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> Hyatt would be on the hook for at least $13.3 million in taxes and penalties from 1991 and 1992. At past court appearances, the state has argued that Hyatt owes more than $55 million when interest is tacked on to those initial charges.

That's a pretty sweet interest rate they've given themselves. Wish I could get that from my bank.
>Where's the competition then?

I use Lyft in the bay area a couple of times a week and haven't noticed any gaps from when I used to use Uber.
If peace time has 5-6 hours of sleep on a good day as the bar, what are they going to do if an actual war breaks out? It sounds like there is no margin left for them to use and it would only take a few casualties to make the boat unable to operate
I am no fan of stormfront.org or any other racist organization, but this is not acceptable.

When a person registers a domain name, they become the owners of that domain name. It does not belong to the registrar they hired to procure it, and they are not "leasing" the name from the registrar. A lease would suggest that the registrar owned the domain name prior to registration, which is not the case. And if you extrapolate, it suggests that some entity owns all unclaimed domain names de-facto, which is also not the case.

When you purchase a domain name, that does not award the registrar the status of "Actual Owner" of that domain. They are providing a technical service, nothing more.

ICANN should probably get involved and punish Network Solutions for this action.

Network Solutions might be within their rights to choose to no longer 'host' the domain name themselves, but in that case they must be obligated to arrange for a transfer to a different registrar. What they are not allowed to do is simply steal the domain name from it's actual owner because they disagree with the content of the owner's website, thus preventing a transfer.

It is important that we do not allow corporations to steal control or property from the open internet by using these politically charged circumstances as their theater of operation.
The thing is, what do you gain by knowing that school X scores 13% lower on standardized tests than school Y? That school X is worse than school Y? How does that help you provide a better educational experience for the students?

My mom's been a teacher for ~40 years, and one thing to realize about standardized tests it that they don't provide any new information to the teachers---the teachers already know which students are struggling and which students aren't. In fact, standardized testing reduces teachers' ability to respond to variation in student ability, because all students need to be prepped for the same test. Preparing lesson plans is one of the most time-consuming aspects of being a teacher, and standardized tests make that task more difficult by adding more requirements. IMO, it would be better to focus on ways to reduce teachers' administrative burdens---perhaps by making it easier to collaborate and share lesson plans with other teachers[1].

[1] And I mean genuinely make it easier to collaborate, not forcing teachers to spend 90 minutes a day trying to enter their plans into the latest and greatest ed-tech website. If you want the information standardized, hire someone specifically to transcribe paper plans into whatever system the school administrators pick.
Why not?

If I was looking for a place to live, it would be high on my list.

I love they are tying fees/fines to income level too. Something, l feel, that the US should give a shot?
Testosterone replacement is a fairly common treatment for older men. It seems that the main downside (at least at an advanced age) is an increased risk of cardiovascular problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_replacement_therapy#A...
>leave early when there's even a small chance of getting hit.

This doesn't solve the problems associated with large scale evacuations; unless your plan is based on the you leaving, while most of the population stays.

>Or alternatively, legally require flood insurance in at risk areas and let actuaries price the risk, problem solved.

Flood insurance could guard against the financial damage of a storm, but is useless to address the problems that evacuations are meant to address: human life. Unless your plan is for flood insurance to drive down the population in the region; which might work long term, but we still need to figure out how to handle the situation until then.

>If the bad half of global warming predictions happen.

This is the bad half of global warming predictions. The only question left is how bad the even worse half will be.'\

>If people don't have a motivation to mitigate the risk, everyone is going to have to pay for it collectively.

Why wouldn't people have motivation to fix it? Aid is not going to be enough to compensate for all the damages (not event counting indirect economic damage). Everyone, from individuals, to municipalities, to the state, to the federal government, will come out of this in the red.
True. If the requirement existed the areas were settled, then they wouldn’t be living there.

BUT, that’s not the case. So enacting the requirement now, all at once, is probably not the right thing to do.

Maybe phase it in? All new construction would require it. Existing residents would get it subsidized for a decade, etc?
I tried it out when it was released, it works well and it is decently fast.
I'll give it a shot. The intrinsic value of a good is the value of the utility it provides.

For BTC this would be the value as a payment network and a means of facilitating transactions. Its value as an investment would not count.
Well press all on the timeline below:

https://www.coindesk.com/price/

and you will see what I mean.

A huge jump in pricing (~3500 USD) in less than 5 months is a jump in popularity no?

