skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average cycling speed depends a lot on how hard the cyclist is willing to work for it. Most aren not willing to work at all, and on a regular city bike, that means most people will go about 15 km/h. Speed maniacs (like me) will have an average speed of over 20 km/h (on a cargo bike) or even 30 km/h on a sport or racing bike.

I'm completely unable to not work myself into a sweat when cycling, but I'm not remotely average. Average cyclists include children, elderly people, disabled people. People with kids, people with cargo, and many, many people not in any kind of hurry.

> There are many streets in cities that have multiple-lanes for same direction traffic.

In Amsterdam, there's about a handful, and some of those have higher speed limits. They're the main thoroughfares that you don't want obstructed with slow traffic. The vast, vast majority of streets have only a single lane for cars in each direction, and a bike lane or bike path next to it.
I commented elsewhere already, but you do need to know _some_ OTP to be productive. But those basics (processes, messaging, supervision) can be learned easily in an afternoon.

In my opinion, OTP is not the reason why the learning curve is steep. If anything, the learning curve is steep for those trying to switch from something like Ruby to a functional programming language for the first time. A language with immutability as the default, no concept of classes or objects (though viewed through the Alan Kay lens, processes could be seen as "true" objects). If it is your first FP language, most of one's object-oriented experience is not going to help, so there is a lot to absorb before you even get to Phoenix or OTP.
Woah. That's just remarkable. This needs to exist as a modern app. I definitely want to build something like this now.
Augur doesn't seem to be too usable, judging from a report posted today: https://medium.com/sampling-tech/random-sample-for-ethereum-...
I just use common folder and use the file name as the tags, something familiar I use to remember what I'm saving.
Service provider story about tracking down TCP RSTs
I do the same with plain text files. The only problem I have is searching. I wish there was a Google for searching local files (i.e. concept search).
True,

I was using my brothers machine, which is win10 - and I havent used windows in years - and I was disgusted by the crappy UI/UX I was given - with its inbuilt notifications which even pop-up to tell you that you went into full screen mode and told it not to pop-up....

Also, the start menu looks like a freaking spyware minefield they way it takes up 60% of the screen when it is activated.

Windows is absolutely a mess these days.
Can you cache modules?
There is a difference between US and India,
US attracts many people with its free culture, so many people in US were from various places.
In case of India, their population is of their own.
Let's imagine the OS thought so, too, and had programs require implementation of both UIs, one for machines which is hard to look through by humans, and one for humans which is automatically presented in GUI form, meaning its hard to control and it's hard to parse the information it's presenting in a bitmap window (IOW an unautomatable interface). Now, I see 2 reasons to prefer the scenario we have now with unix and text based communication:

1) We don't need to depend on each individual program's programmer to present every control and information consistently between the 2 interfaces.

2) Automation matches normal, manual use. Just put what you normally do on the command line in a file and you're done. There's no need to look through documentation on how to do what you so frequently do, only in a manner that you rarely do.
How to be human: the man who was raised by wolves
It's an interesting interview. Flexport is doing well. Apparently the largest company in forwarding has only a 2% share with 60,000 employees and if Flexport gets to take say a 20-40% share they'd be the worlds largest company.
Was it James Kim?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim
Ask HN: How much CTR impact the ranking of a page on Google
There are nearly 2 billion websites with 500 million active blogs in the world as of 2018? Out of these billions & millions, we can easily assume you are competing against at least thousands or a million of them trying to rank for the exact keyword you are trying to rank for.
I wanted to test out the theory wheather the CTR helps in getting a page on top or not.

I'm not promoting anything here. Just want to do this research and will share mine-finding.
Please search for technical recruitment hackerearth on Google and click on the first result.

