skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SF is doing a reasonable job, they should be commended for not coming down hard on the scooters.

The "tech companies are privatizing the streets" meme doesn't make sense. Any scooters are less objectionable than the private cars that killed 14 pedestrians last year. Delivery vans are corporations taking up space on the street. The street has benches, planters, parked bikes, phone boxes, mail boxes, and 20 other "private" things. The public street is for shared use by everyone, not a commercial free zone of only charming activities.

The whole thing is pretty wild. For example the scooters are all unlocked, the app just turns on the electric motor. That seems crazy to me, every kid in the city is going to borrow them. And I've seen a bunch of homeless people kick pushing them down the street. So maybe they all end up in backyards, and the companies go out of business. But maybe I'm wrong and it's a minor problem. They make enough to pay for the loses, and become a nice transportation option.

Long term there's certainly a place for permitting, but it's much better to do permissive experiments than to guess every possible downside.

As a counterexample, NY is still confiscating electric bikes. What a waste.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2298141/are-we-living-golden-a...

Kudos to SF for experimenting.
technically toilet paper is "strong, abrasion resistant".

But since they did not mention durability anywhere on the marketing speak, that means even their marketeer couldn't find a way to lie about durability qualities. Unfortunately nothing to see here :(
I'm currently using Google Domains for all of my domains... the really simple UX made the choice and lack of any in your face additional services was nice too.

Though, bulk editing would be nice, I'm about to move. :-( If anyone here works for google domains, it would be REALLY nice to be able to update all contact info on all domains at once.
It’s a similar tech to the oxygen candles use in old emergency self rescue units in mines, and still carried aboard submarines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_oxygen_generator
Is it appropriate for you to be trying to attack the guy's credibility?

Seems odd that it would be the first and only response given this video.
Yeah, I guess the guys who have planned exactly for this, spent years looking at it, and created one of the safest industries in the world did not think of that?
> CE is open source

GPL.

No comment beyond that but I thought I might save someone a few clicks.
Going to try it out, but does anyone know offhand whether GraalVM can be ran within the Linux subsystem in Windows 10?
Oh man! Few things more hilarious than seeing condescending ignorance like hermitdev's get put down with impunity.

In any case, the proofs are widely available and decades old:

Appel, Kenneth; Haken, Wolfgang (1989), Every Planar Map is Four-Colorable, Contemporary Mathematics, 98, With the collaboration of J. Koch., Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, doi:10.1090/conm/098, ISBN 0-8218-5103-9, MR 1025335

And:

http://www.ams.org/notices/200811/tx081101382p.pdf
We do have many car-specific taxes and fees. Gasoline taxes, registration fees and paid parking all come to mind. That said, I agree with the broader point that we are too car-focused on transportation issues.
If you live in the right state, take a weed gummy (indica) before going through security. Always does the trick for me.
In 1988 I had a Spanish Military police team wake me up (in a camper van) and point their automatic rifles at us.
I know exactly what you mean.
Off topic, but what is working for Buzzfeed like? I used to hate everything Buzzfeed-branded, but it seems like it's been improving journalistically recently. How are the working conditions? Do you believe in your purpose?
They're motorized vehicles largely operating on pedestrian sidewalks. They're also parked aimlessly on pedestrian sidewalks. That's two steps too far on the 'get use to it' scale.
SF has learned its lessons from Uber (and presumably read up on the bike sharing problems in China).

My take on these scooter startups is that they won't make it very far: https://www.inc.com/alex-moazed/electric-scooter-startups-in...
> First, if Wittgenstein was a logician, then I have to ask what his contribution to logic was. As far as I can tell, he never made one... certainly nothing even approaching Godel, who actually revolutionized logic. Wittgensteins impact on logic, on the other hand, was on all accounts nonexistant.

This might not be a satisfactory answer, but I always found it a fun fact: Wittgenstein is often credited for the invention of truth tables, having used them in the Tractatus.
Show HN: How to make these slides (and its editor)
I can physically pick one of these up and move it outside of the box. Who gets fined now?

Where do the boxes get painted?

Your solution is not simple.
Me too. I’m thinking there must be some library that knows how to marshal between object representations. Surely Graal doesn’t have universal objects that suit every language.
I've read a bit about this, and thought a great deal about it. I studied philosophy alongside Computer Science in college and the functioning of the brain has always fascinated me. But I am most definitely an amateur so take what I have to say with a grain of salt.

