skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like others I think this idea sounds great in theory, especially for cities without a dock system already in place. I'm pretty confused about NYC encouraging this though given the obviously downfalls. One of the few things I actually dislike about living here is the complete disregard for public spaces/services. There are many reasons for it, but I can't imagine how bad this will get if New Yorkers and our tourists treat these bicycles with the same care they treat the subways/buses/parks/sidewalks, etc. I imagine pretty much every major tourist destination that's an open space will be completely filled with discarded bicycles from May to November each year. Not to mention the burden this will put on the already overcrowded Manhattan sidewalks.

A few years ago when Citi bike started I remember it being pretty sparse, and I could have seen the benefit of dockless programs to encourage faster expansion. At this point they are everywhere, except farther out areas of Brooklyn and Queens where many people have cars and likely wouldn't use them. Citi bike seems (to me) to bring all the benefits of a dockless system without any of the downsides. Granted the price is higher, but it's still cheaper than the subway if you buy the membership, and for tourists if they are here for 3+ days and get the $24 pass.
a broken clock is right twice a day
Crash Tested Tesla Model 3s
I'd say its pretty well written, and the disclaimer on a public forum goes without saying.

I suppose I could sum it up as: "GPL doesn't include anything about the infrastructure of the software." The lack of an infrastructure for developers to hook into, could be GPL in literal word (or law), but not GPL in spirit (or morals). Likewise, and to add to your example, client-server architecture such as cloud computing might be GPL compatible in literal word, but not in spirit.
>> Every time a block is validated, a single node in the network gets a reward, and everyone else’s computing time is completely wasted.

>This is a misunderstanding of what PoW is http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/

Honest question: I tried to find the problem with that view in the link you provided, but couldn't. Can you explain it to others who may share the same belief? I think that's what the Bitcoin white paper describes, but could be mistaken.
You could have just asked before writing this entire comment. One of the men was holding a knife. As simple as that.
NYC is rich but has very different priorities than other cities. It even operates its own forgien intel service. It is a city dedicated to servicing luxury real estate and the people who own it, neither of which care one iota about subways.
PropertyWebBuilder is currently sponsored by Coddde, Ruby On Rails consultants based in Spain and Chile:

uh they sponsored you for 2 dollars? This might be you problem.

Also until you have users you aren't going to and shouldn't make money.
Someone just put that up now to mess with me. That's how nice people are these days.

I'll clean out the db and re-seed in a minute.
> Imo, people afraid of the Government and wanting to drastically limit its power are a bit like anti-vaxer

I should remind you that 11 months ago, Donald Trump became the head of what's arguably the most powerful government in the world. I'm glad there are restrictions on the power of that government and very much concerned that they're not stringent enough.

While I do have some sympathy for anarchist positions, I don't think a complete abolition of government as we know it is likely to be pretty. That certainly doesn't mean government should have unlimited power. If we're using the last century or so to source our examples, the governments we've seen fail with disastrous results had fewer limits on their power than those that are still with us.
That comic is on point.
how did you get that idea?
and why would DanielQuinn even bother? He doesnt accept any donations and instead encourages people to donate to charity...

First commits:

* open Paperless Dec 18, 2017

* Paperless Dec 20, 2015

* mayan edms Feb 3, 2011
That may be technically true, but we should be comparing ourselves to other countries that have had to tackle the same problems. Consider the Paris Métro[1], which is even older than the NYC subway system (1900 vs 1904). They have much better service, lower capital and operating costs, automated trains, etc. We need to take a hard look at ourselves and stop using NYC exceptionalism as an excuse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Métro
Precisely.

Also, isn't there an interesting relationship b/w the state and the city wrt funding where the state is responsible for the subway and not the city?
Sadly I agree with most of what you said. Unfortunately I think the cards are stacked against progress here. People like to site the deplorable state of the NYC Subway in the 1970s as evidence that the current situation can be fixed. However investment was made in the system back then before it reached a tipping point and it took over a decade of investing to get out of that.

Now after 20 years of underinvesting this needs to be done against the backdrop of a population boom and ridership explosion.

>"I don't think New York can do it until the people get tired of watching the decay and the current political machine gets voted out."

Unfortunately this is even harder to fix than the MTA. Its not just the long-standing culture of corruption in Albany, but its the culture of corruption from City Hall, the MTA's contractors and MTA's Union.

