skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clear that buses are vastly more efficient in terms of moving large numbers of people around, and so ride sharing alone (even automated) will just continue to tie up traffic. At a point, uber and lyft will have to introduce buses in order to keep their single-use services attractive. But, as long as there is private ownership, we won't have wide adoption of public transportation.

Everywhere in the world I have traveled, I have noticed that usually 1) public transportation is limited only to a town/city, and 2) private buses to move between cities/provinces are limited by market forces, and thus put a penalty on people living farther from economic drivers. Which forces people in remote areas, who on average make less money, to own cars to get to jobs [which robs them of time and money they could be investing in their future etc].

The only way to change the inequality of people getting to jobs/goods/services is to remove private car ownership and institute nation-wide public transportation, and subsidize the more expensive parts of the network. Not only would this be cheaper overall and more efficient overall, it would raise the GDP, reduce pollution, reduce debt, reduce traffic fatalities, and increase upward mobility.

People think cars give them freedom, but they never think about the societal cost.
That's an irrelevant technicality. In practice, the countries can postpone the adoption of euro indefinitely, simply by refusing to provide evidence for meeting the economic requirements.

This is the strategy of Sweden, for instance, to retain the crown. If Sweden were to meet the criteria it would have to adopt the euro, but it never needs to show that it does meet the criteria, so it can keep its own monetary policy.

(I live in Finland, and while I think euro is personally convenient for me, it has been very bad for my country's economy).
1) because the the constituency is too small probably

2) because it sounds like you're changing the topic about what's taboo in SV

3) i think people downvoted it because it's not relevant to the topic of what's taboo in SV.
From a security perspective asking users to install specific extensions is pretty poor behaviour to encourage. Just yesterday I had to stop my girlfriend from installing a dodgy extension from a 'just install this one extension to view this content' site.

Not to say that Mozilla's decision was the right one but there's a lot of factors to consider.
> We didn’t think hard enough about how our actions would affect the community, and we’re sorry for letting you down.

It's OK Mozilla. Don't be too harsh on yourself. Everybody makes mistakes. We still love you :)
How VPNs Are Changing the Global Marketplace (For the Better)
This is superb. Gonna try this sometime soon. I wanted to do this when Google announced Clips.
"When you do need to do a big evacuation a Tesla sized battery can last longer than you can safely drive"

This is plainly wrong. Let's say it's a Tesla Model S which has a real world range of about 400 km. That is about four hours of driving. I sometimes drive 600 km easily, with one longer break to eat and maybe a few shorters breaks to pee or just get out of the car and walk around a bit.

Your other statements are also somewhat exaggerated, see for example:
https://insideevs.com/exclusive-interview-with-steve-marsh-a...

> 150k miles
> 50% capacity
> not used in the cold anymore
Why Jonnah Choose “Output Messenger” His Office?
Isn't that IP theft?
Why Rate of Learning Is Your Most Important Metric
The german export surplus has been criticized in the past for damaging the economy of other countries (esp. in the EU).
It is not possible for every country to copy this system because someone has to import all the stuff you are exporting.
Yep, previous poster should have said Sweden and Denmark as they use their own currencies. And on the other hand, Kosovo and Montenegro use the euro as currency even though they are not in EU.
The Role of Wastewater Treatment Plants in India
Actually one good thing would be if there is a real technological divide unemployed people would be forced to become better with tech to claim their welfare, which in turn increases their chances to find jobs.
Disabled or old people should not be left out because of this and should be handled in a way.
Does it support Windows yet?
Nothing wrong with them.
Emails are really easy to ignore, letters are _slightly_ less easy, calls are rather hard to ignore, and visits basically cannot be ignored. At least in the sense that you get feedback instantly from the latter two, while the first two leave you wondering whether they got the correspondence or not, or are just ignoring you.
Should Scientists Publish Their Personal Biases?
DynamoDB x Couchbase Server
worse, the range issue is exaggerated in winter. all these range numbers are for mild and warm weather. people need to understand how much range you lose in winter which only gets worse the more internal heat you use.

