skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem with turning in zero gravity is there's no other force than forward momentum.

The only thing that keeps bicycles upright in gravity is forward momentum. If a bicycle in gravity with no rider tried to turn right on its own, it would fall over. Only if the road curves naturally to the right will it follow and not fall over.

Imagine no bike. You're floating forward in zero-G. Now you want to go right. You turn to the right.... but you're still going forward. It's like that, but on the bike. Nothing is keeping you stuck to the ground, so no matter how you try to move the bike, it will want to keep going in the original direction of momentum, and you will just end up tumbling over if you try to turn the wheel or lean anywhere.

Another way to look at it, just like in the video: if you are tilted, you keep going forward, while tilted. You would literally need some force to pull you in a direction other than forward in order to turn without tumbling toward your original direction.

With a tricycle, when you turn the wheel, the inside wheel is essentially anchored to the ground where it is, and the outside wheel follows the only path that it can, since it can no longer continue going forward. If you were going fast enough during this turn, the whole thing would tip over, similar to how cars in gravity will flip over when they try to turn too fast. Momentum just carries them forward.
Telcos are usually your ISP, so they win either way.
For a lot of use cases the web sucks. It co-mingles data with presentation. Google, facebook etc are paid a lot of money to turn unstructured data to structured data which can be discovered and searched. But, who would publish data only to a network that nobody uses because the network doesn't exist. classic chicken and egg problem. So, invest in a network not a company that will change terms on you once it becomes bigger and can afford more lawyers.
Reminds me of the time I was walking around New Orleans around 3am, passed a disheveled partier up against a wall being cuffed. In the brief moment of passing, I heard him say to the cop, in that paradoxical clarity only the uber-drunk possess, "You know serial killers exist, right?"
> To the degree that at least some people live in cities, not so much because they want to, but because they work there and don't want the commute, they might move to the suburbs if that commute becomes easier

IDK if those people exist in high numbers within city centers. Those folks are all clustered along transit lines just outside of city city centers, right?
This will possibly affect the Tor project's Meek pluggable transport as well which is used for many bridges.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html.en
This does not discuss whether nonusers will be asked to opt-in. Curious how GDPR will change tracking people w/out FB accounts.
yup likewise.

I noticed their 'opt out for interest based ads' was through a cookie set by some consortium of creeps companies. at the time I remember thinking its like 'if I dont want you to track and follow me all over the internet then I need to allow you to track me and follow me all over the place so you know who I am.. Riiight'. plus that setting resets if you delete the cookie. so I dont know how will that work with the container. perhaps somebody who knows more can enlighten me.

honestly given that FB is after my healthcare data, my patience has worn quite thin with them. IMHO the creep factor and unintended consequences are way to many.
This will look like a cop out but I would say keep things sanitized. Don't commingle official and private opinions.

Just as let's say a chiropractor should not date their patients. To keep things simple as posdible and limit repercussions, fence your personae properly.
Let's say it like this:

- https://api.ipdata.co/1.1.1.1

City name: Research

- https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-precision-demo?ip=1.1.1.1

City name: Research

Oh, that must be a very coincidence.

Nuh nuh nuh, nobody would ever want to launch a SaaS with a database they have stolen.
Farewell to inbound.org
No, I wouldn't bother with __slots__ in 3.7, especially with the newly optimized dict.
Airbnb has targeted Michelle Wu. She and her supporters are not having it
Can't wait for the great KuberMesosTitus merge together monstrosity!
“a barbones distro” ≠ “nothing installed”

Maybe you mean nothing more than what comes with the distro's install? In that case a clean Ubuntu counts? I think you should rethink what you have in mind; maybe you mean a distribution with few default packages and minimal preconfigured settings? Something like Arch?
> One advantage is that you don't have to adhere to a rigid class structure and be forced to refactor or create a new class every-time you need add a new property or method.

I wouldn't qualify this as an advantage; it encourages bad code and it precludes a lot of good tooling (including tooling which would automate the sort of refactoring you'd like to avoid).
Please send me an email at jonathan at ipdata dot co.

