skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The canary is still there, as linked by a person claiming to be an employee in the comments.
Yep, you're totally right. I misspoke.
Again, Disney did exactly that. They ruthlessly exploited Alice in Wonderland and built an empire on it. And you're arguing that no one should be able to do the same. This is the definition of unfair.

I see we're very far apart and probably won't find some common ground, but the way I feel about the situation is that as automation removes the rest of manual labor jobs, people will need to specialize. And modding old ideas is one of the few ways people could specialize and make a living for themselves. You're free to disagree here, but the future is coming, and one day we'll both be gone. The best ideas, however, will be around. And it's hard to imagine that the best idea is not to let anyone else use anything you've thought of for your entire life plus ninety years.
> Because voting softwares don't solve any real problem while creating a horde of its own

It solves some problems that have been introduced over time in most election systems. Primarily, time to count/verify, ease of access and verifiability. To say that paper doesn't have these problems shows a lack of understanding or a willful intent to mislead. The boxes of uncounted votes from the Bush/Gore election (https://www.theacru.org/horace_cooper_bush_v_gore_redux/) were a watershed moment that could have affected change beyond the locality.

> Paper ballot is a perfect technology once you introduce optical readers, and when in doubt, you can always re-count everything again.

There are weaknesses with transport or tampering the same as any mechanical recording or electronic recording.

It's important to narrow the intent of a typical modern voting system, with "should haves" rather than hand waving away useful tools.

* Votes should have only been counted from voting membership (registered voters, for example).

* The intent (choices)/member information should have confidence that this data is opaque to inspection without a private/public key respectively. Yes, voters would have to generate their own, as that's an attack vector.

* A voting member should have the ability to track that the vote was counted at all in a given race via a reversible process, which would necessarily include the public and private key.

> You can't get that kind of transparency with voting software.

You can, but the US wont. It's an important distinction that is patently obvious.

Today, most vote tracking systems are electronic, although the ballot was paper. What's the point of half the process being paper? The US government is too inefficient, demotivated, and lacking the impetus to retrain the populace to make any system that is reliable.
The cities have reasonable legislation. There's a permitting process for getting commercial access to public space.

Of course, I'm not going to conflate "reasonable" with "expedient to the growth needs of <random_startup>".

Having dispensed with any decent respect for the city's prerogative to legislate commercial conduct for the well-being of all residents, the scooter companies chose to annex public sidewalks for storing their assets. As a citizen, that sort of flagrant disrespect for civil mores doesn't make me very sympathetic to whatever problems their littering policy causes the scooter-rental entrepreneurs.

It's not civil disobedience to get rid of these things when they're left on the sidewalk. It is fidelity to an ideal of civil society where sidewalks are for walking, and not to be blithely annexed by people with more venture funding than manners.

My preferred take would be to collect a bunch of em, pull the electronics & batteries, and weld them into a jungle-gym for a park or elementary school that needs one.
Having never used it, I wonder, could Julia replace Python as the de-facto standard in scientific computing and data analysis? What does it do well?
Instapaper is owned by the two people who signed this post. For 21 days now.
Look into OFX for pulling down account and transaction data It’s the api that TurboTax, Quicken, and others have used for years and you can use it too. It’s a little outdated in its design and implementations are hit or miss on the banking side. But for most large banks it works.
Show HN: Static StackOverflow
Norway have introduced smart-meters that measure consumption with quite high frequency - I think something like every hour. Some concerns about privacy have been raised, and it's possible to be exempted with a doctors notice.
> the standard, clean, regulated experience I have every time I jump into a yellow or green cab

Huh, haven't been in one where the driver wasn't on the phone in ages. Two weeks ago, my black friend was refused pick-up. Brooklyn-based friends are regularly refused transport. At least the credit card machine broken trick stopped a few years ago.
From the article:

The City Council approved a package of bills that will halt new licenses for Uber and other ride-hail vehicles for a year while the city studies the booming industry. The legislation also allows the city to set a minimum pay rate for drivers.

So not quite the leap made in your comment.
That literally translates to sucking-goat in Portuguese.
Excellent comment, thank you for phrasing this so clearly.
It's cleaner than anything in Silicon Valley and less crowded than NYC. Timeliness and reliability are quite lacking though. It desperately needs rolling stock that wasn't due to be EoL'd a decade ago and it needs proper management which the thinly veiled jobs program known as the MBTA doesn't seem to be able to provide.

edit: apparently SF is not representative of public transit in other cities in California.
Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port
In Chinese at least, most characters are not pictographic, but phonetic-semantic: https://www.hackingchinese.com/phonetic-components-part-1-th...

> while pictographs are pretty and easy to explain, they only make up around 5% of all characters. Phonetic-semantic components, on the other hand, make up almost 80% of all characters
I wonder what would be reasons of these who already decided not to write an answer here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_bias
> I agree your plan would technically work, but it would be filled with exceptions, loopholes, and political handouts. That is rather fitting for NYC though.

