skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say that, but there will be a document somewhere telling people what the requirement is, and it will probably NOT say "Imagine the maximum possible amount of people that could physically fit, now add ten percent". And you might even find you need to track down the rationale in the engineering paperwork to know if the structural engineer envisioned this as a route crammed full of people or just a fun decorative element of the building that would technically be open to the public but rarely used. Not everything, build everywhere has to obey the same loading rules, many private homes have stairways that would be far too narrow, steep and poorly lit to be legal in commercial buildings for example.

When there was a balcony collapse in a foreign country I got interested and read the code where I live, the building regulations specify that a balcony or similar structure, which essentially hangs off the side of a building and so is unsupported at one side, must handle up to a certain load per square metre. Enough that a modest residential balcony can certainly hold two lovers, someone's spare bicycle and the decorative concrete flower beds they've put down to make it feel "outside". But what if instead of two lovers standing under the moonlight it's as many of the university rugby club as will physically fit? Ah, well then you're going to exceed the designed capacity and a code-compliant balcony might very well collapse.

All those tower blocks in England that are being retro-fitted because of the ones that burned down in London, their architects would have told you at the time they were definitely built to code, no extraordinary risk of fire. Then a bunch of people die in an out-of-control tower fire and - surprise - the politicians now claim the code meant you shouldn't ever have done that, and those towers were all built wrong but now they need to "clarify" the meaning. Sure.
Who sells these things, and is £1b not that much for them?

There is much to be said in favour of a predictable legal regime, where producing and selling foo is legal this year if it was last year. Where producing and selling weapons is legal iff it was when the Royal Army suggested starting developing the weapons in question.
React Native will get rid of bridge costly serialization/deserialization for crutial parts like animations very soon. See talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcqRXTriUVI If you had already invested in RN, i wouldn't jump to flutter and rather wait. From what I read here on HN, even Android team is kind of skeptical about flutter (but maybe they are also about RN, who knows).

What I personally don't like about flutter is that I have to learn new language (which I cannot use anywhere else), ui components will never look look same as native (specially visible when you would like to mix native part of application with part written in flutter) and far less components and libraries to choose from than RN.

But of course there are some benefits on flutter's side too. Article covers that pretty much.
Like you alluded to, it’s mostly about finding, gathering, and organizing the political will to fund such projects. There are, I imagine, plenty of projects archived in some filing cabinets in the basement of some federal building somewhere that had its day in the legislature and didn’t make the cut. My favorite example of this being the 2012 plan for the Northeast Corridor:

http://www.gcpvd.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Amtrak_Amtra...

Super Express service between New York and Boston in 90 minutes, cutting through central Connecticut with no stops, carried by new EMU-driven rolling stock.

tl;dr: Not happening. Instead, Amtrak’s gonna straighten out a few kinks in the current track so the Acela service can get up to and maintain higher speeds south of New York and in eastern Connecticut. Not sure how they’re gonna add more capacity, if at all.
Of course you can. Armed with only a text editor, a craft knife and some tippex, you can have any keyboard layout you like on a standard keyboard.
I don’t think there is much equivalency here. The credit system is a pain, but it is also very simple to have good credit. Anyone, even someone with little money can have good credit. Even if you have medical debt you can maintain your credit rating. People may not know how to do it, but it isn’t too hard. The privacy aspects of it suck, but it just isn’t that dystopian and it’s usage is relatively narrow in society.

Secret no fly lists: impact a very small slice of the population. Try to find more than a few instances of legitimate travelers being blocked, which is something you can do with freedom of speech and freedom of press. I think less than 2000 are us citizens. The program in China is going to disenfranchise entire slices of their population and further limit their social mobility.

Secret kill lists are for terrorits. We don’t kill our own citizens. I’m an Enlightenment since everyone deserves due process, but in a defending our national interests sense, that can never be the case and never has been.

Our systems aren’t perfect, but every first world nation has some system to track your financial behavior and it impacts you negatively if you don’t make your payments. I just don’t see any strong relationship to the oppression in China and what happens in the US. Our systems aren’t perfect and your criticism has merit, but not as a comparison to China on this topic.
I had only one issue with my XPS 13 9350 so far - at one point the battery died and I had to send it in. It got replaced quickly and since then it's been fine.

One thing I love about the Dell vs the Macbook I had previously is that I can just download a service manual from https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/de/de/debsdt1/xps-13-93... if I want to service it myself.

