skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the electric scooters (Lime/Bird) will only accelerate to 15 w/ the motor (a hill or serious kicking can potentially make it go faster to the rolling speed limitation)

A quick google tells me that motorized wheelchairs are speed limited to 6-8mph.

Your comment that pedestrians see/hear cars is concerning, as if you've never walked a street before;

A) the increased speed, makes both of these more unknown

B) road noise from other traffic

c) intersections mean that even with seeing, hearing, a car can still run straight into a pedestrian in a crosswalk with a last minute turn.
> It was obvious to every outside observer their model was busted.

Well, imagine I am somebody at the target market of IBM (whatever that is), why would I want to hire them?
Why does it still adhere to the weird semantics of HTTP, when in reality HTTP has evolved into a file delivery protocol, with a rich inband messaging system?

Surely we have an opportunity to split HTTP into a file delivery system and a socket-like streaming system?
Yes, but the linked page didn't and stared at it for a while and googled and then I realized I wasn't on the homepage.
Could this be why our politics are so messed up?

When you're only worried about being re-elected in 4 years, there's zero pay off to playing the long game. The only thing that matters is the short game. Yet as citizens we need governments who will eat their proverbial veggies and show up to the proverbial gym every day.

(Btw this applies to the whole political spectrum, so don't go thinking that because you're right/left wing you're superior to the other.)

I don't have a solution to this. Obviously we don't want people leading the country for life (those tend to become tyrants and dictators).

But if the negative effects of the short game are so obvious on a personal level, extrapolate that to entire nations and the world as a whole.

Climate change? No one in charge when it matters will be around when we pay the price. Long game issue.

National debt? We're so in debt already, what's wrong with a little more? Long game issue.

Education? Please, it takes 20 damn years before the kids show up for work. Long game issue.

Poverty? Even Jesus didn't think we could solve that one. Long game issue.

Healthcare? Why should I take the political risk today when most of my consituents won't get sick until I'm gone? Long game.

Etc.
I don't understand this logic. Of course if I could magically make the clothes I would already wear bulletproof with no downsides, I would. The downsides are that, compared to what I might have worn normally, this costs hundreds of dollar; limits me to only their products, aesthetically; has different breathability, size, and weight properties; and has different care requirements (or perhaps some subset of these things).

Edit: It might be a fine product with practical value to some people, I'm just addressing your post.
Facesitting
IBM patents everything. I feel like if they were to ever actually go through their death throes, they will start becoming patent trolls.
What? Are saying the existence of apps makes it impossible to study/do work? This makes no sense. You could make the same (flawed) claim about tv, books, newspapers, sports, friends, etc.
I'm pretty sure that GDPR is for Europe, whereas this article is about the US.
OK, but anti-Semitism and white supremacy aren't the same thing (black nationalists can't be anti-Semites?), and even if they WERE the same thing, how is this an example of "actively courting white supremacists" or anti-Semites for that matter?

Let's tie it back to the original argument. It is basically argued that unlike Twitter, it's justified to deplatform Gab because their 465,000 users are "virtually everyone" white nationalists, white supremacists, and/or anti-semites (the terms are used interchangeably), and that this state of affairs is due to Gab "actively courting white supremacists".

Does Gab actively court white supremacists to join their platform? Maybe! The poster claims that he screenshots Gab as a hobby, so it should be easy to provide an example of this.

Words have meanings. "White supremacy", "White nationalism", and "anti-semitism" are not synonyms.
There are very specific claims in the original argument. "Actively courts white supremacists" is a higher standard than "holds or expresses white supremacist opinions", and this claim is central to the argument justifying deplatforming Gab.

I'm commenting under my real name, in good faith.
You really have three paths:

1) Accept the fact that it is crappy and enjoy your paycheck. Just go to work, accept that your time there is a business transaction in exchange for the paycheck, then go home.

2) Invoke change - speak up, not just about the problems, but with solutions to improve the organization. Encourage discussion, retrospectives, and push on your leadership to make actions happen. If you are having trouble understanding people, tell them. Ask them to get a better mic. If the code is hard to work through, document it as you figure things out - you'll start to understand it, and if it really is convoluted for no reason, documentation and diagrams of it often will make people realize such things, in a way that just looking at code does not.

3) Leave. There is no shame in leaving a job that is not right for you. You aren't helping your employer or yourself by just being miserable every day. FWIW, I've never left an unhealthy job and then later wished I had stayed longer.
Meanwhile we are still waiting for http 1.1 pipelining to be enabled in browsers.
> most time spend getting on/off is waiting in line for everyone in front of you to go through whichever few doors are open

I've ridden the commuter rail for 13 years. I can't believe "exactly nobody" has noticed that raised platforms load and unload roughly 2x faster. More conductors would help too, but anyone not excited about raised platforms everywhere is unobservant.
My company has been pushing a high deductible plan exclusively provided by Stanford. They would NEVER answer questions about pricing up front in the year I tried the program, so I switched back to another provider that does (Kaiser). Stanford is a complete racket as the article shows.
See my above comment, anti-Semitism and white supremacy aren't the same thing (black nationalists can't be anti-Semites?). I'm commenting under my real name, in good faith.
>the actual left has been complaining about centralised capitalist control of the media for decades

Cool. How does the "real" left feel about speech these days?

