skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, 1000 cars on the road doesn't sound like a minor planet crashing through the atmosphere very 30 minutes.

Secondly, 1000 passengers on a train isn't replacing 1000 cars, firstly, because the average car has an occupancy greater than 1.0, and secondly, because what trains do is increase the maximum capacity of cities.

Find me one city in the US that has trains in and out where that city does not also have extreme traffic problems and huge rush-hour commute times. If trains relieve traffic, that traffic is replaced by new traffic. Trains are just a necessary force for cramming more and more people into an increasingly disgusting place where homelessness will expand, etc. Every US city that caters to continual growth results in the same thing; a stench pit of garbage, crime, human waste and drugs.

San Francisco has a hepatitis epidemic so bad that they're literally having to wash the sidewalks of feces. New York smells like a giant garbage dump. London has to coat its buildings with hydrophobic fluid to prevent people from urinating on them. Seattle has homeless encampments in the medians. LA... nothing even needs to be said about LA. Same goes for ATL.

Traffic regulates a city's population to something that could be described as reasonably manageable. Due to its lack of fast and good public transport, South Florida has been manageable all these years. Now, it will be ruined by collectivism.
Besides that it could be argued that buying an M3 is not an economic purchase, it’s an emotional one. Presumably you go into it knowing it’ll have higher than average TCO, that it’s not designed as a commuter vehicle, and you accept the cost because you are a car enthusiast - and taking Uber ain’t your bag.

It’s an odd reference for the comparison.
There are virtually no publicly traded African companies. There are companies like glencore that have operations here, but they’re still European or Asian companies. If you’re looking to invest in African companies you have to put time in on the ground to find private companies suitable for investment.
Pure html+css with as little js as possible...

eg: websites/single page webapps over native ios/android apps
Basically nowhere in Europe allows grade crossings (of any sort, pedestrian or vehicular) at over 200km/h, and it's a 300km/h line. There aren't any.

That said, I can think of a fair number of places in different places in Europe where there's at-grade crossings in built up areas where trains regularly cross at around 100mph. (OTOH, there's no general requirement for horns/whistles at them.)
Exceptions in Go
Gorsuch backs corporations once again. He's going to be a bigger disaster of judge than Scalia was.
It's a framework-provided sort, not an OS sort. Its use is no weirder than using stdlib sorts, such as Go's "sort" package (which does either a quicksort, heapsort or shellsort, depending on the input length).

However, relying on stability if it is not specified is a bad thing.
I hear that a lot, but I confess I don't understand.

With Apollo, the government (NASA and DOD) had specific hard requirements, and went to private contractors to build them. Those private contractors created such things as the integrated circuit, and then later sold them to other markets. Everybody wins.

With SpaceX, they're using (AFAICT) mostly standard parts, like computers running Linux. They're not developing any new computer technology, and they're one private company so they're not marketing it beyond space flight.

(They are doing great new things with systems integration, but it's not clear how that would benefit anyone outside that space program, and they're not publishing much information, anyway.)

I always thought the major benefit of Project Apollo was that it was public spending on R&D. How will private spaceflight companies like SpaceX benefit non-spaceflight-related endeavors?
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> C? No, though I don't really think of that as an actively maintained language.

Why would you think that? Work on the C standard is ongoing: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/
Oh hey, looks who's on PH today!
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/featured-founder
Cool app! I got a little confused as to how to add songs once you're a DJ, but the whole things looks cool, and you seem to have a nice community already!
I prefer brackets over 'begin' and 'end' for scope, though scope also needs to be reinforced by indentation.

However, I'm fine with function/func/def/proc/sub/method (while averse to fn because of pronunciation) -- because those are all types, not punctuation.
If you prefer I'll change "next to" to "nearest", since I didn't mean to imply contiguity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93New_Zealand_...
Absolutely. I've often thought that this is the right time to remake it. It's definitely an artifact of its time, focusing on 80s economic struggles and the rise of the yuppies. You'd have to update it to more modern concerns, but given rising inequality, it wouldn't be hard at all. An ersatz Mark Zuckerberg, for example, would almost have to appear.

This movie also contains one of the best action hero bravado lines ever. I won't quote it here, as I think it's worth discovering in context, but I promise you'll be saying it after.
> There’s a very long history of people going to [12-step] meetings and being taken advantage of by drug dealers

No, there isn't. This seems like another pop-culture meme that comes out of drug war hysteria.
I used to work with people who did this. A lot of it does appear to be uniquely American, but the human element is this: these groups have all 110% convinced themselves they're saving those poor unfortunate people. A little marketing, they make some money, poor unfortunates get the help they need.

One organization literally refers to patients as "rescues". and this is one of the better actors in the space.

