skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about the scooters in question, but there's a similar dockless model for bicycles in many cities in China (ofo, Mobike, etc.) and as far as I can tell the bikes there are made of components that are pretty unique to those brands of bike. Because of their unique shapes and non-standard fittings, they'd basically be useless on any other bike frame, which means that the aftermarket value is extremely low. Additionally, the locking mechanisms are pretty robust and are welded to the frame, so removing the locking mechanism and just using the bike for free just isn't worth it given how cheap riding it is.

There might be some cultural differences that might make things different for scooters in America, but if the service is offered very cheaply, and the scooters are unique enough in build to be useless for retrofitting other scooters, then I don't see much of a market opportunity for fencing. Especially if the scooters have accurate GPS welded to their frames.
>>But what it should be is a lesson for cities to adopt a young entrepreneur license for like $10/year.

why even $10/yr, why should they even need to ask or notify the government at all?

The solution is to repeal the laws that makes these things illegal in the first place
For work, I have a Mac with chunkwm as the tiling manager to give it nearly an i3 feel. It's surprising how far tiling has come on that platform.

Linux I'm using XMonad, although I'll most likely switch to i3 next time I tweak my dev setup.

I use neovim for most of my work, although I need to switch to atom with nuclide on occasion to debug code. I have bindings like the recommendation from the tmux navigator that enables me to move between panes with Ctrl+hjkl. Variety of other plugins for hack, python, JavaScript, Java, etc.
The investors hope it's true, because otherwise they're just pissing away money creating a low-profit commodity service.
Lets see, buy a scooter for $500 or rent it for $5. Hmmmmmmm, let me think about that.
> surface response

No, not really, it actually goes a quite deep. In a liberal democracy, it is not the citizens who need to justify their desire for privacy, it is the state that needs to justify impinging on it. This is very important, because the state always has Very Good Reasons™ for impinging on your privacy (and other rights).
Chatbots can only work if they learn to communicate in the millennial language using emojis and acronyms - basically more urban dictionary than dictionary. The older generation, preferred talking to people over searching, or typing a message even if the talking meant they were on hold for 20 mins. Alexa solved for those with a voice based interface, as did google, and people realized that talking to a bot is better than typing. With the voice to text conversion equaling human capabilities, chatbots went down simply to be replaced by a newer and more easy to use technology. Only difference being that they did not get the time to be ubiquitous or become the next big thing as predicted. The evolution of the service, and CX was ultimately slower than what was expected and hence they are replaced/not popular anymore.
Okay, I understand this point.

But I also see community events where they grab half a dozen barbecues and feed thousands of people. Untrained volunteers manning the barbecues, that haven't been inspected and lord knows when they were last cleaned. Nobody seems to care, in fact most people in the community seem to love these, me included - paying for the possibility of getting sick just because "barbecuueeee." </homer>

There seems to be extremely large grey areas where enforcement turns a blind eye, no matter how the regulations are written. I'm not complaining by any means, I love community barbecues and social events and I would hate to see health regulators interfering with their spirit, but it seems as though they pick and choose what they enforce and ignore based entirely on the mood of the supervisor on any given day.
IMO there's not enough there to know what's happening or make sense of the concept. In order to aide comprehension and generate interest I think you'll need to provide more information, and perhaps compare/contrast with something else.

For example, mixing code plus data is Lisp. What's different about your idea compared to a Lisp?
"Well, the vendor shouldn’t dictate the class of my packets."

If it costs the vendor 2x to provide a super low latency network, then they can charge you 2x for that.

Do you understand that there are actual costs associated with providing differentiated QoS?

Selling based on latency is no different than computer manufacturers pricing on GhZ, RAM and any number of other factors.

They should definitely be able to discriminate on the QoS that you want.

They should not be able to discriminate inherently on the content type.

If you buy 'low latency' you can use those packets for whatever you want. Gaming. Otherwise. And of course there can be no discrimination based on content vendor, i.e. game 1 vs. game 2.

But to suggest that vendors can't discriminate based on the service they provide you ... completely defies the notion of what business and entrepreneurialism is.
Philogenic Colors
First, no, there are people like this all over the place. I could tell you stories forever.

Second, even when there is "backstory" a lot of it exists only in the mind of that neighbor. I met one of my neighbors when they came over to complain about "all the parties" at my house. The house had been vacant for the eight months I owned it, at least. (I was actually concerned people were using it, but there was no evidence to support it.)
I remain unconvinced we'll see ASICs dominating inference. Part of the problem is that even if we're just talking about neural networks, there's a variety of architectures, activation functions, etc. to consider. At this stage, from my own benchmarking Nvidia is close enough to the TPU with the V100 card while allowing much more flexibility in the software stack used.

