skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Japan is building a “Robot Taxi” service
...there's always more they can do, and frankly making a new website which will post forensic election data after the time when it is relevant doesn't count as an action on the political chessboard of the health of the country-- on the separate, smaller stakes chessboard of getting agency funding and squabbling over the budgeting of that funding, sure, this helps the FEC say they did something, which is worthwhile to them and maybe us as well. I think that we'd be better off discussing problem A than problem B, though.

As far as what the FEC can do which might have an actual impact: the heads of the federal agencies can access the bully pulpit if they choose to, but typically their leaders are selected for pliability rather than assertiveness. I believe relatively recently the head of the SEC came out and told the media that they don't have enough resources to enforce their regulations in any capacity, which made quite a stir at the time and likely lead to funding for their more recent attempts to build high profile cases.
this uses xterm, so it's more accessible to most users than the other alternatives you mentioned. also note wopr is not just about the graphs (like https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib) but also about having a declarative format, and even consuming it with curl.
Microsoft Azure to Offer Blockchain Building Applications
How EMV was hacked
If it helps any, in most jurisdictions in the US the end user is likely responsible for paying "use tax." If they don't, the purchase is only tax free in the sense that all tax evasion is.
Some quick Googling turns up:

http://www.drtomascp.com/uploads/PersonalityIntelligence_IJS...

Which seems to provide some (weak) evidence against that:

"The hypothesis of a significant correlation between various Big Five personality traits and intelligence test scores was only partially supported. Only Conscientiousness was significantly related to psychometric intelligence, correlating with BRT scores. It is worth noting that the correlation was negative, indicating that higher conscientious
participants tended to have lower gf."

I'm far from an expert though, so I can't say how good that study is.
01 is actually how I discovered Ayreon. I'm now going back and listening to older albums. Was surprised at the number of incredible guests! (Bob Catley, James LaBrie, Bruce Dickinson, Floor Jansen, Jordan Rudess, Hansi Kürsch...).
A surprising number of people like the idea of fingerprint scanning, biometric sensing, bluetooth bracelet detecting ... gun vaults. Inside of which is a 100% reliable non-smart firearm.
Good luck, it's a steep learning curve but well worth it.

Q: In function, how does the popularity-based sorting differ from feedly's current popularity algorithm?
You can still write xml-compliant HTML; whether it's called XHTML or not is splitting hairs. You still get all the benefits of a very rich toolset for document preparation. I work on a site that makes heavy use of xslt and works with xml-compliant HTML as input/output.
This Mysterious Colorado Mining Town Seems to Run on Its Own Frequency
Don't know Ceylon or Kotlin except superficial poking around the websites.

So, let me ask you, how is Ceylon better than Kotlin? I'd like to see a good write-up (separate blog post) that compares and contrasts the two. What are use cases where one language would be significantly better than the other?

(Edit)
Wow! Did not expect such a dearth of samples (for both languages) on Rosetta Code.

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Ceylon

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Kotlin

and only one overlap:

http://rosetta.alhur.es/compare/Ceylon/Kotlin/#
> It's trivial to make a bot that sits in a channel and logs it. And it's trivial to hook up a search engine to that bot.

I have actually done that, and I know it's not trivial.

Few want to spend time tinkering with bots and hooking together archiving services. They want a nice Slack-type experience.
Well, the reason we are not seeing those simple attacks is because terrorism is something that almost does not exist.

There are many more cases of cities closing because of one or two people carrying explosives than because of people crashing planes on buildings. It's just that one must look over huge timespans or population in order to find any of those cases. And people do look for finding the planes.
5 Predicted Side Effects of VR Gaming
nosh is, by far, the single most masterfully architected and carefully researched toolkit for init, process management, supervision (also with auxiliary utilities for user mode VTs and UCSPI) out there at present, trailing only with s6. The FreeBSD community will do itself a great favor by adopting it over the NextBSD experiment.

It is, indeed, daemontools++ with lots of optional compatibility layers, carefully planned module boundaries and a small chain loading language for composing execution state.

