skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Tesla has been an excellent example of a micro-bubble. Tesla’s current price is arguably fair if most cars are powered by electricity in 10 years, if most of these cars are made by Tesla, if Tesla can make those cars with sufficient margin and quality control and can service the cars properly, and if Tesla can raise additional capital sufficient to cover a $3 billion annual cash drain and another billion to service its debt."
Can you reduce your emissions by having fewer children?
> But if it dies, which new Mac do I replace it with?

You don't.

I recently got a System76 laptop and it's better than my emojibar MBP from work for dev stuff in almost every way despite being a third of the price. I got the Lemur but if you're into the MBP aesthetic this might be more your thing:

https://system76.com/laptops/galago
The article doesn't even talk about deaths, only injuries. Compared to the number of pedestrians killed by motor vehicles the figures seem insignificant. More people die each year from choking.
The "low impact" sheep farming clearing millions of acres of forest.

But yeah it does seem like the Canterbury authorities especially have been terrible at actually enforcing environmental laws (based on stuff.co.nz -- the best reporting and editing in the world :) ).
Visit London. Cycling is now the majority mode of transport in the City of London rush hour. That’s due to car reduction measures (the Congestion Charge) and new infrastructure both large (Cycle Superhighways) and small (filtered permeability). Your assertion that “people don’t want to cycle to work” is demonstrably false.

(Source: https://www.bikebiz.com/news/traffic-in-the-city-2018 )
You just put this startup out of business. The Michigan Uni website and video tutorials are more complete than Caelum's mvp. Couldn't figure out how to get Caelum's website to work, it just dumped me into a food log todo-style app with no info how to use it.
I have already read both of those. Here is my long-form response, posted on HN after the second link was posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16788447

You are seriously dodging the conversation here, but I'll try one more time, just to make this clear:

* First: Imagine my answer, for the moment, is "no." So what? Disrupting drug prohibition is already not nothing.

* Second: Yeah, you whoosed. I didn't say that blockchain tech had advanced the internet (like porn has), but that drug commerce has advanced blockchain tech. See? In both cases, the resulting boost isn't limited to porn or drugs.

> What I asked is for you to provide examples how blockchain has advanced the internet the same way porn has.

I didn't make that claim. I don't think that it's clear that blockchain tech is even cognizable as part of what we today call "the internet." So I'm not making the statement you're asking me to defend.

What I am saying is that it's not reasonable to conclude "Well, it doesn't do anything but facilitate drug commerce" any more than you can sensibly conclude, about the early days of the internet, "It doesn't do anything other than facilitate porn."

Get it?
For those considering cow milk alternatives, I've been drinking pea 'milk' from Ripple foods and it is pretty great.

I also really enjoy Califia Farms' Coconut Almond Milk.

And for ice cream, Coconut Bliss I find to be even better than the real stuff.

Your mileage may vary of course.
Oh come on.

I don't agree that the proposed idea is fundamentally new and amazing; but I think it is novel, and there may be some value in being able to semantically bind tasks to execution points, specifically when the tasks are spawned in naive (or uncontrolled, eg. library) code, and have not explicitly opted in to the scheme.

Does this particular implementation do that perfectly? No, probably not.

...but I think the idea of it has some merit.

There's more value here than just waiting for a series of deferred tasks that you have explicitly created, and explicitly opted into a specific concurrency workflow with.

Note specifically these parts of the proposal:

> we declare that a parent task cannot start any child tasks unless it first creates a place for the children to live

^-- This is not satisfied by your method, at all.

> But the problem with this is that you have to know up front the complete list of tasks you're going to run, which isn't always true.

Literally the next sentence after the one you quoted.

> What if you really do need to write a function that spawns a background task, where the background task outlives the function itself? Easy: pass the function a nursery object. There's no rule that only the code directly inside the

Notice how you can avoid the 'setTimeout(() => { .. })` in nested code issue by explicitly passing in a context that has its own scope.