I think they might be missing a component in their research. They are looking at people with established friendships. And they are then assuming that people gravitated to one another due to similarities, rather than the friendship causing the similarity, and I think that might largely be incorrect. The brain has 'mirror neurons' which lead us to 'mirror' the sensations we believe others are having into our own minds. If we see someone get stabbed in the hand, the neurons responsible for sensing pain in our own hands see some activation, things like that. Given the central dogma of neuroscience, 'neurons that fire together, wire together', it would make sense that people who spend a great deal of time with each other, and in similar environments, would have their brains adapt to be similar.

Now here's where we can go off the deep end. So, the brain activity mirrored into our own minds when dealing with our friends is approximate to some degree, but this research suggests that it probably gets more accurate over time. Eventually, we are duplicating the patterns from our friends minds and they are duplicating the patterns of our own. To what degree might it be said, then, that our selves are 'shared'? If our friend passes away and we consider how they might have thought about something, our ability to model that probably borders on their own ability had they been alive given a strong enough friendship.

And obviously we have many friends. Around about 100 if Dunbar's Number is a legitimate feature of our brains. So our brains are filled with these 100 overlapping intertwined networks of models of our friends... and is that it? Is it meaningful to say that if we were able to 'scrub' our mind of those influences that there would be anything left?
She offered, in non-fiction works and talks, the start of a theory of epistemology, with a unique take on concept formation; a full-fledged theory of ethics, centered on life as the standard of value and rational self-interest as the core of human virtues; a political theory aligned with the founding principles of the USA but grounded in her ethics; and a theory of esthetics. As for her metaphysics, it was radically limited and simple -- a bare-bones mix of Parmenides and Aristotle.

Are you aware of her above-mentioned, philosophical theories?
Not yet, but I am sure they must be slammed with 1000s of applications
We don't convert. We have defined a contract that all languages can work with (quite a challenge and still evolving).

From the website:

> In order to provide foreign polyglot values meaning in languages we have developed the so-called polyglot interoperability protocol. This interoperability protocol consists of a set of standardized messages that every Graal language implements and uses for foreign polyglot values. The protocol allows GraalVM to support interoperability between any combination of languages without requiring them to know of each other.

This technique is based on some research we did in 2015:
http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/dls15-interop/dls15-inter...
Still needs to be tanned and dyed. With the same products. As a lot of the problem with the leather is that tanning products and inks are poisonous, IMHO probably is not a solution for this problem. Mycelium is more porous than leather (probably), so it could absorb more product.

But I could be wrong. Just speculating. Better than plastic for sure if enough strong and can be certified non-allergenig or a cause of asthma.
> The Bitcoin blockchain Proof-of-Work is simply a distributed, decentralized clock.

While this is a cute way of looking at the issue it also isn't true. The bitcoin blockchain gets updated on average every 10 minutes with the data produced by proof of work.

The author is saying that the cart pulls the horse, because they are both moving.
Cars are different since 1) they are owned by individual people (if I started a company that purchased a bunch of cars and left them in street parking for people to rent, I think it would be reasonable that I would need a permit) and 2) since they are more expensive, they are far less likely to be abandoned when they fall into a state of disrepair.
I still think there is a lot more to this case. The risk of losing on both sides was way too high for a drug dealer.
Why wouldn't they just request the data using Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty? They had no problem doing it for the kickasstorrents guy (https://torrentfreak.com/images/KAT-complaint.pdf).
Missing important details concerning why LLVM is taking over the world.
About picking and choosing package versions; isn’t it straightforward to keep whatever versions of packages you want under ~/quicklisp/local-projects ? Or is there a need for a more sophisticated tool for this?
Regardless of efficacy, it's the law in SF to wear a helmet on those things
The disturbing fact is that this stuff is progressing in near real-time. A year ago these things were still totally unpassable. Now this Obama video could very easily fool a good percentage of people on mobile. I've no doubt it will be imperceptible within another year or two.
I’m not attacking his credibility, I’m calling it into question. If you produce a video in a reality-tv/anger-inciting manner then I’m not going to take it at face value without knowing more.
GDPR doesn't automatically cover everything that can be harvested from your machine. It has to be demonstrated that the data can be used to identify you as a natural person (which is different to PII, which is an American legal term). You might be able to identify a natural person with this information, but it's incredibly variable as it only includes running processes (unlike browser plugins used for browser fingerprinting, which may not change for months).

Assuming you can figure out how to reliably fingerprint someone with this information, GDPR allows collection of data that is reasonable for providing the service you are offering: a bot and cheater free game is part of the service that Anet offers. If you request this data, then what?

MMO characters often become the embodiment of their players or visa-versa. There is also your CC and billing information, which in combination with your character name (often your nic/handle) could be used to identify you on other social media. This is far more threatening than a list of running processes on your machine.