That said, compared to what is standard fare in DevOps, it will likely be found too esoteric. There is also a tad more to be explored in reexamining this controversial problem domain, which I hope to unveil in the coming months.
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As much as I hate to defend Lindsey Graham, I honestly think he's running for the VP slot. He would make an appealing VP for the Republican base -- hawkish on defense and a veteran of senate dealmaking.
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I don't listen to death too much, but really enjoyed the last melodic death band I stumbled upon. These are great, thanks!
All servers at OVH North American datacenters offline due to fiber cut
I'm the farthest thing from an expert here, but why do you need your own pop-up store? Could you also try getting an existing brick and mortar store to carry part of your product line? That might result in a few sales and give you some insight into buyers, both at the retail and the individual level.
The entire BHS DC is down due to a single fiber cut.
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> Here is a better article

Thank you. URL changed to that from http://tuxdiary.com/2015/11/02/indian-govt-adopts-open-sourc....
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You're right, nobody is attempting to act against them. All the (ludicrous, unworkable, unenforceable, sometimes blatantly unconstitutional) bills that get drafted (and sometimes passed) in California, NY, Illinois, and Washington DC, those are just figments of gun-addled imaginations.
> Wouldn't any victory necessarily include a major sea change in congress?

No, not really. Barack Obama's 2008 victory only came with very very very slim Democratic majorities in both houses, for instance, and then those got overturned two years later.

This myth that a presidential candidate can sweep huge Congressional majorities into office on his coattails is derived from exactly one real-life example: FDR's victory in 1932. Even Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide wasn't able to produce a Republican House of Representatives.
Having had some personal experience in hugely dense crowds (like the Edinburgh Hogmanay Street Party[1]) it does indeed feel exactly like being carried along in a shoulders-deep irresistible flow of people. There were actually perceptible currents & flows, areas of turbulence around obstacles, and many other things that suggest they behave something like a fluid.

Resistance is, as explained elsewhere, extremely challenging. The sheer force of a column of people and lack of any sort of feedback means it's quite dangerous and uncomfortable. A friend and I had to rescue several people who'd fallen and were struggling to get back up, or who were being forced into obstacles. The solution was to surround them and form a sort of rugby-huddle that left enough space in the middle for them to get back up or catch their breath.

They might have better crowd management measures these recent years, but I haven't been tempted to go back on new years.

[1] http://www.edinburghfestivalcity.com/assets/000/000/264/Pack...
Among the questions I have from the article:

* What is the ring/watch material made of? How durable is it.

* For the "smart ring", can I get this sized-to-fit?

* What exactly is powering this scanner? What happens without power?

These are just concerns off the top of my head; I'm sure there are other concerns I'm not thinking of. Should my fob become damaged/dislodged in a scuffle what happens then? With a firearm, what you don't want is fragility.
Depends on your preferences... I prefer to read reviews online then buy in the store. One reason being, you get the product right away.
Second, if the product is defective, it is just another quick drive to the store to have it replaced.
I wish that someone would build an easy-to-use layer on top of an open protocol like IRC or XMPP. The tool could manage setup, configuration, archiving, and notifications.

Instead of building a walled garden that is merely accessible via an open protocol, it would be more interesting to build a thin layer on top of an XMPP server that could even be removed or replaced later, if desired.
With all the critical "I-told-you-sos", this seems like a good time to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
But a safe introduces needless complexity into the system, reduces reliability, and just makes the firearm more expensive.
That's actually a lot beefier than I thought it was going to be. Very interesting.
bad karma perhaps, they just suffered a major outage

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10494475
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This is great, but I still have trouble with the small font size. Adding A+ / a- buttons would be a nice addition, even though there is a workaround.

It's got to be possible to override zoom (pinch out gesture) and have it only change the font size, so there's no text clipping. The buttons would be much simpler and easy to control though.
If you have not worked extensively with this data (either source), you might not know what its limitations are.

The temperature data you mention is a composite from several space-based instruments, that have to be stitched together. Calibration of any space-based measurement is not easy, so your statement "simply measuring the total energy released by a slice of 75% of the atmosphere" is not really that simple at all!

In particular, radiometers (like AMSU, where the UAH numbers come from) are really good when used for band ratios (taking the ratio, in essence, can allow instrument sensitivity to cancel out). And they are at their best for short-term studies where instrument temperature and component drift cannot accumulate. But radiometers are not nearly so good at absolute measurements over long time bases. There is a literature on this, for instance: how AMSU temperature drift affects its measurements.

