skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> perhaps they need to be more aggressively punished for doing so. In general I am for more aggressive fees, sentencing and punishment for violating driving rules.

That's unlikely to happen. Such drivers make up a large and vocal section of society and would push back on those policies. Look at how speed cameras and red light cameras get shouted down like it's some how unfair to automatically point out that almost everyone is breaking the law.
While the death toll is fairly low and declining, just to be clear, pedestrians do die from being stuck by cyclists.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.citylab.com/amp/article/381...
>Social pressure is a terrible way to run a society.

I pretty thoroughly disagree with that.

Yes. There need to be laws. And sometimes those laws are very specific--like don't use this road as a cut-through during rush hour or don't make a left-hand turn here during rush hours.

But generally a society won't function well if everyone's attitude is that I'll do whatever I feel like so long as it's not technically illegal or I won't get caught.
The latter certainly depends on Google's algorithms. For me, Ford stock is nowhere to be seen (unlike with "$F", for which it is shown).
Yet the usefulness to society of a vehicle is usually tied directly to its size/weight.

An 18-wheeler isn't on a sightseeing trip; it's transporting something of value somewhere that can't get from A to B otherwise.

Any given sedan on the other hand is typically transporting a single person that can either use different modes of transportation or simply opt not to go from A to B.

Why should the 18-wheeler be taxed progressively higher? It ultimately generates more tax revenue already than the sedan, and there are no realistic alternatives at this point in time.
Reddit says Bitfinex insolvent
Callbacks have plenty to do with concurrency: first you compile everything into CPS (where callbacks are continuations) and then a trivial event loop nets you cooperative multitasking. When you don't have language support for this but you need concurrency, you just write something resembling CPS by hand and call it "callback hell".

> (pthread_create—threading.Thread doesn't count as parallism due to GIL)

Eh? Why would you have a GIL? Maybe in Go, but so what, just don't use such a language/run-time.
> The idea that it is nonsense to be avoiding gluten is harmful for people with celiac.

More like: "The idea that it is generally beneficial to be avoiding gluten is harmful for people with celiac."

Yesterday I had lunch with a friend with a gluten allergy as confirmed by blood test and endoscopy. Obviously he should avoid gluten.

People who think that gluten "is bad" should keep their mouth shut or get an actual diagnosis showing it's actually bad for them.

Those without an actual allergy who make a fuss over it desensitize the food service industry, and people at large, to the severity of the problem in people with a legitimate allergy.
Surely a large part of the problem is thinking it's OK to leave the the hire scooters on public property wherever is convenient for the customer. Can't wait for the flying-vehicle startup.

It's another tragedy of the common.

BTW "sidewalks" are also known as "footpaths" and "roads" as "carriageways" in countries that speak British English.
I don't get it, looks like the Wikipedia definition is not congruent:

"...the Gruen transfer (also known as the Gruen effect) is the moment when consumers enter a shopping mall or store and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout..."

A bit below:

"...is realized by deliberate reconstruction, providing a sense of safety and calm through exceptional familiarity."

Can a confusing layout cause exceptional familiarity? or what am I missing here?
The book is excellent and when I first heard about it, I figured the reviews were enough. They were not and it should be widely read: https://jakeseliger.com/2014/05/07/the-death-of-the-novel-an...
PipelineDB is pretty interesting for time-series data. It takes an approach to processing the data as it comes in, and storing aggregates or pre-aggregates over time series. I haven't followed the latest, but as of a few years ago much of the approach was similar to some research out of UC Berkeley from about 10 years ago. You can find the paper that talks about that work (TelegraphCQ CQ for continuous query) at http://db.csail.mit.edu/madden/html/TCQcidr03.pdf. Definitely an interesting read if you're into technical papers and databases.
> I bike commute. I stay on the road as much as possible, but there's parts where it's impractical. So, I get on the sidewalk, go slow, and yield to pedestrians.

Yeah. I bike on the sidewalk sometimes, but when I do I consider it 100% my responsibility to avoid pedestrians. They're not expecting me and they have no reason to look out for me; it's my job to go slow, watch entrances, and not scare people by blowing past 6 inches away from them.
It's precisely what happened. And the idea that release notes are "several notches above EULAs" is disingenuous to the point of dishonesty.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989. As long as the paywalls have workarounds, they're ok here. They suck and are annoying to everyone, but HN would be worse without WSJ, NYT, the New Yorker, the Economist, etc., so this is a lesser-evil solution. Hopefully someone will eventually fix publishing on the web, and then we won't have either the paywall problem or the paywall complaint problem.

