skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called "the knowledge" and not only do they need to know 20,000 landmarks (things like The Royal Institution of British Architects building, which is not a very touristy landmark at all) they also need to know 20,000 streets and the best route between them. On their test they have to describe a route across London between 2 landmarks and name every road, roundabout, where they should be in the road when there are multiple lanes, one way restrictions and it has to be perfect. It's an incredibly difficult test to pass.
I'd be curious to know any examples that really bring the same benefits (usability and features mostly, less about the price), I was looking for them, and couldn't find any (e.g. in London at the moment). Otherwise it's just hand waving argument...
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I find it amusing how their argument is similar to the MS' antitrust argument in 90s.

Microsoft: "An OS should include everything. Third party apps aren't needed. It's only good for consumers."

Google: "A search engine should include everything. Third party websites aren't needed. It's only good for consumers."
Not just the hardest taxi test, it's arguably the hardest test of any kind:

> If anything, this description understates the case. The six-mile radius from Charing Cross, the putative center-point of London marked by an equestrian statue of King Charles I, takes in some 25,000 streets. London cabbies need to know all of those streets, and how to drive them — the direction they run, which are one-way, which are dead ends, where to enter and exit traffic circles, and so on. But cabbies also need to know everything on the streets. Examiners may ask a would-be cabbie to identify the location of any restaurant in London. Any pub, any shop, any landmark, no matter how small or obscure — all are fair game. Test-takers have been asked to name the whereabouts of flower stands, of laundromats, of commemorative plaques. One taxi driver told me that he was asked the location of a statue, just a foot tall, depicting two mice sharing a piece of cheese. It’s on the facade of a building in Philpot Lane, on the corner of Eastcheap, not far from London Bridge.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-te...
It sounds like your town may just not have enough pedestrians for there to be a visible benefit from the change.

Scramble crossings only have the most effect where at peak hours there WILL be people pushing the crosswalk button in both directions every time as soon as the previous batch stops, so that having crossings for both directions combined means less overall interruptions for drivers and less double-crossings for pedestrians.
In the US perhaps, the medallion system there almost guarantees that new entrants are priced out of the market.
Use a normal camera and post-process. Use Imagemagick[1]

Like so: http://imgur.com/a/YpHzZ

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/
I have exactly zero interest in a cloud based IDE. If I'm writing code for clients, and I want it accessable remotely, I'm darn well going to host it on servers I control.
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My thoughts:

>The basic summary of the proposal, known as Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC), is as follows. From the moment a car turns on and every tenth of a second until it shuts off, it will broadcast a so-called “basic safety message” (BSM) to within a minimum distance of 300m. The message will include position (with accuracy of 1.5m), speed, heading, acceleration, yaw rate, path history for the past 300m, predicted path curvature, steering wheel angle, car length and width rounded to 20cm precision, and a few other indicators. Each message will also include a temporary vehicle id (randomly generated and changed every five minutes), to enable receivers to tell whether they are hearing from the same car or from different cars.

Ok this could be useful, especially with autonomous vehicles hitting the road.

>Under the proposal, each message will be digitally signed. Each car will be provisioned with 20 certificates (and corresponding secret keys) per week, and will cycle through these certificates during the week, using each one for five minutes at a time. Certificates will be revocable; revocation is meant to guard against incorrect (malicious or erroneous) information in the broadcast messages, though there is no concrete proposal for how to detect such incorrect information.

Ugh, why do they need to be provisioned by a third party. Just let each car generate its own random ephemeral keypairs per some time interval and sign with those. You already said "Each message will also include a temporary vehicle id (randomly generated and changed every five minutes)", so what's the need for third party certificate provisioning.
Fake votes and comments get accounts and sites banned on HN, so please don't do that.
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anti-worker, anti-customer, anti-morals. Let Uber die by a thousand cuts.
Now I'm thinking of an old short story titled "The Giving Plague", by David Brin.

http://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/givingplague.html
Medallions are a US thing. In the EU generally it is driving and background checks that are required, not the payment of an arbitrary sum to some regulatory body.
I definitely do not advocate doing at. It's just that Mallory usually doesn't care about the law, so security should be based on something more.
> pedestrians always had right of way, and it was up to the turning car to wait for pedestrians to clear before completing the turn. Gave some 'see and avoidance' responsibility to the driver.