range > charge times > cost. of the first two I am not sure which is easier. besides the cost difference of the power trains there is a serious weight difference as well that was no addressed
I've been making the same point about pagefile size versus paging I/O for a couple of decades now, finally turning it into an FGA a decade ago. (-:

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/dont-throw-those-paging-files-away.html
This logic can be coded into the original contract with a timeout. According to the contract each year a certain percentage of the token will be transferred to the developers’ addresses.
> beverage-driven development

Since quite some time, the bio on my Twitter is "This process emits code when Premium Cola is present on stdin."
If cars moved to mobility as a service model instead of car ownership people wouldnt care about getting into a small two seater car instead of owning a four seater for the times they do need it. You could probably fit six autonomous smartcars into the road space where one F150 is manually driven so we have lots of space to increase road density.
This. If it’s a side project that is intended for self-development and learning, try it in a new language and see how you get on. If it’s something even remotely important or think might turn into more than just a side-project, go with what you know or are comfortable with.
I frequently make use of http://viz-js.com/ so I can generate dot graphs without needing to install GraphViz.
PWA Design
I grew up at about 40 degrees northern latitude. I've been living in the Philippines temporarily for the past two years, and the only time I get homesick is at Christmas and the winter solstice. I'm now about 10 degrees above the equator, and it's just not the same at all. Essentially the sun rises and sets here the same time every day as far as anyone notices (even though there is a slight variation).

There something about an obvious solstice that makes you physically, psychologically, and spiritually more aware that time moves inevitably on.
The taste for fortified wine was also driven by import duties and the evasion of them. Duties were levied on the volume of alcoholic beverages, not their strength so it was relatively cheaper to import stronger drinks. Then again smuggling was rife and sneaking in more concentrated beverages was much more profitable. In fact the existence of many fortified or distilled drinks on the continent, such as Brandy/Cognac was largely driven by British import duties.
Any point could be the point it can not be protected from a 51% attack.

So what if the bitcoin hash rate drops to say even 10% of current levels. Yes, it'll be way easier for other actors to come back and control 51% but you made my point: that can be done right now for $2bn.

No one ever talks about the fallout effects if a 51% attack does occur.

First of all, we can detect double spends. We have the complete history and just because the head chain was changed doesn't mean the old chain was forgotten.

The mere act of performing a 51% attack becoming public knowledge will crash the price and now the attacker gets devalued coins. Might not even be worth it.

Secondly, 51% attacks are hard. I don't know where you got the $2bn number above but I'm guessing its the equivalent of the current network hash rate.

To double spend a transaction 6 blocks back that means you need to mine 7 blocks before the other 49% of the network mines 1 block.

I choose 6 blocks back as thats the number of blocks most software/people consider needed to consider a transaction confirmed. With bitcoin's target of 10mins/block that is one hour of transactions.

It seems that 51% attack really requires a 7/8 = 87.5% attack. *

* Technically this only needs to be sustained until caught up with the current head chain length and then you can resume 51%.
no - starlings and sea gulls mainly - nothing exciting
Windows support is still WIP, recently we are making some good progress https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/5339
> Oppressive EU regulations

You do realize that Estonia, just like any other EU country, is part of the leglisative body that creates those rules and regulations?
I just checked my contract, it has no such clause, which means that it depends on what the law says. So I guess that's good.

Wouldn't it be wise to notify/inform your employer and make sure you're both on the same page to avoid any problems in the future?
86% or 60% dying is really not a big deal if the remaining surviving 14% or 40% are, in absolute numerical terms, greater than the amount it takes to transform the desert.

The article unfortunately doesn't talk about what we think the latter is.

edit: explain the down vote. you think planting trees to die is immoral, or something?
>You're right, but Switzerland is not a member of EU.

... and UK soon won't be anymore.

