skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's more like the other way around: the idea is to make public transport cheap and efficient enough that it's a reasonable alternative to driving everywhere.

In Austin, they took the perspective "if we won't build it, they won't come". After the unwanted growth happened, it sure feels like the sentiment is "if we don't build it, they won't drive." There are fundamental problems with the driving infrastructure and instead of addressing it, they patch over it with toll roads, some planned or are only a quarter mile long, to allow "those who care (can afford)" through. They ignore major issues, like if one of the major bridges needs work or goes out, the city will be devastated.

When the limited public transport options do come up, they've seemed to be forward looking projects which is fine except they don't do anything about all of the other problems.

> I live in a small town on the South coast of England, which just happens to have one of the largest populations of homeless people, nationally. It also has very good public transport, namely, buses, that are always full. I've never seen a homeless person using a bus as crashing space, or causing trouble of any sort.

My guess is that if this isn't due to better services for the homeless, then the main factor is probably the local climate.
Doesn't work, but if you open it in incognito mode, it doesn't have the paywall.
No doubt about the upsides to joining Google or Facebook but their compettitive edge is based on stolen user information. Unauthorized tracking of users has been outlawed by SCOTUS. So their key compettitive advantage follwing user around the web will be eventually shut down.
It makes it sound optional.
Largest supermarket chain in the US to test autonomous delivery vehicles
This is basically a link only article. Here’s the original source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-data-breach-may-have... @mods Can we update the link?
Generics, all of them I'd intuit, seem to be manufactured with the same active ingredients but different 'filler' ingredients that are non-active.

Abruptly changing that filler could very well send an epileptic into a static seizure.
If the bank loses too many customers because a competing bank is offering to use a better credit checking company, you can bet that they are gonna change.

Most people don't care enough, and only select on price. So the bank gets the cheapest option for nonvisible backends (like credit checks)
No it wouldn't, memoization can't provide responses to calls it hasn't seen yet, that's the whole point.
Because most tech jobs expect substantial free overtime?
Only If you've never needed to borrow money or hold credit.
I went to twitter.com/spotify, where is the link to see all their ads? Am I missing something?
Infinite scroll is frustrating on higher latency connections, which I have all the time being here in Australia.

Particularly when you want to skip towards the end of the list. YouTube has recently changed all their playlists etc to infinite scroll and it takes FOREVER to scroll 5 pages down to get to the bottom of the list. And they don't have a UI to reverse the list order or jump ahead.

They did recently add a list reverse to some places but it's still missing in others. Drives me bonkers :(

Of course it's not necessarily purely the fault of infinite scroll, there are potentially ways to combine them. But the basic pattern many places implement is painful for this latency and no skip-ahead combination.
It's generally a bad idea to suddenly slap a severe penalty on something previously legal, unless you plan to spend the effort to educate everyone about it. Tossing a bunch of people in jail that simply never learned of the law being changed doesn't benefit anyone.

There was huge efforts to education people about drunk driving, and we've ramped up the penalties over time.
The banks are their customers. And you can bet you bottom dollars the banks do care for accuracy.
The point of insider trading laws is to punish small-time defectors from the conspiracy of silence that corporations cultivate. In that way, the executive class may make information public at times of their choosing, so as to maximize their own gains. If the typical defendant were a wealthy politically-connected WASP senior VP, the crime would quickly cease to exist.
People who got caught driving while intoxicated probably shouldn't be allowed to drive again. Sending him to actual jail, though? Why? He was being imprudent but injured no one and caused no damages. There's no crime without victims.

I don't believe this "no one can claim ignorance of the law" argument either. It's not like the government goes out of its way to teach people the rules or their rationale. The government shouldn't be able to simply invent some random rule and start arresting people.
I hate to be the one to break it to you but just being in another country and being small doesn't automatically exempt you from other countries' laws. Some examples:

- Australia has laws that about child sex tourism aimed at those that go to Asian countries with lax laws or enforcement. These crimes are committed in other countries [1]

- Foreign financial institutions are subject to FATCA when serving US customers, an issue that has made it difficult for US expats to even open bank accounts in some jurisdictions [2]

- Australia has some pretty strict insider trading laws such that two foreigners who trade in inside information about an ASX listed company while they're on foreign soil (may) have commited a crime in Australia

- Sanctions on the likes of Iran and North Korea prevent US companies or persons from trading with entities from sanctioned states even if such transactions take place entirely on foreign soil.

- US citizens living in other countries are required to file taxes with the IRS even though during the tax year the citizen may never have stepped foot on US soil and any income is earned and paid entirely in foreign jurisdictions.

So I'm not saying GDPR applies or doesn't. I honestly don't know. I'm just saying not being in Europe and being small aren't the automatic defenses you seem to think they are.

