skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the permit for leaving your product lying on the public sidewalk? There are several (for signs, seats, etc), and you're also supposed to pick up after your animals, not leave stuff laying about.

Undocked transportation? I think that without some formal approval it would be within the cities right to confiscate items left on the public right-of-way and auction it off to the highest bidder.

You can't even legally leave garbage out for collection (in unapproved containers) except for certain days.
I was one of the 125 homes in Coral Gables that was an early tester of Viewtron. I was only 10 or so at the time so I only vaguely remember the Viewtron, but my memory was that it seemed like magic compared to the BBSs I was able to dial in to from an Apple II we also owned.

At some people point we got a Source account (which was acquired by CompuServe) and there wasn’t much need for the Viewtron anymore. I think we may have canceled our Viewtron subscription even before the service was shutdown.

Perhaps HN readers can help confirm a related memory of mine. I recall their being a graphical BBS called I think gbbs for the Apple II that existed maybe around 1985 or so. I can’t find any confirmation of this via Google though. The client was written in assembly (it was one of the first programs I recall printing out the assembly for and trying to understand) and used hires graphics to emulate 70 col text as well as could draw graphics. Does that ring any bells for anyone?
Timed Out Receiving Message from Renderer in Selenium
So this is a cool demo --and it has applications in cinema, MVs, etc. But, this is being presented as something which could allow Jane Q User to portray herself as an accomplished dancer --just transfer a style onto herself.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think if we take this idea and walk with it, it has the potential to trivialize actual accomplishment. Maybe I'm overthinking it.
San Francisco has a 14-page rulebook for ... just replacing windows. http://default.sfplanning.org/publications_reports/Standards...
Ask HN: Is GitHub down?
I can't access Github yet https://status.github.com/ says "All systems reporting at 100%"

Is it down for you?
>>Can you not spare a shred of sympathy for people who want to live in the city they work in but can’t because property owners won’t let them?

Of course I can. My sympathy goes both ways.

>> (Also, building housing doesn’t just tank the value of your home, trust me.)

I'm not talking about simply increasing the supply of housing. The specific example we are discussing is a new skyscraper blocking the view from an existing one.
Land ownership is never absolute because it isn’t the product of human endeavor, so owning it means you either violently excluded people from it, formalized that violence through law, or bought it after one of the above had happened. That’s why I can’t build a big laser beam on my land and use it to set your house on fire, among other things.
A distro, for the most part is 1) package manager + repos, and 2) system organization (where things get installed, where configs are, how services are managed etc). In that respect, Ubuntu is still Debian - most packages are vanilla Debian packages, and they both use systemd.
That's why 90% of Debian packages are reproducible.
I bet it's 3840 x 2160, not 2840 x 2160.

What I want to know about a thing like this is how long it can go all out (on 1, 2, 3 ... N cores) before it gets throttled down to Celeron speed. My experience has not been very encouraging, so far. But if it can run one core at top speed indefinitely, that would be better than nothing.
I guess you’re just overlooking cars? People leave their cars all over SF all day every day.
Their Android version also allowed offline use. I do think you need to use an official app to read offline, but it's well supported, at least for books (I didn't try video)
I worked for a Corel at the turn of the century (ha ha, feels weird saying that). We worked very closely with MS from about 2000 (when MS injected about $130 million into the company). While Corel had their Linux distro, when I worked there we were forbidden from using free software (and specifically GPL software) other than on the Linux code. I heard it was due to an agreement with MS (hearsay, but I believe it). I had my knuckles wrapped a few times for disobediently editing my code using Emacs -- eventually I got used to Visual Studio (and even learned to appreciate it to a certain degree).

Things started shifting around 2002 or 2003 and by the time Vector bought out Corel in 2004, I was happily using Emacs and SVN with nobody batting an eyelid. We also worked with MS to implement the shared source version of .Net, which probably nobody remembers. It was supposed to be an "open" reference implementation of .Net. Mono really took on that role, I think mainly because the shared source reference implementation had a completely useless license. You could see the wheels turning in the heads of the MS people on that project. They were actually doing really good work, but everyone knew that the project was going to be meaningless.

IMHO, it was never a kind of binary switch from "open source is cancer" to "we can make money through open source". It was more of a slow internalisation that open source was a better business model for a lot of stuff that MS was doing. It may be that the switch in CEO helped that transition, but it was clear (at least from my perspective) that the wheels were already in motion for a long time prior to that.