...

There's a lot of stuff in here that is actually quite thoughtful.

You don't have to dig through it, finding every little nitpick you can to call it out on; just think about the idea being proposed.

It's certainly not 'just promises'; if you think it is, then... I don't know what to say. You're wrong. :P
Do you have a citation for 50% of the SFMTA budget going to cycling infrastructure? This sounds demonstrably incorrect given the fact that they run the bus and LRV systems.

(Also incorrect is that people "don't want to cycle to work", I see literally hundreds of them every morning in SF, and it's growing every year.)

There are many arguments in favor of cycling infrastructure, but unfortunately I'm versed enough in anti-bike comment threads to recognize someone who won't be convinced :) But here goes...

* bikes do less damage to road than cars, and therefore the maintenance cost of bike lanes is lower than car lanes, which require frequent paving

* bikes are important as a "last mile" transportation option for public transit commuters. densely-placed bike share stations improve the feasibility of public transit for people whose homes or offices are 1-2 miles from a train station.

* bikes are far smaller than cars and so you can push more traffic through a given width of road than with cars. this is especially relevant if you ever get to a downtown stretch where one car turning right at a pedestrian crossing causes an entire green light to be wasted on the rest of the cars (basically every light along Market Street in SF). cars are just wide and clumsy when driving in dense downtowns.

* the government frequently subsidizes behaviors that are considered virtuous (or conversely, imposes "sin taxes"), and also subsidizes services that benefit lower-income citizens. both of those apply here. car parking in downtowns can run $40+ for a day. bike share and bus commutes are $2-5 and keep people active.

I could go on, but again, I don't think your mind will be changed much.
You can't lie about the groups you use, or the sites you visit that track you via FB, or the friends you add.
Yes. But... JSX is not HTML. And no, the issues PHP had with embedding HTML do not apply to JSX.

JSX is a paper-thin DSL on top of Javascript. JSX components are regular Javascript functions and classes. You work with them the same way you work with any function it class in JS. Unlike PHP where it was actual HTML interspersed with PHP code.
To enjoy the journey
Shellebrating Christmas Island’s Extraordinary Nature with Street View
Interesting to note that usage and income peaked in late 2017, yet earnings per share continues to rise unabated.

When there is too much shareholder pressure to extract money from struggling companies, those companies tend to struggle.
To clarify, the (1993) does indeed signify the release of this in 1993. This isn't a historical software release (this folded in many improvements from external contributors because it was open source).

Maybe I'm dumb but I did need to do a double take.
By instantly I mean, on average around 10 minutes, if you pay an appropriate fee. This is miles ahead of credit cards, for example, as that takes days to clear. Yes they do, as the transaction isn't confirmed until days later.

Obviously, if you pay too low of a fee, it could take a long time.

> Money laundering is as old an art as the banking services themselves. I guess blockchain made it easier then? True innovation.

Indeed it does. The whole point of bitcoin was to enable censorship resistant financial transactions.

And it turns out, that the people who most want to have access to censorship resistant transactions, are the people who are CURRENTLY being censored by the existing financial system.

I have no idea how I'd be able to quickly send cash to someone on the other side of the world, in a way that is censorship resistant. Bitcoin enables this, though.

Obviously, though, if you don't care about fighting financial censorship, then you wouldn't see the usecase for a toll that helps you make censorship resistant transactions.

It is perfectly fine for you to not care about subverting financial censorship. But you should be aware that there are other people with different values, who care a whole lot about this cause.
Oh yeah -- I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, just that it wasn't something I ever thought about/understood. Kind in that weird "plastic melts so you can just melt it down and remold it, right?" mindset. Even though I do know that you can't do that for all plastics.

