skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Longest flight is currently 17 hours, 40 minutes assuming concord speeds that would save over 10 hours and again on the way back. That's just short of a full day less flight time round trip.

Granted that's the outlier, but nothing says these aircraft need be limited to concord speeds either.
I'm sure you're aware that Ben Franklin was asking for more taxes to fund a stronger national defense against native American raids[0]. In other words, the "essential Liberty" he argued for was not liberty from the state, but the liberty of the state.

If you're going to use that quote to make some sort of anti-statist, pro revolutionary argument, fair enough, it's a good quote... that's just not at all what the person you're quoting was actually saying.

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be...
Medium discussing etiquette? They put up an unclosable pop-up window when they detect a mobile device. They put up 'dick bars' that cover the top and bottom of the screen.
Whether or not people end relationships "in much less time if things aren't going well" is an empirical question and I don't think it's necessarily true. Anecdotally, lots of people seem to "stick it out" in various kinds of personal and business relationships for much longer than a year even when things are terrible.
> It's not nearly as atrocious as the reputation profit hungry landlords have tried to give it.

Please don't tar all landlords with the same brush. I might well be a landlord in the future if I ever move out of the Bay Area, because I really like SF and would like to keep owning my (small, modest) condo even if I have to take a job elsewhere in the future. Right now, because of Costa-Hawkins, rent control won't affect me even in that scenario. But, suppose CH were repealed and the Progs decided to throw owners of those "luxury condos" everyone hates under the bus to score political points by implementing vacancy control. In that case, I'd have no choice but to sell, because I literally couldn't pay the mortgage if I couldn't charge market rent. (Actually, even market rent, right now, would not be enough to pay the mortgage--I would have to start low and raise the rent over time, or else I'd have to sell.)

For some of us, it isn't about profit. I'm happy to give up profit for a good tenant. It's about not having the bank foreclose on our property--which, needless to say, would in eviction for our tenants.
We're humans, not robots. We don't run on information alone.
Why just eat whole foods when you could mostly eat dank foods?
I have some bad news for you. For a solo founder, a 70:30 marketing:development mix is on the low side. At this point, unless you're getting a financially backed feature request from a majority of your contacts, you should really be spending almost all your time on sales/marketing. When I say "financially backed feature request", I mean that a majority of your contacts have said if you build $x, they'll pay you $y for $z years.

I checked out your website and I'd argue that your problem is bigger than SAAS marketing. You won't be able to keep restaurants signed up unless you deliver customers to them. At the same time, you won't be able to attract customers unless you have a good set of restaurants.

The restaurant industry is hard to reach, but your best bet with them is to fuck marketing and go straight into sales. To this end, change your website so it's specifically about your city.

Go into places outside their rush hours and ask to speak to a manager. Make your pitch. Ask yourself what went right and what went wrong. Repeat for ~ 3-6 months. In the beginning, you'll do 80% of the talking, but with a few months of experience, you'll do about 20% of the talking. Ironically, that will mean that you're getting good at sales, but you won't believe that until you're already good at sales.

Be prepared to take a major loss on the first 10 businesses you sign up. Good restaurateurs are enamoured with change, yet they're highly risk averse. At first, they won't want to partner with you unless you eat 100% of the risk and increase their margin on sales booked through you. If I were in your shoes, I'd expect to pay my first 10 customers 10% of each order total extra plus agree to pay 100% of the customers' bills when my app fucks up (or they think I did). You'll also find that it's easier to get a 'no' out of a venture capitalist than an FOH focused restaurateur. You'll have better luck hearing a firm no from a head chef, but if you ever hear yes from a head chef, apply to Y Combinator ASAP. You have product/market fit...:)

As far as straight up marketing, at this point, paying for media (ie - advertising) looks like it would be a waste. If I were you, I'd spend your ad budget when you have at least 20 restaurants signed up and want to get them some customers. At least then you'll have an easier time coming up with and testing a hypothesis about what will trigger your users to order food through your app.

I'd focus on earned media (ie - journalists). I don't know enough about your business to suggest a hook, but young entrepreneur are usually an editor's dream on slow news days. The problem is that kind of coverage tends to be long on 'aw shucks' and short on converting actual customers. If you tell me more about your city, its local media landscape and about some of the best reporters, I can maybe give you some better pitch ideas.
That's why you go during the yellow. Cars are stopping at the new red. You then go left before the cars getting the new green start moving.
I believed this for the longest time, and honestly, I never ran into this problem once I had a guitar with decent tuners and started buying very good strings.