Apple on the other hand will disable your computer if they detect that an unauthorized 3rd party has serviced it (if you bought a recent one with a T2 chip).
The social credit score goes way beyond speaking out. It touches all the minor infractions, speeding tickets, jaywalking, not paying your rent or other debt on time, etc.
youre very welcome. if your back had healed a bit, consider gravity boots. my discs are in 5/6 and 8/9, upper region. so i couldnt do anything but swing 2kg dumbbells around very carefully. once the nerves calmed down and it was more muscular pains, i managed to utilize the gravity boots effectively. 60 seconds after training, and sleep after or head to a sports massuese then eat protien and sleep. 7 months in, 80% better.

as to intensity and the 60m crossfit, just try a single round and leave, with 20 stations and 25sec rest, its around 20 minutes worth. keep an eye for the pain, and get one decompression excersize to do before bed everyday if you can help it. by the rate this is going i think ill heal 100% by mid 2019 which is a better prospect than thinking im fucked for life.
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As a former Toronto person, I am certain there is an intentional behind the scenes campaign to promote Toronto as a global destination. Some of the articles I've run across have been quite breathless in describing features that would be mundane in other places. Sure, it's a nice enough city, more or less a New York wanna-be but with most of the growth extending back only a few decades. It does not deserve to be compared alongside other cities with extended history, geographical features, etc. It's clear many of the publications that published these articles received a payoff, or an insider had influence.
Credit ratings in the United States are not controlled by the government, and you have recourse if your rating is hit for no reason. Comparing the two systems together makes some sense as there are material impacts in both cases, but to say credit ratings are even close to this is to miss a pretty critical distinction.

As for no-fly: agreed that is a stain on our democracy.
I mean just from a standpoint of free will and society, not so much from technological: seriously, this is the opposite of what a person should want. When you look at the historical development people got increasingly self-determined over the centuries. This completely makes no sense at all, this is reverse and you even pay for this.

I mean this BaaS probably "manages" 100s of people and is doing nothing else than clicking through a similar software for you.
> I'm not sure how this qualifies

The idea is that social credit discourages behaviour which is bad for people (e.g. traffic violations and small-scale tax evasion) and that makes things better for people. I think it's easy to see how this could be effective, but the criticism is really about fairness (due-process). Proponents would probably argue that the consequences are relatively small compared to traditional criminal justice (going to jail; execution) so it doesn't matter, and the streamlining of justice outweighs the disadvantages.
There are patches for the OS if you want to run something more recent.
Well, we obviously can't debate the difference in success of these two products. That's in stone.

But in terms of usefulness and delivering something that is truly useful and enabling of collaboration? Then in the Wave v Slack battle, Wave wins. Being able to describe Slack, doesn't mean it's useful. (Note: I'm not saying that simple doesn't help with traction. It does. I'm putting the actual products toe to toe.)

Don't get me wrong. Slack is great (if your alternative is email) but it's not the end in that space; at least I hope not. If you were to sit down and ask, "What if...What would a next Slack look like?" you'd likely end up with something close to Wave.

Today? What is Wave? It's all the things you wish Slack was ;)
They’re not. They are using BGI’s MGISEQ2000 machines. They simply sell the sequencing at a price that doesn’t cover its cost. Both because this is a promotion and because they retain the rights to using your genomic data in research: it’s simply a cheap way for them to get samples.
The scale, scope and logical extent of these systems are not even comparable.
I don't know the answer but if there is a floor at 0, that would mean at this point you have nothing to loose, so that could backfire. But you probably get incarcerated before you reach some threshold level.
There is nothing that identifies a person more precisely than their genome. It is, after all, unique to each person.

That means that by definition, anonymizing genomes is impossible. If someone tells you they will 'anonymize' your genome data, run away, they don't know what they are doing.
While I agree with you on that, obtaining the required kits that the sequencer needs is another headache altogether.

The reads lengths might be fascinating with Nick Loman's group reporting upto an Mb in size. But the error rates as well matter. Unfortunately nanopore errors are not easily mitigable, whereas PacBio's are.

The one place where nanopore has them beat is the sheer portability and ready run time.

Strains involved in 2015 ebola outbreak were being sequenced real time!
I'm sure you could also argue that it's easy to have a good score in China's system. Just be a good citizen.
What facts in the original article does your article correct? Its main point is just that there isn't a single unified ranking, which the OP article doesn't seem to claim.
We have killed our own citizens. If they are abroad they have been hit without due process in drone strikes. (See Awlaki et al)

No love lost for the man, but labeling something OK because someone is said to be a “terrorist” (when that label has been applied without due process) is the equivalent of avoiding due process which must be afforded to all citizens.

