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Show HN: Our Bikes, building a web-based advocacy group for bike share
Hey folks,

A friend and I built a bike share advocacy group called "Our Bikes" in SF because the local providers (JUMP and Ford GoBike) were facing resistance expanding (https://bit.ly/2vQ4MX0).

Check it out: https://ourbikes.org

Source code: https://github.com/bradwilliford/ourbikes

On the tech side, we found change.org and other petition sites to be a headache. In many cases, they won't let you directly have the emails of your supporters. Plus, we wanted to customize everything. So I bought a domain name, built the site, shared on Twitter, and things took off! We got some local press (https://bit.ly/2PxseRo) and we ended up with 950+ supporters for our petition.

We wanted to keep the momentum going. Since we have each supporter's neighborhood, we've been following up by email whenever there's a bike share station potentially coming to a supporter's area.

In terms of action, we wanted supporters to be able to easily email their elected officials, but not spam those elected officials with a ton of repetitive form letters. To solve for this, we came up with various combinations of emails and personalized each with the supporter's name and neighborhood. This keeps the emails to our officials feeling much more organic and response has been positive.

So far the JUMP bike cap in San Francisco has gone from 250 to 500 with our support, and several new Ford GoBike stations have been approved! It's led to a ton of interesting ideas and discussions - a highlight being connecting with JUMP's CEO and team.

Wanted to share and encourage folks to organize around issues they care about. It doesn't have to be a ton of effort and can be a fun side project. Check out the code, Sketch files, etc and start your own advocacy group today.

-Brad
Doesn't FaceID require you to actively watch the phone? That would seem a few notches above what you described...

Either way if you're paranoid about security you should use a passcode on top to boot.
Show HN: Detoxify – Kicking out a bad habit? Track it with this
Hey HN,

I made Detoxify, right now it's just a simple addiction tracker, but I'd like to build it out to focus primarily on another goal: addiction replacement.

I was addicted to video games for basically my whole life, and I found that willpower alone is not enough to fully quit - you need to track it and you need to replace it.

So in the future I'd like Detoxify to be able to give you something back in a big way - if you spend 8 hours a day on video games, imagine if you could begin a 'detox' and then have the app issue you replacements for those hours. 8 hours of video games becomes 2 hours of Lego sent to your house, plus 2 hours of books, plus 4 hours of kayaking.

If that sounds like something you'd like to support the development cycle of, please pick up a trial.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/detoxify/id1438276133?ls=1&m...
How about this, it sounds like harassment to me:

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/02/14/magic-leap-sex-discriminat...

>Campbell met September 28, 2016 with Magic Leap CFO Henry
and Head of Operations Tina Tuli for a conference call with the CFO and
leadership team at R/GA, an award-winning international advertising
agency that was Magic Leap’s advertising agency of record. During the call,
Henry said of the product under development, “I’m sitting here between two
beautiful ladies. They’re not going to want to put a big ugly device over
their pretty faces. And I have an office with glass doors, I don’t want people
to see me with these beautiful girls with ugly things on their faces.” Later,
one of the male R/GA executives on the call asked Campbell if Henry
frequently made sexist comments like he had made. A female executive at
R/GA also was offended by Henry’s remarks.
Because everything is fine. The big conceit from privacy advocates is they think people don't know their data is being collected and used, but the reality is, they do know. They just don't care.

Show me a concrete negative impact on my life as a result of the passive data collection perpetrated by Google, Facebook, et. al., and you might change my mind, depending on how negative it is.

I get a lot out of the products I pay for with my data. It feels like a bargain, honestly.
Yes, that's exactly how U2F works (it's scoped to domain/origin). FIDO2 builds on top of that.
I've been interested in Apple TV for ages, but the demo setups in the apple stores have been terrible. My WDTV is on it's last legs so I'm in the market for a replacement TV client for streaming video. I'd like that to be an Apple TV, but for £200 it needs to be a properly viable games machine, or it just doesn't offer enough value over a £30 Chromecast.

