skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I witnessed a group of 20+ Latin American tourists boarding at some station and then getting off at Shinjuku the other day. One of them held the train door with his body while all 20+ of them strolled in the train nonchalantly. Then the same door blocker proceeded to scream out instructions to the rest of the group. They did the same thing on the way out.

Usually there's a smooth flow of people entering and exiting as everyone seem to know where to go (left or right) because there are maps of train car # to every other station's exits on the line. While they were figuring out whether to go left or right on the platform, they were blocking everyone on that side of the platform right at Shinjuku (literally the busiest station on Earth).

There are dozens of lines criss-crossing the city and every one of them is running accurate to the minute. We take it for granted living here. But boy, when articles like this come around every so often, mind blown. I never gave the crowd behavioural aspect of this system much thought. But this article reminded me of that incident with the tourists. It's impressive how behavioural quirks of the commuters are critical to the overall efficiency of the system. (obvious in hindsight)

Thanks for sharing!
I was backpacking around Europe in 1999 and I saw people in military uniforms with military style weapons patrolling the metro stations in Paris. It made me uneasy.
That’s fair, but again, a smartphone fits that description too and nobody is talking about how you’d have to be crazy to let one in your house.

It seems to me that smartphones are significantly worse. You can unplug your smart speaker or kick it off your WiFi and be confident that it can no longer hear you. Smartphones have batteries and cellular data connections. Also they’re usually with you at all times, even when you’re away from home.
I had an early smartphone, the Sony Ericsson P800, and it was a full screen and the home page was a grid of app icons. The iPhone design was extremely well done in comparison but hardly some radical unknown thing. The real design innovation was the capacitive touch screen
They do. You can do that with their WAF (and maybe without it).

https://www.cloudflare.com/waf/
> The state of touchscreen support in Linux was pretty bad the last time I checked though.

Anecdotal — but have had no trouble for the last two years with my dell xps. Other issues with said laptop (keyboard), but touchscreen support in linux isn't one of them.
Indeed, "if you apply General Curtis Le May to a situation and you get havoc, well, that s what you called General LeMay in for" (to use an Eben Moglen quote out of the context in which he said it); if you host a device in your home running proprietary software you ought not be surprised that it is spying on you and the proprietors determine what to do with that data, not you.

We must not forget another critical component of all this: these always-on listening devices run on proprietary (nonfree, user-subjugating) software. Therefore the user has no permission to: inspect what it does, modify it to do only what the user wants (or, since most computer users aren't programmers, get someone technical they trust to perform such modifications for them), run the modified software in their device, and distribute copies of the improved software to help their community.

If these devices ran on free software (software that respected the user's freedom to run, inspect, modify, and share) the more technical among us could help them. But as it is even the most technically-minded willing person cannot legally do this work to help them.

As Eben Moglen reminded us after the Snowden revelations came out: It's critical that we don't fall into the trap of saying something akin to 'those kids take too many darn pictures' like concluding that we just can't have these devices or their services at all. We can have all of their alleged conveniences but only if we have free software implementations.
Microsoft has "Flow" which is basically Parabola, but considerably more confusing for end-users.
> A fall at any speed from a bike is literally a potentially crippling or deadly scenario.

For elderly people, I would guess that's accurate.
Google "map of France." I see only one in the first 32 that includes French Guiana ("fully" French, use Euro, etc).
Most engineering jobs never had perks like those found at Google and Facebook, just like most journalism jobs never had perks like those found at Time, Inc.

Although the cases are quite similar: Magazines and newspapers once were solid industries with some highly-profitable companies and where one could at least get a solid wage, and, if one was lucky, one could live a luxurious life on the company's dime.

Now even the strongest newspapers and magazines are struggling, and one is lucky to have a job in the field at all, never mind a basic expense account.

Someday that will happen to the Googles and Facebooks of the technology industry, and similarly to the perks they once provided their employees.
you should allow to quickly testrun the product without having to signup.
That’s cool, but it’s uncool that it doesn’t seem to actually work, and I have to spend trillions of years living through the consequences without the ability to learn from my mistakes.
People respond to Muslim lecturer's misogynistic interpretation of women
You and I both :)
Wow what a great post. I’ve always had a hunch about the things the German police officer said but never had any (even anecdotal) evidence to confirm or dismiss them. Thank you!
> What kind of situation is that where there are execution squads ready to 'deploy' to anyone's home address?