The situation is made less annoying by users posting workarounds in the threads, which they usually do, and have done in this one.
Mouse model study [1]. Intriguing, but far from meriting behaviour changes. Meanwhile, your Huffington Post author cites a largely-discredited glyphosate study [2] in the middle of an anti-GMO rant [3]. (Wikipedia is generally more reliable than the Huffington Post.)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23253599

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Séralini_affair#Retraction

[3] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ask-jj-gmos_b_9547198.h...
It's getting better, but a lot of places still don't have bike lanes. I'll ride on the sidewalk if I don't feel safe in the road, but I'm extra careful when I do.
The Focus and Fiesta were more popular outside the US, but still relatively popular here. I see quite a few of them in the parking lot where I live.
Mostly it's only americans who use "spelled", everyone else uses "spelt"

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/spelled-spelt/
The article can be read at http://archive.is/o239C.
I see spelt fairly often. Spelled is mostly American.
> continued business as usual?

Citations? I haven't really heard about them pulling any shenanigans under the new CEO's watch.
> Preemptive edit: the stealth marketing is so so thick in this thread! Yuck!

It breaks the HN guidelines to insinuate astroturfing unless you have evidence. Please don't do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

People having opposing views isn't evidence of 'stealth marketing', it's evidence that the community is big and, on most things, divided. Meanwhile the "astroturfer under every bed" trope is one of the toxins that poisons internet communities—if it doesn't kill, it causes brain damage. Therefore we all need to resist the temptation to go there, unless there's really evidence, in which case you should email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate and ban offenders.
People are missing a very important thing in this earning statement.

The earning statement is for Jan 1- Mar 31 ONLY.

The Cambridge Analytica story was released around March 18.

So around 10-12 days of #DeleteFacebook would NOT have any noticeable effect on their earnings.

What would actually be noticeable would be Q2 Earnings (Apr 1- Jun 30)
New immunotherapy treatment for lung cancer dramatically improves survival
Cali Can Build Trust Between Police and Communities by Publish Policies Online
I think I'll survive.
> The truth is... you can't fix congestion. In transportation theory, there's an element called induced demand

The induced demand theory assumes road usage priced at 0.

Once you let drivers pay for road usage, it is easy to let supply and demand meet where traffic always flows well.
Alright, man, you got me. I've never traveled around rural Madagascar. I think you can appreciate the point, though, which is that no other language has the same kind of reach English does. Even Africa, as a whole, has many fluent speakers of English (including many native ones).
Streets were originally for pedestrians, buster. The idea that they weren't was actually manufactured by the auto industry.

Sidewalks weren't invented to get people off streets, either.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/when-pedestrians-r...

Now: should our transportation infrastructure support cars? Yes. Society moves on. Should it also support bicycles and low-speed electric vehicles? Also yes.
Horse manure was considered a serious risk in NYC.

The banana skin (and the inevitable slip that followed) was a euphemism for slipping on horse manure in the street.
IMO forums & listhosts are richer, healthier & better-moderated than the platforms.

I think this author is right to link community to ownership & governance.
Roads were never reserved for horses.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/when-pedestrians-r...
The marks could be relevant to the counterfeiting charge though.
Platform Censorship Won't Fix the Internet
It's hard to overstate how incredibly out of line this (and Apple's larger pattern of unserviceable hardware) is with the company's professed dedication to sustainability. They can convert all of their facilities worldwide to renewable energy, but they can't fix a single key on a keyboard without sending the entire keyboard, aluminum housing, and lithium-ion battery to the landfill (or at best an energy-intensive recycling process)?
This breaks the site guidelines. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928460.

The parent comment may be unsubstantive, but accusing other users without evidence is poisonous, and that's worse.
There's an easier way to hack waze if you live on a small residential street. All one has to do is buy a $500 dollar car. Then have it "break down" in the middle of the road, essentially blocking the road. Suddenly your car starts up 10 mins later and moves, but after legit waze users report a problem. Repeat until traffic is reduced.

You can coordinate with your neighbors to take turns. Civil disobedience can go a long waze to reduce traffic.... I gotta go!
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Have you been to Los Angeles? On what space do you expect them to do this on, without interrupting the already bad traffic and with what money? I'm genuinely curious as to your idea and how it would work.
> How did Theranos do either of those?

Pardon me, I mis-spoke. I was using Uber and Airbnb as (limited) examples of productive rule breaking and Zenefits and Theranos as counter-examples of imprudent illegality.
You can bypass the paywall with some referrers like Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=LINK_GOES_HERE
BuySellAds acquires a majority stake in Digg
Simply unbelievable. Yet another way to productize a set of diseases that are highly curable. Modern medicine is a great enabler of lifelong, expensive, disease management, and here we have another prime example. Turning a patient's disease into a subscription play.

I repeat the following in many HN health related threads and I will continue to do so:

Prolonged (10 to 40 days) water fasting is a highly effective method for permanently reversing and curing most IBS (incl. Crohn's) and gut related diseases that are considered incurable by modern medicine.

