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Hah, the "20 years" ago comment made me think that is Austin to a T. In 2000 a bond proposal failed (just barely) that would have been a great starter line down the main corridor in central Austin ( http://www.kut.org/post/why-austins-rail-fail-2000-still-res... ).

Now, though, I really feel it's almost too late for rail in Austin, with our enormous growth from that time making any sort of land acquisition crazy expensive. The $1 billion+ plus proposal from 2014 mentioned in that linked article was also voted down, but it was phenomenally expensive and didn't actually go where it would do much good - a lot of people saw it as a giveaway for investors who had purchased land along the route.

So yeah, I feel we blew our chance, too, and now I feel our main hope is, if not fully self-driving cars, at least networkable cars that could make much better use of the available road space.
Colemak is where it's at because cut/copy/paste and the punctuation is all still in the same place as QWERTY but on Dvorak that's all fucked which makes it an impractical nightmare.

I still use qwerty on my keyboard but I started learning both to try them out. I accidentally left my phone's keyboard layout in colemak and didn't realize until months later when a friend tried to use it. It's kinda funny how your brain just adjusts.
Anyone interested for your kids and mine to learn Chinese and English together?
I am from China, have a 6 years boy. I just got this idea that to help him improving English, we might find another English speaking native kid, to learn Chinese together. just like language swapping.

There might be time zone issue, but I guess time at 6 am/pm around is good for both sides.
Those lists make a point of not backing up any claims made.

I much prefer this format.
You can train Tesseract on other fonts.
It’s always interesting to me to see posts like this. While I certainly agree with the author’s sentiment and concerns, I feel like I never hear about Chinese people actually complain about these concerns in China. Sure I hear occasional and minor complaints about Facebook/Instagram being blocked.

If you told me to guess what percent of Chinese people actually have concerns about the heavy monitoring by their government, I’d say <1%. Most aren’t even aware of the extent of the monitoring/restrictions.

I do wish more people were aware. But there really aren’t many good ways to go about bringing awareness. If you try anything, you’ll be squashed or jailed. Me as a foreigner would also not attempt anything as it would likely mean losing my visa which means I couldn’t visit my family, etc. Quite a complex situation.
The D.C. Metro has a daily ridership of 612,652 and an annual ridership of 179,693,126. Farebox recovery is 62%, which exceeds that of Vienna and is almost as high as that of Munich.

If you look at how people use transit, it skews toward lower-income people [1]. High-income people like the lawyers and government officials you mention use it a lot too, but not as often.

If you want to pick on a failing transit system, pick on VTA in Silicon Valley, not the D.C. Metro.

[1]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/07/who-relies-o...
There is this anime called psycho-pass, that explores how an AI assigns jobs based on psychological profile aka Psycho-Pass, identify criminals for police to execute or jail etc.

Very good take on how things might be.
The potential of the semantic web is massive. It's hard to understand why it hasn't been a massive game changer. I remind a few years ago making crazy query to answers questions that still today has no equivalent like: Find companies CEO that has less than 100k employees and was created before Neil Amstrong walked on the moon. The winner take all approach we have today with all those sillos doesn't benefit human kind in any way.
Not really, if some niche content with 20 people who read it goes offline, it is very unlikely the content will come back.

And then someone will have to put in the money to pin/host the content anyway if you want to keep it online.

Link rot is solvable with tools such as WARC Proxies.
It's advantageous to have a warm deep water port [Sevastopol] so you can mobilize your navy easily in the middle of winter --as well as allows for the trade of good during winter months-- both things which allow offensive and defensive options.
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> It is way way easier on your eyes than something actively blasting light.

See, this is the kind of bad argument that really irks me. There are good arguments about how computers aren't ready to replace pen and paper for actively doing math, and even a few shortcomings for computers replacing paper textbooks. But "actively blasting light" doesn't mean anything. Photons are photons. If you think a backlit display is somehow harder on your eyes than an indirectly-lit piece of paper, then you should be trying to figure out whether you simply have the backlight set too bright for your surroundings, or if your screen's contrast ratio at reasonable brightness levels is inadequate. Your LCD's default settings are probably optimized for movie-watching more than reading, but that's easily fixed and definitely not an inherent limitation of all backlit displays everywhere.
which announcement? I searched "amateur" and only found two posts, my post and my parent post.

edit: okay, found. https://puri.sm/posts/purism-and-nitrokey-partner-to-build-p...

This parent comment looks like a refutation. But the entire thread never claimed Werner Koch was an "amateur", and in fact didn't even mention him, so I don't know what is the point of the parent comment. If it's not a refutation, but making a point about its security, it is better to phrase positively, "Werner Koch is an expert", to make the point clear.
React native excels for a single use case: rapid greenfield development with limited resources. If I were a startup that simply had to support web, Android and iOS, it would be a no brainer.

