skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you need to visit to check up on the state of affairs in the 'cool' era. I biked as primary transit in Minneapolis 2007-2014. The city is commonly ranked in the top ten for bike infrastructure in the U.S. (as you pointed out, admittedly a low bar).[1][2] I've been biking in Chicago for 5 years now and if you're going between any two points that don't happen to be connected by one of the non-deathtrap segments of lakefront, the cycle infrastructure here is at least a decade behind where Minneapolis is at. Most of it due to generally dismal road maintenance which impacts cyclists much harder than motorists, but lots of tremendously unsafe shared road conditions, too.

1. https://www.outsideonline.com/1930411/10-best-bike-cities-no...

2. https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/outdoors-and-adventu...
Say I am an unhinged individual with $120 and I buy that one (1) drive.

>What's the cost to implement GDPR?:
I laugh and continue to compile a list of where all crossbow enthusiasts with type-O blood have been in the past 6 months.

>What about storing high definition photos?:
Facebook can handle that. All I want to do is store a 9KB index file on every US citizen, because I believe I am a vampiric J. Edgar Hoover.

>What does availability across regions look like?:
The drive sits in my mom's basement as I continue to scrape crossbowforums.org against the Red Cross donors list.

>What does latency look like?:
I guess however well a 50-centimeter SATA cable does.

>What does backup look like?:
I buy two drives at once for $115 and get free shipping on the second one.
Wow.. This is sad.
Big antennas can pick up really small signals.

Deep space network video where they talk about the fact that Voyager I/II is NOT the toughest signal to grab (apparently Mars Exploration Rover is due to small antennas):
https://youtu.be/1rCrfQUcXDI?t=188

That being said, I doubt you could pick up WiFi and dig it out of the noise at space distances.

However, you probably can relay signal intelligence from a drone or a human who is using a specific modulation known to the satellite.
For actual electronics it's pretty much Shenzhen or gtfo these days.
I didn't pay $ for NL Highly SKilled Migrant application. Probably the company did.
The ‘g’ in Google’s Old Logo Is Really Weird
>we got some really weird looks

I have a hard time believing a movie scene played out in the 7-11 with everyone staring at you for buying a bottle of water.

Or, if you looked around and people were crinkling their eyebrows at you, I wouldn't assume it was because of the bottled water.
Conversely, a ChromeOS device is much less locked down than an iOS device, since you can run full Linux (with root) in a chroot on a ChromeOS device.
I may be a bit old-fashioned in this regard, but no, I (probably) wouldn't. A lot of "fake meat" includes soy, which is known to simulate estrogen iirc. Also, it's kinda for the same reason I won't eat bugs (even if safe and tasty): it's just not to my taste, and that's okay.
It isn't abnormal to outgrow current positions, teams, or even companies as time goes on. Not only do we change as individuals (we grow up, want different things in life, start families, etc.), but companies also change (they hire more people, pivot, reorg, etc.).

To me, staying passionate and excited about the work you do is simply following what excites you. It's easy to feel more constrained than you actually are. You don't need to follow the management track at your company at all. You can be an IC forever. You can also find a new team, or a new company! You can be a consultant and chose which companies/projects to work with/on (and only choose the ones that genuinely give you goosebumps, they're that exciting!). You can, as you mentioned, transition into new fields/industries.

Your career doesn't have to be linear. I went to grad school to get my PhD in Neuroscience because I thought I wanted to be an academic professor. Two years in, I dropped out because, even though it was intellectually challenging, it didn't fan my flames. (I felt so trapped and uninspired.) I then worked as an operations manager at a startup called Homejoy. It was there where I realized how powerful coding was. After Homejoy, at 26yo, I learned to code. For two years, I did freelance web development and then almost exactly one year ago today, I started working on a side project that very quickly became the only thing I wanted to work on. I'm now a founder of a company (Key Values) and every single day I'm doing something that's new, challenging, and exciting to me.

>>> How do you know when it's time to be okay with [...] trying something radically different?

You should always be okay with trying something radically different (ie. don't be afraid). Maybe the real question is when do you pull the trigger?

It helps to first know what your personal values are, and then you can ask yourself: "Are my behaviors in alignment with my values?" If the answer is no, it's time to make a change!

If you ask me, you should be excited / stimulated / challenged / inspired every single day. We have a pretty limited amount of time on planet earth, so it's really on us to make the very most of it.
Signal has most of the problems that has WhatsApp: mainly the fact that it's dependent on a smartphone, yes you have a Chrome-based application that is the same as WhatsApp web, it's only a remote interface that connects to your phone.

Telegram in my opinion is far better, it's completely cloud based, you can use it from whatever device you want, it has real desktop apps, you can send files, you have bots, channels, large groups, usernames, you name it.

