skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of points:

1) City spending isn't the full picture. How much money does the city lose because tourists/people/businesses choose other places because they perceive SF as a dump? That's the true cost of the problem, and the obvious answer is that as long as you spend below that amount to solve the problem, it's a win.

2) $46k is a crazy amount of money in my mind. What? How? How can you spend all that money and not get any results other than basic survival? Is it incompetence on a massive scale? Corruption? A failure of imagination?

3) Again, my main point is that this is a solved problem. It is not a unique problem. Contrary to what a bunch of other commenters in this thread have said, SF is not a unique snowflake of a city where this problem is magically unsolveable. It's the fucking not-invented-here syndrome from the software world, but applied to city politics. This is not rocket science. This is not uncharted territory. Learn from others, ffs.
The deep problem is that products like Asana are built around the paradigm of repeatable orchestrations of piecework, while business processes are exception prone choreographies of intelligent actors.

(Full disclosure: I work with a competitor of Asana, https://tasksinabox.com )
Where are you seeing a double colon? He write "10.1", not "10::1".

IPv4 addresses, according to POSIX, can be written in 4 forms:

A1.A2.A3.A4
A1.A2.B
A1.C
D

where Ai is an 8 bit number, B is a 16 bit number, C is a 24 bit number, and D is a 32 bit number. "10.1" is A1.C form.

See the inet_addr man page if you are on Unix or a Unix-like system.
Federal level enforcement vs municipal perhaps. Not sure it really has anything to do with banks in particular when all kinds of federal law enforcement agencies act in the same militarized manner.
The question is whether (as European, under EU law), isn't this a product flaw, and should not the customer be fully reimbursed with a replacement device of equal or better quality without said flaw?

A discount for a new battery is a laughable fix. It doesn't solve the issue which is going to reoccur once again, and it isn't free either. What did the customer do wrong in this case?
I've come to thinking: there's no method which makes the system fairly accessible to all those who need support, which also doesn't allow for some level of exploitation by bad actors. As the level of fraud is reduced to zero by tests and policies, more deserved beneficiaries of the system are shut out.

I actually still get a bit more upset over benefit fraud than tax fraud, as (disclaimer) my family are beneficiaries due to my brothers autism - the hours and stress required to successfully navigate the system cannot be underestimated. Most recipients of disability payments etc will tell you it is a full-time job. The moral failure of benefit fraud is paid for twice - once materially by the taxpayer, again spiritually by the recipient. For me, another argument for the qualitative moral and social components of education - which seems to have been stripped away of late... A rant for another time!
I remember those quite dark times in Hungary, I was a small boy in school and one couldn't travel without complicated paperwork and the option of refusals to the West - and we got permission to buy foreign money only once per three years, so that was quite limiting. In those times Rubik was a huge inspiration, even for me. Parents were telling their children in that era of hopelessness and contra selection that "if you are smart like Rubik, you can also achieve things when you grow up".

I vaguely remember an interview with him in the late 80's, I think he said that he made the cube because he was outraged by the lack of 3D vision of his students.

The "Oliver Twisting" remark is quite funny, actually.
I still think there's lots of benefits to be had (and lots of money to be made) from replacing many of current satellites with high-altitude solar-powered UAVs. They'll be much cheaper to design and manufacture (no need for satellite-grade sterility, or engineering for microgravity environment), much easier to service and replace, and they'd offer some capabilities impossible for satellites (like not flying around the globe).

I've said that before, and got plenty of skeptical looks. I recently learned, however, that I'm not the only one thinking this - in fact the concept has been dubbed "atmosats", "pseudosats", or "HAPS". ESA seems to be into it now:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Crossing_drones...
>Quantum was introduced was to allow this Looking Glass plugin to collect telemetry from the whole of the browser window, not just the pages being rendered.

You have no idea what you are talking about. Quantum is a name for a variety of technologies in Firefox, all of which have a shared goal of speeding the browser up. None of them have anything to do with telemetry.

Also, Looking Glass collected no data. It says it right there in the article.
Where did you find that paying customers have 100 users on average? In that case it would also only be 30,000 customers * 100 users * 10 = $30M a year.
> It can be compiled to native code...

In that sense, you are absolutely right.

However, for simplicity I only thought about the out of the box experience, or by the de-facto implementation of the said languages, since it’s the most popular usage scenario as well.
Thanks willtim, for mentioning Ewig/Immer :)

As Ralph and others have pointed out, their rope is fundamentally a persistent data structure.

