skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you get back home with 50+ % of your kids, you get a medal.
I'm in my 20s and have no desire to have a car, I need one where I live right now, but I'm about to make a move to one of the biggest cities in NA, and going carless. I wouldn't even want to live in a city where a car is a requirement.
Anyone who does something like this in production code ... shouldn't be writing production code...
This has nothing to do with liking or disliking uber. If the police are executing illegal searches then Uber has every right to sue and recover damages. They, unlike your average natural person, have the coffers to pay for it such that they acquire the "don't fuck with us illegally or we'll financially ruin your department" reputation.

What I am worried about is the employee that gets directed to lock things down and then, as a result, is possibly personally targeted by police and prosecutor both for it.
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"We are not aware of any such efforts, and it's not something we are pursuing," an RIAA spokesman told us when we asked about legislation to retroactively extend copyright terms.

"While copyright term has been a longstanding topic of conversation in policy circles, we are not aware of any legislative proposals to address the issue," the MPAA told us.
> I'm onboard with that. Although your argument may benefit from better phrasing, because it actually does come across like that, which is a disservice to your advocacy effort.

In the end I'm just a programmer, not an essayist :) I appreciate the feedback.

> So where is the potential? What is the use case?

I work in fintech and can speak firsthand about the potential use of this technology to reduce costs and reliance on third party auditing firms. I think people focus too much on cryptocurrencies just like people focus too much on AOL and Geocities. Those services weren't the internet, and cryptocurrency isn't the only use of blockchains. If anything, I would love for the shitcoin frenzy to die down so our efforts can be focused toward more useful/less scammy uses of the technology.
I'm stunned you believe driving an underinsured $1,000 junker and spending time and energy to maintain it is comparable to Lyfting full time.

Surely you recognize your tolerances here are an edge case.
Some people are very bad drivers for various reasons (e.g. lack of depth perception, poor spatial awareness, whatever). While very little skill is required to get a license in most parts of the country, I fully support people not getting a license if they're bad at it.
Wow, didn't know it was that bad. In Australia, as a ped (pedestrian) you may cross at any time when you're more than 20 metres away from a pedestrian crossing - if closer, you may get done. It's pretty darned rare for a police officer to charge you though, it'd almost have to a be a "safety blitz" or for the person to have their head down in their phone whilst doing so.

Seems much more sensible, and reasonable - basically you're technically free to cross as long as you're not immediately next to a pedestrian crossing, in which case use that.

Pedestrian crossing light control system is heavily geared towards cars, though, as pressing the button never changes the current cycle but merely says we'll consider your needs at the next check point. These intervals may be several minutes long (at least that's what they typically feel like).

I'm comparing this to Norway when pressing the button often has a rather immediate effect.
It might not be "I went from driving everywhere to Lyfting everywhere". It could be "I went from driving everywhere to mixing Lyft+bus". Or "I went from driving+bus everywhere" to Lyft+bus everywhere".

There are probably plenty of people who would be down to take the bus (or bike) to/from work, but keep a car around for a couple longer trips a week, or for inclement weather.

AAA found average car ownership cost was over $8000/year[0]. This is pushed up by people who buy cars new, so you can certainly be lower, but that's apparently the average.

We've been talking about this a fair bit at my mostly-college student house lately. I think a number people in the house would get rid of their car if they had to pay just for their own insurance--it would certainly be cheaper for a good number of them based on their current usage. But their parents pay, so we end up with an overflowing driveway.

[0] http://newsroom.aaa.com/auto/your-driving-costs/
I like Bridge.NET but I’m not sure how they will survive once the current Mono WebAssembly tech hits release.
I have worked at Uber for 4 years, but I spent the first 22 years of my life as a resident of Lewisville. It’s been amazing watching the transformation from when I first started (No cars available) to now (ETA ~5 min) around my parents’ house. The last time we were there, my wife dropped me off at a coffee shop to get some work done while she did some errands, and when I was done I got an Uber back home.
“Pencil” Reference to wargames of course. Passwords are fundamentally broken. Don’t blame the post it note nor the person making it. Blame the concept of passwords.
Thanks for this! It's always something of a miracle to me when one of these loops gets closed with mutual understanding.
Some of my best music lessons were around rhythm. Early on as a musician, I spent time playing reggae, with a bassist who wanted a guitarist, and was willing to put up with my innocence. He taught me a beat isn't an exact point in time, but rather sort of a region of probability, where sound is more or less likely to occur. Notes can begin or end at any point in a beat. The difference between reggae and ska is largely that in reggae, guitars and snare drum happen late in the beat, and in ska, it happens early. The former sounds languid, the latter frenetic. Same chords, same tempo, same "beat".

