skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In general [4-way stop] works fairly well

If you're not considering intersection throughput, then that may be true, but 4-way stops are one of the worst forms of intersection control when there's even a moderate amount of traffic.

> Roundabouts are different.

Of course, but what I was implying when I made my post is that a 4-way stop sign controlled intersection right-of-way rule is unusual compared to most traffic situations where one has to yield the right of way. At a yield sign, one typically yields to traffic coming from the driver's left. When entering a highway, one yields to traffic on their left. When making a right turn on red, one yields to traffic on their left after coming to a full stop.

Only when coming to a 4-way stop are the right-of-way rules reversed it seems.

> whereas traffic can get "starved" trying to enter a roundabout.

One thing that's done in the UK is to add traffic lights at the entrances to busy roundabouts. When traffic gets heavy, the activate the traffic lights to regulate traffic flow to prevent the starvation scenario that you mention. To me, that's the best of both worlds where one isn't legally required to stop even when there's no traffic approaching.
> despite both Signal and WhatsApp having the same security features on paper.

Well, if you don't consider "being open source" a security feature...
But they are speaking of "the wavelength", i.e. they assume there is only a single wavelength. Your explanation throws away that simplifying assumption.
> Having your 'team' win at all costs is a problem both parties share.

This is false and a lazy attempt to justify GOP behavior.
Why can't they just add stop signs to the east-west route? That way the north-south can keep right-of-way and the threat of collision is eliminated
"Let's build a new shiny station" (that would make everyone walk even further to transfer to the subways to get them to work) - tons of interest! tons of excitement!

"Let's rebuild 2 tunnels. And maybe build 2 more." (Before they collapse and destroy the economy.) - Boring. Not sexy. No photo-ops.

And that's the problem with humans. :(
Which is why the judiciary deemed it unconstitutional! You make my point for me.
They weren't "built for boomers" so much as they were built for returning GIs after WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown
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What specifically do you think is missing when compared to slack?
Some fancy application of Voronoi Diagrams[1] seems like it would make sense to me.

[1] https://sites.math.washington.edu/~morrow/mcm/uw_1034.pdf
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No. Cynic or not, I'm unsure why you're assuming the entire research results made no sense!

The administrator of a group should sign the "add member" messages, and group members should only believe that a member has joined if they have such a signed message authorizing the member. You are correct in so far as this is apparently not what happens at the moment.
Did you read the article? Apple is going to support the new standard. It doesn't matter that the old phones support HEVC.

Now if only Apple would join Vulkan, too, so we can all agree on a cross-platform graphics API, too. Because of Apple Khronos now has to make a subset of Vulkan that will be cross-platform. This means that if developers end-up adopting that one over Metal on iOS, the situation will be worse off for everyone, including Apple.

Apple has gotten better with supporting standards from the Steve Jobs days, but I think it still has some way to go.
> Perhaps one party might be slightly more extreme than the other but hardly to the point of singling anyone out..

I'd point out that you're equating accusations of sexually assaulting teenage girls with internal (and legal) party political intrigue, but then, you cited Seth Rich, so I already know you are immune to reason and sensible discussion. I just feel for Seth's poor family, having to put up with nonsense conspiracy theorists every day.
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> As a software engineer, isn't there some way to draw maps which balance out demographics programmatically?

There are mathematicians who study gerrymandering and election maps [1,2].

[1] https://sites.tufts.edu/gerrymandr/
[2] https://phys.org/news/2017-08-math-experts-brainpower-gerrym...
No, that number is the revenue they earn from the App Store. Money they act as a middleman for (the 70%) is not company revenue as it was never theirs. (If you give me $100 with the understanding I'm to give $70 to a friend and keep $30 "for my efforts", I can't claim I made or earned $100, only $30).
So on one hand a "bad" company advances its strategic interests by contributing to a free and open technology. On the other hand, this technology can bring general benefits beyond the company's interest.

The question is: does one outweigh the other? I think in many cases, for Web technologies, the corporate interest is modest and the general benefit is enormous, so it's definitely a win-win.

As for Android, the open platform part is a huge piece of tech that many have found useful beyond the smartphone market. On smartphones the open source project has enabled several ROM communities that ended up offering versions free of any Google service. There is nothing comparable on the iOS side.

Even Android with Google services is a pretty good deal: for the most part you get to choose what you share with Google (at the price of some features).

I think comparing to Symbian is difficult, Symbian never was in the same league as Android and iOS was it? A better comparison would be with Windows Phone or iOS. Apple has invested a lot in its privacy-friendly image, and I trust they are doing a good job. But they are the outlier. Then you have Microsoft... I don't know where Windows Phone standed privacy-wise, but they sure got a lot of criticism regarding privacy violations in the desktop/laptop OS. Although it's not free.