Denmark is a better example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_eurozone

And there is of course the "curious" situation of Sweden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_and_the_euro
Hershey buying snack maker Amplify in $1.2B deal
We need to launch an ICO here. The Internet of Sand (IoS) is the future. Every coarse grain will have its IPv6 address which is retained in a blockchain for tracking, making "intelligent concrete" the very fabric of architecture 4.0.
Wow, an image search for the query "engine block heaters public parking" gave me a peek of how our all-electrified automotive future is going to look like. Impressive.
Thanks for the in-depth answer, that helps. The PDF you linked is very helpful. That sums it up nicely. Unfortunately it does not list the EU country I live in. On the bright side, it does list the country I incorporated in (my home country).

I guess I don't have much to worry about. Although it might be wise to consult a lawyer.
Rare metal shortages are self-solving. There's already dozens of mining juniors prospecting in western countries and China has near-limitless resources. Additionally, graphite, lithium and cobalt are substitutable to some degree.

Anecdotally, the resource exploration stock message board forum I follow has almost given up on oil and gas companies and has moved to cleantech (or marijuania). Sign of the fast-arriving future.
A new era of SSRFs – exploiting URL parsers [video]
Yeah, it can be interpreted in a few different ways.

Sometimes places say "we weren't paid anything" in an attempt to pretend it was out of the goodness of their hearts (or similar)... when in fact they were receiving benefits of some other kind. Just not directly money.

Note - Corruption often seems to work like this too, as "payment in services" (eg kickbacks, etc) instead of money can be harder to track.

So, when places say they did something and didn't get paid for it... I also (personally) find it's best to double check if they received services/benefits instead which they'd not mentioning. Just in case.

It seems like that's what's happening here too.
Usable cross-platform options? Not really, as we can tell by the dearth of popular cross-platform apps.

I remember there was a great Cambrian explosion of music players back in the Napster era, especially on Linux. It seemed to me that the availability of good non-pirate managed options like iTunes and later Spotify gradually killed off standalone players. Maybe they're coming back into fashion.
> People think cars give them freedom,

They don't just think so, they know it

> but they never think about the societal cost.

There is a "societal cost" attached to everything. Housing, Eating, going to the restroom. Society should evolve to make known improvements to people's lives available to more people and not devolve to a point where most modern amenities are considered too expensive for most people.

That said, pretty much everybody hates public transport everywhere in the world. It's better than nothing of course and in some densely-populated areas it's actually an improvement and faster than using a car (the subway). But given a reasonable choice, people prefer having their own cars, just like they prefer to have their own homes instead of sharing one with dozens of other people. Whatever the "societal cost" may be (what's the cost of individual housing?).
It's worth noting that this wasn't something the government did wrong. The information didn't reach the country's Information System Authority (ISA) through the proper channels, but rather through security researchers who had already informed the manufacturer months prior, though this is contested by the representatives of the manufacturer within the country who stated that they had informed ISA already in June.

This may have led people to believe the government just sat on this information, but I don't think this is the case. Thanks to quick acting from everybody involved (aside from Gemalto it seems...) no real downsides existed aside from people having to renew their certificates and PIN numbers, which was no real hassle.
> I don't think electrical cost is a deal-breaker.

Do you have any numbers, or are you guessing?
I am interested in the criteria you have identified.

Would you be willing to discuss this further? I have some silly ideas.
> By the time electric takes over, there is a good chance self driving will be here also.

Either you are very unoptimistic about electric cars, or have an unrealistic view of what self driving is going to mean.

Electric cars are gaining traction, and by all accounts will be 10-20% of new cars by say 2023-2025. A completely driverless self driving car on the other hand is still a fantasy, despite Elon musk's constant claims.
I really want a nice OO language with Garbage Collector / ARC that compiles to native code on Windows, Mac and Linux. Swift is good, but Windows story is weak.