That said, what happens if you grind up + compress + heat those plastics? (it sounds like you understand this better than I do)
It's all just down to personal preferences. On balance I much prefer western European food to eastern European despite having polish grandparents who used to cook amazing pierogi.
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Are places like Kickstarer or Idiegogo useful for large scale projects?
I wonder what effect PoS will have on the Ethereum ICO system. If coins are needed to stake and mine, large holders might have more incentives to hold Ethereum instead of any assets?
Well, as somebody put it extremely succinctly in his /. sig:

If you don't like the GPL write your own damn software.

I agree.
Understanding the easily avoidable BatchOverflow bug
This isn't Reddit! ;)
Weird, as person 7 years in to running an online store on Shopify I absolutely love their product and their customer support is amazing.
I don't know anything about Swift, but I really wish ML had settled on a language with higher performance. Interpreter speed doesn't bottleneck vision stuff but reinforcement learning really suffers.
They forced everyone to upgrade or leave a few weeks ago.
Proof of stake is just another way to achieve distributed consensus. Not sure how that’s impossible or violates the laws of physics.
We exclusively use Koko coconut milk in my family.
A government in its own currency can never go bankrupt.

The bailing out procedure should become a prepackaged administration process via the central bank. Banks should know if they exhaust their capital buffers the bank will be placed into administration and refloated by the central bank. ALL equity holders in the bank will make a total loss.

That then sets expectations correctly.
it's a pretty fun exercise to download the earliest mosaic browser you can find and get it to build on your current platform. Then to see what sites actually still work. The last time I did this, Dennis Ritchie's site loaded the best.
Morning seems pretty common for stand-ups. Personally, I try to do my heavy cognitive tasks in the morning (so not a fan).
I think that some managers use morning meetings as a way to make sure people come in to work on the managers schedule.

Mornings are my “thinking” time.

The good idea/solution comes to me in the shower or while I’m sleeping and I drive to work thinking about it. I’m usually able to get a good start on implementing it before people can interrupt me.
One of my coworkers had the first name of Engineer! An excellent engineer, in both senses.
These results hold whether the city is in California or Texas.

If Texas can't build enough roads to solve the problem, no one can. Houston's road system is enormous.
Ambulance services are generally extremely tightly regulated, and often exclusive area contracts. You probably couldn't operate an ambulance company with the policy you describe in most places, and you certainly couldn't legally do an Uber-style middleman service with independent ambulances that used that policy.

And, unlike taxi laws, the laws on operating thingd that pretend to be legally-mandated emergency vehicles are going to be vigorously enforced.
> Like mutt: it sucks less.

that depends entirely on what your daily activities are.

If you're a web developer and are somewhat competent, you'd be best served with fedora or ubuntu. You're able to fully customize your system, use tiling window managers such as i3wm and can actually use the same daemons as the production system will be using.

If you're a designer that uses the Adobe Suite, there is little difference between osx and windows. both work most of the time and have their own faults and upsites. if you're already in the apple ecosphere, there is little reason to change to windows - as there isn't really anything better there. Nor is there a reason to switch to mac from windows...

If you're a gamer, there really isn't anything but windows -- even today. Its gotten better with Steam, but the performance hit for non-windows systems is brutal.

If you're just an average user that only wants to use facebook, webmail and browse the internet, you'd be best served with a chromebook/chromebox. That literally just works with no manual configuration necessary anywhere. Its just that there is very little you can do on it. (The Android integration is still beta, so that doesn't count)

this list is obviously not exhaustive. I'm just trying to make a point with some examples.
The section on "companies in the top 10 decade to decade" seemed to be a very weak argument to me. Reminded me of reasoning sometimes used by cryptocurrency investors "it crash 3 times and recovered, therefore it's guaranteed to do the same in the future".

