skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seattle has more than a few 3-minute loading parking zones around neighborhoods. They're usually placed to be convenient for wheelchairs, walkers, dollys, hand trucks, and carts; but aren't restricted to any group. And unlike most other street parking, most of these spots don't swap to free at 8pm, instead staying loading zones 24/7.

Enforcement is the same as any other priority parking spot - if the police find your unattended car, they'll ticket and tow.

And most people seem pretty honest about it. It's easier to park somewhere else if you're eating or working in your car. And less risky (cheaper) to park in a garage if you'll be a while.
The IRS is actually quite helpful, you just have to ask. For example you can request that they give you all the information they have on you. This can make filing or amending old returns significantly easier.

And in my experience at least, their customer service people are courteous and genuinely helpful. It's nothing at all like the standard substandard DMV experience.

Another cool thing is they have an absolutely fantastic record for providing real opportunities (not just busywork) to disabled persons.
Did you actually listen under the same circumstances you would have read? For example, you wouldn't visually read a book while folding clothes. I suspect some of the lower recall with audiobooks is because people listen to them in situations where they wouldn't be able to read a physical book at all.
There's a discrete outcome that gets you into that status. The actions and the way they are judged seem just as fluid and subjective to me.
The original is a great place to start, especially if you don’t mind older media. The first 3 original movies are also exceptional. After that comes Star Trek: The Next Generation, which is my personal favorite. If you’re still hooked, and don’t mind a change of pace and scenery (and in both cases, a slow start) Star Trek: Deep Space 9, and later Voyager would be the order for it.
Just going off the article. If improper capitalization of "Python" makes him have to take a deep breath and count to five, he's probably an asshole, and if that asshole just happens to be "one of the most senior programmers at MongoDB", then the universe makes sense today.

edit: What are the actual issues? I want to know. Change my mind.
Yes, but you're talking about a maybe once in a lifetime event here (need to rush to the hospital, but you just got home with your EV on 1% battery). Just eat the ambulance bill and curse your bad luck.
Good hackers can expose the inconvenient difference between what is illegal from what is wrong without doing harm to anyone or anything. So thanks for sharing such a beautiful story, it perfectly explains the hacker mindset where mainstream media articles would fail miserably.
> at least here the things that can get you into that status are discrete, well-defined actions

You would think that, but research shows systemic biases in the justice system throughout the entire funnel: from who gets more police attention, arrests, charges, plea deals and how heavy the sentences are. This is a sign the actions are not well-defined, and quite subjective.
People with felony convictions are barred by law from many professions in many states, including surprisingly innocuous ones like dentistry and massage therapy.
Street racing is akin to a Drag race. Autocross type circuit events are more technical with tight corners and I suspect many street racers won't be interested in them. A better solution is to increase access to drag strips. I believe many PD's in Nevada and Florida already do events like this https://jalopnik.com/5236317/drag-race-a-cop-in-beat-the-hea...
What is unhealthy about deciding to pause before responding harshly to someone?
I would start with "The causes of corruption" by Daniel Treisman. It isn't specific to Latin America, though.

In summary, Treisman will show that many factors appear to have an influence on whether a country is more or less corrupt. The colonial past of Latin American countries helps to explain part of it, but it doesn't appear to be a causa sine qua non.
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There's a huge difference between secrecy and privacy.

A court that doesn't publish felony records is not a secret court. In fact, non-secret courts have been around for centuries even though easily accessible felony records are an extremely recent phenomenon (post-internet).
My life history shows this isn’t hypothetical. Rising star from midwest now on a life raft in SF, rent 6+ wk overdue, most accounts closed, no cash and bank account frozen/thawed if I can get funds, and most everyone’s abandoned me. Can’t even afford a bus ride/parking meter to get to a meetup/friends’ game demo.

Simple conversation with old friends from home show I am a good guy but it’s invisible. Instead we see InstantCheckMate telling the world I was arrested for something. They don’t talk about the nuance of the situation, people only see the Red Bang (!) and stop. Add to that two frivolous firings possibly derived from that image, followed by some shit rung jobs I quit because they were the only ones who’d hire me and hold my lack of options over my head.

Now working like a mad man to do something somebody will pay me for. I like to say it always works out in the end. The good part about being choked nearly to death is I fear nothing anymore, including the latter. So this body is a vessel to show the dangers of this type of system via Internet Archive. Block chain terrifies me in this regard.

I now feel why people run around in fear like I used to. I go to the beach every day and the universe seems to bring me exactly what I need. I feel better than ever.
I think you have some good points in there. I agree that in general i dont like the idea of enforcement as the best solution. Rather good civic planning can make many of these problems go away.

