skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But, it's disingenuous to think that all demographics get an equally fair shake/generous response from law enforcement when they are holding (or believed to be holding) a gun."

Maybe they do and maybe they don't, but that particular argument doesn't work at all. There's a huge difference between a protest (even with armed protesters) in broad daylight surrounded by cops and news media, and a split-second confrontation between a police officer and a suspect in the middle of the night. You cannot boil down both situations to "a person may have a gun."

(To be clear, that's not to make any moral judgements about the people involved in those two different situations, or what cops should or should not do. Just saying they are different, and it's dangerously simplistic to line them up next to each other and believe you've proved anything.)
> So if we assume the data in the stream consists of uniformly random integers between zero and N

This needs to be in the problem statement.
Along the same line of questioning what's to stop Netflix from packing up bags and moving to GCE/Azure?
1. Because we have empathy and because we have no compelling economic reason to (economics always overruling silly things like empathy).

2. Empathy, which is a part of our emotions, is an incredibly complex thing we can't even begin to formalize yet - it's extremely unlikely that a random AI we'd build would happen to have the exact same emotional makeup as we do.

3. "Smart" has a particular meaning here when used in discussing AI. It implies raw intelligence, not morals. A smart AI may be incredibly good at evaluating information, inferring new facts and doing complex tasks. None of it means it will necessarily have to ask itself philosophical questions that we do - those actually mostly come from our emotions, from our desire to understand our place in the universe.

The core of the AI-threat issue is that for an AI to not be dangerous it would have to value us and the same things we value. We can't agree about our exact values even among ourselves, and we're nowhere near even trying to formalize it on a level of detail that would be useful for programming.
How to add user management to static site?
I have a static html site, other than .htaccess how can I add user-authorization to all these pages? i.e. you need login to access all those pages. What's a simple way to make a static-site CMS-alike? Adding a php session cookie for each page?
Samsung Gear VR already exists and the difference between the experiences is night and day. As for Google Cardboard, the experience is just bad.
My previous flatrate streaming plan had exactly that and just browsing the far end of "order by rating" was more interesting than watching the moderately dated mainstream movies that scored highest. "Might" be a matter of taste i guess ;)
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Pretty sure this wasn't actually a secret, they announced Messenger Business integrations months ago https://www.messenger.com/business ...
I think geo-blocking is still legal. http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/internet-serv... says that the provider needs to inform about "...whether any geographical restrictions apply to the use of the content and if private copies are allowed."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9594702
Rohit from CloudMagic here. To build these 'additional functionality' on all platform, you need to roll out your own clients. We've started with the table stakes, stay tuned for those power features, across all devices. Extensions don't work on mobile devices and 70% of emailing is done on mobile today.
> While you were context-switching into this OS server you missed the chance to do 10 IOPs give or take an order of magnitude.

I'll believe that when I see real numbers.

A system call takes something like 54 ns on my laptop. With pwritev or similar, you can do quite a few IOs in a system call. (Of course, pwritev is slower than 54 ns, but that's not a fundamental constraint.)

An IO requires making the IO durable if you want it to be reliably persistent. So you have to do CLWB; SFENCE; PCOMMIT; SFENCE or whatever magic sequence you're using (depends on IO type and use of nontemporal instructions, (and you have to have hardware that supports that). If you're using NVMe instead of NVDIMMs, then you have to do an IO to sync with the controller, and that IO will be uncached.

Uncached IO is slow. PCOMMIT has unknown performance since no one has the hardware yet. System calls are fast.
I don't understand your comment in relation to the male / female issue. Care to expound?
They want to make money on it though... Maybe someone will get their hands on it and extract the ROM.
Hey, I didn't realize until just now that you weren't a founder of NetApp. I suddenly like you even better than before, because previously I thought you were complicit in their patent abuse. How do you feel about the GPL these days?
Star Citizen is of limited appeal, isn't a "AAA" title, and won't sell a platform.

Not to mention, it's only 1 game... for this to work, pretty much 99% of AAA titles need to be designed for VR (not just the "enable VR" checkbox).

Call of Duty Black Ops III was just released... no VR support. Battlefront was just released, same thing. These are the AAA titles that would bring support... but they aren't. (it also shows Facebook et al did a terrible job of convincing AAA studios to think towards VR... which could be a nail in the VR coffin in they don't come around on their own).

(and yes, I know there are ways to get both games to work with VR... but it's not native, and the game wasn't designed with VR in mind).

Given it can take 1-2 years to develop a AAA title, it could be a long while before we see it becoming the "norm". In the meantime, all of Oculus' competitors will be on the market, probably cheaper and better (due to learning from the first-to-market's mistakes).
I wonder if it would be possible to use this data to create an LED candle with a super-sensitive microphone that would realistically flicker when "disturbed", otherwise be a mostly consistent brightness.

Or are there better sensors than microphones to detect air disturbances?
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Thank you. Yes the document is old. If we feel is outdated there is a mechanism * within the law* to change it!
Urville: An Autistic Savant’s Remarkable Imaginary City, 20 Years in the Making
This word is one of my pet peeves as well. "Performant" is an ignorant and foolish way to say "high performance". It's like saying "voltant" instead of "high voltage". I'm all for coining new words that mean new things, but when someone says "performant" I treat it as a clue that they might be a sloppy thinker.
a launch system with externally supplied energy is a massive infrastructure project. If we muster a capability for large infrastructure project a huge railgun launch would be much simpler.

