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Immigrants have a hard enough time as it is getting access to this country. They can spend a decade or more going to the trouble of raising funds (not just burning free VC money), getting sponsorship/visas, emigrating, assimilating, and dropping serious capital to secure just an abstract right to operate a business, only to see their efforts trampled by a competitor that outscales and outperforms them by (your own admission!) cheating the same system.

What recourse did he have? To this day government response to Uber's incursions has been mostly toothless.

I'm no friend of the taxi lobby but the guy was just trying to do right by his family up until he killed himself. While I don't see how Uber could realistically be held responsible for this guy's suicide, their undercutting his business certainly contributed to it, and you're being needlessly callous.
If you can prove that you voted for who you voted for, you can sell your vote to a third party. They can ensure that you're not betraying them.
That depends on your choice of training framework and runtime engine (TF Lite/TF Mobile/Numericcal/Caffe2/etc.). We wrapped multiple runtime engines to provide as much flexibility as possible, quickly. For example, some layers available in TF Mobile are not available in TF Lite (and TF Lite is slower, for now!).

That being said, if there is no converter between the training format and runtime format, you're out of luck (for now). Our runtime (targeted primarily at Qualcomm SnapDragon SoCs) supports the most common layers and some more exotic ones that our users needed. For other engines we simply pull the standard package that vendors provide.
A paper trail doesn’t disinfranchise anyone. It’s an important detail.
Maybe it's just me, but the homepage takes 2.74 seconds to load. I wouldn't exactly call that spectacular.
I was very surprised to open the gemfile and see a gem I wrote "s3_direct_upload" being used. Especially considering there is native support to upload files directly to s3 in rails 5.

Then I looked at the repo and realized, wow people are still using this gem, maybe I should maintain it.
Do you have any recommendations for sensors I can buy? I don’t know If I would be able to build one.
It’s ironic that this was passed this morning, because this morning a power issue at Canal managed to knock out all service on the A/C/E line for hours... leaving me to have to get a Lyft to work. For the second time in a week. I’m all for greater regulation for ridesharing companies, but making it even harder to get around at a time the subway is in full crisis is a terrible idea.
Speaking of processors on a USB stick, is there any cheaper alternative to the USB Armory? : https://inversepath.com/usbarmory
That "integrity" commission was largely tasked with voter fraud, not overall integrity. See which states are doing the most egregious voter-list purging (i.e. using first name, last name comparison to determine if two database entries are the same; ignoring: middle initial, race, DoB, etc.)
This is flat out untrue. You don't need to provide any of that information to Apple in order to activate an iPhone. I know this because I've had to activate a phone (iPhone 7) that's on the latest OS with a dead SIM card and was able to bypass both the iCloud step and the iTunes account step without entering any info.

There seems to be a lot of this willful misinformation being posted around this article. I wonder why HN is now getting inundated with this anti-Apple nonsense.
A model that just talks about "the first N elements of this allocation are initialized" or even "this contiguous subsequence is initialized" is very limiting. E.g. it doesn't allow for a ring buffer, nor a hashmap that leaves some locations uninit.

I don't see how baking special cases for safety into the compiler is any better than having more general tooling, and constructing safe wrappers in Rust.

Also, just for some context, you're often complaining that Rust is too complicated comparing it to C++. Your desires for extra power to reason about pointer-soups (or writing inductive proofs in the language, rather than using existing tooling for it) aren't going to fix that at all, and indeed are likely to add a whole extra level of complexity.

It doesn't seem like a good use of time, or "language-complexity budget", to have the language features that specifically allow `Vec<T>` to be implemented safely, when that can all just be done in (not-that-complicated) normal Rust code. Additionally, reasoning about code (i.e. feeling satisfied in its correctness) is almost always easier than reasoning about code that reasons about code (i.e. feeling satisfied that the proof-checker/compile will correctly prove other code's correctness).
There are some good resources out there. Especially at the HRC. Mostly it's just overtly saying "You are welcome here." But there are other things like single user gender neutral restrooms and anti-discrimination policies. Making dress codes transgender friendly helps too.

https://www.hrc.org/resources/employer-resources
Uber already does surge pricing which has a similar effect as congestion tax.
These systems are totally obtainable. It is only liability holding the movement back (since an accidental dose of insulin can kill). Even that is just slowing down the process. The largest difference in quality of life for those with diabetes, imho, is still better quality insulin. Humalog/Novolog are the fastest. For me personally, they begin work in about 30 mins and peak after an hour, with a tapering tail of 1-2 hours. By contrast, natural insulin works within a couple of minutes. For these devices, the largest tech bottleneck has been the CGM, since the technology for delivery and control logic is akin to a PID. Only 2 fronts remain to mechanically cure t1d: an accurate, second-by-second CGM; and a faster insulin analog. Only 1 front remains to have a mostly "hands off" but still clunky mechanical cure—the C.G.M. From there, it is simply a matter of comfort and convenience.