When excepted under narrow circumstances for convenience, you are paving the way to generally ignoring due process.
By dropping the stock, yes they have leverage against facebook. The stock price matters to mr z more than anything.
I think they did try by providing @facebook.com to all users but via FB platform only. They should have gone for a new UI rather placing in FB itself although I can understand why.
That was the big premise during the Terry Semel years. He was a high level executive with Warner Brothers for 25 years.

They had no idea what they were doing or what being a media company in the Internet age meant. They flailed about for a decade with confusing ideas of what their strategy and end goal was.

How did they go about pretending to be a media company for so many years, while watching others dominate streaming music and video? Incompetent leadership. How did they miss the numerous opportunities to acquire a real Internet media business like Netflix, for relatively cheap? They could have picked it up for most of 2007-2013 for $2b to $4b (early 2007 being when they launched their streaming service).
My main problem with using anything from Google is that I work on projects that may end up in production for years, and Google's history of playing fast and loose with (or shit-canning) the frameworks it develops doesn't inspire much confidence.

Fortunately for me UI dev isn't my primary role.
See, it's never been clear to me how anyone would willingly work with a touchpad. My first laptop had one and I used with a mouse whenever I could, even in uni lecture halls where there wasn't really much space.

Only when I got my first thinkpad I could finally work without a mouse and haven't looked back since.

And yes, the mac ones are a bit better than the others, but I still don't like them. At all.
Your current system is still broken if say I go to a second doctor and pay with cash, no insurance involved, so it still preferable the doctor and pharmacist to ask you if you have known allergies, other treatment or suffer for some specific illnesses .

You could extend your argument that insurance companies should get access to what food and drinks you buy so they prevent side effects(and not at all tax you more because you drink beer or eat cheap food a lot)
There's a secret code hiding on these Madrid security bollards
No, the American system reaches and hurts more people, including Europeans and other Asians.
> I love the place and the lifestyle but I don't give a crap for the country

This kind of attitude is why some countries' economies and social systems turn to crap, ya know...
It'll be more effective than walking at the very least ;-)
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30x for a human genome means that you'd be roughly generating approximately 100Gb data. The human genome is roughly 3.3Gb

1x is basically 3.3Gb
Yeah Google doesn't get social (you forgot Buzz in your list) but at least they try, and keep trying in different ways, like it different fields, until one sticks (you forgot Chrome in your success list - it doesn't bring money, but it allows them to partly dictate where the web goes and how it works, something that is a lot of value for them). When they get something that looks cool, they try it.

Yahoo didn't even try, when they got something cool, they went "ah, nice" and then closed it or forgot about it.

> EDIT: I use and love Google Photos but I can't remember the last time I heard someone talking about it. Instagram did it with a social spin.

Same, but as the same time, I would wager pretty much every android users uses it, and has more photos on it than on instagram. It seems the value of google photos for google is not to monetize it directly, but as a way to 1. have data to mine, 2. know more about each user to improve their other revenue source and 3. to keep the user tied to his google account and ecosystem. From that point of view, it's a massive success (and it explains why they went that route and pretty much killed picasa instead of the opposite).
Lots of truths in the article.

BUT

Trains is always a system that picks winners & losers. The closer u r to the nearest station - the bigger winner u r.

I lived in London. Any location not within 1km of a station is basically a prison. Even if u have a car, you cant go anywhere (since no parking), and no one will come to you.

This is a particular problem when you adding trains (and impeding car) in an existing city.
Yeah, but it's really a matter of time. Facebook has become the social network for grandmas and aunties.

Facebook has expanded to new countries in the last decade which has brought these millions of users, but younger generations in countries that have had Facebook for a long time are not using it anymore.

In the US most Facebook users are between 25-34. There are barely any teenagers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187041/us-user-age-distr...

This trend is a bit less pronounced in global demographics, but I think it's clear that younger generations don't like Facebook.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/376128/facebook-global-u...
You put a referral code in the URL? I find that somehow objectionable.
The devil is always in the detail.

The "buying too many video games" line came from the gamification aspect of a social network owned by a private enterprise and has nothing to do with the government scheme. And even they have backpedaled from that claim:

"Hu Tao, Zhima Credit’s general manager, paints a different picture now. She says the app doesn’t monitor social media posts “nor does it attempt to measure qualitative characteristics like character, honesty, or moral value.” Zhima Credit is not a pilot for the social credit system and doesn’t share data with the government without users’ consent, she says."

from https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/03/life-inside-chinas-soci...

And the "posting fake news online" line actually refers to "spreading false information about terrorism" which quite a bit more serious.
you seem to be obsessed with assessing Chicago's importance - more so than anybody I've ever met from Chicago

here is importance not by population, but by GDP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._metropolitan_area...
It really is a different game.

