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> The only way to make the docked model work is to have many small docks - several on every block, which isn't going to happen.

That's probably the root of the disagreement: ubiquitous docks seem perfectly possible to me. I wouldn't advocate for several on every block but I think there's a feasible level where they remain pretty common. Here in Portland the bike stations are close enough that you don't often have to walk more than 2-3 blocks [1]. It would be even easier to create scooter stations, since they're less than half the size of a bike -- small enough to put a 10-12 scooter station on a sidewalk corner without much fuss. That compares pretty favorably with bike stations, which usually need to take up street space (which I'm fine with, but it can create political/logistical barriers).

You make a fair point about the scooters' pervasiveness being important for their popularity. Looking again at the system I know best, Portland has a hybrid system: in the highest traffic areas you can leave a bike pretty much anywhere at no cost, and you can leave one anywhere at all for a $2 fee. To prevent bikes from being strewn about and/or poorly distributed they offer a program where you earn account credit if you return a bike to a station [2].

I think that kind of thing would work pretty well with scooters, since they need to be charged every so often. Bird already has their Charger program [3] that pays you to pick up and charge their scooters. Users could instead earn account credit for returning scooters to stations, especially if they need charging and/or that station is low on scooters. That would allow people to leave them around but would keep them charged and "crowdsource" the effort to cut down on scooter clutter.

[1] https://www.biketownpdx.com/map

[2] https://biketownpdx.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600011157...

[3] https://www.chargers.bird.co/join
House of Cards (First 2 seasons at least), Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black, Marco Polo, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Dear White People, Bojack Horseman, and to a lesser extent some of the Marvel shows (Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Punisher), not to mention how much amazing standup comedy Netflix puts out. Sure, there's a lot of junk, but Netflix is succeeding in becoming HBO faster than HBO is becoming Netflix.
A huge reply after being so damningly called out? Please do keep asking those gotcha questions.

It's like the flip-side of foobar, avoid like the plague any place where all the tech questions are gotchas or obscure language features. The lead developer is probably someone you do not want to work with.
Eventually people are going to realize that

(1) all of these can essentially require transparency + encryption (i.e. git + signatures), not the whole blockchain,

(2) hence can be had without the huge energy losses (that come from many nodes (re-)computing the same result over and over, and

(3) centralisation is a feature most people want, because it helps resolve conflicts (à la Vitalik's centralised resolution of the DAO conflict).
Well done. I feel so inadequate now. Kidding. I think a disciplined schedule like yours is what we should strive for.
'them' works pretty well for this case.
Truman Show? Thank you, No.
The thing is that writing a parser requires that a person to understand what a formal language is. Overall, only a subset of programmers understand even this, so parsing has a certain inherent hardness to it (you can't just use a library or just use an object).

Of course, the problem of how to create a parser is solvable any number of ways if you mean how to convert an unambiguously specified formal language into a parser. But that doesn't mean basic challenges don't remain. Especially because a formal language is hard to understand (and can be ambiguous) and because what one wants the language to actually do something, there is a further trickiness involved (you have to bridge interface between syntax and semantics). So which way to solve the problem of parsing become a complex decision. But it's not so much "we don't know how to efficiently do this yet" but rather "there is no one-size fits all approach."
yea... I'll go with vitalik.
In what way does HFT "discourage investor participation"? Before there was high-speed electronic trading, virtually no investors were out there trying to outcompete market makers or run elaborate pairs trading strategies.
Deadwood is excellent. The Larry Sanders Show is one of the best comedies ever.
Right.

I was thinking about combining CryptoKitties and Second Life type breedable animals to make collectable ponies you could go play with and show off in virtual reality.

