skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
London night tube remains weekends only, though. And even then, 30% of passengers are going from/to work. The importance of a 24h subway is not to get drunk people home but to help people working night/early shifts. The main reason London will not get intra-week night tube anytime soon is because of the maintenance issues this causes. The NYC subway was explicitly mentioned when this was proposed.
I like your explanation, thank you for sharing!

Still I'd say that it does not apply to all RPGs. For example, the recent Divinity: Original Sin games are quite system-heavy, so I don't think it would be possible to have a vertical slice without building most systems. But for Diablo-like games, it would work great!
How do you propose keeping something cheap while ensuring only a small amount is used? Rationing?

I remember when Obama said "Gas under a buck ain't bad" (paraphrased) and was dismayed - you cannot pursue the goal of making something cheaper and reducing it's consumption without something like rationing (or, I suppose, simply making an alternative which is profoundly superior and cheaper, but we haven't got that)
Europe is not France only.

And France is not Sarkozy only : There has been Hollande since, and now Macron. (Just like you, I hope there will be very serious sanctions against Sarkozy)

Also, Macron is not perfect, but saying "Macron = Poutine" is excessive.

(On the mandates thing : France used to have maximum two 7-years mandates = 14 years max. Even if it gets to three 5-years mandates, that is 15 years max. Nothing revolutionary. If voters want change, they have twice the opportunity to vote for a change. In France, votes are properly counted, nothing like Russia.)
I used to use the self install feedafever app which had a somewhat clever algorithm that would scrape all my subscribed feeds and provide me with a breakdown of whats hot over the past 30 days while also giving me the ability to view a chronological feed.

Unfortunately it became unmaintained and is now abandoned by its author. It's been on my todo list for a while to write similar so I can have the same experience again.
Well, it‘s good that it „could“ work, however i expect it to work without searching the Internet for xrandr configs. (And as said newer Weston/Wayland work way better)
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I don't know a single city where license numbers and the complaint hotline are so prominently placed as in NYC. I believe it was common that cabbies ignored regulation but this appears to have changed in recent years.
When I created my personal website I thought: “Eh, if anyone asks for RSS I’ll make it then.” To my surprise I started getting asked after the second article! It didn’t take long to code up (relative paths to full urls was the biggest hurdle—but not exactly hard) and it’s kinda nice knowing that people can just follow the content without having to be lucky enough to see an article go by on Twitter.
Ah, I should've figured that out myself from looking at the contents. I might try it out and combine it with some reading of my old statistics book or some other means. Thanks!
the undergrad math prep at community college was a joke

I had the opposite experience. I took the calculus sequence at CC. Taking more advanced courses (e.g. numerical analysis) at Cal State, I was better prepared than my peers who had taken calculus there.

My Calculus I instructor authored several college math texts, BTW.

Now that I think about it, the only instructors I recall having Ph.Ds who did their own lecturing were at the CC.
Read more charitably, will you?

Fame doesn't affect all accusations the same way. I believe the probability of false accusations raise faster with fame than the probability of true accusation (which is mostly dependent on actual guilt).

There's even the possibility that the probability of true accusations lowers as fame raises, leaving more room for the false ones.
I was talking about the underlying merchant fees. In the US, it’s not unusual to pay 3% on cars transactions and I can’t help think that a large part of that is to deal with fraud.

After all, Australian banks are some of the most profitable per customer in the world.
Not sure whether I like this phrasing:

> the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand.

What is really going on is that there is always unsatisfied demand. So it's no paradox. Faulty assumptions perhaps, not a paradox.
> In my experience, if people want what you are making, 9/10 times you can survive the "bad" production process, due to the fact that even if project 2x-3x over budget, the market will easily 10x-100x initial investment lifetime.

(Emphasis mine.)

But this is the point, isn't it? If people want what you are making. But how do you know they want it? If you already have a successful franchise, it's easier, but many games don't, and with a well known franchise there's often an incentive not to be _too_ innovative (I'm looking at you COD, FIFA, Assassin's Creed, etc.). For most games, if you're building something that simply isn't fun then you should stop, and ideally you want to stop early in the process so you can spend your time and money on something else.

The issue I have with your conclusion is that in a very specific set of circumstances it's true, but not a useful observation.

Look at it like this: the PS2 has over 2500 titles and you know full well that a lot of them were costly to produce, yet are still absolute bilge. You also know that there are a lot of great games in there that didn't succeed commercially. So you need to hit sweet spots on multiple axes, and you need to de-risk on all of those as early as possible to succeed.

You _might_ get lucky even with a bad and overly expensive production process for something that people really want[1], but it's a very high risk to take, even if you don't end up at the extreme of a Daikatana or a Duke Nukem Forever.

