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Personally, I think it’s cultural. Very few people who live near me have any ambition beyond going to work for the paycheck and watching football / drinking beer on the weekends. And there is nothing wrong with that lifestyle if that is what makes you happy, but you can hardly expect the most ambitious people in the world to want to move here. (I’ll note this culture also seems to be passed down from one generation to the next. Moving away for a better job is considered “not caring about family” around here).
Not really, in actual usage. BART is roughly equivalent to the MBTA's Red Line - it's the workhorse subway system, moves lots of passengers quickly from the highest-density residential areas to the downtown core and then continues on to high-density suburbs. Muni is more like the Green Line - slow, above-ground light rail that services outlying residential areas with some key connections.

Caltrain is a commuter rail, but commuter rail in the Bay Area is much different from in the MBTA. For one, it's a straight line down the peninsula; Boston's commuter rail branches out like spokes on a wheel. Two, it hits all of the major suburban downtowns, which are themselves much higher density than the Boston suburbs (Sunnyvale has more people than Cambridge, for example, despite being 40-50 miles from SF). Three, because of this it's always packed and runs much more frequently than MBTA commuter rails. I used to live along the Fitchburg Commuter Rail, which gets about 10,000 passengers/day. Caltrain gets 60,000.

Muni is generally considered worthless for daily commuting in the Bay Area, while most of the Boston MBTA stations are considered desirable neighborhoods. By contrast, the MBTA commuter rail is generally considered useless (everyone I know who lived in a town serviced by it would just drive, and usually work along the 128 or 495 belts instead of in the city itself), but Caltrain is considered a very practical means of commuting if you happen to live near one of the peninsula downtowns and work in SoMA, and the reason crummy housing stock in the Mission rents for $3500/month is because you can get to all the cool places either by BART or by BART -> Caltrain transfers.
After 10years of Scala development, SBT is still the largest pain. Compile speed, picking up changes takes many seconds, arcane syntax, magic error messages, fragile configuration files.

Will try mill, I wonder why no other build tools for scala showed up, with SBT being such a pain for many people.
Starting from what level of understanding?

The old Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronics kits are informative and easy to use.

They're designed to teach the fundamentals; capacitance, resistance, logic (74-series) gates, volts/amps...
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And if you're on Android, I'm a big fan of Flamingo.
I'd say: work for enterprise clients.

You get to learn how to build things at scale and they pay better. Startups and individuals always require way more education and ultimately want to squeeze every cent out of you.
One thing I've learned is that the right wing will always tons more money and resources than the left in the US. This is an example of how effective the right wing message machine can be, having been a loud opponent of minimum wage increases for what are increasingly bogus reasons.
I find it strange that the beef is with Google and not with the sites Google points at. Even if Google removes these search results, the articles are out there, probably linked from some other articles on the same newspaper's site, etc. This belief that removing from Google somehow makes it go away is odd.
> Apparently, we're not, as Waymo has shown.

Does Waymo drive at high speeds all the videos I have seen are at low speeds.
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Let's consider the incident in Seattle a few years back wherein a "sex trafficking" ring run by tech people was busted by the cops. Except there were no actual sex trafficking charges brought against anyone and the whole sting operation seems to have been funded from out of state.

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2018/03/24/25953235/king-co...

Backpage was pretty sleazy. I don't think anyone's going to miss them, but are you not at all alarmed that there's a sudden onslaught of legislation that is claimed to target "sex trafficking", but which also apparently requires the deletion of the personals section from Craigslist, censoring of pornographic Google drive content, and even dirty words from Word documents?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/28/microsoft_services_...

Where is this heading? And do you trust the motives of the people behind it?
People are a lot harder to kill with knives than with guns. Don't be disingenuous.
"Another five or six books were almost ready, and a couple of films still needed finishing. After that, he said, “I’d like to travel.”"

I'm doing my travelling and going to concerts while I'm young.

The quote from Jonas made me think to look for books written by old people. Is there a database where I can easily compare the publication date of a book and the date of birth/death of the author?

Surely the data must be available, because the date of the author's death is important for copyright issues.
I wish I was half as good with a breadboard as I am with a soldering iron.
If you are aware when you are wrong... you would not be wrong.