>The left celebrates this, not because the control is good, but because the threat of fascism has become so overt that this is the best we can hope for right now.

Oh. It's a special case because things are so bad _right now_. The same justification as in every instance of abridging speech we later come to regret.
I guess what IBM needs to do is to go talk to its customers.

Server-less is an interesting development. To avoid lock in though we would need a library API layer. Much like what Kubernetes provides at the application layer.
Generally, I'm always wary of "out of sight, out of mind" type solutions - for any kind of problem. In this particular case, this assumes harrassers only want the original author to know (and even then are interested in the actual outcome of their message).

I think the "shitstorm" dynamics are more complex and there are different motivations for people to take part in one. E.g., it could be simple venting, virtue singalling to peers in your brigade or you sharing the tweet to others in your circle - nothing that needs any perticipation by the original author.

In extreme cases, an author might not realize what is going on until they find outraged articles about themselves in the news.

See the comparable problem of cyberbullying for an example. There, it's often completely irrelevant whether or not a victim knows about the messages that are written about them. Indeed, they can be bullied on online platforms where they don't even have an account. All that is required is for participants in the bullying to know how to access the messages.

Of course, harrassing PMs are a different issue. Here, you can be sure the messages are exclusively directed towards the author and the harm is being done by having the author read them. Blocking those kind of messages would stop the bullying action itself and could work. But then again, this is not so much different from the oldfashioned blocking we already have.
Hmm, I can't watch the video. "We are experiencing problems with our servers. Please try again later."

EDIT: Was able to watch it. This looks like a bug more than anything.
US politicians apparently don't have time to deal with privacy issues and gdpr. They're too busy trying to keep people out of the country, give tax breaks to wealthy folks, repeal health benefits, prolong armed conflicts, and tweet about how great they are making america.
As far as I know, there's no trick.

I've gotten better, but I don't know how or why. In case it offers anything useful, I'll just say what I did:

After I was initially diagnosed, I used modafinil for several years to give me a predictable portion of each day in which I was awake and alert. After a couple of years of that, my symptoms gradually abated, and I began, very slowly and carefully, to add some gentle exercise back into my routine. (Before the illness, I had been sort of an exercise fanatic, and I really missed it.)

The boundary on exercise was that I had to strictly avoid getting winded or fatigued, so my exercise regimen was extremely mild at first.

Very slowly and gradually I built up stamina, until, after a year or two, I was up to a couple miles of walking each day. I tried various other kinds of exercise, but most of them tempted me to overexert, and when I overexerted, I went backward.

It's now fourteen years after my initial diagnosis. I still have the syndrome--I can push myself into being symptomatic if I'm not careful--but I've learned some boundaries, and if I stay within them, I have a pretty normal, comfortable life. Nowadays I walk three to five miles a day, mostly around a nearby lake with my dog. Pretty good outcome!
I normally like what "Uncle Bob" has to say but I do not agree with a lot of what he says in the article.

> Objects are bags of functions, not bags of data.

That might be an ideal case, but it is not reality. Pretty much every OO language has both of them combined.

> Is there really so much difference between f(o), o.f(), and (f o)? Are we really saying that the difference is just about the syntax of a function call?

Yes, there is.

Try doing a compose function with the OOP / member expression syntax.

Here it is in JS using FP syntax:

const compose = (...fns) => fns.reduce((f, g) => (...args) => f(g(...args)))

It would be even shorter in Haskell.

Try doing long division with Roman numerals.

Syntax is the structure behind mental representations and mental representations have tremendous power in expanding the physical limits of thought in the brain.

> The overriding difference between a functional language and a non-functional language is that functional languages don’t have assignment statements.

The overriding difference between FP and OOP languages is that the unit of composition and abstraction is the function or object, respectively.
> how are working class taxed on first dollar earned?

Payroll tax
Funnily enough, that link breaks because it requires Google Analytics.
It's basically the Jevons paradox - as cost of compute power decreases, it encourages increased use, and as the result, the gains can be more than offset by the increased demand.
That's very common practice.

