skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This just looks like a solution for a problem that does not exist. Speed bump geometry can satisfy the need for a smooth ride at slow speeds. There are three general types of traffic calming devices that would get slotted into the "speed bump" category: 1) traditional speed bumps, 2) speed humps, and 3) speed tables.
I won't bother explaining a traditional speed bump as many of us are already familiar with them. A speed hump is generally longer, in the direction of travel, than a speed bump but not so long that a normal passenger vehicle will have both axles on the hump at the same time. A speed table is long enough, again in the direction of travel, that both axles of a passenger vehicle will be on top of the table. With both humps and tables the transition can be designed for a given effect. A sudden transition will be more severe to motorists, while a long, gradual transition can make the hump or table comfortable for the motorist.
With all of these traffic calming options emergency vehicles are a concern. However, traffic calming measures like these should not be placed on roadways that will be frequently traveled by emergency vehicles. These traffic calming measures should be placed on low-volume, low-speed local roads.
> It is even more alarming when religious bodies do it and to such a mega scale because ...

That describes somewhere between 50% and 95% of all muslim countries, depending on your threshold for calling something religious (and likely to be on the higher end of that scale), including muslim schools in Europe I might add. Add to that at least half of India (and I mean greater India, up to and maybe including PNG), and a decent chunk of Africa.

I just mean to say, even looking at our own history, religious institutions are the early stages of states, not the other way around. The Church had a working bureaucracy (and educational system) more than a millennium before European states even realized they wanted one.

Plus, I must say it depends on the religion. I do not feel especially worried in this case.
I was just going to post something along this line.. I've been to the 3-4th stage many times it it all falls when I have to do a video call.. every time ( about 25 interviews so far over the course of 4months). At this point I'm starting to think its more of a "culture" fit then anything else which I really dont like to think about. All of these are remote jobs which is odd cause they dont even have to see me or know my race. Even tried to apply to local jobs, no luck.

But after having pass tech tests, multiple calls and had people very impress about my 10year career its hard to see anything else then the word "culture" in these instances.
The abstraction issue you're talking about doesn't exist. You can always drop down to custom native components for anything you need to do. That's one of the best parts.

I spent 5 months rewriting my game Falcross from Obj-C to React Native, and it functions exactly the same (even better in some places because of RN's wonderful Animated API). Try the game and tell me if you "feel the JS": https://www.falcross.com/

As a solo developer, RN allows me to share 95% of code between platforms and still customize that ever so important 5% with native modules. And I'm iterating 2-3x faster than I was with Obj-C.
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Great summary. Still, it's not clear where the subsidies are getting paid to those wind farms

Are they paying more for generation than the consumer is paying for electricity?
Facebook has more than one product. They have the social network itself; a lot of work around ads, ad targeting and ad delivery; Oculus technology, both hardware and software; their efforts to bring internet to many places, etc.

You can sue Facebook for infringing a patent with Oculus and they'll come after you for your use of React/GraphQL/etc.
This is demonstrably false. Lots of great engineers are terrible at interviewing. If you ask around, you can get even some very high-profile devs to tell you stories about why they're not working at Google or Facebook or Amazon because of how badly their interviews went. Equally importantly: lots of terrible engineers are great at interviewing, and most people in the industry have had the experience of working alongside someone who is failing up, 2-year-stints at a time.

What's true is that Google and Facebook have such enormous budgets and such huge positive profiles in the talent market that they don't need to work hard to put together functioning teams. They're paying more than they need to and having to deal with more bad hires than they should, but it's for them a marginal problem.
With growing uncertainty and economic inequality, it's not hard to harness the will of the people for your own ends. If the gap gets bigger over the next few decades it'll be fun to see if we get a return to religious-military complexes. Or perhaps, when Amazon and Wal-Mart control all means of food production and distribution, military-agricultural complexes?
The simulation is based on a pretty detailed mapping of how actual rat brains are connected so it should be fairly accurate.
But you still need to validate the paper side, so that benefit is removed unless you trust it alone.

And requiring a large amount of manpower is a benefit of paper voting, not a problem. In the grand scheme of things it's a miniscule amount of work, and it ensures freedoms and laws for generations to come. This isn't an area where efficiency matters. The more manpower it takes, the harder it will be to "hack" it without being noticed.
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In terms of poor performance: while it is possible to get good performance, the naive implementation of features might give you (accidentally) bad performance.

For example: if you have a list of 1,000 things, you might put them in a scroll view first; but that will lead to very bad loading and scrolling performance (it will with straight native code as well). Instead, you should use FlatList (https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/flatlist.html) which is built to be performant on long lists (by reusing components, etc).

