skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any chance you are willing to share the content of some of those questions (not the recording, just the questions)?

I've seen little kids ask me and other adults about what a cordless phone was (even "why does it have so many buttons?" from the young owner of an iPhone who failed to grasp the idea of a screen without touch input), why they can't interact with the cover of a magazine by poking at it, and why we can't just take pictures of bacteria with a smartphone camera instead of looking through a microscope. I'm curious what a child would ask Google and what the answers would be given the vastly different expectations each generation has of every day technology.

I have really bad experiences with voice recognition going all the way back to early Dragon Naturally Speaking versions and I can't imagine asking google voice search a question so instead I always just text search for relevant topics or go on the science exhanges/forums.
You seem to be talking about the HTTP web service Distance Matrix API, but why would you call that from an app? The JavaScript Distance Matrix API scales to essentially unlimited users for free:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

I'm also not aware of OSM offering anything comparable out of the box, although there are some commercial providers who offers similar paid services based on OSM data.

Also, if you think "all of the distances" are cached, I invite you to estimate how many places there are in the world and how big a matrix of every distance from every point to every other point would be.

(Disclaimer: Used to work on Geo at Google. Opinions mine only, etc.)
Is this the Tesla of motorbikes?
There's a neat site where you can turn your location data into a heatmap: https://theopolis.me/location-history-visualizer/
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Can't all those three things be done with simple AJAX too, instead of having to make your entire application Javascript based?
I agree, the title of the Forbes article is completely false. Windows does not block anyone from changing their default browser, they simply as the actual article says, "gently push users towards trying what will be a fundamental product in the company’s future."

On Mac when when using Chrome it prompts you in the app and on google you to switch to Chrome.

I don't blame cpeterso since he just used the title from Forbes. Shame on Forbes on click bait.
It sure makes sense, but unlike private newcomers like Uber, those are all unionized shops and unions will fight hard to block any such improvements because they would mean heavy job losses and unions exist to protect jobs.

See BART strikes.

Most likely they'll achieve pyrrhic victory: muni will be it's usual self for a couple of years, private system will reach cost parity but will offer better service, bus ridership will plummet, eventually it'll become evident that it doesn't make sense to pump more public money into it and it'll either be disbanded or possibly replaced by a contract with private company (because it'll be hard to rebuild muni to be competitive price-wise after giving private companies years of head start).
Except those uses of energy are better solved by Redox-flow batteries, Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), or pumped hydro.

http://energy.gov/oe/services/technology-development/energy-...

A single $5 Billion pumped-hydro plant can store 30 Gigawatt-hours of energy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

The energy demands of this country will be met by utility companies and their massive infrastructure projects. A few hundred MW-Hrs from Tesla is pretty small in the great scheme of utility energy storage.
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Not more difficult than C - you write the crypto functions in asm. You could use a C compiler to handle the ABI but the code isn't really C code.
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Tesla is in Apple's position about 10-15 years ago. Apple had a solid product (a machine that ran OSX), a loyal fanbase, and great support ratings. They did eventually translate their brand value to mass-market dominance, but only through sidestepping into other markets using iPod and then iPhone.

I wonder if that analogy fits for Tesla?
If anyone from Medium is listening, here's some feedback about the page design itself. Every time I scroll, there's the 'share/follow tab' that pops in and out at the bottom of the screen. This adds undue stress to the process of scrolling when every action I do causes things to pop in and out. If a share sheet is absolutely necessary, fix it somewhere in the page, or bring it up when I come to the end of the page or something. Don't animate things as I'm scrolling the page.
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The point is to maximize the avenues for differing points of view to be heard. Some are heard through traditional news media platforms like TV and newspapers. But now others can quickly construct their own platforms (which are expensive) to directly compete with the news media.

Ultimately it is the voters who decide. No matter how much money a billionaire puts into ads, when he or she goes to vote, their vote counts as much as mine. A greater diversity of platforms and opinions simply feeds more information to more voters. I don't see how that is a bad thing for democracy.
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Requires GNUStep on Linux? This is very baked into the NeXT world it would appear.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10351230
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I can explain at least why OSM data is not used because I have been through the process many times. OSM is frequently rejected for reasons having nothing to do with awareness or quality. The licensing makes it unusable for many analytics applications.

There is a de facto prohibition on the blending and derivation using many geo data sets due to licensing restrictions and regulatory requirements, including many government data sets. Even OSM does not have the equivalent of a BSD-like license. In many cases, blending two sets of geo data and doing derivative analytics creates an unresolvable conflict between the individual licensing terms and the requirements of a specific application. Specific to OSM, many popular geo data sets have regulatory restrictions that make them fundamentally incompatible with OSM for many applications where OSM would otherwise be a great data set.

