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Where is this idea coming from that black or women are somehow special cases that need to be handled with care [0]? I know the answer is "America", but plenty of people around the world have been killed, enslaved, displaced, humiliated and any number of things. And every one of them, whether they are from Scandinavia or Africa, will get insulted and ignore it or leave.

Some of the best memes come from India and they get plenty of abuse on the site...

[0]: https://youtu.be/qCj6YNIpqmA?t=123
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Specific knowledge is knowledge that you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else, and replace you.

If there is market value in a skill or knowledge, the market will find the people who can be trained in it, then train them. Perhaps a talent is required to be competitive.

Corollary: Beware of fields which have artificial gatekeeping. They are in a disadvantageous market.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

Borrowed from Scott Adams: It's hard to become a top 5% in a given field. It's easy to get to the top 20%. So find two synergistic fields where you can get to top 20%. This makes you a top 5% cross-disciplinary expert.

There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.

Often, it's other people getting rich off of the efforts of a huge mob, while making a small sliver of that mob fantastically rich.
"cost of producing the data" seems really hard to strictly define. What's stopping a company from implementing extremely tedious procedures and billing $100 an hour to discourage people from requesting it?

In addition, GPDR says that getting access to data on you is a right and it seems contradictory to have to pay for something that is your right to have.
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???

I don't care how conservative my opinion is. I don't equate the quality of arguments and opinions with which adjectives can be used to describe them.

Also please point to which decade it was where the n-word was "disassociated from hate". When has the word not been used in a hateful way?

Calling people the n-word provokes outrage because it is an outrageous thing to do. The word has a history and we all know it.

> People are imploring you to accept that times are changing and the word is being disassociated from hate

The only people imploring me of this are random folks on the Internet. I talk to black folks all the time in the real world, and you know what? It's still not ok.
What do you mean by this: "with that the risk of being arrested for all sorts of criminal activity by non-tech-savvy law enforcement"

You can be arrested for things just by using Tor if they mix you up with someone else or something?
I've noticed that reading "new" with showdead enabled make a lot of pretty interesting stuff available that's not on the front page. A bit of moderation might be useful, but in HN's case, it's so heavy that it seems to remove value.
Since people are asking "why would you do such a thing" or insinuating that scraping need only be to compete somehow with Google, I'll present a use I've found quite interesting, that doesn't seek to replicate or replace Google search, and which hasn't been readily attainable other than by scraping Google search results, in part. The tool I've used (crude, but reasonably effective) has applied numerous attempts to work around bot-detection, some modestly effective. (Rate-limiting most especially.)

I've found the practice of looking at search-term frequency, across a domain or set of domains (using the "site"<domain>" Google search filter) to be useful, for example the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" report linked below.

It uses 100 search terms -- "global thinkers" identified by Foreign Policy magazine -- searched across a set of about 100 domains and TLDs, largely social media, various journalism (newspaper / magazine), and a few institutional sites, as well as selected national and other top-level domains. The result is an interesting profile of where more robust online discussion or commentary might be found.

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The full report requires running roughly 100 x 100, or 10,000, Google searches. I'm finding that it's necessary to space these ~5-10 minutes apart, which means that the full analysis takes over a month of wall-clock time, from a single IP.

I've considered several possible follow-ups to this study, including more or alternate domains, different keywords, and various other variants, but both the run-time and codeing to bypass bot-detection put me off this.

I've tried reaching out to Googlers I know to see if there's any possible alternative means of acquiring this information, to no avail. I've also looked for various research interfaces or APIs, with no joy.

DuckDuckGo and other search sites don't have the rate-limiting (I've used them for other purposes), but also don't have the (granted, often very inaccurate / imprecise) match-counts which Google offers.

Putting this out there both as an example and a request for suggestions as to how I might improve or modify the process.
Visa Debit, though?
Don't think an army assembled in this manner could withstand the US military, at least not yet
Small observation: Dutch bike culture is much more developed than here in the US. In addition to numerous separated bike lanes, and your pedestrians and drivers are much more familiar with how to handle traffic situations involving bicycles.