There are also a few additional considerations that you don't have when writing pure native code. One example is that if you send a lot of data (like a huge image) over the JavaScript bridge, then that can really slow down app performance. There are ways to get around that however, but it can be easy to accidentally do things like that which hurt performance (and those types of slowdowns might be confusing and difficult to track down).

So yeah, it's not perfect - but it's the best cross platform development tool I've used, and most potential issues have workarounds (once you learn what's causing the issue).
> Some people worry about monopolies, but I don't - they only have power when I choose to give them my money

So if you live in rural Alabama and only Comcast services your area, because they're a monopoly, and your tech job requires internet what are you to do as an individual?

1) Further the monopoly and buy Comcast internet

2) Decide to not have internet and inevitably lose your job

3) Try to compete, but fail to have the start-up costs as you're a small player.
Interesting article. I don't think Facebook or Google set out originally to be newspapers, but the author of this argues that that is essentially what they have become and they should therefore be subject to the same regulations and taxes as all ad-driven media businesses. Makes sense to me. I think we all cheered them when they were using technology to seemingly turn the archaic media company model on it's head (and give us "free" services), but when it came time to pay back investors Google and Facebook quickly adopted the same old model of selling advertising space.
Sendy is a good alternative. I tested it in my server, you'll need some technical requirements for the installation but after that it's easy to use.
I've been at Segment for 2.5 years, and it's been pretty amazing. The founders have done a good job of establishing a solid, but not cultish, culture. Karma is a value, and it's pretty well expressed. Yes, there's plenty of room for improvement, but it's been a terrific ride, and I'm excited for more. #datkoolaid

Secondarily, every time I've volunteered my hard skills, it's been a lot of fun (and oftentimes has a positive payoff down the road). Eg back in Atlanta, I volunteered at a local private school for a couple of months which turned into a $50/hr * 20hrs/week gig.

When I first moved to the Bay Area, I met with a friend of a friend, and when he said he had kids, I casually mentioned that I'd be happy to tutor them if they ever needed any help. This blossomed into a great relationship, and this person is now a good friend and mentor that I've kept up with for the past 6 years.

I suspect one reason that volunteering is so fun is because it's low stress because you can't really get fired, and if you do, it doesn't matter because it's not your primary livelihood. I might sort of say the same thing about some second jobs (in that it doesn't really matter if you lose the second job); however, if the second jobs pays really well (or you really need it), then that stress of keeping the job can creep in.

Driving for Lyft was also a lot of fun. I only did it part time for a few months, but it was great meeting people and exploring the city. The limited-time casual conversations are very interesting because people are more willing to overshare because chances are you'll never see each other again. Back when I drove, it wasn't as mainstream, so the clientele was mostly tech-savvy early adopters, so most conversations were very interesting. I wish I had done it for longer so as to better learn the city's nooks and crannies and also to meet and chat with more people.
Drones already deliver medicine in California though
https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/2/12350274/zipline-drone-del...
I totally get that, maybe it's just a question of subjective perception. What he's done is still a large piece of job.
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When people complain about software patents, a typical response is "modern patent law really was designed for pharmaceuticals" and that the brokenness for software was more-or-less an accidental side effect. But stories like this make it seem doubtful that patent law makes that much sense in the drug industry either. I guess if this ploy works everyone will call it a loophole, not a design feature of the law. But still...
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I'm saying it already happens. I grew up with people who literally smuggle weed for a living across the northern border. There are some areas where there is no actual official border[0] where smuggling is happening now. It was already comparatively easier to access in Canada then smuggle to the US, but when it's legal in Canada it will just help fuel the supply being brought over.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwesasne
Chaos Theory is nowadays studies as part of Dynamical Systems Theory.

So that kind of computability might be the mathematical algebraic computability (as in does this monstrosity have a closed form?), which can always be approximated (of course with fast accumulating errors).
> What's the actual story here?

Not sure of the context of your question exactly, but a quick summary for non-alums: MIT has had a dorm system for many decades where students choose where they are going to live. This tends to aggregate similar personalities/lifestyles into various dormitories. Senior House was a dorm with a reputation: It tended to attract a personality that might be described as "edgy", and was perceived as a place with higher-than-avg drug use. It has had that reputation for decades.

The current MIT chancellor looked at GPAs and other metrics and decided that Senior House was under performing and perhaps harmful to students. She put the dorm into "turnaround", and when that didn't pan out, she evicted all of the undergrad students. It is now a grad dorm.

