skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent the last three years building a hotel property management system. I hate OTAs. They are gross middlemen who charge criminally high commissions to hotel operators. And as much as I philosophically support what you're doing here, both Roomkey in general and Scout in particular, you're barking up the wrong tree.

At the point where a customer is searching on Expedia or booking.com, you've lost. These sites have aggressive reward programs and are tuned machines to get people to buy.

The better approach is actual property-level differentiation that makes people want to stay at a particular hotel. If your customer sees hotel inventory as essentially fungible, which is what most of the undifferentiated inventory on booking/expedia is, they're going to pay commodity prices for it.

The chains need to step up and market directly to consumers, and GIVE ME A REASON TO LIKE THEM. Right now it's all sort of meh. Hilton, Hyatt, Rodeway, whatever, I just don't care, give me the lowest price and I'm there.
I've never seen rebar on asphalt highways. Do they top the concrete highways with asphalt where you are?
One of the things that makes cyclists safer is having more other cyclists on the road. I'm happy to wear my helmet, but if others don't, I just want them on the road. In aggregate, we'll all be safer, even though some will choose not to wear helmets.

Specifically: Even those that choose not to wear helmets will be safer due to the increase in ridership. The comparison to seat-belts isn't appropriate because my not wearing a seat-belt in a car accident increases risk for others (specifically others in the same car as me).

There is also fairly conflicted evidence that helmets are effective. There is a fairly narrow treatment range where they work well. Be hit by something going faster or slower than that range, and they don't matter much. They are nothing like full-face motorcycle helmets.

There is also evidence (although not well replicated?) that drivers treat helmeted cyclists worse than unhelmeted ones.
Looking at the bike riding and safety rates in the Netherlands, Denmark, or even Germany compared to the USA, there are obviously other better and safer ways to deal with biking than helmet laws. Of course, it would require actually prioritizing bicyclist infrastructure over cars.
I could imagine that inhaling into lungs might have a different impact from swallowing into the digestive tract. People doing blood sugar regulation are drinking, not snorting, vinegar, right?
Just think of it as a real 356 Roadster vs a reproduction fiberglass 356 Roadster, one will get a "that's nice" while the other will get a "dude, really!" from your buddies.
While I'm not advocating space trash, I'm having a hard time imaging a collision being even remotely possible given how tiny these things are and how massive space is.
How does "global positioning system" work in space anyway? Was "GPS" an analogy? Is it actually using signals from GPS satellite network to determine position?
Somebody didn't read the article ;)
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I highly recommend you check out Wendy Carlos' synthesizer arrangements, "Switched-On Bach" [0]

https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach1 https://archive.org/details/SwitchedOnBach2 [0]
And yet, Harry, if you had bothered to read the link in my comment, you'd discover that there are laws against price gouging.

Fair pricing can be tricky to determine. However, in Shkreli's case, his entire strategy was to take drugs where a fair price had already been determined by the market and then take advantage of supply constraints to raise the price drastically, by 20-50x.

If you really can't tell the ethical difference between his behavior and normal business, I think you aren't trying hard enough.
Look up "green dragon", it takes ~1 month to make and ends up turning a very pretty florescent green. A single shot gloss of the stuff is very strong, and two shots would be intense even for someone with a high familiarity / tolerance to cannabis.
A lot of skepticism here regarding profitability, safety, and regulation. I can’t remember the last product I’ve seen gain traction so insanely fast as these scooters have in LA/SD. Between that and the bike companies (LimeBike, ofo, etc) it feels like when Uber/Lyft first came out, ie this is how urban transportation should be.
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It's not just changing the exponent bias, but also adjusting the center of the representable range for gradients to be closer to the current value of the parameter (which is stored in full precision).
Not through an ordinary appeal, but they could file for an extraordinary writ. Given the number of small claims cases that Equifax has been facing, it might be something they would consider.
You're right, my statement was slightly misleading. Rocket is certainly not there yet, so it would be pointless to use it to get better performance right now. Actix however is already extremely fast and shows the potential of Rust, which _in the future_ I suppose might be a driver to pick Rust over other alternatives.

Since language ergonomics and productivity are inferior over e.g. Kotlin, it would be pointless to pick where it not for technical advantages such req/s, memory usage or latency.
My experience is that big law lawyers tend to have very narrow areas of expertise. There's not much call for big law lawyers appealing an $8,000 small claims judgement, so you probably shouldn't expect much.
They don't make money. Ridesharing subsidies are like uber/lyft's but on an even bigger scale.

In china, Mobike charges $1.58 per month for unlimited* trips on their ridesharing bikes. Given how their bikes cost ~$100 each, and how they operate millions of bikes, they are losing massive amounts of money.