OTOH, these efforts help "raise awareness" and "save lives", more lives than if nothing had been done. It's extremely cost inefficient, but a self-interested naive outlook allows a straightforward rationalization process.
Even if I gave you free land on the moon, and the one-way trip, you could not live there. Colonizes work because people who manage to get there can live self-sufficiently

Do note that many colonies stated not by people living there, but by people going to "get rich" while being supported from home, and they left infrastructure behind that the latter colonists used.
What nation has been sunk by white collar crime? I'm not disagreeing that it's bad, but I don't think it's that bad.
This is why I keep my vim config in GitHub. On a new server, I can be up and running in seconds.
Financial system varies broadly country to country, but there are virtually no publicly traded African companies. If you wish to invest you need to find private companies willing to take on an investor
Hahaha, $552/year for car insurance in Florida?

The high cost of car insurance, coupled with the low wages in this state, are a significant factor that kept a lot of my peers in poverty well out of high school. The usual story goes like this:

- Reliant on a hand-me-down car to get to work.
- Work barely pays for rent, car insurance, gas, and food.
- Car needs maintenance but no money for that.

The end result is predictable: A lot of Floridians work for just enough money to be able to get to work, and as soon as this equilibrium is shattered, our lives fall apart.

Charitably, I think the lowest I've seen anyone's insurance payment in this state is $89/month, because they were over the age of 25 and their car fit the requirements for lower insurance rates nicely. They still had a car payment ($400/mo. IIRC) though.
Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis [pdf]
Well from a desktop perspective that's kinda true.
California to offer full health coverage to undocumented adults
And scaled up that gets us "the world's dumbest idea", the cult of maximizing shareholder value: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/02/05/salesfo...
Being as how you can finance a new car for 0% interest, why would you pay cash? Sounds like you're giving terrible advice.
Interactive GPU Programming – Part 3 – CUDA Context Shenanigans
I don't think that's what the client had in mind when they asked for a penetration test XD
Only if you give them that power. The popular wisdom not to put all your eggs in one basket is still relevant.

You generally can't opt-out from your government, you definitely don't have to opt-in Google services.
I sure as hell wasnt this competent at 18 let alone now. Kudos to him.
MentalHealthError: an exception occurred. (2016)
They’re internet points but they’re not fake. Bitcoin also means a lot to many people :)
Swedes told to prepare for conflict in Cold War-style booklet
Acela does the trip between Boston and Providence (43.6 miles by rail) in 33 minutes: that's just about 80mph, which includes one stop along the way. The Northeast Regional does it in 38 minutes- about 69mph on average.

The Acela hits 150mph along some stretches in New England.
How does it handle Electron apps? I thought playing with EXPO was a limited venture?
Obviously not the same standards as NYSE or similar exchanges, but I found this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_stock_exchange...

The three big ones there actually have a respectable amount of listings (Egypt 833, South Africa 402, Nigeria 223)
There is one more course by RPISEC itself which is on malware analysis.

https://github.com/RPISEC/Malware
We're running all our apps based on Ionic which works absolutely brilliant & allows for the deployment as PWA today or at any point in the future. That being said we primarily build b2b applications. Minor drawbacks to native in terms of UX performance exist, but tbh, if you know how to optimize rendering performance in a browser you'll get 99% of native performance by putting in the effort.

For us the ability to run on literally any(!) device (this includes for example also smart TVs) completely outweighs the potential (minor) performance drawbacks.
I don't know about this. I think they can be useless, useful, and terrifying all at the same time. I walked into my local petco one day and saw these:

https://www.glofish.com

Useless, all that technology expressing itself in making glowing fish. The tech behind it however is incredibly useful. But wow, the existential dread watching them swim around under a black light was considerable.

Or on the other shelves, looking and seeing dog or cat "calming collars" that use pheromones tailored specifically for individual species. I mean, its funny at how useless and useful it is at the same time. Is your dog a worrywart? Use pheromones to make him stress free! But you wonder some day if some bright tech baron will start to make human calming collars, or bracelets, or what have you...

Maybe not big tech per se, but the writer of this article might have a failure of imagination if they only see the uselessness.
VCs Hate Her: This CEO got hundreds of millions with this one weird trick!
When accounts are frozen (which is what happens if you stop paying) 1Password enters a read-only state. You can’t use the browser extensions, make modifications, or add new data, but you’ll have read-only access to your data.

We do have a CLI that runs on Linux (as well as Mac and Windows).