I think that one of the fundamental differences between how Rust and C++ deal with value and reference semantics make the two approaches look more different than they are. The C++ API is allowed to look a bit more "immutable", where one can always use the same functional looking API even though sometimes the performance of an operation is gonna depend on the category of the reference you are operating on (l-value, r-value). Rust forces the user to be explicit about everything all the time, making it very explicit when intend to "branch" or "snapshot" the persistent data structure and where do we wanna allow "in place" updates.

I am still undecided about which approach I like most, and I do think that there merits to each approach. But maybe just because I never really wrote anything serious in Rust. The C++ approach has the problem that it becomes unsafe once you introduce `std::move` (but if the C++ type system was not a crazy evolutionary monster one could imagine a similar approach with moves being inserted automatically and safely by the compiler.)
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Ah, you're right but I think that's the wrong reference, it's talking about PIP. I'm thinking of https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2014/07/08/retrospective-legis...

(this of course goes on the list of reasons why the government wants to get out of ECHR at any cost, since it's the only constitutional brake in the system)
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What point are you making? Are you saying it's his own fault for not having shaped his own destiny like an Ayn Rand character? Are you saying it would be nice if he did have more of a sense of ownership? Sure, that would be nice, but lots of things in life would be nice and saying they would be nice makes no difference to anything. What point are you making?

Someone who shapes their own destiny such that they wouldn't be in this situation, wouldn't be in this situation. I might as well say it would be nice if someone hit by a car hadn't been in the road.
I would wager you've been downvoted because no one believes these purported values to be Amazons true values.I had a brief prescreening call with someone at Amazon when i flirted with the idea of applying to work there. They ended the call by pointing me to these values. My first thought while reading them was that they are terribly dishonest. Really turned me off applying there.
Do yourself a favour and try out Note 8 in a store.
Time for UBI?
>>Only now embedded development is starting to accept C++

Well largely on RaspberryPi kind of platforms, which aren't even even embedded systems. More like miniaturized desktops.

Then there is just C and only C. C dominance there isn't going to be replaced anytime soon, if ever.
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"enhancing motivational factors that help users through their journey and adding some fun" agree with that! One of most surprising apps in this space is Zenly, imo. They turned the find-a-friend boring concept into an amazing experience.
Why? So kids can be even more unprepared when they enter the world of work, where nobody uses LibreOffice?
Actually the key to keep increasing velocity is maintaining a positive dv/dt, that is to say, acceleration. Momentum is more of a tendency to refuse to leave a state (think of `inertia-in-motion`), rather than actively seek it.

If that makes any sense at all, that is.
The problem is when people are restricted by policy or law from not using waterfall. So many bad government outcomes are caused by attempts to prevent a past mistake on a different kind of project.
Government everywhere has a massive usability problem. Ignore the policies themselves, ignore the values they represent, the relationship between citizen and government should be easy and coherent. The solution here is, actually, better software.

It's the difference between the law and the way it is enforced. If surveillance capitalism has taught us anything, it's that people will put up with almost any policy as long as it's easy. We should use this knowledge to build interfaces to government programs. Indeed, I foresee a time when one's smartphone keeps all your data, and a "government program" is literally a program that runs on your phone and lets you know, proactively, if you are eligible, and enrollment is one click away. We can and should incrementally approach this goal in all our work.
> So first I have to create a problem for myself by using a "modern" editor, and then instead of fixing the problem in the obvious way (going back to the normal editor that works efficiently)

I've been working on LA*P based systems for almost 20 years. Been the head cheerleader of the Unix is the IDE camp and thought I'd never need any editor other than vim. Up until about 6 months ago.

The sad truth is because of the way modern software is engineered and this even includes web sites written in PHP (try magento 2) some modern code bases are really difficult to traverse without a decent IDE and a couple of plugins specific to the stack. Other kinds of development (android, iOS) there are IDEs (principally text editors with a few developer centric features) that add so much convenience it would be pretty dumb to sit there suffering away on the command line and vi for three weeks to accomplish poorly what I could do a lot better in a day with xcode.

Sure its doable by a talented developer but we're talking about an order of magnitude loss of efficiency and I question the brilliance of any developer who makes that call based on their religious notions about text editors.

The point is without an i7 and about 16 gigs of ram most modern IDEs are close to unusable so yeah a light, extensible text editor with some modern features is something a lot of serious software developers get pretty wet about

While I'm sympathetic to arguments that these software projects are poorly architected in violation of UNIX principles right now that doesn't pay the bills.