I don't get why using Signal, yes it's free software, also Telegram it is (ok, the server is proprietary but even if you have the source how can you be sure that what they release is what is running on the servers ? If you don't run your own server the source are useless), but I don't see other advantages, so why bother with a third messaging app ? I use WhatsApp for the large user base, and I use Telegram for the advanced features if I need them.
A San Franciscan Tries the Future of Mobility – LimeBike, SPIN, Bird, JUMP
My mistake!

I had the impression it came from M-Labs because I discovered SolveSpace by observing their IRC channel where SolveSpace development was occurring - complete with a commit bot spamming the channel with their work.

Nothing but respect for everyone involved was intended.
I'm not sure, but that's the way I'd bet.

They just took $10m in January, which is a fair bit of runway for testing hypotheses. When they start to run low on that, they can go to every single VC firm for more. Inside Uber, they are going to have approximately one executive to get funding from. Currently that executive obviously likes them. But feelings change, and they're just a reorg or an executive departure away from somebody who gives zero fucks.
Maybe at a hell company like this example, but in most that are sane you're encouraged to learn on the job.

At the end of the day you're not paid to program, you're paid to solve problems, and typically that's easiest to achieve by producing code.

Sometimes the problem is you don't know a particular language or toolkit even if it's the best fit for a problem domain...
> [...] my deterministic random consensus [...]

Dude, learn some terminology first. Random is very much the opposite of
deterministic. Otherwise you're just spouting garbage.
What would it take for a airplane to be able to pickup someone without stopping?
Hey Pablo,

In your about me section, rather than saying "experienced in all stages of web development", use industry terms such as "full stack development" as you do on your Linkedin Profile. What sort of jobs are you applying for?

If I were you I'd be trying to highlight project management experience that you have from your architecture career. Talk about the number of people you supervised, budgets you managed, etc. While this may not be relevant to a junior web development role, if you want to move up later on it will show you are able to manage effectively.

The only other suggestion I have would be to start blogging. You've built a blogging web app but you aren't using your own product.

Hope this helps.

- Jaye
Pivotal hopes to raise $592M in IPO
1. That was intended as a virtue not an omission

2. It's no longer true now you've got Android app support. Whether you think this is a good thing or a bad thing depends on your feelings about point 1.

3. "developer mode not withstanding" - well it is withstanding. You'd hear a lot less moaning about iOS if that had a similar mode.
Yeah but if it gets stolen you're out $2000 and since you said Jump benefits the not-poor, I assumed you meant "People who can't shell out $2000 on a bike".

I also use a Boosted Board because I break even wrt Uber every 3 months or so. But if I didn't have $1600 to spend on that purchase, then all the future savings in the world wouldn't mean shit.
Yeah, and sharing it with the political partiy it thinks deserves to win the next election; even if it otherwise guards it carefully.

There's a reason why we have the separation between the head of state, the Church, Congress and the federal courts.
This is probably a security feature designed to prevent people from altering a phone in order to brute-force it.
> but satellites still occult stars

True, but it would be very difficult to 1) observe this unless you were looking for it directly and 2) determine the object's orbit. Since stars are point light sources, you can't even tell how fast it is moving since the size of the object could mislead your attempt to deduce this by timing the event.
> The article states internet was down for users at around 10pm (I expirenced it live). So they might have been on generators for two hours (speculation).

More likely, the timestamp in the picture is UTC, which corresponds to 22:00 CEST, cf. [0]

[0] http://status.core-backbone.com/index.php?id=1972
Totally fair! They're taking off in Europe right now which will help set the tone for how cities can accommodate these bikes. I think incidents like shutting down the L line in New York will help propel e-bikes/scooters forward much faster than anticipated.

Of course, that may not translate to every city but I think it will move across the US much faster than pure dockless schemes.

For your question on why not? I bet being able to move a significant number of trips by volume from your competitors back onto your platform is well worth the cost and mind share that you could build. (e.g. no bikes available? How about you take this uber for x% off instead!)
Way to name some completely orthogonal problems that existed at the time. I'm surprised you didn't mention needing to go to a library to look things up or tie up the phone line to use the internet.
> Are you saying that if it were discovered to be both cheap and easy to create a super-pandemic using nothing more than household chemicals and a swab of your own snot, then you'd publish the results freely and in their entirety?

No.

> If not, how catastrophic a level of harm are you willing to risk before you start advocating concealing the results?

I'm not sure. Probably quite catastrophic, because it stretches the limits of credulity to seriously talk about a what if scenario where any given individual can easily create a weapon of mass destruction in their kitchen. A better question is why you think such a straightforwardly accessible method of eradicating our species won't be discovered independently despite your efforts to conceal it. How do we navigate that philosophical labyrinth?