Nintendo had the controller issue solved 12 years ago with the Wii. Come on Apple!
> Should parents be allowed

To paraphrase: "the question is not who will let them, but who will stop them?"
> I'd like a system when some tiny amount would be deducted automatically from my account every time I read an article on different sites.

Figure out how to make that work in the market and you can be a _very_ highly-paid engineer.
Can I use the new YC SAFE document for an LLC?
Our company is not raising traditional VC capital and our prospective angel investor does not insist on converting to a Delaware C Corp...for now. To save time/money, we'd prefer not to convert from our LLC right now, but would still prefer to use a SAFE (or adapted SAFE) because of its simplicity. Haven't found any advice by any YC partners on this topic.
I’d argue this isn’t enough. They should explicitly ask, especially when you’re using the application to handle sensitive material such as unreleased code.
And yet you'd still have a functioning option market, which is the point in question.

You don't have to hedge delta in short shares of the underlier in order to deal options. You can hedge out using your long shares, and then do the remainder in a correlated instrument or leave it without a hedge. For a pure market maker who simply buys and sells to earn spread, hedging is a means of managing P&L variance and protecting oneself against negative selection bias.

Similarly, you also don't have to hedge converts in options.

I'm not sure I understand your point about underwriting. Due to regulations, options don't start trading until several days after an IPO. Options on spinoffs tend to list more quickly, but are delayed as well. Secondary issuances have the advantage of already seeing where the market priced the stock, and are generally small, so there's no need to have a tight options market to hedge them.
How would you describe this one?

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/02/14/magic-leap-sex-discriminat...

>As an example of more egregious comments, Campbell told
Abovitz of the “Three Os” incident and Vlietstra’s lack of any meaningful
discipline in response. As an example of unconscious bias, she told him of
an IT employee who was helping Campbell a new logo into the email
system. Cognizant that she was taking up a lot of the employee’s time with
minor changes to get the logo “perfect,” Campbell apologized for taking up
so much of the employee’s time, to which he responded, “Oh, don’t worry, I
get it. You’re a woman and you care that things look pretty. I’m a man. I
just get the work done.”
New counter to step one: don't allow unlocking the device if no photons are hitting the camera.
AWS vs. AZURE vs. CLOUD for A.I./ML Computing
Who do you believe is best? Has the best stack?
Depends on what you mean by won. Is your data used to make you a better consumer or prosumer?

Is data collected without your knowledge actually useful? Twitter data jumps to mind, a lot of junk.
That's why it's dangerous to pretend like really complex things actually are not that complex. Laymen think that they understand something about it and they are starting to have opinion which usually is wrong, because complex things are actually complex and opinion based on limited interpretation is wrong.
Nobody cares about your age as much as they care about what you can do for them.

Sell the vision of what your experience can bring to the company.
What Traits Make a Programmer?
I'm pretty bad at remembering names, but my wife and I have worked out a system. If we're in a social setting together and I start to introduce her "have you met my wife..." she will jump in and introduce herself directly to the other person "hi, I'm Colleen...", which prompts the other person to directly introduce themselves to her (and thus taking me off the hook). As a result, if someone is introducing me to someone else, I tend to do the same thing -- hijack the introduction and introduce myself directly -- just in the case the person making the introduction needs an assist. Of course, if they've already greeted the other person by name, then no need.
Down in Helsinki, Finland as well. There are several tweets with outage maps already.
According to this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation#A_crude_anal...

"[F]or instance, a 1-second-life black hole has a mass of 2.28×10^5 kg", and the time taken seems proportional to the cube of the mass. So a 2.28×10^6 kg black hole would take 1000 seconds, and so on.

How massive was the black hole in the story?
This one sounds like discrimination to me:

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/02/14/magic-leap-sex-discriminat...