While this kind of crossing doesn't seem to make sense for a small town, my own experience of crossing the road with a valid crosslight in the US shows me just how much contempt there is for pedestrians there. In a three-month visit, there was twice I was crossing the road with valid lights and had to stop walking or I'd literally walk into the side of a car cutting me off while turning. There were a fair few lesser experiences, but those two were pretty clear-cut examples of pedestrian contempt.
In many parts of DC, intersections are no-turn-on-red. When I've driven around DC, unless I'm driving in the middle of the night, I prefer the no-turn-on-red because traffic is frequent with terrible sight lines.
Gotcha cheers! A while ago I saw a single mirror MEMS device, could be useful for something like this, I believe you could control the horizontal/vertical angle.
I was not aware of this. my other comments are not actually trolling, regardless of what you and others say. If you read them, someone pointed out my comments were valid arguments and civil.

I apologize for this last comment (not the ones from the other thread) because you are right, I have no evidence, and will accept my penalty.
I am inclined to agree with you, but most of EU countries had working alternatives to Uber, albeit more local, that DO follow the law.

It seems like the state of taxi services in the US somehow self regulated out competition?
Panopticlick is a best guess, only. If you use exactly the same system twice, it should detect that. However, browsers and systems autoupdate frequently, and various other things that are fingerprinted are also not really fixed.

For a single browser session; this should work. Over months, it's harder. A tracker would needs to at least be quite aggressive and collect a lot of information to track you, and then be fairly clever in fuzzily matching that in the future if they want to track you over time.

Which isn't to say that short-to-medium term tracking is just fine, but it's not black and white either.
The house's market value is the same as its market cap. It would still be $1m in both cases. How it was raised is irrelevant; you won't find a buyer for less or more than $1m if that is its market price.

GM and Tesla are both public market stocks. Regardless of how they raised previous capital, the market is valuing Tesla higher.
Surely most smartphones will have a phone number anyway, no? It doesn't have to be connected to you personally and it's a good way to keep illegitimate Signal registrations down.
We put a lot of emphasis on grades in high school. Makes sense - that's what colleges want. But in college, as the slides show, there are so many non-strictly-academic opportunities that a lot people miss out on because in their mind they're still in high school mode.
How do they find out if a users name is a real name? And if his age is correct?
Note there's all kinds of regulations affecting taxis in Europe: some have clamped down heavily, and others Uber operates totally above the law in.
As far as I know, Signal is open source.
Yeah it seems much simpler to me. I laughed when I read this in the article:

> While the pedestrian scramble may seem complicated at first…

Seems simpler than all the other options!
As a member of the tech/HN community it's very easy to take your position about laws benefiting the entrenched market incumbents, but you can't ignore tech has those very same lobbying/legal protections.

For example, take the New York market with the limited number of taxi medallions, prior to Uber there was stricter regulation and enforcement against individual drivers illegally operating rides for hire. Though when Uber comes along they facilitate these types of illegal ride for hire operations all over the country, even in many jurisdictions where Uber drivers are arrested for illegal operations Uber itself never has to answer for their roll they simply pay a lawyer of their choice to represent the drivers in these cases in order to protect Uber's interest not the driver.

Apply the same organization to any other illegal activity (drugs, prostitution, etc...) it becomes clear very quick Uber has been legally protected even though their driver continue(d) collecting fines and arrests.

And all these great US internet companies you speak of I'm pretty sure are global companies and have global headquarters in Europe (Ireland) specifically in order to avoid pay US taxes, but again are protected by laws designed to protect their entrenched interests.
In 90s, law was totally unprepared to handle this kind of issues or anything related to data or internet. And Slovak court system is very slow and avoids dealing with many known corruption cases, even today.
I am certainly excluding Libor (which would be very strange to include) and I'm definitely not excluding food and fuel from the CPI.

Airline Fares
Cable Television
Household Fuels
Leased Cars
Lodging Away from Home
Medical Care
Motor Fuels
Motor Vehicle Insurance
New Vehicles
Personal Computers and Peripheral Equipment
Rent and Rental Equivalence
Telephone Services
Tuition and Fees, College
Tuition and Fees, Elementary and High School
Used Cars and Trucks

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

Looking at Libor, it has never been in deflation in 30 years:

http://www.macrotrends.net/1433/historical-libor-rates-chart
The self-driving car detects a human at the edge of the intersection and hesitates briefly. If the human begins crossing, it waits for them to cross; if the human doesn't, the car proceeds cautiously through the intersection, ready to brake smoothly if the human suddenly steps out.
We actively preserve Irish, Italian, and Polish culture. We have parades for them. We have sections of cities dominated by them, with language-specific signage. How is this different from what Latinos and Middle-Eastern Muslims are asking for?