Meanwhile, if anyone has some data on it let me know. Because Google never said anything for whether Good CTR is the result in ranking or not.
I've reported an Xorg crash almost a year ago. Nobody looked into it. This was on a work laptop and it rendered it unusable for work because X would crash several times a day. I managed to work around it by downgrading X, but I recently got a new Thunderbolt dock which doesn't work too well on 16.04 but works well on 18.04, however on 18.04 I don't have the option of installing the version of X that doesn't crash multiple times a day.

This makes me very sad because I've had to go through quite a bit of trouble to be able to use Ubuntu on my work laptop in an org where Windows is standard. This makes me understand why the IT department is unwilling to support Ubuntu.
I had. Algebra and analysis are still considered by some people harder and "purer" than let's say combinatorics, applied or statistical mathematics.
Or perhaps it isn't seen through the lens of intellectual property. It could seen as gaining knowledge that would allow one to build things they would otherwise not. From what I understand the Chinese culture treats IP very differently than the US. It isn't treated as being owned but people share documentation and the like with people they like. Westerners have a much more legalistic framework for how we treat our ideas. The notion that someone should be able to use the force of the government to prevent others from using their idea isn't necessarily a given but instead the result of certain traditions and institutions. I know the US corporations would like to push these ideas into being part of a binding framework of world trade but this primarily benefits the large corporations that have invested in research, accumulated patents and want to control the world so that they can profit.

A lot of the espionage is probably also about gaining knowledge about firms for the purpose of understanding their weaknesses and the lay of the land vs. simply figuring out their secret sauce. I remember reading this was a common practice for Russian intelligence agents who didn't trust the official numbers and so wanted to gain proprietary knowledge from industry insiders.
Some of these have been mentioned at various points:

https://zettelkasten.de/posts/three-layers-structure-zettelk...
https://github.com/renerocksai/sublimeless_zk
https://tiddlywiki.com/
http://journal.mcmorgan.org/view/incremental-paragraphs/ward...
http://fedwiki.org/hack.platform.earth/fedwiki-for-notetakin...
https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf

Perhaps a single system is not the answer, but a combination, e.g. for taking notes I'd pick fedwiki/sublimeless_zk/Zim/org-mode.

For organizing PDFs with full-text search Zotero is quite good, and you can link to your PDFs from your notes, but I wouldn't store my notes about PDFs inside Zotero (because then it'd be separated from my notes about non-PDF articles).

For keeping track of articles Firefox bookmarks (with Firefox Sync on Android acting as a 'read me later' bag).
Except on Firefox/MacOS, once you select a year, you can't deselect it.
> Tesla can immediately license it

Aren't they already licensing the second generation from Nvidia on Nvidia hardware?

> Autopilot 2 cars into self driving cars overnight.

That's presuming that the current sensor arrays, computing power and their arrangements will be compatible with the new technology.
You do realize that branding does affect your perception of things as well?

It being the most "snappy" and "responsive" of the phones in the price range may just be your brain responding positively to the most known brand in that price range. A brand recognition that LG does pay a good deal for.

I mean, it boils down to the old "Pepsi Challenge". In the blind, people will prefer Pepsi over Coca-Cola most of the time. But if people know which is which before hand, Coca-Cola is chosen more often as being "better". (Although Pepsi is sweeter than Coca-Cola on average and people respond to sugar, which is what led to "New Coke").

Same things happen with fast food. Taking the exact same food and putting it in familiar branded packaging and people respond more favorably to it. Everything from chicken nuggets to carrot sticks.

And the converse happens. People who have convinced themselves of certain things, can have their perception of an item influenced in particular ways. Say those people who abhor fast food and only buy farm-fresh, local, organic, blah because it "tastes better". You can cut up a McDonald's chicken nugget, present it pleasantly as a local organic whatever and have people compare it to another nugget you present as a McDonald's nugget and people will sit there and tell you how they can taste the difference.

So yes, you might have bought the LG because you felt it was the snappiest phone at that price, but you only felt that way because of advertising.
One of the biggest and often overlooked features of Rails is rspec and db:migrate. For whatever reason, I have yet to find alternatives in other frameworks that have matched the elegance of these 2 indispensable tools.