But other than that, what seems sketchy?
Read the comments there. It's way overblown actually.
California can look forward to more extreme dry-wet “climate whiplash”
It's interesting how your post is essentially agreeing with the parent poster ("doesn't necessarily mean stop doing it (society runs on this)"), while lambasting them for some presumed selfish motivation of the act, which you have no way of knowing.
Researchers discovered a way to create hotel master keys for ”millions of doors”
Can we please stop labelling doubt and maybe cynicism as hate? It is nonsensical and doesn't add to the discussion. It rather makes people even more defensive and argue their position even harder.
> Huh? French food I can understand, though I don't have much of a taste for it

You probably have not tried the ones you like, I'm french myself and there's so much variety in France it's impossible to try everything, I probably know less than 50% of the regional specialties despite being native. There's very few national dishes unlike most other countries.
That’s a rude way to say “thanks for clarifying, I agree with you.”

“doesn’t scale” usually refers to technical difficulty with throughput. If you meant that Bitcoin et al cause massive environmental damage, you sure didn’t say it clearly.

I suggest that you would get a lot of mileage out of improving your writing skills first before trying to flame people. As it is, you’re just playing yourself.
Pro tip: since fairly recently, Trader Joe’s carries fairly authentic Pelmeni in the US. They have a little less meat than Pelmeni would usually have, but other than that they’re surprisingly good, even by Russian/Ukrainian standards.
> If you were biking around staring at your phone and weaving into oncoming traffic, is that someone else's fault?

No, because the law states that a bike on the road with cars is equal to other vehicles and has no higher priority in regards to right of way.

In contrast, a biker on a sidewalk is not considered equal to a pedestrian. In fact, it is illegal in most cases, but probably not illegal or dangerous enough to warrant strict enforcement.

I consider pedestrians to have just the responsibility of paying attention to their surroundings to not inconvenience other pedestrians, not bikes or scooters.
It's easy to make a marriage work when you know that both of you are in it voluntarily. Most people who get married don't get divorced.
I’ve found them really great for a memory-bound Rails app that needs very little CPU. As ever choosing the right instance type is a matter of mechanical sympathy.

I do turn on t2 unlimited mode in case some horrible bug pegs the CPU.
If it was really significant you'd have quoted the number, not the headline:

In 2016 three pedestrians died in such incidents across Great Britain while a further 108 sustained serious injury.

But note, none of these deaths occurred on the pavement:

In 2016, 43 pedestrians died in collisions involving a vehicle on the footway or verge. None of them involved a cycle.

-- https://www.cyclinguk.org/campaigning/views-and-briefings/pe...
Exactly. I live in a small town. We have no traffic jams, and never have. I believe that proves it’s possible to build sufficient infrastructure to eliminate or reduce traffic jams. It’s just that most large cities elect not to.
Suppose the article is correct, and all but one or two of the top tech companies will underperform over the next decade. What about the companies that fail? Some will be bought out, others will liquidate. Business entities will cease to exist.

Code I write is protected by an Intellectual Property clause in my contract. The company owns everything. If the company is gone, can I release my code?

Everyone is using git, and many companies use private Github repos. In the same way that copyright expires after a length of time, could Github automatically release code as open-source when companies go bankrupt? I just wish the progress won't all be lost when the bubble bursts.
"Social pressure is a terrible way to run a society."

I'm currently in Japan and can assure you that about 126'000'000 Japanese definitely don't share your opinion.

As a visitor I can observe that this system, which is strongly based on social control, seems to work pretty well in a really crowded environment.
Wonder Woman Actor Tweets Praise for Huawei Mate 10 from an iPhone
If you mean the matlab toolboxes (eg, image processing toolbox), which are proprietary libraries that you pay like $1k per year to use, no.

Honestly, as someone who wrote matlab professionally for a couple years, the price is a joke, and the performance is jokier. The only reason that matlab still exists is that they use the same marketing tactics as drug dealers- it's free to universities, and super easy to use.
Amazon certainly has little enough information on products in its non-Asian variants.
Chinese perk for male coders: Women to relieve their stress
That web domain dataset they get from the internet archive is interesting in light of the current discussion, in that I am supposing it probably has .uk content that has been removed from the actual internet archive by robots.txt changes.