We'll work on exposing the individual fields and I can let you know once that is live.
to be honest you are missing the forrest for the tree. start a flamewar somewhere else.
Agreed, though I would add that in terms of being a better programmer rather then Laravel Developer, you have to get really good at deconstructing frameworks. Essentially you have to understand all these tools and frameworks are just normal code that have been bundled together to give you some magic methods. If you can deep dive into frameworks with ease and understand what they do then you'll be successful.
Unrelated, but Stripe's website looks amazing.
There are other ways that facebook can track you, ublock does counter a lot of it but there is a constant stream of innovations and work arounds by tracking companies to keep a hold on you. I think the financial motivation for them to keep tracking you outweighs the effort ublock can put into stopping that. The firefox container is a legitimately novel approach to stopping the problem though I'm certain it will be attacked as well... I think starting from a stance of distrust gives them a lot more power to combat tracking efforts.
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Hiring people is a short term drain on existing employees. They're the ones doing all the interviewing and onboarding for these new people.
I nap 20 min after lunch and sometimes I don't fall "asleep" at all but still feel energized afterwards. I always wondered how both had kinda the same effect. Now that you mention this, it definitely makes sense that I was meditating in some form.
Heh, funny.
Unfortunately also nonsense. A CFO also exists and not because a company doesn't handle finances responsibly. Or a CEO implies no engineering?
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Yes I remember (and agree with you), but there was no Youtube non Netflix nor social networks, sites were 400kb of text plus a couple of images. That's why.
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Large companies ARE startups who became successful. Until they are dethroned in turn by other startups.

Large companies are relatively easy to disrupt, since they usually respond slowly to market changes and they are much less efficient than a lean startup. The "advantages of scale" you are so fixated on are just a small part of the whole picture and what large corps gain at scale, they lose at management costs and through lack of innovation

It is a natural process, with countless examples all around us. A healthy process too, since it promotes competition and innovation.

But this process is interrupted by regulation. Regulation protects the incumbents, that is why large companies love it. They'd rather regulate than innovate. Indeed, when startups aren’t allowed to compete (by governments) large companies dominate and the market stagnates.
I tend to agree. It's probably in part that I can remember when someone reaching you required you to be at home. I can even remember before answering machines :-) Now, I don't make myself arbitrarily hard to reach. But I also don't buy into the idea that it's unthinkable to not be reachable 24 hours a day.
She presented the school's student counseling number as her own contact #. That could and should land her in hot water with her employers, state employee or not.
That's an incredibly stupid reason to want to apply somewhere. Marissa used to send out emails with a variation of that content once in three months, and business went on as usual 2 levels and more below her.
Thank you. I will start reading the rfc asap.
We tried that in the UK with BT's service but it was blocking to may calls and as one of the household was on a transplant list that was some what suboptimal.
I'm far removed from this particular scene, but doesn't anyone else get the sense that we as a world culture are starting to get a better grip on the concept of taking care of one another? Surely "infantilization" is one possible awkward misstep in such a process, but the signs mentioned don't point only toward immaturity. They also point toward fun, work-life balance, and broader availability of gentle workplace training and onboarding. Guess I could be wrong, but I'd rather have this kind of infantilization than some of the other missteps like dehumanization that we see in other work environments. People can be taught to grow up over time, but oppression is a much harder problem.
I think it depends on the sensitivity/urgency of the matter. Its better to avoid chain of command in urgent matters that an employee might feel slows down production for example. In other cases common sense dictates going through the chain in order to avoid chaos as you describe.
Google or another more privacy-supporting company could block domain fronting for everyone _except_ Signal, Tor, and similar projects, with some sort of application process. Blocking everyone seems heavy handed but fronting itself is ultimately a sneaky way around censorship rather than an intended feature.
> MakerDAO's DAI coin (currently collateralized by ETH) has already proven quite stable in the face of several black swan events and the price of Ethereum crashing nearly 70% over the past couple of months.

That is an interesting claim. What were these black swan events which DAI passed with flying colors?
I went down a rabbit hole, and stumbled upon http://www.mycoworks.com/ as well which is seemingly an earlier competitor. Particularly their resources & reading section at the bottom references a number of papers on the subject.
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So almost a combination of school's "sch" plus "rural".
During our interview process we attempt to quantify "Communication" as a trait; which includes "Ability to ask questions and clarify requirements."

It really is an essential must have skill for remote workers.

The ability to communicate visually and exhibit spatial intelligence through sharing screenshots and diagrams also goes a long way to being successful remotely.

An open office has the benefit of whiteboards and pen/paper to do visual knowledge transfer.
Ah. Sorry I misread. :)
I don't know that it is worse for devs than other workers. Have any of you seen the incredibly demeaning chanting/cheering fake-excitement bullshit that service workers have to put up with[1]? And that's for shit pay, little meaningful chance of advancement and crappy alternatives.

Being talked down to by a bean counter in a superhero suit is empowering in comparison.

[1] For one example, google "wallmart pep rally".
I took that reference more to be a slant that men are fairly predictable and companies exploit the sausage fest that is the IT/tech world.
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hate speech in USA is protected unless it directly triggers violence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...

political speech in USA is also highly protected -- political calls are even exempt from anti-telemarketing laws that exist today.