The end result of which would be a whole bunch of people paying a congestion tax who aren't paying one today.
"16K" is what's needed to get a literally retina display in VR apparently. We're a ways off (though making progress).
A split keyboard would be a very good idea.

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/comfortable-ergo-keyboard/
Are ride-hailing licenses transferable?

How much would a ride-hailing license cost to buy from an existing operator right now in NYC.
Thank God there's no electronic push scooters there, though. That would be the tipping point /s
Ride sharing in general is worsening traffic and causing less utilization of mass transit.

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2018/02/ride-sharing-actua...

We have to find a way to have better more effective cities built for people that utilize walking, biking, and transit. The less cars the better:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-11/fight-cli...

We have to find a way to stop the laziness/traffic/transit abandonment that spreads with ride sharing.
http://devonzuegel.com/post/we-should-be-building-cities-for...
Controlling our own destiny is nice!
> I mean, I understand why if you are a person making money off student loans, the latter is a great situation to have. But for anyone else, I'm not sure I agree that it's something we should fight for.

But when a student needs a loan to pay for their education, the person lending money is more important than everyone else. If you are not going to incentivize lending money for college debt and instead going to add risks (of not getting paid back because discharging loans is now easy), then you will have less loans in the first place.
Eh, not so sure about that. I live in Portland and 2011-2013 used Nissan Leafs go for ~$7k. They're not rich people cars anymore, at least not here. I assume the same is true in California.
1984: Seiko UC_2000 - Z80 CPU 2-10 Mhz (?) - 8K ROM - 2K RAM

30 year later: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_S1

2014: Apple Watch. - ARM CPU 500Mhz - 8G Flash (?) - 512MB RAM.

- X 50-250 - X 1000 - X 256000

30 year from 2014: Any chance for this?

2044: ??? Watch - CPU 25-125GHz (?) - 8TB Flash - 128TB RAM.
I'm sorry, and I respect your work, but I think this is nonsense. Let's say Mozilla moves forward with this project. Assuming that it will be a source of revenue at all, the "recommendations" are going to be based on whoever has the money to pay Mozilla for ad placement (and let's be honest that it is ad placement; if it's keyed to the specific interests of each user that just makes it targeted ad placement). That results in the opposite of the supposed goal of decentralizing power online. To be honest I'm not convinced that adding "genuine end-user value" is not just a paper-thin justification for accepting new sources of revenue that are antithetical to Mozilla's historical values. [1]

But let's assume the most charitable and best case scenario, in which Mozilla continues the program but doesn't accept any money for payed spots or higher placement. How are they going to automatically determine what is valuable? If the algorithms go by what is popular, then it's just a new version of any other content aggregator with all the associated problems. (The listicle and click-bait articles shown in the screenshot on the blog.mozilla link are very telling in that regard.) On the other hand, if the algorithms tailor content closely to a user's particular interests and views, that is the very definition of a filter bubble. [2]

Even putting aside these two worries, I find it deeply counterintuitive to expect automated content to better provide what a user wants to see than they are able to find themselves - e.g. with search engines. This is entirely counter to any previous experience I have had with automatic suggestions. I would very much like to see any justification for optimism here. And even if it were largely successful here, I don't see how it would avoid leaving very small sites, bloggers, and their ideas in the dust. I'm sceptical that a centralized source of recommendations is going to provide a solution to concentrated power on the web.

[1] This is the sort of line we got about recommendations from Pocket. "Bringing valuable content to the attention of users" is the kind of BS marketing-speak I expect from corps which run on ad revenue, but not from Mozilla.

[2] "A filter bubble is a state of intellectual isolation that can result from personalized searches when a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user, such as location, past click-behavior and search history." - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
Right, a verified testing program that the bulk of employers recognize as valid, which is slightly harder than what you said.

And libraries probably want to continue to be libraries, rather than becoming testing centers.
> and wind up forgetting to re-visit the other one for a few weeks or months

Maybe adapt your practice to the forgetting curve, revisit a piece the next day, then in 3 days, then in 7 days, then in 2 weeks, then 1 month, then 3 months, etc. If ever you mess up the piece, then it's back to 1 day.
Beyond the technical aspect, the pedagogical side of this is huge.

An argument often made in favor of Rust's static analysis restrictions is that "worst case scenario, you just drop down to unsafe and you're back to C semantics".

However, this only holds true as long as the rules to uphold in unsafe code are easy to explain. Strict type aliasing in C is already considered as somewhat of a disaster by many, and is way simpler.

