skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congress has broad authority to make the law the way they see fit. A lot of what we think of as the "normal" way to pass laws, are just traditions and rules that Congress sets for itself.

Those traditions and rules are good, which is why they exist in the first place. But they're not really binding or legally required.

Which, if you think about it, makes sense. Congress is the ultimate lawmaking authority in the land--who is going to tell Congress what they can't do? The only answers are the Constitution and the voters. The Constitution sets some limits on powers, but doesn't micromanage process. And the voters tend to care about issues, not process.

For CISA specifically, it had already passed both houses; adding it to the omnibus does not accomplish anything that was not already going to happen anyway. The text changes that tptacek details so thoroughly are the sorts of things that could easily happen in conference committee. Sticking it into the omnibus is mostly a matter of convenience at this point.

In the end, Congressional leaders negotiated the omnibus, will allow it on the floor, and the full Congress will vote on it. This is the same bar than any piece of legislation must get over on its own.

And there were nasty bills that did not make it into the omnibus, like de-funding Planned Parenthood.
I've noticed that they seem to start prompting more and more rapidly. If I'm binging on a new show, I can start Saturday morning and not get prompted until shortly after noon, say, but then I'll get prompted at 1:30 and then 2:30 and then after the next episode (numbers made up, but you get the idea).

This is really annoying, and the opposite of the sort of smart adaptive behaviour I'd like to see. It'd be great if Netflix could detect, 'this guy seems to have regular work hours (because he normally watches Netflix at a regular time), and appears to be binge-watching a TV show; let's not bother him.'

But then, the Netflix app is still terribly primitive compared to their website, so…maybe I'm asking for too much.
Setting up a Ubuntu server for Ruby and PHP apps
Tech support calls perhaps, but there's more that can damage a brand's reputation than that. I'm not for blocking third party hardware as they originally did, but I understand their position as a company as well.

However since I can't back up my original claim I'll leave it at that.
No --- I thought about adding that caveat but didn't. Most of the non-Julia code that I'm aware of is scientific libraries: linear algebra (LAPACK/BLAS), random number generators, etc. But lots of very basic foundations and data types are straight Julia --- array addition (as a very trivial example) is implemented by looping over the elements of the arrays in Julia, not by passing the loop to a C library.[1]

Reimplementing LAPACK or BLAS would be a lot of unnecessary work, but I think that one goal of the language is to be fast enough that a reimplementation would not be worse than the existing versions. (I'm not affiliated w/ the project, though, so I'm just guessing.)

[1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/arraymat...
> We need the Federal government to stimulate aggregate demand at the consumer level. How? Investing tax dollars in a smarter manner.

How do you get 535 people (congress) to spend $3 trillion smarter? It's an impossible task. A fools errand. Even if we elected the 500 smartest people to congress, the results wouldn't be much better.

We need less of the economy flowing thru the federal government, not more.
I will say that the code and general design behind the PS4 is dramatically superior to that of the Vita and PS3. And I suspect this is in part due to the way they moved things overseas to the west and put Cerny in charge, and probably also due to a desire to avoid past mistakes. So, I do kind of buy the claim that it is less likely they made such obvious mistakes this time.

Still, people should keep at it...
Can we have a dropdown to choose a code license? – Meta Stack Exchange
And of course the phonetic transliteration would be Korolyov, not Korolev. ё instead of е in the middle.

Asif Siddiqi has a good book on the subject, "Challenge to Apollo". I'd also recomment Boris Chertok's memoirs, "Rockets and People Volume IV: The Moon Race". You'd learn, for example, how many launches of N-1 were originally planned for each expedition to the Moon and how that number eventually boiled down to 1.
Many smart people argue that the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression due to the government's incessant meddling in the market with price controls and new regulations.
seems vaguely parasitic to be using github to distribute closed-source binaries, not just for the bandwidth hit, but more so for trying to use the open source ecosystem to gain mindshare for a closed product.
“We’ve figured out how to phrase the driving problem in ways compatible with deep learning,” Hotz says.

