skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, street parking is unique enough and inconvenient enough already that electric cars can take over for everyone else and force those who rely on street parking to adapt. Looking for some sources on the population distribution of street parking, I found this [1] (admittedly from 1999, but still pretty informative even if the numbers have changed by more than I'd expect):

> PARKING: Slightly more than nine in ten American households (91 percent) have at least one car, van, or light truck at home for personal use.

> Because 71 percent of homeowners and 35 percent of renters have more than one vehicle, parking space can be a real concern. Garages or carports are common for households living in single-detached units–just over three in four of these homes (76 percent) have a covered shelter for vehicles. Townhouses or row houses, on the other hand, include a garage or carport less than half the time (46 percent). In both mobile homes and units in multi-unit buildings, the proportion is 26 percent.

> At homes without a garage or carport available, vehicles may be left either on the street or in a driveway, parking lot, or other off-street space. For homes without a garage or carport, some kind of off-street space is available at 87 percent of the detached units, at about 75 percent of both the single attached units and units in multi-unit structures, and at 90 percent of the mobile homes.

> All this leaves about 7.8 million households who must rely on street parking. Of course, not all of those households have vehicles. Four in ten households who report no offstreet or garage parking also have no vehicles.

That suggests there are roughly 4.7 million of 100 million households that park on the street. That's small enough that electric vehicles could 'take over' even if those people were holdouts.

[1]: https://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/ahb-9901.pdf
There is no need to be rude.

TypeScript was used as an example of a well-known language that currently is transpiled to JavaScript. I am not saying that TypeScript will surely be compiled to WebAssembly, just that it could.

TypeScript is designed for development of large applications. It is a superset of JavaScript both because this facilitates learning, but also because there was really not an alternative. In the end you had to compile to JavaScript.
It is not hard to imagine a language with the same objective of TypeScript that is compiled to WebAssembly. Furthermore, if TypeScript was compiled to WebAssembly you could use it wherever there was a platform for the WebAssembly format. So if somebody created a project to consume WASM binary files and execute them from within .NET assemblies[1], you could use TypeScript outside the browser and node.

[1] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/NETAndWebAssemblyIsThisTheFut...
According to some research papers [1] [2] it may be feasbible to use desert sand for concrete at least - However, my knowledge about construction is very limited so I may have misinterpreted the findings.

[1]
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_possible_to_use_dese...
[2]
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jamila_Abdalhmid/post/I...
Don't confuse bitshaming with evangelism.
Exactly. Leave https alone and use it for hypertext. Have another protocol (vmtps?) that is used for apps. Browsers could support both.
That is definitely relevant, we don't know how much day-to-night load shifting will happen. On the other hand, there's also the probability that people who find themselves needing to charge during the day will often need more time than a gas fuelup would take, making them more likely to buy something. It's hard to predict what will happen of course, but those shop owners are going to fight to stay alive.
> And they wanted the player to work on multiple platforms, unlike say Foobar2000.

You mean something like VLC, mplayer, clementine, Quod Libet, [insert another massive amount of players based on gtk, python, qt, etc.]?
Something tells me Electron is not the only choice.
Cashing out is a great way to reduce damage as a user. Don't hold coins/fiat you're not willing to lose in an exchange.
In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
For the regular user they behave like objects

> import builtins
> builtins.int
=> <class 'future.types.newint.newint'>

class myint(int):
pass
Chromium still has more pervasive spyware features than Firefox with all the data collection options enabled.
The USA installed Cable TV, why would charging cables be harder?

The USA spends $500Billion on cars and $400 Billion on gasoline every year. A onetime $trillon upgrade isn't an outsize amount.
Sounds like an interesting problem. What is your use-case? Caching servers in ISPs?
Kubernetes kind of assumes that any node can fail any time and reschedules workloads. This assumption might not be in line with your requirements.
The backing technology would probably have been telex. This seems to have superseded morse-telegraphs some time in the 1960s, and the US telegram office (Western Union), if they had a connection, should have been able to telex directly to your local Norwegian post office.

Completely wild and unqualified guess: Western Union probably did not run their US operations over telex in 1993, they probably had some 80s-era green-screen mainframe system, which did not connect to the world wide telex network (because telegrams, especially international ones, were a microscopic part of traffic -- anyone with any kind of significant international traffic would have their own telex-links, or be on the phone, fax and/or email by then). So the operator would have typed the message (from a hand-written form, the customer would probably not have had hands-on-keyboard) into this system (first transcription), addressed to some central office in charge of sending world wide telegrams. The office would have telex, but not integrated, so they'd print out the message and re-type it on the telex (second transcription), sent directly to your local post office. There, they would take the message directly from the telex and deliver it to you (so no transcription on the Norwegian end, at which point the spacing would have been fixed).
If the consequence of my account being compromised is the bank adjusting the numbers in the ledger back then the bank are welcome to enforce such rules.