The quality of life difference between managed diabetes and unmanaged diabetes is astounding. Having an A1C higher than 8 or so is almost like going through life constantly tipsy, without any of the fun. Also, as is typical with any health condition, diet and lifestyle play an enormous role. For me, heavy daily exercise and good eating has made diabetes management ridiculously easy.

Lastly, "move fast and break things" emphatically does not work with insulin delivery devices. Overdoses of insulin are debilitating, can occur without the patient's knowledge, and can lead to impairment (like car/equipment accidents), unconsciousness, brain damage, or death after a short while.
That page mentions that it supports the google-cloud-python libraries, which are the primary GCP gRPC client libraries for Python. The Apiary service-discovery library you are referring to is called google-api. The new GAE version doesn't support the old GAE-only libraries, like memcache, datastore, etc. These older services only worked with GAE, and therefore weren't portable to other services, which they are in the process of replacing. If I recall, the old version didn't support the google-cloud-python libraries either, so it's good to see that they are moving in that direction. I could be wrong about that though.

In short, it looks like you have access to the main GCP gRPC libraries. You don't have access to the GAE-only service libraries.

Disclaimer: was former GCP customer support.
Go 1.11beta3 is in average 11x faster for crypto/tls benchmarks on ARM64
Hey HN, site author here! So, the context for this site is that I was reminiscing about the days of Geocities and Angelfire, back when the web was quirky and fun. I remembered how sites used to use the <bgsound> tag to include an autoplaying background MIDI file. Those files had such a nice, old-school aesthetic.

I wanted to hear some MIDIs, so I searched and found a .zip file with 100K+ MIDI files that someone posted to Reddit. I tried playing a few in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc. and then realized that they've all dropped the <bgsound> tag. Even Quicktime and VLC couldn't play back the files.*

There were some websites that could convert MIDI to low-quality MP3, and technically Apple still offers Quicktime 7 for download which can play MIDI, but it wasn't easy or fun to do.

Some websites offered inline playback with Flash (but it was flaky and hard to get working in Chrome), and the JS-based ones were missing many instruments or multi-MB Emscripten-compiled monstrosities!

I decided that I'd compile the best MIDI player written in C (libtimidity) to WebAssembly and put in lots of effort to optimize the bundle and include the minimal amount of code. The result of that is here: https://github.com/feross/timidity It's quite lightweight - just 34 KB of JavaScript and 23 KB of lazy-loaded WebAssembly.

Then I put a frontend on it, so it's easy to browse that .zip file's contents. And that's BitMidi.

I plan to ingest a lot more MIDI files in the future, perhaps from the Geocities MIDI archive on the Internet Archive.

Feedback welcome!

* I later learned that VLC can actually play most MIDIs and I just got unlucky with the few I tried! That's okay though – I got to learn a lot about MIDI files, Emscripten, WebAssembly, and modern front-end web techniques. And I made a cool site too :)
> slightly larger than that of Australia.

This is false. It's slightly smaller.
Are you sure about this? Maybe this is true on avenues, but at least with the new york I know well (grew up in greenwich village), the streets are very narrow (one parking lane and one driving lane is already tricky), with avenues sometimes being wider.
What word or phrase are you having trouble with?
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The mentorship pool is mostly focused on AI and related fields, and it's high leverage for relatively few resources invested (check out https://aigrant.org/)
Check out these resources published by the HRC:

https://www.hrc.org/resources/employer-resources

Also, you may have an LGBT employee. We tend to be only as visible as we are comfortable. There really is no way to tell.
I frequently see Reddit posts with an AMP URL that then goes on to render terribly in a full screen browser.
Can you share some writeup or repo for your project?

We internally have an auto-migration tool (currently very primitive) that can learn from cloud hosted model and cache it locally on the device (that's what this infra & packaging was built for ;)).
Which is good, as he is one of the few concerned about vote fraud.
What constitutes a failure vs. a success? Even if we[0] permit limitless high-density housing, there's a limit to the number of people an environment[1] can hold. Pushing an environment to the limit of it's carrying capacity strikes me as a risky proposition.

[0]I say "we", but I am not a resident of the bay.

[1]by "environment" I mean not just air, water, physical space etc., but also infrastructure, good govenance, and other public goods.
If you're losing much of that to fees, you're investing in the wrong funds with the wrong firms. Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab: no fee, low-expense ratio total market index funds. In my target retirement fund, I'm paying $16 per year per $10,000 invested, and that's not the lowest ER fund you can find.
If your energy retailers aren't offering a simple TOU tariff, I feel like an automatic auction system is going to be several bridges too far for them.