OK, maybe it's BS, but he's not saying what you say he's saying.
Have you ever spoken to a journalist? It's their job to sell clicks with charged headlines and over-blown quotes. If they followed you for a day I promise they'd generate some equally stupid quotes.
While I think an alertness sensor is probably a good idea for drivers, I don't think an accelerometer is a useful way of going about it. These don't really notice that a user is asleep until they have entered a fairly deep sleep, which is fine for pausing a TV show but far too late for alerting someone who is operating a motor vehicle.

With Netflix if the accelerometer doesn't notice you've fallen for 5 minutes before pausing, that's totally fine. If the user is operating a motor vehicle and has been asleep for 5 minutes it'll be a miracle if they're still alive.
I needed them for a toy problem as well. Tried to experimentally verify the equality of two formulas involving large factorials. It was a counting problem.
I suspect this is why "collect the best and brightest and lavishly fund them" star-power startups tend to fizzle. The best and the brightest are that way by yesterday's metrics.
Job security through dependency insecurity.
I'll register my gun when it enters heavily regulated NAS and impacts emergency procedures and grounds firefighting efforts. See Page 13-16 of the FAA ruling.

The registration of drones is quite literally only because of how heavily regulated NAS is and it allows the government to grab a little more power and a little more metadata about its population.

Note: I am not pro-drone registration either.

[0] http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/20151213_IFR.pdf
Indeed. What you're describing is the principle of moral proximity: the closer someone is to you, the greater your obligation to help them.
Yes, this. I turned off the auto-play-next feature but there is no way to avoid the shrink-credits thing. :-/

I never noticed it skipping the opening credits though.
I need to integrate it to a platforms that brings together mentors (in all kinds of fields) and mentees. It has to support drawing mainly, I will extend it to formulas.
Same here, have been using acrobat x for this purpose for years, very impressed how good the OCR is.
Wow. That is a great example of What Not To Do in web design. The article promises 13 computers, but none are on the first page. You are supposed to click a tiny, non-obvious, unmarked arrow in the upper left(!) to page forward. And when I did, nothing happened. I immediately backed out.

Too bad, I was interested to see if there were any mini pcs I didn't know about!
That's the point--the LAST people with jobs will be AI programmers, but they probably wouldn't have long to celebrate that status.
If we're talking about "real" AI, then AI will chose its ethical code. Otherwise it is not sentient and is not a thinking being.

A better question is: "what conditions lead thinking beings to choose positive and benevolent ethical codes?" That has the benefit of being a relevant question today for human beings even if AI never materializes.
My photos are in disarray and it would be nice to have something like this to help me organize them, but I store my raw files (.NEF) as well. Does this support raw files?
Nial is a good example of a Kerf-like language, but I don't think you can download it at present.

There's a way to make J look more readable, but by the time you're able to accomplish this, you can read the J runes, and have realized the syntax sugar just slows down the parser.
A lot of the people are talking about how important integration and interoperability is. I agree with it, however, a lot of work has to be done to achieve it.

In order to do it properly, there should be standards that major providers agree upon making integration much easier and predictable. That takes plenty of time.

Then you probably need some walled garden to control the experience. Approved apps, approved 3rd party providers, etc. If some crappy app is released, regular users won't blame the developer but the platform, as it was discussed in great details in other threads. We need to get out of the HN bubble. Seriously. We forget that a computer is a device to watch porn and browse facebook and that's about it for A LOT of people. Chances are, it will cause a wave of anger in communities such as this one (where there's a strong sentiment for open systems).

This work has to be done be a number of large providers (read: long processes) and followed by startups popping up and disappearing now and then. This stuff always takes time.
I think creating separate quasi-elite innovation groups ruins the spirit of innovation for the overall corp culture.