All in all I don't think Android is a good example to support your viewpoint.
Feels like we need to get away from geographic based representation at the state level. In a hypothetical state where voters of parties are evenly distributed geographically we would end up with the majority party always winning anyway no matter how the district lines are drawn. This feels like the end goal of gerrymandering -- it's just that since party voters aren't distributed evenly geographically they need to draw odd districts to get the desired distributions.

Switching to a system where as a state we pick based on party representation or as a whole pick N candidates (something like they do in parts of Europe I believe) seems preferable and renders gerrymandering ineffective because there are no districts to draw. Hopefully we'd get representation based on the voters being represented with this style of system.
And who decides that the legistlature passed "laws which are inconsistent with the Constitution"?
I don't think that was intended as a description of Buffet but rather describing how people will dismiss his experience. It's almost exactly how people trying to say that insolvient.com was a good buy because The World Has Changed™️ and only old people cared about profitability or, a decade later, that there was no way the real estate market could go down.
This is an excellent explanation. Thank you.
Beijing district court dismisses lawsuit against Bitcoin exchanges
So you must register a domain through a registrar, thus giving you less privacy?
Say hello to Clippy for me!
Sure, but you still need to the software to manage this massive parallelism. It cannot just be OpenMP or OpenCL with C++.
It needs to be a better and faster system, such as ispc or pony. ispc is faster, pony is safer, both are better and faster than C++.
Radiance Days: How We Became a Communicative Organization
> Doesn't Let's Encrypt's verification require creating files with random names in http://example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge where example.com is the certificate's common name?

Are you asking whether this is an issue for the http-01 challenge?

If so, the answer is no, because if you wanted to use this to obtain a cert for some domain you don't own, the DNS reponse for that domain would have to already point to the shared hosting server you're configuring. (Which would imply there's already another customer using that domain.)

If you can serve content from another customer's domain who is on the same shared host as you, that's a serious security vulnerability with the hosting platform without respect to whether or not Let's Encrypt exists.
I started Moment a few months ago. When I drive back from Tahoe it counts those 3.5 hours of Google Maps as active screen time. Which isn't wrong, just not helpful.
To quote Trump, "wrong"
I think your argument is focused too far along the timeline. Yes, the Republican majority was elected. What's in dispute is the legitimacy of how they came to be elected, given the proven racist bias of how districts came to be. Different (fairer) districting might not change the Republican majority status, but it probably wouldn't be so lopsided. (BTW: Asheville is almost completely blue, too.)
Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least?
Mathematics in the ancient world
Interesting article, I wonder if these markets will be able to continue growing despite the manipulation present
https://meltdownattack.com/ > FAQ > Has Meltdown or Spectre been abused in the wild?

> We don't know.

So probably no reports ;)
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I don't know whether this qualifies as chatbots, but I simply like the command-response interface of chat based services for selecting options without an AI layer interpreting what I mean.

I usually I prefer the chat interface rather than a clunky browser UI where companies and govt agencies provide it, and also that in some cases you can add them to your address book like any other contact.

I guess I'm one of those computer technologists who haven't bought into the whole AI taking over the world hype.
Yes, it matters. Apple joined AOM, which means it will kill HEVC in the same way it killed Flash. Once the HEVC-only devices are out of the market, Apple will say it will drop support for HEVC.
I hadn't seriously considered Stripe to take care of all the initial paperwork, but after reading a comment like this, I'm reconsidering.
Again I’m just not seeing any engagement with actual data beyond - “I don’t like this study so obviously it’s flawed and you must agree with me because fairness.”

I’ll put it more simply, again. North Carolina has an electoral system that gives the minority party an absolute veto proof majority of their congress. In my view that is incompatible with democracy, and I don’t understand why I should give any credence to a criticism who can’t engage with that point honestly and forthrightly. I’m open to hearing more about alternative opinions, but for me that requires a better argument.
Fuck Buffett.

Allow me to rephrase: No one is an oracle. Take everyone's perspective with a grain of salt. Warren Buffett is completely clueless when it comes to computers, much less cryptocurrencies.
Then it's up to the people to elect different representatives that promise not to do that. That's democracy.

You don't get to blow up the system because it's not functioning how you want it to. You're supposed to work in the system. The judiciary is correctly functioning by declaring this gerrymandering unconstitutional.
You need to build the intersections properly though. My city, in the NW US, built a beautiful separated multiuse path alongside a 50mph road. The trouble comes at the southern end where two 50mph roads intersect and the separated bikeway turns into a standard on-road bike lane on the other side. This also happens to be the highest traffic volume intersection in my city of 100,000.

The intersection is designed so right turning cars can make the turn at about 15-25mph when they have the green. The same green that the cyclists have. Cyclists must wait at a position that puts them slightly behind the right turning driver and the design simply doesn't allow a cyclist to inch forward enough to change that. If you were designing an intersection that will get cyclists killed, this is how you would do it.