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2006/rpt/2006-R-0717.htm

Current law explicitly says that commercial speech is less protected than non-commerical speech.
Bloomberg agrees they got their production rate up.[1] Now they're getting someplace.

This is about what you expect from a highly automated production line. If it's not working perfectly, production quality and quantity are poor. There are line stops all the time. Once it's fully debugged, product comes out in vast quantities. Then you need to watch quality.

In the end, Tesla took about as long as everybody else does to debug a final assembly line. They tried to use it for production during debugging, which ran up their costs.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
it is quite ironic, considering the topic of the post
If Captain America was instead dressed in a suit, would more people talk to him? In almost any context? I doubt it.
There are tons of really shitty $1 & $2 apps.

My assessment costs for those are literally orders of magnitude higher than the price, and yet the price / access barrier, continuity and support risks, etc., literally get in the way of assessing true value.

Non-software, or at least bundled-software, example: the local organisation is exploring phone and comms options. Extant system is obsolete and failing. The market price of any given alternative is small, but the cost of sussing out features, suitability, comms link provider integration, and how that might change (POTS, VOIP, wireless, non-dedicated hardware, integrated messaging solutions via smartphone/tablet) opens a whole can of worms.

Meanwhile, staff in another department who aren't communicating or comprehending effectively have just purchased a system that manifestly doesn't consider any of this or even meet present needs.

Trying to impart on them even the basics of "POTS possibly won't exist in a year or few" has proved a challenge, let alone other organisational comms needs or wants.

Acquisition price of the system itself is actually, within a factor of 2-10, a minor concern, quite probably captured in ongoing service fees (or their elimination) in a matter of months.

Features offerred by various vendors, their communication of same, guessing future developments, configuration & integration, etc., are vastly more significant.

Price alone communicates effectively none of that. Markets are useful for commodity goods, far less so for complex and highly differentiated ones.
FYI, uBlock (without 'Origin') is not the recommended one. The original is maintained by gorhill and it's available from https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Or worse, a senior-ish person barging in and imposing priorities.
> We are burning the midnight oil to burn the midnight oil.

This is an odd way to end a memo titled "Progress". Are employees supposed to be motivated by the prospect of a self-propagating series of tough slogs?
"as much as possible" - I do not think 0 computer time is good for 3-4 year old. For <=2 year old, sure, there should be 0 time.

I am thinking to start introducing her to computers and I prefer to start with Mac rather than phone/tablet, hence this question.
The VC in this case had a sexual history that included sexual assault:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/will-brit...

> In 2012, police spotted London venture capitalist Stefan Glaenzer acting erratically on a subway platform. He was lurching around, high out of his mind, when he boarded a crowded train and rubbed his groin against a woman standing inside. After his arrest, Glaenzer, the multimillionaire former executive chairman of the online music service Last.fm Ltd., apologized and pleaded guilty to sexual assault, which put him on the U.K.’s sex offender registry.

Of course, there's a worthwhile debate about how we should allow ex-convicts to be a part of society again. But the VC written about here wasn't someone who is accused of just having affairs.
> You can’t literally buy stock in a city, but buying a house is the closest thing imaginable.

Maybe not accessible for the retail investor, but can't this be done by buying collateralized debt obligations? If you could be issued a CDO based on urban mortgages in particular, then you could profit from the rise of urban house prices.
How's that NK thing going?
Not defending the gaps, but "most of the design tolerances" != "all design tolerances". There's much more to a car than just cosmetics. And I'm not claiming that those non-cosmetic parts are all top quality, just that it's possible that they are.
This is the game they talk at every single company in the bay area bar none. The meetings will still happen it's just posturing.
It is really cool that Stripe is building Radar, we wanted to use https://siftscience.com for something similar, but they went all corporate, and changed their pricing model before we could implement, so instead of them charging per "transaction" or user action, you now had to pay a minimum of $1000 per month for their smallest offering.
Yes, you're right. I was making the tacit assumption that the null is true most of the time. On this assumption, the two statements are more or less equivalent. I believe this assumption is correct. If it weren't, making real scientific discoveries would be a lot easier. But it is an assumption.
I disagree: I have seen so many situations where a simple piece of information turns into a game of Telephone and a political football, resulting in absurd delays.

That's not the same as imposing different priorities, it's just a question of "I need X in order to do Y".
I agree with the incentives part. But, apparently, some AVMs(not necessarily Zillow) are used by mortgage lenders to adjust their risk models. In such cases, I would assume lenders will first want to find out information about accuracy(through third parties).

You are right that zillow used to show accuracy by zip code. But I am looking for more granular info.
The phone number won't die -- it's your primary account id with your mobile ISP, and it's your login id for many internet services. Legacy phone calls are overdue for death, though.
> I am also glad that websites can't play audio in the background

If you're saying that web pages should not be allowed to even ask for permission to play background audio, then I disagree with you and Apple 100%.

