skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that the article doesn't address this, but the reason I think that relying only on cellphones without a landline is risky has to do with emergency situations, and for some reason I thought the CDC would tie into that, but maybe I've just been watching too much of the walking dead.

In the case of a cellphone-only household, it's really easy to think of a time when all of the cellphone holders are not present, so that there's no real contact into or out of the house, potentially with people present. In the case of a 911 situation like someone choking or having a heart attack (or a fire) that could come down to going up and down the street knocking on a neighbor's door, or jumping in a sedan to race to the hospital.

I also wonder how accurate geo-location would be for 911 calls, where it's very easy (I would hope) for 911 operators to know the exact street address of someone making an emergency call, even if they ask for the address as well.
Standing armed forces protect our national integrity, and state/county/municipal agencies maintain local order. Aren't local militias effectively obsolete?

Echoing Pyxl101, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" ("Who will guard the guards themselves?"). We gun owners believe we provide a needed bulwark against the worst forms of tyranny, and certainly notice that 20th Century tyrants for some inexplicable reason fell disarming targeted populaces was a prerequisite to slaughtering them wholesale. Given what an abattoir the 20th Century turned out to be, maybe you should seriously consider that bit of unpleasant history?
Here I thought I was going to find CDC secretly studying the effects of cell phone exposure on people's health and behavior. Would've been fun and controversial. Gotta be something boring I guess.
No, I'm not saying that they should be allowed to re-steal. I said that I don't care about a shipwreck, but the spanish government has been known to claim this kind of finds in the past because technically that is a Spanish ship and legal precedents exist.

Also, all the global empires have been built on the same coercive foundation, and that doesn't make them "regimes".
Check his company track record.
Consumers are willing to pay way more to rent a room (or a car) for a day than 1/365th of what they are willing/able to pay for a full year.

Airbnb makes that matchmaking easier (on both parties), and in exchange takes a 9-15% cut.

Property owners who used to be forced to choose between offering 1-year lease or trying to piece together some mid-term rentals (and suffer vacancies in-between) now have an additional choice: take ~85% of the much higher daily rate people are willing to pay.

I agree it's perhaps made that specific pattern of consumption more expensive, but IMO, it's done that by making the overall market more efficient.
I do not think my story is terribly common, but I was in a similar situation about 11 years ago. Somebody noticed, and at some point I was simply given a ~20% raise. I didn't even ask.

Some companies cultivate a recognition of talent, and some don't. Some companies are simply small companies, and the culture reflects some of the idiosyncrasies of a family (for better and worse). Getting a promotion without a pay raise is certainly a mixed signal.

The one thing I'd suggest you look around for, is to understand the business cycle of the company you're working for. If most of the revenue is from contract sys-ops for enterprise clients, pay raises may simply lag based on the client business cycles.
How one generation’s experience can affect the next
Agreed; trusting a binary distribution for what is a security measure seems a bit weird...
He should build a map rendering template for Open Street Maps!
I've never had a problem installing and using a printer with all of these critical features:

- uses wired ethernet

- listens to CUPS or LPR

- speaks PostScript or a highly compatible clone
Don't Focus on Hiring a Superstar. Just Avoid Toxic Workers
The article mentions the Bottle Bill system: this is a system where you pay a small deposit on every bottle you buy which is then refunded when you return the bottle to the supermarket.

This results in the bottles being recycled.

We have this system here in The Netherlands and I must say it's fantastic: we get proper thick Coke bottles and my bin doesn't get filled up so quickly.

Sadly this system isn't used for all bottles - 500ml bottles aren't covered - and it's only drinks (soft drinks + beer). It's also far from Europe-wide - the UK for example doesn't have this system.

Recently the soft-drink manufacturers - presumably Coke/Pepsi - have been lobbying hard to kill this system.. Nice to see how they care about the environment..
Where can I buy it

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He taught a class I took at Harvard. Brilliant guy, and an enlightened instructor. He was one of my favorite professors overall, and until reading this article some 30 years later, I had no idea of his comedy life.
I doubt taking money from the disabled and the elderly and giving it to able bodied people is going to "help" them out of poverty.
In an ideal world, yes, for historical artifacts.

However, I realise there's not much demand for such a move, so it's not going to happen any time soon, if at all.
I've always found the "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" meme ridiculous. It defies reason and the scientific method. Extraordinary claims simply need evidence they're true. That's it. Then, analysis and experiments should be conceived to determine why they contradict the "ordinary" model plus look for sources of error. If error or deceit are found, then the extraordinary claim is rejected. If not, the "ordinary" model is amended or rejected with data from new.