But no.
You have to define what "ruin" really is. Ruin could mean no longer being a viable brand, in which case you may be right. However ruin can also mean a creative decline in terms of creating new series, and if they're shifting to an ad supported model and try to appeal to the widest audience that may really be the case.
AT&T owns a ton of content through owning Warner Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Warner... and my guess is that they will be able to show that content on netflix. At least from my perspective, netflix has become a less desirable place to spend time on, given that they have taken down a lot of their third party content, something that AT&T and HBO will likely be able to resurface.
The only reason it works on a beach is that there aren't drive ways and intersecting streets. Are you proposing that we make the side walks level with the street? If so, then it's no different than what we have now, and if not, then you'll have ramps every block that go from street level and back up to sidewalk level?
That's always struck me as sort of inconsequential, even though light is the apparent "speed limit" of the universe.

The same thing happens with sound regularly. A thing happens, and we receive light before we receive sound. Some third faster thing that gets to us before light would just be some other thing.

The distance of travel requires time relative to both reference frames.

If a star explodes at A and I travel to B at 2x the speed of light to tell folks at B, so what? Some time has elapsed and those two frames are still chugging along with causality.

Maybe there's some physics I've not learned that makes this obvious, but I've never grasped exactly why violating light speed prevents entropy from continuing. Even if at two different rates.

If we perfectly timestamped everything happening on two sides of the world and sent a telegram at twice lightspeed from A to B, it would still arrive after it is sent.
Centralized databases are faster. Centralized consensus is dangerous for the same reason that a dictatorship is dangerous. The organization in charge of said solution would exercise dramatic control over the execution of said code. You need not look very far into the past to see egregious examples of organizations abusing their centralized position over data. I shudder the thought of a centralized actor having the same precise control over all monetary transfers.

Meanwhile, the banking system itself is not centralized. It's quite slow to settle monetary transfers from bank-to-bank.

Right now, Lightning Network is live on BTC's chain. It's instant, near free, and yet it's decentralized.
"The site guidelines ask you not to post shallow dismissals to Hacker News, so could you please not?"

Only when you can man up and admit that you're a shadowbanning coward.
I like electronica for concentration. For example, [0] Tzusing/Anni Nöps and [1] Sd Laika

[0] https://soundcloud.com/anninops/tzusing-met-byhzz-hol

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0mM-J6wisU
You can make a conditional break point, put in arbitray js statements, such as console.log, and return false if you dont want to pause there. Best of both worlds and you dont have to clean up the code after.
> The term 'toxic culture' is mostly used to describe widespread harassment and bullying.

I guess it's a continuous spectrum. What you describe is the worst possible end. Maybe next to it you have people which just don't care about people and take advantage of them by all means. Well and then there are places were people get burned out, managers loose their shit and yell at employees etc.

Seen it all, in fact it's like a domino effect. People involve in this, then they also involve in similar stupid activities.
I never said they weren't reputable. I said take the information with a similar grain of salt.
> Why exactly would anyone trust Google to run a city?

Google isn't running the city. They are a partner helping design it, think of it more like a consultant. I believe the city always has the last word on any decision.
My point was that by definition it's naturally carbonated and all other beer isn't. Cask conditioned ale is common throughout the UK and bottle conditioned ales are common in Belgium and elsewhere. (They're also usually higher rated than mass-produced beer but that wasn't the point I was making.)
Google's founders have been talking about urban renewal of a city since they were working on the original iteration of Google in a garage.
the challenge is that this needs to be done consistently - in my town, they built a raised bike lane beside and level with the sidewalk but only for about 100m. it's red concrete and marked with signs and paint, but everywhere else in town bicycling on sidewalks is illegal. If you dare ride your bike on this "bike lane", you get anything from scowled at to sworn at by pedestrians who think you're biking on "their" sidewalk. and of course, the challenge with doing it consistently, even for a small town, is that it's expensive. retrofitting a bike lane on the asphalt only costs as much as some paint.

the cheaper, easier, and move obvious solution is to simply pour a curb separating the bike lane and the car lanes. you don't have to raise the whole bike lane up to sidwalk level, just 6" at the edge. and that's what many cities are doing.
Doesn't GDPR mandates that you need to provide a self-serve way to delete your account?
We might be an early customer at SerpApi. [1]

In your pricing, you say you are selling, for example, P106 at 0.095$/h, but in your explanation, you are saying you are using idle cycle to mine cryptos (or the reverse, idle cycle to process ML tasks). When I rent a P106, do I have full access to the cores or just partial?

