skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s interesting to me about Minneapolis and other northern cities where there are a lot of cyclists is that they very often have far more people riding to commute or do other practical tasks than any number of other cities with much milder climates. In the American south, where you never see snow, commuter cyclists are practically nonexistent. Obviously there is a climate challenge of a different sort, but not insurmountable ones and not all year round.

Citation needed, I know. There’s a relevant article about this phenomenon out there somewhere, if I can find it I’ll post a link.
> How much of your capital do you plan to allocate? And do you plan to allocate any of mine (i.e., the taxpayer)?

Do you ask the same of, or have any say in how much of your capital is invested in other ventures, for example, how much your country spends on its military, or civilian surveillance?
Moderators don't scale very well though. Those filter bubbles are really just letting the users do their own moderation. This reduces the scope of the site moderators job down to enforcing the rules.

If you try to do everything through the global site moderators you immediately get pulled into arguments like this:
User 1: You need to ban User 2 because he is a racist.
User 2: I only said that User 1's views are not supported by evidence.
User 1: My views are well supported by my life experiences, and there is no good evidence because the government outlawed funding for research into them.

It's a no win situation, and neither side is going to change their mind and there's no clear winner. They're going to bicker and raise your noise floor constantly though. It's much better for site health if they can be isolated from one another, and better for your moderator's health if they do it automatically by themselves.

This is the messy messy world of real life.
Ten Signals (1937-1940)
Notably, this now involves the DOJ, not just the SEC.
There seems to be a lack of really viable alternatives for an exodus to happen toward. If Reddit is the new Digg, who is the new Reddit?
When offered to 'move up' into a Manager's role - the first thing is to understand what has changed in the Team or Company.

If the position has been vacated by someone who just left, you may see what expectations on the role have stayed in the Company. These may be 'projected' on the new Manager (no matter what the job description says). This would impact the ability to meet your own vision of success in that role.

If this is a new position, created just for you - again, there might be some unexpressed reasons based on what has led to that decision. If one knows the history and the decision makers, one could measure degree of freedom to have any impact in that role.

As others here pointed out, it's a move from a Senior Dev to a Junior Mgr. As such you are Junior on someone's Team, with all the baggage that comes with this.

Politics does not begin at Manager's level, but failing to see how the politics works there is what effectively dooms a new Manager.

Article lists many practical points that are team-facing. My personal favortite is #4 (express your expectations). Equally crucial should be the management-facing points.

I find that for someone with a strong technical background one of the hardest management side to adopt may be a _negotiation ability_ and a capacity for compromise, especially with the very little leverage as a Junior Mgr usually has at her disposal.
IMO as we accumulated more and more "rights", the concept became diluted. We went from the bedrock negative rights of freedom of speech, travel, etc, then to positive rights, and then people started applying the concept of "rights" to what I would consider "entitlements".
Yes, it's really the case. We wouldn't need browser extensions to force old.reddit if the opt-in/opt-out obeyed our wishes.
That's a great idea. You could just put the overhead charging infrastructure at a few stations on the line. Just enough to top the batteries up. Most of the energy could probably be recovered through regenerative braking, but of course some will be lost through mechanical and air resistance.

This would be so much simpler than electrifying the whole line and much easier to maintain.

This infrastructure is often already at key stations, and so it might require no extra work to implement them. Just more money for the battery powered trains.
Did the one-click feature have that much impact on Apple's e-commerce? I thought it was their retail stores that really made difference in how the company sold and communicated with their customers.
I don't feel great about spending time on a website that hosts content like this: https://np.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTears/ I guess I'm old, but that doesn't seem absurdly prudish to me.

Reddit is full of stuff like that ( see: https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/ ). If it were my company, I would have some system to vet subreddits before they went live. It would kill me to host a website full of toxic garbage.
only if the two decomposed numbers together take up the same space or less as the original number. no idea in what cases that happens.
Or we could prosecute drivers who run over bicyclists (and motorcyclists) the way many states now do to protect road construction workers -- huge fines and jail time.

But Americans care too much about comfort and convenience to do that. SUVs rule here.
And yet, we are all born in just the right moment. Just by existing, Ramanujan opened eyes as to what people from "backward" (colonial) areas were capable of. While his own life might have been better if he had been born now, his existence helped improve many other lives. Just reading about him as a kid inspired me. And I'm just a white dude from the suburbs.
And patrons of science. Remember the Medici stars? It's the old name Galileo gave the moons of Jupiter.
I might be stating the obvious, but I'd focus on what they can build, not the theory of it. Treat code like legos. With code, they could make toys for themselves, or to play with other kids. I haven't messed around with Scratch myself, but I know there are tons of robotics programming kits, and I think Lego allows you to program robots as well. That's how I'd approach it if I had kids.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttle...
British cave explorer sues Elon Musk for defamation over “pedo guy” tweets
China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwindling
Data collection from office-js
It seems there's a common warfront in general around what can or can't be said, and it has coalesced in the every-one tool, the Internet.