It should be emphasized that everyone has "Google X"-like responsibility, and managers especially need to be trained to listen, accept, and support suggested projects by their reports.
I'm using:

- markdown

- + folders (synced to my mobile)

- + a flat-file cms to wrap it up in the browser (in my case: yellow cms, but there are a few based on markdown and I could switch any time)

Still problematic:

- fast and easy linking

- suggested tags (no body likes tagging manually)

- rich media (especially as you'd ideally want a local mirror, like some research tools do it)

and the general problem:

- text is linear

- folders mostly hierarchic

- information is ribosomal

- ribosomal connections are rather associative and therefore manifold

- manifold structures are a pain in the ass to do manually by linking and tagging

An even better google would be the solution:

- you just dump information (+ meta data to give some more context and spare you explaining the current event surrounding the note)

- and it will be found on demand by AI

maybe in a few years I can feed something my wiki and it will make sense of it
Different strokes for different folks - I like watching the opening credits for the 1st episode, but not the 3rd.
> a man who believes he is a woman is not in any recognisable sense actually a woman.

You are talking about someone whose biological sex at birth was male, and whose gender is female. In other words, you're confusing biological characteristics with gender.

Gender refers to self-identity, cultural behavior, and presentation. The World Health Organization[1] and the Oxford English Dictionary[2] have accepted this definition.

On Facebook, users may fill a freeform gender field (not a dropdown) and select a preferred prounoun. Users are not required to substantiate gender, nor would there be a way to. Notably, Facebook never asks anyone to give medical info about their biological sex. Neither should you.

[1] http://apps.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/

[2] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
Oh, I hesitate to get into this discussion but... :-)

Almost by definition though child pornography requires the exploitation of someone who can't consent to it - that's really the crux of the illegal part (the non-consentuality), not the pornography part. Once the participants are of consentual age, the pornography part is completely legal.

[Yes, I know there are issues surrounding drawn/animated images of children, and of-age adults portraying themselves as children, but the point I'm trying to make is geared toward the free speech issues WRT ISIS and not the flaming hairball that is pornography law.]

What bothers me most about this article is the completely serious tone in which Slate decides that we're so afraid of a foreign enemy attacking us that it's only natural for us to seriously consider dismantling the very foundation of what these enemies hate about us. Think ISIS is a big supporter of free expression? Of course not. Think that governmental limitation of freedom of speech, assembly, religion, etc., is something that ISIS would like to have in their own little Sharia world? They do indeed, and demonstrate that interest often and in brutally medieval ways.

The answer to "our enemy hates us because of the freedoms we have" is NOT "...so we should give up those freedoms", the answer is that we should exercise those freedoms MORE. Free speech? Tell the world what you think of ISIS. Why hide it? Religious freedom? Pick a deity and pray to one, just for the heck of it. Pick a different one every week, not because you believe in anything those deities stand for, but because you can do so without persecution. Make macaroni art of Buddha, invite Robert Mappelthorpe to fingerpaint Jesus on the side of your home. Go nuts. Do it because you CAN, and because ISIS doesn't WANT you to.

Why we feel the need to placate ISIS is beyond me - what do they stand for that makes so many of us collectively want to prostrate ourselves in front of them, so as to not hurt their feelings?

If they attack us, but we've been sensitive to their beliefs and have given up chunks of our own freedoms to try to placate them, what do you think will happen? Maybe they'll let us all off by only killing us a little bit?

I really hope Slate is trolling us all and will laugh at people like me who take them seriously - enough of the "news" nowadays is some sort of trolling that it may actually be the case. But judging from Slate's typical slant, I don't think they're trolling.
Hacker creates self driving car using AI, plans kits for $1000
I live in southeast Alaska, so I run in the woods with bears. I run two or three times a week, and I usually don't see any animals. But once in a while, probably 20 or 30 times in the last ten years, I run into a bear on the trail. The possibility of that kind of encounter makes every run a chance to disconnect from day-to-day concerns in a meaningful way. I also volunteer with a local mountain rescue group, which is interesting and extremely fulfilling.