>Sadly, because Magic Leap seldom hires and does not actively
recruit female candidates, the company loses competitive advantage to
products like Microsoft’s Hololens. Microsoft, which employs far more
females on its team, developed its similar product on a faster time line with
more content that appeals to both genders.
A major component to opioids is how addicting they are.. which plays right into the profitability. Marijuana wouldn't be as profitable, so it is not 'the new opioid'.
Are you saying that if WaPo started selling only native ads nobody would buy them? I'm skeptical of that prediction.
“A few high quality games” seems like it’s handwaving a rather large part, no?
I just skimmed the article, but one huge problem:

Intelligence is known to be largely genetic, but we have almost no idea what genes, or combination of genes are responsible. So whatever genetic correlation this is based on is bound to be nearly meaningless.
Really confused why I'm being downvoted and why you are explaining what finna means.

I'll restate the purpose of my comment again, in detail:

1) I said that I worked in the UK for six (6) months.

2) I said that I never once heard the phrase "hotting up", despite us often saying "make some tea" and etc.

3) I then compared the rarity of the expression "hotting up" to the rarity of certain "American" phrases.

4) I ultimately concluded that though all of these phrases exist and are used by English speakers, they are rare and niche.

5) That is to say, they are relatively obscure and not extremely widespread.
When I've only met someone once or twice and haven't seen them for a while, I just take my best guess at a name while using my tone of voice and body language to show that I'm making an effort. I remember faces very well, rarely forgetting anyone, but I'm not a natural when it comes to names.

I've found that when I make it clear that I remember a person and want to say their name, they are always very forgiving and any potential awkwardness is diminished. It also gives the other person an opportunity to try to guess my name as well! I'd say most people don't remember other people's names on the first try, and the typical coping mechanism for that is to avoid saying names all together. To allow myself to stumble also allows them to stumble, which is a relief to both parties.

This isn't to say that it's better than actually remembering a person's name from the start, but not remembering a person's name isn't the faux pas a lot of people believe. It may seems that way because we know how good it feels to be remembered, and we want to be that person who remembers everyone else's names, but instead we come up with excuses in our heads to just avoid names as much as possible.

After such incidents, I almost always remember the other person's name thereafter because I now have a rapport with them. Rapport is key because, without it, the garbage collector in our brains chuck out "orphaned" data. Well, at least mine seems to. But I've gotten much better.
Yep, I've been in a job for 11 months now that I knew was a bad fit by the end of the first week.

I figure I need to stay at least a year -- at least then I won't have to pay the singing bonus back.
I love one of the responses:

> Sure QT can create cross platform UIs, but with a $300 yearly price tag for one developer and no support.

It's kind of amazing that we've gotten to a world where $300 for high-quality dev tools is considered an unreasonable price. If your software has any kind of revenue model at all, $300 a year is nothing! Cripes, I'm old enough to remember the days when you had to pay companies like Microsoft four figures per year per developer just for access to documentation.
People engage for all sorts of reasons, indeed. Many of these reasons don't align well with predatory behaviour from the employer. That is why your definition is flawed.
> You start as someone dedicated to a craft, you end up working somewhere that pays you a lot of money to do it but without giving you the chance to put yourself into that work at all, and then you end up making soulless work that not even you really like. But it made money so it keeps going like that until it absolutely blows up and everyone has to "rebrand" or another company slips in as the rebranded form in your place.

This is the best summary of what matches my experience in this industry that I've seen. Favouriting.

Based on what I read about it, I agree that the way "employee engagement" is pursued is missing the point. Especially that companies typically also optimize for having employees be replaceable cogs. I don't think you can have both. Engagement comes from aligned goals, autonomy, and coworkers you can relate with. Which is opposite of what you want to have when you're building a machine, where employees are dumb parts.
Seems like this would be a pretty simple fix wouldn't it? Choose your state when you jump onto a shopping site to see the price with taxes and shipping included. Instead they wait to bait and switch at the register.
This is a mobile phone without a screen that doesn't make phone calls and won't fit in your pocket. It's nothing more than a desk toy.