Injury from bicycle crashes is one thing, but the biggest threat to scooters and cyclists in the US comes from inattentive or aggressive drivers.
That's because saving a life in a poor country is cheaper that in rich country. If your goal is no maximize number of lives saved you'd naturally look at poor countries.
I don't know about "better" across all metrics. Just different.

Mounting the scooter is easier, they are cheaper (thus theoretically better suited to this sort of grab one and drop it wherever model), they are lighter (which is maybe more important for scenarios where you own it rather than grab-n-go), they are easier to maneuver at very low speeds, and they don't require that you know how to ride a bike.

E-bikes win on another set of axes: they are more comfortable for longer rides, they are faster, they have greater range, they are more maneuverable at higher speeds.
You might be overthinking this. I think it's just supposed to be funny. The whole article has an over the top snide style that is probably equal parts serious and jokey.
The policing and prevention of terrorist attacks on a nation's home soil is a law enforcement problem.

Law enforcement can't handle international issues when the originating nation doesn't have cooperative domestic law enforcement. At that point, the issue where attacks on a nation's home soil are being coordinated in the territory of an unresponsive or hostile foreign government becomes a military calculation.

The military is a ham-fisted tool to replace the job of domestic law enforcement, but in circumstances where the alternative is "nothing," it's depressingly better than nothing.
Razer scooters were extremely dorky when I was younger (and still are). Why not shred with a skateboard, BMX bike, or even rollerblades?

These electric commuter things are pretty cool though from getting to point A-Point B efficiently. (Moreso than the electric skateboards cropping up)
One of the reasons Segway failed (and what might stop electric scooter's expansion) is legal problems. A Segway wasn't a road vehicle, but it also wasn't legal on sidewalks either (in many places) leaving it in a legal grey area.

A lot of traffic codes have specific rules and allowances for bicycles. They're allowed on the road but without a lot of the normal requirements (license plates, registration, insurance, etc). Segway (and other similar new vehicles) have no such exception, but also aren't eligible for those things.

What I am getting at is, in some places, you could get a ticket for using a Segway on the sidewalk AND public road. Meaning it was essentially limited to private property only. That's a problem.

PS - Electric bikes kind of skirted around the law by looking and acting like a regular bicycle, and not exceeding their speed. But even that hasn't been without issues.

PPS - In some places Segways are legal via exceptions made for electric wheelchairs on sidewalks.
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Part of 4chan's whole game is claiming that "everyone is racist with a mask" in order to justify "I'm racist with a mask".
Yeah, the irony... that completely mislead me as to the tone of this blog. I assumed it was going to be about psychology of better UI/UX, not disdain for bad UX and trickery.

I assume the janitor sign worked because people subconsciously will ignore things that have the appearance of being permanent while operating in the context of something familiar... the janitor sign appearance implied a recent and temporary change.

Conversely if the person has never been to that building/elevator before they would probably be equally likely to notice either sign.
Well, you won't be part of the EU much longer. ;)
Thanks, very charitable reading but doesn't work because next sentence I said that the new prime is larger than largest. As other poster points out if 2,7 are all your primes you produce 15, whose primes are not larger than 7 so the "new prime" wasn't referring to one of them.

But that's not how I argued. Instead I showed that 15 is the new prime because it's relatively prime to all the primes. (By the assumption we had started from all the primes.) And this is what falsifies the assumption.

I think my argument is fine and I don't need to address whether 15 is really a prime.
The section "TUI : Text-based User Interfaces" resonates with me strongly, and is somewhat relevant to the WTF thread[1] from yesterday, in particular this subthread[2] about GUI vs TUI.

Compare the statements:

> terminal protocols are ghastly display server protocols in disguise

vs

> > At what point do we just say why not 'install a modern GUI'?

> I have yet to see a modern GUI that didn't put pretty little animations a higher priority than being modular and configurable and having as much or as little data density as I desire

> Command lines[3], on the other hand, do it natively if not intuitively.