Similarly, while I'm not a huge fan of ORMs im general, ActiveRecord is pretty hard to beat pound for pound.
Thanks. I find $550 a bit expensive. Linux Mint runs flawlessly on a Lenovo S120 (11.6"/4GB RAM/32GB SSD) but I can't upgrade the SSD and that's a bummer. Can't complain, though, it was $170 new from Amazon...
Court rules that the FCC can consider areas with only a single ISP 'competitive'
I’m just saying there should be more collaboration instead of silos. Machine learning is advancing so much because mostly everything is shared openly via papers, talks, etc
This is why I think the only real long term solution is carbon taxes.
Judging by Workflowy's development pace, the entire team is spending the profit on opiates. No features were introduced in the past couple years, aside from the desktop apps—despite users begging for an API at least. Now Workflowy went the way of Evernote: changing the looks and adding bugs.

The outline paradigm is great, and Workflowy is a nice influx of fresh blood in that field, but I think I might actually kludge Org-mode into proper form with good mobile synchronization (and bonus privacy and customizability) before Workflowy makes any progress.
> I think blaming technology is just a cop out. If you went to a concert or something, I'm sure you'd have an opportunity to talk to dozens of people,

Agreed, if we're talking about individual people blaming technology for their non-participation. But it's not a cop-out to say that society as a whole is being nudged away from social interactions, and that there are real negative effects on everyone.

Furthermore, there are large groups of people for whom the convenience of online shopping/banking/etc. far outweighs the cost of "getting out", even factoring in the real or perceived benefit of interacting with people at the store or bank -- people with small children, caregivers, poor people, invalids, etc. Although technology has improved quality of life for many such people, society as a whole suffers the effects of the loss of many personal micro-interactions with them and the gradual social fragmentation that results.
The problem I see with this test is that it is purely business model, no tech or fixed investment required. If CVS found it interesting, they could trial it trivially themselves, right? Disclaimer: not an expert in this market, so tell me where Theranos could have brought an innovation that isn't easily replicated to the test.
Oh, what, I grew up watching him on TechTV. I did not know he'd passed, let alone in this kind of way.
Note that the GPG encryption itself is notoriously hard to configure unless one knows to just use gpgme backend (it should be configured by default!). Even then there is a lot of outdated code related to GPG in general (e.g. PKA, no way to locate key by email).
It depends. For me this is about being future proof.

Its more secure than X, but you can compartmentalise as well via VMs (Qubes does this) or Docker (Jessie Frazelle runs everything in Docker).

Enlightenment [1] supports Wayland since E20.

If you use i3 right now, you can use Sway [2] as drop-in replacement. That's my plan (since I use i3) if I might some time.

SailfishOS [3] also already uses Wayland. Tizen apparently does as well. SailfishOS doesn't use profiling or ads, and has an Android compatibility layer.

KDE and Gnome might as well (according to [4] they do); I don't use those.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(software)

[2] http://swaywm.org

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_display_servers#Waylan...
Not only do the kids not know how to interact, they are repeatedly told that personal interactions are dangerous. Today's kids have grown up with concepts of gangs and mutual accountability. They fear being held responsible when something happens. Relations between the sexes, particularly for young boys, also look like minefields. The line between romantic rejection, and the filing of an incident report, starts looking very slim. So the boys avoid the girls, and everyone avoids unregulated group activities. Playing fortnight is safe. There is nothing you can do in fortnight that will result in the police interviewing anyone. Asking a girl out is risky. Meeting a bunch of other teenagers in a field is downright dangerous.
I can still do that with my cheap computer speakers!
It seems to take it as a given that anything that doesn't substantially reduce exploitation is a bad thing, but no reasons are given, and the costs aren't weighed. In reality there's a balance to be had here and we need to be looking at both sides. There's a very real danger of legislative changes doing more harm than good.