[That last paragraph reads like a corporate action, a similarity that has been noted by others.]

Many alums have noted the administration has been trying to disperse Senior House for decades (I saw it in the 90s), it looks like Chancellor Barnhart was the executor.
> As the paper shows, we can curtail the things that people feel are damaging about European immigration, both by domestic policy change and by agreeing change within Europe to the freedom of movement principle, including supporting the campaign of President Macron on the Posted Workers Directive.

The alternative plan is to persuade the other 27 EU members to cancel the current vision of the EU and to adopt the view the UK always would have preferred, namely that the EU should be reduced to the single market without free movement of people and all this business unfriendly social charter stuff.

So actually no new plan, just another example that most Brits don't get what the EU is about.

But actually there is a glimpse of self-awareness in his text:

> and the process of enlargement to the East was begun, with British leadership at the fore. There was a price for this. As Europe enlarged, to help those former Soviet satellites develop, Western Europe paid through structural funds to support that development. Hence much of the so-called Brexit divorce bill.
> If that were true, wouldn't the salaries start off the same and then diverge?

No, because starting salary is something that is negotiable, too. And you need to push back on the offer and ask for more if you want to make more. If you're not the type to push back, you start lower.
I am using my Dell XPS 13 with a resolution of 1920x1080 (scaled from 3200x1800) for the internal display and an external display with native 1920x1080 and cannot confirm this. It works pretty well (GNOME3, Ubuntu 17.04). Firefox is not tiny. I did not change anything in my X config files.
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Yep, they offer either monthly or pay-per-email-sent options. The latter is crazy expensive, especially for sending emails that aren't directly selling a product.

So startups opt for the monthly plan, and then in order to "get their money's worth", they send more emails than they might otherwise.

I sincerely wonder if MailChimp's pricing structure ends up causing there to be substantially more spam in the world. I don't want to hassle my users all the time, so I just pause my monthly service and unpause it once or twice a year.

But really I'd like to send 4-6 emails per year. And with MailChimp, I can either pay exorbitant per-delivery costs or pay for several months of subscription where I'm not sending any emails. Neither option seems great. Once email marketing becomes more of a focus for my company, I will look seriously at competitors to see if they have offerings that are structured differently.
Googlebot, and every other search engine robot of note. Putting a page up on the public internet includes the risk that it may be visited.
They wrote an entire article about iPhone users having to spend an extra 25 cents per day -- the approx $200 increase divided by 2 years.

By far the biggest cost of using the iPhone is the cell phone service.

I am on the Verizon (in NYC Verizon is the best provider with the most LTE spectrum) yearly upgrade program (Apple has their standard yearly upgrade as well) and I am currently paying about $1.35 per day for use of the phone.

After 12 payments, I am allowed to upgrade to the next phone.
It is not a "free" upgrade exactly, as I have to pay NYS sales tax, a $20 new phone fee, and a new $50 case or $80+20+50 or about $150 for the upgrade which makes the approx $1000 phone into a $1,150 phone or < $1.60 per day.

For this, I am covered by the 1 year standard Apple iPhone warranty and the battery does not lose much charge in the one year of ownership.

In my case, in NYC I need the better signal quality when in skyscrapers, better voice sound on phones (esp. the noise cancellation in very loud NYC), and better cameras for video and taking pictures of slides at conferences.

My cell phone service including taxes (but without the handset) is about $3.50 per day.
> The issues page of this repo is disabled on purpose, for help please go to the yue/help repo where users help themselves.

>To report a bug, you have to create a pull request with a test case of your problem, or you can choose to subscribe to paid plans.

Polite translation:

> The issues page of this repo is disabled. To report a bug, please create a pull request with a test case of your problem.

> For support, please go to the yue/help repo for help from the community. Paid plans are also available if you want to receive support from the project maintainers.

I wouldn't say the original is exactly impolite, but it's definitely more curt and direct than usual or than you would expect in the business world. Especially the text on the yue/help repo comes across as slightly combative or defensive in different areas. For example "You can ask any question about Yue in the Issues page here, but please do not expect to get an answer" sounds fairly dismissive to a native ear.
Same and same. Feedbin is a great and very affordable service.
Once could argue that it is a good thing that old rebel spaces are closed as those places have a tendency go stale and turn into a cargo cult shadow of itself the more it's legacy is celebrated.

The world don't need more safe-spaces where a bunch of well of kids can pretend they are changing the world, without having to deal with the fact that the movement's they pay homage to have been pacified and subverted since at the first Clinton administration.