My approach is to stop at the green light and hit the pedestrian "beg button" and wait for the walk signal on the next light cycle (a minimum 2 minute wait). This is still no guarantee that drivers will actually yield to me, but at least it gives me a chance to be seen. Even waiting, and having the walk signal and right of way, drivers get irrationally angry at having to wait a few seconds for me to cross. A few don't wait and swing wide right in front of my path. Fun Times.
Ray Dalio identifies the 11 characteristics of visionary leaders
So if the Republican majority legislature voted Trump the King of North Carolina with unchallenged authoritarian rule, that would be your idea of "the democratic process"? A democratic body taking action isn't "part of the democratic process" just because they're the ones doing it. That's not how it works.
In an elected legislature, the voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around.

If the sitting legislature changes the districts in order to choose their voters, we move away from the ideal of an election.
Interestingly, a university in North Carolina is working on this exact problem, right now. Guess how they got interested in it :).

https://services.math.duke.edu/projects/gerrymandering/
Wouldn't Twitter be compelled to hand over this data if subpoenaed anyway?

According to the article - apart from saying how much he disliked the president, which seems to be the bulk of the content - this chap described how he wouldn't look at Trump's DMs, and would rely on the legal system to sort that out if the DoJ wanted them, and additionally that the President's tweeting was discussed at Twitter, which was a given.

All sounds fairly... normal?

So the only revelation is that James O'Keefe is still doing this sort of thing, and felt that this was newsworthy. I mean seriously, how lame must the other 'dirt' he's dug up have been if THIS was his undercover expose?

Is O'Keefe still banned from Twitter?
"everybody sees that someone joined" i can see that xxx has joined. Is the message coming from server or client? If it is from the server, then the attacker could block that message right?
People say things like this about Signal but tend not to acknowledge why Signal is like that. Look at how Signal handles something as basic as user profiles, then compare it to how other applications address the same problems. I'll recommend Wire alongside WhatsApp any day, but keep in mind that Wire's servers apparently have a record of every conversation that has occurred between any two Wire users (not the content, mind you, just the link).

This is why I disagree with Matthew Green, do not think we've totally figured out secure messaging yet and that they're all "so good", and think that if you're serious about privacy --- enough to have strong opinions about WhatsApp vs. Signal, for instance --- that you should use multiple messengers:

- a "tier 1" secure messaging app like Signal that makes all reasonable tradeoffs in favor of security and privacy regardless of the UX cost, used when possible and for sensitive conversations.

- a "tier 2" secure messaging app like WhatsApp or Wire as your "daily messenger".

- "tier 3" messenger applications (including email) that you use mostly to rendezvous to a real messenger application.

In this scheme you can start to understand Signal as not just a decent messenger application with best-in-class security and privacy, but also as a laboratory for future privacy enhancements to messaging.
> It gets a bit fuzzy though when there's a cycle lane provided.

A lot of times, the cycle lane is really too narrow to safely ride in. It really ought to be a minimum of 4 feet wide (allowing a 1 foot space on each side of the cyclist if they're centered in the lane. Some that I've seen aren't even as wide as the handlebars on the bike.

Where I live, a cyclist isn't required to use the cycle lane even if one is present. Do you know whether the same applies in the UK?
This seems to assume a two-party system, which is probably pragmatic but maybe not totally optimal in a bigger sense.
You can definitely share pictures in groups in Signal.
The data in this submission was used in that article, so this submission is a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16107183
I think it's more appropriate to only refer to someone by his current position, not by his former positions: President Trump, Secretary Tillerson, Senator Warren — but Mr. Obama, Mr. Bush, Mrs. Clinton &c.

America is a republic, not a monarchy or aristocracy: titles are for a limited duration, not for life.
I'm not saying he's wrong, but he's notoriously bad at investing in technology. He just does not get it, for the most part.

He would probably have never invested in Netflix, or Facebook, or Google. Yet any investor who did made a killing.

Now, I'm pretty sure everyone is aware at some point the music has to stop (at least I hope they do). A major correction will happen at some point. But no one knows when. It could be tomorrow, or it could be 3 years from now.
In general, most US airports are pretty bad, but I'll avoid Terminal 1 at JFK at whatever cost.
It's by far the worst airport terminal I've been to in my life.

I read this week that each of JFK's terminals is run as it's own separate entity. If your flight goes to Terminal 4, and Terminal 4 has some issue or is overloaded, you can't go to any other terminal because they don't talk to each-other.
I live in Algeria. There's yearly snow in a lot of places in the north (mountain chains, http://bit.ly/2ErueEU) and we hear about snow in the desert.. It's when it snows in Algiers that everyone goes nuts, especially when there's snow on the beach.

