skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nooo! Think of the untold millions of potential FOIA requests you're eliminating!

At least that's the ideal case scenario. Practically speaking, that would require an in-depth, contextualized review of every single row of every single column in every single schema.

So, the answer is probably yes, pursuant to the "associated costs" field of the request being at least 5 figures, and probably 6.
It does. For example, you could pipe an output of diff and a GUI diff viewer starts up and it's a whole lot easier to see or merge the context and even you may be able to launch a 'system default' app for that instead of a predefined app.

And another apparent one is image viewer or editor.
I don’t see how anyone could believe that it’s never good for society when businesses do this.
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That sounds like a disaster, the developers at oracle no longer have any personal incentive when it comes to producing quality, maintainable software because it is no longer a problem they have to deal with. Because they're not feeling any personal pain from bad decisions they will no longer learn from them.

This is close to the consultancy business model that's been at the root of so much bad software.
You seem to be contradicting yourself: how is growth over 2 decades "explosive"?
In all cases, no. In this case, yes. Improving the sad state of transportation options in the bay area is beneficial to all residents. Two wrongs don't make a right. Fine them for breaking the rules and then allow them to continue. Don't give their business to a competitor in an act of revenge against their breaking the rules.
Are you suggesting that nightclubs should be banned altogether? If not, then where do you suggest to put them since they are inherently noisy?
In that case, Toyota is currently breaking that law on my street.
It wouldn't matter if they had their laptop stolen unless they also had their phone stolen. The keys are on the phone. Any new auth attempt would require the phone in proximity of the laptop. It connects via Bluetooth, not over the internet.
Completely untrue.

Before the scooters littered the city, the companies talked to SFMTA, and SFMTA said they were drafting up regulations to govern the scooters prior to giving permission.

The companies went ahead and littered the city with them anyway, without permission.

Claiming that breaking the rules is what led to the SFMTA coming up with regulations to allow scooters is just plain wrong. They were working on them already. The companies just got greedy and figured it was a first-mover market and that they'd be able to pull an Uber and continue operating despite breaking the rules.
So first of all, you don’t have a right not to live in a shadow. Millions of people in cities all over the world deal with it every day. It’s not that bad (tbh it probably helps AC bills too). You have certain rights when you buy property, but “a view” isn’t one of them. If you want scenery, move to the country. It’s gorgeous!

Second, it’s frustrating that people only think of themselves. “What about my view?” What about the hundreds or thousands of people who can’t live near their jobs or their kids’ schools because of your precious view? What about the people who will be forced to drive in and get stuck in traffic, people who probably can’t bike because they’re forced to live in another town only reachable by a long highway trip? What about the people who are forced to pay higher and higher rents because everyone blocks development everywhere in the city?

Screw your view, honestly.
Yes of course it's good. Look at the history of Uber and Lyft vs. Taxi companies and other vested city interests. The government regulatory complex almost never represents citizens interests better than the free market.
Have you heard of the expression "live and let live"? The level of entitlement displayed in your comments is astounding.

You feel it's reasonable to prevent everyone else from using a very cheap and convenient transportation service just because the vehicles aren't esthetically pleasing to you?
According to the same article, Lime has deployed over 35,000 bikes and scooters across the US since last June.

They are available at $250 - $299 a piece (https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/hot-sale-best-origina...)
Plus there is shipping, which I don't know the cost.

So, that itself, before shipping and customs is is $8.75M - $10.465M. Not exactly chump change.
I did. Here is the money quote:

Firstly, it is not clear that there will be an Oracle JDK that is $free to download. Despite my best attempts, I could not get 100% clarity on this point, but see also this tweet.
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Ok, perhaps it's not exceptionally old. But the point is, while the codes are pretty good now, much of the stock was built decades ago, long before the energy efficiency codes tightened up. When many of the houses in Silicon Valley were put up, attic insulation wasn't even used, period.
While I agree that this is an issues, in my opinion it is exceedingly minor, especially in comparison to the amount of cars illegally stopped or parked that I see while biking. In fact I had to merge into traffic a few times to go around tonight. A few bikes haphazardly placed is nothing more than a mild nuisance. Never mind the homeless camps and other litter everywhere in the bay area.
For a scooter, I have to walk until I find a scooter for a company that I'm enrolled with. Do I even have company X's app on my phone to show their scooter nearby? If I run across company Y's scooter, how much effort is it for me to enroll to use it? And is company Z offering me a bulk discount?

All of these are totally different from buying a car.
This is largely the same rational that was used at the company I work at to transition to Slack. From an engineer and developer point of view, I rarely, if ever, directly communicate with non-engineers over instant messaging.