Nobody should be arguing for anything less than user-controlled choice in the matter of permission to play audio on a website, in the background, any way you like when permitted by user. To deny even the choice, is to feed and validate the theory that Apple has no interest in improving the browser experience because they want to keep that bar low by design, much lower than apps.
Or the S&P 500 of cities -- the DJIA is a silly metric.
Does anyone use Kontena? It does look great, but does it deliver?
The norm (uk Civil Service Style) is to Spell The acronym out the first time of use.
Did you just latch onto this without intpreting it in context? The tone he used in that part of the article is derogatory towards the employers of these women, the inference being that these employers don't look past them as being "female" and exploiting this for their purposes.
You already got that from asm.js though.
I've worked with these founders over at Google. They were normal, middle-of-the-road SWEs working on some (fairly boring) DoubleClick teams, one of which eventually shut down. In a matter of a year, with no revenue, code, product, or customers, I can't believe they've raised over $100m.

Are investors just betting on pedigree at this point? In which case, is a Princeton undergrad degree really worth that much?

Moreover, their stint in Google Search lasted maybe 2 months, but is still prominently displayed in their bios. Is that worth another few million?

I can't think of a better example of the SV echo chamber when an investment like this is announced. Even color.com and Juicero had more experienced founders/prototypes.

The future looks bleak when you see fashionable SV outfits leading the blind. It's no wonder why diverse founders with great ideas have trouble getting funded when so much money is going to companies like this.
var is type inference, not dynamic typing. Unless something has changed since I last C#’d. The docs seem to say this still holds: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
I also have zero liability for any unauthorized charges on my bank account via SEPA Debit. By definition it's the bank's money the moment I dispute it and vendors are required to put up a legal contact with full responsibility when they sign up.

I feel safer because I don't need a credit, I pay "cash".
The Xbox One is the best console if you don’t care about exclusive new games
In current culture, especially SV, not all women are female. It is necessary to specify female if one is actually referring to biological sex instead of cultural gender. Some find this an annoying distinction but it is the cultural norm in an increasingly growing number of places.
>https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga

This is one of the best things I've ever seen.
‘Over and Out’: $50M Savedroid ICO Makes Apparent Exit Scam
Any updates, on this amazing landing? One news source reported a man used his back to partially cover up the blown out window. Does anyone know if this was true and if so who was he? If true he risked his life to save others and I'd like to know who he is. Should any of us ever run into trouble on a plane heres hoping we have a pilot as competent as this woman. Great save!
It is a business decision. The idea that lawyers exist in their own bubble somewhere and just launch legal missiles when they want to is false. Part of business is “protect our ownership rights,” and you’d better believe execs push the button on that aggressively.
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And the conclusion was that the person in question could be disciplined, or even fired for the suicide hotline stunt.
I'm a huge fan of this. But it relies on your co-workers having commons sense, the ability to logically reason, and to have the ability to judge priorities on their own.

This is how a company should operate. Where everyone is on the same team, working to solve the most pressing problems, and working on what on what justifiably blocks the company from it's most critical goals.

Again its critical to hire non-idiots, and this works great. Hence why people who do things without rationally justifiable reasons get fired from Tesla regularly.
I generally agree that we as a society need to be more forgiving of people's pasts. The #MeToo fad is more about bringing justice to offenders that escaped justice in the past, but this guy didn't get off scot-free for years like Weinstein, Spacey, etc. This case seemed like a one off thing where he made some poor choices and was punished by the legal system for it.
This is silly. Wealth inequality is a serious concern, but implying that wealthy people dating other wealthy people is making it worse is ridiculous. People can date whoever they want, it makes progressive movements look terrible if you push the notion that there must be economic balance among all relationships...
Again, that's irrelevant to my point.

But, for the sake of argument: less efficient compared to what? Prior to Bitcoin, there weren't any other transaction mediums that offered the same capabilities and security properties that Bitcoin does.

Every technology has advantages and costs associated with it. You can't consider the costs in isolation and use that to claim the entire technology is a waste.
> If you've ever been placed in a job by a contracting firm, you know this routine. Oftentimes, the agent will meet you at the employer's office, and walk you in.

This is a thing? Never seen this!
I didn't believe in Elon the 20 times before that he sent out emails like this and -- shock and awe -- they didn't reach their target. I still wait with bated breath, but will be pleasantly surprised if they actually achieve this goal this time.
Another Scam ICO? Savedroid Founder Exits with $50M to Chill on a Beach
uBlock Origin makes the ads go away pretty well. I'm also open to paying.
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