> I.e. it's not obvious from the unchangingly crappy browser experience itself

Unfortunately web developers's unceasing efforts to slow the web down (with massive frameworks that require custom built software and special IDEs to make and in turn leverage dozens of other such frameworks) outpace browser developers' efforts to speed it up ;)

Of course there are browsers which refuse to support all teh silliness that makes the web slow. They're not very popular though.
I'm personally more scared about CI/Deployment SaaS companies.
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There are strains of mice which have very little genetic variability, thus excluding (or at least diminishing) other variations than the studied effect. This study apparently didn't use one of such strains, so many genes could interfere. Large enough is otherwise really large.
Name one use case for cryptocurrencies where they work better than existing technologies and that does not involve buying illegal stuff online.

Seriously, I must be writing a comment like this one at least two times a week lately on HN. I keep hearing "blockchain technology is here to stay, think of the possibilities!" and I say that it's already showing its limitations and people are scrambling to find real world use cases for them. See the Diamond Coin story the other day, or that Kodak Coin thing. When you look closely you realize that the technical side of things doesn't really hold up or could be achieved using good old non-buzzword technologies.

Cryptocurrencies are amazing if you want to create a ponzi scheme or buy drugs online. For everything else there's Mastercard.
I'm not sure MySpace's chief sin was timing. Plenty of people used it. However, I seem to remember that people could easily modify the style of their profile page and so you had garish glittery bright-colored pages all over the place. Facebook came along then and gave users absolutely no control over the style of their page, keeping things clean and standardized.
Indeed. Here in India, I bet most homes are using pirated versions of MS office because of this.

I am happy to see Ribbon UI improvements just so that my son (middle school) could still manage at school while using LibreOffice at home.
Quake-style console. I'm too addicted to it unfortunately.
That's awful, adding insult to injury: 'fuck you for being poor while having a heart attack.'
From the paper (http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...): "We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described. Virological studies are underway that may help to resolve this issue".

What the paper really claimed is that, based on parent's recollections, there may be a link between MMR vaccine and autism, and further studies should be done on it, which is quite reasonable. Whether the paper is fraudulent (I don't think it is), and whether an author of the paper separately claimed a causal relationship, is orthogonal to whether the paper itself claimed that "vaccines cause autism" which is a creation of the media, encouraged by Wakefield.
I didn't - that was an estimate (in the same way your $100/customer was).

However, you're missing that the price is $9.99/month/user, not per year (for some reason I used $11.99, which is the price when not billed annually).

So it's 30,000 customers * 100 users * 9.99 * 12 ~= $360m per year. Your $30m is per month.
i simply dont understand the motivation behind starting selling these Flamethrowers
And still it has a UI like in the nineties. Thousands of buttons, adding more and more, without thinking about it, making it harder and harder with every version for new users to learn using it.

Instead of adding more fonts by default, they should start thinking how they can improve their UI, make it clean, discoverable and easy to use.

Microsoft has done it, and while initially it was hard for everyone familiar with the old concept, I know nobody who prefers that now, after familiarizing themselves with ribbons.
So true. Filters should be reserved for something like low pass filters.
Well, since Windows 8 .NET store apps don't support JIT, they only run AOT compiled to native.

And NGEN is a standard component of the .NET SDK since the beta days.

So AOT compilation has been part of the default tooling since ever.
Someone is finally purging the AI-made fake celebrity porn from Reddit
But MS Office would still give your son scary warnings when he tries to open a ODF file in school.
Just finished the first four courses, didn’t realize the last course on RNNs isn’t live yet! Hoping he finishes it up soon, the other courses were superb.
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I suspect they mean living intellectual, which would rule out Lewis as well as many others.
Well, in the US you'd have already lost everything and been homeless just for the medical bills of your mother, let alone your father later, and you after that.
Had you had grown up on something so cool and elegant as a Commodore Amiga or an sgi Origin 3800 and IRIX and now you find yourself stuck on a PC bucket server forced by someone else to run Linux, by knowitalls who’ve never known anything else, you’d be pissed off too. People tend to become resentful when they have to regress to something worse and it was not their choice.
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This is important. A startup has to get beyond upstart.

Despite being a ‘buyer’ it was virtually impossible to get traditional enterprise risk management processes to bet the farm on an upstart OS + platform.

Now a vendor that enterprise starts to trust can offer this and everyone wins. It’s just what the doctor ordered for the K8s roadmap at RedHat.
He also seems to ignore the fact that a large part of the roman army in Britain would have been auxilia troops at lot of whom where non white.

And arguing about whether north Africans where "black" or not seems just odd is he gong to say Sub saharan African actors should not play Othello.
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I don't believe you don't care about what you think. You must have preferences and thoughts about decisions. Sure you may have a low opinion of your own thoughts, but bouncing these ideas off other people and listening to rebuttals and criticisms of your beliefs/decision-making is useful.

Later you may feel you've become an expert in something - and then it is very important to express what you think, but also to listen to what other people say too.

