skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the Ninebot/Segway ES1. Frys had them on sale for $300 about a month ago. Bird uses the Xiaomi/Ninebot m365, which is similar in many ways. The Xiaomi is faster, but if you want the faster speed, you can get the ES2, which Bird is also starting to use. The fold on the ES1/ES2 is superior -- it's simpler and faster, and the scooter folds up smaller, so it's more practical to put on the luggage rack on the train. It's a single lever and literally 3 seconds to fold or unfold. The ES1/ES2 also has an optional second battery pack which doubles the range and increases the speed. The ES2 has rear suspension, is 3 mph faster, and has rear and underside lighting. The extra speed and lights are nice, but the rear suspension adds weight and people say it rattles.

Overall, it's a really well designed product. I'm pretty concerned about the durability though. I've ridden it about 100 miles, and so far so good, but there have been several small issues with rubber coming unglued, it's starting to creak a bit, the caps on the handlebars pop out. The advertised range is also wildly overstated. It's rated at 15 miles but I had mine run out of juice at about 8.5 miles.

My hope is that the big rental companies will push Ninebot to make durability improvements, and the next version will last longer. Based on my experience so far, and what I've read online, I'm expecting maybe a 3-400 mile lifetime for this one.

If you get one, do your best not to go over any significant bumps at speed. The wheels are small, the tires are solid rubber, and the suspension has very little travel. The motor is in the front wheel. If you bottom out the suspension, the motor is going to take the hit, and it's small, high performance, and built to a low price point in China.
Can't tell whether ploxiln knew this and was just using it as an example anyway, but the TLS version indicator is dead anyway, the TLS 1.3 specification (passed last call but yet to be published) says to always treat this as though you're TLS 1.2 and marks it "legacy_version" but then you hide the real version number inside a new extension which they aim to prevent from rusting in place.

This was done because the version code ploxiln describes is so thoroughly rusted shut in middleboxes that TLS 1.3 would be undeployable in practice without such a changes.

Also, "fallback retries" aren't a thing. The reason is downgrade protection. If I have a new protocol (TLS 1.3) with better security, but I'm happy to retry with an older protocol (say TLS 1.2) if that doesn't work, obviously bad guys on the path will just ensure my TLS 1.3 connections all fail so that they can attack the weaker TLS 1.2

TLS 1.3 guards against an attacker who tries to downgrade a TLS 1.3 connection, if both sides know TLS 1.3 and yet somehow the packets when they arrive from the client say TLS 1.2 on them, the Hello "random" value sent from the server will have the message "DOWNGRD" scribbled across part of it, and the client sees this and aborts because somebody is tampering with the connection. If the middlebox tries overwriting the bytes with "DOWNGRD" written in them then the random data doesn't match up and the connection fails.
Note that enterprise value takes into account liabilities. Which is why I mentioned it.

Also note that of Tesla's $28 Billion in assets, Tesla has $24-billion in liabilities. So the company is overall +$4 Billion in assets, while Ford is +$35 Billion in assets.

So Ford is 9x bigger than Tesla by assets, and is also 9x bigger by (Assets - Liabilities). In either case, the metric suggests that Ford should be bigger than Tesla, and yet both Tesla's market cap AND enterprise value is larger.

Clearly, no one investing cares about Tesla's current size relative to Ford. At best, people are speculating on Tesla's future growth.
I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords.
Idea: app to terminate unused cloud resources
There are plenty of things that are pretty unequivocally good or bad. When we anticipate one of these things happening, our emotions change accordingly and this helps to guide our actions in avoiding or encouraging the thing in question. That's what emotions are for. If you have any control over the course of events that affect you, you should experience an emotional response. Anything else just seems like learned helplessness.
Your argument:

1. Amazon is not the government.

2. Amazon has no obligation to solve civic issues.

3. It is the government's job to solve civic issues.

(The government tries to solve civic issues; Amazon uses its undue influence in Seattle to undermine the process.)

4. Ergo, it's all the government's fault.
Why do you think that experiencing suffering lets you experience pleasure more readily?

I think it just sounds good. Most people who experience significant suffering can be damaged beyond repair.

The shell shocked war vet doesn't necessarily see life as more beautiful afterwards.
I built a little side multiuser wiki side project that’s actually using two levels of CRDTs... hyperdb (underneath hyperdrive) and then automerge on top of that. Sort of hard to explain the full design in a short entry, but you can play with it here:

https://dat-tiddlywiki.glitch.me

The UX definitely needs some improvement, but it’s just a personal project so far.
> those better ways will be likewise crushed by the muscle at Amazon

This tax was predominantly opposed by small business owners. (I think it was $25,000 donated by Amazon and close to $300,000 by small businesses.)