That simple. The need for extraordinary evidence seems to just promote orthodoxy. Better to focus on data and methods.
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you don't have to do object recognition on the point cloud to know what you shouldn't be bumping into - since the data comes back "already 3D"

This is true of any pointcloud system though. No system returns density though, so you still have to make assumptions about what is worth running into at what resolution. So if a leaf falls in front of your car, you don't immediately slam on the brakes.

I don't know of any vision systems that do object recognition immediately, in fact I'm not even sure that is possible - or desirable. I guess if you baked segmentation into the firmware it would serve as a fast classifier, but AFAIK nobody is even talking about doing that as you would need a very well trained vision library and classifier to deploy to FPGA.

I make the distinction because we build fairly dense pointclouds with monocular RGB cameras and VSLAM. LIDAR isn't required anymore. LIDAR is faster with lower error tolerances today, but nowhere near as cheap or portable. I suspect monocular SLAM will overtake LIDAR in the next couple of years as it's getting faster and more accurate everyday.
Glass bottles still work that way. Cleaned and reused. And at least in Germany, sturdy PET bottles get reused too; Wikipedia says 50x for glass, 25x for PET.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrwegpfand
Your Facebook Friends Who Post BS Inspirational Quotes Really Are Dumb (Study)
Similar to project Tango. It uses structured light for the same goals.
"And even better, it lives in the cloud".

Lost me here. I just want a solid desktop app that isn't a web wrapper or lives in the browser. I can't stand web apps to be honest. It's almost there, but it always feels like a cheap copy of what should be a proper desktop application.
not if you've got to take care of your disabled grandma because her benefits got cut and she can't live by herself anymore.
Yes, civil engineers use a 30% - 40% fudge factor to deal with those unforeseen costs. They often get the costs wrong, sometimes it's nearly twice more, but those times are rare.

Software developers normally apply a 200% - 500% fudge factor do deal with unforeseen costs. Problem is, they are usually wrong by an order of magnitude or two, at whatever direction.
Probably where the trick of adding a counter to loops and stuff to ensure termination came from. People going over their hardware budget back in the day.
Zuckerberg’s $45B hustle
What's the difference between mimicry and supervised learning?
This country needs to offer a minimal viable income to all citizens.
I'm sure nearly everyone will blast me for how bad this will be and
for the inflation that'll surely happen but every study I've seen
shows that giving people relatively small amounts of money improves
every aspect of their lives.

I have followed some of the Universal/Unconditional Basic Income discussions here on HN.

After all is said and done, I think proponents of UBI will find a lot less opposition if this is framed in the context of the progressive taxation debate.

In the context of how the ancestrally wealthy pay so little. In the context of how even the most innovative upstarts & the least innovative & moribund mega corporations alike, dodge taxes using shelters abroad.

The point is this: middle income families - the few that are left in this country - will not be persuaded so easily to give yet more of their hard earned monies away to those who they see as perennially living on the dole - the welfare dependent & the societal deadbeats. Yes, they will blame the already under-privileged & chronically poor. Not their tax-evading ( even negative tax billing ) corporate overlords.

That's the way it has been for decades. It won't change unless the thought makers find fresh ways to help the middle and low income families see the disparity in taxation.

Middle income & low income families have to be weaned away from voting against their own self-interests.
Show HN: Lets encrypt plugin for S3/CloudFront
So, they want $300,000+ for a system and only offer a 90-day warranty? That's when you know it's going to be a piece of s*. Haha.
pretty neat. can agencies also be hooked up to the service (instead of only freelancers?)
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PayPal trouble delays Neo900 project
> "I feel computers fight me on waaaaay too many things. Computers think they are the destination, but they're really just the vehicle."

Sounds like you want a smoother workflow, and I get why that's desirable.

However, if computers are just the tools to get you to your destination, then improving workflow won't change what they can do, just how well they do it.

Let's focus on the use cases, what do you use computers for now, and what would you like to use them for in the future?
> Nice to know we can still place a call if the power goes out.

You can still use your cell phone if the power goes out and it's often more reliable (fallen trees often take out phone service with the power, but not cell phone towers).
Had fate turned ever so slightly at Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, or Midway, the great gamble made by the Japanese would have been genius.

The embarrassment and face saving nonsense killed them not in 1941, but in 1943, when they followed through on a fools errand instead of settling for peace. Once the US industrial power was mobilized, the result was pretty certain.

Disagree strongly. The way those battles turned just sped up the destruction of Imperial Japan---and if you expect every battle to go your way, you're a damned fool.