Greater ease to publish, greater impulse to control one another.

The test of our day seems to be around the right to speak freely, online.
You may wish to know that the current executive budget proposal would shutter the NIST time radio broadcasts (WWV, WWVH, and WWVB)[1][2][3].

[1] https://swling.com/blog/2018/08/information-from-the-nist-re...

[2] https://www.kb6nu.com/nist-to-shutter-wwv-wwvh-wwvb/

[3] https://www.nist.gov/director/fy-2019-presidential-budget-re...

"Illustrative program reductions in FY 2019

-$6.3 million supporting fundamental measurement dissemination, including the shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii"
Sure it does, it just takes some work to unlock it.
A click is a click, you can't say its only .5
That is an ideal world, but most are not willing to take a 50% pay cut to do so.
Close, but not quite. The video you show is missing a key element of what Apple patented: the animation that tells you what to do to unlock. Apple didn't patent a swipe to unlock, it patented the version where a visual guide is provided to swipe to unlock:

1. A method of unlocking a hand-held electronic device, the device including a touch-sensitive display, the method comprising: detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display at a first predefined location corresponding to an unlock image; continuously moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with movement of the contact while continuous contact with the touch screen is maintained, wherein the unlock image is a graphical, interactive user-interface object with which a user interacts in order to unlock the device; and unlocking the hand-held electronic device if the moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display results in movement of the unlock image from the first predefined location to a predefined unlock region on the touch-sensitive display.

As you can see if you watch the video carefully, that older device had no feedback regarding how to unlock, and whether the unlock even worked. It makes it a more confusing, hard to use device. Hence a new patent that fixes those limitations makes sense.
I'm assuming non libel related statements and company related statements only.
Ask HN: As a founder, what's your honest review of YC?
To the contrary, "winter tires" actually have comparable benefits for stopping. Here's are the first three findings (of ten) from a recent University of Michigan report:

Finding #1: The main benefit of winter tires is improved tire adhesion, braking and cornering performance–not acceleration performance.

Finding #2: Winter tires provide improved traction on roads that are below 7 °C (45 °F) even when snow and ice are not present.

Finding #3: Stopping-distance performance of winter tires on packed snow is typically about 35% shorter than all-season tires and 50% shorter than summer tires.

http://umich.edu/~umtriswt/PDF/SWT-2016-10.pdf
There are a lot of things to respect about Musk.

But he lied on twitter in a direct effort to cause financial harm to people shorting Tesla stock. You can't do that. He should go to jail.
It's not reliable enough now, sure.

Similarly, my 6 year old is also not reliable enough to pilot a car.

Both will change as they mature.
I think that problem can be avoided to some extent with paths/cycleways. Many cul-de-sacs in parts of Christchurch, New Zealand, are only cul-de-sacs for cars, and pedestrians and cyclists have a through-route. This can lead to situations where driving means covering a much greater distance, and is one of the enablers of the city's current focus on increasing bike-friendliness (the other being that it's very flat, unlike much of other NZ cities). It's still a pretty car-centric place, however.
1 Google plus 1 AWS = 3
Trucks and SUVs are slowly cannibalizing sedan sales in the US. So not only do people like driving, the vehicles they tend to purchase are increasing in size.

I think this statement is misleading. The market has filled with SUVs that are adapted from compact and midsize sedans (e.g. Toyota RAV4, Highlander). The giant SUV market still exists, but I don't believe it's growing anything like it was in the 1990s and early 2000s. I probably see forty Rav4's for every Ford Expedition I see.
Never heard of this blog before. I really like the looks of the content. My only method of subscribing to anything is RSS. I'm definitely not adding it to my list after reading this. I wasn't going to make them any money by unblocking trackers but that Amazon tip jar[1] thing looks really interesting, I've never seen it before, I likely would have used it.

[1]https://www.ctrl.blog/tip-jar
The sad piece of karma in all of this is that Musk tweeted in an effort to destroy the shorts.

His tweet turned out to:

- give the shorts a big dip in his stock,

- an investigation by the SEC

- an investigation by the DOJ

- the backing off of a deep pocketed investor in the Saudis

- Him potentially being personally liable, which would mean having to step away from SpaceX and Tesla if he was found guilty of fraud.

This could be the biggest thing to come out of all of this. Imagine Elon getting a 2 year ban on begin an executive in a company. Or SpaceX not being able to bid on government contracts because their CEO is a felon.

There is going to be a lot of backroom dealing to do everything they can to prevent Elon from being charged.

- A lawsuit that is seeking class action status for anyone who was short at the time of his tweet.