For people who deal with different groups of people in the company, shouldn't it be up to them to handle communicating with different groups using different methods rather than compelling everyone to use the same communication platform for instant messaging?
Interesting. Both Bird and Lime were recently approved to come back in Indianapolis after being asked to leave. The council wanted to re-evaluate the whole concept and set up some rules, fees, etc.

Then they allowed these two companies to return. [1]

1. https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2018/08/28/dockless-elec...
I've always imagined basically a flying capsule hotel https://www.google.com/search?q=capsule+hotel&client=safari&...
Dont see the point if its not distributed across networks.
Video conference software always stinks for whatever reason.
How does Ethereum virtual machine optimize data storage and help you save gas?
This would be excellent.
Finally we get to view images on remote side (except by the iTerm hack) and view diff in a local GUI in the middle of a session?
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It seems the City Govt are more worried about the eyesore of parked bikes, rather than the cheap mode of transportation enabled by these scooters, in many cases which is even affordable by the homeless. Outright banning or even capacity limitation is pretty dystopian and rent seeking from the part of the City, perhaps the City should just legislate norms for safety and fair usage.

Even if many of these scooters are improperly parked, the parking was done by the users and not the companies themselves, so holding the companies solely responsible for that dose not appear fair.
This is a time-limited pilot program that also caps the number of scooters. It's far from a market monopoly.

In addition, there's no network effect with scooters. Car sharing has the chicken-and-egg problem where you need enough drivers to meet demand, and you need enough passengers to give drivers a reason to drive for you. But scooters are cheap and easy to dump a whole bunch on a city, so there's no reason why a new company can't move in on an existing scooter market. For the most part the only important pieces are the brand recognition of the company and how easy their app is to use. If Uber is serious about scooters, I fully expect them to just move back in when the pilot program is over and immediately pick up a sizeable chunk of the market.
The question is, and we won’t know the answer until this is been going on for a while, how many releas(es) back will continue to get security updates from the community.

Will they decide on arbitrary long-term releases? Maybe 11 and 15 and then 19 get three years of support?

Or will the community extend the length of security patch releases by some sort of fixed margin, say 6 to 12 months, and leave it at that.

Right now no one truly knows how it’s going to work out.

I find it interesting that a company that pushes out updates much more frequently than every six months is uncomfortable updating the software THEY use every six months.

It’s not like there should be big breaking changes problems, you can rely on the TCK to know that your code will continue to work.
Beneath a layer of spines, this cactus sprouts asparagus-flavored buds
Changing conditions within an incredibly dense metro area are part of the terms and conditions into one moving there. If you want land, there's plenty of space for it -- outside the city as opposed to where people have a pressing need to work and live without spending hours commuting and are willing to put up with the density. It is unreasonable to expect things to stay static when so many lives depend on things changing.

Chances are that a 50 story building isn't going next to a single family home without serious changes to the entire block. More likely, people want to build multi-families which are not going to ruin your sunlight. Additionally, changing all of this takes a lot of time, just because zoning may be relaxed doesn't mean overnight its going to turn in to Manhattan or Hong Kong as opposed to Paris which largely is ~6 stories and not particularly known for being a hellhole.

It is immoral to always in favor of the people lucky enough to have bought at the right time. Surely it is a difficult balance, but chances are your home has appreciated enough to give you a lot of options too.
If the trip is less than 5 miles, it will be cheaper than $1 to drive my hybrid car there AND back. (Assuming $3.35/gallon at 40 MPG, which is quite realistic for a pair of 5-mile trips.)

Why pay $1 for something that should cost $0.05, and would be difficult to integrate into my life? If I wanted to ride a bicycle, I'd spend the equivalent of 150 Lime rides at Target or Wally World and own my own bicycle. Why rent what you can own?
How much countries spend in R&D
Wow, someone's bitter they didn't pass an interview.
The question is for how long. Three months? Six months? A year?

The community will provide updates, but it this point no one knows what the eventual pattern will be which makes planning based on it difficult.
SFMTA was busy drafting regulations because Bird first broke the rules in Santa Monica and introduced the world to this kind of scooter rental concept.

If they'd asked for permission before anyone had heard of the idea of a scooter company, SFMTA would have ignored the request.
+1. I spent a while trying to persuade Apple Mail to let me receive notifications only for threads I was 'watching'. I never did come up with a sane answer, and finally decided "well, I use Emacs for almost everything else. Might as well see how email pans out..."