"Hey Vector" is just "Hey Google" or "Hey Siri" or "Hey Alexa". For a lot less money you could just get a Google Home or Amazon Echo (Apple HomePod is a bit more) and they provide more functionality without the useless wheels.
Yes, it dates to the XIX Century, and alternative types of it have been proven right or wrong at times.

Postulating unobservable things is still not a good way to do science. The one good thing of the dark matters theories was that physicists were clear in that it's not a done model, just a map of what's wrong with our understanding. This seems to have changed lately.
This is a well-known phenomenon called the cascade of intervention: http://www.childbirthconnection.org/maternity-care/cascade-o...
Put all humans in a mental box that suggests that how much money they make and how much profit they turn are all that matter and see what happens. That isn't pretty either. We are seeing some of the gruesome outcomes of that currently, for example:

https://medium.com/@joycebowen/murder-by-medicine-dfe9d23207...
Fortunately we can all read the details of this particular case in the lawsuit, enabling us to more fairly and easily make a judgement call.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/02/14/magic-leap-sex-discriminat...
I don’t think so. Apple has a vast budget. Even just bundling a controller would’ve made a significant difference with no funding of games.

I also don’t think they would’ve needed to fund entirely new games, just support a few indie ports to kick it off, similar to what Nintendo did with the Switch.
Like a few hundred thousand lines of code copied from tutorials into a unique working product. Open sourced with a year worth of commit history.

I'd hire that guy, but maybe that's why I'm looking for employment and not the employer? LOL
So, what is this? 2018 furby? The site has no information.
Infection of Broken Tooth
I am aware of the legal issues related to the matter as well as the many claims of medical relief if provides. I don't doubt that some will be found... I just think that if people are going to run around touting its medical qualities, there should be some kind of non anecdotal proof of these claims by now. I've heard some pretty outrageous claims about THC and CBD, but a few years ago I was hearing some of those same claims about Acai, and a string of others before that, none of which panned out. I just think throwing around all these unsubstantiated claims could be doing more harm then good in the eyes of the opposition to the matter.

Being very pro-cannabis both recreationally and medically, I am very much looking forward to such research so we can put the argument about the plant to rest for a while.
How have you arrived at that conclusion?

A few million = 3-5 million.

Even at the low end that involves having 150k spare a year, plus a house and retirement fund? You're having a laugh.
I think maybe a mixture of facial and a pattern for things you specify would work wonders... Like you can unlock with just your face but not all apps should be available. To open apps not safe listed you need to put in a pattern / pin / vocal password based on your own voice or fingerprint or the inverse to open protected apps you need further authorization via other authentication approaches
I get what you’re saying. I think you could be way more clear and articulate (took me about 3 reads to understand that you’re just agreeing with the well received parent, I think). I hope that is the reason for the downvotes and not simply people not wanting to hear that rationalism is just as dogmatic as anything it has displaced. Sure it’s better (in the more pragmatic sense), but it still depends on sets of axioms regarded as truth and fails to present explanations for plenty of observed phenomena. It also is strictly not philosophic so it can’t answer “Why?” nor can it yield any sort of ethical/moral framework(s) for understanding reality.
Thanks, that makes sense

Do you have any experience with pre commercial biotech option markets, like making markets around binary events like Phase 2 trial results? I feel like the pricing of that volatility is quite inefficient but don't know enough about options math or market structure to really test that hypothesis
Vue Perfect Scrollbar: Vue.js minimalistic but powerful wrapper for perfect
Just search that term on HN and you will find a plethora of articles criticising the open office floor plan.
very useful link, thank you!
The comments on their youtube video seem fake.
I don't live there, but underground parking is almost never the right answer. It's just too expensive.
UP AI Core X: Neural Network Accelerators for Edge Devices
>> keep in house their core business and contract/outsource everything else

That makes sense, except we'd need some kind of working definition for "core business", since that's not necessarily self-evident.

