skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes indeed, several times. I've only travelled in NYC, but nothing really compare to the loudness I've been exposed in the there.
Because they were contractually obligated to do so with their deal with the state. It's part of the reason their merger has just been rescinded.
> "Weinnacht" (itself a compound wine-night)

Weihnachten comes from weih/geweiht meaning hol{y,ied} night.
More comprehensive (enough so that I haven't read every entry): https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules
This would be better if linked directly to the source : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
function fuckgit
rm -rf /tmp/fuckgit/
git clone --no-checkout (git config --get remote.origin.url) /tmp/fuckgit/
rm -rf .git/
mv /tmp/fuckgit/.git .
rm -rf /tmp/fuckgit/
end
Better yet, don’t use push —force at all unless you specifically intend to undo commits on the remote. Resolve conflicts locally and never force push to a shared branch.
Seems like a trend with gym classes. Spin in particular.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/31/17393394/sp...
are you serious.... welcome to the world for literally every era other than hopefully 100 years from now for black people and women
Nothing. They actually are links, not embedded gists.
This sort of sensationalism, in general, is so completely ingrained into reporting that it's hard to separate from journalism itself. It's part of the journalistic style, an inevitability of the medium.

We see an article, click a link, by a paper, but we are never committing to more than a second or two of attention at a time. The headline makes you read the byline. The byline gets you reading the second sentence. At every step, a journalist loses most of her readers. The winning strategy is to increase "story," play to existing opinions, be sensational, use bait... There are flavours and degrees, but by and large writing like this is n inevitability of the medium, of journalism.

If you are reporting on programs that "developed a type of machine-English patois to communicate between themselves.." you are reporting on whether or not the skynet singularity is coming, almost certainly.

If we want something different, I think we'll need a medium change.

Personally, I was hoping e-readers would catalyze a new medium subtype: 30-100 page mini books. A lot of "news cycle.." the drip, drip, sensation of the day journalism just isn't a good way of understanding anything.

What happened between North Korea and the US this year? What's been happening with the Syrian war? Brexit as of July 2018...? I would be very happy to exchange the daily/weekly news bulletins for monthly/quarterly mini books.
I hope by smooth you're referring to the graphics being vector vs bitmap, because Flash performed really badly once you added any kind of complexity to a scene. (edit: simple things worked brilliantly though, and often that was enough.) The key innovation of Flash was and still is the creation side of things in Flash Pro rather than the runtime.

My main experience was with Line Rider. I didn't create it, but I became involved in the community and started making tweaked versions with tools that made it easier to create tracks (as opposed to versions that let you do things like change the physics or the rider).

Every line you added to a track caused a new MovieClip to be added to the scene that had a line drawn in it. By the time you had around 3,000 lines or so you'd start to get reduced framerates. 3,000 lines sounds like a lot, but is tiny when you consider tracks that have accompanying artwork.

A few years ago, we released a JS + WebGL rewrite of Line Rider that has a physics engine that's bug-for-bug compatible with the original (you can play it at https://www.linerider.com/ if you're interested - sorry if that's too self promotional). With access to WebGL and a massively faster ECMAScript runtime, the JS version runs multiple orders of magnitude faster than the original Flash version.

It's now possible to work with tracks that have hundreds of thousands of lines without experiencing frame rate drops as opposed to just a few thousand lines. So as for web platform tech underperforming from a runtime point of view, I disagree.

The problem is that all the ingredients are there to make something great, but the developer effort required is monumental in comparison to how fast it was to make something work with Flash Pro.
This is true. Several aspects of the player were licensed tech. All text rendering, for example.

The _format_ was open, but the implementation was not.
It could definitely do with some replaceState instead of pushState.
Then by artificially deflating their currency for economic benefit.
Modern day advertising owes a great deal to war time “public service” propaganda:

https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/commercial-advertis...

They both invoke the notion that the individual can contribute in a meaningful way through subservient behavior towards goals that are left to be defined by others

It’s capture of our nostalgia; securing the reality we feel comfortable with. It comforts us such that we eschew our own search for novel utilitarian answers, leading us to abide government and corporate solutions
I’m sympathetic to your pessimism, but in this case you specifically have to opt in to allowing your DNA information to be used for research. It’s part of the sign up process.
I think that this illustrates the challenge of this debate. I believe that your perspective is that Amazon are there to make money, provide a component and then the person using that is responsible for the outcomes. However I think that the person providing the service is responsible for who they sell it to and what for. The analogy that I would draw here is with guns; if you sell a gun to a child you should be accountable for that as a misdeed. Note - that's an analogy to try to convey the point I am making, I'm not comparing the misdeeds.
I would agree that English is more redundant than Japanese. Knowing both, a mispronunciation is a much bigger deal in Japanese than in English.

