skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The European night trains I've been in all have physical locks that are only openable from the inside. Things could be stolen by other people in your compartment, but that's a lot less likely. I also have a preference for the upper bunks/beds, because you can stow your luggage in a nook above the wagon's side corridor, and thieves will have to actually get past you to get at your stuff (except for maybe the person on the bunk opposite you if you're in a couchette compartment). Seating compartments are to be avoided; I can't sleep in them anyway.
It’s not bad if the short term losses lead to long term monopolies. You might not believe that WeWork will ever be a monopoly, or achieve positive unit economics, but that is the bet. In some ways, the ability to focus on such long term strategy is an excellent example of markets functioning rationally rather than a short term profit optimization that leads to long term stagnation.
It does annoy me that one small part (classifiers) has colonized the broader term that encompasses planners, reasoners, semantics, etc.
(Group running)

Forrest Gump: “I’m tired. I think I’m gonna go home”

The followers: “What are we supposed to do?”
Outstanding.

And of course, on-brand.
I would never, ever install a mobile app from the State on my primary phone account. That just seems like asking for trouble.
If you encrypted something in 1999 with 56-bit key DES, you were using a cipher that at that time was not just controversial or considered weak by leading cryptographers (that was already the case in 1977), but also practically demonstrated to be broken.

If anything, the fact that brute-force still seems to be the most practical attack against DES shows that (symmetric) encryption lasts surprisingly long.
I think it's more interesting to look at it as a corruption of traditional supply/demand signalling in a market economy. By heavily subsidizing a service, investors are able to put their finger on the scale and choose winners despite what consumers would actually choose if competition was more fair. Previously, this kind of behaviour was considered "dumping" and anti-competitive. Yet, currently it's considered OK because startups (read VCs) are doing it instead of large monopolies.

It's interesting to see how this might relate to wealth inequality as well. If investors had less money and consumers had more, would they choose a less-subsidized Uber over traditional cab services as readily?
That sounds really ideal. Thanks for the response.
Am in the process of ramping up a similar-sized board.

If you are worried about IP leakage, it's best to take more of the project on yourself. If you're US-based, there are a number of boutique PCB manufacturers you can call on stateside. Fast iteration is key; even next day airing stuff from China can sometimes double the iteration period when you consider customs.

Don't try to deal with China yourself if you have no experience. There are numerous agents who know the shortcuts, and I wish I could recommend some. There's nothing more irritating than realizing you picked the wrong shipping company or freight forwarder and thousands of dollars' worth of product getting delayed 3 months or lost entirely because, say, you thought FedEx was as good there as they are here.

There are more than a few horror stories where "account managers" on the Chinese side lulled their customers into a sense of turnkey operation, then pilfered the SWIFT or IBAN transfers once the order volume got huge, lying to both manufacturer and client, disappearing scot free into the Chinese system only when they determined the jig was up and they couldn't defraud their client, you, out of more money.

If you're at all technically capable, recommend you consider getting the bare boards made in China but doing your own pick and place and reflow in your own business (costs about $5k in capital equipment). That way only you know what you're building, and you can exert way more control over the unexpected changes that are inevitably coming.
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fully agree. People conflate fame with impact. Everyone’s version of impact may be different but having Impact does not necessarily lead to the other.

Consider the case of Howard Thurman, not nearly as famous as Martin Luther king Jr[0], or Nelson Mandela[1]. Yet highly influential on them, and they went on to catalyse massive change.

So his impact if we consider social change, was massive and far outpaced his actual fame.

[0] he mentored Martin Luther King and otherS
[1] Mandela came out of prison with a completely different philosophy to when he went in.Mandela appears to have been highly influenced by by his writing while in prison.
This is a very good idea if it works reliably. However, from my experiences with sleeper trains in Sweden (via SJ), it's quite inconsistent.
Just the other month, I took a sleeper from Stockholm to Kiruna and it was delayed by 9+ hours! Good thing this was an unplanned vacation so I had time. The customer service was excellent though, they were attentive and reimbursed me for the train tickets, hotels, food and car rental.
I can't imagine myself using the sleeper trains for any business purposes though as I've had many delays with them.
Well it is Autism awareness day. So a few bits of context

1: Simon-Baron Cohen has become world famous for promoting his "extreme male brain" theory of Autism to the point its hard to imagine he's NOT emotionally attached to it.

2: It is notable women with Autism get diagnosed later and its broadly believed by those familiar with Autism that they are underdiagnosed. The extreme male brain theory however bega the questiom that maybe women possibly lack as extreme male of a brain as the men and thus are less autistic and that explains the diagnosis discrepancy? Which is obviously controversial.