I've seen in a documentary that everyone who works at Miguel Caballero's bullet proof clothing company in Colombia has to be shot at least once while wearing one of his shirts or jackets. I tried to find the original docu but couldn't find it, but you can look up his company and check out the I was shot section on the company website.[1]

[1] https://miguelcaballero.com/en/i-was-shot/
Samsung HW-MS650 Review: The Premium Soundbar, Home Theater
I think we owe Jenkins a TON of credit for being a free solution that has a lot of great traction.

I'm used to seeing pages of checkboxes and can't stand how obscure some of the configuration is, but mostly I wanted to write something that could handle configuration differences between hundreds of projects, so that is why there are things like Snippets in Vespene.

Plus, I wanted to make something that was a little better for ops use cases (so people don't also have to go pick up something like Rundeck), so that's why there are things like the SSH integration and http://docs.vespene.io/launch_questions.html

It's more about capabilities and future capabilities than the frustrations IMHO.

Though I do have a bunch of friends who are frustrated with plugin compatibility, plugin hunting (we're doing more of a "batteries included" approach like I ran with ansible - just with much less modules), and stuff like that.

I was also able to add in some stuff like container build isolation really easily, and that's all included stock.
> I guess that's one way to stand behind your products?

I wonder if that is where the idiom "stand behind" comes from...
> I never see Azure Stack mentioned so maybe Microsoft will look into a Docker acquisition to boost their enterprise footprint.

The companies using Azure Stack today are some of the least likely to be parroting that fact. Microsoft's on-prem is pretty well entrenched, particularly in "boring enterprise" where pragmatism beats idealism, are quiet "do the work, don't leak the work" more than proudly proclaim to be chasing the trends.

That said, Azure Stack (and Azure) already have strong Docker support, without an acquisition to date.

More interestingly, in my opinion, though, is that right now Azure Functions is the only "serverless" runtime with a strong open source story, and equally strong on-prem (both as part of Azure Stack and, increasingly from what I hear, standalone) as well as Cloud support.
I'm not sure the two cases are distinguishable. The best scammers believe what they're saying, even if when properly analyzed it makes no sense.

I am sure there are a lot of people who are intellectually for free speech. I'm also sure there are a lot of people who by disposition favor the dominance of certain groups that they belong to (e.g., white men). There are plenty of people in both groups, even though the position is intellectually incoherent in that maintaining dominance always involves silencing the dominated. But because they haven't done any sort of hard self-examination, they don't realize the two are in conflict.

So far it's plausible to me that Torba is that intersection, the not-very-sharp freezepeech crowd that only does anything about freedom of speech when they feel somebody like them gets yelled at. Twitter's staff was full of the "free speech wing of the free speech party" types early on, and Twitter's evolution here was a slow concession to reality.

It's surely possible that Torba in private was a goose-stepper from the get-go, and that the free speech thing was a consciously adopted cover. But if I were to bet, it'd be that he just wasn't particularly smart, and that he really believed that he could have a Twitter competitor on the basis of "freedom!", fighting those darned liberals and their hatred of free speech. Then both he and the platform gradually self-radicalized because he identified with his platform and his platform's distinguishing characteristic snowballed.

The guy identified as a lifelong "conservative Republican Christian", a segment low on self-examination and high on the ability to believe contradictory things. Around his booting from YC, he wrote, "Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it. I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks." For me, that puts him near the broad end of the radicalization funnel that Bellingcat described. [1] So I read Gab's progress more as the inevitable unfolding of Torba's unchecked biases, and less about an initial conscious intent to cover up explicit beliefs.

[1] https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2018/10/11/memes-in...
It reminds me of Joel on Software where Spolsky claims that web technology and web apps will not replace desktop apps.
Why You Should Encourage Girls to Play Video Games
Good job States, I wonder if you will be smart enough to go with the google. It is the sam sh*t but in a different camouflage. IT guys, do you dare (or you are vendor locked in - the votes/downvotes will prove it)?

A reason I had: I will not support company that is having so much questionable practices as google has.

Tasks, done in two years:

- flashed android with Lineage + Microg (now it is much easyer - https://lineage.microg.org/ - no more google spyware on my phone

- redirected all my web traffic (all devices) trough ssh tunnel to home server where http://www.squid-cache.org/ is cleaning my web traffic from trackers, including caching cdns forever

- set up my own "cloud" (https://nextcloud.com/) to sync files, contacts and calendars

- set up my own mail server (postfix, dovecot)

- deleted my google account(s)

- banned all known google domains using hosts files on all devices

- removed google chrome from all devices

- stopped using google, replaced by duckduckgo - I no longer get so many results, but they are relevant instead of paid ads.

I am googless. And seeing sharp ;)

The hardest thing was to stop typing google into address bar. And stopped using "I googled...".

Everything else was simple.
The numbers I posted are US only, FB is still growing 30%+ in daily international users YoY.
> Back in the day, there was a single apartment building in SF where many of the YC companies started out.

