skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, probably, somewhere in between. It seems likely both that the government publicity around the terrorism theme is vastly exaggerating the true threat but also that some level of danger really does exist and these agencies really do prevent some attacks from taking place.
> fat lot of good that does if you don't know what XEPs to set up when dealing with other servers.

I have no idea what XEPs to set up when dealing with other servers. I did not have to set up any such thing. Like I said, federation (server to server communication) works out of the box, at least on Debian.
Interesting question! You've got the replies already. Just wanted to clarify that this issue does not affect FreeGeoDB.
When you say 'memory,' are you talking about volatile or nonvolatile memory?
It's heavily optimised for quick contextual queries. I hit the microphone and said "<supermarket name> <my town> opening hours" today and it simply replied (aloud) "<supermarket> is open until 21:00". This is great stuff, but it still feels like a voice interface to Google vs a personal assistant like Cortana or Siri
1. The Sharing Economy or Protocols, Protocols, Protocols

The sharing economy will be governed by protocols.
Decentralization will be standard. Companies like Ethereum and OpenBazaar as well as the Bitcoin protocol are already being used/leveraged for this. It will be standard.
1. Decentralized authority will be used for most things and will destroy the power distance between individuals and regulators stripping their power. These protocols provide privacy, authority and identity by design and the gov’t can’t do anything about it.
2. Government won’t matter much
This is basically the affect of trrend one. When decentralized protocols become common place there will be no way for government to enforce regulations. Some of this is good and some is bad. On balance it is good. They can still stop people from doing bad things in the physical world, but not govern and collect your communications, interlope into network governance and stop being the world’s sysadmin.
Centralized authorities will prosper servicing things like DNS naming authorities, identity, licensing, communications, financial transactions, legal transaction, wills deeds etc.

2. Everyone will realize uber is a logistics company.
Uber is building teams to for autopilot and self-driving tech right now.
They have a “Math Department” to create algorithims and heuristics for prediction.
They know that ridesharing p2p is something that can only last ~10 years.
They will be the first people to do interstate logsitics and transport with self-driving vehicles. They will be the level 3 or cogent to Amazon’s comcast/verison. By this I mean that Uber will handle 90% of long distance supply chain hubs and Amazon will be the last-mile provider.
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I'm not mad at all. I just disagree that they should be praised for seeking rent and then reversing their decision. Where is the merit in that?
"So many people wanted one that they were hard to get. Drivers used to sit on a waiting list for more than 10 years. When their names finally came up, the city charged them $250,000 to buy one."

This is the source of the problem.
3. Wearables will stil suck because the problem they need to be solving is Peripherals
The reason wearables suck and why glass failed is because they offer nothing. There is very limited value in a watch that lasts ~12-24 hours and can only take your pulse and display text messages.
Google glass is awesome, but there was no way to actually use it. You immeadiately let everyone know you were a google employee or wealthy technologist by wearing it. The way you communicated with it was by shouting at it. Not very discreet at all.
A company will emerge with a very low profile set of rings or bracelets that allow you to quickly gesture to your device what you want it to do. Before peripherals move past a keyboard or voice control there is no hope for wearables. Also, battery life is a factor.
I also think that glass will be replaced by something like oculus with front facing cameras, intake the information, process it and deliver it. You won’t need to actually look through the glasses but see it on a screen. Night vision will just be cached copies of the previous days imagery processed on a master server using seadragon or similar software.
> a) it doesn't integrate as well with our other systems (such as trybots and cq) and b) the UI has some issues.

Is there a tracking bug for all the integration and UI issues? How can folks working on Chromium but without an @google.com help?
There have been and always will be competing products and communities that serve similar purposes. We use what we think is the best one. Is this a bad thing?

(Not to mention the fact that Slack is for internal teams, not for IRC-like discussions, though our open newsroom (http://newsroom.grasswire.com) and some other communities (http://fpchat.com) have repurposed it for that.
That's just miscommunication caused by us, sorry! The "RESOURCES.md" does only contain helpful links and generic resources for working with map/geo data. We thought this could be helpful.

The actual source along with the complete build process is described in "SOURCE.md". Sorry for possibility of confusion!

Not sure if we should remove "RESOURCES.md" altogether or just rename it to make clear what these links actually are.
> can't even possibly fathom any reason to be either pro or anti airbnb.

How about--because I find the serfitude economy ineffective outside areas that are already well-served through other mechanisms.

Most of these middlemen are actively interfering in the most profitable cities and areas while ignoring those places where they would actively be useful because they are less profitable.