3: Autistic womens brains AREN'T LIKE typical male brains. So the nomenclature of saying they have "male brains" in itself is controversial. Especially when girls grew up bullied for being different often being accused of not being sufficiently girly.

4: Generally the people who advocate for autistic men have grievances against some aspects of masculinity. Yet autistic men in certain ways act hypermasculine (isolation, indifference to pain, etc.) Male autistics are likely to be raised in an unusually feminine environment and ardn't always considered manly and can yearn for some sort of masculine identity. So there is this awkward dynamic.

The group most commonly diagnosed as autistic, white men tend to get no love from their allies in regards to other aspects of their identity. This leads to high functioning autistics like James Damore who literally want to tear down affirmative action policies that nominally benefit autistic people. Men like these proceed to get burned at the stake by their allies. This leads to angry resentful autistics inflaming discussions like this.

5: There is a strong correlation between autism and transgenderism and nobody really knows why. Transwomen are autistic at rates far above the general population. This really pisses off autistic transwomen. Generally autism seems to have a significant impact on gender identity.

There is a surprising amount of tension here anyways.
Under most copyright laws, lets assume worst case scenario for real life example of broken laws.

If you send 100 wedding photos to your grandparents without paying photographer for copyright release. That's 100 instances of crime of copyright infringement per work, even if you didn't ask for money (commercial).

In USA, each infringement is $250,000 and/or 5 years jail according to RIAA [1]. With 100, that's $25,000,000 fine and 500 years of jail if USA decides to prosecute you.

Her judgment would make sense.

[1] https://www.riaa.com/resources-learning/about-piracy/
On DB's CityNightLine, you could lock the door. Of course, the five other people in the room could steal from you. I always just put my backpack against the wall. Would be impressive to have one of your five roommates open your backpack in darkness while reaching over you...
I love USB-C, you know you can use both the 19W and 29W charger on both the 13” and 15” MacBook?
NewRelic's Python library monkey-patches low-level urllib3 etc. libraries to accomplish something very similar to this, albeit without communicating a trace ID/intent to the recipient (which you'd want to do if you controlled the endpoint being called): https://github.com/edmorley/newrelic-python-agent/blob/maste... (note: linked repo is not open source)
We only found out about COINTELPRO because some US citizens got together and burglarized the FBI [1]. What programs are running today that we don't know about yet, because we haven't burglarized them lately?

1. https://monthlyreview.org/2014/09/01/how-we-found-out-about-...
> What if you use your phone line to organize a crime? Is that a problem? Should we add word recognition to phone line to make sure this doesn't happen? Should we limit it to a series of specific words?

Somewhere out there someone read this and thought "wow that's a great idea"
Well it's a smart move. They are simply protecting the integrity of their brand. They built a reputation based on a set of corporate values that are not necessarily aligned with those companies that embroider their logo in those vests.
They probably don't make a lot of money from those corporate sales either.
Any risk of damaging the brand by association is not worth it.
Actually, the Eastern part still has several useful and quite cheap night trains. In the west, lots are being cancelled because the train companies would rather have us take high speed trains.
That app was built by a UW student and uses estimated data based on the schedule, as far as I know. It's not accurate... unless things have changed in the last year or so since I moved.
> Snapping windows on the sides is something that have existed for a really long time on other systems.

You can do a side-by-side split of two windows by long-pressing the full-screen button, but it would be nice to have something with a little more versatility out of the box. I used to use a program that let me snap windows to the sides Windows-style, but it got in the way of other gestures and I almost always just want two windows side-by-side anyway so I just use the built-in functionality now.
With all respect, this logic fails to account for the rising taxpayer/dependent ratio.

If American tax rates will reach that of Europe, even dual income high earners, will just break the comfortable level — way less what I deserve with my position in society. And even that will worsen further over time.

At some t/d ratio, the nation will simply turn into a "transfer economy" — when cash value of all pensions/savings withdrawals/welfare/rents will begin closing on on the total income of working populace. That's something close to what we had in Eastern Europe when Bloc collapsed.

You don't realise the severity of issue until you calculate that NPV of an average boomer generation person, might've been higher 40 years ago, than NPV of savings and future contributions of highest earning young people today.
> someone might develop their lot with a parking garage that there is market demand for.

My point is that if there's market demand for it, it's usually because something's already built there and it's too late to build a parking garage without tearing stuff down. The exception is if you started with a parking lot.