With notmuch and mbsync I have the best email setup I ever have. I wish I'd done it years ago.
Does your state or local government have a deal with Comcast effectively awarding it a monopoly? There’s a fairly good chance the answer is yes.
Applying Occam’s razor to Intel ME and similar security issues: conspiracy with some evil agency is possible. Maybe. But not the only explanation.

Following the money suggests Intel was chasing an enterprise market and didn’t bother to think through the consequences (unlikely) or made a car-manufacturing style decision where the costs of failure were deemed to be overshadowed by the profits on their balance sheets.

For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold Pinto cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death. It had a better design but it would have cost production delays to implement it. Less money to have people die than fix the issue when it was noticed in testing.

While I’m not equating Intel’s actions to Ford’s in direct comparison, I would say the bean counter thought process is far more likely than conspiracy.
By the same token, I can complain about a group, and as long as I don't claim that my complaints magically fixed the problem, that's fine.

That's not at all how people use it colloquially.

Nobody is claiming that bumper stickers, Priuses, statements of "thoughts and prayers," or changing one's Facebook profile picture magically fix any problem. And yet those are the exact things that get labeled virtue-signalling.

In this thread alone, jaredhansen mentions "ideally via cheap signals like signs and bumper stickers" - though admittedly doesn't say virtue signals. x220's definition is also at odds with yours. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=virtue-signalling is rife with examples.

The incessant cries of virtue-signalling on the web absolutely do not require someone claiming that they've "magically fixed" any problem, and are almost entirely gate-keeping, goalpost-moving, ad hominem attacks, simple partisanship, and general lazy argumentation.
It is possible! For example, I recently received [1] a mysqldump of Chicago's "data dictionary" database, which is a collection of database schemas from databases throughout Chicago.

That said - it's not always simple. The big problem is that information being released through FOIA still needs to be reviewed by a person, which can be time consuming and expensive. Especially so when a technical person gets involved. It's often just much easier (for everyone) to request specific information.

The "data dictionary" database dump was only easy to get only because I knew for a fact that the database was already reviewed through a process that matched FOIA's.

[1] https://www.muckrock.com/foi/chicago-169/data-dictionary-mys...
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How about setting base rules and auctioning off permits that require annual renewal rather than playing king-maker. Or even better, set base rules for which the companies must comply then allow all companies to compete and fine those companies that don't comply.
So actually, Japan does something like this. Residences can be built pretty much anywhere (except near super heavy industry), because their zoning is all about how much of a nuisance something is. They also don’t have strict usage restrictions like Euclidean zoning in the states. So for example, if something is zoned for medium commercial (making that up), you can build everything from commercial “down” (so to residential), which allows mixed use too.

And let’s not be flippant. Nobody wants the ability to build anything anywhere, but it’s eaually absurd to not build much of anything at all. You can have density and affordable housing and a good quality of life; lots of cities do it already!
No one has mentioned groups chats from the article. It's kind of scary to think there's a manager out there that is mindfully siloing conversations instead of letting smart people figure it out.
No... It's just what happens when the contractor refuses to write things down and you need the house. I couldn't raise a stink about details that I normally raise when I can slow something down until it's done correctly.

Or, to put it mildly, in this part of the world, people just refuse to pay their contractor until little details are fixed.
It will never happen. They know what folk will tollerate.

Ok, maybe they take a couple seats out and put a treadmill, charge an equivalent cost.
> Presumably you have no issue with this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

There's definitely a bit of gray in there for me.
near the toilet in the back, where flight attendants grab food entrees. Almost every airplane has a larger footspace around this area.
> Therefore, the logic is to dig everything you might imagine you might need, ever. Therefore tunnels are always going to be super expensive and elaborate.

Not everything you might imagine you might need, ever. But everything you can reasonably forecast to need in the next 50 years.

The thing about tunnels: tunnels aren't expensive, stations are (particularly the station mezzanines and the pedestrian circulation to reach them). A two-track subway line is only going to be ~30% more expensive than a one-track line, and a four-track line only ~50-60% more than a two-track line. And it doesn't take a genius to figure out which one you need: one-track lines are never a good idea, and four-track lines are only necessary for trunks in megacities. You can look at your demand and figure out if you're going to need to go to 8- or 10-car trains as your maximum train length. Not to mention that you also (as a city) have the ability to steer development to increase demand on your subway networks via tools like zoning.

Insisting that you have to build only to minimal, current demand scenarios is being penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Java is still available at zero-price
Is a Java developer I’ve always been happy moving up as soon as possible, if I see a benefit. I was quite happy to move up to 1.5 for generics. Java eight was fantastic because you got streams and lambdas. Some of the updates in 10 and 11 will take bigger changes to the codebase to take advantage of.