[1] I wonder if something like Half Life 2, which was quite heavily delayed, might fit this category.
Hah. :)
(offtopic) I just click all the wrong blocks.
The solution is to stop using auto-incrementing IDs generated by the database, and UUIDs are not the only answer.

It is trivial to have an app request and reserve a pool of IDs and assign from them as needed. It guarantees no overlap, is completely distributed, requires no db roundtrip to insert, can remain as numeric data, allows every row to be uniquely identified across tables or databases, still has loose ordering, and it only requires a system with atomic increments to implement.
This makes me smile to hear. It looks like you have a great product - I remember maybe a year or two ago a similar provider went under due to lack of interest, but I think they were targeting the wrong market by aggregating users social media into a personal feed.
keep it open at night Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, as close at night the other days?
A well-fed workforce is a happy workforce –City Pantry raises £4M for its market
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you just listed my regular cravings
This is a great way of thinking about a VPN, and how I describe it myself. If you have limited options on your choice of ISP, then a VPN allows you to expand your choices (excluding speed, latency, usage caps).
Indeed!

What a great way to see failure: what went wrong, how to improve without blaming it on the poor guy. I wish all companies were like this - very forward thinking!

Funny thing is... this morning on my commute I was watching https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/developing-a-chaos-architectur... - which I recommend to anyone!
or, since we're talking about an average, not median, they attracted one new user who is now prepared to wait a very long time
Don't modify the scores of old posts, start newer ones with a higher score.

Check out how reddit does it: https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algo...

The concept is that the time-based part of the score is immutable, fixed at post creation time.

That way you only have to recalculate when a score-modifying event occurs, not every time the page is refreshed.
The European payment industry is adopting secure customer authentication in the form of 3DS2.1.
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> Where does it say on the receipt

Obviously on the front with all the other printed text.

If your question is whether it actually does say it, I just pulled the most recent receipt out of my wallet, and this is what is printed right above the blank for my signature: "I agree to pay the above total amount according to the card issuer agreement."

I checked two other receipts from different businesses and they say the same thing.

It might or might not be legally binding or necessary, whether it's there is pretty clear. It is. At least where I live (US), it is.
In the UK nearly every Contactless transaction just does a single beep on success, and something else for a failure.
I meant $400 23/100 in the little box on the right.
Presumably it would, but since approximately 0% of businesses that actually do anything could make such a statement truthfully, that doesn't help very much.
I am guilty of emailing or otherwise attempting to contact authors for a feed link for their blog. It's often because I have become really engaged with one of their articles, read a few more and developed a hunger to see their fresh work.

Twitter is just a firehose, but my aggregated feeds are categorized and hand picked so I am far more likely to catch content I'm interested in on there and therefore be much more engaged with it.
Many people are using leader/follower instead of master/slave.
It is, but it means parent will lose any contractual dispute ever on the signature proof part.

Here is how it goes in a dispute. You have A saying B signed a contract, and B saying he didn't. It's A's job to prove he did first, and he indicate there is a signature on there, and it's B's. So now it's B's turn, and he needs to show it isn't his (if he does, then A become accused a making a false, and will need to prove he didn't).

To do that, B needs to prove that he usually signs a different way, so he provides other signatures everywhere to show it. Since parent signs differently everywhere, he cannot show that he has a regular signature that doesn't match the one on paper. In fact, it shows that any scribble CAN be his signature as long as there is one, and thus the court will tend to assume the one on the contract is his.

So parent's strategy is terrible, and you really shouldn't be playing that game, because it doesn't catch you until it really does.
Does 'RSS' also mean Atom feeds? The terms seem to be used interchangeably. I had thought Atom was supposed to be a better alternative to RSS but it doesn't seem to have landed. Is it necessary to always offer both? Most sites seem to.
> It is most succinctly described as a "Loosely typed Java or C#", "Curly brace version of Python", or "JavaScript that's been fixed"

Umph, these are not good selling points.

- Strong typing is one of the top features of C# and Java.

- Python is all about math-friendly syntax (ie no curly braces and semi colons).

- And claiming to fix javascript is presumptuous.

At best, this makes it sound like a toy version of kotlin.
Thanks for the reminder. I just recovered my account and I'll give a try to the intelligent filtering.
What is Bitcoin mining?
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Used to work at Uber years ago.

1. Uber keeps track of driver's cancellation rates, and if they do it enough, they'll receive notices to timeouts to deactivation.

2. If you rate a driver/rider 3 stars or less, you will never be matched with them ever again.
But there is a long list of countries which citizens need NOT any Schengen Visa, and - namely - Canada, as an example for the OP, is among them:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171003065628/http://ec.europa....