The surprise attack, their brutality in war, plus our memory of how WWI did not end in a lasting peace, made sure settling for a peace was not an option by 1943. By the time we were focusing on the home islands with Operations Starvation and Downfall, plus the fruits of the Manhattan Project, the details of the Bataan Death March unquestionably revealed by the liberation of the Philippines ... well, it really sucked to be Japanese by then. But not hardly so bad as the subject people in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, which they were killing at a rate of 400,000 per month by then.

I'm finishing reading Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Pay-Operation-Downfall-1945-1947/... and it's really sobering. Olympic as planned, the invasion of southern Kyuushu, wasn't going to work, and with Marshall pushing for all nuclear weapons after Nagasaki to be earmarked for it, and liberal use of poison gas, it would have made Okinawa look like a walk in the park. And there's no way Coronet, the planned March invasion of the Kanto plane in Honshu that includes Tokyo would have happened on schedule before the weather made it impractical. Yet we were absolutely determined to see it through, one way or another, with as many as a million of our men dying the process.
Tesla unveils a battery to power your home, completely off grid
I went on a tour to the bottom of the reservoir before it opened and it is massive. An engineering feat started almost 30 years ago coming together with this site and several move over the next decade to add capacity to the system in different areas of Chicagoland.
Hey all, I'm Dylan Field — author of the linked post / co-founder of Figma. If you have any questions, let me know!
I've sometimes wondered if people who self-identify, or have been identifed, as a "10X employee," or ninja-rockstar, are somewhat more likely to give themselves license for bad behavior, "because I'm worth it."
Thunderbird has remote images disabled by default.
I've been using AirBnb to live all over for the last 2.5 years. Not 100% has been AirBnB but enough that I mostly think AirBnB as a company could use a lot of improvement (edited from something more derogatory)

Of the 16+ places I've stayed at 5 of them have lied about their facilities where as of the 20 or so hotels I've stayed at only 1 lied about their facilities and they fixed the issue.

But, on AirBnB there's no way to really deal with the issue. Most landlords don't have some other place so you show up, suitcase in tow, what can you do except deal with lies? It's not like you can easily find another place in a few minutes. At best you have to sit there with your cellphone and try to find a nearby hotel and stay there several days until you find a new place. As far as I'm concerned the AirBnB refund guarantee is mostly useless.

I don't feel free to leave a bad review because the next landlord might not rent to me if they see I've left other bad reviews. Why should they take the risk of renting to someone that leaves bad reviews?

AirBnB provides almost no way to deal with these issues. There are zero repercussions for lies on the facilities and unless you actually rent the place there is no way to contact AirBnB. So for example, once I got used to the lies I started asking the landlords for specifics before I rented. Example: Two places claimed they had "free parking on premises" but when questioned, one said I could park in the street but they didn't actually have any parking on premises. Another said unless I had neighborhood sticker I'd have to park 3-5 blocks away.

There was nothing I could. I can't report them to AirBnB unless I actually rent

As far as other lies. One claimed they had Wifi. Turned out they were stealing it from a neighbor and it was only accessible from small area in the corner of the living room. Another said the apartment was a 1bedroom but it turned out to be studio. The difference? A 1bedroom has a door so I can shut out the refrigerator sounds, a studio does not so I had filtered out studios. One claimed they had free parking on premises. When got there I was told it was often blocked and I'd have to park on the street. Car was broken into there BTW. Another claimed free parking on premises. Turned out he was on vacation and left is car in the space so no parking. Another no lies I suppose but it wasn't ready to rent. No curtains on the windows and buildings all looking directly into it. Also it claimed air conditioning which was true but in a hot august in LA with it running on high it took til 4am to cool the place down.
As of 2013 only 17.8% US adults smoked.

What is this article on about?
In general, you don't have to have a subscription to a landline service to have 911 access on POTS. Federal law requires the phone companies to provide access to 911 dialed from a landline phone whether there is current service or not, and they have to ensure the line from the pole to the house/apartment is live to facilitate this (it is still the homeowner's responsibility to deal with the in-house wiring, of course).

That said, if you live in one of the increasing number of states trying to circumvent these federal requirements, you may indeed have to keep paying just to have emergency access, or you may end up being forced out of landline access altogether:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/landline-rul...
UBI will just be a yet another huge transfer of wealth to rentiers.

Rents will eat up every last dollar of UBI, and we'll be back where we started.

Capital controls, rent controls, and punitive vacancy taxes are needed well in advance of establishing UBI. The chances of this happening on a broad scale in the US are, unfortunately, zero.

Too bad.
It's already possible to do it with any drone that can take good quality photos: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/tag/uav
The resolution depends on the quality of the pictures and the number of them.
I notice that idreambooks has not updated since the week of November 15th, and apparently the website was sold in early November. Have updates been ceased indefinitely?
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Regardless of one's feelings about 'climate change,' it really behooves us to stop doing a variety of things in a way that are hugely destructive to the planet and ourselves. That would be good policy no matter what, but the fact that so often our hugely destructive actions are in the service of deriving relatively minimal value makes it patently absurd.