Like individually it seems small, but once you realize the market cap, its pretty big. If this was Apple stock price in the same scale of time (Apple's market cap jumps 350% in 5 months, note that Apple stock price has always been less than Bitcoin so it would be even greater if for Apple), people would be running around screaming and asking why Apple stock suddenly became so popular.
Well, that depends on whether CI is a logical AND, or a logical OR. No accepted medical use AND high potential for abuse? Or can it be "any of the above"?

21 U.S.C § 812[0] doesn't say anything at all except to give the list of findings:

> (A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.

> (B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.

> (C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

This is a little surprising because the "trailing AND/OR" is fairly common in other areas of the law. Makes me wonder if it's ever been clarified in court.

There is some precedent for having a single active ingredient listed in multiple schedules though, the one that immediately comes to mind is hydrocodone.

Until very recently, we listed hydrocodone in both CII and CIII, depending on which other active ingredients it was combined with.

If it was in a pill loaded with acetaminophen, which would supposedly deter addicts from eating 20 of them at a time, it could be in CIII, otherwise it was strictly CII. Because naturally, anyone getting ready to swallow 20 Vicodin at a time is going to know that acetaminophen can cause acute liver failure and make the rational choice to avoid it.

That was one of the primary reasons Vicodin has been handed out like skittles for every little injury, it's every bit as powerful as the others in CII, but it could be prescribed with less oversight.

In that light it's not too surprising to have GHB listed in more than one schedule, but it's still absurd that one of them is CI, given that as far as I'm aware, there is nothing particularly abuse-resistant about Xyrem.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/812
If you want to experiment with an EEG device, that works look at Muse. They emphasize meditation feedback, but you can access your EEG raw data.

http://www.choosemuse.com/research/
Counterpoint: the number of NTSB reports that end with 'controlled flight into terrain' is non-trivial.
Half as fast as a train: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/21/asia/japan-maglev-train-wo...
It's an interesting question. At Infinite Food[0] we believe the key thing we can certainly bet on is change, so we're building supply chains that support both conventional and emerging proteins, and total end customer transparency. We then expect to develop a sideline in assisting emerging protein providers analyzing the market response to new products as they emerge, in different sub-market demographics.

Wild, conventionally farmed, locally raised, imported, free range, organic, insect, lab-grown, algae or plant-based proteins all have strong economic, ethical, environmental, technical or health arguments... and limitations!

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That’s why you legally require it. Then people who can’t afford it can’t live there and move somewhere else.

The expected cost also potentially brings down the price of realestate so people can afford insurance by paying less morgage.

Really it comes down to acceptable societal risk. If floods are a 1 in 100 years black swan, do we bail them out and don’t require insurance? What if it’s every 20 years? Once in 5 years?

At some point we can all agree that maybe it shouldn’t be treated as unexpected and precautions should be required. Just like we require everyone to have car insurance.
Also, bitflyer, a bitcoin exchange, is running TV commercials in Japan (Source: I live in Japan, I've seen it first hand)
I basically agree. It's unjust that anyone can go broke in Vegas but only rich or connected people can get a chance at pre-IPO returns. I'd support the accredited-investor thing more if it were more like you had to pass a financial rationality test and wait through a cooling-off period. It'd be undignified, but how about an official SEC qualifying poker league?
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Puppeteer is definitely cool but on a recent project I had to revert back to using NightmareJS as I needed to download files.
"... because they marketed it as for DRM/identification"

Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems (1999):
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
Switzerland sustains itself with a huge influx of foreign money by adopting policies attractive to the wealthy. That strategy can't be pursued by every nation on the planet.
Very practical and actionable advice, especially for the working poor working paycheck to paycheck.
"The core value of VR is to replace our real life"

That's ... debatable. It's no more that than a regular screen.

VR displays track head movement in 3D space and then give the possibility to use this positioning information when rendering a 3D scene.

This is the basic requirement for AR as well. Pokemon level AR just gives an image of real
world where the 3D scene can be overlaid. ARkit level AR uses what ever data inputs are available to guestimate the 3D geometry surrounding the user and offering this 3D information available for the program context. I suppose the third step is when this data is fed to some machine learning algorithm to 1. detect features in the data 2. label them (i.e. 'carrot' etc).

Now, what to do with all this data is the business of the developer of the application.

It's the application and it's users who decide what the value proposition is. It's not stamped on the underlying technology. The technology is the substrate and the facilitator for the end user applicariona but they alone do not provide any value. Owners of Vive in the current ecosystem where VR applications are scarce and unpolished can probably understand this intuitively.

The potential of VR and AR to provide value are different but the value proposition depends wholly on the application developed for the substrates.

Sorry about the long rant. I just wanted to point out that it's non-value adding and detrimental to innovation to slap labels and qualities on things that don't posses them.

Nobody[0] wants just a Ferrari engine. Everybody wants the whole car.