[1] https://serpapi.com
> Saudi Arabia is very much a banana republic

Banana republics are characterized by political instability. They also at least pretend to be democracies. Saudi Arabia is relatively stable and is an openly-absolute monarchy.
From the article:
>Lime said its service, which lets customers rent scooters scattered around cities and leave them on the sidewalk for the next person to pick up

I now look for a "Tragedy of the Common" errors in business models. That's it right there: they freely exploit a public resource without care or consequence. The fallacy is evident when we ask "What if everybody does this?"
> “It’s not going to be a smart city of surveillance. It’s going to be a smart city of privacy, and that will be a first.”

I don't believe this. I think this person should be personally tossed in jail when they inevitably are revealed to be collecting far more than people wanted them to.
Meh, I've been on their email list for many years now and I've never seen them make any worthwhile advancement towards even a scale prototype.
I don't buy the logic here, and I'm not sure David Sims does either; this strikes me as one of those headlines that was written by an editor, independently of the article.

There are a lot of those nowadays. Have you noticed too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiE6gI0fYuA

Netflix introduces new programs like Google introduces new chat programs. It's not even an event for them. They just randomly drop them in the middle of the week, as if they don't have time even to promote them.

It looks like Netflix is trying to use the same methods and tactics as YouTube for promoting content by algorithmically presenting content to users. Is Netflix changing itself into an "ecosystem" for show starters and show runners? That would be a nice way to outsource the risk.

Amazon will eventually figure TV out.

Amazon is well positioned to do the same.

But premium cable is over, everything is going to be disintermediated

The same needs to happen to news!
The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart (2006)
Any good links on the approaches you mention, bcheung?
You've already got many good answers. But it's important to note that moving faster than light would break some fundamental rules of relativity, what means that we would have to basically throw the entire theory away.
That's less not needing a debugger by design, more how challenging it is to debug an operating system.
I do agree that HBO's original series are yet unmatched, and that Netflix's and Prime's efforts have not yet reached the same level (I'm personally not a huge fan of "House of Cards"). But HBO as a paid service isn't just competing with exclusives, but with 3rd-party content that Netflix/Prime can license. On Prime, not only is there the soon-to-be exclusive "The Expanse", but they have USA Network's "Mr. Robot", SyFy's "BSG", all the Star Treks (sans "Discovery"), BBC's "Downton Abbey" and "Peep Show". They even have the best of HBO's classics, e.g. Sopranos, Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the remastered version of The Wire.

I used to subscribe to HBO but now only do so when their big drama exclusives are in season (GoT and WW).
AT&T has a history of buying companies, then specifically lobotomizing the factor that made them special.
Sweet.

Time to start RichCoin 2: Totally Different This Time
The article mentions planaria, a type of flatworm that can regenerate from a small piece of tissue. Many experiments with these animals involve cutting them up various ways.[0]

I agree that animal testing is integral to modern medicine, but I also agree with the parent that unnecessarily inflicting pain on even lower animals reflects badly on humanity. How many of these experiments are actually necessary? Do research institutions make the researcher convince them that the suffering is really necessary for medicine, rather than merely to satisfy some curiosity?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarian#Regeneration
As a side note, the next section of the Wikipedia article, describes even more grotesque experiments.
I got a bunch of those errors in chrome a year or so ago - turned out I was on a really old version of Chrome (I didn't realise auto-update wasn't working on their Beta stream at the time), and some ssl cert chain configs became stale (or something like that). Updating my browser fixed it.
Non-von Neumann zettaFLOPS supercomputers, yottaFLOPS cryogenic supercomputers…
I worked at Intel for several years. I really enjoyed myself most of the time and got to work on interesting things.