For inference, GPUs are also pretty damn efficient since it's an embarrassingly parallel task w/ minimal synchronization (no gradient updates needed). In this case, FPGAs are a far better choice since you can push updates to accommodate new network architectures, activation functions, ,etc. The TPU instead relies on a matrix-multiplier unit which supports more use cases but won't be as performant on something like an RNN.
Heck, it's already halfway implemented in China.
This health startup is telling people to eat cardboard
Never too early to teach kids to fight the overbearing regulatory state.
A short summary of events spanning from 2005 up to now:

https://www.freepress.net/our-response/expert-analysis/expla...
It only does because the author is testing for their specific environment. At some number of cores, the concurrent calls will produce more performant code than running sequentially.

Ideally, in this case I would think one would want to check the number of cores and decide what route to take.
How's this related to tech?
the units on that would be time squared. As a scientist, this makes my brain explode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis

For the record, at least two languages, F# (which is statically typed) and Julia (which is strongly typed) do this 100% correctly
I love swift, but without ABI[0], it's use cases are limited except doing anything but iOS development (which is barely ok)

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/ABIStability...
Archiving Jira issues and projects
I said nothing about discriminating against anybody. Please don't make shit up.
It's not an argument. It is a statement.

> win in a democracy

This is why fundamental rights such as this are enshrined in constitutions and not up for grab by normal political processes.

An important aspect of liberal democracies is protection of the minorities. The majority can't just do what it wants, there are limits.
I mean, to the extent that the English translation of a Japanese bureaucratic document is unambiguous about anything...

It wouldn't surprise me much to find out that the rules are different from what's written.
>What percent of unlicensed lemonade stands get shut down these days anyway?

Is the lemonade stand in some upper class suburb where children should be accompanied at all times?

Are the neighbors busybodies?

Do the neighbors and or town government have a bone to pick with whoever's kids have a lemonade stand?

Is this in a region where calling the authorities over minor transgressions is socially acceptable?

Do the local authorities readily enable this behavior by never using their discretion to not enforce something?

If the answer to the affirmative is all of the above then I think a visit from the authorities is highly likely but most people wouldn't let their kids run an unlicensed lemonade stand in that kind of neighborhood in the first place.

I don't think most jurisdictions even have a license that's applicable to and appropriate for a lemonade stand. It's not like it's a serious commercial operation.
I wasn't understanding anything. It looks like the meaning of the word "scooter" has changed. For all the non-americans here, you can see photos of scooters: https://www.google.com/search?q=scooter&client=firefox-b-ab&...

You'll see the usual thing, that looks like a motorcycle, and the new one, which you can put below your desk.
A paper/pencil game (2007)
This sounds similar to Radiant Earth https://www.radiant.earth/ They are also spearheading the Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF project http://www.cogeo.org/ and the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog spec https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec.
They retail for around $500. But that’s not the point. You can get them from and store them anywhere. You pay for the convenience of not lugging one around. You have the flexibility of walking between destinations, not always having to use the scooter.
I’d make the argument that privacy is a neccessary pillar for growth in society. Things like marijuana usage could likely not have become legal had private use not occurred and many people found it to be not harmful. This private space for experimentation and self-evaluation (of products, substances, and norms) isn’t given much attention but could adversely change society if it’s lost imho.
"The execution time is now dominated by the allocation and the garbage collection of small objects (e.g. the Message struct), which make sense because memory management operations are known to be relatively slow."

A perfect example of why Go should switch to a generational garbage collector with bump allocation in the nursery, like Java HotSpot, .NET, V8, etc. etc. use. There are consequences to Go's decision to make extreme throughput sacrifices in order to optimize for latency (low pause times) above all else.
You're definitely right. For someone relying on a wheelchair, scooters everywhere are a significant impediment.

With that said, I have heard very few people voice such completely reasonable concerns. Most of the complaints about scooters I've encountered from actual people seem to hinge on them looking funny, especially when in use. And even those are rare. Most people don't seem to care, suggesting that scooters are not genuinely unpopular.

Your concerns are real, and very important. Yet, they don't seem to bear much on scooters in the public consciousness. Have you considered that there may be other factors at work in the minds of most?
1) Time off
2) only a 40 hour work week
3) Window
4) work from home <- the best
5) Office size
6) I like the $ for conferences, I recommend a specific annual anount that remaining rolls over or a specific conference.
7) special schedule - 9/80, or 4/10
8) Beer :-)
Straw man argument. Being a doctor is not only about fluid intelligence.
As elegant as it is, scheme suffers from the same pitfall as python and ruby: lack of type checking.
Actually the whole 1st sentence..