In a small tribe, hurting your fellow man affects you. If you screw over your only hunter and he becomes homeless, it's both a problem for you and him. He's spending time repairing his place instead of getting food for everyone.

At scale, you'll never even know he exists and are free to leech everything you can out of him.
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Indeed, it should be although seems a lot of it is gone now . But here's a link with some photos of Mt Umhmhum https://www.openspace.org/mount-umunhum-sierra-azul
The references linked in the article specifically mentions smoking on trains and planes.
I understand but hey if it's pre 2010 and you're holding one of the big three king of emails I don't care what you think: you're a tech company, deal with it.
Isn't it possible to rent a bike at the station?
Basically it means that you can derive single nucleotide variations to do genome wide association studies. However we do this low coverage of sequencing for plants to aid in the breeding programs
> I know [privacy is] an issue around 23&me

In what regard? I’ve not heard of any privacy related issue with 23andme, and I follow the field quite closely (professional interest). On the contrary, 23andme has been known to uphold customer privacy in the face of government requests [1]. The FTC is investigating 23andme and other companies (which is a good thing), but there is no indication that they’ve found any violation.

[1] https://www.23andme.com/transparency-report/
hmm. doubt that last statement.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-visited-cities-...
This is going to get so much worse. There’s a whole category of health tech startups chomping at the bit to help insurance companies and billing departments instead of patients.

A moment for founders to truly question whether their work will change the world for the better.
The US does kill its citizens. There's a few terrorists who were US citizens when they were killed by drone strikes.

https://www.aclu.org/video/aclu-ccr-lawsuit-american-boy-kil...
Sorry, I didn't mean to connect the economy with what Doug Ford's government is doing, but his/their actions will ultimately hurt the economy too, it's just not clear yet. What was I alluding to was the decimation of city council and uploading of the TTC to the province. I'm sure there will be more nonsense to come.
As a non-chinese 'westerner', to my understanding the important background to this culturally is that Chinese culture has been traditionally much more legalistic than western culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy).

It has lots of nuances but the most important difference, if compared to western view of the justice system and the rights of state, is that the most important thing in a legalistic system is to punish those that break the law, and other considerations like individuals right to a fair proceeding and so on, are secondary.

I think this social credit system is the perfect manifestation of the legalistic frame of mind. The system is built so that those that step out of the line are punished.

Western humanistic philosophy is quite new when compared to how chinese state has been ruled for millenias. I'm not saying this to make any value propositions into one direction or the other - just that there is quite a lot of cultural background here that Europeans and anglosaxons might not be aware of.
> Secret kill lists are for terrorits. We don’t kill our own citizens. I’m an Enlightenment since everyone deserves due process, but in a defending our national interests sense, that can never be the case and never has been.

The parts of this that are comprehensible are either baseless or ill-informed assertions.
> excellent design and best practices

Sounds like a sure fire way to spend all the time on premature optimisation.

Scott Guthrie at Microsoft used to talk about rapid prototyping, and to always throw away the prototype code and redo from scratch. Never keep the prototype, and especially don't just push it straight into production.
> I don't completely get Blockchain, but Toronto has gone crazy for it.

That's not a recommendation, IMHO.
A lot of people in here reference Black Mirror, but it also made me think of ST:VOYs Critical Care [1] (which has plot holes you can just as well drive through).

[1] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Critical_Care_(episode)
You should have also reported the apartment as being awful to AirBnB.
Search for "arson" instead.

There was a photo-essay of the devastation (seriously, it looked like a war zone) posted on HN about a month ago. I can't find the link now, but if you Google "pictures of 1970s Bronx", the Image Search links give you a sense.
> which I cannot use anywhere else

You can certainly use Dart in the server, and even compiled to JavaScript in the browser (which I believe was its initial purpose).
Hint: its not about Helvetica.
It comes down to preference. Personally, I love thinner and lighter. I like using a machine that feels premium.
VCF only contains variant information; FASTQ and BAM contain the “raw” sequencing information (in reality that data is already heavily processed but it’s the starting point for all usual analysis). Depending on how you do the analysis, the variant data will be slightly different. There are some current baselines (so-called “best practice” workflows) for performing the analysis but many of the details are variable, and subject to much current research.

To be fair, for most things the VCF is completely sufficient (and in fact most people won’t care even about that). It just feels cooler to be in control of the raw data (and personally if I end up using a sequencing service, I would want to perform my analysis; but this is obviously irrelevant for 99.99% of users).
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AWS in general feels like an undead survivor of 90's enterprise java websites.
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Tell that to the Tibetans, Mongolians, and the dozens of other nations that have been subject to Chinese imperial domination over the centuries.
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