Of course just fixing the governance structure of the MTA would be a great start but when you look at how this structure actually works you might be forgiven being cynical:

https://www.city-journal.org/html/who-runs-mta-15281.html
You're personifying companies way too much.
Hong Kong has a really interesting answer to that question: they turn a >$1B profit each year. But they can be better described as a real estate company that runs a subway as a side business to make their real estate more valuable.
not sure where the 5% fees number is coming from, it looks like its <1.4%. If you're adding the redemption and exchange fees those are only applicable if you hold the fund for <60 days...

https://www.hussmanfunds.com/pdf/hsgprosp.pdf
If you believe in it and are long. Yes, buy (be greedy) when others are fearful. If you're trying to time the market for short term gains, I'd skip it. You're just going to get skinned by the big players doing the manipulation unless you're lucky.
Within this context, "Stallman is always right" applies to Stallman_with_FSF_hat_ie._FSF.org not Stallman_and_his_side_interests_on_Stallman.org.
I've always thought of HN as the place where you can reliably get a contrarian opinion. See for instance that research some time ago showing the top-voted comment of most submissions on HN being a refutation of the thing that was submitted.

Cryptocurrencies have been rising in value at an astronomical pace the last few months, and Bitcoin may currently be the biggest asset bubble in human history [1]. It would seem it is only quite logical that the general HN comment would be quite skeptical at the very least.

[1]: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-12/its-official-bitcoi...
Should Freelancer’s Bill by the Hour?
His life doesn't have to be in danger to pull a gun!

1. He just has to justify that he had a reasonable fear for it.
2. Anyway he was protecting his property

In fact, he did a very honest thing: he brandished his gun. Which means he showed the would be criminals that he was packing.

Steps to shoot a would be assailant legally:

1. Show that you're packing
2. if the would be assailant doesn't leave, aim
3. if the would be assailant doesn't leave, shoot.

Its a very fast, but choreographed dance. The point of it being that you don't just get to shoot anyone right away, you have to give them a chance to bugger off. Which they did.

EDIT: I've never owned a gun and don't really want to own one (shooting is a lot of fun, but I don't want to be a gun owner). I might buy a .22 rifle (hardly relevant for this story)
Sounds to me like it needs to shift around some of those priorities.
Justifying Higher Rates with Value-Based Pricing
You need opportunity cost in order to secure the network. Without that, there is no incentive to keep the network secure. There is no cheaper solution to solve this problem, therefore there is no waste.
Using Bro Analysis Tools to Satisfy NIST SP 800-171 Requirements
There is a lot to dissect but I would focus on labor force. Our labor force used to be all human labor. Now it includes a large number of bots, both physical and software, that take care of business. The (output = labor . x) doesn't work anymore.
unrelated. Can you tell the bandwidth of your site? (or its approximate magnitude)
Thank you for this comment. There's so much negativity in the most-voted comments that it's refreshing to see an approach that tries to learn instead of discredit.
Show HN: Buildfiles (as opposed to dotfiles) Provision your Debian with Ansible
Compared to a lot of other coins, DOGE has been around for a long time and basically counts as an established, respectable institution. It had a very active community, it sponsored a racecar. And unlike most coins, it has a very concise and transparent value proposition of why it's different than the million other coins on the market. That value proposition being "lol memes," which... isn't a scam, at least.
Indeed. That pic on the top says: "We're immature kids, all we want is lulz". OK, as I visitor, I immediately get the message, see how it mismatches my expectations, and close the tab.

Business? No, I see no business here.
How to Optimize Apparel Manufacturing Business?
You have to make a choice at some level of the stack, for me, that was serverless as the deployment framework. You could probably use terraform or ansible + some custom scripts, but then you could argue you're locked into terraform or ansible ;)

The login thing isn't actually necessary (or if it is, that's new)
Who would buy it? The system has $40 billion in debt, plus pension obligations, plus union contracts. The only way to make money on this privately would be declaring bankruptcy and hoping for a good settlement.
Open Source .NET – 3 years later
They absolutely do, they just don't realize. There are a lot of schemes for "laundering" where the ad ran. Aside from popunder/redirect shenanigans that were covered in the press recently, they can iframe a "legit" site (that they control or partner with) which then runs the ad. They may or may not bother to actually arrange the ad to be visible.
They've been great in Seattle. I mostly ride my own bike around but have used dock-less bikes for connecting the last-mile on a bus trip. A small percentage are poorly parked and when I walk by I take the 5 seconds to move a bike or pick one up that's fallen over. No biggie.