If a bank said that customers were responsible for the money stored in the bank and that the bank could not undo transactions (from the POV of the genuine client) then we'd be demanding much stronger banking passwords.
Georgia (USA) had a very lucrative EV tax incentive: US$5000 on a purchase or lease. The city of Atlanta is perfect for such vehicles: commute under 50 miles, desire to mitigate smog, temperature conducive to good battery performance. Result was a lot of people (myself included) leased a Nissan Leaf for 2 years at practically no cost[1]. This jumpstarted the EV market, persuaded installation of a LOT of chargers, and persuaded many people that EVs are a desirable option (if a bit more expensive up-front).

Eventually demand for the tax credit got so high, and revenue from gasoline taxes dropped enough, that the state dropped the incentive - going the other way even, charging a straight-up $200 annual tax on EVs for road use. The market for EVs evaporated (understandable, because no more free-for-2-years cars). The ripple effects from the artificial demand being abruptly cut off will affect the EV industry for long: people found them desirable, but expect them cheap.

I expect the EV market will eventually happen. They're very nice cars, and starting every day "topped off" is very convenient. Battery technology has progressed well, with enough money & interest to see it thru to seriously competing with petrol.

[1] - The net cost was $zero + upgrades, but it did require considerable cash flow to pull off: you had to lease a $36,000 car and get your credits at tax time - possibly years later. Atlanta has a good confluence of incomes, high-tech interests, and weather facilitating this.
Should I list all of the CVEs related to exploits on JavaScript VMs?

Just today there were a few on another HN thread.
You might be interested in Wikirock, a Finnish group who _also_ turn random Wikipedia articles into music. They're on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3c7rymM4Z143IeZiTJJbQ6
There's nothing stopping them right now, except the uselessness of Bitcoin for anything but stuffing it under a virtual mattress.
It's a problem of god-knows-what. You can talk to a lot of people that have clear opinions on bank failures, bank runs, inflation and such. I'm not one of them. Bank runs have been happening since the neolithic. The money is always made up, usually it's debt. Even gold inflates, when banks start issuing loans. Sometimes it crashes. I think it's something we just don't quite understand.

Cryptos are good for reasons other than whatever macroeconomic theory is built into bitcoin. They're digital. That's useful. The digital economy needs better ways of moving around money. At present, if you want to run a digital "market" where money goes in and out it must be "thick". Chargebacks, fraud & transaction costs will add up to 5%. That means thin or fast are not options. For thin and/or fast (eg online securities trading or currencies), they need to already have all your money or trust that you'll pay. That's why you need an account with a brokerage. In other words, there is no digital cash.

How do you build a patreon without a "man-in-the-middle?" Can Estcoin do it? How do you trade currencies without some random institution holding your money. How do you do micropayments.

I think we need a separate bitcoin for building stuff on, away from the crazy currency trading. Government backed seems like a good way to go. I'd even recommend a central bank, just call it something less scary.

Edit: I don't get the downvotes. If people like the bitcoin "macroeconomic theory," that's great. You have bitcoin. Why can't we have 2?
Hahaha. Sorry, but this "we're launching a currency that we don't call a currency but that everybody, including us, knows is meant to be a currency <wink>" is ridiculous.

Why is it ridiculous for a small EU nation to pay lip service to EU regulations with regard to this financial experiment? What would be a better way to do what they're doing?
Ask HN: Books you read in 2017?
I'd like to know which books HN read in 2017. Which of these would you recommend? Which of these surprised you, because they are not the usual suspects.
I'm 28 and am a free software activist focusing heavily and user privacy and security, iving talks on those issues and meeting with my local school district to discuss how it impacts students.

When I was a teenager in middle school what almost feels like another lifetime ago, I used AIM.
Agree that some sort of game theory is the next step.
The exchanges can just change a couple numbers in their database and reverse the hack... r-right?
Buying gas is a necessity, but also often an excuse to buy stuff on your way too and from work.
I have not read the book, but just the title reminded me I probably belong to a minority group that do not believe neither "equality" nor "democracy".
There are reasonable people, who would only do this for applications (such as games or maps), and never for documents. Then there are those who require JavaScript for simple walls of texts.
What You Can Do to Make Your Home Smart Home?
France puts Facebook on notice over WhatsApp data transfers
It's also obvious to many users when a progress bar is "faking" progress, stalled, or clearly not representing the actual progress being made.

This makes me mad at your app, and very slightly less likely to use your software.

Good luck measuring my slight disdain.
Fiction? I started contributing to https://standardebooks.org/ and discovered Gogol’s Dead Souls and Strindberg’s The Red Room in the process as new favourite classics.
Not really, because there aren't any thoroughly supported, mainstream browsers as clean of spyware features as Firefox.
> One hack and you lose everything, with nothing to reduce damage.