> parking garages are generally terrible for the streetscape and building

Eh. A lot of SF buildings seem to have no trouble building shops in front of them and more shops / offices / residences on top of them. The garage I park at almost every day has a small grocer / convenience store in front of it and (what I assume to be) offices on top of it, and it's got three levels of parking.

> and are difficult to convert to other uses if say, autonomous cars get rid of the need for it later on

That seems far-fetched. Yes, it might reduce demand somewhat, but it's wasteful to not park (gas costs money, and batteries don't last forever), and electric cars might actually drive demand for parking up if the parking spaces include charging capabilities (and in the future I'm envisioning, that could very well be literally every parking space).

> If you're building parking based on demand for free parking

That's not what I'm advocating. Charging for parking is totally reasonable, especially given the expenses involved as you've pointed out.

Of course, quite a few businesses do take on the cost of parking garages themselves, whether by offering access for free or by validating customers' parking passes after-the-fact. They do this because they believe it'll attract customers (and it certainly attracts me).
In the US, beef production accounts for about 2.6% of GHG emissions. Most beef eaten in North America was raised there. If you are from these regions, reducing meat consumption won't help the Amazon or much else.

Note that the issues with clearing the forests of the Amazon for beef won't end if beef production is banned or whatever. Those people still need to do something, which is why forest clearing for soy production is on the rise.
As immoral as giving a placebo instead of a curative treatment to someone to fulfill the standards of a test?

In the case of medicine research, I think it's OK to let people dictate their own moralities. Try to reduce the chances of abuse, and start increasing results.
Google+ begs to differ. Network effects are real. A product needs to be 10x better than a network effect alternative to have a shot at replacing it. If Tesla is first to market by a year or two, maybe. But if Lyft hits the market within a few months; as a lift user, you’ll just stick to that app, why switch.
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To be frank, they shouldved went faster then. Emergency situation is no time to fool around. One of them was praying. Imagine if both people were trying at the same time. They could have finished two steps at a time.
> all have physical locks that are only openable from the inside

Really? I thought all these locks can be opened from the outside by railway personnel using a "special key", which of course means that the thieves have access to that "special key" as well.
I'd love to hear from those of you who do web work for these types of big companies. Do they just not care about performance or are there other issues at play? I've dabbled with some small sites and would get stressed if the page load was more than a couple of seconds. How can these companies with large budgets find it acceptable that page loads can take tens of seconds while jumping content around the page or locking up threads with massive JS?
No need for it to go on your primary phone account. Install it on the cheap phone you take on trips.
Just about everyone I know knew Google+ was misguided and orthogonal to the business

I agree with that, but even so, the company leadership bought into Google+ in a big way, for a long time. It's incorrect to say it didn't have a huge effect on the company's direction and (perhaps indirectly) on just about every developer working there.

the consensus internally is that GCP is an obvious extension of the infrastructure work that is going to get done anyway.

Why then is it so far behind AWS in feature set and market share? Google's data centers and internal infrastructure were way ahead of the competition for years, but they were slow and reluctant to open them up.
We disable live API interaction w/ stripe in our tests and use hardcoded response values. You can use a library to do this or patch the stripe sdk - depending on the language/framework you are using.
Please elaborate if you have the opportunity.

How many strictly heterosexual couples have been infected with HIV in the history of mankind? I'm aware there must be some due to IV drug abuse.
I am generally positive on the side of TLA efforts to compromise existing software, more so if they share the vulnerabilities with those companies (basically, security testing is hard, having a government agency that tries to break software could be seen as a very useful public service)... when they hoard those exploits to use themselves I'm a bit less sympathetic and grow less and less the longer they hold off on disclosing them.

The thing I'm 100% not okay with is when TLAs use social pressure, legal pressure or traditional espionage to insure there are exploits they can exploit - this has never ended well and is always a concession in security that increases our vulnerability to bad actors. I have a modicum of trust for TLAs in the traditional espionage realms, but they have entirely burned my opinion of them when it comes to tech at this point... The NSA compromising ECC `Dual_EC_DRBG` is just a level of stupidity that demonstrates a clear lack of responsibility to civilians.
Hmmm Liskov substitution principle is an object oriented programming concept, not sure it applies real well to languages, it definitely wasn't coined for that use.

If you squint a certain way since a Typescript library transpiled can be used from any Javascript library then it would be roughly analog to the Liskov substitution principle for types in an OO language.