Anet may include these hashes in their GDPR compliance, but rest assured - forgetting someone means deleting the lot.
We clearly live in a different San Francisco. I see them all over, but have only seen maybe 1-2 (out of hundreds) that are blocking anything or knocked over. And the ones that are laying flat are likely knocked down by someone who dislikes them.
Please don't turn HN into Reddit.
Non-Amp (Canonical) URL: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/4/17/17247334/ai-fake-new...

Speedtest comparison: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=180417_X...
What stops people from going around and moving scooters outside of painted areas such that the last user gets a fine?
Paper and postmark. I’m done. Technology sometimes is not the best solution. Just saying.
lol citation needed
It is more likely we will discover something that was relatively rare to replace the threat of cancer. A bunch of these new diseases are a result of the fact we keep
on making more and more results into medical treatments. The old things that used to kill people are eliminated and there is no more low hanging fruit.
One of the toughest experiences of my work life was my viva. The examiner picks at every hole in your work and you need to have an answer. Even if the answer is acknowledging it and proposing future work. It's a very useful experience, and when combined with the rest of a PhD, teaches you to be humble and accept that criticism of work is not an attack on the author. I still have nightmares about mine!
While everyone is waiting

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-rejected-by-Y-Co...
It doesn't take much for people to panic.
I posted all the license below in a comment.
Well, the point of the article is that the "full self-driving capability" is not actually available yet, and there is no firm delivery date (AFAIK, that's so for the whole industry, not just Tesla, but I think Tesla is the only manufacturer selling it.)
Thanks for this analysis. The balance in real world is more like 20-80, ie 20% of typically screened patients would have referable retinopathy (screen positive).
Were I to run 100 independently designed experiments that all tested real effects, my choice of p-value does not determine the number that erroneously find no result. If the effect is small and I didn't gather enough data, a p-value of 0.05 could result in only a handful of experiments accurately reflecting reality. Let's say 30 make the cut.

Were I to run another 100 independently designed experiments that all tested big real effects, then a p-value of 0.05 could result in all 100 accurately reflecting reality.

Were I to run 100 independently designed experiments that all tested false effects, then at a p-value level of 0.05, I should see about 5 erroneously significant results.

Now I submit all these significant results to a journal and they all get published. Of the 135 results, only 5 are coming to the wrong conclusion.

Look at that, an error rate lower than your lower bound. We simply don't know the sizes of these populations. It could be better or worse than my example, and it could be better or worse than 5%. There simply is no lower bound.

Of course you're right that there is a problem here but there isn't a lower bound guaranteed by the stats tests. Quite a bit of the problem stems from misinterpretations of p-values. For someone who likes to condescendingly explain concepts, you might want to make sure you have the harder concept down before assuming others don't understand "ratios" and "lower bounds." At this point you're arguing against the sources I cited. You should check them out. :)
Is this any different than Firefox's regular container support?
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If you can run a HotSpot JVM there then also GraalVM should work. I don't think we tested that.
Your comment made me think of the Our Lady Peace album "Spiritual Machines."
Is there an actual problem being solved or is it just a solution in search of a problem?
When my kids were little and we flew somewhere, we'd treat the turbulence as though it was a roller-coaster - I'm sure the other passengers appreciated "wheeeee" a whole lot more than crying, frighted children. I have no idea whether this helped them as adults or not but I can tell you that my son was more frightened when his (then) fiancee flew back to Malaysia skirting several war zones than when the two of them flew on their honeymoon.
Are there any ways to tell if a corporation actually gives a damn or is just pretending for PR or other selfish purposes?
It was only slightly unusual. de Gray got an undergrad (computer science) degree from Cambridge and married a Cambridge biologist and then worked at a biology-computing lab while writing the book. With the professor and the lab (and the upper class boarding school and multimillionaire mother), the only thing missing was a formal admission to the PhD program.
pepper?
From my anecdotal experience, being out of your comfort zone is the actual highway to relationships.

I used to live in a house in a foreign country to which people from my home country crashed to during their short, usually few week visits at the area. Surprisingly, the people who came there were exceptionally open (exceptional as in compared to a usual native). Most of them came either alone or with one friend/business partner. I think a lot of their openness attributed to the fact that they were in a temporary, new environment.

I also noticed that being open myself first helped to initiate deep conversations. But after returning to home and to college, despite continuing to prompt these discussions, I rarely get the same kind of reaction anymore.

My general observation is that my peers are happy to answer questions I have, but they lack the social skills to listen and ask leading questions. But then again, this might just be that they find me uninteresting as a person, but the difference is worryingly stark -- out of 30 people I've befriended on Facebook only a few have I had conversations deep enough I'd consider to meet up with them just to talk. The numbers were very much the opposite if you'd compare it to the experience in the foreign land.

