skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the stuff is not just lying on the surface; it's partly buried or covered. I've gone to cut down tree branches and found sections of barbed wire 6 feet off the ground because it rose as the tree grew and snapped off when it was pulled too taut.

Not to mention that the ground isn't flat like a nice suburban lawn. There are creeks to cross, rocks (that we are constantly removing as water exposes them), fallen dead trees, tree stumps, wild grape vines, channels dug into the ground by rain. Obstacles galore!

You won't find many people more in favor of automation than me, but even I know when to stop.
Some insight into his design philosophy -

Saul Bass: On Making Money vs Quality Work [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfDCNpaPBiA
As long as there is some kind of incentive structure built into the jobs of people involved in law enforcement (and there needs to be, if you want them to do their jobs) it will be in at least some people's interest to maximise prosecutions. It is the purpose of a well-designed system to restrict their ability to do so. We have a word for circumventing these restrictions - "corruption".
So how do you explain Mussolini? Populist fascism was a continent-wide phenomenon, and regardless of who may have supported these people, no one was Hitler's "boss" once he took power.
GOLD Sees Second Week of Declines
We detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10177465 and marked it off-topic.
I'm wondering if it has your VIN in it though. Will report back.
The population has had moral objections primarily because of the agitating of the owning classes.
I guess I haven't seen enough of them in the wild to get annoyed by them? The use case seems to be to refer someone who sees a poster or other printed work to a URL, and when I've seen QRs used for that it has seemed reasonable. Are you seeing them in some other, less reasonable context?
best of the page.
Sorry, but I had to laugh about this a little. Depending on where you grew up (and perhaps when), this article may or may not be news.

Not that it isn't an interesting treatment idea the first time you see it.
John Carmack Will Demo His ‘VrScript’ Environment at Oculus Connect
Simply put, we live in a world of bullshit. People are - by and large - bullshitters, or at least they don't care enough to figure out and implement non-bullshit solutions, because bullshit gets the job done so they can go do other things.

I think one would be better served learning how to coexist with the bullshit than trying to put a stop to it, and I'm usually pretty idealistic. It's just too uphill of a battle to fight millions of years of inertia across our whole species (look at the advertising industry, how huge it is, you think we're going to put a stop to that by simply appealing to people's senses of beauty on the Internet or whatever? And that's just one piece of the bullshit).
There's always this tension, its really interesting.

I think the open ecosystem approach will work well for apps/systems that are more established and have a predictable and sustainable user base and related revenue stream to maintain the system.

But for new ideas, early stage startups, the open eco-system approach will be a lot more work than using the high-level services providers like amazon are developing ...basically a no-stack approach can help one quickly find some product / market fit. Once some level of baseline level of utilization is understood then switching to a more difficult, but less-locked in approach would be smart.

all that said, there's probably a middle ground here too (but arguably not) -- where one deploy's using docker containers, private registry & image repo, s3 for static immutable storage and some open database like PostgreSQL on RDS. All that could be layered on top of AWS and other providers -- but it will still be a PITA to move the whole thing.

BTW -- take a look at the elasticbox product -- they really have an interesting approach to cloud that sort of obviates the lock-in issue by allowing one to build apps across clouds from the start using their "boxes" metaphor.
Believe me, I don't like writing these any more than you like reading them. Please just follow the rules so neither of us will have to.
there's some anxiety that there would be a storm of foreign students at British universities if fees were dropped.

The UK used to have a system where foreign (= non-EU) students pay significantly more than home-students.
I think police body cameras are needed but I don't understand the need to retain all of this data for months or years. These body cams are probably going to pick up a lot of people whether they are involved or not with the police activities being recorded. Storing all this data indefinitely is likely create huge privacy problems going forward.

I think the data should only be retained if it is relevant to a serious incident (say where someone was killed or seriously injured or felony charges are filed) or to a complaint that is filed in a timely manner. I would think an appropriate storage time would be from 2 weeks to 1 month. That should be enough time to assess whether an investigation is likely to be opened requiring the data and if complaints are filed outside of this window in cases not involving serious consequences, I don't think I'd see a problem with those complaints being time barred.

I realize this can also be a problem with other surveillance cameras but many of those are under private control and so not directly accessible to government or to hackers, by being stored in one place. Also, I may be wrong but I doubt most surveillance cameras are recording the video for long periods of time.
The "are you sure you want to leave this page" alert is a nice touch.
Human readable QR Code Generator (Kufic Inspired)
Advertising? Yes, there is. I'm sure you can find numerous reports on its effectiveness.
Top 15 Hidden Features of C# Part 2
> Relativity overturned Newtonian mechanics in the same way that Copernican cosmology overturned Ptotomeic cosomology.......So are these revolutions somehow categorically different?

They're so different that I'm surprised it's even a question. If anything the illusion of mind is bending them to fit a narrative.