Sure, a few billion humans might be being invasively tracked and having their data sold, and their mental biases ruthlessly exploited for profit, addictive behaviours encouraged with personalised alerts, but you've got to look at both sides - on the other hand, a few companies are making a HUGE PILE OF MONEY, and I think everyone can agree that's unquestionably a good thing. (No reasons are given).
It's fascinating and a little sad that anyone who spoke up about this point was downvoted into oblivion... even though my point is entirely valid and easy to verify.

I don't think PG would disagree with my suggestion, and he certainly doesn't need people to defend him.
What I never got was the "make a set and then glue it all up and put it on the mantelpiece" attitude.

On the other hand I used to love making Airfix models.
Inside the Whispery, Wonderful Golden Age of ASMR
Out of Band Exploitation (OOB) CheatSheet
That might be okay still with some HTML filtering. Just coerce it to plaintext. Not sure anything of value would be lost.
Looking for a cofounder?
Who said weed is save? Cannabis is a drug/substance which has an effect on us and if the only effect is brain aging of a few years -> okay.

Was not able to find the paper, anyone has the link?

Not sure yet if i should care. I will drink my gin tonic, smoke something later on and still live with adhs while contemplating my life.
I endorse the idea that over-engineering is counterproductive. Focusing on principles over tools is good; tools come and go. My list of lessons learned (which has some overlap with yours) is:

1. Make sure your files and their organizational scheme can be transferred between tools. Your files need to be searchable, and at some point you will need portability. Text-based notes are easiest, but formats that have ubiquitous support (like docx or html) are ok too. Similarly, a collection of files is more reliable and flexible than a database tied to a subscription-based service.

2. Don't bother with elaborate tag or folder based taxonomies. Search is more efficient. I, at least, cannot accurately predict what taxonomy I'll need 5 years in the future, nor can I consistently tag every file correctly. There is some empirical support in favor of search over tagging [1].

3. Keep your notes organized; store your other files all over the place, wherever it is convenient. Use your notes to record context and thoughts relevant to a project/task/other activity, and use hyperlinks to connect those notes to the relevant files (wherever they are). Being able to embed or preview images in your notes is also very useful.

4. Organization is worthwhile for files that you have read/watched and thought about. The purpose of organization is to help you revisit and develop your thoughts on a topic. Organizing files you haven't read is not progress and does not improve your capabilities; you have to actually read and think about them to get any benefit.

5. Organization is also worthwhile for files that you know you will need for a specific project/task. Add a link to the relevant item in your notes for that project/task. Include a note why you thought it would be useful to future-you.

6. Files that you have not thought about / critiqued, and which do not fit a specific project/task, are not worth organizing. Dump them in an unorganized "to read later" list or just forget about them. The idea that you actually will get back to these files is mostly fictitious, and you can easily re-find them, or a superior equivalent, via search engines, browser history, or library logs.

7. Switch tools as needed based on circumstance. For example, my personal work notes are in org-mode, academic papers are in Zotero, personal work data is in a git + git-annex repo, and shared work notes and data are spread between Google Drive, Dropbox, and a private file server, depending on the requirements of the other people involved. I also have personal life notes in org-mode, Simplenote, and some ancient notes still to be migrated from Evernote. Hyperlinks tie files together as needed.

[1] https://people.ucsc.edu/~swhittak/papers/chi2011_refinding_e...
what's the issue. I stated by opinion. If you don't like it, well, so be it
How Your Attitude Can Affect Your Success in Trading
Trains already work as well as they possibly can. There is no room for improvement in fixed rail, no space for progress. Fixed rail is, well, fixed. If it doesn't exist where you are at the moment, or go where you want to go, that's too bad.

And if everyone achieves their dream of living next to a fixed rail station, as advocated so enthusiastically in this thread, this is what their homes will look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdzJpM-EMNg&feature=youtu.be Or does everyone on here just naturally assume the penthouse with the tennis court and helipad will be theirs?