The other great lesson came from the jazz/rock drummer, Steve Smith. He describes "swing" as the simplest possible polyrhythm - a diminishment of three against two. Once you have three against two, you can start stripping out duplicates, until your down to ding ding da-ding ding da-ding ding... sound familiar? You get a strong backbeat (2 and 4), and an anticipation note at the very end of a bar before starting the next. Now, that anticipation note can be shifted earlier or later within its own beat, making things tighter or looser.

That's swing.
I think the idea is that they'd stop the car, incapacitate the driver, grab what they can and run like hell.

Besides, if we're talking about this happening in the "bad" parts of town, the car can call 911 and broadcast is position all it likes. There won't be any immediate response.

Finally, people who do this long enough will eventually figure out what to disconnect to allow themselves enough time to do what they want with the car- like today's car thieves do with modern car alarms.
Email is decentralized and is probably the most used and most compatible system there is.
There's a couple recent products that hit similar niches:

GPD Pocket: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-lapto...

GPD Win 2: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-win-2-handheld-game-c...

Ockel Sirius A: https://www.ockelcomputers.com/sirius-a/

I have the original GPD Win, and it's a surprisingly competent PC for being roughly the size of a Nintendo 3DS XL. The keyboard is terrible for typing on, but that's kind of expected with its gaming focus.
Yet Prokoviev is among them most played orchestral music in the USA, and he was definitely not someone who played in consonance. Quite the opposite, actually.
I stopped using a personal auto last year in favor of biking everywhere. When I'm injured or expecting to have to coordinate using the family car after work I'll catch a Lyft, but the availability of ride sharing had zero impact on my decision to give up a personal auto. I wonder if their metrics are counting folks like me in that quarter million (inadvertently or not).
Probably the favorite of any laptop I have ever owned. Lightning fast with the SSD (compared to the 250/320GB spinner in the 13" Pro at the time), very sleek, great touchpad/screen/keyboard...

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Thank you for linking the TED talk. I did not know that Mandelbrot had also applied his fractal analysis to financial data.
Or like, in folk guitar you might play a C chord, followed by a C chord with a B as its root, then an Am chord... that happens all the time.

But very rarely would you play a C chord followed by an Eb major chord in folk music. But if you're playing Jazz, you might be more open to that possibility.
The standard evasion tactic for SR-71 upon launched against was to simply accelerate.
I know you can in C++, but in JavaScript? Are you sure about that?
I don't think any LoZ games have any sort of relationship between Link and Zelda, canonically.
Or doubling down on a mistake.
And that's likely one of the only things that could be easily fixed, too. The ordering of those links likely isn't changeable without going into the guts of some upstream monster system (preventing those categorized redesigns that some have suggested). But a simple text label change would seem to be easier.
They aren't extrapolating to the US population, they're extrapolating to the Lyft userbase.
You're taking an upper-end Lyft case vs a remarkably low-end ownership case ... and ending up with actually fairly close numbers. Replace some of the chauffeured trips with cheaper paths (bike, hoverboard, bus, telecommute), and use more normal/realistic car costs (purchase around $20,000 over less than 10 years). Result will be much closer numbers; throw in issues like urban parking (very expensive) or higher fuel costs, and suddenly Lyft/Uber become much preferable.
That's it. I was looking all over for it. Thanks.
"Botched" seems too strong of a word for what the article is describing.
But it is... difficult... to use Disney's fairy tales as an inspiration for your own work.
I still use my air from 2011 and love it. Its slow-ish performance also keeps my code in check :)
yes. note that the article doesn't extrapolate anything to the US population, that's something that @awwstn added in.

lyft, in the article, says 250K people on its platform have dropped car ownership according to its survey. they extrapolate that total number from a survey of a sample of it riders and drivers in 52 cities.
Or it will get them killed, once there is a real alarm and they sit down to meditate instead of seeking shelter ...
Have you seen this related project:
https://github.com/fuselabs/jsxtyper
IMO, a good interview question should reflect daily work.
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According to various surveys, 10-30% of long-term relationships in the USA started when the people met at work. The downsides can be considerable though, since you have to go to work with someone you turned down/turned you down.