- this is speculation, but it must have really strained his relationship with the board. I mean you can only fight so many battles at once, you'd think you'd want to have the board on your side

All to screw with the shorts, who really have no power what-so ever to hinder Telsa. If he had just not used twitter he and Tesla would be better off and the shorts would be worse off.
Thanks for the comment.

On your last paragraph, we can't standardize the BAT ecosystem until it is proven, and as it consists of more than the ERC20 token -- specifically it includes endpoint software currently developing in Brave, plus an anonymous accounting service alongside the Ethereum blockchain -- it won't be proven via the existence of the token alone.

On a future blockchain with anonymity, high throughput, and low fees (a trilemma?), the BAT ecosystem could be fully decentralized. That blockchain does not exist yet.

So our roadmap divides and conquers (the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo phases), and we will expand beyond one browser when the system is ready, some time next year in my best guess. In particular (as noted in my other comments here), we need a high-integrity and fraud-resistant open source SDK.

Note that the BAT has diffused since inception to over 69,100 holding Ethereum accounts (https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/0x0d8775f6484306... -- you can see our User Growth Pool and Bittrex's liquidity pool as the top two accounts). The remaining roadmap work items are about token mechanics not token ownership.
"Instead of watching TV at night alone at home people could walk over to their friends place or go out to a cute restaurant or well groomed park."

No thank you. As much as I like my home town, I don't want to pay a fortune (that could buy a castle or another absurdly large property elsewhere) for a crappy house or condo in the densest part of Toronto and never enjoy personal peace and quiet again. Not everyone wants to live in miserable close quarters paying exorbitant rent for the freedom to walk to convenient overpriced services.

A home and a yard allows those who need it to live with a measure of dignity. It's pants and you're trying to argue that everyone would be fine with shorts.

Ironically I live in NYC right now which is even worse in most of those respects, but at least the pay/COL ratio is better. Public transportation is better too. In the end if I buy a home it isn't going to be in either city.
The idea with covers is that they can be replaced when you enevitably drop the phone.
Right now a phone+cover won’t survive falls without scratches or breaking. So to make the phone itself tough enough you need something bulkier than a current phone with a cover.
My oldest is only 3 but based on my experience (and the experience of other parents I've spoken with) your best shot is to find another, slightly older kid who already programs and have them hangout.
Small nitpick

> Yes, I can do this for any whole number bigger than zero.

Should say "Yes, I can do this for any whole number zero or bigger." since 0 is a palindrome
SQL Query Optimization Meets Deep Reinforcement Learning
> But he lied on twitter in a direct effort to cause financial harm to people shorting Tesla stock.

Do you have evidence of this, or is it speculation?
As sad as this makes me (because I want Tesla to be wildly successful), I have to agree. This is textbook and brazen stock manipulation, a flat out crime.
I completely agree (assuming not blocking task). No one is in a better position to represent, empathize, direct, and assist in employees' careers than a manager that "gets it". Additionally, studies show that employee satisfaction, trust, and respect for their manager is higher when they feel their boss is capable and can do their job.

Steve Jobs said it well: "The best managers, he says, are 'the great individual contributors' who don’t actually want to be managers but step up because they don’t see anyone else who can do the job better."

https://qz.com/work/1152331/watch-a-young-steve-jobs-give-ad...
I'm in favour of automating away 100% of the donkey-work. Slaves are an evil thing for a culture to have; robots aren't.
Speaking of licensing and Jobs's quick decision-making, the following is what you don't usually hear from Jobs's inner circle: (https://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-arti...)

"I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too.

In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were 'stepping all over Apple’s IP'. (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, 'I’ll just sue you.'

My response was simple. 'Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?' Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I’d help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996. Lighthouse built applications for NeXTSTEP, the Unix based operating system whose core would become the foundation for all Mac products after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996. Steve had used Concurrence for years, and as Apple built their own presentation tool, it was obvious where they’d found inspiration. 'And last I checked, MacOS is now built on Unix. I think Sun has a few OS patents, too.' Steve was silent.

And that was the last I heard on the topic..."

so this is one example in which Jobs's poor decision making didn't pan out as he had hoped.
My son already loved minecraft, and was already familiar with the concept of mods, so CodeKingdoms (https://codekingdoms.com/) was the perfect tool in his case.
Ask HN: Evaluating Feature Flag Vendors
We are looking to change our development process by introducing feature flags. There are a number of vendors in the space. Curious if anyone has had any experience with them?

Airship - https://www.airshiphq.com/
Launch Darkly - https://launchdarkly.com/
Rollout - https://rollout.io/
Split - https://www.split.io/

Curious if anyone has any recommendations or things to think about based on experience. Thanks!
The worst part is the same companies will stress and quiz you on testing during the interview as if they take testing so seriously in their company.