There is nothing in American anything like the segregation North African Muslim immigrants face in Europe, even in the densest Muslim communities. That's what "independence" looks like. What are we so afraid of here?
That isn't really pertinent to the discussion. Though I will note that respiratory problems, blood sugar issues and circulatory problems are all known to cause things like clubbing and are generally associated with negative impacts to the digits, both hands and feet. In fact, high blood sugar disturbingly often leads to such serious foot problems that foot amputation, in part or in whole, is a very real risk for someone with inadequately controlled blood sugar.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
It just depends on how the company deals with it. AirBnB for instance is working with regulators which cannot be said about Uber.
Unless you are secretly Ozzy Osbourne, something I always suspected, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ozzy-osbourne-gen...
Maybe drivers in your town are disciplined but drivers here can't adhere to a simple zipper merge.

I don't trust drivers turning right to yield to pedestrians. Many do but enough don't that I won't start walking until I can tell for sure. This slows down traffic.
I think the point of the slides (and college in general) is that you don't necessarily have to stress out yourself to be an all As student with a double major to get a good job. Instead, relax a bit more and build software.
For those hunting for those "jewelhead" stories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiomatic_(story_collection)
> I've been down one way streets multiple times in Uber's, I've been in multiple near-misses

What exactly is it about a taxi license that would affect that behavior? And shouldn't those regulations apply to _every_ driver?
Start with the fact that "white" doesn't mean what you think it does. It's only been in the last 100 years that Irish and Italians have been assimilated into "whiteness". "White" used to mean something narrow, and evolved, as the Irish, Italians, Polish, and Jews made common cause with the Germans and English and Scottish, to mean "not black or Latino".

In those terms, talking about the offsetting "whiteness" with Latinos takes on a more sinister meaning --- albeit one I'm sure most of us never consciously intend. What it really means is "why can't we just keep keeping disfavored ethnicities out?".
http://tech.eu/features/186/ignorance-is-remiss/

MySQL is another one not on that list but I guess thats because Oracle bought them over.
Would You Put a “Pregnancy Pause” on Your LinkedIn Profile?
Constructive Semantics of the Lambda Calculus (1994)
I would accept the accusation of defense of vigilantism, but I only highlighted the issue. I see it as a "Pot calls Kettle Black", but I do not advocate a response, other than that the courts handled it incorrectly.

I can have fault with both Google/Alphabet and Yelp. They each can have their own form of hypocrisy and potentially illegal behaviors. Me calling one out doesn't lessen the other's actions.
> much of the human race has no Denisovan or Neanderthal ancestry.

But most does. Any population originally of Asian or European descent has some Denisovan or Neanderthal DNA, or ~80 percent of the world's population.
I have been running happily for years without shoes or with only minimal footwear and initially transitioned to doing so because I suffered from pain in my ankles. Perhaps if you're a runner and your toenails cause problems, you might want to give it a try, too.
AFAIK there is no license called the "apache public license". There is the "Apache License, Version 2.0" and the older "Apache License, Version 1.1". I actually searched DDG for "APL license" and came up with something I'd never seen before called the "Adaptive Public License".
The USA has some of the same regulations, sure, but when it became clear that they were outdated, most cities got rid of them.

You can get an uber in any major city in the USA, now.

The best way to get rid of bad laws is to break them.
That is, however, a requirement for taxi drivers only (who can be hailed and pick up people off the street), but not for private hire drivers (who must be prebooked through a booking office). It is, perhaps, the most notable difference.

London has more stringent requirements for private hires than much of the UK (especially relating to pollution), but ultimately most of the requirements essentially relate to equipment (pollution standards for the car, fire extinguisher, first aid kit, etc.) which while they form a cost to entry are nothing compared with a multi-year effort to learn a large part of London, or the tens/hundreds of thousands that medallions cost in many places.
I have one of these crossings about 200m from my house. They are very common in the UK I think (I'm not in London). Seems to be the best way to do it as all pedestrian traffic is crossing at the same time so the overall delay for cars is less whilst offering pedestrians the safety and convenience of a variety of crossing options.
Why do you think this is a new thing? It's been planned since at least 1999.