If you are referring to assigning confidences/probabilities to decisions, this is standard in ML.
Sometimes it's just a piece of paper or something similarly harmless that happens to be positioned on the road in such a way that it appears to be an obstacle.
Mobile uses (including cars) are only speculation at this point. License is for fixed, and only references have been to fixed.
> lane markings are confusing but GPS and inertial readings should have clearly indicated that that is not a lane

Aside from GPS’ accuracy as mentioned in other replies, also take into account the navigation’s map material. The individual lans are probably not individually tracked on the map, but a single track per road with meta data specifying the number of lanes amongst other featerus. So even if GPS would have provided very accurate position readings, the map source material might not even match that level of detail.
Most web traffic is encrypted these days so ISPs can only see what sites you’re visiting via DNS and SNI. While that is worrisome, I fail to see how that is greater data than my search history.
There's not enough information about what the site is or why I might want to use it before you ask me to give my email address.

Maybe a set of screenshots (or a screencast) showing what someone might learn if they choose to write about themselves might help people decide whether they want to give you contact information in order to kick the tires.
Personally, I think the company selling the car with self-driving abilities should be responsible. In turn this requires a clear understanding of what the responsibility is: what is expected from a self-driving car; what situations should it handle; what kind of documentation is needed of their development process.

Like anything else which involves safety and environmental damage.
The UDP-205 is sold out. However Oppo is considering one last production run if enough people express interest. To do so go to

https://oppodigital.com/blu-ray-udp-205/lastbatch.aspx

and express your interest by giving them your email address. I've got my fingers crossed!

When I picked up my 1O5D at their headquarters in Menlo Park I was told that there is no relationship with Oppo Asia, the cell phone maker. They are two totally separate companies. They use the Oppo name under license.
Regardless of what you might think of their “food” or business ethics one aspect of the history of McDonalds I always found interesting is that Ray Kroc started the his version of the company when he was 64.

I always found that inspirational. That at that age he still had the ambition and energy to do that.

At the very least it stands as evidence that you can still work productively or change your life at any age if you want to.
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> He reminded us that “there has always been a relationship between the performer and the audience that hasn't been well mapped,” and that “you would never claim to own your friendships.” Then two of the currently wealthiest plantation owners on the Internet stepped in and became so by doing just that.

I think "wealthiest plantation owners" misses the point.

Suppose someone were to magically "free" everyone's Facebook data onto some kind of IPFS-like datastore. Now we have symmetric access to our data freed from the bonds of the property model.

Now what do we do?

Our current understanding of the dangers posed by the mere existence of such a datastore is so limited that symmetric access still wouldn't give us any reliable defense against short or medium-term exploitation.

Perhaps "things of an informational nature" should be treated with care until we figure out to make it cost more than $0 for an adversary to turn them into weapons.
Agreed 100%. This is a great way to get into electronics while also getting some coding experience. The Arduino intro kit has lots of great experiments and corresponding lessons. It comes with a breadboard, special wires that press right in, resistors, LEDs, switches, and more.
> If you are referring to assigning confidences/probabilities to decisions,

There's a little more to it than that but yeah, pretty much.

> this is standard in ML.

Yes, I know. But not, apparently, standard in embedded autonomous systems.
As a data point, I agree with this itinerary. Especially visit haus coffee, when I first moved to the Bay Area, it served well as a home away from home
What about laser or a waterjet cutter?
> The whole point of SESTA and FOSTA was to remove that requirement - websites are now liable even if they aren't complicit.

FOSTA has an intent to facilitate prostitution requirement, SESTA has a lower threshold with regard to trafficking.

> Again, none of this relates to sex trafficking. It applies to consensual sex work.

True of FOSTA, but not SESTA.

> And even though SESTA and FOSTA aren't signed into law yet, Blumenthal specifically wrote the law to apply retroactively.

At least as far as criminal liability goes, that is a fairly direct violation of the prohibition on ex post facto laws; for civil liabilities that would otherwise be barred by the Section 230 safe harbor, though, that's not an issue.
> "What are some cafes/restaurants/sights/weird shit to check out while I'm there?

You will find your weird shit in the Tenderloin. SF is perhaps the most depressingly Dickensian city in the world. Before seeing it I'd never imagined a city with so many billionaires would let its residents suffer so.
Test it in a text-mode browser such as lynx, or w3m. If it's usable/readable there, it will probably be fine in a acreen reader, braille, whatever.
Most languages have regional differences in pronunciation, so being able to pick up on how the people you’re speaking to pronounce things is a really valuable skill for language in general.