Exchanges can mitigate this by storing the majority of their funds in multisig cold wallets.

Users can mitigate attacks against exchanges by never sending all of their coins to an exchange. For cashing out I recommend to 1) send a small number of coins to the exchange 2) wait until those converted USD arrive in the bank account 3) go back to step one.
Wait until you have kids and are traveling. There is always a snack that was forgotten, a meal missed, or something left at home.
You're talking about every other phone manufacturer except Apple. Once you buy an Android phone, the company has no reason to support you with security updates or OS updates. They have no reason to believe that you will buy another phone from then two years later.

Apple on the other hand still makes money off of customers -- app sells, services, music, media, etc.
The biggest aid to subsidies is "chicken-and-egg" issues: nobody wants to buy an EV if there's nowhere (other than home) to charge it, and nobody wants to install public chargers if there's nobody driving EVs. Atlanta has cleared that hurdle: lots of chargers were installed, reaching critical mass where the worst of those worries are mitigated and both sides willing to take the step to bring more cars & chargers into the system.
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Like most interesting stories, I find myself without a clear opinion as to which side is correct. It would be annoying to be a judge.

Losing art sucks, but it doesn't sound like the owner acted in bad faith.

I know the real question the judge must answer is whether or not a law was broken, but I assume since they're humans they often act from a sense of personal justice and then rationalize backwards to a sensible legal argument.
Sorry... what?! This seems absolutely absurd. Not to mention an incredible waste of paper.
Well, I'm baffled. :-) Thanks for this great response, looking forward to the changes!
I think I did actually answer that? It possibly did, so it can?

Really, that isn't so much a question about the model of humors as it is about the definition of "the scientific method" that you happen to be using. If you define it to align with the modern understanding of the philosophy of science, then no, I don't see how it could possibly arise from that. But if you define it more broadly to encompass the ancient roots of today's philosophy of science, as might be appropriate when discussing past times, then it well might have. Even if the methodology isn't exactly up to modern standards, it is still useful to distinguish the predecessors of modern science from fundamentally different contemporary approaches (some of which have their own modern day forms).

The core idea that was extended into modern science is empiricism, and it seems that the model of humors might very well have been at least inspired by an empirical observation of how blood separates into four distinguishable "fluids", which might be enough to say that it could have arisen from the (proto-?)scientific method?

Really, it's just another case where you have to be careful to not fall victim to essentialism. Whether the model of humors could have arisen from the scientific method depends on the definition of "scientific method" you are using. For some definitions, it could, for some it clearly could not. You just have to be careful to not mix up the different definitions in the same context.
Agreed. ASIC resistance + anonymity are killer features for any alt-coin, rn.
Time to remove Windows 10.
Fair enough!

Also, this came out moments ago. Timely? https://twitter.com/cnn/status/943105094345723904
Agreed. It seems we are just piling on one thing after another. Surely we can start fresh with a better eye toward the future.

TLS + HTTP Methods/WebSockets + HTML + CSS + JavaScript + JS frameworks

Plus all the server side stuff. It's all a mess.
The Magic SysReq Key On Your Keyboard
Yes i agree, it's all timing. My comment is in response to the current state of the EV market.

> The general prediction is for the total-cost-of-ownership to be lower in the next few years, and for the upfront price to be lower a few years after that.

I think upfront price is more important than most people think. The problem with the "total cost of ownership" argument is it ignores the fact that money now is worth far more than money later, effectively increasing total cost of ownership.

For a concrete worst case example consider the difference in upfront cost between ICE and EV, make it into a loan, add interest and _then_ compare it.

Personally i'm totally up for all the benefits of low maintenance though and would happily trade in an equivalent price up front. I hate the complexity and unreliability of ICE, although the excessively integrated computer systems in EVs sound like another mess to look forward to.
> The USA installed Cable TV, why would charging cables be harder?

Because a TV coax cable is 1cm slim and can be installed very easily. Run it over the air on poles, dig it into a small trench, run it via the sewers. Whatever fits best.

A 10 kV or, worse, a 1 kA-capable 3x230V line, not so much. The 10kV (or more) line has special requirements in terms of distance to other cables, a 3x230V line at that capability is pure hell due to its sheer thickness and mass.

Also the charger station will require a transformer... which aren't tiny, and transforming 250kW produces significant heat loss. So either find some free place in earth where you can bury it, or deal with adjacent house owners to install the transformer in their basement.

> The USA spends $500Billion on cars and $400 Billion on gasoline every year. A onetime $trillon upgrade isn't an outsize amount.