[1]: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/12/13/australia-intr...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
Very common now. All the pharmacies in my primary health system's offices use these: https://innovat.com/pharmassist-robotx/
With reasonable verification, anyone confirmed to be a part of this breach should be given access to the data, if only for good will. It's a sad state to see that the recklessness (or incompetence) of one entity, and at that a private one, can quickly become a domino in a chain that ends in toppling a person's privacy.

They advertise themselves as having the most accurate data (why wouldn't they advertise themselves this way?) If so, the people it affects have a right to know, and it seems that they have the means to contact them and let them know.
You urgently need to speak to an accountant, ideally one who works frequently with (specifically) California tech companies, and you should very carefully follow their advice.
> It's chicken and egg. Public transit needs ridership to get better. It won't get ridership until it's better.

This is why I'm really happy to see in my area two towns are putting in a rapid transit bus system between all the major hubs (two malls, a downtown, regional transport, and two universities) and the universities are getting all students, faculty, and staff plus families passes. These passes will also cover regional transit (mostly useful to get to the airport).

There is enough incentive in all of this for a massive influx of people to use public transit and make it a way of life (the universities signed 10 year contracts) such that I hope the way of life will have sticking power if they don't renew the contracts.
No chance. The batteries are 280 Watt hours, solar cells generate about 20 Watt hours per square foot, and the standing pads are probably no more than half a square foot (being generous) so even if you could have an edge to edge panel it would take 28 hours of direct sunlight to fully charge. Even if they were perfectly positioned all day they wouldn’t get more than 7 hours of sun, only 3-4 of those at peak power so it would take something like 6 days to charge. That’s assuming they’re aimed in the right direction and not blocked. Riding them covers the panel and gets them dirty which reduces efficiency and adding the panel increases the cost and maintenance of the scooter considerably.
Check https://dev.realworldocaml.org/
It's originally part of the TPS Act in Cali, and it's not a convo for anonymous online discussion.
I think they refuse to use the technique because it doesn't respect file permissions the way they prefer (IIRC).
https://github.com/danielwestendorf/breezy-pdf-lite
This is the quote you focus on? Free time here here is probably defined as time in between their main projects, or when code is building, before meetings, etc.
I find in myself a very human desire to not have every private action subject to registration & scrutiny by unknown entities. No further justification is needed.
Sadly, people dumb or intellectually lazy enough to let social help them form political views are allowed to vote.
Imo It woudlnt work, because contentsnare is content as a deliverable whereas a task can be very vague and nonconcrete

Theres already things like followupthen.com. also a few tokls for monitoring if your emails are replied to in gmail i think already
The Wired link is the original source: https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-millio...
Thanks for reminding me that humans do make mistakes. You're right, learn from experience again and again. Thank you!
>"make driving too expensive and/or too inconvenient, to force people to use public transit".

Two observations.

1) We need to think outside of the box.

2) We need to redefine what public transportation means. I would classify Uber/Lyft and dockless bikes/escooters as public transportation, at least from a city planning perspective.
Not GP, I recently interviewed there and it felt super dry and impersonal. I think it is designed this way though. The teams ended up being awesome and I accepted on a project I'm stoked for.
Literally what a ballot initiative or referendum is.
> The well-traveled Yosemite stuff isn't going to shift under you.

Except when there are accidents. Like recently on El Capitan: https://www.climbing.com/news/eye-witnesses-recount-tragic-a...
I have to get my project wood from a small local mill, I can get it cut any way I want, the downside is I can't just pick a few boards of different types out of a stockpile like a hardwood supplier. But it is cheap enough that I can buy it an entire tree's worth at a time and keep a decent stock going. The prices for a hardwood board at a normal lumber store are absolutely criminal so it is worth it a dozen times over to get it from a mill or drive to a hardwood supplier's warehouse. Plus with a mill you can bring them any tree you want cut up, I got a few black walnut trees that will probably get me a decades worth of material for next to nothing.
Thanks for at least giving me a straight answer instead of simply downvoting. I do find that policy annoying, though I'm apparently not allowed to talk about it.
> does not use the "vector" as its "primitive"

Well, doesn't the SIMD architecture make vectors "primitives", even if in some limited sense?
For many, now and for quite awhile.
Google for 5 years, build up a nest egg. Then work wherever.
200-2000 employee companies have a lot less bureaucratic bullshit than 10000+ employee companies, and they also aren't as big of a life commitment as startups.
What can EU potentially do to you? I have no plans to comply with my website that gets only 5% traffic from EU. I would rather block access to those users based on trade off.
BreezyPDF Lite: HTML to PDF generation as a Service
What really surprised me, that Facebook with so active usage of ReasonML doesn't push/sponsor Multicore OCaml. Surely that will improve performance in their high-load setups.
So, by your definition I’m an urbanist.