But more pointedly, I dispute that this is comparable to any specific, credible example of strong AI. Give me a credible scenario that brings us from strong AI to the annihilation of our species without handwaving about recursive self-improvement and selective idiocy and I'll reconsider my position. I'm not going to give up the chance to publish incredibly novel research because some other people like to work themselves into hysterics about a conceptually incoherent boogeyman with "AI" slapped onto it.
Thanks for the correction! I thought all quantum operators were their own inverse, but I guess I was wrong.
> You can run GNU/Linux applications as containers.

Do you need to run gnu/linux apps inside containers or can they just run inside the VM running on top of chromeos?
But we don't have the technology to say "fundamentally indistinguishable from one another based on molecular level". We don't even know all the things (trace chemicals) that we have to worry about. How do I know that we don't know them all? Because we keep finding new ones.

Is the vat (or vat lining) really going to leave no residue? Well, we assume that it will be insignificant - but we don't know. We may not know until some time after it starts causing damage.
Actually since Citizens United this is effectively pretty much the case.

The caps in other countries might not implemented in an umbrella dollar amount but as rules like no TV ads, or the dollar amount could only apply to certain items. Often it is a cap on donations which effectively caps spending. At the end of the day, democracies generally must limit campaigning influence because if they don’t, they might end up with skewed democratic process, possibly a reality show star as president.
Facebook and the Upcoming Fight for Data Portability
Apple now runs on 100% green energy
...as is any multibillion dollar public corporation. They're literally chartered to avoid taxes, and are willing to pay accounting firms millions of dollars to find new and innovative loopholes.

The tax code could be simpler and eliminate the holes, but these companies love the complication because it allows them to invent these things, so they actually lobby for even more complicated, convoluted rules at any given chance.
Yes, that's their value. You shouldn't need to use them for your development environment or normal every day software.

Unless of course you're saying that most software in the GNU/Linux world is badly behaved, which I'd kind of agree with.
Survey: Facebook Collected Call/Text Data Without Consent
Any suggestions of similar places on the Bay Area to visit/shop? Just went to my first Fry's a few weeks ago!
First you said it's clear, now you're saying it's highly speculative. Choose one.
Yeah! Maybe we can model it after the big 3 consumer credit agencies! We can centralize all ppls info in one easy to access place!

This new organization will be much more honest than the current ones!

IMO For this to happen correctly it has to be decentralized, perhaps blockchain style.
It was fun to see products that I helped ship wind up on the shelves at Weird Stuff. Kind of a sideways honor . . .
Weird site, possibly random data gen for AI training
Because he values something else more than getting rich. E.g., achievement. Or even getting filthy rich.

Note that Mark Zuckerberg could have sold Facebook early on for a variety of "he gets rich" prices: http://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-companies-that-ever-t...

And I'd add that anybody who gets into doing a startup only because they want to be rich is probably better off buying lottery tickets.
Then what exactly was the new bad thing introduced by publishing it in the first place?
I already told you and you called them non sequiturs.
RemoveDEBRIS spacecraft: Active Debris Removal technology demonstrations
Facebook has been doing their own internal research on election manipulation since at least 2010. Subtle UI variations can be targeted at users to effectively increase and decrease voter turnout as desired.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/facebook-experime...
That's interesting. They only took money in January, though so it seems early (and expensive) for a mercy killing. Do you have more theory as to motivation?
Ask HN: Best VR MOOC or learning resource?
I’m an developer, but I don’t know computer graphics or how to program games. I’m looking for a resource or MOOC any of you have tried that you recommend. I’ve looked up VR MOOCs, but they seem designed for people who just started out programming, and I’m not sure how useful they’ll be.

Is there a MOOC or other resource that is great for learning VR dev?
Having the valuable experience of earning a salary of 15K after graduating from college I very quickly learned to translate any expense into number of hours worked.
I also shared my elm experience a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16750842
I think this is probably the most reasonable example I've been given in this thread. However, as you admit this is still very far off from a hypothetical AI hellbent on destroying us while we watch helplessly.
WINGS ethereum crowdsale valuation service simplified integration
Did she get up early and ask for enough milk to bathe in :-)

(very obscure reference. How far up do you want it to come luv?)
Yes and it's not like their 2nd iteration of Dodgeball (Foursquare) was that successful. They've pivoted to business analytics, but I doubt their investors are that happy.
Right, the line does get rather blurry when a service provider has the power to compel people to purchase their "service" whether they want to or not. Local governments like to position such payments as "fees"—it makes for better PR—but if there are penalties for opting out (such as not being permitted to occupy your own property) then I would consider it a tax. In the cases you mentioned, for example, there really isn't any significant difference between those mandatory utility "fees" and property taxes.
LOL. There are probably 15 days a year that a truly inhospitable to biking in Minneapolis. On those days the hardcore riders go out anyway, and the rest work from home or catch the bus. Snow isn't a big deal except immediately after it falls, because the city does a damn good job cleaning it up, at least on the major streets. Your pants will get filthy, so plan to change them (or wear snowpants). These are things people in the North deal with even when not biking; have you tried scraping the windshield of a car that's completely covered in half-frozen puddle slush? When it's falling you can bike too, just need to take it slow (same as motorists do) and maybe pick an alternate route that's more secluded from car traffic. I actually think it's kind of fun to slip around in the fresh snow and fall on my ass, while I never much enjoyed spinning the tires on my car. I may just be weird though.