0: In the general consumer context, I know somebody would want it
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Speaking as a naive outside observer, I am excited with the rumors that Microsoft and Apple will be making a move toward ARM in the nearish future. I don't think ARM is the answer (dear god give us riscv) but I see it as a step in the right direction away from closed systems.
Pilots also need (I would guess pretty frequent) (re-)training, hotels, lounges, long term parking, time off, health insurance, etc. They're not just $200K salary, they're probably more like $500K each/year in total cost once you get to 747 level, though they may only see $200k in salary themselves.
The author is just calling some api, I don't know how much technical knowledge people here at hacker news has, but this person is talking BS. No open source software are used here.

To the author: please spend some time and try to analyze the problem first. I don't think you even get the problem right, or know what open source is. A free api IS NOT an example of OPEN SOURCE.
What analysis could plausibly link the word "of" with this usage?
Probably more like a Queenslander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_(architecture) ) house on stilts or something similar. It also helps with cooling which I imagine would be beneficial on the Texas coast. It's remarkably low tech and effective, you can often find 100 year old ones only a meter or two above rivers that regularly flood.
I've been wanting to get one to try some ideas out, but trying to decide if the $200 is worth it. Do you have a muse? What do you use it for?
A few years ago they did call for an evacuation caused massive jams with thousands of cars stuck on highways. Many of these highways are underwater today an evacuation would have made the situation worse.
> negotiated rate is less than the average private insurer for any given procedure, which is pretty impressive

Not very impressive considering the average prices everybody else pays are artificially inflated by collusion among the medical industry middlemen. That's how we end up with $500 Epipens and then get a "steal" of a discount for only $300.
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winmail.dat [1]

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/technology/personaltec...
You can't think of any reason? Have you or do you work for a large company [1], especially hardware companies? I've sat through I don't know how many "planning" meetings, which were little better than design by committee, and whose outcome was not in the best interest of the customer despite the best intentions of everyone there.

1. Or the government or one of it's contractors. I've even sat through meetings 12 engineers sat around and argued about what to name something internal. I started calling this "name by committee".
> Tesla took the approach that the machine is in control

That's not really accurate. Tesla says the driver is ultimately responsible. That holds unless a court determines otherwise. The same is true for Toyota/Subaru. They're all SAE level 2 systems.

The opposite approach from this would be Waymo/Volvo who intend to take responsibility for decisions made by their vehicles. Those are SAE level 4 or 5 systems.
Of course you couldn't take what they did and publish it, but it's good enough to explain a concept to a large group of people (and maybe, sure, on such a small scale it's not possible and was that 25% chance of happening). Don't forget that the videos are for both entertainment and for learning purposes and, while potentially dubious, it is still an experiment and I trust these two guys (both of which have Ph.Ds in some form of physics, I believe) to perform the experiments well. I would absolutely consider what they did popular science.
if they became the owners, they wouldn't have to re-up every period of time.
Check out https://search.data.gov.au for what we're doing next too :)
When I lived in AU and later NZ, I'd get this question and I'd respond the same way. AU and NZ toilets are almost always dual-flush (dual flush toilets were invented in AU) and they push water quickly front to back, not in a swirl like US toilets.

I've also never clogged an AU or NZ toilet. Not to say you can't, just that it's much more difficult with their design.
Isn't Microsoft jumbled anyways? In my opinion they're just wanting to get third hands in everything...
Canada has 40% fewer road deaths by population. I don't think they're that much richer or smarter than Americans. Complacency is killing people.
I don't think this represents the market rate, but makes more sense when framed in the context of a donation as well.
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https://code.facebook.com/posts/1601610310055392/introducing...

It could be an open solution too. I have only cursory followed OCP and other hardware advances, but this being used with Raptor's power servers. Opensparc before Oracle, and recently the RISC V community might have built something similar too.
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Yes, please. I'm the same way - I don't really donate to things, wouldn't consider myself the type of person who "donates," but I donated to MAPS last year and this year. Felt good.
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Seems like most of the parsing is done by JSDOM in this tutorial.
Not sure if trolling, but:

I'm using an open source license plate recognition system (OPENALPR), taking the produced registration number, and THEN querying the (yes, closed source) records database via web scraping. All tools used to achieve this, bar where the records are kept, are open source (openalpr, cheerio, node-horseman etc).
Amount of Content in the Lord of the Rings vs. The Hobbit
I re-read the article and it does not explicitly say that the 300K are paid subscribers.
Houston is a sitting duck for the next big hurricane (2016)
Umm, there's a reason they've pretty much exited every other international market. Russia - Yandex, China - Didi, SE Asia - Grab, India - Ola, Germany, Uk etc. Lots of competitors. It's only NA where they're a clear leader.
Yup. I did something similar with a RasPi camera and OpenCV. On my house it store and record every license plate that drives by and/or stops. It certainly leads to some ethical questions (not that you couldn't record this data going all "Rear Window" on the neighborhood but it's quite easy to understand all the coming and goings of your neighbors.
Some sports.
I suggest he sell the "sizzle not the steak." What could a slack-bot do to make my life more better or different?
Around 6%/yr... more than a savings account, but pretty reasonable. I think the IRS charges 6%/yr too.
I don't think that argument really holds up. After all, athletes already push the limits of safe exercise in order to win; all competitive athletes are forced to exercise the maximum amount allowed, and exercise is not purely positive: it has negative as well as positive effects.
You make many assumptions that you expect us to take on faith.

> Employees who, by now, are self-selected to consider any moves to heal the toxic culture as assaults on themselves.

What do you base this off of?

> What's still ominous is the complete lack of a moat around their business. Every driver and every customer is a free app install away from giving any competitor a shot.

Is this actually true? Uber is the only option in many countries. In the United States, it competes with Lyft... which claims it is on the verge of profitability at the same price points. It appears that the large networks these companies have built do provide a moat. Both Lyft and Uber now employ similar regulatory capture tactics that their taxicab competitors used to prevent competition: from lobbying state governments to override local legislation to conducting public activism campaigns.

> Their autonomous car project is in deep trouble

True, Cruise and Waymo will almost certainly beat them to market. In this regard, they're in the same position as Lyft.

> ... managing a fleet of drivers and their cars... It is this core competency of Uber that would be rendered worthless by autonomous vehicles.

Is that actually how it will happen? Assuming Waymo is first to market: they've teamed up with Avis to perform their fleet management. If any other company releases even within 2 years, is it clear that they will prevent other players from taking market share? How many autonomous vehicles have to be on the road to actually take business from Lyft/Uber? Is it a foregone conclusion that Lyft or Uber won't partner with a rival autonomous company? Do you expect that any manufacturer has the ability or the capital to completely flood any market with autonomous vehicles?

> As long as personal car ownership is still a thing, autonomous driving will actually turn every owner into a competitor.

Is this actually true? Do you expect most people to take the car seats and sports equipment out of their daily driver after they commute to work, and before they come home? I don't think that this is a credible option. Since it is unknowable what owners' behavior would be like, instead look at Getaround's inventory. You will likely see 100 cars for the whole of San Francisco.

Furthermore, you disregard the essential cleaning/inspection that must occur at the end of every shift of driving. That would be extremely unlikely to be provided at 15%.

I get your sentiment, that it just feels like it has these headwinds. But the only tangible point you raised was the fact that Uber still loses money quarter after quarter. The rest of your points were an exercise in making up numbers and speculation without justification.
Does this mean I should be proud about my incident at an Auckland hotel 6 years ago?
Do you have plans to scale out? I'd volunteer time but I'm not near any of the cities you currently work in. (For others who are in the same position -- inquire with your city / church / local refugee support org, you may find there are similar local initiatives for refugees.)

Also, this being (I assume) a weekday daytime commitment, do your volunteers get typically get their teaching time 'donated' by their employers?
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>>leave early when there's even a small chance of getting hit.

>This doesn't solve the problems associated with large scale evacuations; unless your plan is based on the you leaving, while most of the population stays.

There's also the issue of having the means to be able to evacuate. Time off work (without pay for a large part of the population), alternative housing, food, travel expenses, for what may or may not end up being a big storm can be out of reach for many people.
South and Central America appear to be pretty locked down. Also Oceana.

What is the competition in Europe besides existing taxi services?
Those are some ugly houses.
There are two way to approach ML/AI

1) First read all the prerequisites and then work on a problem

2) Start working on a problem and learn all the math ML/AI as you need

The second option works best.
Has CNN started the countdown?
In my American government class in high school in Texas in 1984, I was taught to behave in such a way - keep hands on wheel, do exactly what you are told to, don't move suddenly, to minimize the chance police will kill you, because they don't know if you are a criminal with a weapon or not and a police officer has to be prepared for either situation. It helps immensely to not be an ethnic minority - representations in popular culture in America alude to the life or death possibility of every police stop for those communities like the recent episodes of the TV shows Insecure or Dear White People or Bruce Springsteen's song, 41 Shots. The other side of the coin is America extremely rarely prosecutes a police officer for killing someone, no matter what the circumstances, even if there is video.
Lyft also consistently costs about $1 less for the same options in the Bay Area.