"The apotheosis of my five-year orthodontic torment was a sad admission from the orthodontist: After thousands of dollars invested in what felt like medieval technology, my braces had not only failed to ameliorate a complex situation but created a new problem for which, even today, there is no solution."

This is extremely flowery and pretentious writing (especially for an article about snoring and braces, and not, a literary review or something) + it doesnt even make sense!

'Apotheosis' = The glorification of a subject to divine level.

So.. the glorification of her orthodontic torment to divine level was a sad admission from her orthdontist ?!?!?!?!
Tearing Down Mailchimp's Pricing
Yeah, I already mentioned that in the blog, Although Gob is simple enough, this was better as an experiment. But implementing Gob would be more mature choice in the long run.
Putting all those examples next to each other highlights a difference: Jews and LGBT people can (sometimes) use privacy to protect themselves from violence. But people with a different skin color can't.
> My suburbia neighborhood there were people who wanted to share books with people freely in a small mailbox near the curb, like a mini-library.

You mean a Little Free Library? https://littlefreelibrary.org/

They have some good tips on the website navigaing zoning rules:
https://littlefreelibrary.org/deal-zoning-regulations-spence...
It is on a website? Hacker news isn't limited to technology discussions anyway. NFL, dating challenges, depression, politics, it's all here.
Not at all, they are your ISP! I absolutely expect VPNs to be the first to go; it's hard to do application-level throttling if everyone has access to a VPN.

This is a goldmine for ISPs. Over the last five-ish years they decided to think of themselves as "advertising" companies. FCC repealed the internet privacy rule last April, and what are they doing now? They're functioning as data brokers. We should expect this trend to continue and assume that ISPs will take advantage of Pai's NN repeal as soon as possible.
Missing records in a database? That's about as close as I can see a connection, but that's more of a problem with the humans operating the system than the system itself.
Tired of the losers with their lame agendas. Gun Control is only about control. Go troll somewhere else.
What is the best practice for handling infrequent data points like the blue stoplights he mentions?
"full self-driving features"

What does that mean? The statement reads like it was carefully crafted to mean whatever Elon needs it to mean when it's time for it to mean something.
Trump considering pardon for boxing legend Muhammad Ali
UL is not "managed" by a government.
Christ, I'm officially old now. Current PhD candidates think cars needed to warm up in the 80s.
Hey etc_host,

Thanks for taking a quick peek and sharing your thoughts. I definitely agree that there are issues with many of the questions and that the quiz overall isn't super accurate.

Do you have any recommendations on how to improve this question? Or, are there are subject areas that might make sense instead?
HOA is a metaphorical termite. If you are planning on buying a new house buy into some old neighborhood. It i not worth dealing with them just for the sake of someone cutting your grass once a week.
It sounds like you have a dysfunction with decision making and productivity. This is something you need to deal with.

It's OK! It happens to a lot of people. This is something you can study and improve.

I highly recommend reading a few books on productivity and making good decisions in order to correct your behavior.

My recommendations are:

- Deep Work - Cal Newport

Will go into detail about how to learn new things and accomplish large projects.

- Smarter Faster Better - Charles Duhigg

Goes into the psychology of motivation, accomplishing large tasks, setting goals, and making better decisions.

- The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Nee - Daniel H. Pink

A cheesy and poorly drawn manga-style career guide with some surprisingly good advice on career advancement and fulfillment. This one is a short read but I can't help but think back on it and reflect on it's lessons from time to time.
I think talking to a therapist is one way to deal with issues like this. Feeling overly anxious about your job doesn't help anything. Course it's easy to say that, harder to deal with it.
The insurance companies with a "put this device that monitors everything you do in the car, tracking you wherever you go, whatever you do and we'll give you an insurance discount."

Um... you could give me an almost 100% discount and I'm still not giving you the very ammunition that you will use against me at the first opportunity I need to make a claim despite never having made an insurance claim in the last 20 years. Not to mention, I'm not having you watch everywhere I go, when I go, building a profile about where I spend my time, who I spend that time with, when I do that, when I'm home, when I'm not home. You can have the mandatory information I must give you in order to be able to drive my car and take care of people in the event of an accident. Beyond that, I'm not giving you anything.
What free/open source tools do you use for website monitoring?
What free/open source tools do you use for website monitoring?

