detail or examples is not helpful.
Hit a few dive bars. Seriously. Old SF colliding with new SF.
We've also published some other workshops for Docker and Kubernetes that we take customers through when onboarding (if needed): https://github.com/gravitational/workshop

Feel free to take them for a spin and feedback welcome and appreciated.
>in Sparta they did it by shouting (loudest won — which the Athenians thought very weird)

I don't know why the Athenians thought this to be weird, I guess they had their reasons. But I can think of one benefit of the Spartanian way.

If you raise hands, you can quickly change when you see what others are doing. When you shout, you have to inhale as much as you can to shout as loud as you can. You first have to make up your mind, before you can hear others.
This is crazy talk. Yes Microsoft momentarily offered a browser plugin called Silverlight and it happened to use some WPF stuff but don't believe for a moment that this somehow means they wanted to make XAML the better HTML or have any sort of adoption beyond the Windows ecosystem. It was pretty much just a somewhat enhanced language for describing a scene graph because nobody wanted the code generation of the Forms days.

They strictly kept any sort of code or logic out of XAML, annoyingly so to the point where you are writing converter classes to negate an expression. Compare that with the mishmash that is React.
You can fly them around people, you're just not supposed to fly them over people [1]. However, if you're flying commercially, you can get a wavier for this.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/
How am I supposed to sit quietly when my neighbor has a bigger room?
This article is so poorly written it's hard to take it serious. The entire paragraph about the size of a UUID takes reading it three or four times before you can actually understand what the author means...

In what context would a primary key change, even when sharding? In my entire career I have yet to see it. Also any sane person would never sort random values. If you need sorting in your table, provide some kind of indexed timestamp.
> VC subsidized fares

Although the conveniences granted by rideshare apps are a big deal, I think this is a huge component. At this point, in a busy(er) city, ridesharing is still very competitive, and prices are subsidized-low.

Living in Austin, right before the city vote to require fingerprinting drivers, which Uber was heavily lobbying against, I could get an uberpool basically anywhere within the city for between $1 and $3.

I'm just hoping that once companies start to raise prices more VCs come swooping in, kind of like still happens with growing websites. As a consumer, the cost of switching is very low.
Python has had closures for a long time, which make great ad-hoc factories that can capture state from upstream functions without making state visible along the way.
Its a little different here. He was clearly being exceedingly reckless, and power outages cost lives all the time.

Jail is probably excessive, a very hefty fine and a ban from flying drones again seems more appropriate to me.
There seems to be some big downsides to intermingling side effects in action creators vs immutable state changes in reducers. Reducer logic would then require complex mocks. Reasoning about side effects and immutable state changes separately feels natural to me. Would love to hear how putting the side effects in the same functions used for immutable state changes makes code _less_ tangled.
Within 121 meters? Which law is this?
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I'm legitimately being honest and not condescending but in that case you sue everyone. Trader Joes, Pirate Joes, the owner of Pirate Joes, etc. It's how lawsuits work.
At a bare minimum you'd expect it to be something like utf-8bmp for 3-byte storage and utf-8 for 4-byte.
I could be wrong a lot of people may lose receipt and/or stopping trying to get it replaced after the 2 or 3 one.
Believe me or not our editor (more than a copywriter) earns a bigger salary than me, but yep, only in this way I can get nicely edited articles on the front-page of HN :D
Short question: What were the downsides to use Plan9 or Inferno as the fundament of a distro insted of Linux? Of course with Linux programms where it would be necessary.
I probably won't ever take a taxi again, but have some sympathy for the cab drivers who put their life savings in medallions. The city effectively promised them the exclusive right to give taxi rides, but didn't do anything about a non-medallion entity doing that same thing. They put hundreds of thousands of dollars into something meaningless.
The existence of a 32-bit Windows 10 is not in question. 64-bit x86 CPUs will happily run a 32-bit OS.
We'll see what you think of the cab industry when uber raises their prices by 3 times in order to become profitable, after the cabbies all gone.
I think I didn't make it clear in the blog post, Stripe has been responding consistently (they replied the day I e-mailed them and then followed up a couple days later) and they have been pretty helpful (in the follow-up, they said they escalated the issue with their partners, presumably Coinbase). I'm just frustrated it takes so long to get to the root of the issue, and also partially concerned because from my side it didn't sound like either company was actively looking into a permanent solution for this problem (i.e., Coinbase user making overpayment when paying via Stripe).
The can most certainly afford clothing, if not make their own. What they can't afford is fashion
I'm also very curious, but from what I've heard, Pepper's manipulations capabilities are lacking.

The challenges for Pepper focus more on Human-Robot interaction, which it is made for of course.

The Open Platform robots and HSRs have to do tasks like store groceries and set+clean a table, which require much more manipulation skills
Except the Windows world shows it isn't a technical hurdle either. Microsoft makes their OS, OEMs buy copies of it, and stuff bloatware and crap and change stuff all the same as Android vendors before selling it to consumers.

But then, despite modifications, Microsoft updates their stuff, including the kernel.

It doesn't actually even take hardware vendors being ethical and making open source mainline kernel drivers for their parts. They could just be shipping DKMS kernel modules instead of baking their trash into fixed kernel releases. But they simply do not, because they don't care.
A little bit off-topic, but stories like this lead me to wonder why mandated ignition locks are not more prevalent.
No, you sue everyone. Everyone who has been involved. Truck driver almost killed Tracy Morgan. Did he sue the trucker? No he sued walmart.
"UUIDs do not reveal information about your data" - this is false statement; in sensitive environments you need to be aware that some UUID versions can leak MAC addresses, timestamps, hashes of your data etc. - sometimes just enough to abuse this information.
I can confirm, chip takes what feels like forever. You put it in and wait for probably 30 seconds until the machine starts making annoying sounds for you to remove the card.