Unfortunately, there is an almost religious devotion to it so it ends up used for many things it is actually terrible at (large teams, integration with large existing native apps, performance critical and highly interactive apps, apps that would be better off serving one platform, etc).
I’ve done a conference paper and had another one accepted. For me, the hardest is finding good places to publish. Conference levels fluctuate and magazines carry different weight - this is not necessarily obvious for a bystander.
That still means it is 38% subsidized by the taxpayer, right? Farebox recovery is important but you need to also take into account in absolute terms the cost minus recovery.
I had a discussion with a buddy about the California high speed rail and similar land prices issue. Surprisingly, eminent domain allows the gov to acquire land fairly cheaply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain#United_States
The semantic web relies on people not lying. Unfortunately, meta tags were instantly filled with seo spam as soon as they were implemented. It's a trusted client approach to data integrity.
> Arguing whether a given right should be granted to certain groups of people based on race, sex, creed or sexual orientation is not about governing

It's not? What is it then? Where do you think rights come from? Rights only exist insofar as government guarantees those rights. I only have the right to life because the are police and armed forces who guarantee that right to me. I only have the right to liberty because the Constitution, via the fourth, fifth, eighth and fourteenth amendments, restricts what the government can do to me.

The question of who does or does not get rights, and how those rights are adjudicated when they conflict is an inherently political question. It is the root of a philosophical debate that goes back to Ancient Greece. To claim it is not political is to remove the all questions of ethics from politics. It is to reduce politics to a mere math problem, solvable by technocrats.
This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Just because someone doesn't ride the subway doesn't mean they don't benefit from it. More people on the subway means fewer cars on the road, cleaner air and water, less maintenance on roads, safer streets.
Interesting. Would the safety of a tunnel depend on whether the most powerful pressure waves were traveling parallel with the tunnel or perpendicular to it?
Paper math books also do not serve up distracting ads.
Octave isn't widely used in industry for ML. Python is.
Riding the Link Light Rail is super depressing when it stops at all the streets on Rainier Ave, just waiting to T-bone another left-turning car that isn't paying attention to how things work...

The appetite for large-scale transit outside highway lanes in America is downright depressing. I'm still under the influence of a recent trip to Japan, and a trip before that to Germany, while reading about high-speed trains in China, and essentially the rest of the world is not only willing to fully invest in smart rail tech for their cities, but they are willing to go the whole way with high-speed rail, too. Cargo trains and the car industry controls too much!
For some reason, your post reminded me of this bookmark I go back to:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/05/09/daniel-pink-drive-r...

"In Drive, Pink goes on to illustrate why the traditional carrots-and-sticks paradigm of extrinsic reward and punishment doesn’t work, pointing instead to his trifecta of intrinsic motivators: Autonomy, or the desire to be self-directed; Mastery, or the itch to keep improving at something that’s important to us; and Purpose, the sense that what we do produces something transcendent or serves something meaningful beyond than ourselves."
I imagine it would be pretty hard. If you take it slow and learn the details as you go though I don't see why not.
So you have a jury of one and its a state employee just like I said.
Posting solutions to Coursera assignments goes against the Coursera honor code.

> You may not share your solutions to homework, quizzes, or exams with anyone else unless explicitly permitted by the instructor.

Source: https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/209818863-Co...
I read that as "butthole camera"
The sentiment you express will likely be down voted by mass transit advocates, but it should be understood better by them. Cause it sucks to pay massive taxes and see other people get all the benefit.

The priorities are often out of balance. Surface light rail can be a massive improvement over buses on shared roads, a huge increase in transportation capacity over buses, and can be built for a fraction of the cost of subways, allowing us to serve more people with the same amount of investment. Meaning instead of serving 10% of the population with the best quality transit, we could be serving 50% of the population with slightly slower service. And when the time comes that a tunnel would improve capacity and service, you have 50% of the population voting yes because it's in their best interest instead of hoping and praying that enough people are willing to benevolently pay huge increases in taxes for something they'll rarely use.
Cool, I almost got the same one but went with a leopold 660m, also 60%. I just have caps lock mapped to backspace and use vim for everything I can (checkout cVim for chrome) tried colmak out today but will stick with qwerty since I'm 100% at 100 wpm touch typing.
You don't need a search warrant for information freely given.
Don’t we spend a lot of federal dollars on roads, bridges, etc?

https://www.bidnet.com/resources/business-insights/us-govern...
I say just do your full stack program really well and stay in that track for a bit. You'll have plenty of time to learn other things after. Coding is a never ending journey!
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It's easy to get trivial examples of native integration working, but as soon as you try more complex things it starts to break down. Code push? Oops, your native integration in old app versions just broke. Share an existing native UI library? Sorry, Yoga has its own (incompatible) thing going on. Yes, there are workarounds for all these things, but at what point does the overhead defeat the purpose?