Japanese has significant vowel length, which English doesn't. In Japanese, "un" means "yes", and "uun" means "no". Imagine if "yes" and "yesssss" meant opposite things in English.

Vowel sounds in general are also more approximate in English, and differences are often chalked up to different accents.

Words commonly misinterpreted due to mispronunciation by non-native speakers include "kawaii" (cute) and "kowai" (scary), as well as "sawatte" (touch it) and "suwatte" (sit down).

It's _much_ more common for people to stare at you in confusion when you slightly mess up a pronunciation in Japan than in the US.
Looking for experienced team to take over startup, 7000+ users, Web/iOS/Android
Could've been deleted due to long periods of inactivity.
The only possibly unethical thing here is if equity was used as a carrot when hiring you. Other than that- do you like the job? Are you happy with the pay?
Copyright isn't really a right in the sense of the public freedoms/choice.

It's there to limit publishing and distribution to only those with the legal document saying they can. It's more of a anti-right. In fact historically it was created for the purpose of censorship.
Very much looks like it's true, but I don't know when that trick first was discovered:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=amiga+14-bit+sound
Unfortunately I bought a license for MapTiler and then I lost it when I reinstalled my pc. They preferred to do email ping-pong instead of giving me my license back. Apparently you have to "release" the license before reinstalling the pc. Because this is what you have to put up with if you try to be fair and actually pay for software...
You're implying that's universally true, but it's not even close. Even places where tuition is that high (which is not all "decent" places), scholarships and financial aid can completely change the equation.
No clue why am I being downvoted? Maybe it will help to show my point if I say more... Windows didn't always have WGA on it, but people have been paying for Windows for decades. My first Windows license was Windows for Workgroups. 95 and 98 didn't have WGA, and earlier versions of XP didn't have it either. WGA came labeled as a "Critical Security Update."

People paid money and bought computers that came bundled with Windows licenses, and then they paid money for Windows major updates, and then ultimately Microsoft decided to bundle most of the updates for free. But one day in one of the free updates, they added in WGA (how is this not bait and switch of loyal paying customers? My operating system needs to phone home for security reasons?). But you had to opt-in. Then they decided in a later free update that it wasn't such a great idea to allow their users to permanently opt out, and their software got increasingly aggressive about making sure WGA was always enabled. You could opt out, but it tried again. And finally you just couldn't opt out anymore.

Then they used dark patterns to ensure you would think you needed a Microsoft account just to log into their computers. Wait was it your computer? Now this article about someone whose Microsoft account was closed without explanation and they're up shit-creek for it.

Is this not all absolutely part of the same conversation? It's a long history with a lot going on in it. This is not a rant against Microsoft, but a cautionary tale against depending on SaaS and letting it creep into your stack, as that's apparently also what Windows has become now, too.

I was 10 years old in the 1990's and recently I realized that I had actually convinced (or suppressed) in my memory that IE was never really a monopoly, but the historical statistics on browsers tell a very different story. So maybe my memory is not so good about IE, and given that I switched to an Open Source system in my teenage years and didn't look back, perhaps that can be excused, but still most people actually haven't. (Hell, some are still using IE...)

I guess it's true that, with the coming of the Internet, and the possibility that you could easily download and pirate Windows, if everyone knows this and WGA doesn't happen in 2008, then your security is legitimately at risk if Microsoft can't profit off of Windows, because then they won't have any incentive left to provide updates except at cost... and you need updates (we need you to get updates, it's like a vaccine that herd immunity only works to stamp out the disease if most people get innoculated.)

Microsoft is much bigger now than when the internet was new, and I think are not really worried about making a profit off of Windows anymore. But as a Windows user, I think that understanding of the history and assessment of the current state of where we are at with Windows profitability and updates would be troubling, for me.
Applets, unless especially privileged by the user, run in a sandbox that prevent them from interacting with the local OS [1]. They certainly cannot run EXEs, again, unless the user consents.

In theory the Applet sandbox works really well. It's an extremely secure environment that's been deployed widely in the most demanding conditions -- think banks and governments. In practice the Applet security model encountered the following problems:

(1) Users are really, really dumb. They are happy to grant escalated privileges to the some 3D farming game they stumbled upon on the internet. Users will literally click on anything you tell them to. [2]

(2) Getting users to upgrade Java was terribly difficult. This meant when a real security flaw was discovered it might hang around for years and years and years. There was no mechanism to force users to upgrade Java or to actively disable Java installations proven insecure.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/se...