I'm sure there are a lot of people still in MS that are rabid about having to control every last scrap of their "IP", but as MS starts to solve some of their revenue problems with open source solutions I think these people will lose relevance. I don't know if the corporate culture of MS (or even most large organisations) will ever get to the point of embracing free software ideals, but at least they seem to see the advantages of engineering collaboration in some circumstances.
Yes. GitHub is down. (There was another submission two minutes before yours as well.)
>you’ll find yourself up against memory limitations with the 8 GB of RAM onboard when you’re not thinking about what’s open in the background

Sigh. I guess we're never going back to memory-efficient applications, are we?
Fun fact: both Quinn and I (Sourcegraph cofounders) still use Emacs as our primary editor :)

(But frankly, all other editors except Vim are great, too :P)
White is still very synthesized as European Americans generally have mixed ancestral origins.

I don't foresee Asians being seen as white people. Their origins are much different than the Irish, Italian and even Jewish cases.

Perhaps certain people such as yourself would do so as an adjustment to allow you to continue viewing through your same prism rather than getting a new prism.
And if I still want to use some of those features (because some are useful and I don't care about that data), it doesn't appear I can opt out of this specifically?
You can be extremely ethical about your factory farm but it's still a factory farm.

Google is in the business of utilising your data in the interest of advertising. No matter how you sugar coat it, the core of the business is tracking people and exploiting that data.

Are they doing their best to be careful and ethical? It sure seems like it, but that doesn't solve the issue.

The free services they and many tech companies provide for free are just payment for your data. The majority of people don't realise this implicit connection and many others do realise it but are happy with the transaction. But it's important to note that they undermine the ability to provide these services more ethically by setting a social norm of incredible services that are "free".

Edit: I will add that the cost and benefit to society of this kind of service provision is complex and nuanced, Google has obviously provided incredible value and society has decided that advertising is a fair price to pay, else they wouldn't be around still. But the true effects of immense tracking and advertising are still yet to play out completely.
You are clearly arguing in bad faith, as the "various services" on that website clearly include divorce as adjudicated by Sharia law.

If you don't believe me, take it from Trevor Phillips, the former UK minister who coined the term "Islamophobia."

https://www.newsweek.com/muslims-are-creating-nations-within...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQcSvBsU-FM
Feel the Microsoft :)
A car would get a big fat “poor” on every point of that evaluation. And yet, we allow our city to be totally overrun with them! I certainly hope that SFMTA is feverishly working to apply these standards to car companies. No car should be allowed to operate in San Francisco until its maker has demonstrated that they can affirmatively prevent them from blocking sidewalk ramps and until they all have programs to track and ban abusive drivers.
The same can be said for not paying the price up front. You get turnover, employees going into work sick and the like.

There's a societal cost to not paying for rational breaks. You get breakdowns instead.
Yes, down.
One possible view is that a company grows to the point where it goes from being a recipient of investment, to a source of investment. Also, the managers get too far removed from innovation, to directly engage in or direct it.

I work for a F500. The top brass of the company sincerely want us to move into new areas. So they just buy companies that are already innovating.

People recognize the problem of big companies trying to innovate. One solution is to create isolated innovation teams that function more like smaller companies. I work in one of those teams.
http://time.com/money/4252311/income-discrimination-short-me...
It was much more difficult to get all the necessary approvals etc. But possible if you had a particularly strong business case for it.

Of course, Nadella has been in charge for, what, 4 years now? So there had been plenty of time for the company culture to change in that regard. And it did, big time! "GPL is actually a pretty neat hack" is not a phrase I thought I'd ever hear from a Microsoft corporate lawyer, much less in the context of shipping a Microsoft product under that license.
It looks like they've just updated the status
I recently went south to LA and SD, and the scooters are awesome there. I saw them mostly near the beach, and 0 thrown in the middle of the pavement, none blocking exits or riding them obnoxiously.
They even have scooter police that will give you a ticket if you go too fast (I am not saying that as necessarily a good thing, just that they seem to have their stuff together as cities). For the first time I actually made an account and hopped on one of them.

However, in SF they overdid it. I don't know if SF residents got replaced by a bunch of self-entitled nerdy manchildren, but holy hell they were obnoxious. You would see 5-6 of them blocking the entrance to a restaurant (at anchorsteam brewery tap room especially). Thrown down in the middle of the pavement. People riding them on the sidewalk yelling "GOTTA GO FAST", going somewhat fast (at least have some dignity and dress like Sonic the hedgehog if you 're gonna do that). Think of an 80s action movie where the punks or hell's angels type of gangs run amok in the city, but it's dudes wearing startup t-shirts on electric scooters instead. Anyway, I 'm not a nimby but their presence in SF really left a sour taste.