I hope they get this right.
This story basically has no meat other than "the permissions API for contacts isn't granular enough" padded with casting aspersions on Apple, by the Facebook beat reporter. There are no quotes from anyone in the infosec field who is familiar with the technical underpinnings of iOS or is otherwise familiar with Apple's history with privacy (policy, technical, business model, etc). The entire premise of this story which amounts to "Is Apple really so virtuous?" is completely unsubstantiated.

So sure, I don't have any definite proof that this was a story planted by Facebook's PR team. That would require me to have seen the communications between this reporter and them, but I don't think the hurdle is "beyond a reasonable doubt" to say this was A Facebook Production given the context (the running spat between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook employees on Twitter whining about this very thing, etc).
DC Metro is having issues on par with NYC's. The cause is likely the same; improper maintenance.
I appreciate and upvoted everyones comments but I agree the most with you.

Don't get me wrong, I can see a huge difference in my skill based on how I solve problems now vs a few years ago and while that change came from new things in the C#/JavaScript landscape it was still caused by learning how to code differently.

But I feel like I'm at a level where if I have 10 energy points to spend they will go a lot farther if I spend them on something other than programming.
So you need to be vetted and approved before being allowed access to some of people's most private and secure data.

Why is this a problem exactly?
That doesn't work when the people with medallions are buddies with the people who determine the budget for enforcement.

When the medallion owners all tell their politicans that $agency is terrible and bad for business then $agency gets told to knock it off and/or de-prioritized in next years budget.
>>> Probably there are some things we could do to reduce the number of PUT requests.

You can zip very small files into bigger archives. It will save a lot of requests.

Generally speaking, it's very inefficient to deal with numerous small files because of latency and overhead. It's not a specificity of S3.
Every single one of those things is illegal, and can be reported.
>Except for bus riders [..] that deal with much more congestion.

Seattle might have a word about that. Or two. The words that start with "bus" and end with "lane".

>And cyclists that deal with much more congestion.

Pretty please, really?

>And transit riders that deal with services changes as a result of decreased transit ridership.

Right, blame decreased ridership on Uber, instead of all the problems that make people use Uber instead.

You know when MTA ridership was at its peak? 1946[1]. It has actually been on an increase over the last decade[2], trailing behind population increase, though. Only over the last two years we've seen it drop a little.

Uber has been there before this dip. You know what hasn't been? People getting naked in trains stuck in tunnels without AC[3]. One could think it might have something to do with decrease in ridership.

People want to take the trains. People don't want persistent delays, constantly increasing fares, service changes, shutdowns, being stuck in tunnels, unpredictability. You can blame Uber for many things, but hardly that.

[1]http://web.mta.info/nyct/110Anniversary/ridership.htm

[2]http://web.mta.info/nyct/facts/ridership/

[3]https://jalopnik.com/regular-evening-commute-turns-into-nake...
Magic Leap One first look: worth the hype?
The drivers don't usually own the medallion, they lease the car for a shift and try to make the cost back by picking up fares.

The medallion lobby is strong and politically connected (as we've just seen), so pulling of medallions is highly unlikely.
Look, everyone is different. But I did a CS degree about 10 years ago. I learned calculus, and even had to memorize a bunch of proofs for the course.

Now I'm not saying that I don't remember anything from the course... but I definitely remember extremely little. Even some of the "base objects" that we studied.

(It's not like I'm a mathematician who actively uses this stuff).

> I’ve always been told, and practiced, that the best way to learn the material is to find the proofs myself rather than just reading them straight through.

Let's be clear, I completely agree with this. I don't just copy into Anki - I study, and then I put into Anki.

In fact, just the fact of putting something into Anki tends to make me think about it much more clearly, as I decide what needs to be in there, how to rewrite the proof to be more concise but still understandable by me, etc.
>I don't need to be reminded of the standard, clean, regulated experience I have every time I jump into a yellow or green cab

You and I have had vastly different experiences in cabs.

The cabs are disgusting. I can't understand the driver and he takes the long way around to squeeze more money out of me.
For Sale: Survey Data on Millions of High School Students
I thought that was what R was meant to do?

But, yes, Julia was designed with something like that in mind from what I recall.
Edit: It has happened!

Relevant pull request: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/28521

Video from Juliacon: https://youtu.be/1jN5wKvN-Uk?t=1h18s

---

~~Note that this is the first release candidate version[1]:~~

> As a prerelease, 1.0-rc1 should not be considered production-ready. It’s intended to give developers a chance to get ready for the release of 1.0 by trying it out and testing for issues. Most users should continue to use the latest release (0.6.4 at the time of writing) until 1.0 is fully released.

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-0-rc1-is-now-avai...
It's a problem with governance.
So you're surprised or concerned that applications that wish to extract financial data abour consumers programmatically from their bank accounts need to conform to regulations regarding the storage of said data?

Oh no. What a travesty.
> If I wanted extreme perfs I'd use C. If I wanted extreme pureness I'd use Haskell.