In general, I'd suggest that your expertise may not be great enough to dismiss one measurement and favor other, very specific, measurements. Remember that the IPCC contributors have literally devoted half their life to studying these problems. It's hard for an educated enthusiast to keep up. (Source: I work with several IPCC contributors, and their expertise is humbling.)
Most people manage to keep their phones/laptops charged. A smart gun should have less ongoing drain and surely you could hook it up to charge in your gun safe. Never going to happen if people start issuing death threats to anyone trying to market one, though.

Meanwhile, more attention to the "shoots curious kids" failure mode seems appropriate.
You are absolutely correct. It is complicated. And given a healthy dose of scientific skepticism, there is no good way to know for sure right now. For instance that NOAA study you linked uses UAH satellite tropospheric data to fill in for missing grounds stations, which is highly controversial (because how does that work), and even more so over the poles, since UAH data their is poor and scattered. Then the .12C difference between ship and buoy sea surface temps seems like is too convenient. I have a feeling that if they were honest with their confidence intervals, they'd be larger than the possible signal.

After working through tons of this stuff, reading papers, replicating the math where I can (hard to get source data, and harder to get actual algorithms), I'm left with "who knows?" But the satellite data is clear (and is the only contiguous pole to pole measurement of the atmosphere we have). No warming for over 20 years.
We need naive people, or nothing would ever change. Maybe Lessig will be long dead before Citizens United is overturned, but his work could still pave the way for the people who overturn it.
I figure that Google/Apple are both going to set up autonomous divisions within the company to work on their car stuff. When you have a division with few interactions with the rest of the company, it has a chance to develop its own culture, and usually takes on the personality of the leader and senior people.

Android had a very Apple flavor before Sundar took it over (Andy Rubin started his career at Apple, then worked at Apple spin-off General Magic). Google+ had a very Microsoft flavor under former Microsoft exec Vic Gundotra. Both of these moderated as they came in closer contact with the rest of the organization, but in their early days, there were pretty steep walls protecting them from the rest of the company.
It certainly wouldn't be trivial for me, but I can't discount kefka saying it's trivial. There are lots of developers better than I am, and their trivial tasks are my extremely difficult challenges.
Of course, but you first you want to find the most accurate representation, then reduce it to something simpler as required.
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>This isn't exact of course

This is very far from exact. You're comparing a city with particularly high real estate costs to one with relatively low real estate costs (for the size of the city). Spending 20% of gross on rent is not particularly extreme, and factors like utilities, food, travel, and so on are not going to have remotely the multiplier that real estate does when comparing costs to Berlin.

Yes, 165k in SF is not like 165k in Berlin, but for a person without dependents it still leaves a lot of room for large savings or expensive luxuries. The median household income in SF is just $78k.
And it all happens in 16ms...
Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
Does that mean it's simply not possible to travel on public transit without your bank being able to build a profile on exactly when and where you go?
Multihome your edge, folks.
Object.observe withdrawn from TC39
Why not? His plan[1] isn't to overturn or defy Citizens United; he wants to modify and enhance public funding of elections so that it doesn't pay (in general) for Congress to spend time fundraising.

Also, the plan doesn't have broad support in Congress, but it is plausible; there are many in both parties who support it. Some cities and states[2] have viable parallel legislation enacted or in progress.

[1] https://lessig2016.us/the-plan/

[2] https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/new-york-public-financi...
Very cool idea! Had no idea I wanted this until a month ago. Keep expanding, if you were in Canada/on Android I'd drop $5 on it in a second.
If the TV has a USB port, the Chromecast can be likely powered from that. It works on both of the TVs that I have (neither of which are high-end by any means), even though one of the TVs only claims 500mA of output on that port.
> The two biggest missing features are persistence and search.

A well-tended IRC server has those via bots.

Other important missing features are ease of use in terms of creation of

> topic-focused channels

wut? This is totally easy in IRC: /join #topic-channel makes the channel

> private channels

I'm tempted to say that a bot can provide that... but sure.

> and high quality mobile and desktop clients.

Not buying that, sorry, I've been happy with my mobile/desktop clients; they are relatively full-featured.
That's unfortunate but not a killer to my project.