With commercial data set providers, the license is customizable to be appropriate for the regulatory and other requirements of the application. With OSM, you are stuck with an OSM license, which would violate all kinds legal and practical constraints for many use cases. I can say that for many geo applications I've supported, compliance with the OSM licensing would literally be violating the law. Fortunately, commercial data sets are much cheaper than they used to be.
Every one of these features is doable in a more traditional web application with something like intercooler.js (which I created). Good UX does not require a SPA and it certainly does not require massive amounts of client-side code.
Audio samples:

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill/gnuspeech/gnuspeech-inde...
Why Consumer Reports’ Tesla downgrade and TSLA crash doesn’t matter
This seems super interesting! They say that they are using a novel approach that models the actual way humans create sounds. Is this completely new? I would assume this implies that you can reuse so much more among languages, and have a more flexible system - like getting it to shout or sing, making strange noises, whistling, etc. But I don't know a lot about it. Is what I'm saying Science Fiction?

This is the kind of article in which i'd love (and I have almost come to expect!) to find comments that provide so much more breadth and depth of information that the actual link, here on HN; this is one of the things that make this community so great.
At the station. This is what differentiates branded gas stations as most aren't even owned by the integrated majors anymore and they aren't required to buy gasoline from their respective brand parent.
As a Tesla Model S owner, and former BMW owner, I can say without a doubt that the german build quality (BMW, Mercedes, Audi) is superior to Tesla.

However driving a Tesla feels like having the first iPhone, and everyone else is driving around in Nokias. The Mercedes S class does however come close, in my opinion.
Of course not. Most people don't even think about this stuff.
I just came here to point this out. You can see it on the website. I found out that last year on my birthday I was at the cheesecake factory.
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Treat it like a job, 9-5 work hard and then relax 100%. I get started with 25/5 pomodoro style but usally after 2-3 pomodoros I feel like I can just keep working.

Just get the ball rolling!
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> even with extremely high resolution images, with the proper contrast

For people not aware, here's a £22,000 (ish)[1] medical imaging grade monitor. I've seen more expensive. The cheap ones start around £4k...

[1] http://www.nigelohara.com/barco-k9602004-pid382491.html?gcli...
They are not looking for solutions, they are here for the hate.
I see I didn't do a good job of explaining why that doesn't work so well. See, papers on high-performance elliptic curve cryptography tend to give formulas for implementing calculations using the three-operand style I mentioned. One reason for having a DSL is to make it so that we can copy/paste, with minimal changes, those formulas into our programs so that we can easily see that we're implementing the formula from the paper exactly. If you C++-ify or Rust-ify them, then you lose that obvious "this is the same" comparison ability. Also, for the kinds of code where such a DSL would be relevant, you really don't want a C++ or Rust compiler's optimizer to be involved at all. And, if you want to prove the correctness of your ECC code, you don't really want to have to first (1) Define a formal semantics for C++ or Rust, (2) Prove that your C++ or Rust compiler is correct with respect to that formal semantics, and (3) Prove that your transliterations of the original formulas are equivalent to the original formulas.

I've already written a prototype that compiles that DSL into C, which requires a leap of faith that the C compiler won't ruin things for us. That prototype convinced me that it would likely be much less work to go the DSL route than the C++/Rust library route. Note that I prefer writing C++ and Rust libraries to creating DSLs, so this was a disappointing conclusion for me.
Apparently it's been part of GNU for 13 years... but never had an official release?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuspeech
You're free to move to other municipalities without public services, infrastructure, and taxes.
I used OSMand in Greece last Summer and it was fine as long as you applied common sense on some turns :)
So, because of criminals. That happened to have badges.
Interesting! Thanks! Also, I interpreted the statement about the v1.0 release as being the initial release; perhaps there was a v0.1 release before that...
The problem description makes not clear to me why this is a problem. It describes an existing solution, and there is an easier one: middle mouse button click for new tab, normal mouse button for intab load. It is always a horror when some websites try to be smart and fuck that up (looking at you, kimono – you are great but this part of your UI is not).

Is there something special about those specific links as well that makes the existing solution not work? If not, I doubt that indicators would help much – the specific control we have already is better than the time-consuming task of interpreting those.
You don't need to get into a top-10 school to succeed at life--and succeed wildly by any measure.

This is part and parcel of the helicopter parent mentality: that if my kid doesn't get into a top-10 school, they are a failure. It's just not true.