If we don't do any of this we might as well be machines :)
>Of course, after Snowden, it was revealed that they were spying on us the whole time, with the NZ government being an enthusiastic participant as one of the Five Eyes nations. They had actually tapped the (only) submarine internet cable running out of New Zealand.

Yep, it's mostly theater -- "oh, those pesky Chinese might spy", when they already give every bit out to others.
Thanks for bringing this up. I'll watch out for it. :-)

As of now, he has to pass exams that use printed screenshots in quizzes! :-)
_Eastman_ Kodak manufactures and distributes cinema film. The camera division is the _other_ Kodak.
The problem is when people are restricted by policy or law from not using waterfall. So many bad government outcomes are caused by attempts to prevent a past mistake on a different kind of project and changing those policies is harder than trying to muddle through any one project.
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> products that people actually want

This part of the process is usually considered one of the first steps in a successful business.
Are there gateways to see how it works before trying it out myself?
Viewed solely from a US perspective, no new laws are needed; rather the SEC needs to enforce existing laws.

Internationally I suspect we need a better framework for handling cases where person in country A advertises securities in an organisation set up in country B to people in country C, via an organisation that operates in country D.
I work as a freelancer on six month contracts, embedded into regular development teams at customer sites. Before that I have held regular SW developer positions.

A bureau helps me out finding contracts so I spend very little time on self promotion. Also, I don't spend more money on equipment than I would otherwise have done (although, with tax deductions and all, I buy nicer equipment these days). Income tax is unavoidable either way.

I'm charging market rate, which is about 1.5x to 2x what I would get in a regular job with the same amount of vacation and sick days. On top of that, the bureau takes a cut, the details of which I don't know (I invoice them, and they invoice the customer).

On the negative side, being a freelancer is less secure and I may lose income between contracts. This hasn't happened to me yet, and in the current job market, it doesn't feel like an overhanging risk. I think the pay compensates.

Disclaimer: Danish job market, YMMV
>They declined Europe's "offer" (though realistically Europe really didn't have anything to offer its colonies after being devastated by WWII), but where they that much better off under Soviet influence

Well, at least they got their freedom from European colonialism.

Although they never really got that 100%.
then you should read the book.

the cover is the stereotypical 'chav' clothing, which you internalized so well in your discourse. And one (or more) chapter is dedicated to micro aggression (as defined be Strauss(?) where every argument has an oppressor and a oppressed) and culture wars that defined that chavs and irishs are dumb and irresponsible and that's why society needs the oh so justified ruling class to watch out for those too dumb to watch out for themselves, in all their best interest.
And the other side of the coin: a happy useful system that gives money out is an easy target for both dishonest individuals and parasitic "entrepreneurs". That's the primary reason welfare programs get so complicated very quickly - because the first to get to unconstrained free money are not those who that money was intended for; the first ones are the greedy bastards.

Combined with what you wrote, that's why I stopped believing there can be an efficient welfare program in our current system of things; we can at best try to minimize the total waste of bureaucracy and people cheating the system.
Be fair. They're also useful for evading capital controls.
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My fountain pen (Faber Castell with an italics nib) and a Lechtturm 1917 notebook (A4+, squared).
He is in terms of religion/philosophy much more so in say the USA.
I don't think it's the school job to prepare how to use a specific software, but train skills that one can apply to every software.
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There's a contact link at the very end of their webpage: https://www.aifund.ai/
I’ve noticed two things around fraudulent ICOs:

- the actual identity of the people behind them is not known; they are often pretending to be developers with Eastern Europe;

- they are presumably outside of a jurisdiction that their victims would be familiar with.

This probably means that a simple fix could be to demand to verify and publish the identity of the people behind such projects. Whether a shell corporation based in the US could raise money without clarifying who actually owns them and whether that structure allows enforcing fraud is a more nuanced question that I cannot answer. But I can answer this: new laws are probably not the solution. Extradition treaties might help but are unlikely.
Actually, Linux became popular in the server world partly because students could toy with it for free.

Sure, MS Office has a large user base in the professionnal world, but maybe students accustomed to LibreOffice can push the change.

Still, I do agree with the comments stating how important the overall UX/UI of LibreOffice needs to be improved.
Quite the opposite.

The idea is that children learn concepts, not individual implementations. And since Writer is arguable better than MS Word I see lots of institutions moving to LibreOffice.

Note, however, that Excel is better than Calc for anything non-trivial, and Powerpoint just blows the LibreOffice counterpart away completely. Praise to Writer is _not_ praise to the whole LibreOffice suite.
Yes, I'm a member.
Tell me more, who is 'we' ?
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