USSR under Stalin/Lenin

Italy under Mussolini

Germany under Hitler

Chile under Pinochet

All it takes is one phone call...
Shame, have fond memories of finding cool random things in the early days on StumbleUpon. Later on it felt like an adfeed but still, good stuff.
I think people may have been downvoting me because I misinterpreted the question I was replying to; but I stand by my description of one of the things I find wrong with psychiatry, the lack of much in the way of rigorous objective testing.
Falling while stationary is the second most common type of accidental death, can't imagine a bicycle makes it any safer lmao
Groklaw's coverage over the course of the initial trials were excellent. http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120726121512...
There's a book which explains this phenomena : "Everything is Obvious ... Once you know the answer"

http://everythingisobvious.com/the-book/
It might, but it hasn't in the 18 months I've been using it. I don't know what the timer is supposed to be, but it seems like something less than 2 seconds. I'm pretty sure I couldn't get my phone in my pocket and press the power button that quickly if I wanted to.

Also, the case adds to the pressure needed to depress the button anyway.
Tether, not "teather." As in, tethered to USD (nominally).
>it'd probably end up with large corporations using their legal teams to make laws that favor them

In public, where they can be called on their bullshit - instead of in private meetings as happens now.

>Also, it'd exclude anyone who doesn't have time to review new legislation written

It'd mean that a dedicated and conscientious reader with time on their hands could submit the really egregious diffs to hacker news and get them shot down with prejudice that much quicker.
So basically our cops wanna be TACTICOOL

AKA made fun of by all the actual military types
Did you delete all EU users' data?
> His arrogant rant on the Essential homepage explains why they failed better than anything else could.

Pretty sure it was the fact that Samsung is the primary supplier for the majority of parts so they always end up making money. But sure, the homepage is totally why millions of people didn't buy the phone.
I've watched videos of police in other countries handling armed, definitely-a-threat suspects without using deadly force. Our police go to the gun first, period.
But that's the reality. At least they're working on it and the fact that a lot of companies massively overreact means they at least take data protection serious now.
That's interesting, why would you prefer this phone over the pixel 2 ?
Being a policeman isn’t even in the top 10 most dangerous professions according to the 2016 census.

For example: “Ground maintenance workers” were in 10th place.

http://time.com/5074471/most-dangerous-jobs/
I was under the impression that of you don't do business with EU users, you are not subject to the rules. This seems like the only reasonable way to not do business with EU customers. Other thoughts aside, if they wanted to stop doing business in the EU, how should they?
True. The market for this is schools, offices, and hotels, where the people load changes drastically and the HVAC has to react to that.

This is what the "Internet of Things" should be doing, but seldom does.
>scrypt and bcrypt are a long ways out for supported Linux distros.

Don't you just install libpam-unix2 / an updated version of libpam-unix that supports bcrypt, and configure that?

Source: this is how we use bcrypt password hashes on our one Linux machine.
It depends on the day, but for some reason when I really got to get stuff done, I listen to the theme for Ghostbusters II on repeat all day, Bobby Brown's "Control." I wonder if my coworkers hear me listening to the theme from Ghostbusters II all day on repeat and think I'm weird, but I get so much done with Ghostbusters II theme song. I get too hot to handle, too cold to hold.
It will likely depend on a lot of complex legal factors, including what Tesla knew or should have known.

I expect the contractor would pretty clearly be on the hook here, though, both to this man and to Tesla. Sending an untrained man with no safety gear into a situation like that is absurd.
It sucks that Japan is mostly a cash society...

There are a range of opinions on this topic. I vastly prefer cash no matter what nation I'm in, and am extremely annoyed when it's not a possibility. Japan and its cash just works. Most situations in other nations that do not admit cash pretend that they function acceptably, but we don't have to look hard to see cracks in the facade.
A choice isn't a technology. You didn't invent anything, you made the right choice. Patents used in this way aren't rewarding invention or creative work which is being plagurized, they're rent-seeking. They're using the government's power to stop competition from improving on their products by registering things that already exist. The mere fact that they made a good choice is not grounds to prevent other people from making that choice. It's anti-capitalist corporatism at it's finest.
It depends in where you want to stick that 'invented' label. The principles of Sir Robert Peel, arguably the father of modern policing, are very different:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
This is understood, and we all expect them to carefully phrase things to put their product in the best possible light. Misleading statements are the norm.

Only where enforcement is weak. Two years ago, the government of Germany shut down Tesla's "autopilot" advertising for making false claims.
>I feel like you’re making a bigger deal out of this than necessary, unless you’re doing some shady stuff with our data.

This sentiment and the hilariously large fines (regardless of company size, even) on relatively-ill-defined requirements make the whole GDPR process feel like it was designed to bully businesses into compliance.