[2] https://www.trustedsec.com/2013/04/java-7-update-21-applet-s...
I do delete my teweets every few months. They don't get any engagement, and any that would ever see them already did.
Is there any package manager using P2P technology (e.g. Bittorrent) to speed up transfer? Or would this generally a bad idea?
You might find this an interesting read: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/technology/how-to-give-ru...
If you cannot name it, it shouldn't exist
Much, much, much easier said than done.
Another native English person here, so usual disclaimers.
I have visited and traveled extensively from an early age around the southern Netherlands (Noord-Brabant) due to my parents meeting and befriending a Dutch couple whilst traveling there before I was born.

I have found levels of English there to also be excellent, one possible reason could be that English language television and radio broadcasts (BBC etc) have been available to the Dutch for decades, and in a lot of cases actively consumed. That was certainly the case when I was there as a child.
Java applets never enabled arbitrary code execution. (Where do people even come up with this stuff?) Spend five minutes on Google and you can learn about the Applet sandbox which prevented Applets from doing most anything but draw to a section of the browser window and connect back to their origin server (not unlike Javascript).
Are artifacts objects or processes?
Music Visualization with p5.js
I agree with the overall theme of the article. People certainly overreact. It lost me when it attempted to make it a gendered issue. If anything, it has it backwards.

Imagine that we had an article that described the tyranny of high expectations at work for men? And how privileged women were because expectations were so low that something incompetent for a man would be fine for a woman? I worry that we got stuck on 'men are privileged' and are incapable of seeing anything else in any facet of life. Any gap between men and women is measured with the same male privilege yardstick.
As other commenters noted, medallions were (are) intended as an exclusive license to pick up street fares/hails. For many years before Uber existed, a separate class of service called "for-hire vehicles" (FHVs), commonly known as black cars or Town Cars, existed and doesn't seem to have been part of the medallion exclusivity (at least in NYC).

Here's the closest I could find to a primary source documenting the difference between a medallion and a black car in NYC: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/industry/for_hire.shtml (see related links from that page).

At least based on what I can find on the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission site, the TLC never required that FHVs use a central base/dispatch, and even clarified in 2015 that a central dispatch/base was not required (http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/downloads/pdf/newly_passed_rule_...).

If this assessment is accurate, that is (a) medallion owners never had exclusivity for prearranged rides and (b) a central base isn't required, then as soon as smartphones were everywhere (and thus almost all rides were easier to prearrange in an app), medallion demand was eventually going to drop. Medallion owners didn't realize that they legitimately competed with any new methods of prearranging a ride, including smartphone apps -- their competition wasn't black cars, it was prearranged rides. If Uber hadn't created the market, a black car operator probably would have eventually.

Presumably they'd have started with existing FHV drivers (as Uber did when it was UberCab), but the NYC FHV requirements are straightforward enough that they could have recruited and licensed new drivers as demand grew (https://nyc.drivewithvia.com/get-a-tlc-fhv-license/, https://dmv.ny.gov/driver-license/get-license-drive-taxi-or-...).

(And to play out the medallion exclusivity: if a new, improved method of ride hailing was created, medallion owners would have exclusively benefited. If you've seen a taxi line/taxi hub serving multiple hotels in a downtown business district, one could call that an innovation which made hailing more competitive. Imagine if taxis had installed tiny kiosks with taxi call buttons and self-service credit card readers throughout the city, and guaranteed a taxi would be there in 2 minutes after a fare swiped.)
Meh. Not to be a debbie downer, but that's the most basic courtesy you can offer to cyclists, and even that isn't telling half the story. In central Europe anyway, Google Maps is unusable for creating cycling tracks or directions.

There are much better alternatives, such as komoot or Strava or GPSies (I'm not affiliated.)

As important as (and sometimes more important than) the profile in a section is the gradient. The Google map doesn't tell me if there's going to be a 10% or 20% piece, and I can't glean it from the curve, because depending on the length of the track, the relations change.

Additionally, it's very important to know what kind of road you're on, and what kind of surface that road has. The thing only Google could do here, and doesn't, is to tell me how busy (with cars) the roads are and offer me a way around busy roads. Komoot at least shows me the type of road or street and its surface.

See this: https://imgur.com/a/j20XOmi (from komoot.)

the hill in the middle looks scary, but the line along its ridge tells me the gradient isn't steep. Yellow is 8% (it tells you on hover). It tells me what percentage (and where) the road is a bike road, or larger road, etc.

Strava on the other hand has heat maps: https://www.strava.com/heatmap which tell you where local cyclists like to go. One caveat is that it shows you where local road cyclists and mountain bikers like to go. Those folks can have vastly different understanding of what viable road conditions are from each other, and from you.