The same applies to Objective-C as it can be called from C.
Not true, I've dealt with Amazon support and I thought it was better than dealing with my bank or cable company.
Immigration lawyers: What is the right thing to do when you are detained at the border as a US citizen?
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Would it help to have the trailing bus pass the leading bus when they bunch up?

My reasoning:

(1) As the article said, full buses move slower because more passengers means more boarding/unboarding time at stops.

(2) The lead bus is the fuller, slower one. Slower bus in front means buses get closer together.

(3) If one bus passes the other, then you have the faster bus in front and the slower one behind. They should then get further apart.

At least they should for a time. The now-leading bus is going to scoop up a lot of passengers at the next several stops and the now-trailing bus won't, so the leading bus will eventually slow down. So it's not perfectly self-balancing or anything, but maybe it would get some distance between them. More distance than not doing it.
Not completely legal for distribution, but you can embed the Chrome Widevine binary in a Chromium Embedded Framework application. I have done so myself in the past. Works great.
So for the sake of possibly needing to break into a non-US citizen's iPhone, they do research to create exploits that put EVERY US citizen who uses an iPhone at risk? And they really don't have a great track record of keeping these exploits safe [1]

1: https://www.vadesecure.com/en/nsa-malware-malware-protection...
A Data Commons for Law
> If anything, it was considerably worse prior to 2016.

I would have been seriously surprised if CBP cared about who donated to Democratic candidates — but then, the IRS under Mr. Obama did attack Republican groups, with very few negative consequences for the culprits, as did the Milwaukee DA. I really hope that bad precedent has not led to further bad behaviour. The rule of law is important, no matter who you are, and abusing the coercive power of the State for political ends moves us one step closer to the unthinkable.
Is this true? This is something I question a lot. Intuition tells me that the greenhouse effect of CO2 and other gasses determines derivative of climate change, but its often presented like it sets the absolute average temperature.

That is, if we stopped producing CO2 completely back to pre-industrial levels (somehow), would we expect the globe to get warmer? Or are both statements true because excess CO2 naturally leaves the atmosphere into space + gets absorbed into the ocean?
>Completely absent from this narrative is a discussion about the immense value people get out of these technologies and what people like the author propose as a replacement.

Because today on HN were two postings about Sci-Hub and Elbakian, why not compare Sci-Hub and Google Scholar (or Google Books). Both of immense value for many many people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19558118

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19550282
>(this train goes on the ferry)

Wow, how does a train go on a ferry? A full, long train with many cars? Then the ferry would have to be that long too, which seems unlikely. Or is it that one or a few cars of the train go on each trip of the ferry, and the cars are all connected back together when back on land?
Really? I'm on windows 10 and I couldn't tell you what they've changed in notepad - did they fix legacy mac EOL support (i.e. `\r`)?
Not necessarily common, but the ambitious engineers are the ones who get promoted and they're the ones who get to set the technical direction. So the incentives on offer to (over-)ambitious people are very important.
I think you're being too generous. The usability of AMP sites on an iPhone is utter garbage with their extra address bar and broken scrolling. It's not necessary to break scrolling in order to create fast loading websites, in fact, quite the opposite. It's clear that users were a very low priority here.
The rise of Wizzair is reducing the appeal of long-distance train travel in Central and Eastern Europe. You can now fly from Budapest to certain destinations in surrounding countries for equal to or less than the price of the train if you book early or have little luggage.

Also, the launch of Polski Bus (a localized Megacoach) a few years ago means you can get between Poland and various Central European destinations for as little as 5€, again cheaper than the train.
I so wish Stripe would stop ignoring a number of countries and make their billing available there (Poland is an example). I am stuck with Braintree and it is not a happy ride.
Ah, lemme see if I get this now. So the REC certifies 1MWh of clean energy was produced. It doesn't matter where it was consumed (that's kinda a nonsensical question anyways), but only the holder of the REC can count it.

You're saying the Germans feel good (and paid a premium) for the Norwegian RECs certifying a few MWh's of clean energy were produced somewhere... the Norwegians can't count the RECs in their accounting (so they're "dirty" in official stats), but they don't care because although you can't point to individual green electrons, they know their grid is green whether the accounting says it or not.

So the "double-spend" is the Germans get the official credits because they paid for them, but the Norwegians don't care about the accounting and self-count themselves as green.
Of course they're creating value, Uber and the like is of great value for its users.

The service is merely being subsidized by investors who believe in such practice.

Is it a bad investment? Maybe, their investors did not think so and they were free to compare it with other options you deem obviously better, considering you're even saying Uber and the like are stealing these other business would-be money...