When Relativity explained the precession of Mercury's perihelion the existing physics was off by 1/12,000,000th of Mercury's orbit (per orbit.) Not only was the Ptolemic system off by entire degrees (as opposed to arcseconds which are 1/3,600th of a degree) it was highly dependent on the position of the observer, if you stood on Jupiter I imagine the Ptolemic system would give you complete nonsense as to where the planets would be.

More importantly Newton's work has never been thrown out and you can derive classical mechanics as a special case of Relativity. You can also derive it from quantum mechanics. I don't believe you can show that the geocentric model of the solar system is a special case of the heliocentric model.
You should know I'm the author of that, then.

Trying to argue for or against systemd is a waste of time, so I will stop.

I have to agree.
> Industrialists in the US advocated for (and implemented!) forced society-level eugenics

That's a pretty revisionist phrasing. Eugenics had a much broader base in society than anyone, regardless of politics, should be comfortable with.

From the wikipedia page you link to:

"Eugenics was widely accepted in the U.S. academic community. By 1928 there were 376 separate university courses in some of the United States' leading schools, enrolling more than 20,000 students, which included eugenics in the curriculum."

"By 1910, there was a large and dynamic network of scientists, reformers and professionals engaged in national eugenics projects and actively promoting eugenic legislation."

"Public acceptance in the U.S. was the reason eugenic legislation was passed. Almost 19 million people attended the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, open for 10 months from February 20 to December 4, 1915."
> judges get involved

Both the police and the judges are part of the same State apparatus. As such, they will probably not bring any meaningful reductions to the power of the State.
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I just Backed it! Hope it will be good!
Lovely. An anti-bullshit manifesto that talks about "experiences" and "the rise of" various things. I'm sold.
That's not a huge controversy. A huge controversy is when you have people actually arguing about it. This looks like a few places experimenting.

> Profiloberstufe

This is a cost-saving measure.

> Regionale Schule

This doesn't include Gymnasium.

> Gesamtschule

This comes close, but effectively is just a school that combines all three tracks into one, with different students leaving at different grades. Notably it also has a reduced quality of education.

> some states abolishing the old system

"Abolishing"? Really? Which Bundesland has verboten solitary Gymnasiums? I couldn't see it in the article about Gesamtschule and google also didn't give me anything.
First, a lot of jobs in the UK require a degree, although it is not clear to me why.

Same in the US. A degree in anything provides certification to employers that you have an acceptable level of (intelligence + conscientiousness).
Great point. AppyPaper is simply a different lighthearted spin on the wrapping that might remove some of the mystery as to what is inside, heightens the experience because you have an idea of what's wrapped inside. We already have a huge interest from people hoping to get their hands on a sheet of AppyPaper before the holiday season. Eventually you will be able to pick the apps you want to appear on your AppyPaper, giving you more control over what apps present at the time of unwrapping.
The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals created their own legend
That's an interesting concept, it makes the cumulative attention span of the people exposed something akin to tragedy of the commons.
Perhaps generic Lysol. Generic white bottle with lots of text is common on ranches.
SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure
Not very common on a farm, nails and wire are always steel. Non-ferrous metals wouldn't be strong enough.
Certain types of bullshit (if not all) are built on the phenomenon of Eternal September[1]. There are always those who are clueless enough to trust a spam/scam email or who'd believe that the hamburger on the billboard would be as beautiful in reality. The rest of us who already have the experience and skills for separating the seeds from the fluff, suffer only losses from the bullshit that surrounds us. But the profit made on the few clueless ones keeps the bullshit economy going.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Remarkable to think that in those days one could become so wealthy off short stories, of all things. Business models keep changing, in literature as elsewhere.
Project Jarvis – A.I Home Automation and Assistant • Hackaday.io
I should have been more precise: yes, they are introductory textbooks which accompany courses. I was defining academic as "it's a textbook of any level" not "it's graduate level only".

Leanpub has also been used to publish work based on dissertations (which is as academic as it gets), and those works obviously have far fewer sales.
This doesn't seem particularly interesting. Is there a reason this is here?
Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 1
> Academics spend years writing books nobody will buy.

And always will. My favorite example: http://www.npr.org/2012/04/16/150723840/for-japanese-linguis... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275064).
I had a set of atlases from 1937. It was amazingly complementary towards Germany's leadership, but did mention that people of certain religions and races should avoid traveling there. I'm still in awe of how people can compartmentalize things to the point of paradox.
I hate to be one of those that complain about the website itself and not the content but this one annoyed me greatly.

This site is another one that requires javascript to see any content for no apparent reason. Worse when scrolling on a narrow window (so that search is not on the right) like on a tablet, when you scroll up it jumps to the top rather than scrolling up so you lose where you are. When you scroll back down it jumps back to where it was so its hard to scroll up reliably.