I think if I were running a national or internationally mandated archiving initiative I would basically want to take in content from Internet Archive, and not remove things, and probably it would be less expensive that way than having my own crawler.
I've developed somewhat of a brain ad-on to bypass the paywall: click on the address bar and select all, cut, type "archive.is", paste in the search box, press enter.

The WSJ would be much better served by requiring a free, easy login with an email or social account, then throttle down the number of free articles one can read. Turning down people interested in your product that you could offer a sample at zero marginal cost to you seems such a poor business decision.
All it takes is picking up a different product in the dairy aisle to stop it from happening, why not choose compassion?

Pleasantness doesn’t make up for what the calf loses or their mother had to go through.
> Code I write is protected by an Intellectual Property clause in my contract. The company owns everything. If the company is gone, can I release my code?

Generally, the company or it's assets will be sold. Unless your contract specified that such a transfer releases your code (and it probably doesn't), the new owner will have the same rights as the firm that actually employed you had. Even if the firm is liquidated, that is likely to involving auctioning of assets, including IP portfolios.
So don't do those things.

It just doesn't make any sense to me how people expect that you can use a web service without the webservice like...knowing that you're using it?

Reddit knows what subreddits I'm subbed to. Usenet servers know what groups I post to. Gmail knows what email I get (sortof) etc.

If I didn't want anybody to know that I was interested in amateur radio, then I wouldn't post to /r/amateuradio with my real name.

This is a classic "have your cake and eat it too". You can't both share your real name with people and also not share your real name with those same people at the same time.
When people say Python, I never know if they mean 2.7, 3.x, or both, or are unaware that there's a difference, or don't realize how much it matters in practice... so a language that has clear forward momentum, focuses on the latest version, and quickly deprecates old versions is pretty welcome.
Spray coaters
That's only the domestic component. People are coming to SF from other countries, resulting a net population increase.

http://www.sfweekly.com/news/san-francisco-hits-new-all-time...
Very much agree with the point about how accessible (especially via email) RMS is. A month ago I too have exchanged some email with him about license clarification of some slides he's worked on in the past. He responded within a day with precise details. (From my exchange I was again reminded of his funny auto-responder email.)

And not to mention how unfailingly honest he is, which is impossible to miss when you read and listen to him. Say what you want about the man and his idiosyncrasies, but I am yet to see another high-profile Person in Tech come close to match Stallman's integrity.
The Mercury News covered this with interviews with commuters - the one going from her home in Stockton to a job in San Jose at Red Lobster is the standout one for me - that a service job in San Jose is so much better than one she could find in locally in Stockton that it is worth that commute for her (and her spouse.)

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/25/nightmare-90-minute-s...
IME sacrificing quality almost always pushes out a deadline and costs, sometimes for decades. Low quality means constant firefighting will interrupt everything else.
Web archive EU institutions
I've found that milk alternatives have more than 20 ingredients in them. I don't understand what half of them are, and I don't know what long term effects such milks have. I'd love to switch to an alternative, but haven't found one without several additives in them.
This would of course have to be tested but there might be less overhead? I haven’t used FFI but they mention that it is significant. I have written a V8 add-on using NAN and the performance is very good (as in passing relatively large arrays between C++ and Node is in the few microsecond range)
I'm all for having more scooters parked on sidewalks and less Uber/Lyft vehicles blocking bike Lanes and adding to downtown traffic.

The scooters are much needed, obviously. But, as usual, the media and city are crying about it and all you read in the news is
"scooter mayhem" like this is the scooter apocalypse. Find something else to write and worry about, Jesus.
No. it is much easier to read latin Kazakh than cyrillic for a Turkish speaker.
Not bad, for IVRs and the like a smoother, more neutral voice (esp. one that can be tuned based on area) for TTS is extremely handy.
I'm really happy with T2 instances, and T2 Unlimited have solved the issue described in this article!