Grover tuners for the win though. I never used locking tuners, so no opinion on them. I'm good enough changing strings that one turn of the tuning peg is all I need.
I'll have to agree with this one. I had watched, and done most of the assignments, in the 2017 part-I of the course. While I did get stuff working and got results, I was left unsatisfied.

I recently went through the videos, of Andrew Ng's Coursera course to get feel for the theory and intuition,and I'll be taking another stab at fast.ai courses to compare his assignments with Andrew Ng's.
(A)lice and (B)ob set up a channel.
(E)ve is an evesdropper.

When the only thing you change is to personify A, B, and E in your narrative description of a logical protocol, you are not making an analogy or an abstraction.

Sequence diagrams, BAN logic, UML, pseudo code and other protocol notations are not teaching analogies, they are specifications. Some more useful than others.

Teaching analogies and abstractions are more of a mix of use cases, literally analogous functional relationships, black boxing, edge cases and boundary conditions. The "why" behind the "how."

That Alice and Bob can be replaced in every situation with (A) and (B) means they are not abstractions or analogies, and are therefore patronizing cartoons that obfuscate useful information.
Yeah, Python docs need to stop using variable names like 'spam' & 'eggs', Monty Python's too jokey, no room for it in docs
I'm partial to Mortorq, or at least drawn to the name... https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/ccaafc61-fd54-4904-aa97-e73e532da9...
I was kind of hoping this was going to be about ball screws - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_screw
GP has http://cultivatelabs.com in their bio, they're working directly in this space. Very interesting stuff. (And, looking at previous comments they're hiring)
Do you find yourself stripping Phillips head acres frequently? That is because you are confusing Phillips and Pozidriv heads. They look similar but have a different head and different amount of engagement.

I just bought myself some Wiha drivers after years of using shitty tools. I am so much happier now.
Also the report (in German) [1] that the original release deadline was May 7th, but Intel has asked for another 14 days of leniency.

[1] https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Spectre-NG-Intel-versc...
I may have abused the 'revolving door' term a bit, but I think you are missing the point of hiring former regulators.

You are not hiring them for their bio, achievements or abilities. You are hiring them to signal existing and future regulators that being nice to you can be highly profitable.
Agreed, but if we count ingredients then a jug of cooking oil wins hands down.
This sort of relativist approach only makes sense if you assume both people are right, wrong, or lying. If one of them sees things how they are and the other does not, then "synergy" isn't going to get anyone anywhere.

Also, you should be "respectful" by entertaining the possibility that what OP is saying is true.
And, AFAIK, they didn't like making spare parts for it because by the end they were frequently having to manufacture one-off parts.
Not to mention they could also have metric and imperial systems like hex keys...
Leaving aside the question of the nature of its jokes, the TeXBook is the sort of thing you read straight through. It's a narrative about how some code came to be. It's not the same sort of reference as the glibc manual, and I think a narrative form of documentation benefits from a casual tone and a four-sentence standalone reference about a function (especially where one of those sentences is "Preliminary: | MT-Safe | AS-Unsafe corrupt | AC-Unsafe lock corrupt") benefits from a terse tone.
Knuth is actually funny.
Humor is commonly used by Humons to attempt to connect with one another and distract themselves from the inherent absurdity of their lives; you need not necessarily interpret their communication entirely literally when you have a suspicion that they may be employing Humor.
> If you can prove why x > y means y > z

...let x=2,y=1,z=1. Gotta be more specific on those quantifiers ;-)

More seriously, the issue is that "transitive causality", or whatever we want to call it, is sometimes not universally a good model of reality.

It's not really a fallacy. It's just a method of reasoning for which there exist errant applications, and therefore you should "use with caution".
I could have been more clear and less punchy. It's a sensitive topic and perhaps my pen leapt from its scabbard a bit. :)
ether is not a consumable. that is backed by a promise to deliver if delivery is requested.

ether is a platform maintained by developers and serviced by miners.

a platform, that requires ownership of tokens to access it.

access (membership) is represented by token possession , which is priced in a market and fluidly tradeable.

just because something is tradeable doesn't make it a security, the real definition of a security is that you derive benefit passively from the active efforts of others.

in this case, ethereum was conceived of as a programming project financed by a select few people , all accredited investors.

if it walks like a duck , quacks liek a duck, and smells like a duck , it's a duck.

then again, the sec and regulators can say the sky is down and blue is red. the law is a complete construction.

only when you assume the law isn't a construction can you in earnest begin 'debating' about some legally 'objective' reality.

no such thing will ever exist outside of this assumption.

the reality is that while some people are actively working on changing the laws to suit their own needs, the existing laws on the books are sufficient to protect INVESTORS from being burned by all these ico's , inclusive of bitcoin and ether.