Also, the security and performance implications of the Javascript dependency ecosystem should not be ignored.

Small greenfield app on a shoestring budget? It's perfect for that.
I would assume hand rolling it yourself with either nginx or ELB. Pretty much what was “popular@“ before envoy and friends
This has been going on for almost 2 weeks now, and has spread to bananas, apples and pears (according to reports). One kid has been arrested for copycatting the original thing. There is a $100k reward being offered for information on the original offense/sabotage. Millions in strawberries have been dumped, because people either refuse to sell or buy them. A bit of a bizarre situation...
Every law is subject to selective enforcement. Should we stop making laws at all?
Oracle isn't a good example. Newer companies pair career development with individual developer impact.
Politics is mostly about power and ideology. Not truth/evidence/practicality. Even if people agree on the evidence they will still disagree on what to do about it.
I would love to use QT5, specifically the Python bindings but I always struggle to find documentation beyond a handful of out of date tutorials.
It might be partially funded by taxpayer money. Is that benefiting the taxpayer by reducing road congestion or having cleaner air? (I don’t know the answer to this for any given metro, but it’s the question that needs answering)
> I'm pretty skeptical of frameworks that abstract away a whole system.

But that’s what every platform does. You only notice it when it doesn’t work.
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subtract the additional taxes gained by new business / housing along the line.
Last time I checked, freedom of movement is an essential human rights. It's all good as long as it doesn't happen to you right? You see, when you allow someone to dictate every detail of how you should live your life, that means you're being oppressed. We are all different individuals with different needs. Does the person dictating your life have the same needs as you? NO! Someone has set up a template based on their own ideas and completely ignored your own personal preferences. You have been reduced to nothing more than a bot or a walking dead at this point.

One thing I agree is that if this is what China want to do with their country then let them have a go at it. It's their country, people have different values and beliefs in China that citizens from the West will never understand. We can disagree with them, but it is not right for us to interfere or try changing the way how their society functions. Only the future will tell what's best for all of us.
> Google is nothing but a collection of biases.

That's not the problem, we know it, they know it, everyone knows. What is upsetting people is the pretense of them being unbiased. Now in this case they just discussed and it seems never implemented these measures.

Come to think of it maybe they should have implemented those measures. Maybe they should stop pretending to be unbiased and embrace the bias. It's not like anyone would be surprised by it. People were shocked about that leaked meeting video where Google executive were crying after the election results and referred to the loss as "we lost". But it shouldn't have been that surprising, it was exactly what I expected would be in the video.

> This is no different.

They took a political issue wanted to insert themselves in the middle of it by manipulating what facts people see regarding that topic. Now most here agree here with their position, so this doesn't bother us too much. But I don't really this as "the same as PageRank".
This person is not used to work it seems. I don't think they know how to make their bed, clean a toilet let alone operate a vacuum machine.
Reading through some of these accounts, I tried to guess whether the writer was a man or a woman (before looking at their name, and not counting obvious tells like pronoun usage)? Do you ever do that? While I haven't performed a real experiment, I gotta say, I'm pretty accurate at guessing the genders of writers--not 100%, but way over 50%.
smh. someone down-voted the good feels. I will find you, and I will hug you.
I worked for semantic web startup. The idea was we'd build private "knowledge graphs" for companies especially Pharma and Biotech. We experienced something similar to what you describe. We had a nice RDF generator and a query engine. The idea was we'd parse data from clients' DB and unstructured stuff and generate semantic graphs - whcih would be used for semantic graph apps like search and inferences. Looking back, it was never going to work. Most clients came to us for "analytics dashboard". They were happy with giant tables to power these dashboards (and they were right!)
> hiring in some infrastructure people

Part of the problem is that these, at least the ones making the fundamental decisions, are likely to be software people, with not enough ops/sysadmin experience.

> who actually know how to make a stable platform using _proven "boring"_ stuff, not sexy

The ones who do may have gotten bored of it, themselves, and no longer admit it, instead leaning toward as much of the "Dev" part of DevOps (as a title) as possible, since that's where the excitement (and decision making power) tends to be. The rest of us are borderline unemployable.
Wow this was the most ignorant and man-child comment I've read in this entire thread lol.
The generalisations and overestimations are beyond me.

No one cooks every night in this world, unless it's their job. Real food lasts a lot longer than you think it does, and that shows your inexperience or lack of trying to even inch near the real thing.