People would find AirBnB, Uber, et al. much less distasteful if they weren't interfering in dense cities where there is existing infrastructure and were instead focusing on areas that are underserved and would welcome them very much. (For an AirBnB example see: Kittanning, PA--almost nothing in spite of the fact that there are no hotels--heaven help you if you need a hotel while helping with a sick relative in that area during graduation season, leaf viewing season, or the start of hunting season--even normal times in winter are difficult because the hotels have quite a driving distance in bad weather).

Add in the fact that these same companies are taking a middleman cut of money in return for pushing all of the risks onto individuals and externalizing the costs onto the general public.

Top it off with the fact that said middleman generally knows that the end users are actively flouting the law.
Self-Driving Cars May End the Fines That Fill City Coffers
True, but when we've already established that this kind of project is trivial in nature, does that really come into play here? North Korea built their own OS based off of linux, and they've not nearly the population of China.
The KL (current Cherokee) is made in Toledo OH USA, even those sold in Europe. The most common engine for EU markets is made in Italy though. Magna Steyr has not made a Jeep for something like five years and never this current generation.
Thank you. I was confused as well.
I read more like a page at a time. Some might accuse me of being a page-at-a-time writer.

Compare the way you perceive "~~" to the way you perceive "++". I hear these as "sig sig" and "lus lus". (Or rather, as "slus," because that's a further Hoon abbreviation, but never mind.) You don't hear the former at all; but you hear the latter as "plus plus," don't you?

This is because "tilde tilde" is so heavy your brain doesn't want to do the work of hearing it out. But overriding that connection doesn't save energy, which is why you do hear "plus plus." Your brain has to think the very complicated little thought, "squiggle I don't want to pronounce." It would much rather have a sound.

It's torture enough to read McGonagall silently. Out loud? Who would try that? It's tantamount to suicide.
This isn't unique to San Francisco, the entire industry is in a free fall nationwide... It is incredible to watch the effects of a little innovation and (effectively) deregulation.

Chicaco:
"Once a sure bet, taxi medallions becoming unsellable"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9564478
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/17/taxi-medallion...

New York:
"New York City Taxi Medallion Prices Keep Falling"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8856231
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/upshot/new-york-city-taxi-...

Philadelphia:
"Philly medallions fetch less than 17% of asking price"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9528301
http://observer.com/2015/05/the-taxi-industry-is-in-total-co...
Just another campaign in the cultural marxist war on the family. Who could be against altruism?
Sorry for the inaccuracies!

We'd love to fix all those issues -- maybe with some help from the community :)

The goal is definitely to turn this into a more and more reliable data source every day.
I saw some campaign propaganda today.

One side of the flier has a guy named Aaron Peskin imploring me to vote yes on Prop F and Prop I. Prop F is the mess thoughtfully critiqued in this write-up, Prop I is a moratorium on building new market-rate housing. Oh, and he's on the "more affordable rent" campaign platform, because if you want to make rent more affordable, clearly the best way is by preventing construction of market-rate housing. It's like SF voters are brain-dead.

The flip side of the flier derided another candidate.
If the point of the flier was to make me aware of which candidate to not to vote for, mission accomplished.
They're not OCR errors, unfortunately. Sorry for these problems! We have to investigate!
[Survey] What tech makes you more likely to take a job offer?
You have a 12 digit ATM PIN? I didn't know you could do that and I'm 99% certain that card won't work anywhere overseas.
I wouldn't consider p2p lending comparable to CD's. Their risk profile is completely different. I would think of them more like penny stocks.
I'm done writing stuff online.

Good luck to y'all.
Local governments could pay money to buy them back? It does seem unfair to charge such high amounts of money for something now worthless.
Maybe their chargeback rate is below 1%? You're assuming.
We've been using Zulip internally for a couple of years now. We've used IRC and Jabber, looked at Slack and Hipchat and Skype and Lync, and somehow keep coming back to Zulip. It lets us have real, ongoing, and substantive conversations, with a large number of participants, without being overwhelmed.

I sometimes feel like Twitter is actually a better comparison for Zulip than Slack---in Zulip like on Twitter, it's easy to watch and participate in multiple conversations at the same time. Zulip's threading model exists somewhere between Slack's rigid "rooms" model and Twitter's everything-is-public model, so it's much lighter-weight to participate in multiple places at once than on Slack but it's also easier than on Twitter to have the right conversation with the right people without bothering others with something irrelevant to them. And Zulip's threading model makes it much easier to have multiple conversations within the same space without stepping on each others' toes or getting distracted.

Our remote folks rely on it particularly heavily. When Zulip got acquired it was our remote employees and their managers who were showing up outside my cube with pitchforks when I breathed a word of turning it off. It gives folks in other offices or working from home a watercooler and a way to virtually tap a group of coworkers lightly on the shoulder when they need help.