But most of the time I'm either at work or at home with my family. If you're looking for something to do I'd encourage you to find some kind of exercise that you truly enjoy no matter what other people think, and try to find some volunteer project you can give yourself to on a regular basis.
> we can look back to the New Deal to see that it's worked at least once before

If only more legislation was evidence-based..
It says "No such bucket" while `b2 list_buckets` sees that bucket. I've filed an issue earlier today (it got to Nathan). I'd be happy to provide any details to fix this.
So can we use it in a macbook somehow with a usb air interface?
People who live in climates where it gets cold in the winter, turn down their thermostats at night, and get up in the middle of the night to pee?
Google Trends for Amazon show an interesting marketing push
Hey, I thought the same when reading this paragraph! :)

Are you in for living in the woods and preying for food when humanity becomes a society of degenerate VR junkies?
It really is pretty obvious, "O" represents a closed circuit, and "|" represents an open circuit, oh wait ...
Note that Techdirt didn't have the final text of the bill (and couldn't have) since it wasn't finalized at the time. They were commenting on the proposed changes, which they acknowledge didn't all make it in to the bill[0].

So you may be commenting on old information (note that I don't see those 4 items on their current article[1]), and they specifically acknowledge the changes from yesterday's proposal to today's complete text.

They could still be wrong in their analysis, but it would be more helpful to do a breakdown of their current stance on the final bill, rather than doing a breakdown on their analysis of proposed changes with data you have from the final bill text that they didn't have access to.

[0] - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151216/05514933094/as-pr...

[1] - "a few of the absolutely worst ideas didn't make it into the final bill,"
I built a side project in Phoenix (http://www.peergym.com) and was impressed how fast the community has adopted to creating solutions - everything from authentication to geolocation is covered.

If you're curious to try Phoenix but feel like the ecosystem is too bare bones, you should check out awesome-elixir, which grows every day!

https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir
- Can you unpack your first bullet point a tad more? Are you saying that because these shops use other technologies (like say, Python, C++, etc...), they will be fine? But this still doesn't refute my point about Drupal in-and-of-itself. Actually, it might even buffer my point, if I understand it correctly.

- But isn't this what so many Drupal developers do as well as Drupal shops (especially small to medium sized shops)? And, again, this point might even buffer my point about Drupal along not being advantageous. Plus, I don't think the Drupal community in general thinks this way (they are even cultish about Drupal actually)

- True, as of now. This is where Drupal devs will still have work to do. But that sucks professionally speaking - who wants to just do that? How will that kind of work help you develop as a good programmer? But, all of that is not really relevant to my post anyway - I'm more focused on things ahead - far ahead - the future of jobs. In 5 years? 10 years? These jobs will be gone.

- Ok.

- See my 3rd bullet point response above.

- Sure, but the future of Drupal actively works against that. My point is not that all of this is ending tomorrow, but it time Drupal's philosophy (get as much into core as possible) will eventually hurt programmers and their jobs (for those who stick with just Drupal).

- I define a "good middle class" job as the following: long-term job security, real opportunities for growth in the company, good pay, healthcare benefits (including dental) and retirement benefits (like 401ks) etc. There are a lot of small to mid-sized Drupal shops who can't come close to this kind of job offer. They always seem stuck in virtual start-up mode. So, serious Drupal devs are forced to work for one of the big Drupal shops (and those kinds of shops are few and far between)
I don't know what Fidelity does, but I work at a bank and if we were to implement such a feature we handle it securely. When you set your password we store a hash of the password, but we also store a hash of the keypad version of your password.