Haskell concurrent socketry is decent:

https://kyle.marek-spartz.org/posts/2014-08-26-concurrent-im...
https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage

I do of course agree with your overall conclusion - Bitcoin is still the most dominant, it just doesn't have the majority of market cap (since late 2017)
This sounds like a good strategy for mastering and memorizing a pattern of behavior, which is the demand in most grade school and college math courses. It's nothing like what higher mathematics demands, which is much less about rote memorization and much more about deep understanding of the intricate interconnections between a comparatively small number of concepts.

Put another way: math isn't really about memorization, either of behavior patterns or of facts. That's why I've been confused and somewhat skeptical about the utility of flash cards for learning higher mathematics.
Your data on the number of daily rides seems quite outdated. It was 400k/day for Uber, 112k for Lyft, and 300k for taxis
in the latest article I saw (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/nyregion/uber-taxi-driver...) and I don't see your numbers in this article. You'd at least need to know the average trip length and the work time per driver to make any comparisons as to who's more efficient.

But I agree with you that the congestion pricing would be a better idea.
Further than that, we can’t have democracy unless all contributions to politicians/ candidates are reported and published in real time.

Without that we can’t know if a person deserves to hold a position, or even if they are eligible.
Another factor is that the mere existence of options like Uber and Lyft likely means people take trips they otherwise would not.

The thing Uber/Lyft do remove is the need for so much parking. On the flip side, do they need more places to idle and await new rides, if we don't want them to congest roadways while doing that.
> As someone who has lived in New York for the past ten years, the entrance of Uber hasn't changed my life at all

Ehh, depends where in the city you are. When I was super broke I used to live in an out of the way part of Long Island City. 50% of cabs in Manhattan would just refuse to drive there, and once there, good luck finding a yellow or even green cab. The local car service was also pretty unreliable and slow. When Uber came along I suddenly had more options to get home, I was able to reliably get cars to the airport, etc. It was a huge and instant bump in my quality of life.
> The U.S. would do itself a huge favour by allowing student debt to be bankruptable.

Student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy, it's just more difficult than other unsecured debt.

But the US would do better to just stop having federal student loans at all, in favor of need-based and service-based grants, rather than tweaking the terms under which loans are dischargeable.
you can't always create the full environment locally, though, including inputs and connections to other services... local Lambda is an option but there are more elegant solutions too.
The current proposal is just as regressive, albeit in a way that introduces more inefficiency.

A cap on Ubers/Lyfts + minimum pay will likely increase the price of Ubers/Lyfts. Rich people will be able to afford the new prices, but poor people will not.
OK, sure, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Sir_Cmpwn's comment was:

> > I've decided to write the whole µUBSan runtime as a single self-contained .c soure-code file, as it makes it easier for it to be reused by every interested party.

> I don't really get why people do this. Linking is one of the easiest and most broadly supported features of C environments on every platform.

Sure, this is true, and users already have to know how to link, unless they are #include'ing this, but still, a single file is much easier to share/distribute and use, and in any case, splitting up such a small file (by the standards of.. a number of open source projects I looked at, it's small) seems unnecessary.
Street parking often costs money too.
Apple is a huge company that needs to grow every year and has access to a lot of data. I think even if Apple is doing well now they easily can change their data strategy to make more money or be forced by governments.

We should work on a system where it's not possible for a company to accumulate that much data.
It compiles to native code via JIT on the standard implementation, no need to re-write code in C.

The object system is close to CLOS with support for multi-dispatch.
Re: doesn't value experience, and instead values youth and rewriting things in Javascript.

JavaScript is so yesterday, PyChainGo is the newest and best. Get with the times!
and yet they continue to happen. does that give you pause as to the effectiveness of enforcement?
As far as I know, the 1.0 release only removes deprecated features from 0.7, the previous “transition” release. So that probably didn’t require much incubation
No. Hack's type system is unsound and HHVM discards all type information from Hack.
This hit me hard. I’ve read several of his books and it’s strange how you can feel like you know a person from that. But his writing was excellent and his personality was very evident.

If anything, I feel like now I want to read a few more of his books as a mark of respect.

And, you know, because they were excellent
You copy and paste the nerd character soup at the top of the Google firechrome
BZIP2 Domain Expired
Assuming you mean California, LA's Metro rail is no dirtier than Boston's MBTA rail. Sometimes it smells a little funky, but so do the streets -- Boston doesn't have quite the homeless population of Los Angeles.
> Every single one of those things is illegal, and can be reported

Yet they're still common. I've reported them, and occasionally there's a fine, but at a certain point the cost of constantly reporting outweighs the benefit. It doesn't help that the TLC is a political position with the same financial conflicts of interests as the City Councilman who presented this bill [1].

[1] https://nypost.com/2018/01/27/taxi-committee-head-got-thousa...