It's mostly because shit is so neglected and broken and they are so deep in tech debt in their environment they think they need to get someone who is "really good with testing" to help them.

"testing" for these companies forever remains a "right now we cant but wouldn't be nice if one day ...".

I'd be more appreciative if these companies just owned the reality of their priorities.
Good compromise considering where we’re at in the us.
Critical Peekaboo Bug in NVR Allows RCE, PoC Available
Don't Conflate/Confuse Primary Keys, PK Constraints, and Indexes
The courts have ruled that employers don’t have to defend disparate impact based on a “business necessity,” the normal defense to a disparate impact case, which is a high bar to clear. See the Smith v. Jackson ruling, which clarified that in an age discrimination disparate case, the defendant must only show “reasonable factors other than age,” and NOT business necessity. RFOA is a much lower bar. Given a genuine lack of intent to discriminate based on age, any competent lawyer would be able to argue that salary is a RFOA.

You, meanwhile, have cited nothing.
> For example, being able to tell if a number is divisible by 2 or 5 by only looking at the last digit.

That still seems like it is generalizable to any base by taking prime factors of any base-n.
Your goal shouldn't be to get your child interested in programming, but fostering any natural interests you see in your child and encouraging those. If your child has an abysmal aptitude for logic, but is incredibly creative or body-oriented, getting them interested in coding will likely be a fruitless and painful endeavor.

If they do have a natural aptitude for logic and can stay focused for a long time then I would personally avoid coding (at least early on) and foster more pure math and logic games. This thread on Math Overflow has many good suggestions for math and logic games for children:

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/281447/mathematical-games...
Just had some more ideas-- Video categorization. A less-than-upstanding example could be knowing when certain actions are being performed in porn videos by auto-tagging portions of the video. Maybe something less nefarious could be for education, where you pull in automatically for a compilation a bunch of videos of, say, beetles flying-- Could be useful for art, as well. I've seen a recent project that creates an intermediate stick figure for "DeepFake" image generation from one video to another. I think the paper was called "Everybody Dance Now". Maybe for stores to know when someone might be shoplifting.

I think my point is that if you could label activities in video, you could collect datasets more quickly for training other networks as well.
Downtown pedestrian malls were tried in many US cities and mostly failed. They were an attempt to make downtown retail competitive with suburban mall retail, by the former emulating the latter, after the former was already failing. They only worked when other things were in place that made lots of people walking downtown utilitarian, like adjacent universities, tourist attractions, and dense connected residential. Few people wished to drive and park near downtown for a quasi-mall shopping experience, apparently. Lots has been written about this, but one overview: https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/revisiting_pedestrian_malls_scmi...
Shill reporters and publications have their fair share of the blame, too.
If you read his rants/tweets around this time it is pretty clear he is has it in for short sellers
That's basically what Notch did with Minecraft, and frankly he seems to have been bored since. You should never underestimate how important wanting to do something interesting and worthwhile can be.
I think this was for the web version. They were mobile first for a long time, and a lot of the core team left years ago before the web version was complete.
And you could add overhead pantographs or third rails at key stations to charge the battery whilst it is stopped, and for a mile or so after if it is deemed necessary.

A battery means that you don't need to build miles of infrastructure. You can just add a small amount.
This problem is solved.

https://www.cargobeamer.eu/
I agree. I dread to think who they'll send. The musician will be a popular twerker rather than someone musical, and so on. It's a cute idea, but I expect the result will be cheesy fluff. We'll see.
The "lied on twitter" part is now clear. He said he had funding secured for a buyout at $420 which he has now basically admitted was not true.

The "cause financial harm to people shorting Tesla stock" is a bit of speculation but it seems basically obvious to all observers.
The Segway was banned from San Francisco sidewalks almost immediately upon release. You really think NIMBYs are going to sit quiet as the streets fill up with empty cars circling like sharks?
The irony is that malls are always built indoors without cars. I think it depends on the type of retail, and what they want.
Why? Does Jeff Sessions not like the weed reference?
Could we come up with a solution where Netflix's streaming catalog isn't even thinner?
> And what would we have to give up?

A lot of freedom to travel.
Ask HN: Best chromebook for dev on linux?
Requirements:
1) Below $1000
2) Can run native linux variants like Ubuntu, or Kali
3) atleast 4gb memory, 32gb ssd, usb ports, and ethernet port

Any suggestions?

I saw this pixelbook: https://www.amazon.com/Google-Pixelbook-RAM-128GB-GA00122-US/dp/B075JSK7TR?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAIPHVZTVH6LZ5BFZA&tag=hawk-future-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B075JSK7TR&ascsubtag=trd-1341075680043534426-20

but wondered if anyone had any other suggestions?

Thank you!!!!!