But after seeing them in LA and San Diego I am convinced they can work super nicely if a little bit of common sense is applied. Maybe the SF populous is early adopters and jumped on the latest trend with too much passion, or maybe those companies put on the streets too many units. I don't know, but it can be done right and I 'd really like to see them back.
Is GitHub having issues?
Yes, assuming that the government massively subsidizes your driving by socializing the carbon externality and providing you with a free mandatory parking space at your origin and destination then it’s “cheaper” to drive.
How Effective Are 'Demo Walls' in Selling B2B Software?
Can zoning rules be changed retroactively? And even if this is allowed, can zoning rules be put in place with the goal of booting out a specific business? I think ex post facto prohibitions only apply to criminal laws, but in general I think we disfavor targeting individual businesses with legislation.

For background, I live in a neighborhood where the property sizes are much much smaller than the rest of the zoned area. So we have to get exceptions for many things because the rules were written for properties that are 10x to 50x the size. I wish that rules could be written to cover every possible eventuality, and I personally feel the pain because they cannot (I have to pay for every exception and variance in the approval process). So having seen how rules are blunt instruments, I have some sympathy for folks who are caught up in the process.
It works very intermittently for me (Chrome on Windows, with plenty of RAM and CPU).

When I click the "speak" button, it makes a network request (as shown in the Chrome devtools) and immediately gets back a response that looks big enough to be an audio blob.

But most of the time, instead of actually playing the audio, it just sits there with a spinner for anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes before giving up, with no errors in the console.
I suspect you are overthinking it, or at least should acknowledge that one needs to take the idea and walk a long, long way!

But, with that said, this work is dependent on having a "source" that the user is using as an input for pose detection. The actual accomplishment must still be performed and recorded, though I suppose this opens the door to the dance equivalent of "lip syncing" even beyond what might be done today with a body double.
loool!
Oh boy, those hands at 0:14 are a no for me.
Because when Sun was still around that wasn't the case and Google didn't want to pay for licenses.

Here is what Gosling has to say on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y&feature=youtu.be...
Chiming in here-the 787 made LA to Sydney feel easier than Boston to LA.
In Oakland (where Bird and Lime dumped all their junk after SF told them off) I have seen lots of stripped scooters. Also it’s trivial to hotwire a Bird, and everyone in Oakland seemingly knows how to do it.
If status pages are manual, customers complain they are slow to update and often incorrect.

If status pages are automatic, customers complain about the volume of irrelevant updates, and the relevant updates are too cold and impersonal.

What to do, what to do...
And they get towed all day every day... the fine for towing from a sidewalk is $400 last I checked, plus towing fees, plus nightly storage. Pretty soon you'll owe $10k on each scooter, and if you want to operate as a business within city limits you have to pay the fines.

Actually, if the city went after them as moving vehicles they would be collected by the towers in hours.
Google's speech-to-text is powerful, but I'd be pretty skeptical about tying a project to it given how services like Maps have been handled recently. There are companies like Mozilla trying to build more open solutions, but to the best of my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong) any pre-trained services Mozilla offers will also still involve you connecting to their servers.

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I just can't imagine using a speech-to-text system for anything serious that I can't self-host. It feels like we've just seen example and example over and over again why this is a bad idea -- to the point that when I hear a company like Google talk about a locked-down cloud platform as "making AI accessible to everyone" it feels almost dishonest.

Especially once we start talking about text-to-speech. We can already do a lot of that locally - we should be pretty hesitant about coupling new text-to-speech techniques to strategies that require us to move logic away from local devices onto the cloud.
Fast: from C++11 to C++14 to C++17 soon..

The problem is that if you stay on old language versions, you're doomed soon or later (see the world moving to Python 3.7, Java 11, C#7, Go 2,..).

If you consider then JavaScript, things are moving at speed of light. Today's framework might be ancient in a couple of months (React version??)
That's why we use gitlab.
Microsoft hasn't finished acquiring Github. They are still two totally separate companies.
They aren't rewriting the Java parts.

Kotlin just gets an additional library to make some SDK usage a bit easier.
Back briefing, very important point. It is one I still slip up on when I'm busy and there are a lot of moving pieces in play.
Interesting thought. One upside might be people learn accomplishments are to be enjoyed as a personal achievement rather than requiring social acknowledgement to be validated.
You have to realize that those parking spots are explicitly intended for car storage, no? The city even marks many of them --- even charges for their use by the hour.

If you were going to claim that our allocation of city resources to parking is excessive, I'd agree, but you can't reasonably claim that parking a car there isn't using the space for it's intended purpose.
I would say it depends on your goals. If performance is your primary concern, then go with rust, one of rust’s primary focuses is performance.

I don’t think of Haskell as the best language for command line dev, but I’m far from expert in either language.
There was a fantastic post about how zoning in Japan works a couple months ago: http://devonzuegel.com/post/north-american-vs-japanese-zonin...
They didn't fully merged OpenJDK, just selected parts of it, across multiple Android versions.

Compatibility is still kind of broken.