And tech has the additional problem that women are under-represented so they get propositioned a lot.
I'm really interested in that. Do you have any songs/records in mind? Googling 'ECM Jazz' doesn't seem to bring up a wealth of relevant results.
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It would certainly be a violation, as the algorithm to evaluate == is rigorously outlined in the language specification, specifically here: https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/8.0/index.html#s...

This algorithm does not describe an optional caching step to speed up/short-circuit the procedure, and so the optimization you describe would lead to non-spec-compliant behaviour.
> With no more mining where is the other $80 going to come from?

Are you asking where transaction fees come from?

Well, if PayPal earns $3 when I use it to send you $100, where did that $3 come from? The truth is that I sent PayPal $103, PayPal kept $3, and you got $100. (These numbers are probably not exactly correct; I don't know what PayPal's actual fees are off the top of my head.)

So the transaction fee comes from the person that made the payment.

If what you're saying is that this means that miners will be able to accumulate all the BTC… well, yes, but that's what happens now. When you buy BTC, you are buying something that, at one point or other, was initially owned by a miner. So yes, miners could bring the whole system down if they just accumulate all the BTC for themselves, but they could already do that now, and they don't - instead they trade that BTC for fiat or (nowadays, perhaps) other cryptocurrencies, so it begins to circulate to others.
I remember that. That is not a good talk. That the software had those errors sucks, but it's not a fundamental problem with Perl, but in how people had designed their internal APIs. In some cases he was citing problems in a module that was in core, but had long been noted to have problems and was not considered acceptable to use in anything except a quick and dirty script (and has since gone through a long deprecation cycle and finally been removed (CGI).

What the talk really exposed was a few similar bugs found in various projects (which is good!), and exposed a fundamental misunderstanding of a language by the researcher due to unfamiliarity. This was all covered in depth here at the time.[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813479
In that sense, the Internet is "decentralized," too. But most people don't host their own photos and don't host their own emails servers. People started mass-adopting the Internet precisely because of centralization.
> Lyft wants to make a point: Its services help lessen traffic

How can this be true? They'd need a very significant fraction of riders using lyft line (the multi-passenger service) to make up for the the overhead in the driver having to travel extra distance to pick someone up.
That's interesting, because Cambridge, MA made a big deal about lowering the limit to 25 MPH in 2016 - which is still way too fast for most neighborhoods. I'd much rather see it taken down to 20 and even 15 for side streets. The funny thing though is, I haven't noticed one iota of difference in the speed that cars are actually traveling.
Yup. My 2011 Air is my favorite machine ever. Getting a bit slow though, past year or so. Takes a long time to wake from sleep. Battery warning has been on forever.
The other thing is germs. Even mild germaphobes will never ditch their cars. If you have a kid that is too young to have had all their vaccinations yet, it's a major concern.
The password was promptly changed to "Warningpoint3"
This could be an acceptable interview question for Javascript developers, but from the SO question it looks like the interviewer screwed it up:

My answer was that it's impossible. They said nothing is impossible. It happened 2 weeks back, but I'm still trying to find the answer.

The interviewer should have gone into much more depth instead of (presumably) marking that question as failed and moving on. This was a perfect opportunity to find out more about the interviewee's knowledge of Javascript instead of whether they immediately knew the answer to a trick question.

The interviewer could have asked about the difference between "==" and "===" operators, which any experienced Javascript developer should know at least a little about.

Then they could have asked if the interviewee knows how "==" converts types before comparing them, and find out if they know that it uses .toString() and .valueOf().

Then the interviewer could have asked about if those functions can be overridden, and how that can be done.

At this point, the interviewee's eyes may have lit up and they may have been able to solve the original question.

This approach would have given the interviewer information about the interviewee's knowledge of: "==" vs "===" operators, .toString() and .valueOf() functions, function overriding, and object variables. Instead the only knowledge that the interviewer learned was whether the interviewee had seen a similar problem before or was able to immediately recognize the answer.
https://www.google.ie/search?q=miles+davis+piano

Miles Davis was a Jazz musician. Classically trained. He was /also/ a pianist.
Please respond to the point about the earth being round.
Panics are absolutey safe compared to segfault. “Memory safety” does not mean “this program never terminates unexpectedly.”

You can also drop all the 'a business in that definition, it's superfluous.
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Are you referring to atonal music using composition systems such as the Scheonerg method? In that case, even if most of it sounds dissonant, it's still composed through a systematic approach, meaning notes/harmony are carefully choosen and left little room for 'out-of-box' improvisation
Just speculating here on two points:

- There is no real need for SR-72 to be manned on all flights;

- Hypersonic plane would be very good for small (2m wingspan) drone delivery behind the enemy lines fast (in half an hour). This was already a concept with M-21/D-21, but now the drone part can be much smaller and one plane could carry more than 4 of those.