Because I was not serious about staying at Intel for a long time, I took a lot of risks that made my experience more fun. Most people probably wouldn’t do so.

There was significant beaurecratic bloat and overhead, the whole organization felt stodgy and a lot of the people simply weren’t doing their jobs. This caused me to feel like I constantly had to cross lines I didn’t want to cross in order to execute at a decent pace. I come from a startup background and couldn’t tolerate the endless delays and lack of responsiveness I saw there.

From my part of the company I mostly had a good time but I did see that I would not have a good time at many other parts of the organization. There are a lot of dead product lines with no future that need to get cut. No two ways about it. Cutting those products won’t be fun.

Ossified is a good word for many parts of the company.

I feel like the cultural harm caused by some of the layoffs left many people disenchanted. I heard one ex Intel employee say something like: “I got laid off because I am just another old white man.” That sentiment really is corrosive, I heard of that several times.

Unfortunately, I think the successor to BK is going to be saddled with some ugly clean up work. Or they could be cowards and continue to turn the same crank for wall street. BK cleaned some of the mess (and created several new ones), there are many more to clean.

It’s easy to be too pessimistic.

Intel has unbelievable engineering skills under the hood. They are incredibly dangerous if they are able to shake this off and re-energize.

I hope they find a truly progressive leader and don’t continue their descent into mediocrity.
not commenting on weather facts are sane or not. bloomberg has consistently been publishing negative cryptocurrency articles each time the market goes up to the point of suspicion
> Bike lanes are a disaster... Go to a beach and you can see the correct implementation.

I do agree, but the bike lanes in a city CBD need to serve a different purpose from those at the beach.

The city bike lanes have a lot of commercial traffic (bike couriers) and people commuting, mostly adults, so they are travelling faster and "with intent".

The bike lanes at the beach are for leisure and are much, much slower, without the urgency. A lot more kids on bikes too.
Someone on reddit made a screenshot
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8xbqlv/arm_launches_...
https://imgur.com/a/U2XGVee
Trello’s outstanding for relatively small projects.
Swallowing the elephant (part 1)
Lay Out Your Code Like You'd Lay Out Your House
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fasterlight.php...
According to [1], this is not true - it was intended to be an additive option.

[1] https://www.bretfisher.com/is-swarm-dead-answered-by-a-docke... from https://forums.docker.com/t/is-there-a-roadmap-for-docker-sw...
UK counter-terror bill risks criminalising curiosity – watchdog
Great! Once you rent a P106 you have full access to the GPU, and we don't run mining or ML tasks.

If you want to deploy large-scale computation and significantly reduce your costs, we can help by running mining at the same time under your consent. This only applies to Deep Learning inference.
they cannot send or receive usd from abroad. they can do it with bitcoin. you get now the value proposition of a global currency that is not government controlled?
I threw the article out the second story window here

>They're designed to elicit the answer to that critical question: How hungry are you?

>Hungry people are driven to succeed.
CeramicSpeed’s Driven Concept Might Become the Most Efficient Bicycle Drivetrain
ICML 2018 Accepted Papers Stats: Google on top by large margin
and, one would imagine, a lot of accumulated cruft.
I'll give you the standup comedy selection because I agree it's really quite good. I also like Stranger Things but can't comment on the others. But I actively dislike the Marvel content on Netflix. I find its characters one-dimensional and its plot unmotivated. Some of this is probably the transition from comic books to TV, but on the other hand I love almost everything from the cinematic universe.

I think the biggest problem is that the Marvel cinematic universe seems to have better acting, better writing, superior interconnectedness overall and stakes that are well calibrated to its cast of heroes. In contrast, I find most of the characters' hyperfocus on specific neighborhoods in Marvel's Netflix shows to be frankly ridiculous and annoying. I also find myself wishing the main characters would just kill the villains a few episodes into each series. It boggles my mind how much waffling and angst goes on.