So it was quite striking that in the few images I saw from the recent Climate Summit in Paris, there were people standing around tables scattered with plastic water bottles. Really? Given the subject matter under discussion and you're going to sit around drinking water from a material derived from oil, that after it's brief service to you will have negative and hugely long-lasting effects on the biosphere, really?
True, though with multiple functional units there is some parallelism. Just thought it was an interesting comparison.
She gets the 800 as well. Seems much more fair than the system in the United States, where benefits accrue relative to your political influence (or, often, the political influence of the lobbying group that manages your interest).
Let's keep things orthogonal. I don't want to be "forced" into using one particular webserver just because it supports one feature better than another.
Sadly, "Repaint the bathroom" still doesn't work.
The fastest code is the code that never runs
Also published recently on the same topic:

https://aeon.co/essays/if-the-internet-is-addictive-why-don-...

(In fact the NYT article looks like it might be plagiarized from this.)
Thanks! I didn't submit, so no control over the title.

If you want me to bump you up on the waitlist, DM me on Twitter: I'm @zoink.
Do they still do that? If so it's because they don't want to have frequency agility turned on all the time so potential adversaries get less opportunity to figure out the relevant algorithms. The degree by which radars adjust their pulse frequencies is way larger than the doppler shift of anything you're likely to run into traveling in the atmosphere. You will occasionally have a conflict by chance but radars by their very nature have to deal with a certain amount of noise.

With lidars you won't be able to adjust frequency because that's not how lasers work. Well, you can with free electron lasers but nobody is going to be putting those in lidars. But a laser is directional in a way that a laser isn't. You will occasionally get some false returns but real objects persist from scan to scan in a way that noise doesn't. I've worked with a small fleet of lidar equipped robots and lidar cross talk never caused us any problems. Sunlight on the other hand could be a big problem but automotive lidars are all rated for the outdoors.
By "rich" I assume you mean the teachers unions. [1]

So long as the state appropriates and controls a vast share of resources all the people will vie for a share of it. They will find innumerable innovations. Those who have the means (money and influence) on their own always find a way in. So many of those of lesser means find ways to band to together to push themselves up to the trough. This leaky boat cannot be made seaworthy. [2]

"Public election funding" is another way to say, "Let's give the current incumbents monopoly control of the financing of elections." You can bet that whatever initial formulas they devise for distributing this cash (which confers the power to decide elections) while everyone is watching will be creatively "improved" soon after the public has shifted is gaze. Even when the initial formulas are evenhanded, we see unintended consequences. [3]

[1] http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

[2] https://mises.org/library/politics-cannot-be-fixed

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/01/...
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I got access yesterday, and I have to say that it feels better than some desktop apps. :)
"Bushido" and the culture of the samurai as most people understand it was more or less invented whole cloth as a romanticized, retroactive mythology[0], well after the cultural relevance of the samurai had passed on. It was embraced by the wartime Imperial government for its propaganda value, but that doesn't mean the government necessarily bought into it.

[0]http://www.tofugu.com/2014/12/08/bushido-way-total-bullshit/
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36-bit processor, 25MHz clock, 128K system memory, 100MB drives, air-conditioned room...

Totally killed by a modern $5 Pi Zero.

If you took a Pi back in time no one would know what to do with it. Linux would be recognisable, Ethernet would be recognised by Xerox Parc and a few experts, and only at 10 MB/s - but USB, HDMI, SC cards, the SoC, and the web would all look like advanced alien technology.
I don't know any physics, but I did enjoy this grumpy blogpost: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2015/12/what-fermilabs-holo...
I remember that bare-bones Nova-1200 costed exactly 10 times more than Fiat-600 automobile in 1972 (70,000 and 7,000 Finnish markkas (1 Fmk was 3 USdollars) and with heavy import taxation).

I had both some years later. Both equally out-of-date. The car actually fell apart somewhat catastrophically on the road in 1982, because no rust-proofing.
I wonder how the number of people with only with mobile Internet is developing. It's definitely doable with LTE today. However the problem are traffic intensive things: Videos, Updates, Audio
I've had friends and acquaintances in multiple countries who've had to choose not to do things because they risked no longer qualifying for disability and other programs that they were dependent on. Once you are in you tend to stay in because these programs inevitably victimize those who try to leave and fail.

Giving everyone a little backup makes for a better society where people can take the risks they should take.
Why I Believe Apple's Swift Going Open Source Gives Hope to Future of Computing