So it really depends on where you are from originally.
While I agree with your opinion about the GDPR, your analysis of Europe is otherwise plainly wrong. You would be aware of this if you actually followed EU politics (there is currently a strong trend towards right-wing / center politics. Left-leaning parties are moderately out of favour), which you definitely do not have to do. Just try not to spread misinformation on the internet: There is plenty of it to go around already.
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Generally when I see links to github projects on HN I expect something useful or extraordinary and this looks like my Neural Networks 101 assignment, only far more polished. But people seem to like it(over 400 stars right now) so maybe I am missing something.
Latest commit on the Github is from Aug 2017, doesn't seem that well maintained.
> claiming to fix javascript is presumptuous.

How so? Lua did it, why not someone else?
> But recipes, for all their precision and completeness, are poor teachers. They tell you what to do, but they rarely tell you why to do it.

This drives me crazy about recipes e.g. adding vinegar to poaching water is recommended in lots of perfect poached eggs guides but few explain why (makes the whites firm even faster to prevent them from dispersing in the water). It's really 'teach a man to fish' kind of stuff, knowing the why gives more flexibility.
A large part of a solid PR team’s job is to cultivate relationships with journalists so when situations like these arise, they feel compelled to cover the issue in a more nuanced and educated manner. I don’t mean to say the PR team has to strive to spread lies or dishonesty, but rather be able to get your company somewhat fair coverage. I don’t think that is happening.

I’ll go a step further and argue that for a company like Facebook, you should have a dozen folks whose job is to simply come in everyday and think about the possible attack vectors from the PR side. And then you work backwards from the worst case scenarios of each to begin addressing the issue from various sides (engineering, BD, Corp dev etc), ideally long before it plays out.

To give you an example, google PR for a long time has been super aware of getting caught in a media tsunami charging it for being a monopoly. My hunch is that every public speaker representing google has been made aware of this and is provided guidance. For example, you won’t find google engineers talking at big data conferences even joking about world domination. Instead, in public, google underplays its larger ambition to err on the side of caution.
I have no idea. I've honestly never heard of subliminal until just recently (yesterday) and I've never really tried it out.

But on first glance it seem like subliminal is more for developers in general as it provide apis to use it, it also have a bunch more providers than what SubSync currently have and most likely a much better way for guessing which subtitle is correct. It also seem to focus more on individual subtitles rather than trying to batch download them unlike SubSync. Although they do have support for downloading for a whole folder. How well that works I have no idea.

In the end, Subliminal have been in development for over 5 years and has been thoroughly tested.
Whereas SubSync was a weekend project I made 2 weeks ago and never meant to compete with anything existing. I only knew I had a problem I needed to solve and wanted to share it with everyone :-)

TL;DR: I don't think SubSync offers anything unique over Subliminal at this moment. And if you're already used to using Subliminal you should keep doing so if that works good for you. :-)
I'm thinking Uber might be able to create a better driver quality score using meaningful user inputs rather than ratings. For example, after a ride, it could give the user the option to prefer the same driver in the future if available, or even to wait up to X minutes extra for this same driver (or something along those lines). The percentage of users who choose these options would be a very clear signal of driver quality, and would be less likely to be gamed because the user has a clear motivation to answer truthfully.

I expect there's other info that could be used to calculate the score as well. Average tips compared to other drivers in the area comes to mind, although that could have negative consequences (mainly increased pressure to tip). Perhaps if it were combined with other inputs though. I'm sure there are other options too.
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“Logging all the things” as default behavior really needs to be a thing of the past.

Maybe, but logging useful things is reasonable. We investigate problems with our systems using server logs. We diagnose various security threats, fraud risks and ToS violations using server logs.

We're generally respectful of users' privacy, but we also have a legitimate interest in knowing how our systems are being used and preventing people from doing bad things with them. Those legitimate interests may take precedence over a visitor's right to privacy in some cases, in the same way that you can't tell a government to forget your criminal record or a bank to forget that you owe them money.
That isn't really correct. If you delete a section of DNA, then the difference is that piece of DNA has been excised. Given that excision (or duplication) can occur naturally, there is no way of telling whether the change is due to CRISPR or not. It doesn't leave tell-tale signs.

If there were a strict regulatory regime, there's simply no way of enforcing compliance. Of course it's simple when you put in something that's obviously exogenous - cheap genome sequencing will pick it up, hence why that will be regulated. Anything else, and you're relying on an honesty system.
Thank you in kind, and I understand where you're coming from, but I still think the standard you're applying is pretty far removed from normal. Separate from any subjective rankings, the person describes having been educated solely in English for 6+ years, and from context appears to have been actively speaking it for at least 15-20 years overall. If one ranks that as intermediate, one winds up calling someone with 10 years experience a beginner, and such absurdities.