I am personally waiting for Kotlin Native to mature. Until that time Go it is.
GitPitch announces Git private repo support coming soon
Yes! This needed to happen. Thank you.
Does that mean that the encoding of the browser visiting the page (or the server doing the scraping in this case) get ignored? I always thought it was the browser that set the encoding, come to think of it, not sure why I thought that.
Handy, thanks!
What can I use to rapidly test ideas?
When the change is more or less just the name, yes.
> Windows as a server OS is as dead as OS/2 was 5 years ago.

Take a look at the typical server room at a typical small-to-medium business, and most servers (virtual or physical) you are going to find run Windows.

And a fair amount of those machines run Windows because they run some third-party application that is only available on Windows.

Much as I would like to agree with you on this, outside the cloud arena, Windows Server has a significant market share and will continue do so, even if it is only because of inertia.

> the (IMO archaic) SQL Server

Also, as much as I like Postgres, SQL Server is the one piece of software from Microsoft I really do like. It is very stable, offers good performance, and the fact that T-SQL offers a unified query and procedural language makes working with it fairly pleasant. It has its pitfalls (I once managed to paralyze our ERP system with a stuck transaction), but I strongly suspect other RDBMS have their own pitfalls.

The price tag on SQL Server makes me want to faint, when I think about it, but keep in mind that from Microsoft's perspective they are not competing with MySQL or Postgres, but with Oracle and DB2, which to my knowledge are at least as expensive, if not more so.

> MS has a huge problem with lack of open source support

Okay, this we can easily agree on. ;-)
Gantt charts also represent dependencies among tasks.

They add more information as well: time estimation, milestones, asignees, etc.

Gantt charts receive some criticism since estimations are approximations and any precision issue starts compounding very quickly.

Issue trackers may also support dependencies between tasks. The problem is that issue trackers usually come with scrum/kanban boards that do not have a represention dependencies among tasks.

There are many applications to put together a gantt chart.
Well, I disagree, because the alternative for many is probably no source control.
Sounds like that could be a possibility. I found a Stack Exchange answer with a great explanation of the reason that might happen[0].

[0]:https://security.stackexchange.com/a/70696/106972
Bitcoin exchange Youbit shuts after second hack attack
It's actually Angela Duckworth and not Tammy Duckworth. Sorry Senator.
I'm not sure I agree with that.

We were introduced to Logo briefly in second grade (admittedly, I don't think the programming concepts really stuck at that point).

Then we were introduced to BASIC briefly in fifth grade. For some of us at least, concepts like conditionals and loops did stick. I remember going home and insisting my dad install a BASIC interpreter on his computer so I could write more programs.

BASIC doesn't really have the concept of a function, but we were already being taught about abstractions like "f(x) = x + 1" in seventh grade algebra, so I don't see why programming would be too abstract for an eighth grader.

You might not want to try to teach them Java or Erlang, but procedural or imperative Python like the article describes should be well within the abilities of a significant subset of kids that age.
Living better: health, travel, yoga, recipes
At some point Bitcoin exchanges will have to realise that they need to be as secure as a bank is. For exactly the same reason.

And that this is expensive.
>Since the proposal was published, I’ve been repeatedly asking audiences if they would be interested in purchasing estcoins and the response is a resounding yes, even if they are not always sure why yet.

Would it be offensive to hint that maybe -just maybe - audiences were (largely) clueless?

>You might be surprised to hear this, but we completely agree with the criticism that estcoin is a solution looking for a problem. However, that is not necessarily a bad thing.

Very clever argument, though:

>E-Residency was also a solution looking for a problem when the programme was launched. The solution was to enable anyone in the world to apply for an Estonian ID digital ID card and then gain access to our e-services, but even many of the first e-residents were not sure what problems this would solve for them.
Three years (and almost 30,000 applications) later, we now have a very good understanding of the problems that e-Residency solves by helping democratise access to entrepreneurship globally and enabling the rise of location-independence.