The wealthy left leaning demographics that dominate the press have always had a strange counterproductive relationship with a glorious past it was not a part of to the point where half of them don’t even realize they ran a Goldwater republican for president in 2016 and lost to Donald the foreign policy moderate baboon because his brand of dementia was less scary then Clinton’s brand of dementia to the general public.
It has occurred to me that the main "anticompetitive behavior" exhibited by these companies is "doing a better job than competitors."

At the same time, there is evidence of real anticompetitive behavior that crops up from time to time.
It isn't sad. Historically that has been the condition in most parts of the world. African governments are constituted of people who for the most part have no legitimacy rooted in historical relationships with their people and no sense of ownership of their environment. For them their roles are franchises to be exploited.

Europe developed because the land owners themselves had a vested interest in the towns they were building. They actually owned the towns. What is happening there is that it is profitable for the church leaders to build the towns and develop it themselves for themselves, as has been the case in Europe where towns guilds and traders had incentives to develop the towns themselves.

There is a question which perhaps you should ask yourself. How did the Church in Europe get to own so much land between the decline of Rome and the middle ages? God most certainly didn't hand it to them for free. The Bishops where just as corrupt and venal as any Nigerian megachurch leader, even more so, and they also hard armies and allied with the nobility to acquire even more from the hapless natives, in the case when they didn't swindle the natives out of the land.
I disagree with you. It's your choice to engage financially with the university, and you should do so knowing that if you want to know how it's going, you need to talk to the student, not the university -- we have laws like FERPA for a reason.
The risk/outcome - that the taxi supply becomes responsive to taxi demand and licenses/medallions become worthless - has existed as long as medallions have. While the risk is hard to forecast and thus price, it's not new. Investors succeed by pricing risk and investors who bought in 2013 significantly mis-priced this risk, so criticism seems reasonable.
Or maybe they will go to the junkyard despite being perfectly fine because no one manufactures batteries for that model anymore (and installing a third-party battery is blocked by some DRM).
Unfortunately this didn't really amount to anything and Cleveland is still plagued by endless potholes.
In short: this regulation was passed to keep from giving the feds a very easy reason to raid the state government of California.

Sound accurate?
> I mean, you can't 'View Source' anything of the computer the browser is running on, or the browser itself.

Says you:-)

When I'm running SLIME in emacs talking to SBCL, I can type M-. to look up definitions of SLIME elisp, Swank Lisp and so forth, all the way into emacs's C core and the SBCL internals (more Lisp code). This sort of capability has existed since the 80s at least, and maybe even further back.

Yes, yes, I know: I sound like a broken record, extolling the capabilities dynamic systems give one. But they're awesome, and they've been around forever, and they're well-tested, and they perform well enough. It really is a shame the tech world keeps on chasing the new & shiny (and half-baked) instead of improving the wonderful stuff we've had for decades.
Maybe most apps being a steaming pile of shit is part of why they only have a few users.

Million dollar budget is a strawman. I've built dozens of complex apps for five figure budgets. Very few ran into six figures, and they'd have been a train wreck on hybrid.

Most things don't need to be an app at all. Those that do need an app should at least consider making a reasonable investment.

Besides, it's not like hybrid is some magical unicorn technology that enables creating a great app at a tiny fraction of the budget of a native one. You save like 30-50% in the best case, and get what you pay for.
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The captions "Human pickers followed instructions on computer screens" and "A robotic arm in Florence" are swapped, depicting a robot and a human respectively.

Oh the sad irony.
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I don't know what he's doing, I know what grades he got a few times a year.

He asked for money. One of the terms for my giving him money was to know whether or not my money is having the desired outcome. If he didn't like that he could get money elsewhere on far worse terms. Welcome to adulthood!
Ah, okay, yes then I agree with you. Sorry for assuming you were talking about me. I also agree with the article that people want fairness more than literal equality, but my reaction is that literal equality is more than just strawman, it's an odd premise to start from. I'm sure there are some people who do propose literal equality, but I don't think that the general argument against inequality is one in favor of literal equality, by and large.

My takeaway from my experiences reading and talking about this is that when people talk about equality, they are talking about equality of opportunity. The idea being that things would be better if everyone had a basic level of needs covered, things like food, shelter, education and health care.

It is possible to be in favor of equality increasing measures and still not have the long term goal of equal sized piles of money. What we have right now is both really unfair and really unequal. And it's getting worse, not better. So equality metrics may be the simplest way to measure whether things are improving (they're not). That doesn't automatically mean that getting everyone to balance out is the ideal, right? Perhaps it's a blunt metric precisely because anything else is more subtle and leads to nuanced debate that most people won't bother with?