The (in)famous "Y Scraper" https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Y-scraper

Back when swatting was considered "fairly funny": https://techcrunch.com/2007/03/23/police-raid-justintv-more-...
Red Hat's Acquisition – A Triumph of Open Source
The fact that they changed the law rather than used the existing one makes it crystal clear that it was legal.
Agreed. Takes some huevos to shoot oneself so I'm a believer haha.
It is evil but it's really not as necessary as you think. I'm known to ALL of my friends and ALL of my family as someone who will not ever be on Facebook. You know what they do? They call me. Or text me. Or email me. And I never miss out on events. Even people I rarely interact with know how to, and do reach me outside of Facebook.

People make such a big deal out of how impossible their social lives would be without Facebook but never actually try it. I honestly don't get it.
>I question the size of the market for this kind of thing.

Once you get below a certain price point every low-level employee who has to handle a large amount of cash enters your target market.

They can branch out into "traditional" PPE if they really need to. Work clothing with reinforcement over key areas would be a big hit in some industries (at the right price of course).

>If you feel the need to wear armor every day and can't openly wear a ballistic vest, you might want to consider moving.

Your house doesn't almost catch fire every day yet you probably have smoke alarms. I can see a handgun proof polo shirt being quite popular among politicians on the campaign trail.
You can make an argument that any tax isn't fair. Why should you have to pay a sales tax on money you already paid income taxes for? Why should a company pay a payroll tax to pay their employees?

What really matters is the economic consequences of these taxes. For example, you can't make sales tax too high because it discourages people from buying things and hurts poor people disproportionately. There isn't much of a economic downside to taxing large gifts. Sometimes taxing an inheritance runs the risk of closing a family owned farm or business.
^Jared runs the sw team at YC and we are hiring https://jobs.lever.co/ycombinator/8703c1d9-af67-4826-90e4-74...
https://github.com/vespene-io/vespene is the one!
> A variation of the http/2 name would IMHO make more sense

Why? The core of HTTP/2 is defining how individual HTTP streams get multiplexed across a single TCP connection. That part is not applicable to QUIC over HTTP. There HTTP streams get mapped on top of QUIC streams. Some things might be similar between HTTP/2 and HTTP/QUIC mappings, but in the end they are separate definitions. The both define how HTTP semantics are carried over a different lower layer mechanism. So HTTP/3 or HTTP/QUIC seem reasonable.
Yeah, but taking a pill and eating what you want (more or less) is much better
At some point we have to consider that internet exists because of the government. Where that is can be debated, but without government enforcing certain regulations and restrictions, the internet wouldn't exist. The companies that benefit directly from those regulations and restrictions should have the First Amendment apply to them, or else the regulations and restrictions should be removed.

Take the physical wires. They only exist spread everywhere because the government forced people to accept them and allowed companies to run wires over or under public land. At that point, the companies not benefiting from those wires are no longer fully private institutes.
It’s worth noting that GitLab CI will turn your Yaml build config into a nice graphical pipeline

(Another fan here)
"YouTube the most-used social media site in the world"

By a certain measure that may be true, but if you were to actually measure how often people read and post comments, and what percentage of users do, I think you might not reach that conclusion.

There is a social media aspect to YouTube, but I don't think that is its main function for the vast majority of users (who are probably better described as "viewers").

(that said I think the article is good, and YouTube comment quality should be an embarrassment to Google)
Wait what... Instagram's feed isn't chronological?
Yes, Taxi drivers were much worse about this. This is a gross generalization but based on my experience Taxi drivers drive much more aggressively and have more disregard for traffic laws, but are also generally more skilled.
That's a line pushed by large corporations to convince people that money saved through tax avoision is somehow benefiting the consumer. Companies should pay their fair share of tax.

Moreover, the argument makes little sense when dealing with companies like Google and Facebook. The average consumer isn't paying for access to Google Search, Gmail, or Facebook...
"Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act_of_1890
If they started taking prescription painkillers for chronic pain or post-surgery, then they kind of were compelled to do it, weren't they?
That is morally reprehensible and very smart. Find all the companies that have such great margins that they can treat their employees well and gut them for temporary gains.

What about the opposite? Find companies that are massively over staffed and duplicate their product with 100x less people?
Edit: Apparently I should have looked for more videos on youtube. The ones others have provided make me believe. Still think they should have rented a real high speed camera though.

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Mad props if he actually did this, but a bit skeptical here. I see no evidence there was an actual live round in there. It could well have been a blank. On the other video further down the page they remove the magazine and show the round, and there is visible damage to the clothes they shoot. I see no visible damage, and he didn't bother to recover the round as in other video either. If I were pulling this stunt I would certainly have a high speed camera to show it in action. Other thing I noticed is there is a muzzle flash on the full speed and then when they slow it down there is not? Could be an odd artifact, but could also be added?