Anyone interested - do your research. Literature is out there. Don't let lack of "scientific evidence" discourage you. No one benefits from researching and proving that not eating cures diseases that are currently multi-billion dollar industries. Open your eyes and enjoy your path to healing.
You got to be:

- insanely committed to hustle and win

- mostly impatient

- relentlessly resourceful

- initiative

- comfortable in ambiguous situations and new territory where there’s likely no one to ask for help

- passionate

- grounded in radical honesty

- emotionally intelligent such that you can escape negativity and not get bogged down in downward spirals, but look for positive, virtuous spirals up

Lack any of these: failure likelihood goes way up.
How is this not higher up? How has YC not responded yet? This is a pretty serious situation.
It's a soft paywall that only kicks in after you have used up your monthly free quota. If are a regular visitor, you should consider a subscription. Otherwise, you have 2 options.

A) Open the link incognito mode

B) Go to http://archive.is/ and enter the link there.

Quality journalism costs money. I actually prefer WSJ, NTY, and WaPo's approach of pushing for a subscription model over ad based models.
Here's a list of the software he's written or worked on:

http://www.catb.org/esr/software.html

For example, he wrote the 'giflib' library, which is used by a lot of software (browsers, etc.) to handle GIF files. And he's contributed to several Python libraries. So it seems he's quite an accomplished programmer.
Adding Kreplach to the list:
https ://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreplach
I tried really hard to make it clear that I am looking out for them. Apparently that was insufficient. It is made unnecessarily difficult to look out for someone who is weaving around erratically and completely oblivious to everything around them.

I bike on the road. I expect cars to look out for me. Nonetheless, I take measures to make it easy for them to do that. I wear reflective gear and have lights at night. I bike in an easily visible space. I signal where I'm going and move in a consistent, predictable manner.

There's absolutely no reason that someone on a sidewalk shouldn't expect that another person, whether walking or on a bike, might also need to use the sidewalk and to leave space for them to do so, or at a bare minimum, maintain a modicum of awareness so that you can see or hear someone else approaching.
Who needs a car when you can take an Uber?
We have those dumplings in Slovakia too, they are called “pirohy”. They are pretty delicious but its a lot of work. I also think that food is slowly dying as most of the people I know don’t make them any more.
And for those of us who are not frequent consumers of their content, we don't even need a work-around. The paywall only kicks in after a quota has been hit.
Alright, that makes sense. I even suspected key drivers were in kernel mode given the performance on its kind of hardware. They might be saying it just because they don't know what a microkernel is. It might also be some new usage based on smaller, more-efficient kernels like used in containers. Who knows.
Recycling innovator Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore discs
Sorry, but no. You don't deliver 'the wrong thing' because you're not interrupted constantly. One status check per day is enough to insure that. All the urgent communication that can't wait a day is ego-driven not results-driven.
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It’s a moral imperative to be dishonest to a woman if pumps her state, but it’s immoral to con a grandmother out of her life savings based on a false premise like “my research will cure all cancers.”
What exactly are you contributing by taking what they said to the extreme?

Should someone now have to point out to you that a million-line function is worse than a ten-line function for calculating fizzbuzz? Is that meaningful discourse in your book?
Yeah, I tried doing this as well. But you're right, the spread on the arbitrage pretty much vanishes as soon as you try to do any kind of significant volume. I suspect my trading pair was "too" liquid. This could possibly be a viable option for coins that don't see a lot of volume. Or, maybe for a short period after a new coin is added to an exchange and there's a period of high volatility.
I think that it is very hard to do a proper accounting. It is difficult to forsee all the consequences of an intervention; if a parent is sick, they do not work. The other parent may need to stay home too to help out. A double whammy on productivity. The firm employing them takes a hit too, as well as the municipalities and other levels of government depending on tax revenue. Such hits can lead to declines in necessary investment. And this doesn't even account for possible epidemiological effects, which can be highly nonlinear, as infection Cascades can be frequency dependant.
I wonder where electric cars fit into this decision. Could it be that Ford anticipates not being able to be competitive in the electric market?
I've had success with an intermediate to a huge open office vs a private office which we called a lab, but might also be called a team room. We had about 6 people in there, all working on the same project, and it wasn't a constant distraction. We did a fair amount of pair programming as well, where a domain expert would sit with me as the computer scientist, and it was a very low bar to engaging in that sort of thing to slide around the corner. Of course we all had our own two person shared offices as well, but our main workstations were in the lab so most time was spent in there.
Subarus are very popular in Seattle, though there are two distinct groups that own them, those that want to get over the mountain passes without chains (skiers and the like), and less clued in people that just like the style. Most of the latter group wish they'd never bought a Subaru after a few years, as the repairs can be eyewatering when your head gasket go, followed by a shoddy repair at your local stealership that wrecks your engine.