I don’t hate electric cars more than gas cars, what I will say is that electric cars don’t solve a lot of the externalities that actually bother me on a day to day basis (that said of course I would prefer all vehicles switch off of gasoline),

My big issues are that cars take more space than other forms of transport, cars endanger me more frequently when I’m trying to do my thing & we expend insane resources on supporting car centric lifestyles that we needn’t expend.

Basically I’m tired of subsidizing other peoples car centric life styles at the expense of my own.
It has nothing to do with public transportation. Wrong level of abstraction. It has to do with the fact the US is turning into a inequality dystopia.
We are all nominally market economies--in the respect that everything gets laundered through the market. Doesn't make us any less socialist.

Typical medicare recipient blows through his entire lifetime contribution in two years. It is propped up through progressive taxation and gobs of public debt. Medicare spending for 2017 was around $700B[0]. US healthcare spending for 2017 was $3.5T[1]. That's roughly 20% of the market. It is totally a socialist program.

As for post-secondary ed, when the whole thing is propped up through state and federal monies, what would happen to that market if it were limited to earned money, and cut off from other peoples' money? Education, the goal, has little to do with it. It's about the direct and indirect employment that comes from it. Even the Republicans aren't going to touch that.

This was Argentina's economic policy prior to the crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Menem#Economic_policy

Most of these economic theories and belief systems are just cover for raw power. When old people who vote want free healthcare, they're socialists. When old people who vote want fatter dividends and lower inheritance taxes, they're capitalists. All at the same time!

[0] https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/the-facts-on-medica...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-spending/u...
What is GSD?
I wouldn’t call this a link only article. It seems like a nifty little aggregation and summary site.
tried this outside of QGIS? pip install rasterio, etc.

We heavily use GDAL/rasterio/numpy at work with no real problems.
You’re playing with the banks money, so you have reduced risk exposure.

Debit cards are always dumb. Think of it this way... if some skel gets ahold of your card and has a party, you’re stuck in a world of bureaucracy and problems. In my case, a stolen card or number on the 29th of the month means that my mortgage, car, possibly insurance, as well as one or more credit cards with automatic payment will be rejected for insufficient funds. I have a problem.

If somebody steals my Amex or compromises the number, Amex has a problem. I call customer service and wish them well.
Agreed on the reaction to the "about" page.

Cost of living in Australia isn't always great (real estate close to Sydney is nuts, and there was even a brief period where SF looked like a bargain a few years ago). But Brisbane isn't that bad.
Not really, I lived near a grocery store in two different cities. When I was in Chicago, I lived behind one for 3 years. When I lived in NYC, I was a block and half away. They were both between my commute route.

I always knew what I needed, so I'd buy it fresh (i.e. Milk, fruits/veggies, and etc.) along with a few long-term items (i.e. bags of rice, canned goods, dish soap, and etc). Now, I'm not close and my cost per month has gone up because stuff spoils because I don't want to waste time driving to the grocery store so I buy too much.

It really depends on what type of shopper you are, if you go into a grocery store and b-line to where you know everything is or if you're one to wander and mozy through the grocery store in a general direction and putting things in your cart per chance. When I was doing the daily or multi-weekly deal, most trips would be 10 mins or less depending on how busy the grocery store was.
>> rid the world of the concept of a "payday"

you might face some ingrained cultural barriers with this as the higher-status the job the more infrequent/delayed the payday... day-laborers are paid at the end of the day, many blue-collar jobs are paid weekly or bi-weekly, and white-collar jobs are typically paid monthly
I wonder what’ll happen if they’ve sucked up a bunch of European data too
Nokia's partnership with Microsoft for Windows Phone began 2 years before Microsoft bought them. If Windows Mobile is what destroyed Nokia, then Nokia had an active hand in that. Nokia isn't a victim, they chose their path.
Who exactly should go to jail, and what would that help?

For all the do-something-ism in the world, doing "something" often amounts to making things worse, while allowing actual avenues for improvement to fester.
Thanks, I had found this. But you cannot upload here. But I figured it out now. You can create an account and upload stuff on peertube.social.
Appreciate for taking your time to reply! I will definitely keep those in mind, especially informing about the risks.

Businesses are cruel, when they want to win projects over, they fight it by building the solution out in short time. Next time round, they'll demand even faster pace, because we managed to deliver the previous one. What's worst, they may not be able to sell it out after all the efforts.

I'm more an advocate of lean, but sadly in my country, it rarely worked.