Basically we can't live without it, so I'm super-excited to see it finally open sourced. Thanks for making it happen. :-)
If the medallion is the only way you can be a taxi, then enforce it. If Lyft and Uber are legitimate, then lose the medallion and pay this guy back his $250K.
EBS costs are actually fairly small ($9 a month per instance for 90GB). More than 95% of our costs were just paying for the EC2 servers.
Here's the thing I don't understand -- if the main attraction (from a customer point of view) is the app (with everything that comes with it), why haven't the cab companies got in on the same game? Either put out their own app to hail rides (and maybe give their cabs a more luxury look to them), or sign up as Uber/Lyft drivers themselves? Or is there something I'm missing?
Not everyone views the world the same way. Some people would willingly trade their privacy for safety ("myself included") and would not feel "ashamed".

However, my appraisal of "safety" markedly differs (like most people's appraisals of things) and I am more concerned with an overzealous government than a foreign attacker. I would trade my google search history for a bullet-proof vest if I was in a war-zone. However, I am not, and I don't think giving it to the government makes me safer.

However, people view the risk to the country and themselves differently and they also put markedly different values on their own privacy[0]. Also, this article should come as absolutely NO surprise to anyone in the HN community (or even anyone with internet).

edit:
[0] which they use as a framework to assess how others value their own privacy AND the value they themselves put on others privacy.
This is definitely a major problem that has to be fixed! Thanks for pointing this out again.

The complete build process is described in "SOURCE.md". That's where we got these encoding issues from -- right from the source material. Maybe we didn't open or parse the source material correctly. But we were not able to get them without the encoding errors.

We'll love to fix all these issues :)
That's really cool, but I don't know if I'd describe that example as being better at decoding phonetic symbols. You might still be better better at mapping phonetic symbols to words and names you know -- which I think is a separate skill than mapping them to new words or names -- it's just that you didn't know that name and the software did. And it might also be better at knowing lots of words, which is yet another skill/property.

If you both have learned the word, who is better at recognizing it? And who is better at learning a new word they don't know? These aren't very exacting questions because the comparison between human and machine knowing and learning hasn't been defined. Maybe the machine needs more examples and more contexts to learn a word as well as a human and correctly map to the word as often as a human, but it can also examine more examples and contexts than a human can per unit time and can do a lot of scaling in this regard using increased energy that a human cannot.
The react-token-autocomplete for your day to day token autocomplete needs
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Prop I is just a moratorium in the mission right? Doesn't really matter, I think it's a bad idea as well.

However, I think you may find that voters are far more opposed to prop I than prop F. My guess is that if someone supports I, they will almost certainly support F, but not the other way around. Time will tell, though.
so apparently you had enough space to do the OS upgrade? good to know. But still, apps will be much smaller with app thinning.
> "file sharing is not theft"

It's not, and your tone and sentiment indicates that you think it is.
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That bothered me too. You're not alone.
They have: https://gocurb.com

They've been doing it for a while -- this app used to be Taxi Magic. It's slower to respond than Uber, and more expensive.
I think he meant that not everyone in these organizations is working on unsavory projects like this one, not that those who do are free from blame.
I've seen talks with engineers that say this is this case. I think the one in particular was from @Scale. They've had the occasional issue with an intern dropping a table in production, but they said they haven't really run into issues with granting access to production data.
Exactly! Thanks. Although to some it may be "just Natural Earth", we thought it could be useful. JSON, CSV and SQL should be more helpful than the original shape files when building (web and mobile) applications.

We'll love to extend the data to make it ready for PostGIS etc. Will be useful!
This is an especially poignant story, and it's hard to not feel bad for this driver.

On the other hand, people face investment risk all the time, i.e. when franchising a restaurant. When Chipotle or whoever comes in and devours the fast food market, I wonder if the local struggling burger franchisee asks the city for help?

I can't speak on behalf of other cities, but anyone who has lived in SF pre-Uber has no shortage of nightmare stories from taking cabs. For people who had to wait years and pay enormous costs for their medallions, many taxi drivers acted smug, entitled, rude, and sometimes even downright shady. I know you can't say this about _every_ taxi driver, but there's no doubt that the current ecosystem treats the consumer many orders of magnitude better.
For that Cherokee the inflator for driver is different in the US v EU models. I believe that Arc manufactures them and they get used in the same Delphi and KSS housings to this day. The passenger unit is different though even noticeably externally. There are also regulatory differences pertaining to the seat sensor operation. Basically it costs money to do all this twice.
They offer immunity for the crime exposed by the password and thus you are required to disclose.

Does it work that way? Can you legally compel self-incriminating speech as long as you offer immunity?