Also regarding the content, I actually prefer the original code for some reason over the multitude of helper functions. But I guess that is a matter of style.
Reminds me of a simple proxy in bash that I once wrote:

mkfifo buffer; while true; do cat buffer | nc -lp 80 | tee -a client.txt | nc domain.com 80 | tee buffer >> server.txt ; done

Useful to analyze whats going on between the browser and the server. After running the oneliner, you can connect to domain.com via 127.0.0.1 and all data sent from your client will be logged in client.txt and all data received from the server will be logged in server.txt

In Firefox, you have to set network.http.max-connections to one, so Firefox only sends one request at a time. This proxy can only handle one simultaneous connection :)
Frankly, I agree with you. We suck at developer outreach. It bugs me.

Unless you know where to find the docs[0], they're not obvious. There's a single master repo[1], but it's oriented at deployment and works by aggregating dozens of sub-projects[2] into a BOSH release and BOSH deployment.

... which requires you to know what the hell BOSH[3] is ...

So recently we started trying to make it easier. The best place to start tinkering is Lattice[4], which is a cutdown extract of Cloud Foundry. or Pivotal Web Services[5]. Or IBM BlueMix, I guess[6].

[0] http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/

[1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release

[2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry and https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator

[3] http://bosh.io/docs

[4] http://lattice.cf/docs

[5] https://run.pivotal.io/

[6] https://console.ng.bluemix.net/
Billboards are pretty helpful. They often tell me I can get food by taking the next exit. Someone might be pulling out their phone while driving instead, because the only alternative is to pull over first. Affecting the equilibrium might have obvious consequences.

Are you sure the prevalence of bullshit isn't healthy? If there weren't so much bullshit, you'd be less immune to it when it matters. Seeing the wrong kind of doctor after being diagnosed with cancer, for example.
getting multi-screens connected to my "phone" is the key thing I'm missing. I can do it with one now -- but its not as good as attaching a mac/pc to an external monitor for coding or similar big screen tasks.

I'd put cyanogenmod on my note4 - but then I'd loose the cool pen feature that I use a lot.

I wonder if intel and microsoft will succeeed in shrinking the tablet/pc all the way down to phone size before the phone guys figure this out - I would love that (disclaimer I work for intel).
I don't believe the usual paywall workarounds work on LRB.
me too...
Great! Also thanks for the heads up on the typo, fat-fingered that one ;) Really appreciate your help. Thanks again.
Pearl Harbor was the only justification needed in the United States for the costs of World War II, and anti-Japanese racism was a massive part of the war propaganda at the time. Of course, too many discussions of the war run into another sort of racism--a Eurocentrism that forgets that the war also happened on the other side of the world, and for a much longer time at that.
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The Hardest Places in the World to Visit
It's time for a tax on advertisements.
> (and also used in the other Scandinavian countries)

I've been living in Norway since 1986 and have never heard of them.

Although paying by invoice is quite common for services (builders, car mechanics, etc.) it is less so for goods unless you are a company. Invoices and direct bank transfer used to be the usual way for pretty much everything but is, I think, becoming less common all the time except for high value goods like cars where most people's credit cards would not have a high enough limit.
I guess the OP just got used to reading notation and now thinks it's natural for him to read notation.
I recall only one person in dozens not having an ad blocker installed on his computer (how painful it was). Also many people pay for premium accounts on music streaming services instead of hearing ads once in a while. I think that, when given the choice (which is sometimes a few technical skills away), people would opt for less bullshit.

Of course that's only a valid argument when bullshit is not the main product. I don't doubt websites such as buzzfeed and 9gag will keep on thriving.
I believe University of Waterloo is one of the few that does full ownership of work by Prof (I could be wrong) .. and year after year, they beat the biggest Universities in Canada for being ranked as the #1 in entrepreneurship, tech commercialization and innovation. I think its the subsequent economic impact that counts, rather than sequestering innovation for the sake of a few bucks in 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 ownership model.

https://uwaterloo.ca/research/waterloo-commercialization-off...

Many of the big giants of tech world have set up offices all around uWaterloo and enjoy a symbiotic relationship w/ the research faculty.
I think the point goes towards the idea that the rewards should be related to the risk.

Commercializing IP - which is not a product yet - is non-trivial, could take years to productize, and then longer to penetrate (or create) a market. In short, it's a long, painful, and often expensive process that often fails anyway. If there was a way to provide a license agreement that was more favorable to product/market validation, that could change the economics.

Unfortunately, I've only participated in licensing once, so I don't have an alternative model to suggest.
Many of us see the USA through your "Hollywood window", media reports and statistics. Imagine how easy it is to be worried about your personal safety.