Even when a head gasket replacement goes well, the gasket will degrade again in due time and your right back where you started. 300k miles in a newer Subaru without major work just isn't common.
Kills my RSI, but bright spot, I bought a keyboard which helps it a great deal, so... thanks?
My experience is that start-of-day meeting only works for a team of morning people or they all have kids. People show up at work at different times, and their day start at different times.
Treason doth never prosper?

What's the Reason?

For if it prosper:

None dare call it treason.

--John Harington
What opcodes does Ethereum support that Bitcoin does not support, or could not be implemented using Bitcoin's opcodes?

You've got everything that looks essential to me: add/sub, mul/div, logical and/or, bitwise, string, crypto, etc.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script#Opcodes

No disagreement that the Bitcoin development process is broken as fuck though.
That speed limits are law does not make for a particularly good argument; automated enforcement gets shouted down because it is nearly always implemented as a revenue generation service instead of a method to improve traffic safety. We know very well how we can make our roads safer, and it has essentially zero to do with the printed legal speed limit.

You say it yourself, almost everyone is breaking the law. That is a big red flag to me suggesting there is an imbalance between what we codify into law and what actually works.
Any example? Since stage 3 is roughly "request for implementers", and Stage 4 requires 2 real world implementations and essentially mean "will be part of the standard in the next wave".

The closest thing I can think of is ES6 modules, because the module loader spec wasn't finished, but the syntax still lived on.

Now, stuff getting kicked down from Stage 3, that has happened.
Unless you think less of a Toyota Prius and more like a Honda/Acura NSX. I would be shocked if ford stuck a hybrid system in the Mustang and at some trim level didn't offer a performance hybrid system.
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Yes it's a bubble, so what?
In my experience, I find that Waze seems to underestimate the time cost of intersections. I think that's why it is more willing to route you through local streets than its competitors.
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The problem with American cities is that we only have two spaces: the road and the sidewalk. Bike lanes are sometimes added to roads, but they're still just lanes on the road. The roads have all been built and designed for cars. Sidewalks have been built for pedestrians. Bikes, scooters, skateboards, etc. just don't fit well into either space.

There's a great YouTube channel, BicycleDutch [1], that goes into some detail about the Dutch approach to thoroughfares. They almost always build three spaces: a road for cars, a path for bicycles, and a sidewalk for pedestrians. This results in a huge number of people using bicycles to get around; in Amsterdam 30% of people always commute with a bicycle and over 40% usually do.

Of course, it generally wouldn't be practical for an American city to just convert all its roads to also include a separated bike path. Instead they could look for areas where a bike path could be built without costing too much, drawing political ire, or significantly interfering with current use. Railroad tracks are good opportunities. As an example, Minneapolis converted an unused railroad corridor to a separated bike path, called the Midtown Greenway [2]. As of 2016 34,000+ people used it daily [3]. Portland, OR, has converted two former railways into bike paths, the Springwater Corridor trail [4] and the new Trolley Trail [5]. We have plenty of other separated paths here as well.

Where there just isn't enough horizontal space, a more radical approach would be to build an elevated bike path over a few major thoroughfares (i.e. main downtown streets) or freeways that connect commuters to other separated or multi-use paths. Xiamen, China, built an elevated cycle path -- really more of a bicycle highway -- last year [6]. Dallas [7], Phoenix [8], and Detroit [9] have all built parks over freeways that contain some mixed-use paths, though not always with transportation in mind.

Ultimately bicycles/scooters/etc. don't really fit well into the current American infrastructure, but it seems like a solvable problem.

1: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC67YlPrRvsO117gFDM7UePg

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown_Greenway

3: http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups/public/@publicworks/...

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springwater_Corridor

5: https://ncprd.com/parks/trolley-trail

6: https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/china-cy...

7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klyde_Warren_Park

8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_T._Hance_Park

9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_696
HR views recruiting as a funnel process, similar to sales. There are a set of screening steps testing different skills, and at each step you lose a fraction of candidates, until you get down to the set who accept offers.

E.g. https://www.jobvite.com/recruiting-process/7-benchmark-metri...
https://www.glassdoor.com/employers/blog/4-tips-for-hiring-t...

That's a reasonable model, but it works best if all your filtering steps are effective tests for the things you care about. Getting that right is demonstrably hard, between some hiring managers who don't know or don't communicate what they're looking for, some recruiters who don't understand what they're looking for or how to recognize it, and some job-seekers who don't communicate or demonstrate their skills through the hiring process. And so everyone sees and resents flaws in the funnel.
The keys on the new MBPs are removable with a small amount of effort; I've done it a few times to remove a piece of dust that has lodged itself where it shouldn't without damaging the keyboard at all.

From the comments here, you'd think that no one knew they could remove the keys!