Which brings up few interesting observations:

* Terminal vs graphical is almost completely orthogonal and an implementation detail. There are plenty of WIMPy style[4] TUI/ncurses applications, and also various forms of commandlines/repls that are natively graphical.

* I'd argue that there are few other categories that are less often recognized, namely "keystroke-driven" and "web style" (nomenclature is mine and not fully though out).

* The characteristic attributes of "keystroke-driven" is full interactivity (in contrast to command-line) but where typically there are no (or minimal) interactive elements on-screen. Some examples off my head would be VisiData[5], tdo[6], fman[7]. These types of applications tend to have very high data densities (what the commenter above desired)

* "Web style" applications is more ambiguous (and debatable) category, but I think there is a distinction to be made between more traditional relatively rigid widget and form based UIs and the more free-form (and usually more heavily stylized) "modern" UIs that have been heavily inspired by (and/or implemented with) web design and technology.

* There is currently fairly big chasm between graphical applications and TUI applications, which I believe to be because there isn't really established libraries that would be effectively "graphical ncurses". I do believe that it is a chasm that deserves to be bridged. There is no real reason why developers wanting to create small, fast, powerful tools should be constrained to archaic character cell grid by default.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17195618
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196031
[3] editors note: Considering the context, I suspect inetknght meant terminal applications here when they wrote "Command lines"
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)
[5] http://visidata.org/ | Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU
[6] https://mstijak.github.io/tdo/
[7] https://fman.io/

in retrospect I probably should have made this a blog post instead of shoehorning it as a comment here, but oh well.
In this case - how do you share results between team members?

You can generate files with code and results (numbers, plots) - but for that the easiest step is to use RMarkdown/knitr - which is "close enough" to Jupyter Notebook(plus, the later is visible on GitHub). And the standard solution of sending 3248.png which was generated by some unknown code with unknown parameters isn't good.

While I agree that Jupyter Notebooks are NOT for working code (just for exploration, development and interaction with it).

development -> when working with data virtually all first approaches will go to trash anyway (as they depend on data, yet unknown to us).
Same here — I work for an online payments company. We’ve been seeing a dip of 2–7 points for the past few hours across our network.
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I'm glad triclosan is no longer allowed to be used as an antibacterial soap:
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I had a friend that made an ebike capable of 65 mph.
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Regarding Emacs vs. VS Code, it is kind of funny that Emacs was once the canonical big, fat, bloated editor, but it did not grow much bigger since then. So today, Emacs is kind of lightweight: On my work computer, VS Code will easily gobble up half a gigabyte of RAM with only a handful of files open, while Emacs with dozens of buffers consistently stays below 100 MB.

Compared to nvi or mg, GNU Emacs is still pretty big, but I think the size-to-feature-richness ratio is more balanced in Emacs. Also, I will come out and admit that I like Emacs for being Emacs. I have tried VS Code at work, and it is not bad. But from a certain point of view, VS Code is just Emacs Re-Imagined using Javascript instead of Lisp. And Emacs just has a ~30-year head start on VS Code at being Emacs. Last, but not least, the Emacs default key bindings for moving the cursor around are by now so deeply ingrained in my muscle memory that I will not willingly switch to an editor that does not support them. And all the Emacs-keybindings extensions for VS Code I have tried were ... not quite there, yet, at least for me.
I agree completely: all the "tricks" in the world (mentioning the name every 90 seconds, every question is "great") is generally a waste of time. I roll my eyes as much or more than you when I get Sandler-ed or Spun or whatever the newest training advises.

But the process you've described (demo with an engineer) is far from ideal and not always efficient. That process solves the problem you know you have. That's ok, I guess. But "the problem you know you have" is never the full problem...ever. There is always something behind that problem and something behind that one and so on.