The proposed tax was a flat payroll tax. That burdens lower-wage employees and employers much more than tech companies. There is perfect being the enemy of good, and then there is cutting off the nose to spite the face. This was the latter.
There are plenty of skilled and honest managers in tech, so I fail to see how this is "the manager" personified.

The engineer recognizes that with a competent manager things would be in a better place - nowhere does he say that the manager as a figure is redundant, quite the opposite in fact.

If anything this is "founder failure" personified, which is why VCs are absolutely obsessed with founder chemistry.
Revolutionary Discovery for Divyang and Restricted Mobility
Both. For a long time I used the on-screen keyboard, but recently got a cheap keyboard case.
Since Panasas contributes a fair amount to FreeBSD, perhaps they are happy as well.

eg https://people.freebsd.org/~rpokala/2017-03-24.nvdimm.txt
> The existence of React Native is a huge difference-maker for react. If you want to sell your team on react, the ability for a frontend developer to easily handle mobile application development is a strong selling point.

The reality is that while it may ease the transition a bit, your front-end developer will be having to dip into Swift/Obj-C often enough that eventually the supposed benefits here are moot.

Personally I think it's worth just taking the hit and learning the framework. A good book will have you productive within a week. The learning curve these days is easier with Swift and now that front-end developers are used to things like React, Flex Box, and so on, the concepts behind making iOS apps are not as different and alien as they once were.
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No where did I say that. But the argument that the tax should be repealed because the city won't spend it well is not germane to the discussion.
I'm surprised they actually moved forward with this idea. From the time this index was announced and tracked on March 6th until the sales began the GDAX index has fallen by ~50% in a bit less than a few months.
Well maybe I'm not appreciating the core of the problem. What is it, as you see it?
But of course all these are based on looking at historical data and show nothing about the future.
Self promoters gonna self promote.
Rich Trott's Response to the “Design Mistakes in Node” Speak from Ryan Dahl
The $2.13 number is the minimum an employer has to pay to tipped employees. If the amount of tips plus $2.13 is less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25, the employer must make up the difference:

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/minwage.pdf

I don't believe the California minimum wage law has tip credit.
I've participated in one-night homeless counts before, such as the once cited for that news article. I don't find the evidence of improvement compelling.

If this Poppe report was the purpose of the tax, why was all the messaging "Tax Amazon!" instead of, "We need money for urgent projects!"?

Despite being 70 pages, that report was quite vague. Mostly platitudes like, "Prioritize the most vulnerable!" I hope the plans were more detailed elsewhere. And how much did that report cost?
The article doesn't accuse anyone. Jeremy Bowers tweet comes close, but for the most part, the article and the people it quotes are just saying that it's not worth the risk.

Testing it would be a major diversion for the journalists there. Some of them will probably be tested eventually, but they don't need the fans right now... or ever. So it makes sense to just not use them.
The set of people who can dump $250k in crypto assets is a tiny subset of accredited investors, one would think
3. Work on a task handled by a thread pool, like scalable software

4. Work on another process, like safe software
Sadly they've added crap like ETC which greatly reduces the appeal of investing in such an index.
Just browse through a basic tutorial of D3 and you understand how much niceness it gives :)
Assuming you came up with the idea first, or that you didn't but you're such a technical genius that you can leverage that, sure.
I think with news of another bitcoin exchange hack, security is a big concern, maybe larger than speed. So what has been done regarding security?
Yep, processes were too heavy for 1995 hardware and threads were seen as the solution for everything.
I once had run my own prediction of the FIFA World Cup.
I used elo ratings from http://eloratings.net/Europe which i converted into a model giving probabilities for any outcome between two teams.
For each group A-F and for each possible pair of teams (a,b) in that group, i estimated the probability for them to qualify in that order using monte carlo simulation. Doing this explicitly should reduce overall estimation variance. Using that data i calculated the probaility for each team to become world champion using exact formulas.
The results looked reasonable to me. What i have learned was, that the chances of extreme outsiders typically are extremly over estimated by the book makers. I have checked this paper for comparison (Table 8) and think the results are in line with my observation. I remember vaguely having heard, that there is a similar observation for stock options, which are extremly out of the money, there are typically much too expensive to buy.
The bottom line is, never to bet on Korea or Japan getting FIFA world champion :-)
If it's mini usb, no-one's going to have anything to plug it into.
Thank god. Angular is just way too big now. There's way too many files and they try to push you into using typescript.
> a certain barrier to entry because it needs JS knowledge

Maybe I'm missing some context, but what is this supposed to mean?
That's debatable.

Especially in Northern England and Scotland, its not difficult to see things that are culturally closer to Scandinavia.
Xiaomi’s forthcoming IPO shows how the rules of business are changing
Can you explain to some degree why SPARC chips run java so well?
Attacking Amazon for operating within its constraints to maximize profit seems silly to me. It is programmed to do nothing else.

I say instead, attack the concept of capitalism (infeasible) or fight the fight in the battleground of the political sphere - vote and openly support candidates that want money out of government.