I certainly am physically able to ride around cars etc. But if we want the cities of america to evolve in terms of density etc then we need infrastructure designed so that a grandma on a tricycle feels comfortable enough riding to the store instead of taking a taxi. Its certainly done in other countries.
you only prove my point further because you've forgotten that Theranos raised $700 million and her board of directors was a list of very respected researchers, physicians, and businesspeople.

If she was a black women, it would never have gotten to that point ever without a legit product.

Holmes was the perfect posterface for Silicon Valley's version of "progressiveness" that caters upperclass white folks, without care for people of color. Google "white feminism"
There’s much more to Lamos story than just Manning. He repeatedly went out of his way to stab his “friends” in the back.
With many things in life, it’s good to assume other people are not in the same situation as you. Just because you have all day to work on something doesn’t mean that the whole Internet has all day to help you.

What percentage of your free time, for instance, will be spent compared to the percentage of free time of another person? And, what have you done to minimize time required: have you tried to succinctly describe your problem, have you Googled terms in advance, etc.?
White people use drugs at higher rates than black people, but black people are convicted at higher rates for drug possession.

Additionally, it's easier for someone in the upper middle class to legally have the same behavior that would give a lower class person a felony. Case in point, nearly all of the stay at home moms in the upper class neighborhood I grew up in were barred out on Xanax all day. They just all knew the doctor that'd write scripts no questions asked but didn't take insurance, only cash. Lower class can't access that 'doctor'.
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Did they need to open source it to gain UI/UX insight?
Longevity Fund is launching Age 1, a 4-month biotech seed program
First time I noticed it; thanks for the info.
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As @radicalOH mentions, there are several timescales depending on whether you are talking about immediate, short-term, or long-term synaptic potentiation, each coordinated by a cascade of events (that have been extensively documented in you're interested in knowing more).

To specifically address your question about how quickly learning happens in neurons... it's fast. Is it ~10ms? mmm, that seems incredibly fast, and I'm not sure I can provide any definitive answer. I think it heavily depends on what you're willing to interpret as 'learning' when examining events on the molecular level. There are events that engender near-immediate alterations to ongoing transmission; and other events that support lasting electrical changes (necessarily?) develop across longer timescales. You might think of this distinction as the difference between being able to hold a phone number in consciousness via repeating it over and over, and then actually being able to recall that phone number 5 minutes later. In the former certainly something internally must have changed because a moment ago you weren't repeating this number in your head, and now you are. On the other hand, can we really say it was learning if the number is immediately lost the moment it leaves consciousness. Anyway, I"m not going to wax philosophical on that. I'll just show you some data for timescales we think are sufficient to produce lasting increases in synaptic efficacies...

Here is a video showing a single spine just after 2-photon 'glutamate uncaging':

https://goo.gl/rfgjrW

(as I mentioned above, glutamate receptors are the primary receptors involved in fast-excitatory transmission; so uncaging tons of glutamate right next to a spine is going to evoke immediate plasticity changes - particularly under these experimental conditions)

Note that in just a few seconds the spine has doubled in size. Morphological change in the spine are probably not the first events that alter synaptic transmission, but morphological changes to the spine are a reliable sign of a lasting memory trace.

Here is a whole cell recording of the electrical response in a neuron to incoming signals, before and after stimulation like that above ('EPSC' stands for 'excitatory post synaptic currents'):

https://i.imgur.com/0OTMwH5.png
My thought exactly. Hardly a crisis. Best course of action: do nothing. But I’m sure there is somebody out there advocating for more enforcement, stricter fines, or even more authoritarian measures.
> as any big city resident can tell you.

I used to take the bus every day in Prague (Czech Republic) for about 6 years. It was almost always on schedule in both the morning and afternoon.

I don't know anywhere near enough to argue why in general. But not having drivers sell tickets, and route planning certainly help. For example, shorter routes are guaranteed to reduce variance. But I'm not sure what the downsides are.
> Consider the restrictions that US law places on convicted felons. Millions of Americans have been stripped of constitutional rights, often for infractions as minor as stealing a coat or possessing half an ounce of marijuana. Felons often face considerable difficulties in finding employment and housing. "Once untrustworthy, always restricted" is a practical reality in the US.

I understand the US isn't perfect, but I feel the real effects of comments such as yours do as much to excuse China's brand new system as they do to bring light to flaws in the US's system.