As a native English speaker, I’ve always been quite good at learning to imitate accents (I can probably do about 10 or so different English-language accents), and I think it’s really helped when I’ve started learning other languages. I’ve been complimented for my pronunciation even early on (mainly using audio courses to start).
The HN Guidelines say:

"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Try these:
1) http://gutenberg.net.au/birthdeath.html
2) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/deathdates.html
Yeah the random capitalization is one of the more annoying things it does.
> Then how come I don't see Zuckerberg and Sandberg behind bars yet?

Well, because SESTA hasn't gone into effect yet. You can bet once it does there will be at least private civil cases against Facebook. Public, including criminal, ones might take until they've got precedent from smashing less well-funded defendants, but they'll come, too, especially (even if Facebook takes drastic action now to prevent future liability) for past cases under the retroactivity provisions (which should be constitutionally problematic for criminal cases, but not so much for civil cases.)
real idiots, bigots, assholes, etc

One tweet taken out of context we’ve seen many examples of is enough to ignite an epic shitstorm. No. You’re just proposing further destruction of public discourse and civility.
Seriously.

This is standard public relations practice. Everyone should have a list of press contacts and influencers.

This is the wrong hill for liberals to die on.
I mean, SpaceX is launching ~20 times a year, now. That "5-15 years" came true for them.

And it better not be trite. If they don't launch half the constellation (~2000 out of ~4000) within 6 years, then they lose their radiofrequency license.
Could someone fill me in on collision detection? My 2016 BMW has Front Collision warning which can be set to min/med/max range. I've got it set to max range. It can detect a solid object that is coming up to collide with my car and warn me via sounds and HUD. Do Teslas not have some method of solid object collision that should supersede any driving directive? As per my previous comment, could a prankster paint a set of white lane markers that verve into a concrete wall or even off a cliff? That's freaking scary to me that these systems are so reliant on lane markings. At highway speed, a distracted driver, would have little time to be alerted, assess the situation and take the correct corrective action before a collision occurred.
Yes, thank you. I see that my comment might be interpreted as sceptical. It looks great.
Thank you. Always wondered about what it was and never checked.

"Mary gave him a bran-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations. True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a "sure-enough" Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that - though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury, is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Dunno why you were downvoted. This isn't just some Muskian highly optimistic projection, it's a regulatory requirement by the FCC. If they don't launch half the constellation within 6 years, they risk losing their license.
What is a remora app?
Flamingo is fantastic, but just got discontinued due to hitting the infamous token limit. It's infuriating.

https://www.androidcentral.com/flamingo-one-best-twitter-cli...
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I worked on small prototype electric formula cars for a while and occasionally had to fix something that would take ~6 hours to remove from a very tightly packed battery pack.

I’ve done this at least once .. soldered a 0805 resistor upside down through a 1-inch hole. It doesn’t wick like you’d expect! Quite hard to do
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Well, merely swishing liquids with carbohydrates around in your mouth and the spitting it out can increase athletic performance in athletic activities lasting over 1 hour!

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3916844/ :

> Carbohydrate (CHO) mouth rinse is defined as a CHO fluid distribution around the mouth for 5 to 10 s with subsequent expulsion by spitting. The utilization of either a low-concentrated 6.0% to 6.4% glucose or partially hydrolyzed maltodextrin are the most common CHO used, with the latter being colorless and tasteless when dissolved in water.

...

> CHO mouth rinse seems to improve performance during moderate- to high-intensity exercise (~60% to 75% VO2max), of at least 1 h duration. It is probable that the mechanism involved in this improvement may not be metabolic but neural, via oral CHO receptors (glucose and maltodextrin) that activate brain regions related to the sensation of reward and pleasure.

Note that it apparently isn't taste that is having the effect, as (according to this paper) maltodextrin, when dissolved in water, doesn't have a taste. So apparently there's some mechanism other than either ingestion (metabolic) or taste.
Discovered his works in college while rummaging the internet for the book 'In Search of Beauty' on Non Euclidean Geometry. The Lobachevsky song is one the funniest songs I ever heard.

Link to the book for anyone looking for a light hearted reading on the history of Non Euclidean Geometry https://mirtitles.org/2013/04/30/in-the-search-for-beauty-sm...
> If you want to control your narrative, maybe don't post thoughtlessly and publicly.