Also, on the subject of Tesla/Google, you do know they already do collect the same information the article describes, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everything
They didn't google for 'reviews', they literally googled for 'yelp'
You do feel exposed when walking through an intersection. Usually you only look left or right for cars that are trying to hit you. In an intersection, you've got to look behind you. You need to do this when crossing and there is the potential for a right-turn car to come and get you too.

So I can understand people being unfamiliar with it, or in a light pedestrian area, being uncomfortable with it.
What benefits do you see to using POP3 over IMAP?
Well, I was really referring to private hires here, given Uber Britannia operate as a private hire company, and private hires don't have any such requirement anywhere in the UK.

Another difference taxis tend to have specific whitelisted vehicles (hence the iconic image of a black hackney cab), whereas private hires generally just need to meet some list of requirements (typically something along the lines of having at least four doors, seating at least four, etc.).
How much is 5% of Saudi Aramco based on DCF Model?
Not everywhere in Europe has limits on the number of taxi licenses.
I recommend getting a domain and running it with whichever service provider you want. Just make it your domain.
Doesn't Pike Place Market have a scramble crossing? I seem to remember one.
Pro-consumer.

Consumers overwhelming support ridesharing because of how cheap it is.

Also, if a consumer doesn't like these service, they are free to use any number of other transportation services.

That is what this fight is about. Letting consumers decide for themselves which services they prefer.
What about when they put a Chrome ad even if you are not searching for replacing your browser? So the main point with the EU antitrust is not about yelp but about Google putting it's own stuff on top , not about the ads.
It's not that I see a benefit to POP3; it's just that I've never seen a reason to switch. I download my email to a desktop client.
In the original blog post announcing the Gitlab acquisition (http://blog.gitter.im/2017/03/15/gitter-gitlab-acquisition/), there's mention of open sourcing the mobile apps -- "Next piece of wow: we will be open sourcing all of the Gitter. That’s right, the web application, the mobile apps, the whole nine yards, free and open."
You may want to disable taking the letter "a" (and some other ones like "is" etc).
FiDi == Financial District. Most of the streets are narrow as well, unlike say Market or any of the Soma streets.
The most famous example of an entire category of fallacious arguments about consciousness:

1) construct a hypothetical brain on an implausible substrate
2) note the implausibility of the substrate
3) therefore consciousness is magic QED

See also: "China brain"
Summary: most stuff is within 5-10% of Java. In performance sensitive code be careful of the spread operator and foreach on ranges which have higher costs.
Cleaning up reviews is actually not a Yelp feature. Paid or unpaid.
A 100GB bloom filter? What does that mean? How many hash functions.. how many bits?
I'm very much the opposite. My entire day is shifted forward a few hours so I'll generally wake around 5am, breakfast at 5.30. Lunch is around 11.30 and dinner at 5pm (latest 6). Bed around 8.

I hate sleeping during daylight hours so shift my day to make the most of it.
Your browser (FF and Chrome, at least) only has a single private session, regardless of whether you have multiple windows in private mode or not.
More accurately the sequence is red -> red & amber -> green -> amber -> red, so you can always tell which state is next.
Are any of the TCP congestion control algorithms dependent on a router's TCP receiving messages that are trusted by the router to be originating from upstream routers based on an authentication scheme that the router manufacturers trust to deliver anti-DDOS safety features?
It's not easy for the average consumer. Comcast offers free consumer Comcast.net email addresses, but their corporate emails are something like @corp.comcast.com.
If you really believe this, then why not let consumers decide for themselves which transportation services that they want to use?

If all these rules and regulations are so awesome, then consumers will overwhelming choose to buy from companies that follow them.

Thats how markets work.
> Mr. Stoppelman feels he has no choice. Like a lot of small internet companies, Yelp lives in a world where one company, Google, accounts for an outsize share of its business, and could destroy it at any time

The same basic thing could be said for most of Yelp's customers. Many would prefer that Yelp not exist or not index them but are forced to buy expensive plans with Yelp to have some measure of control over their public profile. It's basically a modern-day version of the protection rackets employed by organized crime. As much as I think Google has outsized power and does need to be reined in in certain circumstances, I have very little sympathy for Yelp being subjected to the same sort of undesirable influence from a larger, more powerful company that they exert on much smaller companies.
Shutting down streets to vehicular traffic is always an option. Doesn't get rid of the grid, but it can create new areas for pedestrians.