Some pieces of GDPR are definitely for the benefit of the end-user (at the expense of companies, who happen to be providing those users other benefits). It all feels really heavy-handed, though.

Not to mention a little reminiscent of the problems that occur with other "bans" (which, this effectively is). When you put heavy legal restrictions on doing X (where, in this case, X is storing and processing data that you assumedly use to provide a service for users), you're effectively hurting the legitimate businesses most (_especially_ small ones) while the real "bad guys" that are actually doing bad things with our data are going to continue ignoring the law. There might be some value in-between, but I doubt there's much.
Big question that’s applicable to lots of things. Not convinced humans are that good at answering it.
How to write emails developers want to receive
PaperCSS looks a bit better imho and they are also working on set of react components.
A leftwing mag today might be Jacobin or Mother Jones. Directly advocating socialism & other anti-/non-capitalist policies.

Time was visibly centrist and general interest, with a skew towards boomers and gen x.
> I hope but do not know if the frequency and circumstances are logged and sent to Volkswagen when at the shop.

What makes you think they aren't sent to VW all the time?
> IMO it is the police's responsibility to die first.

And, pray tell, who in their right mind is going to take _that_ job?
Yet falling is the second most common cause of accidental deaths in the world.
Well, I think being "a place where you get shot" is always a wrong place to be, for most definitions of the word "wrong".
It’s because instead of seeing themselves as public servants they see themselves as a gang[0] and have the “us vs. them” attitude which comes with that.

[0] https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/steve-osborne/the...
I have argued unsuccessfully in the past that this technique would be an excellent data center strategy. That is especially true if you had your data center near the Columbia river and its near constant winds.

Using wind power to compress into high pressure tanks, then when you need extra energy you pull it out and pipe the air expansion pipes through heat exchanges in the data center. That way heat from the data center goes to warming up the air (better efficiency when you feed it to the turbines) and it cools the data center which is part of what one might use the energy for in the first place.

If you put the air expansion pipes in a conveniently located source of water you could chill that water to freezing.
There's such a low threshold for the police's justified use of deadly force in the US, that Ken Lam's restraint was almost unbelievable for this 'merican.[0]

[0]https://twitter.com/boyermichel/status/988492132636913665?la...
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and ideological flamebait to HN? They're not what this site is for, and you've unfortunately done it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yea, thays been very much my experience as well. Still a little bit off usable imo, docs are still very iffy, and there's only really Real World OCaml as a great learning resource for the actual language.

refmt formatting drives me a bit nuts, especially the.lines thing; it's steadily improving though.

One thing though - Belt is the WIP standard library (so OCaml), whereas JS is just bindings to JS, they're very different things. Belt produces much better JS when transpiled, and it seems a lot saner than the stdlib, but it isn't really anything to do with JS bindings.

And the pipe operator is |>, afaics |. is a typo on the Promises documentation page?

|> for reverse application, @@ for application, so

foo |> bar |> baz

and

baz @@ bar @@ foo

are both the same as

baz(bar(foo))

and they work excatly the same as in other ML languages
Async and await
suggest some article which give difference of promise and async and await
Quote me where I said it? I never intended to say that and rereading my comments I can see that I did not say it.

>This is what lack of emotional intelligence looks like. If you can't figure out how what you typed could be interpreted in this way by others, I feel very badly for you.

I wonder if you can understand the irony of you mocking me for my supposed lack of emotional intelligence.
My office has a piece of paper taped over the motion sensor on the roof for that reason.
You don't ignore a law for 2 years and then just after it comes into force say "at least we're working on it". Honestly I thought the GDPR was a bit of an over reaction when it came out 2 years ago but seeing how little respect companies have for our data over the last few weeks I've been convinced it was necessary.
The idea that if these devices ran free software they would be more humane than the proprietary software they currently run is ridiculous.

What are you giving your mom? A Mac running OSX or a PC running Linux?
>Those keyboards broke because of small dust particles, nothing related to liquids, people are using the laptops as before but this time the keyboards are to fragile.

I didn't specify which keyboard. Even mechanical keyboards can be affected by this. I wasn't referring specifically to the new Macbook butterfly keys.
It's funny that the law entered the global knowledge about 2 weeks ago... Seems like the grace period should have started 2 weeks ago.
It's not just "rounded corners." The patent addresses a very specific design, with rounded corners, a border, etc. It is basically only infringed if you try to make your product look like an iPhone, in order to free-ride on the iPhone brand, which is exactly what Samsung did.
This is just poor reading comprehension on your part. I claimed that his rant explains why they failed, not that the rant itself is why they failed.