Unfortunately, planning cycling tracks is still a chore, and getting it wrong can be dangerous or at least unpleasant. The market is there, but it's nowhere near as huge as for cars.
Original paper is at:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05376-1

Related question on Math Stack Exchange:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2864794/the-scutoid...
I see what you're saying, but I think it's safe to say they were suggesting it is expensive to the individual if they get sick, not to their entire society. The two are very different problems.

Yes, the burden of healthcare costs in places with universal healthcare are spread across all taxpayers, but for that you get a society that can be reasonably confident that getting sick won't bankrupt them (especially if your socialised healthcare nation also has good welfare).

It's easy to dismiss as a "won't happen to me" kind of thing, but in reality it can happen to anyone. A couple of years ago my wife was suddenly admitted to hospital for a couple of weeks and then physical therapy for 6+ months and it didn't cost us anything except her lost income. In the US that could've easily run us several hundred thousand dollars with bad or no insurance. There's a reason medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the USA.[0]

[0] https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/05/01/this-is-the-no-1-...
Sen. Ron Wyden on breaking up Facebook, net neutrality, and the CDA
It’s also extremely easy to introduce human error into this process unless you’ve had a lot of practice.
Not necessarily. If there is 110% as much food as people need food can be cheap, the surplus has little to no value. The price is making not determined by infrastructural constraints and personal preferences. But if there is 1% less food than people need the price will suddenly go through the roof.

We see this with oil prices. The price across the demand/supply balance point is nothing like linear.
OP here.

I found this paper after a brief reflection on twitter [0] about how we as humans tend so massively to undervalue the power of imagination in favor of pure inductive/deductive logic.

[0] https://twitter.com/leonardofed/status/1018515656067645441
By insisting on the primacy of IP law, your viewpoint takes for granted that it is a moral imperative that other countries pay a tax to US companies for using advanced technology. You may feel that this is righteous if the technology was invented in the US, but other countries may just see it as a tax going to a much richer nation.
> If we keep having to subsidise these areas because it is uneconomical to build infrastructure there, and most new technologies require infrastructure development, does it really make sense for people to keep living there?

Do you like to eat? You can't run a farm inside a city. You also can't run a farm alone, so there needs to be a community and infrastructure around those farms.
Aaah, I have been meaning to play around with this program for a few years now, but I never get around to it.

The idea, though, is really, really cool!
Can you explain how one gives consent? Is it opt-in or opt-out? Is there any judgemental language to try to convince people to consent?
They removed the stump joke from later (CD onward?) editions because it generated too many calls to support about missing disks. Damn shame! :)
Where do you live to have 25% loss to taxes from the state + City? Your marginal is 25% to fed...
Is this those weird PA taxes? 50% is lol material or you are getting scammed by your accountant.
What do you think of Wiktionary? That's been my go-to for a long time.
I'm wondering if they meant to embed them.
One major caveat on that in the case of DNA. I would never sign away rights to my DNA data. However, my mother had no problems doing that, filled me in as a child, and now 23andMe has half of my genetic profile without my consent.

It reminds me of the friends of friends workaround that FB kept doing which made me delete my account.
IMHO, implementing the projects required in engineering & CS curricula teaches you much more than writing papers does in a humanities program. Thus reading books autodidactically misses the target less in the humanities than in engineering.
The fact that a regulation is easy to extract because it is imposed as part of a merger approval has no bearing on the economic effects of that regulation (except to the extent that the condition is directly aimed at reducing the anti-competitive impact of the merger, e.g. a spin-off requirement, which is not the case here).

To go back to OP's point: the government telling a company that the have to service a bunch of uneconomic households is a subsidy to those households. Either other customers' costs will rise in order to pay for that service, or capital will be diverted from upgrading or expanding service to economic customers. There is a very large economic cost to servicing uneconomic customers--that money has to come from somewhere. The idea that you can rig the merger so that it comes out of corporate profits with no consumer impact is nonsense.
> Validating email addresses with regular expressions can make sense from a UX perspective

... only to people who are not listening to the complaints from users whose perfectly valid mailboxes are rejected by such systems. It seems somewhat hypocritical for designers to go on about "good user experience" when the user experience in practice turns out to be that it is impossible to give the system their actual electronic mail addresses at all.

* https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#emails
I've always wondered about this kind of companies what's really stopping them from giving access to your data to your employer, your health insurance provider or any law enforcement/state organization. Of course any of those things would be illegal, but that hasn't stopped people before. I can't think of any data about you more sensitive than this.
If insurance are to pay $ for the data, is there way to limit such usage? Any Legal way? When someone sign up for service with 23, is there any causes from 23 on what ever document one sign to limit insurance companies from accessing the data?
There seems to be a bit of a 'renaissance' at least for some jungle producers to produce on the gear as used in the early 90s.

Amigas feature prominently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WeKUEL6GNE
I think this is the only thing GSK interested in investing.