As a followup to your last comment though, my point had nothing to do with HBO becoming Netflix. I don't even think HBO should try to become Netflix at all. I would prefer for HBO to remain the curated content space that it is, precisely because I'm concerned with the quality of content. Strictly speaking, the ratio of quality content to junk on HBO is far, far higher than Netflix's. It's not really about HBO or Netflix being more successful in becoming the other, it's about quality. Regardless of whether or not HBO is close to becoming Netflix, Netflix is so far from becoming HBO I don't even think they could recognize an interstate map outlining the route.
If you can't see that this sort of thing is headed towards the surveillance state of 1984 then you need to wake up.

There is a constant push towards more and more government and corporate surveillance.
you should try to send someone in venezuela money from your mobile phone. the you will understand
No, that's just scrot being buggy

Fixed: https://i.imgur.com/jAVrnBE.png
When I started reading this article I thought it was a work of fiction, imagining a world in which there's a CO2 shortage rather than the famous over abundance which we're currently all aware of. It's odd and sad that there is a demand for the manufacture of carbon dioxide in a world absolutely choking on the excess of it.
the main argument of Blockchain since its a public ledger is totally the opposite. total transparency in government, voting, public expenses etc.
Intel makes them and you can buy them today, with up to 72 Atom CPU cores, e.g. (1) https://ark.intel.com/products/95830/Intel-Xeon-Phi-Processo...

Very niche products.

For massively parallel number crunching, GPUs are much better in both performance/watt and performance/dollar. That Xeon Phi 7290 delivers up to 3.45TFlops, costs $3200, and consumes 245W. Compare with GeForce 1080Ti 10.6 TFlops, $700, same 250W.

For general purpose software they don’t work particularly well either. Most IO interfaces is serial, SATA, PCI-X, they have very few wires going to CPU. If you’re IO bound and you don’t have enough single-thread performance you’ll struggle to saturate the bandwidth, doable but very hard.

Also for general-purpose software latency matters. Namely, input to screen latency for desktops and mobiles, or request to response latency for servers. Get Windows or Android tablet with Intel Atom Z8300 (available for $80-100), and see how it performs, it has 4 very similar cores (minus AVX-512), and frequencies are very similar, too.
Ask HN: Are there any blockchain startups selling a product successfully?
I am trying to better understanding blockchain applications in the real world. Are there any startups using blockchain technology that have actually gained traction in their industry or proved disruptive? Note, I'm interested in finding companies that have actually proved product market fit; not ICOs, big fundraises, or have the potential to be disruptive.
274 users is actually pretty good for a crypto company. Right now FunFair is a $150M company, and they only have 15 daily users.
> that something is "neurotoxic" says little about its practical safety.

It may take much less alcohol to be neurotoxic, so that does say something. Near anything can be harmful given too much.
HBO doesn't make money by producing really good series. They make money by producing series that get people attached, to pay them for years at a time. Bored To Death might have been a fine show, but to a first approximation nobody signed up for HBO just to see it. They can churn out Vice Principals and Barry's and Young Popes, but if they can't reliably keep a Game Of Thrones or (bleh) True Blood in the pipeline, they'll have a hard time justifying their cost.
My 2cents would be if you want yourself to be markatable, anything less then top tier school is waste and won't do any good. But if your objective is to learn and have a new experience then ur good with alot of schools.
I’m a little surprised that ANTLR and L* don’t make the list (ANTLR from the practitioner POV and L* from theory).
Fake sultan was scamming a Miami billionaire. Then he ate pork
Literally half of your posts are unsubstantive and tell other people what to do, like a control freak. Hypocrisy, thy name is dang.
There's an obvious outcome from that: the companies will pay a tax/fee to municipalities for the right to do that. There's no scenario where that doesn't occur universally in the future. Cities love to regulate anything and everything they can within their jurisdiction. If they charge a reasonable fee for it, it's net beneficial. There will be a lot more rules sketched out over time for this type of product.