As for subjective rankings, I'm more familiar with CEFR, under which I see no obvious reason not to rank this person C1 or C2, which is what one would expect for someone with more than 800-1000 hours of study.

CEFR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_R...
I still use an upgraded Newton Messagepad 2000 mainly for notes and journal entries. 99% of the time I remember things better with a kinesthetic act, so it's filled with a bunch of notes and other scribbles just because I needed some kind of movement (in this case a stylus on screen) to retain it in my head.

Alas, with how clunky it's been trying to sync with the rest of my digital life, it's currently in Dual-Carry status with a Note 8, with eventual retirement as a conversation starter on my bookshelf.
Ask HN: What non pharmacological means do you use to manage anxiety/depression?
Just to clarify. This does not exclude those who are also on medication.

In my case, I’ve been on antidepressants for about 2 years and have found the following helpful in mitigating my anxiety and depressive moods:

* Writing every day: It not only helps me identify and understand my triggers, but also provides a feeling (perhaps an illusion) of control that I feel is helpful.

* Cutting out caffeine: This helped cut down the jitteriness and sudden spikes of anxiety through the day. It also helped me sleep better, which also improved my mental well being in the long run.

* Regular exercise: Massively improves the quality of my mood.

* Sleep: Improving sleep quality and time

I’m curious to hear about what others here have found useful.

Thank you
Having used the Spreadsheets API, I can say it's definitely bad, mainly because of its slowness and the small amount of data any query can return. We needed 45 seconds to modify two fields in any given document.
Everywhere I go has it at the moment, but strangely I get the same picture set every time.
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This thread:

http://www.5z8.info/white-power-rides-upon-stallions-unstopp...

Update your bookmarks. ;)
I haven't read "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" as recommended in the article, but I swear by:

Julia Child, "the way to cook"

Jeff Potter, "Cooking for geeks"

Kenji lopez-alt's "the food lab"

The author does compare to most of these, so the recommendation seems solid.
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And the comment of the year award goes to...
taskwarrior > this
What's fun is that last I looked the banks still didn't have any actual technology to support this feature. The rules they're obeying explain how the feature works for customers, but the implementation is left for them. And so their actual implementation is blind trust, settlement for the transactions happens at the old rate, hours or days later. The balance updates happen instantly for end users, but if any of the banks is engaged in fraud, that won't be detected until it's probably too late.

I expect this seems like a great cost-benefit trade, right up until a multi-billion fraud wipes out one of the banks, and then suddenly they'll be really excited about something better than "cross your fingers" as a resolution mechanic.
I find this typically relates to hosts who allow short stays with multiple guests. So they get lots of people staying for a weekend who are basically just wanting somewhere to sleep where it's reasonably comfortable and not expensive.

That said, reviews on airbnb are generally not worth the paper they are written on.
My Samsung washing machine plays a little ditty when a wash cycle completes. It's actually kind of annoying! :D
Ask HN: Can Whatsapp read my messages, e.g. when including a URL?
Oh my, that's absolutely hilarious! Funny little service.
This is an ENORMOUS problem in Kenya. Many drivers do this to "protest" Uber as well. Some of the drivers will accept the fare and then just not come if you're paying by credit card.

I would happily pay the minimum fare to give these drivers a 1 star review.
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The limit for visible light is as high as it is because of the blink reflex. An IR laser, having a beam you don't perceive as being bright, won't make you blink.
Yes, b+trees are more performant for reading compared to skip-list because of better data locality on memory/disk. But SL better at insertion and sequential reads. 255 GB is a simple trade-off between disk space required per record and the ability to manage large data-sets since SL is a not very space friendly data structure) Although I think 255 GB is good enough in many use cases.
Scaling out with Prometheus
Maree and Hogeweg did some really cool research on Dictyostelium (one of those slime molds). For those interested: http://www.pnas.org/content/98/7/3879
Also bear in mind, it's almost impossible to give a rating lower than 3 on a lot of these sites (not sure about TA, specifically though?).
Ola Cabs in India does this. There is still a star rating, but if you give a rating of 5 stars it asks you what you loved most (out of a selection of choices), and if you give less than 5 stars it asks you what you were not happy about (slightly different selection of choices). You can pick multiple reasons in both cases. There is even a box for writing free text.
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Win-win for you. Not for others among us.

> It seems to me that GDPR restricts economic growth.

It does, but fortunately economic growth is not the central point of human existence.