Thus, I think it is silly to have fear of missing out on relationships or a partner during college. With the new brave world of remote working, I could as well make a living in the opposite end of the planet just a mere day after graduation, to which I am quite sure most of the peers won't (or wouldn't) follow me anyway.
The problem with pleather, in my experience, isn't that it feels insufficiently leather-like. The appearance is also just fine; the tendency to fade actually produces a somewhat nice pattern. The real problem is that the durability of most fake leather is drastically inferior to natural leather.

From personal experience, I had a leather jacket which I got in my first year of college (2008) and wore until it was stolen from my car in early 2016, when it was still in nearly-perfect condition (although the zipper got worse). I replaced it with a pleather jacket which has already lost most of the material on the right elbow and may soon develop a hole.

So I hope this mushroom-derived material will be at least somewhat more durable. What I really want to see is a sort of fake leather made from a more resilient polymer, such as polyetherimide or one of the other "high-performance polymers". Until that situation improves, I think I'm going back to cowhide.
Could you demonstrate an alternative that allows for UI as complex, with fewer cross platform issues that can easily target usage on MacOS, Windows and Linux? Let alone leveraging the language and UI interface/api that are the most widely developed against.
Twitter should make a podcast app
Problem extends beyond mailing forms. Everything linked to the tax year is now broken in this world. FSAs, employer-provided insurance, even general budgeting all have to change. Such changes will have an effect on the economy at the $100M scale, if not $1B. Why? Because the government couldn’t rent more server space? Buying a new data center would probably be cheaper than moving away from a single tax day. The proposed treatment is far worse than the disease.
I've long joked we're going to create clothes out of fungus that lives off dead skin cells. And cure baldness the same way using Lichen that looks like luxurious hair.
This can't be overstated enough. Finding people who understand SQL is difficult enough, but finding people who intuitively "get" data is nearly impossible. And lately anyone who completed a few tensorflow tutorials thinks they're a Data Scientist and every single data question can be answered accordingly. Reminds me of the hadoop craze a decade ago.
> All the major players have shown biases, corruption, and manipulation.

Bunching those together feels disingenuous. Do the New York Times, Washington Post, WSJ, etc etc all have their own perspectives? Sure. That's bias, to an extent. But when have they been corrupt? When have they manipulated their reporting?

To put it simply: if a reputable outlet was caught modifying a video of Trump to put words in his mouth it would be a publication-ending scandal. The same is not the case for Infowars. I agree with you that everyone should have as diverse a media diet as they can, but suggesting that every company is as bad as each other is simply inaccurate.
The problem lies in the motive. News organizations are (not surprisingly) entirely motivated by profit. Breaking even is not enough. Doing well is not enough. Improving profit drastically quarter over quarter is the goal.

To do that, you cannot simply "provide news" anymore. You need conflict. You need confirmation bias. You need to create a wild, screaming echo chamber that induces panic and fear. You need conflict, even if you have to fudge the details to get it. You need to focus on some things and ignore others to increase it.

It's no longer a partisan issue. I'm 40 years old. I remember when you had to really pay attention to catch bias in the news. Do this yourself: go back and look at newsreels from the 80s and 90s. It's almost surreal. They were still biased, but presented information in a factual manner and then tossed in some emotional stuff. Many of them even... showed both sides of the argument. It's weird to watch now.

A news network simply cannot run with this format in 2018. Fox News was the leader, they were using bias, fearmongering, and propaganda almost from the start. They enjoyed very high ratings because of it. Now the other side has caught up. Because they had to.

It's a mess, but one thing is for sure: we can't trust any of them anymore. Not 100%.
Migrate Between AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and Google Functions
If I may play devil's advocate to that argument, it sounds like firefighters selling fire insurance, or something like regulatory capture for the legal system.

"If you don't hire enough lawyers to defend your trademark, you'll lose it!"

It hurts small actors in both directions; how many Mom/Pop shops can afford to "aggressively defend" their intellectual property, and how many can afford to actually defend it if a large incumbent comes after them with a frivolous suit motivated by these sorts of ridiculous fears?

I'm not saying the legal system doesn't work that way, it just sounds like a scuzzy argument.
Also, exploitation only applies if the workers 1) have no better option and 2) their options are artificially constrained by the party offering their only option. Anything else is simply failing to understand their situation.

Simply because they are abiding by minimum wage laws and making less than you are per hour does not mean they are exploited. Simply because Detroit is segregated in practice (as a result of factors beyond the control of most of the individuals) does not mean these workers are exploited. The fact that the dinosaurs went extinct even though they too, like us, deserve a chance to exist does not mean these workers were exploited.