The reason I do not plan to visit is because of that image about gun-totin', mentally unstable nation out of touch with reality with bizarre and secret laws which are in the worst case enforced by trigger-happy people with less than 5 months of training. Terrifying.
But you aren't actually safe from them in a different continent either: attending to a wedding in Mid East can be lethal...
The Center for Open Science
The fact that it works has nothing to do with people 'wanting' it or having a collective voice. It merely comes from a lack of alternatives.
I just had exactly the same experience. I even went to Platform->Documentation and now I'm even more confused. A page describing what exactly the platform is would go a long way.
Also be sure to note the infinite-scrolling "you may also like" section, which starts with regular clickbait, then starts repeating "stories", then... gets worse.
You will be filtered out on jury selection. I agree with you, and experienced this directly when I had to face some bogus charges.

The State has the advantage in jury selection, and anti-authoritarian types (which is a good thing) are the first to go and they are extremely good at identifying them.
The justice system is deeply flawed but technology can help repair it.

Let me explain.

Legal work can be split up into two buckets – process based work and advisory work.

The advisory work revolves around analysis, comparison and collaboration – distinctly human (for now) tasks.

The bulk of legal work however is process based, which is repetitive, routine, administrative and could actually be done through the use of machine learning and AI. Examples of process-based work are document review and legal research. Document review is when parties to a case sort through and analyze the documents in their possession to determine if they are relevant to the case at hand. Legal research is the process of identifying and retrieving the necessary information lawyers need to support legal decision-making.

If LegalTech was to do the lions share of a public defender's process based legal work, they would be able to focus their advisory work. This would allow a public defender to not only to defend more individuals but most importantly, to provide proper legal help to everyone they are defending.

The inequalities and problems in the justice system could be seriously helped/fixed with better adoption and implementation of technology. The problem is that tech must be embraced not just by individual lawyers and defenders who it would help the most, but also by the decision makers themselves, government agencies/law firms, who have the final say on whether to bring tech into their organizations.

The good news is that there are strides being made towards bringing in tech to augment lawyers capabilities with technology, the bad news is that no speed is fast enough as there are a ton of people who require proper legal representation right now that are missing out.
> Many (most?) accidents are predicated on a purposeful choice to drive dangerously

"Dangerous" is one of those words that have been so abused it has lost all meaning. Infiltrating a violent criminal organization is dangerous. Explosive ordinance disposal is dangerous. Driving 11MPH over the speed limit is completely mundane.

It is obviously possible to drive very dangerously, but people also have a pretty good sense about these things and therefore don't. The number of people who are stupid enough to drive 120MPH in a residential neighborhood is small.

It is also true that e.g. driving faster can be, in a relativistic sense, "more dangerous" than driving slower. But that is true regardless of the point of reference. Driving 10MPH can be "more dangerous" than driving 5MPH. Driving 5MPH can be "more dangerous" than not driving at all. But that doesn't make driving 10MPH (or 40MPH) "dangerous" in an absolute sense. It just puts it in the same category of weighing costs against risks that government engineers do when deciding whether to build a sidewalk or catwalk or traffic light, or pedestrians do when deciding whether to cross at a blind intersection or walk to a different one. Each of which is a "direct cause" when a driver traveling at 40MPH hits a pedestrian crossing at a blind intersection with no traffic light.
>It's an entry method for writing MIDI.

I'd suggest no one needs yet another text-to-MIDI system.

There are plenty of existing methods that do the job just fine - from live recording, to step entry, to any of the hundred or so text-based systems that have been (re)invented since the 1950s. (And which hardly anyone uses, because for most people - even most programmers - ASCII turns out to be a really clumsy and difficult way to write a non-trivial score.)
I haven't seen a QR code that wouldn't lead to a plain online ad for a long while. Their other, "sincere" uses have diminished most likely because there are always more reasonable alternatives, such as a short and memorable brand/trade name that can be easily found online if needed. QR codes are really just an awkward way of collecting "clicks" so to say, and they require too much effort for that (take out your phone, fire up an app, scan, check results, go to the web sites, see the ad - oh really?)

At least in Dublin, Ireland you can still see them, e.g. on bus stops, sometimes on brochures here and there and as a rule the context suggests they should just lead to an ad and nothing else.
Quebec doctors can now prescribe exercise
From what I have observed and read, people have always been quick to judge and assume guilt on the accused. I really don't think it is a modern invention.
> As much as I dislike some of the current trends (and I do digital media for a living mind you), I do have to point out that this stuff wouldn't be done if it didn't work.

> Ultimately this implies that there are enough people out there who engage with or...dare I say...want...the bullshit,

I don't think that's necessarily true. Just because deception is effective doesn't mean people want to be deceived. Just because alcoholism is "effective" in getting people to drink doesn't mean people want alcoholism. (A weird analogy, I know, but it logically parallels your conclusion, to an admitted extreme.)