To give an idea why: it's winter here at 17°C/62°F and everybody complains all the time about how cold it is, including my sister as I am typing this.
There are serious limitations to the current application of phage therapy, not the least of which is the need to positively identify a given strain you want to attack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy#Obstacles
How would the software work? You want to put communities together. Ideally, you don't want your community to be split in the middle because of a congressional line.

Not saying that isn't happening now, it is. But software doesn't solve that issue.

So we created this great problem: congressional lines. Then we try and fix it. Representation is hard. Why not do away with the problem entirely? Remove this type of representation.

Radical, yes, but what does congress do anyway? ;)
Amsterdam to halve Airbnb-style tourist rentals to 30 nights a year per host
Phones are only used for a few years. Within 4-5 years, virtually no one will use a HEVC-only iPhone.
Ah, that's the kicker. Looks great on my MBP's built-in retina display, but crap on my older external monitors. So far the only font I've been able to use on those without anti-aliasing is Monaco.
I currently commute in on the LIRR everyday and man is it rough. I'm pretty sure my train is delayed more often than on time. I usually give my mom a call in the morning just to say hi and check in. When my train does arrive on time she will go, "Oh you're early today".

I fear it could really hurt the economic activity of NYC. Take me for example, I like my job and I like the city, but I'm looking to work remotely or on Long Island rather than commuting. It's long but not so bad if everything is going well. The problem is the lack of consistency makes it unbearable. You never know when your train is going to be delayed and you're stuck on a packed train, or worse, stuck in Penn Station for an unknown amount of time. Life is too short to spend it like that.
We have a variety of companies opened by folks operating in Sweden (and another 100+ countries besides).

I would love to give you an answer regarding the Swedish tax system, but it is not one of the two tax systems that I know enough about to model well and, unfortunately, if it were, I would be legally enjoined from doing any sort of interpretation about how our product interacted with it.

I recommend you talk to a local accountant.
Because many of the expenses are localized... Roads, schools, extra sales tax, etc. are all things that a geographically dense group may decide differently from another. Representatives for San Francisco rightly understand that we have different priorities from say the people of Fresno. I understand it's probably not the primary key for how you or I think, but it is a fairly reasonable approximation for spending policies.
Proportionate along what lines?

Voter parties?

The interest voters express preferences for by voting?

The interests voters idealize (they may vote pragmatically within existing rules)?

Etc., etc.

A purely algorithmic solution needs to encode preferences and how to balance them, so they need to be defined quite precisely.
I eagerly await the HN comments about how this demonstrates that mass tea sit is a failure and cars are our future.

Except I know we’ll only ever see complaints about “overloaded transportation systems” when referring to freeways and roads yet somehow obvious evidence that infrastructure of all kinds needs expansion and upgrades to keep up with demand will be ignored.
Unless you really want a U.S company(maybe cause your target market is the U.S. and you plan moving there someday), does it really makes sense to use Atlas if you are based off in Germany? Germany being a Stripe supported country.

Atlas makes more sense for people living in countries where Stripe is not supported but still want to use Stripe, the perk is, you have to pay high U.S. taxes that you won't enjoy and you will still have to pay German taxes from your U.S. income because you are a German citizen?
> while the ban made old equipment impossible to legally service (no replacement CFC!)

The ban was phased, and there was a decade for old equipment to adapt. I think you still can legally go and buy replacement CFC, but I'm not sure if anybody is still selling.
Yeah just one bill at a time at the moment, 50% is the ultimate goal.
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Does it? Then I may be misinformed (I very rarely use mobile).

If that's true, and amp doesn't have any preference in the carousal, then Google's comments are completely accurate.
We are talking about the credit/debit cards with chips. right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card

This is becoming standard in the USA. I am glad to know that this is how they work.
>Do you have any idea how many laws have been overturned because they were unconstitutional? It's U.S. Government 101.

What you're missing is that the laws being overturned here are themselves directly concerned with the democratic process.
According to http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2017/08/22/analysis-large-eff..., NC's efficiency gap is around -11, while anything in excess of +/- 7 is considered a very large gap, so by the efficiency gap metric NC's map is definitely extreme.
It’s getting downvotes because crypto enthusiasts have strawman’ed their way out of the argument. The tulip bubble was above all a cautionary tale about the behavioral dynamics of speculative assets.
I agree with this. It's a matter of scope and therefore a product problem. What can be done using NLP today is not a secret and I'm sure Facebook was already aware of the shortcomings. They could have reduced to scope to a more tractable problem, but they chose to cover everything that a consumer might want.

I think there are a lot of good use cases that can be automated today.
I downloaded the microcode updates from Intel, but hesitate to apply them because one of the expected directories does not exist on Manjaro, so I'm out of my element on how supported the update would be. Do you happen to know if in general microcode updates are distributed in packages? It seems that's probably the case, and if so, I'm fine waiting.