With a swipe, half the time when I'm done sliding my card through it's already prompting me for my pin. This time difference occurs at self checkouts so I know it has nothing to do with a cashier.

Eventually I figured out using NFC is significantly faster but not everyone has them :(
It is real, it has been used by attackers in real life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
You can still guess the growth over a period of time.
For one, it makes legacy x86 support in the upcoming ARM64 Windows SKU that much simpler and lighter weight, since there's less stuff to support (and a smaller address space to virtualize). Since every bit of software, in practice, already has to be 32 and 64-bit, MS can focus on 32-bit x86 emu alone for compat, and let vendors ship ARM64 binaries if required.
If I lived in Vancouver I would have an irresistible urge to start a Swashbuckler Joe's right now. If only for the mischief of it.
Right. I guess I replaced mine from that revision before it became an issue.
I agree 100%.
I do wonder if the Dis VM is a close enough match for Go as a target.
Or perhaps we could start with a simple Go to Limbo translation transpiler.
Want to see if it's possible?
Amazon is the next iteration of Walmart
Interestingly enough, almost all transmission lines in San Francisco are underground; almost all of what you see overhead are either telephone/cable, or overhead wires for powering MUNI, our municipal light rail.
In the one incident I'm aware of an operator crashed his drone at the Seattle Pride Parade, striking a woman in the head. He received a $500 fine and a 30 day jail sentence. The city attorney was aiming for 90 days of jail time.
There were Intel Atom CPUs released as late as 2011 without 64-bit support. I'm sure there are other examples too.
Yes, I'd say the most obvious tell was the strict quantization. If they can transfer some of the timing information it might be more convincing.
Given that the article above is talking about the 32-bit version of Windows 10, I think 'likelynew is aware of that.

You misunderstood the question, which is: will the 32-bit version of Windows 10 even run on a CPU that predates x64? (The answer seems to be yes - according to Microsoft's list of requirements, it should run, say, on a Pentium 4).
I live in not-very-rural PA (45 mins north of Philly) and all the cards and most readers have chips but nobody takes pins, I still have to sign everything.
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They're underground in many US cities, too, including San Francisco.
(1) They most certainly are slowed down. Mail services have limited bandwidth (e.g. Christmas), and higher priority package can and do displace low priority ones.

(2) Usually ISPs don't have a monopoly.
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I feel like I had a quality business consultancy session worth top dollars after reading this. Thanks for the inspiration, and by the way, I love the Hestia WordPress theme.
It's not just the Bay Area. The restrictions and FAA guidelines are written in a way that prohibits almost all recreational flying in urban areas. I don't think I've seen a single widely-shared drone video that wasn't afoul of the law.
I used to bootstrap a lot of VMs in development using shell scripts [1]. At a certain point Bash scripts become unmanageable. Ansible, Chef, Puppet have stricter syntax, battle-tested modules, large communities, proper multi-OS support, etc. Investing time to learn any of those tools certainly pays off in the long run.

Bash is great for a quick setup or a one-off instance. However it requires discipline for anything more. You are also dealing with the underlying OS yourself (e.g., Nginx is packaged and configured differently in Ubuntu, Debian, Cent OS & Arch; networking is configured differently in Ubuntu depending on whether systemd is installed, etc.).

[1] https://github.com/StanAngeloff/vagrant-shell-scripts
Well for a start, ten nines is a lot, isn't it?

If this service is up for five years, then it can go down for 15ms and still claim all ten over that period. Which is almost nothing still, but if you needed ten to begin with then maybe it's quite a lot for you.

All I'm saying is - and I think this is what the commenter originally twice above me meant - is that the rate doesn't give you all the information, you at least need a period as well.
My figures are per Kb.
Exactly. That small number of 32-bit Windows-running Backblaze customers might very well have legacy 16-bit applications that they need to continue to support. It's remarkable that the author of this post completely missed that point, and in fact goes on and on about how you lose nothing by running 64-bit Windows.
Cool! I've got an urge to go out and take some photos, run them through this and create a retro adventure game.

Do you think it would be possible to do the image conversion in Javascript so it does not need to be uploaded to the server?
I’m a consultant myself (UX research and strategy), and I like several of the points in this article - for example, why churn rates are higher for people who want one objective versus another. This is definitely an important distinction. Not all users are the same.

Offering users the features and benefits they’re looking for is kind of tricky. In enterprise settings, the users are more likely to know what they need. When they’re right, they just need their idea designed and built. Where it gets difficult is when they ask for a fix of a symptom, but the root cause is what really needs fixing. For instance, people might ask for a surface-level improvement on a step of registration or onboarding that shouldn’t even be there because it doesn’t give them any value (like confirming an email address or even asking for signup for a product they’ve never tried). Or, two different users (who map to different personas) make requests that contradict each other.
I guess it's a lot cheaper to build square angles, then 'organic' shapes.

Just a guess, though.
But they weren't restricting selling to him (in fact, I am going to guess that the manager of the store he stocked up at was happy to see the artificial lift in sales). He didn't sue them for refusing to sell to him, they sued him for infringing (which he was quite boldly, but in a country they don't actually do business in, so it seems like a stretch).