A good salesperson may let you see the demo, close the deal and sell you a solution to the problem you have identified yourself. A great salesperson will first get you to invest the time in understanding the entire picture and then sell you the solution for that. Sometimes that is a LOT more expensive and expansive. And sometimes, believe it or not, an honest salesperson will sell you something less than what you originally came for. It's why some people buy $10 web hosting and some people buy $X,000 web infrastructure. Education, process, understanding. Weighing benefits and costs. Understanding risks and assurances.
> First past the post works because it is simple, understandable and it forces politicians to do the deals ahead of the election - or suffer the consequences of being ignored entirely.

Let's change this slightly:

> First past the post works because it is simple, understandable and it forces politicians to do the deals before voters have expressed their will - or suffer the consequences of being ignored entirely.

Your way is much less democratic.
-I would expect the authorities to prepare for such an eventuality; however, I can also understand the need to keep this low-key - way too many would take the fact that the government prepared for such an event would mean either that they feared one was imminent or more sinister still - planned one.

Much better to just keep quiet about it.
I seriously don't understand how one scooter company could differentiate itself from others significantly from business perspective.
A safe place? It’s not like they can slap you over tcp/ip. I think you take the internet too seriously, and are disrespectful of other people’s opinions.
Most e-bikes you'll still have to pedal, which in a climate like DC means you will be dripping with sweat in seconds. On a scooter you can just stand and enjoy the breeze.
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I keep being tempted by an electric scooter (of the Vespa variety) for commuting . I'm moving a little closer to work which would mean I only need 30 miles per day plus reserves.

Unfortunately, the named brand ones are ridiculously expensive (£12k+) and having ridden a couple of Chinese made motorcycles I'm disinclined to go for the cheaper ones (£3-5k). Especially when you consider that even if the fuel cost were completely free on the electric one it would take nearly 5+ years to get the money back given a named brand 125cc petrol scooter can be bought for next to nothing and will struggle to use more than £10 worth of fuel a week.

For me it would be an optimum balance of environmental consciousness and convenience though. I guess that is worth something.

https://www.bmw-motorrad.co.uk/en/models/urban_mobility/cevo...
"Some thoughts" == the ones you (or most people) find offensive.

So you keep repeating that and raising the censorship bar until nobody is offended anymore. And what you have is a whitewashed, sanitized forum with less creativity, originality, and free association. That's not what everyone wants. Some people want the uncensored version.
Principles no one is actually using - “In the end, my search failed to produce a single organization that adopted the principles in a Bridgewater-like manner” https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b184ggn6dd6090...

This is in stark contrast with John Doerr’s recent book, Measure What Matters, which is only examples of implementation.
Is it even worth talking about speed without at least considering client network conditions? A lot of people have poor internet connections, many places world-over are basically mobile-internet only already, shared internet spaces with variable QoS (campuses), etc etc. Most people aren't using engineer-priced laptops/workstations or backed by enterprise-grade routing equipment, after all.
For the lazy:

> When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day.
I've only ridden Lime scooters so far---I really want to try a Bird, I hear they're faster---but in my experience the acceleration seemed pretty smooth. It was the braking that was extremely jerky and sudden for me.
I often ask myself the question, how can Julia do things that R cannot do. After all, when something is good at doing something, why replace it?

Part of this is why we did JuliaDB: http://juliadb.org/ and continue to try push the boundaries on parallelism, missing data, OnlineStats.jl and making data manipulation and modeling that much easier.
I know what you're saying, and I'm telling you that you're incorrect. 4chan is not a safe space for anyone, minorities are not special in this regard.
I'm quoting Wikipedia.
Lack of party discipline just makes it hard to know what you're voting for. Voting would become about perceived personalities of the candidates rather than party manifestos. That's a problem because for all their faults, the amount of thought that goes into a party's political positions is usually higher than that which an individual puts into theirs. Parties are also a way to combine communication strength.
This is not true for all of Europe. Here in the UK everything works through Visa/Mastercard, whether it's your credit card or your normal "bank card" (debit card).

I really miss this system every time I go back to continental Europe and suddenly have to carry around huge amounts of cash with me. Because nobody accepts cards, and even if they do it's usually only Maestro etc.