I think it must be emphasized that "once untrustworthy, always restricted" is a new policy in China that's being implemented, while in the US it is a historical principle that's coming under increased skepticism and criticism.
At which point you are paying a subscription fee to maintain the infrastructure which will quickly eat up much of the value of decentralization. But yeah, they probably will have to move to that model and disconnect generation from delivery in the same entity.
I've seen multiple government projects where the RFP's were actually written by the company eventually winning the bid - what a surprise...
I make the similar mistakes all the time in my personal and professional life. It's an easy one to do.
This article is typical western fear-mongering. China can already arbitrarily detain political dissidents if they want to. This "social credit score" is nothing more than an elaborate system to enforce misdemeanor laws.
> lol, with lightning you have to rely on a small number of centralized payment hubs

There is no requirement for this. This is FUD.
This is what I meant, in fewer words. Thanks.
Yeah it is obsolete in many places but the difference between retail and wholesale prices is how they pay for their infrastructure so the driver is still the same model from the perspective of the utility.

They were legally forced to sell as well, not due to a lack of profitability.
Yesterday I saw an article in favor of the CLOUD Act, which has received support from Google. Given that almost every other article suggests it's bad for privacy and human rights, and these folks were saying the opposite, I checked, and sure enough, both authors' employers were listed here: https://www.google.com/publicpolicy/transparency.html

Of course, given that this page is for "U.S. Public Policy", my guess is that organizations fully arranged and supported in the EU can be left off the list. Sure enough, if you look for a handful of the organizations mentioned in this report, none of them are disclosed on Google's site.

EDIT: Note that not every organization on the list is inherently "bad", many don't involve competition or Internet policy at all. One in particular, the EFF, of course, has continued to argue against Google's positions, including a massive condemnation of the CLOUD Act. (And even directly taking Google to task with an FTC complaint about school Chromebooks violating student privacy.)

But almost every article in support of Google's goals comes from a writer who is employed by one of the organizations on this list, which makes those on it, suspect until demonstrated otherwise.
It's not just preppers. Members of the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) are taught to build up reserves of food and other resources.

https://ldsblogs.com/9618/mormon-faq-why-do-mormons-store-fo...
"How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and Alexa" https://mashable.com/2018/03/14/why-siri-is-so-dumb/ discussed two days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16588645
Isn't that exactly what commercial loading zones are for?
That's not a strong analogy. Memory safety almost always involves some type of runtime checks: even memory safe languages usually (always?) have runtime checking of array bounds, for example.

So it's understood that a memory safe language will generally be composed of syntactic and semantic features which help at compile time, and runtime checks to close any remaining holes. If some particular implementation happens to have a few more things in the latter category compared than is usual, that doesn't prevent it from being "memory safe", it just makes it more awkward to use and prone to bugs.

In principle, the same distinction applies even to type safety.
Worst user experience ever

- Comic book guy
Also of interest, next year much of the USA House of Reps will be CIA agents. Either you're a fan of the intelligence apparatus, or it's coming for your House seat:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/07/dems-m07.html

This seems good for democracy!
What value are you guys actually providing? Everything you listed is incredibly easy to do without your site. How are you planning on making money? A static site could do the majority of this.
We've taken a crack at it. If someone can suggest a better title—i.e. more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the article—we can change it again.
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>Honestly, I suspect we've only recently gotten to a 'fair' comparison of 4 and 5, with both of them feeling like classics in light of BE and 6.

Let's just pretend BE and 6 never happened.
Totally about parking. https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193... is a great book. Its all about parking in some ways.
How to become a machine learning alignment researcher
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My home computers are all linux and GSuite is perfect for almost everything I do. I could see the issue with excel for many people in accounting/finance/etc, but sheets is more than enough for things I do as I don't do anything complex in a spreadsheet.

At work I am forced to use windows and have to use Office for many tasks (including SharePoint - talk about a terrible product) and aren't allowed to use GSuite. If I had a choice, I would make the same decision as Airbus
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Let's try the subtitle instead.
Fat lot of good it did 'em; they still have to comply with right-to-be-forgotten requests.

Meanwhile lots of EU users still deeply distrust Google and expect their respective governments to reach across sovereign borders for enforcement (ignoring the GDPR controversies for now) - if their motivations really are as bad as this article implies (and it is certainly plausible to this humble poster), they sure wasted a lot of time/money.
Reminder: The two Reuters journalists murdered in the video Manning leaked were public figures, but also real people with real relationships. Lamo betrayed the person who brought this to light. The government, think tanks and talking heads all took to television after the video came out, spinning the situation as to why the journalists had sullied themselves and deserved death.

Please! For this rat and traitor we should, as dang says, "bring your heart with you a bit more than you usually would". This Judas is the person we should bring our heart for more than normal?