It isn't possible to guarantee that any random Java library is usable on Android.
They've already reversed the decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874111

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864799
They aren't going anywhere. People are just mad their favorite service didn't get chosen.
Or perhaps you don't even need a human at all, according to this work: https://medium.com/syncedreview/busting-moves-with-dancenet-...
I'm done talking with someone who out-and-out lies.

"I later saw the Islamic Shari’a Council of Leyton. This community has religious, educational, business and legal institutions to maintain a separate identity."
People really don't understand the cost of bit rot -- especially business people. If it worked 10 years ago, and it hasn't changed, why can't we use it now? I happen to have an old Rails project that my team has to maintain. Rails 2, Ruby 1.8.7. When we stopped being able to even compile Ruby 1.8.7 with the latest versions of GCC, I finally got approval to upgrade.

Things that business people can't understand is that nobody supports the language version any more and you can't build it with modern tools. You can't run the old OS any more, which has the old tools to build your code because the OS doesn't run on new hardware. I've been in the situation where I've had a server that was practically unique. It was so old that the only hardware that could run it, was the machine that was already running it. If that died, it was game over. (I should probably mention that I tend to specialise in difficult legacy situations in my career ;-) ).

The idea that you need to do maintenance work on your software, even without fixing bugs and without adding features, is incredibly difficult for business people to swallow. So they naively allow the situation to get very, very bad (and then they have to hire someone like me).
Technically impressive, this is. Canny, it is not.
Going off what the other poster said, when you don't see a benefit from the system you don't really care about the reason why. When a large portion of society doesn't see a benefit from the system, they're not really gonna care that the economy is "better than ever" and ar going to start engaging in activity that the current economic/social system finds destructive, because they will be trying to replace that system
To me bureaucracy is more about it being someone’s job to follow the rules and make sure they really are followed. And then you have someone else who makes sure the rules cover every option. And as you may have experienced, there are always cases that don’t fit the rules perfectly, so the bureaucracy keeps getting more complex. It is a rabbit hole, unless you deliberately step in and simplify the rules regularly.
Most the biggest software vulnerability catastrophies actually involve just such systems. "Secure internal network" is a 90s mirage. See eg https://www.wired.com/story/notpetya-cyberattack-ukraine-rus...
I have a couple of WP devs that want to talk with you.
> The real issue with NIMBYs is how restrictive zoning is

Yeah, zoning in the US tends to be single use, which prevents most buildings from being built in most places. I recently read a fantastic blog post on how zoning works in Japan, where uses are instead ranked by how much of a "nuisance" they are, and zones have a maximum nuisance level. Anything at or below that level can be constructed in that zone.

http://devonzuegel.com/post/north-american-vs-japanese-zonin...
It doesn't have to be a handshake and a nod. Things can still be clearly written down. But formal contracts with consequences take it up a notch. And this isn't about how you "conduct business"; that's a very business-oriented view of what's going on.
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Very sorry for your loss. I lost my mother to a similarly deadly cancer two years ago, and this summer my wife was diagnosed at 20 weeks pregnant so both my wife's and daughter's lives were at risk. It is like a curse, having multiple cancers in one's close family.
Google is not in the business of selling your data. Google does not sell your data. It’s pretty clear in their privacy policy: https://privacy.google.com/how-ads-work.html

Disclaimer: I work at Google.
That's certainly the conventional wisdom, but there's very little in the way of evidence that this is anything other than a cheap commodity.
Their allocator architecture seems very similar to tcmalloc, which maybe makes sense if all those people sit together at Google.
And updated again. Status nominal.
> Does anyone know of studies that have tried to tease out how much effect the educational system actually has on student outcomes, once you've controlled for parental wealth/intelligence/education/etc?

I don't know about studies but if you look beyond American borders there are countries where schools are funded at the state and/or national level rather than the local one. There is some correlation with poorer areas having worse results despite identical funding but overall the results are much more even, schools in poorer areas can even be in the top results from time to time, even beating out top tier private schools.

It's not perfect, schools in "problem" areas tend to be where freshly graduated teachers go for a tour of duty before moving elsewhere, but it's still in improvement.
On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher
This is incredible!

I wonder if seeing yourself dance like this might speed up learning to actually dance like this...
Your workplace has like 9 people. Why not just work remotely and schedule in-person time when needed?

If you don’t need to be there specifically for 9am-5pm standard business hours, and there’s no need to have frequent on-site client meetings, then maybe the owners could even downsize the office. Depending on where you think the office should move, the first thing the owners would probably do is check the commercial rent prices, so factor that into the location suggestion.
If someone wanted to sell a new app, they have to get people to recognize their brand and install their app no matter what.

Ride sharing companies then also have to reach a critical mass where drivers and riders can match in a reasonable time. I think overcoming that is the network effect.