that said, it's clear the regulators are happy with bubbles, and not terribly interested in creating any bright line rules, or meaningful protections for investors. what value is a market without speculation? that's the perspective of the 'regulators'.

lawyers are making it up they go along. even the heads of the SEC have admitted to as much. and then , they've also said, 'everything' is a security.

the problem is that you have to many different regulatory agencies all trying to avoid blame for an obvious and immanenet burn mode, where implosion of speculative assets leads to an investor outcry against thee regulators. in the end, it won't matter.
no one at the sec got fired for the bernie madoff scandal. the only guy who actually got punished was the one who was ignored for blowing the whistle on him years prior.
You see it too in people going around telling people to stop saying master/slave for clusters

https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3185
Jeremy - First of all, I just want to say thanks to you and Rachel for the course(s). I worked through part 1 (2017 version) last year and it was fantastic.

I've got part 2 on my to-do list for this year. Looking at the 2018 part 1 course, quite a lot has changed (from Keras to Pytorch?) from a code perspective in comparison to the 2017 part 1 course. If I want to start part 2, does it make sense to go-ahead with the 2018 version? Are there any 2018 part 1 lessons you recommend to bridge any gaps from the 2017 part 1 before I start 2018 part 2?

Thanks!
It is absurd that general change in the real estate market should change the tax revenue of the city. It doesn't naturally relate to the income of residents, the need for city services, or the cost to supply city services.

When the tax revenue goes up, the city gets addicted to it. When tax revenue goes down, the cuts are painful. This is part of what led to the various tax caps put in place in many states, which in turn causes problems like people who can't afford to move closer to where they work due to a tax rate reset.

Those tax caps should have been on the per-person revenue. That would tie revenue to population. It would prevent short-sighted politicians from expanding the budget during a real estate bubble, and would eliminate the need to make cuts when real estate crashes. Instead of having the budget be a function of property value and a tax rate, the tax rate would be a function of the population and the property value.
You can have different rendering for mobile/non-mobile.

We are in the midst of everyone switching to mobile.
I never said precocious necessarily meant anything. And there's a reason I used the conjunctive "and" in "abnormalities and handicapped general intelligence", though I could have worded it better.

And I never said "early reader", I said "independently ... too early". Both qualifiers were intentional and important; in particular, I very much intended "too" to be non-specific.

And you're wrong about behaviors like hyperlexia, and wrong precisely in a way that proves my point. Hyperlexia also strongly correlates with obsessions with letters and numbers, but they're distinct phenomena. The latter is an even stronger indicator of autism, but many times hyperlexia is what both parents and others will take notice of first. (Which is a very important point--for this and other reasons, a young child that is both hyperlexic and shows obsessive traits, only the former is likely to be discussed in anecdotes about children with surprising abilities.)

My whole point was that for many of the examples and anecdotes you stumble across on the internet and in discussion, especially the more extreme ones, keep in mind that the children may have other, debilitating developmental abnormalities. Of course, it would be better if these stories received little or no interest or if people didn't naturally internalize these anecdotes in a way that leads to anxiety in their personal lives; but that's not how the majority of people naturally behave.

Regarding the alleged condescension, I possess professionally diagnosed traits that make me "gifted" in many senses of that word, including the euphemistic sense. What I find condescending is how people use "gifted" to elide the complex reality, rather than to put in the effort to discuss things in more concrete terms (i.e. with greater specificity and context), which is really the only way to both avoid prejudice and misunderstanding while being honest and respectful.
> You also assume that the attacker's words are rooted in fact.

What if your boss says: "It's too cloudy today! It's your fault Ian, you suck!"?

- is it acceptable behavior?

- is it a correct statement?

- is it constructive? does it help solving a problem at all?
Yeah, I remember when US products like Dr Pepper first started showing up in NZ they would have a sticky label over the top of the nutrition info with a more compliant one.
Wall Street will trade anything they can make money on. Better to make money on transactions than trying to win the ponzi scheme.
Hey meatbag, even robots like a good joke
The US doesn't have this gag rule either; I think pretty much everyone is scratching their heads about what it is RMS is on about here.
Fail2ban looking for web pages that don't exist on your web site (like ../wpadmin) works pretty well at getting rid of script kiddies.

I suppose you could add a honeypot page that took form submissions and looked for any sequence attempting a CSRF, XSS, or SQL attack and ban the source there as well.
Exactly. I'd expect collision-prevention to have absolute priority over any other system. It should not be possible for any logic bug or combination of environmental factors to make the car run into a large object in its field of vision. There's no need for statistics here--an overriding 'don't run into stuff' rule will suffice.