I'm looking for a tool that will have following functionalities:
- check HTTP response status
- check specific strings (regex) in response content
- check response time
- alerting for the above
- generating SLA reports
Go sucks! (First post.)
Sorry, my comment was aimed at other frequent stratechery readers. Here's a page listing all the relevant articles on it

https://stratechery.com/concepts/
To be fair, MySQL/InnoDB can also hit performance problems in a similar set of conditions. A long-running transaction will prevent old row versions from being purged, which can hurt performance due to accumulation of them. The impact just isn't quite as drastic as in Postgres, since InnoDB effectively stores old row versions out-of-band (i.e. in a separate file).
I see your point and I appreciate your perspective however, he didn't just have a proof of concept, he had a product. It is completed and working.
The problem with this approach is that the 4 Crossbar instances will need to have a connection/session with at least an instance of each service you want to have global visibility of. This is because WAMP is a session-based protocol, every peer needs to be connected to a Router in order to interact with other peers. A Router cannot initiate sessions, only clients can.
I know you’re trying to help, but I think saying empty, insincere platitudes like “we all enjoy you here” doesn’t really help them or the situation. It certainly didn’t help to hear that from strangers when I was in a similar position.
It really depends on what you call "constrained". For about £5 you can get a Linux-powered RISC machine with 512MB of RAM, a GPU, and rich IO capabilities. I have worked on large multi-user environments smaller than that powering dozens of serial terminals on everyone's desktops. That's a lot of compute power.

What I wouldn't like to do is to run the training part on such small devices. If there is a good way to do incremental learning after you trained your model so it could continuously fine tune itself using the embedded hardware on a reasonable power budget, I'd go for it.

And while you won't run large networks, you can probably get away with many smaller, more specialized ones.
You live in a bubble. Look up some numbers. From an empirical standpoint ruby is dying. Of course your anecdotal experience trumps all the numbers so my point is invalid.
There's a thread of thought, in amongst radical transparency memes, that bringing these things out into the light will increase acceptance of deviation (... as a good thing).

That may well be wrong, but I don't think it's obviously wrong. FWIW, I think it's probably true that the dynamic will exist, but it probably won't be enough to defang your argument.
> BASIC is a terrible language... I would assume that something like Forth or Occam would be much better for this, and both are also age-appropriate.

BASIC had a couple huge advantages in that it ran in minimal memory and had a reasonable infix syntax. The infix syntax was a particular advantage in educational scenarios where it matched (roughly) with the way math was taught. (Which was never in pre or postfix notation.)

The cross-platform nature of BASIC was also useful. If you knew one microcomputer, it made it more likely that you could sit down at another and get it to do useful things.

It's easy to second-guess, but even in hindsight I think BASIC was a reasonable choice for the time, goals, and hardware limitations.
Netflix only uses 40% of the pipe if the ISP consumers request their data. ISPs are already paid by their consumers to provide them their requested data.
The bureaucrats who didn't tell the busybody to screw off (in more a appropriate bureaucratic fashion) are just as much fault as the busybody.
Usually some sort of ancillary connection to tech, startups, programming, etc. Oh well, guess HN is becoming more like /r/politics every day.
> Perhaps its finding your well written book, Nim in Action.

Thanks! :)

> I wanted to contribute some money to the team but PayPal is the only option even if the site says it can take Visa etc. PayPal is something that I avoid due to past experiences

There are many ways to donate to us, I guess we need to spruce up the donation page, the "Other ways to donate" is buried at the bottom: https://nim-lang.org/donate.html
The Power of “The Suck List”
Having dabbled with image processing, your comment reminded me of the Fourier Mellin transform, which can be used for translation, rotation and scale invariant feature detection.

I did a quick search and came up with this paper[1], and while they don't use the Fourier-Mellin transform, they do use a log-polar transform[2], where rotation and scaling are transformed to translations. This, they claim, result in much improved classification of rotated and scaled data.

I haven't been keeping up on the latest in the ML field tho, so maybe it's rubbish, but like you I'd be surprised if some extra processing doesn't play a role.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01889

[2]: https://sthoduka.github.io/imreg_fmt/docs/log-polar-transfor...
What's the point? Even if it were to be true, there's no regulation and approval for it to be used on public roads. Seems like another PR stunt from tesla to induce hype.
The biggest reason is that the net nuetrality rules required the FCC to also switch to Title II regualtion, which gives the FCC much broader and stronger regulatory powers. The FCC has chosen to not use those powers, but they could, for example, start regulating prices.

There also might be new business models that are better for the consumer that doesn't actually cause the problems net neutrality proponents fear. For example, some of Tmobile's actions were probably not neutral, but Tmo wasn't really harming customers. In other words, we shouldn't ban something unless we know its actually harmful.
Maybe I'm missing something but the first word that comes to mind is "exploit"...
I think our weather made the scooters arrive here earlier than other places. Chicago just came out of winter 6 weeks ago while its been shorts weather in Atlanta since March.

I'll be surprised if the loop wasn't drowning in scoots by end of summer.
In addition to what other commentators have said, this website is chock full of people who like to solve meaningful problems.

Gun violence in America is a meaningful problem.