You should try writing to them and asking if they have any plans for TOU - they might not realise there's any demand for it.
Yeah, well there's no other coin out there which even approaches BTC's share, so calling it a "minority coin" is a bit disingenuous. You make it sounds like there are bigger players out there, which there aren't, and the entire point of your initial comment was to downplay the importance of BTC.

>Although I'd like to point out that bitcoin is now a rather small fraction of the whole spectrum of crypto economy

So really, a "rather small fraction"? c'mon.
I read it differently. This legislation is good for Uber, because it lays the groundwork for severe regulatory capture where Uber can use the cap to prevent competitors from having any chance to gain critical customer bases.

It’s an anti-competition decision disguised as if city hall is doing something for the people.

Now Uber just has to lobby to have its cap raised or be allocated a greater portion, and steadily push others out.

This way Uber can get the transit monopoly it wants but without having to do the hard work of making the product profitable at a price point that drivers and riders actually value, which it currently papers over with VC funding and distraction stories about branching into other lines of business that are clearly not significant.
This is a result of poor logistics on the part of Uber and Lyft. There are a large number of Ubers and lyfts that will drop off and have to leave the airport without a passenger, meanwhile, you can call you car and be told it's a 10min wait as someone who isn't even on premises accepts the fare.
Because you also used a voting ring (next to astroturfing). Admire the hustle, though a bit too naughty.
No, there’s no receipt. That’s what’s so confidence eroding out it. All you have to show for your effort is an “I voted” sticker with a peach on it.
I don't know about that. If a person doesn't want to say so, it's almost impossible to determine if a person is LGB or T. Especially people you are extremely close to. We tend to be blind about that sort of thing.
I wouldn't, I've used their filters and followed them from the very beginning. It is an inexpensive solution but comes with its own serious flaws. They're very noisy which doesn't really work well in rooms where you actually live. They also suffer from poor CADR (Clean Air Delivery Rate) as those fans were never designed to handle high pressure differentials (before/after filter) unless you run them at full speed which is noisy.

The project is interesting nonetheless, it helped demystifying purifiers and rectify the market prices in China (with other brands like Phillips and Xiaomi). Their new product for professional spaces is quite good.
Death by a thousand cuts. Everyone wants to add just one little resource, until you end up with 8MB pages with 20 seconds time to interactive. They can all make a plausible argument for how their one little resource will improve the bottom line, even considering the performance impact. If you have one person or one team responsible for performance, they're constantly fighting on all fronts just to stand still. You need a business-wide performance-oriented culture, which is very difficult to develop and maintain.
True protected bike lanes with signaling priority that you see in cities like Seattle would be near impossible to implement in manhattan given that on all the wider crosstown streets downtown, there are major bus routes running along them that need a curb to pick people up at (although I'd also be happy just banning non commercial vehicles from lower manhattan in general where we implemented park and rides at all the closest subway/path stops).
He has wide, eclectic musical tastes too -- country and western.
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I would say that because I'm familiar with the NYC area!

There's expensive tolls, and limited & expensive parking, but excellent public transportation – the USA's most extensive and most-used subway system. NY state has the nation's highest (regressive!) gas taxes.

New York is far-and-away the US city with the lowest rate of car ownership:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_most_...

Manhattan is the most likely place for congestion pricing. But, though rare in the USA, many Manhattanites never learn to drive! And only 8% of Manhattanite workers commute by car to work:

https://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-yorkers-and-their-cars

(I highly doubt that 8% is correlated with the poorest Manhattanites.)

Car-owning households in NYC are significantly richer than zero-car households:

http://blog.tstc.org/2017/04/21/car-free-new-york-city/

So, people who elect to drive in NYC (outside of driving-on-the-job) are richer than the New Yorkers who don't drive. Further, New Yorkers are richer than other Americans. Ergo, a fee that falls on people who choose to drive in NYC is unlikely to be "regressive", barring any actual evidence to the contrary.
A poll worker isn't the general public, though, that's still a limited number of privileged individuals. The general public would be literally anyone off the street.

And a single poll worker still wouldn't be able to verify all of the votes in an election. There's still an insurmountable trust issue where most of the public has to accept the results from what amounts to a black box, which paper ballots don't entirely solve.
Why I Hate Tesla
Seriously? I also live in Brooklyn and commute by subway (the C, specifically), and when it works it’s great... which is maybe 60% of the time.
I'm a dev and I understand the frustration of multiple resource load and the bandwidth burden it imposes but also as an entrepreneur and business owner, I see the need for metrics when making a sales pitch.

> Your job is to show why both parties’ incentives are actually aligned, not opposed.

This!