I still completely fail to realize which actual problems were solved by e-residency (setting aside some good money going to Estonia).
I'm totally in favour of electric cars, but I'm surprised the article never mentioned the problem of sourcing all the power.

There have been a lot of contradictory claims over how many more power stations would be needed for a fully-electric future, with some sources claiming the UK alone would need an extra ten nuclear power plants, and other sources massively downplaying that, but clearly if everyone was driving an EV by, say, 2040, then that only gives us 20 years to work out and deliver the answer.

NIMBYism and hyper-inflated public infrastructure costs mean this could be a significant problem, both in terms of cost and feasibility.
Helping You Coping with Loss and Grief
Best guess is that they are just trying to get you to connect to more people.

You could be right:
https://medium.com/@wtfmitchel/linkedin-10-million-monthly-a...

>Unfortunately and according to my sources within Microsoft, this may be due LinkedIn’s monthly active usership plummeting since their acquisition as speculated above. Just how bad is it? LinkedIn’s monthly active users have supposedly been reduced to a paltry 10,000,000 users per month by winter/spring of 2017 or roughly 10% of what it was during summer of 2016
The closest link I found from (1) to (2) uses differential geometry and in particular the exterior algebra.

Using the exterior derivative df = (df/dx) dx + (df/dy) dy. it is possibly to define (identifying C with R^2) a function to be holomorphic when it can be written df = g (dx + idy) for some function g. From the properties of the exterior derivative you then get 0 = d(df) = d( g dz) = df' ^ dz, which implies that dg = h dz for some h, hence g is holomorphic as well. Defining the complex derivative of 'f' to be 'g' at least shows that any holomorphic function is infinitely complex differentiable.

I haven't quite managed to figure out why this definition of the complex derivative coincides with the limit of f(w+z)/z as z->0 with z complex, but it should follow from the algebraic properties of C.

Showing holomorphic functions to be analytic is somewhat trickier, but you can probably use that the above definition of holomorphicity and Stokes' theorem together imply Cauchy's integral theorem (every integral around a loop vanishes).
Can I export it to code?
I've test driven a Hyundai Ioniq which comes with a six speed automatic transmission and if it's a representative example then I guess it's still not "it" - at least in my view.

There's a level of smoothness and instant response that I haven't seen in cars which are not directly propelled by an electric motor.
TurboCAD Mac Pro 10.0.3.1356 for Mac Crack Torrent
One caveat, you are the consumer, not the customer. Subtle, but important difference.
This is great! What was the time frame? Did you do several lessens, one hour each? How many? Or one/many complete morning(s) / afternoon(s)?
Microsoft cuts Azure HDInsight prices, gives developers new big data tools
I've been in your shoes using LXC way back but moved to Docker fairly quickly when it came out, so I kinda get your position.

Now, Kubernetes/Docker provide better tooling with added benefits. Docker provides a Dockerfile based declarative approach of building the setup and storing it in an image and then running it as a container with greater flexibility and more features than a typical LXC based script. Kubernetes takes the running of multiple containers to another level capable of managing 100s or even 1000s of them for scalable operations.

RTFM for the details :-)

HTH!
I hope that we never reach the point where everyone buys an electric car. By then most big cities will heavily rely on a fleet of car pool, potentially self driving.

That decreases the number of needed cars by an order of magnitude.
> I still completely fail to realize which actual problems were solved by e-residency (setting aside some good money going to Estonia).

It's still not exactly clear what money would go to Estonia. I'm no tax advisor but reading previous threads indicate that even if you incorporate a company in Estonia but solely operate it from another country that has tax treaties with Estonia (and many do) you still need to do your taxes locally, not in Estonia. So except the fee for the card and processing company application there are no big money to be made here.
I am betting when WebAssembly gets mature all Web sites will look like Flash, just coded on the framework of choice, thus finally making the browser just yet another VM.
Had been my first reading on LSTM and was so smooth and lucid. I did need to read more literature and code, but a great resource to begin with.