Investors have the same mentality (once we are a monopoly, we can charge more) but until then they are incinerating cash.

*Mobike rides have the first 2 hours of each trip free. If you stay on longer you need to pay. However, you can just switch bikes after 2 hours to avoid the fee.
Oh man, I made so many games with buttons moving around as enemies. And the. Smaller buttons acted as projectiles....
I've had one of these scooters for 2 years now. Not "Bird" of course, but the Xiaomi M365 scooter that they've taken and rebranded with their own app.

You can buy your own on amazon by just searching for "Xiaomi scooter". They're currently $500.
Fraud, securities fraud, and forgery would do as a start.
Good point - should have thought about coding when posting to HN. It does look like someone is leading the effort already. The key would be to keep the overhead low and encourage the participants to mentor each other somehow.

https://ideas.ted.com/why-im-teaching-prisoners-to-code/
https://thelastmile.org
It certainly doesn't help. A web designer wouldn't like being told by a lawyer what their job entails either.

When you're dealing with professional egos sometimes it pays to tread lightly. Shkreli learned this the hard way.
I have never worked in any problem space where it _wouldn't_ take a senior developer a year to become fully competent.

Unless by "Senior developer" you mean someone who already has experience in the problem space, of course. If all you do is ecommerce, then, sure, you're already competent at ecommerce (at least hypothetically you could be) because you've already spent more than a year at it.
Hey there. I really hope to change your mind with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDAD9ieNOh4
Perhaps this is the solution to the problem segways had, social acceptability. If it becomes mainstream among college students, it could easily spread to everyone else.
I love the design and character of your web page.

I don't understand "Home country coverage" so maybe you could do some user testing to come up with better explanation.

Maybe a comparison to other insurances like Alianz Global Insurance. I have that and I'm not sure why yours would be better. I think it was about the same price looking at yearly cost.

Again, great web site.
The amount used and technique for spraying probably matter. A careful cleaner may use only a very small amount as needed while some seem to think it is necessary to slather everything with concentrated soaps that leave a strong smell. We are still just coming to terms with aerosols as high powered forced air hand dryers have shown, and those were intended to minimize spread of contaminants.
Yes, it's called dumping.
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Military has had their HUD which is a form of it. I predict you could sell AR/VR only to niche consumers and military and it will remain a gimmick for consumers like 3D television was. So it's a great move for Mozilla if their thought was joining MIC..
Sorry, lame excuse that isn't worth the increase in deaths orcosts to business.

There...are...no... benefit.
In America, at least, any group of workers are free to form a coop. It's perfectly legal. Why not give it a try, and report back to us how it worked out?
He did not make it harder for patients to get treatment, he simply made treatment available at a higher price point. At least he made treatment available when others weren't willing to do so.
Any lawyer worth his salt would know that each court has its own particular rules of procedure. If your highly-paid lawyer comes into bankruptcy court and starts trying to invoke procedural rules from juvenile court, that would be pretty convincing evidence of incompetence.

So did this lawyer take on a small claims case without realizing that they should probably read up on small claims rules? Or maybe the judge didn't know the rules either, and just sided with the sympathetic plaintiff?
I wasn’t familiar with the Reiser case, but just read it.

He murdered his wife, hid the body, lied and denied it vigorously in court, was found guilty of premeditated (first degree) murder, and bargained it down to second degree murder charges by showing the police where he buried her body. I think a life sentence is reasonable for that.
I heard it was originally going to be 50 days but the judge decided to mark it up by 5000pc
Given how much pressure it's under, I wonder if it might cause the diamond to explode if subjected to additional stress.
We use Slack integrations. Separate channels for each integration, but there's no reason you couldn't lump them together if that's what you need for some reason.
No it isn't.

The big chains are fighting to stay relevant against the channels (Expedia, Priceline, Airbnb). Franchisees don't want to pay 6-8% of revenue to a chain and then another 10-15% to a channel. They're going to pick one or the other, and right now, my bet is on the OTA or "online travel agency" aka Expedia.

This battle is existential for the chains (they're out of business if they lose). They need to be seen by member properties as "worth it" or the properties will "de-flag" and go independent, getting bookings directly from the channels. They're trying every play in the book, from merging to get more bargaining power (Marriott's purchase of Starwood), creating their own tech stack to drive direct bookings for member hotels (this), and trying every loyalty trick known to man.

In the long run the current situation isn't stable. Franchisees aren't going to pay for both a channel and a chain. The chains couldn't get their shit together enough to bring the individual properties bookings (what you're supposedly paying that 6% of revenue for) and they're going the way of the dodo. That's what's really going on here.