Satellites are quite limited when you need to make fast decisions. Hypersonic plane will move about 7 times slower than an optical recce satellite, yet it can maneuver very fast if you need to relocate the imaging area and can get at least 10 times closer to the target. Instruments can be selected/improved even after the first flight of the plane -- not true for the satellites.
Thirded. It is a classic and was far ahead of its time.

There are some great comments about this buried in https://hn.algolia.com/?query=naur%20theory&sort=byPopularit....
So the original theory of the black death was that the disease originated in Asia, and was borne to Europe via rats on ships. Is the new theory arguing that it was the sailors transmitting it instead, or is the origin of the black death in Europe now unknown? Also, is the paper arguing that rats are not vectors for the disease?
No, this is a really poor trivia question for JavaScript. The question itself is lacking an important detail: what is the type of a? As presented, I think it would be safe to assume a is a number and thus it cannot possibly true. However, if a can be an arbitrary object, then there apparently is some hacky incantation that can make it true.
And yet what percentage of email lives on the servers of a handful of giant corporations?
This is such a fun observation. Physicists originally used differential equations to describe large scale, yet fundamentally atomistic, behaviour because, I assume, that was easier to work with using pen and paper than by using some more discrete, computational, atom-by-atom model. And then computers were invented, but we're still stuck with these continuous, legacy, models. Almost no-one questions the fact that the original motivation for using the differential equation technique is no longer appropriate given that the underlying technology has shifted underneath the feet of the modellers.
I think it's a natural flaw in the mining concept. Any coin that people use in a real sense will create heavy mining competition.

Are you sure it's not a flaw in pricing/incentive? If people are using a cryptocurrency "in a real sense" then the public blockchain ledger of a properly maintained cryptocurrency could be maintained by parties who are motivated to get their transaction done. This is not a natural flaw in the general mining concept. This is a flaw in Bitcoin's implementation of mining, due to the circumstance that most miners of Bitcoin are motivated by speculation in Bitcoin.
this looks really sweet. i've never understood why gRPC limits itself to protobufs only when the protobufs have a canonical json representation. i'm glad that twirp is fixing that piece.
> Jazz is just another way to do music and it requires a different way of thinking, but I've never really looked at it as requiring any kind of "rewiring" or context shift.

They're using overly dramatic language like "rewiring" to talk about a different way of thinking. Of course it's a different way of thinking, classical is performance, and jazz is improv. Nobody would be surprised if they said that doing dishes vs differentiating polynomials used different parts of the brain, but somehow it's supposed to be news that classical and jazz music do.
Who says their army had the final say in what counts as belonging to the set of interest?
I wonder why the fact is downvoted? It is easy to check that the statement is true, just click the link, run the code, see the results, read the authoritative sources linked there for additional information.
People could still validate if transactions are signed correctly as long as they can compare to the older block-chain. Further, people can download the full blockchain from you.

So, unless you start over there will be transactions to addresses and you need to be able to correctly sign a transaction to your own address.

PS: Think of it this way, someone mining just one block can't make an arbitrary transaction from any address to any address.
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I'm 42 and don't have a drivers license. My dad tried to nudge me into learning to drive, but I had no interest - it seemed to me to be a waste of time. Of course, I lived in Norway, and public transport was good. I now live in London, and transport is still good.

I've never really felt limited, though certainly there are places that would be expensive for me to get to thanks to the need of long taxi rides etc., but there are also far more places to go than I can get to see in a lifetime that are still easily accessible with public transport.

I something think maybe I should get a license so I could at least rent a car for certain places, but I've just never felt it's been important enough to get around to it.

Had I lived in the US, the situation certainly would be different - I have spent quite a lot of time in the Bay Area without a car pre-Uber/Lyft, and it certainly is possible but awkward even when you're there as a single person, and many other places I've visited in the US has been much worse.

But the thing is, I can totally see a lot of people there too adapting their life after what works with these services. A car is practical in some respects, but you have to deal with service and insurance and parking, and without it you can often spend a portion of that money living in a location where there's less need for a car to begin with, and a portion of it on taxis/Uber/Lyft. And then I can sit back and read or nap.

Of course it depends on the type of jobs you want etc.
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