Yea, finding one is hard, I agree.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/germanys-superpower-ques...

"In the European Union, treating World War I as the product of abstract forces like arms races or nationalism is doubtlessly useful in minimizing national animosities.

But unlike the chattering classes, most historians, ever since Fritz Fischer published Germany’s Aims in the First World War (1961), have tended to agree that the major cause of World War I was Imperial Germany’s determination to become a “world power” or superpower by crippling Russia and France in what it hoped would be a brief and decisive war, like the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Following the Archduke’s assassination, Berlin deliberately used the crisis in relations between its satellite Austria-Hungary and Russia’s satellite Serbia as an excuse for a general war that would establish German hegemony from Belgium to Baghdad. World War I started in 1914 for the same reason that World War II started in 1939—a government in Berlin wanted a war, though not the war it ultimately got."

Additionally, Austrian historians claim that Austrian military strategists also surely didn't want the big war but just to attack Serbia which they estimated was already weak enough to be an easy target. Both Germans and Austrians simply (stupidly?) expected much less response from other countries.
You exaggerate the reach of Seattle's city council if you think they are capable of ending the US' military-industrial complex. But I think that defense spending is a red herring here.
Linux is the exception on how most UNIXes implement threads.
The real issue is how effective the anti-tax campaign was. Based on the NY Times and other article posted here[0], they used the same mix of populism, anti-government rhetoric, outrage, and propaganda that has become widely used by the GOP. But how did they sell it in a liberal city like Seattle? What makes it so powerful? I don't think it's the content; it's the technique.

I tend to assume it includes an effective social media campaign (complete with targeting), and maybe that's the core of it, but does anyone know?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17300444
They should absolutely use SVG for this.

The browser doesn’t have any better way to do it. The performance will likely be good enough for whatever they are trying to do; CPUs are super fast these days, and can render many thousands of graphical elements at 60 frames per second even if you are forced to render everything in a cache ignorant and super-high-overhead roundabout fashion, and could conceivably do it all 20x more efficiently on bare metal on the CPU, or 1000x faster on a GPU.

If performance turns out to be unusably slow, they’re basically screwed, because the alternative (writing some WebGL thing from scratch) is way way harder.

There are a bunch of inherent graphical problems baked into SVG implementations (like compositing done in the wrong color space, lack of support for reasonable color spaces, inaccurate rendering of very fine features, phantom rendering of hairline gaps between immediately adjacent shapes, poor text layout, many components which are too inflexible to handle straight-forward goals, weird inconsistencies with other common tools, various bugs and cross-implementation incompatibilities, etc. etc.) but implementing a whole vector graphics pipeline from scratch to fix those would take years of work from a team of experts, something akin to implementing a video game rendering engine.

Someone just trying to make diagrams should live within the constraints of SVG and try to be happy with what it is, maybe with occasional grumping on a web forum.
counterpoint: the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh (lit. Land of the Bengali).
Iron men4
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> It's likely that Alexander would have taken over Italy had he lived a couple more decades. He definitely could have done it.

But why? The East was far more developed. A unified Mediterranean proved to be very profitable for Rome, but it's not clear to me that this future was obvious to anyone.

But it's an interesting thought, much as it's interesting to think of what might have been if Rome had ever fully conquered and incorporated the British Isles and Germania. Perhaps civil wars and power struggles would have torn the empire asunder much sooner, but perhaps Roman urbanism would have taken a stronger hold, preventing rural feudalism from forming. Who knows!

Although it's also interesting to note that Diocletion's reforms are thought to have set the stage for feudalism to begin with, and Roman urbanism was abandoned in many of the places it had taken hold, once the state fell.
I have created a number of small tools in the last and I generally have kept them stateless because I didn't want to manage (or pay for) storage of user data. If something like this was widespread I could trivially allow the user to save their data without needing to manage that myself.

For complex applications you might want a richer API but I think that for now making it easy to adopt is a key feature and I generally just want to stick a serialized state in a small number of "files" anyways.

I really hope this takes off at some point.
This product is almost certainly targeting RIAs.
If anyone wants the original: https://shalamov.ru/library/29/
And then spend days trying to understand why there is a deadlock when there is an Eclipse.
Don't Lose Your Head with iTerm2
The Baja peninsula includes two separate Mexican states: Baja California and Baja California Sur.
I've been down this road: it did not end well. Facebook also went down this road and seems to have realized something similar (and hence why they pulled back on HTML5 on mobile and have not attempted to make React Native fully cross platform).

The reason why is essentially every platform (iOS/Android/web) has its own characteristics, charms, quirks, habits, and behaviors. Trying to smush these all into one unified UX experience is producing something that feels and acts weird on every platform, and people notice. Trying to unify is a solution for a developer problem, not a solution for a user problem -- and thus it's not really a problem.