But even if you weren’t using the new features, there was basically no downside to upgrading the run time. The newer version is usually ran much better thanks to improvements in threading or garbage collection. And you knew you’d get security patches, even if you ended up getting stuck on that version for a while.

As you said, libraries and frameworks can be a big issue to upgrade.

But the backwards compatibility promises of Java have been so incredibly strong it hasn’t been an issue.

The one time breakage in Java 9 is basically the first I’ve experienced in my career.
For that to be analogous, it would have to be "Enterprise" or "Hertz" doing it. Not Toyota. If Hertz (Or CityCarShare) just went ahead and just put their cars willy-nilly anywhere they wanted, then you'd have a point.
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January 1991 changed all of that, the start of the Gulf War. In the two decades immediately following the 1960s cultural revolution and Vietnam mess, patriotism was far more subdued. The fervor around military patriotism, which is heavily linked to the flag and anthem, was likewise much less rampant.

The military industrial complex figured out culturally how to best goose their giant slush fund. The rah rah cheerleading of the Gulf War was both easy (it wasn't a difficult conflict) and extremely effective. Americans felt good about the results of the Gulf War - a feel good change versus the long hangover of Vietnam - for a solid ~15 years, until Iraq devolved into a bloody civil war after the second war. Throw 9/11 on top of the first Gulf War, combined with a modest national debt circa 2001, and you have a recipe for an explosion of military spending. They can't keep up the military spending without keeping the American public pumped up on patriotism, it's like a blinder. Otherwise people start asking questions, like: why are our bridges falling apart while we're vaporizing $100 billion every year on our military in Europe and Asia? Why can't we afford national high-speed rail?
Because my employer doesn't pay for anything higher than Y, even on long haul international.

(That, and all the other points made in this thread - which are perfectly valid, and I say this as someone who has a tonne of miles and has flown long-haul business class for leisure...)
They did not break the taxi laws of every city they operated in. The taxi laws of many cities only required a "medallion" for taxi-style car services that allowed passengers to "hail" the car on the street.

So-called "black" cars where passengers arranged transportation in advance were governed differently, and required no licensing or a different and more permissive kind of licensing. Black car services were already widely available in many cities from lots of different companies, often independent owner/operators - it's just that no one had provided a service that worked across many different cities and was available conveniently as an app.

I won't claim that Uber and Lyft broke no laws, because there are a lot of jurisdictions in the world, and I don't know the laws of all of them, but many cities regular taxies and black cars very differently.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Am I wrong? Evidence would be appreciated.
That sucks man. I'm 6'2", my knees almost hit. When I first sat in the new thin seats, I extended my leg straight down the aisle. My foot reached well in front of the seat pan ahead of me. It was crushing to see that visual evidence of just how tight it was.

The worst part for me is my shins are long enough my knees & thighs are elevated off the seat, causing the blood to pool. I have wondered if economy plus allows enough leg extension to alleviate that problem.
That's one of the funniest movie scenes ever. The anthem is so painful.
Define your problem before picking a solution
The city held a bidding process to pick two initial winners, which is ... a market. I guess you prefer a different organization to the market, but...
If the rebate were offered, without a legal requirement, most or all companies would probably provide the benefit, since it's basically free for them and they'd lose candidate recruits to their competitors otherwise.
Doesn't that normally start with a pilot to determine what rules are good?

It seems like if you want to come up with a permit process and rules, rather than just making them all up at once you'd grant permission to a small group for a limited period to figure out what rules make sense, then write the rules, then open up the permitting process.

When selecting the pilot group it also makes sense to try to find partners that are likely to co-operate and be responsive to your requirements rather than companies with long histories of completely ignoring local laws.

You're right that SF has a history of abusing permits in the interest of Nimby-ism -- see the 'war on fun' for one example -- so I do agree it could all turn out terribly in the end, but that doesn't make this an unreasonable start.
> where the editor UI is drawn on stderr and result saved to stdout

I did some experimenting recently and found you can open a new /dev/tty file descriptor and tell curses to use this, the rest of the application can continue reading stdin and writing stdout as normal.
Why would anyone sign an NDA for vulnerabilities? The problem is on Intel's end, not the OS devs.
If they are not popular why is there a need to regulate them, they will simply go out of business. Also, I see people riding them all the time in the East Bay.
I do. The government originally instituted the taxi medallion system to protect riders from predatory taxis, but it ended up granting a monopoly to the predatory taxis and locking out potential competition.

The free market has worked out much better. Uber/Lyft have to provide competitive service at a low price. If they stop doing this, they too will be replaced.