Honestly I knew before 2010 that Lamo was someone to avoid, just by how he behaved, and told people as such, but perhaps not strongly enough.

The only good thing I can say about this rat is that the last thing he did is probably the only good thing he did. Good riddance. I'll save "heart" for the dead Reuters journalists that the machine that Lamo was part of had killed.
>The general consensus is that Civ 4 is the series' high point. I prefer Civ 5 myself, though. It set out to streamline the Civ formula, which led to a game a lot of purists thought was too simplified but I found quicker to play and more enjoyable.

5 is a perfected 4. 4 Will forever be the GOAT because of Leonard Nimoy's narration, but 5 is technically the better game IMO.
Not callous at all. We all have a limited amount of attention to pay to things, and as a society we have a limited amount of political and monetary capital to direct at problems. So we should focus on those problems that yield the biggest bang for the buck.

The media is frequently a bad actor in this. Since humans aren't generally good at assessing risk, value propositions like "How to keep your kid from being struck by lightning! Film at 11!" are actively counterproductive. I believe media has an ethical responsibility to allocate their resources and grab eyeballs in line with the magnitude and tractability of the problems they cover, but that's not what sells ad spots. :-(
In Enterprise Picard was similar but often had his missteps and faults, which were usually helped along by the empath. Enterprise is what I was mainly speaking to, actually.
This is a project I've been working on in my spare time. My goal is to use it to provide the data for a little app I'm building, but I'm having too much fun just adding facts to the API.
Look, I find nothing heart warming about the experience of shopping for things in physical stores.

I liken the rise of Amazon as something analogous to the agricultural revolution. Before agriculture, everyone had to hunt and gather food, it was a laborious process similar to shopping. Once people discovered agriculture however, and similarly Amazon, it was no longer necessary to spend so much effort in getting life's basic necessities, freeing us to spend our time on more noble pursuits.

This is the world I would much rather live in. I do not care for the retail days of olde.
From past experiences with different European cities, I'd guess this may be a case of an old city being forced to adapt to motorized traffic.

I've lived all my life in young cities, where most of the infrastructure seems to have been designed in the 50's or thereafter. Also almost ridiculously strict regulations about how much space a given type of road requires. Generally speaking, there's very little trouble of the sort being discussed here, but you do get people complaining about delivery trucks parking in the bike lanes - in areas built in the 20's.

At the other extreme, go to old towns in a place like Croatia, and there are no bike lanes - delivery trucks park by just stopping in traffic. As far as I could tell, it was just a fact of life.

The point being, I suspect this is a result of trying to cram too much traffic into too small a space, and not being willing to accept the consequences.

It's very hard to change n old city to suit motorized traffic. After a while, I actually felt more comfortable driving in Croatia than I do in my nordic home town, because everyone seemed to have adapted to the suboptimal roads in towns by being very careful.
I don’t think this is even a bike-specific thing. It’s common for busses and delivery vehicles to block travel lanes for cars too. Not all streets have places for them to stop out of the way of traffic, so they just stop in a lane and you have to go around.

Space is limited. Going around a stopped vehicle is a lot easier on a bike than in a car in many cases. Maybe cyclists should just deal with it the way drivers do.
> If the result is that we have moved from MS straight into the arms of Google we have won nothing

We would have won, at least, the freedom to use the operating system of our choice. Microsoft software means you eventually need to use theirs.
Women commit very few crimes compared to men. That's not bias, it's a fact. I wasn't talking about how it should be used in court (it shouldn't).
For completeness

The other kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded
startups. These appear on the front page, but are not
stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments.
They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only
one should be on the front page at a time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Lamo talked to Manning under the guise of being a journalist. Here's what Glenn Greenwald wrote in 2011, after WIRED published the full logs between Lamo and Manning (it must be pointed out that Greenwald was one of the loudest critics of WIRED and its editors, but I use this link since it quotes from the logs):

https://www.salon.com/2011/07/14/wired_7/

> MANNING: uhm, trying to keep a low profile for now though, just a warning

> LAMO: I'm a journalist and a minister. You can pick either, and treat this as a confession or an interview (never to be published) & enjoy a modicum of legal protection.

Lamo didn't stumble upon evidence of a crime. He got it by claiming to be a journalist. And as a journalist, he would've had plenty of leeway in not revealing a source, even a source that admits to a crime.
I could be wrong, but I think you have it the wrong way round. I think what the previous poster means is that cars take up all the spaces which leaves none for delivery vehicles, etc...
Is there a known best translation? TFA didn't specify one.
> Btw, regarding China, let's cut it some slack.

No, let's not "cut it some slack" on human rights abuses in the making.
what kind of extra openness you expect from android?