There's nothing out-of-ordinary about the amount of rainfall in Minneapolis or Chicago so not sure where you're coming from with that one, but you just wear a rain jacket and, again, have a dry change of clothes if you're going somewhere that demands formal dress. In Chicago I've found the wind has a much bigger impact on my biking than precipitation.
Is there any solid theory that these movie scenarios would play out in the real world?

Frankly, I don't want to even estimate the orders of magnitude of difficulty in seeing AGI come to fruition over ML, so I think you, I, and anybody else reading this has little to worry about.
This is the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pFX2P7JLwA
I think you can get by taking Andrew Ng's Coursera course on machine learning. It will give you a decent understanding of the technologies out there to the point where you can converse on the topics, and I think having the flexibility to use a math program to complete the projects will allow you to get through it without requiring too much hands on programming knowledge.

In order to actually progress to implementing some of this, you would need garner some python programming skills, and get through a tutorial for a framework like Tensorflow or caffe. From there I think you would have enough skill to start implementing some of your own technologies. But this is all heavily dependent on your existing skill and comfort with programming. So this could be a pretty substantial challenge.
Thanks for the description but that made very little sense to a 'regular' developer like me. Any chance you could break it down and bring it down to my level?
Huh. As a regular cyclist, I'm a bit suspicious. My view of the city is very different than a car's. And I'd think that Uber could buy bike data for way less than $100m.
This is a total bummer. I remember when my dad took me here on the weekends.
What do you think they should have spent that on?
Solving FizzBuzz by generating raw video with an FPGA
backup: https://web.archive.org/web/20180409214613/https://privacy.o...
Are there any computer games that explore non-Euclidean geometry?
I don't think you understood the parent's core point. The "masses" aren't going to find or buy an old server and install Debian and FreedomBox on it, and then set it up to run headless in a corner of their house. That's not in the area of technical expertise of most people. They might, however, buy a pre-built, pre-installed appliance that just needs to be plugged in and have a web browser pointed at it to get started.
I recommend the textbook Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists.
Any book recommendation? I come from a "boglehead"-centric approach [1], stating that the market is so efficient that it's virtually impossible to beat it in the long term as a mere mortal, so one might as well just buy indexes and get the market return, hoping that in the long term capitalism will continue thriving. And that's what I've done, fully investing my high 6 figure (soon to be 7) liquid net worth into index funds.

The only exception to the rule would be if one has some sort of technical advantage (e.g. HFT infrastructures) or "insider" information.

Was curious to hear if you have any resources that in your opinion could make me change my stance? Thanks

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/
> True, but generally folks live within 5 miles of 90% of the places they go.

Isn't LA like, the single place on earth where this is least true?
Yeah, we've had a great time writing Elm for a fairly complex single-page Ethereum dApp. It's conceptually a lot simpler than Haskell, which made it easy for the team to pick up. I only wish it had a better system (Tasks) for JavaScript interop instead of ports.
Doesn't the rise of containers and cloud companies which will host and run them make this easier? if not now, later on? companies like Digital Ocean are pretty close to the one click upload container and run it model.

i.e you have companies which will securely and redundantly host a (encrypted?) container, which gets backed up and so on, and runs the freedombox of your choice.

So you have control/freedom/ponies and the cloud compute becomes just plumbing.
You seem to be saying that you're much smarter than people who have a problem with object oriented programming. That's not only condescending, it's very unlikely to be true.
I worked on a mega-LoC (millions of lines of code) C++ project in the late 90s. It wasn't even (to the extent I could honestly tell at that point in my career, anyway) a particularly hellish codebase or design, and suffered none of the madnesses described in The Fine Article.

(Of course, we were sub-sub-contractors working only on designated parts of the application. The stuff I did touch was consistently sane enough, though, that I don't think I'm too out of place in positing a legit minimal degree of not-terribleness across the rest of the project.)
My best guess is the article referred to Louvois, France's attempt to build a military payment system.

An article in French about it: https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/secrets-d-info/secrets-...

In 2018 it still does not exist. The French government has decided to try again, awarding the contract to the same company.