You remind me of a kid that gets a water pistol expecting a bb gun and cries because water doesn't hurt.

Your gripes with cooking:

- I don't understand how long food lasts. Takes one time to learn.

- I don't know how to cut things. Takes one time to learn.

- I am used to tasty food. The cheap food from your restaurant is not from scratch. Restaurants are often less fresh and less diverse than what you make at home.

- I don't want to cook every day. What are you cooking, 2 sausages and an egg? How about cooking 4 sausages and 2 eggs. Use a pot that doesn't feed 1 person like a normal person. Do you cut parts of a tree off as you need them or do you cut the base?

Honestly I don't know how you live by yourself when you can generate these kinds of "blockades". How about before you pin something you can't do down to it's "negatives" you actually start to pin some effort into it.

Do you catch Ubers everywhere because last time you got in a car your feet got tired from grabbing the steering wheel and your back hurt from sitting upside down? No one taught you to drive that way, no one taught you to cook pasta, toss in sauce and a piece of cheese on top...

Just going to keep putting my comment in until it's not censored lol.
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Lots of us transit advocates were glad to see BART vote down the proposed Livermore extension because of exactly the effect you mention: it's spending a lot of money to enhance services for rich people, when bus service would be more practical. Transit advocacy doesn't mean "all rail all the time".
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In a few years, subway and mass transit will be obsolete. Everyone will travel by autonomous cars.

Like the internet, a distributed architecture, will cause traditional server mainframe networking to be obsolete.

Train networks will be the biggest waste of public money for those who start these projects within next couple years.
Lineman training -> 15 weeks -> over 60k in most geographies with potential well over 100k

Huge shortage of talent.
But that's no longer Unix time, it's an arbitrary value that's usually something along the lines of "number of seconds that the CPU has been awake since boot".
The DC Metro area has 3.3 million non farm jobs, which means WMATA is serving just 20% of taxpayers in the area (even less if you consider that many riders are tourists). Moreover, each ride is subsized by MD, VA, and DC. There are 8 million non farm jobs among those taxpayers, but virtually none can use Metro. Finally, the average income of Metro riders is north of $100k: https://public.tableau.com/profile/planitmetro#!/vizhome/Rai.... That means rides for well-off Metro riders are being subsidized by less well off taxpayers. Its wealth transfer from poor to rich (especially considering that the state and local taxes that fund Metro are regressive).
Just because we couldn't recover it based on accounting doesn't mean it is not a net benefit.
Eminent domain doesn't make lane acquisition cheap. The government has to pay market price.
Every time this topic comes up, I think of Nosedive (Black Mirror S3E1 [1]), and wonder how anyone can think this will end well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)
> What is the essential difference between the success of browsers and the failure of X-Windows and Java applets?

Timeline is one of the key ones. According to chrome task manager (because browsers need task managers now) the page I'm typing this reply on the contains a text area and your comment is consuming 30MB of RAM. Back when Java applets were getting their reputation for being slow I would have been lucky to have a computer with 32MB of RAM, 8 and 16MB were still common at that time. Now there were some other things that made applets awful, but if they were introduced today they wouldn't seem nearly as bad as we remember, on the same computer this page would be clunky.

For x-windows, it was never really a contender because there was no MS compatibility, but the potential was there.
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>The prosecutors select for bias.

The prosecutor is no more powerful in this respect than the defense. Defense attorneys also try to get jurors that they think are demographically inclined to acquit their client and then find post hoc causes to dismiss.

>You’re completely ignoring the social pressure of being the one holdout that you would get from the other 11 jurors to go home and the judge to not have a hung juror.

>You’re also ignoring the very real psychology of how many people don’t care about the fate of someone who they can’t relate to - someone who is not of thier same race/economic background/upbringing.

No You're ignoring what I wrote.

"Furthermore in the US everyone is at least somewhat indoctrinated with an understanding of what a jury is and a respect for executing jury duty faithfully. You have a pretty good shot of getting at least one person on the jury that won't vote guilty instantly so they can still make the baseball game latter that day"

I specifically wrote this as an allusion to the movie 12 angry men.

Yes a random group of people, with no training and no one to judge them, will sentence a man to death for the trivial convenience of going home early. But we aren't selecting from a group with no training. We are selecting from a population that embeds the sanctity of a trial into its childhood education and into its national identity. You have a fairly reasonable shot of at least someone on the jury willing to be the one angry man.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18030655
Early fall should be around end of September - through October
I only skimmed your article, but are you sure that's right? There must have been at least several date adjustments before your app was release yet the system time maintained the correct date. Presumably it'll correct afterwards, invalidating the date offset.