To name just one example: http://qz.com/180247/why-google-doesnt-care-about-hiring-top...
it's only objective in the context of people who understand the magnitude of the numbers being quoted. No data is provided as to alternate sources of radiation. An analogy is made by the manufacturer, but they have incentive to claim that level is as low as possible.

And, without any other information, the specific quotation being presented appears to imply you think it's no big deal (since you didn't offer any interpretation or make a statement relating to your opinion on the matter).

(though to note, I didn't downvote you, I'm just explaining how the information could be seen as "subjective" and not "objective").
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s/actual/archaic

You overlook what technology has opened up in terms of non-invasive surveillance.
The latest DIY biotech hot spot? The local library
Already made a PR for it... however, automated tools should really include a URL for the tool as part of the User Agent string.

AGENT/##.## (url)

where `AGENT` is the identifier for the user agent, ##.## is the major/minor version, and url is the url for the tool/project/bot.

In this case, one minor tweak might be...

HTTPie/%s (https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie)

It's a minor nit, but trying to find something based on "foo/version" alone isn't always easy enough when looking at your logs.
BoringSSL has been pretty helpful to LibreSSL too, as a source of code and ideas.
My 2013 P85 was in for service 4 times before the alignment was fixed correctly. Sticky sunroof. Rattles. 12v battery failure causing full system failure. Motor replacement. Charge port battery broke.

2014 P85D: Total vehicle failure at 218 miles on the odometer. Front motor replaced. Rear motor milling failure. Rear motor replacement again as part incompatible with Autopilot.

That all being said, the service is painless and I still love my car. I'm not going back to BMW unless kicking and screaming.
Consumer Reports Pulls Recommendation on Tesla Model S
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Yahoo enters deal to display Google search results
OSRM provides a distance matrix API https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/wiki/Server-api ("table"). All open source, if you don't want to run it yourself, you can turn to a commercial service provider, see switch2osm.org
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Uh, actually said more celebrities than you can poke a stick at! Sheesh, that was an ignorant comment.
Except there's nothing to support the latter statements. The statement made by the manufacturer 1) could be totally false, 2) refers to a specific single-use of the technology.

They're claiming a specific output per-scan. What if the police are using this van with 10-second scan intervals, pointed at the same building, with people inside, for several hours? That's a fairly plausible scenario which could result in several ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more irradiation.
I doubt people critical of frequent, excessive use of force by police "don't care about officers killed in the line of duty." But that total is 100 so far 2015 [1], while the number of citizens killed by police in the US is at 953 [2]. Obviously some of those people had weapons, but it doesn't seem plausible they all did, in light of the very well-reported cases of unarmed people being shot. And it also seems odd to me that anyone would be surprised that officers might be injured - it is a dangerous job, and pays accordingly.

1: http://www.odmp.org/search/year
2: http://killedbypolice.net/
Untestable, unsafe and on the freeway: Why cars need to be open source
Here's a link to the library lab website

http://lajollalibrary.org/your-library/bio-lab/
Common reactions I see whenever scrapers or crawlers pop up on HN:

- 'its morally wrong to scrape websites'

- '$1/month? sorry too expensive'

- 'why should I use this when I can spend the next few hours writing a script'

- 'you should work on it for free, money = bad'

- 'I started a competing service already click here...'
It might be just me but I can't figure out how to even start compiling this to test it out on linux. That said, I'm always happy to see alternatives to Festival TTS. Hopefully it'll become a bit more user friendly in time.
I usually do "man -a" when simple "man" doesn't hit the right man page.
If only buzz feed would do long form. Their writers do have talent.
The idea is that the DSL compiler would be responsible for ensuring constant-timeness. Note that C, C++, and Rust offer no guarantee of constant-timeness. Even processors don't offer constant-timeness guarantees and some instructions (often division) are not constant-time. See also http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/x86-is-high-level-language....

I wrote the paper mostly in the context of implementing signature verification, which doesn't require side-channel protection since there are no secrets in verification. But, I think the DSL approach is even more important for ECDH and signing, where side-channel protection is important.

Finally, given that processors don't even promise us that any instruction is constant-time, and given that other types of attacks are possible where constant-timesness doesn't help so much (e.g. power analysis), I think it is worth considering other approaches to side-channel protection (e.g. blinding). For many applications, constant-timeness isn't sufficient and I'd love to learn that it isn't necessary.
How much are the fully loaded benefits for a full time mailroom/receiving employee at $15/hour? Seems reasonable for a complex over a certain size.
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Exactly... it isn't that GM-style revenues are priced into the stock it is that much greater than GM-style margins are priced in.