What this comes down to is focus. Developing across multiple platforms is a hard problem and requires a lot of work. It's really only suitable for larger teams. As a small team, it is better to focus on one platform, do really well, and then later when you can afford it, go to other platforms.
You can install Django in Pythonista using StaSH for local development. Pip for package management and localhost in Safari.

Not saying it’s sensible or a particularly nice experience, but it’s doable.

Pythonista is an app so powerful it’s surprising it was allowed into the store.
What is an "accredited investor" anyway? And why does this index fund need to only be available to them?
Interesting to think that the private keys for these funds will most likely be split across several pieces of paper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing) and stored in geographically distributed safes.

That's the only way I can think of doing it offline.

Combining the pieces of paper together to generate the key would need to be done via a signing ceremony. I think coinbase have a patent for this.
You can whitelist apps, too
And you are fucking rude for no reason. If you think the name is a bad choice, explain so, don't just paste links and insult someone who is showing their work here.

By the way, I think the world can live with a wiki called grok and an unaffiliated app of the same name.
I don't think we are literally able to imagine the implications of an economic scenario where the market clearing wage for toilet cleaning is $200.000, with current purchasing parity (that is, every janitor could buy the equivalent of a nice suburban home, every year, or accumulate the equivalent of 100 acres / 40 hectares of land in capital, every year).

That world would have more to do with a Star Trek episode than with the current society.
> Introduce react-vue-loader, which compiles the Vue component into a React component. As you might think, your previously written Vue components can run inside the React component, and your React components can also run inside the Vue component

How did it come to this?
Show HN: H – Advanced Lightweight Go HTTP Handler Adapter
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1. Homelessness wasn't caused by Amazon.
2.The govt has a restrictive zoning policy not caused by Amazon but is the definitive cause of the housing shortage.
3.You give an easy pass to those whose exclusive job is to solve these problems by blaming it on those whose job it is not.
4.Govt takes the easy way out and comes up with the default hammer to every nail-more taxes and sensible people oppose it and somehow it's the sensible person's problem?
Do you even logic,bro?
"Coinbase's trading volumes fell 78% from December to April" [1]. Moreover, it appears trading volume fell for each of those months (on a month-to-month basis). If this trend doesn't reverse, they may soon be in a desperate position.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-the-biggest-u-s-bitcoin-exc...
How to Choose the Right CRM for Your Business
You're forgetting napping! A mid-afternoon nap makes up for the shortfall, but 'workaholism' effectively ended that practice.
Capacitor is the new Cordova. Check it out.
> That may be a reasonable requirement, depending on the panel topic.

Hmm. I really don't see how. That's a bit like saying that because you work in Java, you can't talk about Ruby, or AWS, or Scrum, or skydiving. This really seems like the sort of thing that you "opt in" rather than "opt out" - you're qualified to talk on a panel if you are X, rather than being disqualified if you are Y.

Can you think of any topics where that WOULD be a reasonable requirement? I cannot, but I'm biased.
Let me Google that for you......
According to https://custom-elements-everywhere.com/ React has a way to go for full support.
South Africa is not prepared for the coming change of Artificial Intelligence
Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second
A Crispr Conundrum: How Cells Fend Off Gene Editing
Baja California Norte

No, just Baja California, or officially, the "Free and Sovereign State of Baja California" (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), according to its Wikipedia entry.
It's actually a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor
> What is an "accredited investor" anyway?

"Accredited investor" is defined in Rule 501 of Regulation D [1]. For natural persons, it means someone with more than $1 million in net worth (excluding one's primary residence) or $200,000 in annual income [2].

> why does this index fund need to only be available to them?
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Accredited investors can afford lawyers, to do diligence as well as enforce their claims. They are also better placed to lose money. This combination means people marketing securities exclusively to accredited investors have lower disclosure and other requirements than e.g. someone taking a company public.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answers-accredhtm.html

[2] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=8edfd12967...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Talk to a lawyer if you are seriously considering this question.
> It would also reduce existing home values

I'm not an american so I probably don't get the real estate market in the US.
But wouldn't rezoning actually increase the value ? Not of the home itself but of the land on which it is built.

If your $1M home can be turned into a 10-flat building at $300K each, wouldn't real-estate developers buy your home (even at a premium) to destroy it and rebuild on it ?
1. Amazon hires thousands of people for six figure salaries.

2. Rents increase.

3. More people become homeless.

http://q13fox.com/2017/11/06/study-says-rising-rents-tied-to...
Regardless of the leadership position, most of the time a bunch of money can be allocated from nuke maintenance budgets. Maintaining a massive nuclear arsenal without testing requires a ton of computing power and the cost of upgrading supercomputers a few times a decade is a rounding error.
I think the article that you're thinking of is "Why didn't Larrabee fail?" by Tom Forsyth.

http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#