I am not posting thoughtlessly. What I am saying is that there is just a million ways that anything can be interpreted in the future that you have no way of foreseeing.
What if someone posts libelous information about Eric and uses SEO to make it show up on page 1 of Google's search results?
You can use array destructing, when supported:

Object.entries(([k, v]) => { })
Single post deletion changes attribution to Anonymous as well then.
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There's some kind of database called MIB that sells all your medical information like a credit report. I haven't figured out how to opt out of it or where exactly they get the data so I can opt out of it before they even send it. It's some kind of horrific atrocity. Please somebody expose this to everyone: https://www.mib.com/request_your_record.html
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OneWeb didn't invent the idea, either. In fact, SpaceX once partnered with OneWeb, but OneWeb wasn't on board with Musk's crazily ambitious plans for the LEO constellation, and OneWeb's constellation is kind of lame because it doesn't do satellite-to-satellite communications.

There was a rash of these schemes in the 1990s. Teledesic was the most similar one, and they went bankrupt and the constellation never launched. Voice-centric Iridium and Globalstar did launch, though, but they also went bankrupt but continued operating and have been refreshing their constellations. Iridium does sat-to-sat and is thus more capable, but Globalstar does not (they do "bent pipe" ala OneWeb).

And there's also Telestar's LEO constellation also being launched nowadays. It's sat-to-sat and is closer to Teledesic in size than SpaceX's Starlink.
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Heck, 1996-era GUI clients are also superior in most respects.

Jon Udell wrote an excellent book in 1999 on building collaborative systems with NNTP servers, web technologies, etc.:

https://archive.org/details/practicalinterne00udel
> I think Facebook is getting beat on because it's in the middle of a media maelstrom and under a lot of scrutiny as a result.

Facebook is getting beat on because the left and the privacy conscious are concerned, for slightly different reasons, over the scope
of the corporate manipulation using personal data, and the Trumpist segment of the right wants to keep attention on FB to deflect as much public attention as possible from entities tied to Russia and/or the Trump campaign involved in the same scandal.

That doesn't quite give everyone a beef against Facebook, but it does mean they are getting adverse attention from all sides.
Your random eastern european country? My apartment complex is wired by at least 2 ISPs. If I don't feel like using any of them, LTE-for-home boxes are available for reasonable price with reasonable data caps from a couple other ISPs.
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There's a difference between never stop working and living as if you would never die or having to invent a new life.

As a young person you probably still have to find out who you really are and you tend to see time to live as an unlimited resource.
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I met Barlow in 1995 in Cannes at the digital conference (the name of which I forget) that was held there, where I was trying to get international distribution for a product I'd created. We had dinner together at a funky restaurant up the hill which might have been called the Flying Saucer.

We'd met at a cocktail party earlier that day while I was arguing with Nicolas Negroponte after a talk he'd given where he had claimed that the internet would automatically route around any barrier. I was telling him that the Chinese were bound to put in border routers or firewalls blocking their citizens from accessing content they didn't want them to see.

Barlow chimed in and said that I was right and that we had to stop that from happening everywhere. Negroponte didn't want to hear it.

Now it turns out we were both right: the Chinese and others try to block data with varying success and the Internet still to some extent routes around it. I wish there was less of the former and more of the latter.
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Okay, so just to explain the way this works in the UK - a cash advance shows up directly against the card and month it was taken. Credit scorers typically treat it as a sign that you're living outside your means, and so it has a very serious effect on your ability to get credit.

There are certain types of payment which are also classed as a cash advance and sometimes catch people out, such as to gambling sites.
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> The way RTBF and DMCA work, search engines bear 100% of the cost, and people don't ever go after the actual bad actors.

RBTF, maybe, but how is the DMCA this way? Certainly not the takedown notice/counternotice provision, which doesn't create new liability, only a special shield from any pre-existing liability.
The "right to be forgotten" is always going to be fraught. We are talking of a balance between competing rights of freedom of speech and privacy, and usually such finely balanced decisions are what the judicial system is for.

But large platforms like Google and Facebook have become like "countries" in themselves. People are earning their livelihoods, finding their friends and loved ones, even committing crimes using these platforms. I think these companies are being forced to build due process procedures so people have recourse, not just for right to be forgotten, but also for other cases. And this is being compounded by the use of AI algorithms which work in mysterious ways even to their creators - an impersonal algorithm making decisions which may destroy someone's life, or make someone a millionaire.

I wonder for example if the recent youtube attack could have been avoided if the shooter had an independent forum where she could ask for explanation and perhaps challenge the change in the ads policy which hurt her livelihood. Nothing justifies violence, but we can learn lessons for the future.

We normally do not ask corporations to do such things, but for these mega-internet giants maybe the normal rules are not enough. Perhaps as a start, these companies should setup an ombudsman who can be approached when normal corporate avenues fail.