Some businesses seem to think that the management of their brand is their only core business, and everything else is fair game for outsourcing.
I've been watching Uncle Bob videos lately and he's stated in a number of them that the population of developers has doubled every 5 years basically since the beginning.

Which means that half of developers have less than 5 years experience.

We are just outnumbered by the new kids. But there also usually aren't enough of them to fill all of the seats.
Meaning that keeping data away from people who would use it for their own purposes, from selling you something to impounding your car if you're behind on payments cannot realistically be accompolished.

For each use, judge for yourself if that's good or bad, effective or ineffective, but the purpose doesn't change whether the data is available or not.
I genuinely, truly don't understand why there is so much push for fancy, resource-hogging web pages when the majority of websites exist just to collect data from html and store them in csv.

Like, ok, sure you can't port Quake to HTML and csv but you certainly need 1/10th the amount of resources to run Quake compared to say, Discord.
It can't be baryonic matter, because baryons are made of quarks, which carry electric charge, and therefore interact with light, xrays etc. But we don't see dark matter scattering or absorbing the x-rays & whatnot emitted by stars, nebulae etc. Hence the 'dark' in dark matter.

So it has to be made of particles which have no electric charge. The only such longlived particle we know of is the neutrino, but these guys travel at nearly the speed of light, so can't clump together to form the concentrated blobs of dark matter we observe from gravitational effects.

So dark matter cannot be explained by the particle we know about.
If you have not heard the phrase 'hotting up' then you have obviously not watched a TV weather report or really paid attention to your peers when they talk about the weather. It is extremely common here to use the term when describing weather that is going to become warmer over the near term.

It is not rare, but its usage tends to be a bit narrow and is now most commonly applied to weather or to competition (as in 'the contest is hotting up' where an American would use 'heating up'.)

You are being downvoted for being wrong and suggesting that your limited experience and apparent lack of awareness is indicative of the rarity of this expression.
Unless it's otherwise known, I think it's safe to assume that every not-tiny application contains phone-home spyware these days. It's not long ago when that wasn't the case, and many users had application firewalls that would alert (and block by default) such attempts. I'd say Win10 was probably the "breaking point" for such behaviour being normalised.

I'm one of those (probably tiny minority) who inspect the binaries of closed-source applications before using them, and will reject those containing networking-related functionality if the application should have no reason to do so.
Fake reviews detection service Fakespot is hiring
JavaScript for-loops are… complicated – HTTP203
Unfortunately more and more companies are going the 'we don't care about your resume, we just want you to do algorithm puzzles'. way. Triplebyte, as listed on the Hackernews job board, is especially proud that they don't look at your resume and measure you only on the few things they deem important. Basically you can be good at a hundred things. But they measure you on ten things and don't care about any of the others, relevant or not. So if you so happen only have 6 things out of the 10, you are out, even if you have clearly demonstrated that you are capable of 100 things, and learning those 100 things in short order.

I would say I learned more in the 2 years than I did 10 years as a Firmware Engineer. But if I stayed my course just lurking in my old job I'd have been a Firmware lead. I can't even get an intermediate development job now...
I usually travel with a single carry-on bag when I travel. It's a tiny hard sided suitcase that fits in the carry-on space and includes enough clothes for a week. I don't technically need a free checked bag nor would I typically use one as I want to avoid the insane wait at the luggage claim. So this I disagree with. I don't mind charging for checked bags, but then I don't mind paying more for air travel for certain things, so I don't think that this particular example fits.

I wholeheartedly agree that tipping should go away. It's literally a remnant of the post slavery age in America and has a nasty habit of lowering workers wages. Another problem is taking dine and dash bills out of the waiters wages. The waiter shouldn't be paying for deadbeats.

So I agree with your general point, just not on the airline baggage example.