Nonetheless, really appreciate your input! I will walk out from it, promise.
The FTB will hunt you down.

Not worth it.
I'm dying to know more about how the financial end works. Where do the profits go, and more importantly, how do expenses work? If I'm renting for a week, can I order a bunch of sci-fi (or anything I'm interested in) and leave the invoices for the non-profit to handle? Or is it more that you act as the manager, changing decor, the vibe, etc, but stocking decisions and whatnot fall under the purview of the non-profit.
I used ES6 proxies recently to write a program which monitors changes on javascript data structures, and generates operation objects reflecting the changes to send to my data structure visualizer project[0].

You can see the source for the javascript client that does the monitoring with proxies here: https://github.com/westoncb/JS-Watcher/blob/master/watcher.j... —it just works for arrays at the moment, but the basic idea is there. (I've written another much more complete client that does monitoring in Java; this JS one is more experimental.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwZmAgAuIkY
No I agree - that route is an impressive solo — but it is not pushing the envelope or anywhere close to it. He does routes of that grade like others take an afternoon stroll or a jog around the neighborhood. It is of epically different difficulty than his hardest solos. My point is not to trivialize but to point out that to a large degree - he could attract significant attention based off his previous deeds without the necessity to further push the envelope. He pushes the envelope because that is what he wants to do not because he thinks society will further reward him for it.

I don’t think he’s opposed to society rewarding him though —- but I also think he’s aware that society deserves to know that they aren’t responsible for his actions — so he describes publicly at great length why he does what he does and it’s clear that he would do it even if society did not reward him for it (as he did for years before becoming well known)... I think he’s a pretty positive role model all things told — and there’s much more to gain from his example than there is risk of inspiring to die of soloing those who wouldn’t otherwise be so inspired...
I hope a Firefox extension comes out to automatically block visiting any website that blocks EU users in general, regardless of whether you are in the EU. I would use it.
You are so wrong that I audibly laughed, even though I’m in this room by myself.
>you can't compress away all the space currently used as roads

You can however plant a lot of trees which would make a huge impact on the sustainability of cities by regulating the heat/cold much better. Also if you look at old European cities you can pretty much compress away all the car space. Jan Gehl's "Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space"[0] is a fantastic read if you're into thinking about this sort of thing.

[0] ISBN 978-87-7407-360-4
If jail time was a real concern for owning data like this maybe fewer companies would exist owning such data. The he potential for people to use this to steal identities is too high I think
And what counts as "operations in Europe"? Would a magazine's Paris correspondent count?
> FB went much farther in that for example they let you go back 7 YEARS in a pages ad history

I am not completely familiar with Facebook's ad platform. Does it really let anyone see, for example, which demographics Procter & Gamble is targeting with a particular Gilette ad? (Or its Gilette brand, generally?)
Rethink "corporate career", absolutely insane, especially for an asian american with the bamboo ceiling. You are harming your own prospects. Do what is in your best interests and go work for a company where you're an exec from the beginning: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/...
Why is it harder to build quantum computers than classical computers?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17421140
Reading this reminded me of S.M., thr woman who literally cannot physically feel fear

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(patient)
Maybe a Purism Librem laptop?
A German court held that IP addresses can be considered personal data for non ISPs.

Check Patrick Breyer v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Literally a website just logging IP addresses of visitors.

You’re making it sound incredibly cut and dry when it’s clearly not and there’s case law on record confirming it’s not so simple.
Having worked at both, I'd recommend Google for a couple of years, then GTFO. You'll get massively overpaid (save your money!) and you'll learn some useful stuff. But it's a chaotic mess, the employees are spoiled, and you'll never become a real grown-up if you stay there long term.

Looks great on your resume, though.
That link is just summarizing this link: https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-millio...
Design in distribution systems that are separate to human systems. There are plenty of ways you could do that from the superblock Barcelona style system to, if we're designing from scratch, hyperloop tunnels or similar sci-fi approaches.
I think they are just hoping that it is highly localized.
How does this compare to Google's speech API?
Surely the issue is harmless, and has nothing to do with the stuff GDPR is legislating against, right? Why not just share a general, fuzzy overview?

I am pretty sure that's what they're asking for. I didn't see a request for specific details. Just some high level details, rather than "we've had to spend so much money/time => clearly bad".
Just as another data point, I currently live in Sydney (used to live in Melbourne), and I haven't noticed any of these problems here. Trains are much more pleasant to ride compared to Melbourne. Ferry is the best option though. Sundays get you unlimited transport for $2.60, it's great. Perhaps it's because of the sunshine?
And, they made fun of RMS... He was telling you what the future holds. This is just a trailer of what is to come.
Yeah, it's surprisingly useful.