I think his rant says a lot about how he views his role, company, and product. He seems conflicted about starting the company at all, dismissive of his coworkers, delusional about his role in history, and confused about what makes people want products. And yes, the fact that the product's homepage features him above the product itself is also a very bad sign.
> I do feel that if the intended purpose of using the copyright material was to make money then I do feel that legal action is required. I don't see that is the case here though.

Keep in mind that not intending to make money doesn't make it any better or more legal. By using someone else's material you're preventing them from making money.
MacRabbit Ending and a Toast to Life
Thank you for the kind words on PaperCSS! We’d love some help making the React components.
If there's anything I would bet money on taking UX to a revolutionary new point, it's this.
In India they follow much different social norms, it's an interesting contrast.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1eAP-BoxVkg
I probably should try it. I've been writing my own partly as an excuse to learn React. I've already got a Pi with a touchscreen and a 3d printed enclosure setup to run whatever solution I actually end up using.
That's not necessarily the case -- although it's one possibility. You could also be charged with involuntary manslaugher or nothing depending on state and local laws, what the prosecutor believes your state of mind is and, frankly, the whim of the prosecutor and the strength of your defense attorneys. Conversely, you could face a higher charge for exactly the same reasons. There's what should happen -- which will vary according to local law, at least in the US -- and then what will happen, which will vary significantly depending on the DA.
Well, Instapaper is owned by Pinterest. Pinterest strikes me as a company of such a size that they'd have no problem finding some way to monetize the data gathered from their users.
This seems a stretch. I think most people will view this as a 1 person, bootstrapped website. It would be hard to confuse it with a campaign of mass murder.
> but you can write off your internet bill, you phone bill and all that.

Internet + phone is about $80 / month total. Even if you somehow managed to write off $100 / month in food (which I think is a stretch) that's still only $180 / month.

Compare that to paying for health insurance which is around $500 per month per adult for the worst coverage possible. Normally this is a freebie for being employed.

Then you get about a 7% increase in post-tax income just because your employer pays half of your social security. Then on top of that you might get matching up to a certain percent in a retirement fund. Then on top of that you might get other forms of insurance plus stock benefits. Then on top of that you might get free lunch every day too.

Long story short, writing off $150-200 / month in business expenses is not even in the same galaxy as not having to pay $500 per adult for health insurance plus an extra $7,000 in your pocket per year from going halfies on the social security (100k salary). That's already wildly better and it's not even taking into account for retirement matching perks, stocks, other insurances, free lunch every working day, etc..
This is pretty amusing. But where is Musk?
Wireless can't compete because if everyone is on wireless, it will be dead slow, unless you make the cell size incredibly small. Small cell sizes require far more radio towers (often a non-option anyway due to zoning restrictions). And even if you do get microcells setup on traffic lights every half mile, you will then need the last mile infrastructure that comcast has for backhaul, unless you want to build your own land network. So I don't see the competitive advantage over another company just coming in with landline.

The other idea for small cells is femtocells, but in that situation you are running traffic over home internet connections so it is definitely not a way to cut out comcast.

Even at 5G speeds and 100 GB data caps, home internet being run over wireless would completely overload most of our current wireless infrastructure. The cell sizes are just too large for that kind of capacity.
I never got the hype around the Essential phone. Apart from the specs, what sets it apart from other flagship devices. I've been using a Pixel2 for last few months and it has been quite good so far. How does the Essential phone compare to Pixel/Pixel2?
Economist Bryan Caplan thinks education is mostly pointless showing off
Palm Pilot, 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_1000 http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8493/pilot-1000-retrospec...
Fractional reserve BANKING is when a bank keeps a fraction of its deposits on hand while the rest is being INVESTED so that they can earn money to pay you interest. The money exists, but most of it is tied up in long-term investments.

Is Tether a bank? Does it invest its reserves? If you answered no to either of those questions, then you have no business comparing it to a fractional reserve banking system.
In addition, in a country as big and insular (literally and figuratively) as Japan, catering to foreigners is less of a concern.
Hahahah, that's great. I actually found out about the earthquake before it happened, on Twitter, so I actually knew it was an earthquake, but still. Had to check the date though, I didn't think it was 6 years ago, felt more like 3!
https://www.phd-insights.com/learn-user-research/ux-guide-to...

Interesting perspective on how UX needs to change in light of GDPR, specifically as it relates to email collection / signups.
I'm very much in favor of heavy moderation. However, I realize that it's a difficult task when moderators aren't paid and users are joining exponentially.