So logins to the website still use the full character set -- only logins via the phone are verified against the keypad mapping. That one has less entropy (because of the reduced character set) but attempts to brute-force it will QUICKLY be recognized and stopped, since each attempt is visible to a human being who is handling the phone call.
The business of ‘Star Wars’ comes with a huge catch
Hubic by ovh is 5€ for 10TB, which would be 0.0005 €/GB/month. But i have no idea how compareable that offer is regarding features or sla. https://hubic.com/en/
I'd be willing to pre-order, but not without some indication of when it was expected to ship, and not without Mac support as well. :/
I would expect that value to be highly speculative. It's like trying to ask the value of a stock/bond.

A better way of aligning the tax code would probably be to have a low tax for uses which fulfill the desired criteria of the space, and a high tax (penalty tax) for deviating from that desired use.

For high concentration of population urban centers (city cores) I would like to see something closer to caves of steel, where pedestrian levels share a given geographic elevation, and are setup like indoor parks/greenhouses. Building such a feature in to a building should lower the tax rate (as long as the building maintains the park along it).
Is there a realistic opensource example app? Curious to see how it looks like.

Ruby syntax is a big minus for me and afaik Erlang is not strongly typed. While obviously syntax is a personal preference, I'm quite interested to hear from Phoenix users how it compares to Go/Haskell/Rust/etc, especially in cases where I don't need real-time.
Before people suggest bitcoin--and I love bitcoin--it probably wouldn't solve this guy's fraud problem. Yes, it would stop the fraud, but there are simply too few people willing to pay in bitcoin.
Quine Relay: An uroboros program with 100 programming languages
I think the large majority of startups are still in the same paradigm of "sane, good ideas", with founders who are perfectly normal, just smart and usually very optimistic. All of that doesn't qualify as "crazy" as Steve Blank means it, as I read it. But true, crazy visionaries with ideas that most dismiss can build startups (extremely high potential ones), though I can't think of very many that fit that criteria, in part because by dentition (being crazy - in a good way here) has to be very rare.
Is the problem really Tesseract or the fact that it doesn't have a robust front-end performing segmentation, de-skewing, better binarization, etc? I've heard that Google Books is actually using the Tesseract engine but has seen better results in part from better training but mostly from a more advanced system breaking each page into the blocks of text which are actually OCRed.
Indeed they do https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/677237274770341888
Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence [pdf]
How Does the Use of Docker Affect Latency?
Why would it need all that if the only thing it's doing is simply announcing its state?
Knitting? It can be cheap (as opposed to stained glass which I didn't know was expensive?!) and knitting groups are very friendly, social, helpful, and encouraging. I think you will always find people doing activities better than you, but all the knitters/crocheters I've ever met are willing to stop and explain things to beginners, or at the very least commiserate over mistakes. Despite the old-lady stereotype, all the knitting groups in different cities I've attended have been all ages and all abilities.
Please don't use Netflix and other paid streaming services. By doing this you support Digital Restrictions Management development and finance copyright lobby.

https://stallman.org/netflix.html

If you want to watch their shows too much, download them illegally via file sharing services. They can arrest a very limited number of people, and by engaging in such activity you lower other people's chances to be persecuted.
Interesting to read about those fraudsters. Really annoying when you're a small business. I remember reading something similar from Gittip[0], and also mentioned on the linked blog post, jsbin[1].

I wonder what other small startups are using to detect / prevent this kind of fraud?

Are there any good services in this space? and why won't recurly/stripe et al bundle this in? (or maybe they do, and I just don't know about it...?)

[0] http://blog.gittip.com/post/35057426257/stolen-money-on-gitt...

[1] https://remysharp.com/2015/09/17/jsbin-toxic-part-4
As someone who has lived in Japan for 6 of the last 8 years (with 2 in the UK in the middle) -- I'll take Japan any day. Especially when I compare what's happening in real estate in Japan vs what's happening in the UK, I've got a pretty good feeling that one of the two has got it right (hint: not the UK).

However, not sure if Japan will survive "Abenomics" (just as sensible as Reaganomics, but with a dash added corruption ;-) ).