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AgileBits
All I can say is -- it's complicated. When languages share much in common, then factoring stuff into the runtime can make things easier, but when they're very different, the more language-level assumptions you bake into the runtime the harder it is to share code. You want to strike a good balance between having a rich runtime that makes it easy to implement languages and not baking too much language semantics into the runtime, to make it easier to share code. In retrospect, I think that the tradeoff of not having generics reified at the JVM, causing a minor nuisance in Java but making code sharing and interop easier across a wide range of languages is a net gain.
UberPool is hardly a luxury experience
Amen. Much of hackernews fails to understand that some people love driving.

Car culture is huge thing. I just bought an Audi S3, and derive pleasure whenever I hit the throttle.
Tu t'inscris à eBuyClub et tu reçois 3€ dans ta cagnotte
"Growing up with AI" - is that a joke? People actually think that the "AI" we have now is intelligent?
you change oil every ~6K miles, not 6 months.
You can share JzvaScript code without having to use a framework. Both iOS and Android let you run JavaScript within a native app.
And I claimed there is no plan now for a further price drop; so I take it you're now saying you were agreeing vehemently with me the whole time and making no further claims that I ever contradicted; yet doing that with the words "you have no idea what you're talking about" is in no way uncivil?
Not any more. :) They were variant spellings way back in Middle English (roughly Norman conquest to 1500) when they split off from the French root.

Ordnance now means of military, guns and armaments (cf Ordnance Survey)

Ordinance means an order or religious rite (and apparently bylaw in the US)

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ordinance

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ordnance
Slant article of a topic that has been slaughtered to death by people with more industry knowledge than the author
I am amazed about the hilarious design and concept. Horrified that this was done with links running production data.
I always wondered why does that have to be this way?
why not have parts at the end of the train decoupled and decallerating and a new carriage with new passengers following the speeding through train. Any engine needed for that could drop and return to station autonomously.
Yes, changing to another cloud provider may be less annoying than moving to another country but for how long it will be the case?
Relationships and the RDM Part 2: Integrity Constraints
Regardless of whether big tech is doing anything useful it's obvious that we have fewer important innovations now than in the period around the late 19th, early 20th century when we got: electricity, electric motors, dynamite, phones, cars, concrete, planes, tractors, radio, plastic, assembly lines and modern forms of business organization. If we go a little further into the 20th century we get nuclear power and the transistor.

I don't think we'll see another time period like that. But that's not really a bad thing. You can only discover really important things once and then they eventually become part of everyday life. A more interesting question is how to sustain our standard of living when we can no longer expect high economic growth from new innovations.
It's actually "avoid (success at all costs)", rather than "avoid success, at all costs".
Tintin – A soft documentation website generator for Haskell
wire-guided anti-tank missile, actually. It seems to be missing its steering fins so it probably has been fired before. As to whether it landed in the server room after a botched shot or was transported there remains to be seen.
First, Boomers will probably be mostly dead before all this anti-aging research can benefit them.

Second, even if that's not the case, people are constantly getting killed off thanks to our addiction to the automobile (and in America, the gun). Eventually these Boomers are going to get knocked off. Maybe if we restrict guns and get better public transit the Boomers can live for centuries, but I don't foresee this; these changes are going to take centuries.

Edit: "addiction", not "addition"
> Neither Siri nor Alexa truly pass a conversational Turing test

Even with the constrained grammar, neither of them passes the test of reliably producing the same result for the same phrase under good conditions. If the error rate is well into the double digits for simple structured queries using a constrained vocabulary it seems like the Turing test is still pretty far off.
This was a recent topic [0] on the "Our Fake History" podcast [1] too. Worth a listen if you're looking for something new.

Wonder if that inspired the OP?

[0] http://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/episodes/episode-62-what...

[1] http://ourfakehistory.com/
"Do Things that Don't Scale" http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
then when you need to scale, hire people.
The GSA Rate (about $0.55/mi) is an all-in cost based on medium sized passenger car. It covers, depreciation, insurance, maintenance, fuel, etc. It does not include parking, storage or other costs.

Uber per-mile cost is going to be very variable based on the trip costs. Where I live, the minimum cost of an Uber is about $10. My daily 5 mile commute would be $17-24/day for a total distance of 9-12 miles. Cost of a car for that commute is $6.

Obviously, the numbers really depend on how you drive and how much you walk. If you only drive your Honda Accord 2,500 miles a year (my commute), the fixed costs of a car don't amortize as well. If you drive s 15,000 miles a year, you'll line up with GSA. If you drive more, your costs will drop up to about 20% per mile. (Per mile insurance costs drop faster than increased maintenance expense)

The problem is that reality is a bitch, and cars are generally the most economical way to do most things outside of Manhattan, or in some dreamland where you order everything online.
I didn't fail to make the connection. One train isn't going to save Miami.

I might even go so far to argue that projects such as this (e.g., the ship is going down but the band keeps playing) led the general public to believe that there's nothing to worry about. "Who would build a billion+ train that's going to end up under water?"