I also like that it is putting pressure on the stupid nanny-state helmet law.
Dealing with management who would rather hope than plan.
I'd believe you if my local R line wasn't shut down every weekend for the next year.
Well what I meant was shrinking the n body system to a point then extending that to a field. But it’s beyond me how the math works to invert those same force vectors to an impulse.
Is it impossible for them to schedule downtime?
investors may not have a sense of humour, and if they did you would also have to be funny.
Not necessarily disagreeing, but it's important to point out that fixing/upgrading the system comes from the capital budget, and the promises you're describing are paid out of the operating budget. The debt service for the former, is earmarked, by law, from the latter, which clocks in at 16% according to recent figures[0]. And we might have larger capital allocations if there weren't the ongoing and very generous salary scales, heavy use of overtime, and pension obligations.

The question I have is, why were things like the Hudson Yards station, work on the perpetually delayed 2nd Avenue subway, Fulton St. station renovation prioritized over the core signal and preexisting aging track infrastructure?

[0]http://web.mta.info/mta/budget/pdf/MTA%202017%20Adopted%20Bu... (page II-1)
> I don't think New York can do it until the people get tired of watching the decay and the current political machine gets voted out.

We're tired of it, but New York government is not a democracy. The two ruling parties have passed an complex network of laws which, in effect, mean that officials are accountable only to the political party, not to their constituents.

Case in point: one of the largest advocates of eliminating business service was Silver (a Democrat), despite the fact that his constituents were almost entirely dependent on bus service. When he was finally convicted of corruption, people were shocked - not shocked that he was corrupt (everyone knew - it was completely conducted in the open), but shocked that he was actually going to be held accountable to it. Unfortunately, the conviction was overturned on appeal due to a technicality - a law had been passed which narrowed the definition of corruption, meaning that the things he was convicted for were no longer criminal offenses.

We can't vote them out when there's literally no one to vote in, and both the Democrats and the Republicans have a gentleman's agreement not to compete with each other seriously, the same way Comcast and Time Warner Cable do.

New York is literally the most corrupt state government in the country[0]. Nothing short of a series of multiple federal court rulings will change that, because both parties benefit from it, and neither has the incentive to change it.

[0] http://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2016/sep/19/el...
Show HN: Holiday Binge Challenge – A WebGL Experiment
I found this reading very interesting, and novel.

However, he lost me when he wrote: "With regard to Bitcoin, my view is that the Blockchain algorithm itself is brilliant. Bitcoin itself, however, is just one application of Blockchain, and a rather awkward one."

Every time I read a comment like this, my eyes roll up.
This anectode will also keep happening on public/unencrypted ledgers.
Completely agree -- not to mention that the reason it stopped being privately owned in the first place was that the original companies went out of business.
Show HN: Custom AWS resource grouping
Grouping based on all possible keys, values, states, types, sizes, etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My_uPx9nZF8

https://totalcloud.io
> They just asked for his cash, nothing show any sign in danger in that.

Yeah, that's all they said. I'm sure there was no threat in their words or mannerisms at all. Certainly, if the victim had merely given these gentlemen a firm "no," they would have just shrugged their shoulders and walked away.
Command Line Curiosities – Making the Terminal Sing
Bluemonday: a fast HTML sanitizer to scrub user generated content of XSS
That looks a lot more accurate than twice a day.
Japan is similar with both it’s local and inter-City subways/trains.
> Food and Water last a few days before going bad

Not if you take the time to prepare them. Grains will last basically until pests eat them, and water will last forever if you keep it in a sealed container and sanitize it first. Hell, even meat can keep for years if you salt it enough.
Long commute to the office.
Moore’s Law and Artificial General Intelligence Timelines
It's risky and I wouldn't recommend betting on it, but file sharing and drugs haven't gone away, despite the government fighting them for many years. The exact mechanism for trading bits over the Internet that other people don't want you to has evolved since the days of Napster, but music and video for free over the Internet are more accessible than ever. The other example is the War on Drugs, and we're right in the middle of an opiate epidemic, so you tell me how well that's going.

Bitcoin is backed - by the opposite of the government - the DEA keeps cannabis, cocaine, and heroin illegal, which means that Bitcoin is actually useful for moving money around for drug dealers and terrorists; anyone who can't use the mainstream banking system due to prohibition by the US government. (North Korea is another example of who's not allowed to bank.)

However, this does not let us calculate how much a Bitcoin should be worth, it only allows us to say that there is actually a use for Bitcoin, and it's not purely speculation.
you guys know that deflation is bad right?
Fluid equations assume that there's a single characteristic velocity for the atoms at each point in space. So, for physical systems where local velocity distributions are wide or even multi-modal, fluid equations won't capture the physics.