It's your job to do just that because of your vantage point i.e. you're able to see everything more broadly than anyone else. Understanding that all the stakeholders in your organization are doing something important that allows everyone to have a place to come to work to tomorrow is critical for you as the engineer.
Astronomers report the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered
I agree, I personally thing Efail is very underrated, but it falls sort of in the middle between "degree of difficulty" and "impact". My original gut feeling was that Efail should win in a walk, but the Slack talked me down from it.

I think KRACK deserves a lot more love too.

A really good year for applied crypto research.
Issues with Gmail IMAP as voiced by other people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16951363

https://www.dvratil.cz/2014/06/improved-gmail-integration-in...

https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/gmail/9A5oYELFbu8/7iq...

https://github.com/mscdex/node-imap/issues/71

https://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/1247...

Sure you can still access Gmail through IMAP, but if it works differently enough that using a standard IMAP client feels cumbersome and unfamiliar, is it really anything else than a vehicle to tell people that they should really just use the "better" Google product directly?

That said, my original wording of "requiring" the Gmail API was poor and I should have phrased it more accurately.
No, that is not how CDOs work.

The way that securitization works is that you take many thin streams of cash from individual loans, and bundle them into a giant river of money. That river will dry up at some point, and what point depends on how much defaulting there is. You then take horizontal chunks out of that river and sell them off. The first few slices are low risk - they will pay off even if lots of people default. The last one is very high risk indeed and are only worth pennies on the dollar, if that.

The principle is that it is safe not because it is bundled with better debt, but because those bonds still pay even if lots of people default. They may pay late, but they should pay.

However the models quantifying the risk assumed that there was a lot less correlation in defaults than there actually was. So when the housing market moved against the loans at the same time as people lost jobs in the financial crisis, investments that were supposed to be safe suddenly weren't.

I could believe 7% as the losses in bonds that originated as AAA bonds. But not as the losses in AAA bonds.
A writeup is at https://steemit.com/twilio/@zitterbewegung/mms2text-let-your....

I have a repository of the software at https://github.com/zitterbewegung/mms2text .
There's a difference between non-discriminatory and friendly.

Non-descriminatory is the bare minimum to meet the requirements. It's being not explicitly homophobic, biphobic, or transphobic. It means you won't prevent my career growth because I'm LGBT.

LGBT Friendly means I feel just as comfortable talking about my same-sex partners as you would about your girlfriend.

One is "putting up" with it because you legally have to; the other is going the extra mile (or even inch) to help everyone feel welcome in a world that is not always so welcome.
Sorry, I'm confused now. You stated above that JFK has passengers going both ways - so isn't this exactly the kind of fare an Uber would want to take on?
Wikipedia and the like are fine when each contribution is usually quite independent.

AI pursuit often involves a singular potential breakthrough idea that's larger than one person can work on in isolation, for any reasonable time frame. Certainly a group of people with low living expenses might be able to run a team of 3-4 people with this sort of budget, but it sounds like it's intended for individual researchers.
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I saw a cool project that uses an Android phone in lieu of the original keyboard. The signal from the keyboard is spoofed via the magnetic field of the phone's speaker
Love the visualization you're doing with how salary scales at different companies. It's often overlooked
Totally reasonable. I was more (be/a)mused than suspicious. I'm excited to see what gets funded!
FYI, responding to the parent comment, I've found out that the e-bikes were kind of unbanned a few months ago[1].

Kind of because you can go 20+mph on a regular bike without pedal assist. It seems like e-bikes are still banned statewide. Eh.

[1]https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/04/new-york-city...
What's the nature of your data? Is it static or dynamic?
My bank has a $100 minimum for transaction alerts. Sigh.
A few of us think the project is very much worth upvoting! The bot checker should appreciate that :)
The object system is IMO the best feature of Julia. All functions are multiple dispatch, so the expression problem is more or less solved. This makes it easy to do things like allowing users to define custom sparse matrix types and use them seamlessly with other matrices and vectors. It makes it easy to abstract away implementation details in a much greater way than Python or R.
So we need a product that uses large amounts of nearly free electricity that can be produced during specific parts of the day. Maybe some sort of smart aluminum factory, hydrogen generator or water purifier. Then again, maybe the capital depreciation would necessitate continuous usage.
There is Dexcom too. https://www.dexcom.com/
The other part of the context is Lime and Bird (scooter rentals), which are expanding like crazy in other cities in the US.
What exactly is the b^) face? Smily staring cyclops? If it's an emotion, it escapes me.
There is no shortage of asshole kids who use SWAT teams in exactly that way. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting#Injuries_or_deaths_du... for a list of some notable cases.
"Despite some early hiccups, polls show that 417% of voters support using these voting machines."