If that was true, why wouldn't it be used all the time to incriminate other people? Currently they need to get the subject to agree to such a deal, or so the impression I get from the media is.
Thanks! We'll have to add a link to the README, you're right!
I can't believe you would have tried all these and not Julia.
Agreed - my comment is specifically re funding programs. Government employees are not equipped (to put it charitably) to evaluate the likelihood of success of startups. Their proxy metric is an onerous rules-based application process. Perversely, this excludes the startups they are trying to select for because those startups can raise capital elsewhere faster and on better terms.
We should definitely fix this in the future! Thank you :)
By that logic apple needs to give me back my $600 for my iPhone3GS

He made a bet that value would stay

He was wrong

Sucks

Sad? sure. But not anyone's fault
Nemo - a Julia-based CAS - was just released yesterday: https://plus.google.com/106997024604580807053/posts/GUWM4QiL...

Also, I'm sorry you find SageMath to be a "bloated monster", but mathematics itself is really complicated, and unfortunately there seems to be no royal road to geometry.
I think this is the best tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=465929

There are three things going on:

1) Rietveld exists

2) A new Polymer-based UI for Rietveld exists

3) Gerrit exists

The bug linked above is about evaluating the ability to make the Polymer-based UI (which is pretty and functional) work on top of Gerrit instead of on top of Rietveld. This is one of the possible paths forward for getting people to use Gerrit, and the one for which external contributors could be the most help.

Other paths forward exist: making Rietveld and the polymer Rietveld UI so good that no one wants to switch to Gerrit anymore; working directly on the Gerrit UI; or convincing devs that the Gerrit UI is good enough. But I think the bug and description above is the path on which external contributors could do the most good.
Arcanity is relative to experience, so the ASCII phonemes can indeed be the most stymieing element of this experiment in futurity. However, what do you think of the phonetic numeral system? Compared to other protocols that map identity to a unique point sha256 space, "~hex" is no worse than "46", and "~fantyv-ralpen" is obviously better than whatever is its corresponding number; Urbit's vocalizable number to name mapping is possibly its most obviously correct (to me) and portable innovation.
In my opinion, the major benefit of Uber/Lyft is also the accountability. Having an easily-accessible paper trail of who my drivers were ensures I won't fret about losing things. If I have a poor experience, my rating actually matters and poor drivers are kicked off of the platform. If my Uber driver longhauls me (< 1% chance IME), I can get a refund by complaining to Uber support. Longhauling is more common among cab drivers AND there's no convenient way to get your money back.

No accountability or recourse in traditional cabs.
You're right! Please see the "SOURCE.md" file for all necessary information. Sorry for not linking this file in a prominent place!
Woo-hoo! I'm a fan of Keybase (although, I'll admit, I've received barely any encrypted communication from the outside world). The first version of their product did a whole lot to open up secure communication to "the masses," by simplifying strong encryption into an easy-to-use app.

I'm glad that the Keybase team decided that they didn't want to stop there. I'm not sure that I'll use the new keying system (my use case isn't very risky), but I do think that a lot of people will.

In my opinion, the more people that have access to easily-used crypto, the better.
Some advice, in no particular order:

1. Writing is a conversation. If you're ever stuck in front of the computer, try using a voice recorder instead (e.g. while going for a walk, or while sitting in the sun somewhere) and then transcribe what you said. I find it has magical effects of simplifying sentences and keeping writing interesting.

2. Write with a goal and a reader in mind. Do you want to inform/describe something or convince/sell something? Who are you writing to? When in doubt, write to inform, try to summarize and distill the essence of the topic.

3. Do not pervert the English language, e.g. if you say "utilize" instead of "use", I hate you. More on that front:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

4. Keep it short: in each sentence you're either getting to a point or setting up some context that will allow you to make a point soon.
Thank you! We'll love to hear and discuss what's the best way to represent and store the data. We're open to changes between GeoJSON, WKT, etc.
Running a test N times will certainly detect some fraction of all the flaky tests. It's something we occasionally do manually to work out if e.g. a certain intermittent is (likely) fixed and it's something that we'd like to do more to quarantine new tests.

Unfortunately there are various confounding factors that mean many intermittent tests would look clean in such a run might nevertheless be problematic. For example if you only run tests that you think are intermittent problems that are triggered by state left from a previous test won't be found. This is one reason that we've been trying to run particularly problematic test types (e.g. firefox browser-chrome tests) in smaller groups restarting the browser with a clean profile between groups to clear the state. A group size of 1 would obviously be ideal here, but when you have thousands of tests and limited resources it's not practical.

The other problem is tests that have unexpected sensitivity to the environment. For example the other day DNS was being slow on the test infrastructure. This isn't a problem for most tests since they use something like /etc/hosts. But some tests were intentionally trying to use a non-resolving domain and those tests sudden started to randomly time out.