In plasma physics, Laser Wakefield dynamics is an example of a system that can't be modeled as a fluid.

I sort of doubt these considerations apply to the atmosphere, but this is one of the main heuristics for when you can't use a fluid equation.
Someone else has push rights to your Heroku project and they would do this to mess with you?
There's always a risk of a fire.

And in our case the risk is huge.
Andromedia is helping the fashion business with supply chain and infrastructure specific to that industry. They have done such a good job that FIDM partnered with them to include them into their curriculum.
https://latechnews.org/andromeda-connects-fashion-technology...
After reading discussions on this for years, I feel now that only a small part of piraters would now still go for that. A lot of them would argue that the price point is still wrong, or whatever restrictions are left are still unreasonable.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Bitfinexed

This guy claims the increase in price is due to fake money being injected into market.
Deadlines. I'm terrible at estimating how long something will take to complete; especially if other people are involved.
For a decade?
This is why it is common practice to require the user to enter their email address twice in forms.
Yeah. And you need 20 language extensions to sit at the top of your every file to do anything useful with it.
switching context between components/templates backend/frontend for single features (angularjs), I wish there were frameworks to inject a features into an application an you'd only have to touch one file (or directory)
> I specifically installed ubuntu instead of arch or something more exotic because i knew there would be issues.

You should try Arch. I'm using AMDGPU with X11 on Arch since late 2015 (when full support for my card entered the mainline kernel) and I had exactly zero issues. Just installed the driver packages, rebooted and everything worked (xrandr, power mgmt, OpenGL, games, etc.).

Maybe your issue is trying to use the proprietary blobs (aka AMDGPU-PRO). I never used these (and I don't know why I should).
SaaS Pricing
Well, I’m glad at least one of us enjoys them. Walking around them every day is getting old, fast. The city is littered with these neon orange/green/yellow things cluttering up our throughways.
Precisely my point: no regularly scheduled downtime to do these things results in major outages when the situation gets too bad to ignore. Same with the impending L-train shutdown.
SI joint. The clock's going to tick over to 40 next year and most of the last 20 was spent in a chair in front of a computer. Now I spend around an hour every day stretching and doing exercises to try to reverse some of the damage.
> The question I have is, why were things like the Hudson Yards station, work on the perpetually delayed 2nd Avenue subway, Fulton St. station renovation prioritized over the core signal and preexisting aging track infrastructure?

Which gets votes? Renewing existing infrastructure is something nobody understands.
But parts of the systems do shut down time to time, by rerouting trains, or by just canceling them and providing shuttle buses. It's perfectly possible to get 8-12 hours long uninterrupted work windows for significant stretches of the railway.

The work has to be incremental, of course.
Sure, but that'll get downvoted in a jiffy in HN.
Corporate proxies.
Solving FizzBuzz Using Apache MXNet
But how exactly does Dan propose to add coverage "guidance"? Here's what he says:

"Since Zalewski has already done the work of figuring out, empirically, what heuristics are likely to exercise more code paths, it seems like a waste to ignore that and just generate totally random values."

Dan does, in fact, explicitly suggest "using fuzzing-like mutators", as you put it, in QuickCheck's random value generator. But those mutators work on continuous file contents, not on a bunch of disparate parameter values generated at distinct moments in the program. An early version of RamFuzz tried to apply AFL to the log file recording all generated random values, but all that yielded was invalid logs that couldn't be replayed. I don't know how else one would leverage Zalewski's heuristics in a random-value generator, though I'm obviously open to suggestions.
It may be an unpopular statement, but I believe that even enthusiasts and long-time supporters such as yourself know just about as much regarding the actual value of bitcoin as people who are caught up in the hype.
Two guys demanding money from you doesn't sound like a dangerous situation to you? You're nuts. Even if his life wasn't in danger he was gonna get roughed up, and that's worth pulling your weapon for.
The feeling that writing software doesn't matter in the slightest in the grand picture of things.

As a full-stack web engineer, I don't help cure cancer, fix world hunger, or even make people using the software happier. I help business take the customer's money to make managers on both sides of that deal happy.
Fixed. Reset the database and re-seeded it.
Come on guys - do you really think I would put such nonsense on my own site.
The connections aren't the problem under discussion. The problem is that it's a crumbling subway system that is having trouble operating at the capacity the city requires. For a city as rich as New York, you would expect something much better.
How the hell do you know OP knows what they're talking about? They admit that they don't know finance in the post.
Read some of the posts here: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/
It’s zero sum for the individual buyer and seller, but in aggregate it’s how the economy decides what work to do.