Roomkey et al is the chain-funded effort to fight back against Expedia, etc. They're going to lose unless they get serious about fighting Expedia and co. head-on. The problem is, they're fighting a battle where Expedia already has a strong, fortified position and it's going on be on their (Expedia's) terms. I don't see how this ends well for the chains.
There are a lot of ways to transfer money between countries and Bitcoin is one of the worst (sketchy exchanges, slow, huge spreads, etc). If you want easy try something like TransferWise.
IANAL.

It's not inconceivable they could make further trouble nevertheless:
https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/1...

The relevant part appears to be:

"The Eloby court's dictum suggests that section 117.12 was designed to preclude only appeal, motions for new trial, and motions to vacate judgment. The court's initial issuance of the alternative writ further suggests that section 117.12 was not read as curtailing the ability of appellate courts to review important issues arising in small claim actions.

Following the lead of the Eloby court, we read section 117.12 as not foreclosing appellate court review by extraordinary writ. Since statewide precedents can only be created by appellate courts, jurisdiction to decide appropriate small claims court issues must be retained by appellate courts in order to secure uniformity in the operations of the small claims courts and uniform interpretation of the statutes governing them. We do not believe that the Legislature intended to make all actions of the superior courts in such cases totally unreviewable or reviewable only on certification. (Code Civ.Proc., s 911; Cal.Rules of Court, rule 61(b).)
"

This seems a bit weird.
It's being tracked. Look on n2yo. I don't know why they are saying this.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16404551
I have put some thought into this. Particularly the bike business. Making money out of the bikes isn't hard. These bikes are super freaking cheap:

75 USD - 90 USD for a Bike (https://m.alibaba.com/product/60710077310/export-EU-standard...)

1 USD - 25 USD for the remote lock (https://m.alibaba.com/product/60623794401/GPRS-Bluetooth-Cho...)

At this scale I wouldn't be surprised that they could get a whole painted bike + the lock + all the importation costs and taxes for 100 USD (maybe even less).

One ride costs 1 USD... That means they just need 100 rides to break even on a bike... If they get an average of 1 ride per bike in all their fleet (which is low imo), they just need 100 days of operation to break even on all their fleet. (These calculations don't take into account the operational costs, but you get the idea. As you grow and start creating more network effects and gaining economies of scales these costs will only grow linearly).

According to Seattle City Data, the average ride per bike here is something around 0.6 rides per bike (daily). That would likely improve again once it starts warming up.

Now regarding the Scooters, you could do a similar analysis. I was able to find foldable electric scooters at very cheap prices in bulk (45 USD, 80 USD, 70 USD, 120 USD, etc...). So it's also technically possible to break even very fast with scooters as well -> https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product...

Finally, there are more angles to a business like this. There's a huge component which is gov subsidies. Local governments love this crap and I can totally see them paying these companies for providing a reliable alternative transportation. Another angle is just plain cheap advertising. You can basically wrap these crappy bikes and scooters with ad decals. You could also monetize based on geo-location and sell contextual ads as well as selling the data to brands.

You also made other good points like why wouldn't someone simply buy a scooter. What's appealing about this model is that you can just leave it anywhere. You don't have to get worried about this thing getting charged, or someone robbing it or vandalizing it. You use it when you need it and you continue with your life. Owning one adds an incredible amount of burden to something as mundane as moving from point A to point B.
You're posting as a representative of this company with that username?

Well, more power to you, I suppose.
It would work the same way it does on earth. Spacebee satellites are at 500km and GPS satellites are at 20,000km, so it shouldn't be a problem getting a signal. You can even pick up GPS at higher orbits than 20000km, but it is more difficult:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401315/gps-in-space/
It's literally GPS (with the artificial receiver limits removed)
today in "completely subjective judgments"
> Given that the U.S. has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons on Earth

[1] Russia has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons on Earth.

[1] https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/status-world-nuclear-...
Reduced from 22mph to 15mph.

In my opinion the law should change in that bicycle riders should wear helmets, too. It's not how much you can control your bike/scooter/segway but what happens if something unexpected happens. Blown type, hitting a curb or large stone, or a car.
I have one suggestion:

Include the project info in the initial answer from the poster. I have contacted three project owners and now have trouble figuring out which one replied.
From cisco-sa-20180307-cpcp: "...an unauthenticated, local attacker ... could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to the affected system via Secure Shell"

This is a remote root hole.
The "complex" isn't just of private companies. In California, for example, the prison officers' union (California Correctional Peace Officers Association or CCPOA) is a major political power, and advocates for harsher sentencing rules. This article describes some of its political history [1], starting in the 1990s.