If there's truly no possible route to avoid some collision and therefore the car needs to decide which collision is preferred, then the statistics can kick in, but in this Uber scenario, it shouldn't have gotten that far. From the outside, it seems like a fundamental design issue.
Granted, each person has their own learning style. Some do better with theory, some do better with practical application.

In my case, I stopped doing data MOOCs entirely once I realized I learned 10x faster just by reading documentation and working on a project from the bottom-up, since MOOCs rarely highlight the annoying gotchas present in real-world data applications.
Pandas and SQL are cousins, at best.

Here's the 2,215 page user manual, to give you some idea of the power contained within:

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/pandas.pdf

They really serve two related but different purposes, I'm sure if you check it out you will be impressed.
In short - security is such a big and multifaceted topic that it’s hard to know where to start, but I think that learning Kali Linux tools would cover a lot.

I started working at a cybersecurity company - our product is ridiculously stupid and I try and work as little as possible. In the time I’m not working I try to at least learn stuff. Since I’m at a cybersecurity place I sometimes try to learn about cybersecurity. It seems that even though for profit cs companies are making crazy dough, a lot of open source solutions out there do the same thing. There are so many attacks - they can be anywhere from the application level to the level of physical devices like routers having some kind of exploit. For any type of attack there is a good or multiple good open source tools that can be used to execute or defend (depending on what color hat you have), and a ton of them come standard installed on Kali Linux, but before you learn these you have to understand networks. As a python/Django dev I didn’t really have a deep knowledge and still don’t have a deep knowledge of this. Nor have I done more than dabble with any of these tools. But I know that there are a lot of videos on how to use these - including this 15 hour (!) one https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=1177s&v=vg9cNFPQFqM - if you were to go through that you’d probably be a security wizard
That's definitely in spite of being on the gold standard. Have a look at the history of financial crises in the US [1]. In the time period you mentioned, there were 21 recessions, five 'panics' and three depressions.

If you look at the CPI history, it was largely deflationary (which is good if you do like recessions and depressions), but also times where inflation reached 27% [2]. The gold standard can't stop price inflation, and when inflation takes off it makes currency pegs impossible to hold, which is why pretty much every commodity convertible currency has eventually failed.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
2. https://www.minneapolisfed.org/community/financial-and-econo...
IMO, when a controversial issue such as a certain CoC change causes a top 5 contributor to such a large project such as LLVM to say "fuck it, I'm out," that is entirely relevant, and should be upvoted, not flagged to oblivion. You may not agree with the contributor's decision to leave, but it's worthwhile to try and understand why they came to that decision and to reflect on whether the change is the right thing to do or not. By down-voting or flagging into oblivion, dissent is being quieted, freedom of speech and thought is lost, and diversity of thought and inclusiveness in the community is actively being destroyed. We don't all have to agree, but when one group can actively suppress the participation of another, you've effectively killed free speech/thought.
Pejorative is exactly what most people think when somebody introduces personal politics into technology, education, or business. Appropriate venues would be politics and law. People have lost their jobs for this.

There is nothing wrong with stating an opinion, but everything to its appropriate context.
The problem isn't using indentation. The problem is the platform's rendering on mobile.

Agree on links tho.
> Again, my county has very little crime. We just have people who were inched out of the game. Some had mental breakdowns. Some were screwed over by family members--"loved ones". So[m]e just lost their job.

I'm sure that many homeless "were inched out of the game". Homelessness was a huge problem in the 1930s. And many homeless do have mental problems. Also substance abuse, which is partly self-medication for mental problems. All exacerbated by being "inched out of the game".

Back in the 80s, homelessness exploded after funding for psychiatric institutions got cut during the Reagan administration. Many people hit the street, with virtually no support. But which is worse, really? Being stuck in a ward, over-medicated into passivity? Or dumped on the street?

It's a hard problem.
The US government does not fund overseas organizations that provide or promote abortion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_policy

(The fact that this reference is so unclear is probably a reason that, everything else aside, the joke is not very good. The glibc maintainers have offered to replace it with some clear text about censorship in the US.)
I'm not that hardcore about it, but I still agree this really shouldn't be in the official docs. Maybe in a tutorial or a set of slides.

I do agree with some professionalism in things that want to be taken seriously. I don't even really like the "Apt with super cow powers."

I do agree this isn't about political correctness. At one time GNU tools were just a bunch of devs trying to write open source tooling for fun or to learn. But with it being such a huge part of our industry now, it does need to grow up.

If you're working on your own small open source projects, have fun with the docs and comments. But don't be like Stallman. Realize if your tools are really successful, those quips might get cut out one day. c'est la vie
I think it's a case of it being counterproductive to try to standardise.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/