It's a good idea. Or is it?
Um.... Why? 1px Wide Tab is basically a design that forces people not to have too many tabs. Which is great for those who can keep their Tabs Numbered. But even discounting the number of tabs open to be read, a single Feedly section, or in the old days Google Reader section I could easily bump up to 100+ Tabs, and much more in WWDC / Apple Keynote time.

Which makes 1px Tabs annoying as hell.

So I really don't understand why 1px Tab is preferred over Scrolling Tabs.
I recommend weekend car rentals. If each trip cost you $145, you could take 20 trips before it would equal the cost of your car's maintenance/gas/insurance. Right now a 2-day weekend Hertz rental in Conshohocken is $60 including taxes and fees (but not insurance). Definitely cheaper than car-sharing, where you pay more to use it for less time.

A good credit card will cover Collision Damage (though you may need to shove a copy of the card's rental coverage in the face of the rental sales associate as they may try to claim it isn't covered). You can pay the minimum liability insurance, or you can get a "non-owner liability insurance policy" which will cover you for the year, saving you money if you rent frequently. Personal accident insurance is optional and may be covered by your health insurance.
Why would a tech company have an office in Israel?
How can a tech company claim to be progressive, inclusive, and diverse yet open an office in a Zionist, apartheid state that violates human rights?
Customers put off electric cars … by electric-car sales staff
This one is taken in Stanford by students on Web Development.
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs90si/
This seems to be a good excuse to share this great story:

> At ILC 2002 former Lisp giant now Python advocate Peter Norvig was for some reason allowed to give the keynote address like Martin Luther leading Easter Sunday mass at the Vatican and pitching Protestantism because in his talk Peter bravely repeated his claim that Python is a Lisp.

> When he finished Peter took questions and to my surprise called first on the rumpled old guy who had wandered in just before the talk began and eased himself into a chair just across the aisle from me and a few rows up.

> This guy had wild white hair and a scraggly white beard and looked hopelessly lost as if he had gotten separated from the tour group and wandered in mostly to rest his feet and just a little to see what we were all up to. My first thought was that he would be terribly disappointed by our bizarre topic and my second thought was that he would be about the right age, Stanford is just down the road, I think he is still at Stanford — could it be?

> ‘Yes, John?’ Peter said.

> I won’t pretend to remember Lisp inventor John McCarthy's exact words which is odd because there were only about ten but he simply asked if Python could gracefully manipulate Python code as data.

> ‘No, John, it can’t,’ said Peter and nothing more, graciously assenting to the professor’s critique, and McCarthy said no more though Peter waited a moment to see if he would and in the silence a thousand words were said.

from http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/02/ooh-ooh-my-turn-wh...
Because I don't feel like this should actually be that difficult for businesses that aren't the TSA to handle. If your legal name is "Foo Bar Baz" and you prefer to be called "F. Bar Baz" rather than "Foo B. Baz," I don't see why anyone should be throwing up their hands and going, "Woah! That's crazy!"
Interesting that the review is by Roger Lowenstein:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Lowenstein

I just finished his book on Buffett, which I wish I’d read 20 years ago.
> Based on Carreyrou’s dogged reporting, not even Enron lied so freely.

The rest of the article was more or less just copying every other article about the subject, but this line is just beautiful.
Use Akamai or Cloudflare
When I come back to London, Uber seems ridiculously expensive compared to Chicago. Plus the lack of Pool options (even to/from Heathrow, etc) doesn't help.
Duplex has the possibility of being huge. Think of how many boring / transactional phone calls are made each day.
Show HN: Look Away to Pause YouTube (Experimental Chrome Extension)
Note that this is probably also because of foreign travelers in transit through the airport. Ethiopian Airlines is growing fast and is a major player in travel to a lot of African countries. See for instance https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airlines/ethiopi...

A family member on a recent flight between Chad and Addis Abeba told me that 85% of passengers on the flight were Chinese.
How design can help with inclusion
Then you never read about Nixon and Bush I. This was the most criminal era.
Wouldn't say it is dumb. It is rapacious and imoral but not dumb.
The fake news problem
> Is it possible to pay for a subscription and use a local vault?

Yes, with 1Password 7 this is possible. It isn’t the recommended situation, and we don’t advertise it, but it is possible.

Ben Woodruff

AgileBits
ASV global is an amazing company to work for.

A unique and very special group of people. I cannot recommend the place highly enough.
Tencent Acquires 80% Slice of Grinding Gear Games
I've been following /r/whatisthisthing for several years now (highly recommended, btw) and it is exceptionally rare for people to post fake/staged questions for karma points there. This is reddit indeed, but subs vary quite a bit in how the function.
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