> "In 1994, it was a major force behind the passage of Proposition 184, California’s “Three Strikes” initiative. In the same election cycle, it spent a record amount on former Gov. Pete Wilson’s successful reelection campaign…"

Since 2011 it seems to have reduced its spending on elections. However, this article [2] says that in the 2016 election they upped their spending again, and suggests that they had been splitting "members’ contributions among a half-dozen or more PACS" to somewhat obscure their advocacy.

[1] http://capitolweekly.net/ccpoa-transition-powerful-low-profi...

[2] http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-wor...
I'm a Mozart (and Haydn) fan and this quote is still correct. I prefer the humanist approach to music of the late 1700s over Bach's. They're all great though :-)
Yeah here it is:

git pull; sh tests; rsync /prod/ all@prod:/var/www/

^ That is copyrighted by the way. Ill take a consultant fee. I know - I know it should be thousands of lines of puppet, jenkins, hooks, Kubernetes, Salt, and 2 million lines of python and ELM all piped through Docker containers -- I am NOT an animal.
All discussion aside, I see portrait photography as painting with people.

That is, it's not so much about composition, as it is about using objects around you - people, nature, etc - to paint a picture instead of using paint and brushes.

It's much easier than painting when the picture you see in your head is much like what the camera lens sees when you point it in a given direction.

However, often there's work required to paint the picture you see in your head. With people, it's figuring out what to say to them to make them look the way you see them - to bring out the inner warmth - and to figure out how to capture in a static image what the eye sees over a stretch of time.

Ultimately, with movies we've come full circle: filmmakers often resort to painting (i.e. CGI) instead of photography, because sometimes it's easier just to paint the picture one has in their minds with a graphics tablet than it is to paint it with real-world objects positioned around the camera - even if realism is the goal.
I'm always hyper intrigued by the question of inevitability when it comes to space junk prohibiting our future ventures beyond the planet. At what point will Kessler syndrome occur? Is it inevitable or are we able to track all meaningful satellites with such precision that it's less of a problem than an annoyance?
> Wow...I'm sort of shocked that wasn't a v1.0 consideration.

My company contributed the ECC support for enabling messaging using the same keys as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16548015
Sharing a Windows Folder as $HOME in Windows Subsystem for Linux
Beethoven string quartets are some of my favorite music ever written. Pretty much starting with Op.59.
> It sounds like the rules and procedures being applied were vastly different than what Equifax's highly paid lawyer expected. Is their $1000-an-hour lawyer just incompetent, or is the pro tem judge here allowed to make up the rules as she goes along?

It might also just be an attempt at psychological warfare. For an amateur to be confronted with stuff like this got to be very stressful. Therefore reducing likelihood of the plaintiff making a good case.

But it might just end up pissing off the judge.
What was the password that they found?
Ah, great list!
Is system memory really an issue these days? I would think the perf tradeoff would be worth it.
The universes don't need an additional mechanism in order to branch out, wavefunctions will already do this if they're left alone (to be clear about what I'm saying, I mean that if you isolated some particles in a box they would start doing multiverse). The natural behavior of wavefunctions is to do multiverse, and if you want something else you have to introduce an additional mechanism that collapses them.
I can't upvote you more than once, but thank you! This'll be interesting to look into.
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You are presuming # of pivots correlates strongly with success.

The idea being tried, and the team executing on it are probably much stronger predictors.

If you are already in doubt enough to ask, it's probably time to move on.
My immediate reaction after watching "2001 a space odyssey" was realizing that I had absolutely wasted 2 hours of my life. Shortly afterward, I came across ONE: A Space Odyssey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz4aQ2YbN-E which summarized the whole 2 your movie in around a minute.

I have since encouraged anyone who is curious about watching that movie to instead watch the Lego version.
I feel compelled to post https://qntm.org/abolish .

EDIT: Ah, of course someone already posted it in this thread.
I wonder if it's cheaper to fix it later or prevent it now. There might be huge opportunity cost today if we obsess over garbage collection prematurely.
What do the pivots have to do with it?

A startup job should be like any other job: you leave when what you're getting out of it (in terms of money, learning, satisfaction; likelihood of future reward; and whatever else matters to you) is no longer worth what you're putting into it (in terms of time; aggravation; opportunity cost; etc.)
This is just a variation on big sky theory. Collision is unlikely, but not impossible. And if it happens, the cascading effect is a really disproportionate consequence.

Also, you make a common mistake by emphasizing size while ignoring momentum. A quarter going 18000 mph hitting anything else in space is a problem, perhaps in particular the inability to predict the consequence when big sky theory doesn't come to the rescue.
If we used std and wanted every type to be 50+ chars long to type, sure. Or we could just use a pointer, which just so happens is a nullable reference.