Conversely, if you can look at a crowded, congested city full of automotive traffic and think, "This is as well as this system can possibly work," I have to wonder what you're doing on a site called Hacker News.

What a single road lacks in capacity, it makes up by being part of a larger network. In every other context on HN, that's considered a good thing. When it comes to transportation, not so much. I will never understand that.
Ah jesus, that is terrible. He believed he was 4 miles away from a town called Galice. How could this be?

I have gotten lost on several poorly-maintained roads in my time in the Canadian rockies. To think this could happen to me and the people I'm with makes me feel ridiculous and stupid.

What should a group of people do if they found themselves in such a situation?
He's generalizing from self.

Which is odd considering his high education having attained a Massachusetts in the 30th best school in the nation. You'd think he'd know better than to do that.

Regardless of whether or not he would fall within Village Voice's demographic, the fact that he was never aware of it is telling of nothing. Nothing is ever going to capture 100% of their target demographic. And thanks to wide breadth of the totality of human experiences the world has to offer, that he was not aware of it says nothing except that it never crossed his sphere of awareness.

I mean, I'm not aware of a lot of things myself. Barely aware of a ton. Like I might vaguely remember hearing something possibly about it maybe. Kind of acquainted with some. I'll know the name but not exactly what it is, or kind of know what it is, but not the name. Etc, etc. I don't have time to be intimately familiar with everything. No one does.
Why Do So Many Blockchain Startups Create Their Own Coins?
Why not make that a view or a stored procedure instead of keeping it as the ORM layer in the application code?
With the obesity rates being what they are in the developed world, I'm not sure that's quite a bad thing.

I have a few theories on why more people are covering up, but I'm going to go the self-censorship route here on HN and avoid stating them to avoid a flame war.
I'm sorry, are you asking if Paul Graham is comfortable interrupting people and making clarifying statements?

https://techcrunch.com/video/paul-grahams-office-hours-tips-...

Jump to 6:20 and tell me with a straight face that PG is concerned about interjection. He literally could have just chuckled and helpfully offered, "well... co-founder!"

Here's the thing: I'm a PG fan and I'm not trying to be pedantic. Jessica has frequently written about how her role is misunderstood and unfortunately minimized, even though it's clear to anyone with life experience that she is the heart and soul of the operation.

http://foundersatwork.posthaven.com/grow-the-puzzle-around-y...
This seems similar in spec to some research I did into tablets that could run Linux. I found someone installed Linux on a Onda V80 plus (a dual booting Android/Windows 10) tablet https://medium.com/@tomac/installing-ubuntu-mint-linux-on-on... and that led me to looking at all of the cheap Chinese windows 10 tablets running the Intel cherry tree processor. It would be a crapshoot whether they worked out of the box I what chipsets they used but a lot of these type of laptops can be found for 100-200$ on AliExpress. It's a shame that Linux driver's aren't automatic but such is life.

I'm pretty committed to System76 at this point because I don't feel like wasting time trying to solve a bunch of driver BS and unsupported chips. I have wasted untold hours doing this in the past. But perhaps some masochist impulse will lead me down the route of trying to save a few hundred bucks and I'll buy a cheap Chinese tablet.

On the other hand maybe unofficial Linux support for the surface go will be as good as Linux support for Macs has been in the past and it'll be a viable hardware choice.
You also need to maximize your earnings, minimize your spending, and ensure you have enough runway between jobs (6-12 months) or enough cushion to take some time off when you're burned out. Because you will burn out. Humans are not machinery meant to be run at 110% constantly.
Stay warm and hydrated?
4. You are in South Beach Miami and couldn't care less
That is like blaming the Mongolians for the fall of the Song Dynasty? Symptomatic of a dynasty in decline? Yes. Causal of that decline? No.