Whether they will achieve that is a different (and still open) question.
Actually, I think every Starbucks in the Bay Area has induction chargers built into several tables (along with a number of charging dongles to choose between for your particular phone connector): http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/starbucks-pma-wireless-c...
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So, by that argument, we should just let the government do anything then? I once had a similar argument with a friend who insisted there should be stricter gun laws "because the government already has tanks and planes, so the second amendment doesn't make any sense anymore; they could always bomb the shit out of the public if they wanted."

I think the opposite is truth: we need to act now while we still have some power, rather than assume a defeatist attitude and let our children and their children at the mercy of a fully omnipotent government.
How much code needs to be constant time? Compared to all the management code and parsing and so on?
Very impressive stuff. Thank you.
Probably because the trigger would be sensitive to such low amounts of radiation that many sources could set it off.
So in the end it is a chicken/egg problem - no communication structure because there is nothing to transmit.

No datacenter because there is no communications.

But I've also read that mobile banking is MASSIVE in africa, more than the entire rest of the world combined.

Plus Africa is extremely diverse, I suspect there must be several cities that could benefit from a google datacenter.
Carry one of these radiation detectors.[1] It will emit loud beeps if hit by an X-ray beam. This is a scanned spot beam system, so the exposure is short but easily measurable.

AS&E offers the system (which is rather large) in two models of Mercedes Sprinter vans and a Ford 550 for off-road use. This thing has been around for almost a decade; they recently came out with a new van, but it's apparently the same backscatter hardware.

It's a very short range technology. For cargo container or vehicle inspection, they need separate scanning units for both sides and the top. Even for scanning people, both sides have to be scanned separately. It's not suitable for looking into houses.

But if you think something is a bomb, it's a good way to get a quick look. Because it can identify different elements, explosives really stand out.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/NukAlertTM-radiation-detector-keychain...
> The radiation doses emitted by the scans are extremely small; the scans deliver an amount of radiation equivalent to 3 to 9 minutes of the radiation received through normal daily living. Furthermore, since flying itself increases exposure to ionizing radiation, the scan will contribute less than 1% of the dose a flyer will receive from exposure to cosmic rays at elevated altitudes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21444831
> It looks just like JavaScript with Flow annotations.

It looks close to that, yes. However Flow can be also implemented via comments to native JS so... TS can't do that.

In which case...

> it's just as "native" as JavaScript + Flow annotations

is wrong. TypeScript requires a transpilation step. Flow doesn't. It can do, but it's not required.

I may have been a little harsh with the "pseudo-language" but I'm not sure what else to call something that is designed to be transpiled into the right language. It's not higher-level, it's sort of... a companion language I guess.
The scenarios you describe can be done with JS enhanced HTML pages. No need to do this as a complete single page application requiring tons of boilerplate framework code.
Particles are not fundamental, either, and thinking in classical terms will yield only confusion. You'll find a good non-technical introduction to the MW interpretation here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/
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Even more banana eating for the cops running the thing...
As to adding addresses/doors: simply do it on location with Go Map! (iOS) or Vespucci (Android), real easy particularly if you added building outlines before or they are already there.

Mapillary (mapillary.com) offers StreetView similar capabilities, including sign detection and can be used together with the desktop OSM editor JOSM and the in-browser editor iD.
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http://arianvp.github.io/GoogleStalker/

I built this once. I have no idea if this still works. All data is processed locally by the way with the html5 file api
A contrarian view: asset-heavy business is good for the winner because of barriers to entry. How many competitors SpaceX will ever have?

So if Uber wins the market, they'll have it for themselves.

Asset-heavy transportation businesses aren't as risky as people assume. Airlines buy they airplanes. Shipping companies buy their (massive) ships. Hertz can afford the cars they rent. FedEx can afford their truck.

Those businesses rarely go out of business and the "market fluctuation" is not really a thing. If there's a sudden 10% drop in flights, the airline will bump the prices by 10%, retire some routes and voila, they are profitable again.

I get that there's capital and risk benefit to offloading car ownership, I don't see how that translates to low margin.

Margin is whatever Uber decides it to be. If they can lower the cost of providing the service by 10x by not using humans, then they can offer a price that is only 5x lower and get obscene 50%+ margin.

What might affect a margin is lots of competition, but this seems like "winner takes most" business (currently Uber is 10x Lyft, it's closest competition in US).

Finally, getting money to fund such business is easy. Uber already raised ~$10 billion. Assuming cost of self-driving car to be ~$20k, that's half a million cars.

Given current market condition (low interest rates, lot's of money floating around), a business with a plan will have no problem raising essentially unlimited funds.