Problem is, the car/gasoline spend is done by individuals on small-ish scales. A multi-trillion investment must be fronted by the state - the utility companies don't have nearly enough cash to finance this. But, as noted, the US can't get enough funds to replace Flint's potable water infrastructure or Puerto Rico's broken grid...
There is also Sunday Assembly: https://www.sundayassembly.com/

"The Sunday Assembly was started by Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, two comedians who were on the way to a gig in Bath when they discovered they both wanted to do something that was like church but totally secular and inclusive of all—no matter what they believed."
Using OpenType variable fonts in CSS
US blames #NorthKorea for the massive #WannaCry ransomware attack
looks very interesting, checking it out...
This is probably a reflection more of the demographic that can own EV's: wealthy people, likely older with children. Personally if there were a good EV in my price range (perhaps the model 3) I would have no need for a gas-powered car. I don't regularly need a large range and on the once-very-few-months occasion where I do need more range, I can just rent a car
> Maybe we should start letting the exchanges gamble with our bitcoins?

Why do you assume that's not already happening: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5441.msg1413156#msg1...
This reminds me of an experiment I had going a year or so ago. Same basic idea, but far more automated: I'd been using taskwarrior for years, and had gotten into the habit of breaking what I was doing into multiple taskwarrior tasks with dependencies. Out of curiosity, I wrote a bash script that extracted those dependencies and created a graphviz dot file.

(I never really found much use for it though, and had forgotten about it until reading this. I now just prefer taskwarrior's urgency ranking in its regular output.)
This has to be a joke, it feels like a Portlandia skit.
The phrase “what IS it” has always bugged me in mathematics. The answer to that is always “what we defined it to be.” The question math answers is “what does it do.”
Are you honestly suggesting that a large percentage of goods/services in the US are provided by prisoners or are you just arguing for arguments sake?

I doubt 1 in a million products are made by prisoners.
Not absurd: artistic!
For reasons she just explained, like digging where there are already cables or lack of budgeting for even higher value utilities like water.
Ask HN: Which books do you plan to read this holiday season?
Would be glad to know the re-read candidates.
Hawaiian Politician Introducing Bill to Encourage Locally Owned BroadbandNetwork
Just a great example of direct democracy: In Switzerland you can meet the politicians on the street, in the tram, in the local pub and since you have always the theoretically the possibility to punch them in the face, you can really say that they have skin in the game.

I think such projects put even more of their skin in the game. Thanks for building it! (content marketing: if you want to move here, I am a tech recruiter hunting for engineers - my e-mail is in my HN-profile)
It's their browser, they can do whatever they want.
Agreed, back when I got the tooling up and running it generated a whole bunch of things to emulate stdio and such. I couldn't figure out how to make a freestanding wasm library.

I wish I could just do `wasmcc -ofoo.wasm foo.c` and get a `foo.wasm` that I can include, without any implicit dependencies and such. Let me supply malloc if I call it. I'm sure there'd be libc-lite libraries in no time (if they aren't there already, I'm out of date).
Bosch Venture Capital makes first investment in distributed ledger technology
You also want smaller companies to comply, where 2% is maybe too little for them to care, as it would cost more to comply with GDPR.
It’s art. Read the entire thing, it’s pretty short. The participants page goes into a little detail of the origin of the project.
Cyber Security Day: Digital trust and personal data protection
I wish europe could allow for such harmless experiments, without some bureucrat feeling threatened in his/her existance.
I sense a Luddite uprising.
It’s art. Commentary on our current state of affairs.
The USA massively subsidizes gasoline spending. First of all you have externalities of pollution, and the health related expense for that. Next you have a $trillion/yr in military spending dedicated to providing a secure oil supply.
I wonder what will they say about us in 100 years? Or 1000 years?

Let's continue improving.
No, Go isn't OO enough. That's the part I am looking for. Otherwise, Go clears rest of the needs. It compiles to native code which works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Also, it is a stable language, with good tooling and huge library ecosystem and a strong backing by a well-known company.
That policy may appear unwise, but to judge banks' security, there is enough evidence available without resorting to any such theoretical model of what's secure and what's not.

And that evidence is pretty clear. I do not remember any hacking incidents resulting in large-scale losses to consumer, so they seem to be doing something right.
Check Out the Specs and Features of Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018), Galaxy A8+ (2018)
Yet it is already happening.

https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript

https://github.com/01alchemist/TurboScript
Holy fuck, CNET actually tells people to turn off Windows Update?!

I'm starting to think published tech advice should be treated like legal or financial advice. If you give out stinkers like this and they turn out to be violently harmful to its readers, you are liable for it.

Microsoft doesn't get off free —they've been cocking this up consistently— but turning off WU is antivax level stupidity.
UGH.

I can't tell you much about the future, but I will make one prediction.

In the future, everything will be constantly beeping.