With regard to incremental improvement upon what we already have - */LOX chemical launch, we have only scratched the cheapest and simplest way to boost specific impulse for the first stage - like 3 times - and thus to decrease the total launch mass 2+ times : http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/gnom.htm (much simpler than Skylon)

"The concept was evidently been proved on a subscale tactical missile, the PR-90, now on display at MAI's museum at Orevo, north of Moscow. The PR-90, with a launch mass of only 1500 kg, of which 550 kg was payload, could reach an altitude of 40 km and a range of 100 km. The booster unit used 200 kg of RAM-10 ballistite with a specific impulse of 180 seconds to get the missile up to ram-air ignition speed. Then the air-augmented unit, with a specific impulse of 550 seconds, cut in and used 300 kg of propellant to boost the vehicle to its 1 km/s cut-off speed. An equivalent liquid propellant missile (such as the American Lance) weighed over twice as much. A solid propellant equivalent (such as the French Pluton) would weigh three times more"
How Important Is the Business Size in Choosing ERP?
That's the model that I think would actually be acceptable to all parties in the short to medium turn. I'd be happy to fork over $5-$10 ppv for a cinema release over the $23 I'd pay at the cinema. I'd still go to the cinema for bigger movies that I wanted to watch for the experience/sound/screen.
What the hell is going on in California? Actually, better question is why is Illinois so much less violent?
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I think they're doing their best: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/684814114523201536
You should also preface the opinion with "I didn't read the whole article".

The very fact that he ADMITS he has a gambling problem up front should have been a clue that the article was going to be about something other than whining about losing money (which he never actually did).

He's outlining the ways in which the sites are corrupt.
Shhh..... remember my cable bill used to be 40 bucks 22 years ago. That includes hbo.
I though the same thing until 9/11.

The 3,000 people killed were 20% of the 16,000 murders that year. It was by far the biggest mass murder in US history. Next biggest was 44 in the 1927 Bath School disaster.

And of course terrorism is a much bigger problem in some countries.
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I think the alternative is pretty much a no go. If some poor pedestrian that was on a side gets hit by a car to preserve the owner then the lawsuits will be huge. Killing bystanders is not going to be acceptable.

Let's look at a picture[1] from an article[2] that made it to HN[3]. If any program chose A as an acceptable solution, then they should be sued into oblivion. Killing the bystander will kill the driverless car.

1) http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/styles/v...

2) http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving...

3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10439106
Interesting. i use small fonts just so i can pack more stuff on the screen. doubling the font size seems like i'd need 4x the area, eyeballing my current monitor setup, seems like it'd be a wash. Might be worth trying out just for the novelty though.
The Edge has lost it.

Jaron's essay was a fantastic read, highly recommend it, but the respondents are not engaging with it at all.

They are just using the Edge as a platform to promote their own ideas. Most of them clearly did not read what he wrote. Even though I respect most of the participants, the platform is not eliciting their best.
What worries me is that that this mirroring also applies to the erection of giant walled gardens as well. It seems curious that this current bot-bandwagon has exploded after the XMPP interoperation world imploded. Different APIs now to build bots for Slack, Facebook, Google, Skype, etc...
Battery life is not only increasing due to improvements in the battery itself but also due to software improvements.

It would be interesting to see precisely who much software and hardware improvements contributed to increased battery life.
> If your user auths with Facebook, of course it makes sense to do your customer communication via Facebook, too.

Which is why I rarely auth with FB - I don't like the idea that someone is assuming I want a relationship with them beyond "sell me something - now go away",
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I find Quantopian is a pretty good testbed given you can get their stock data for free in their contests.

No need for a brokerage account, minimum, or any sort of fee.

https://www.quantopian.com/open
Maybe in Microsoft-land or certain circles, but anecdotally I've only started hearing "learnings" this year too.
There is quite a difference between not faulting the police for shooting someone and saying that person should be shot. I do not think pointing a non-lethal weapon, much less a toy, should be automatic grounds for being shot. I do believe it may be the appropriate response in some situations though. That said, I suspect you don't really believe what you've said, and it's a case of poorly communicating your intent.

Unfortunately, on polarizing issues like this where clear communication is paramount to prevent people from wasting time arguing similar points, it seems people are more prone to comment without fully considering their wording (possibly due to high emotional investment).
Shooting a rocket at something in space is very obvious, akin to shooting someone in a crowd with a canon. Everybody that is not deaf and blind (sensor arrays or radar of some type in this case) is going to notice.

Changing the orbit of another satellite is very noticeable too. Much like if you were in the desert and a car came over the horizon straight at you, you'd have a very long time to do something about it.

A heat beam is a little more concerning. It is a threat that presents itself in seconds, not minutes or days. If it happens at a point where you don't have your own IR optics watching space you could miss it and be very confused as to what occurred to your sat.
Nah, that's the key. Your laptop is not doing what it was designed to, it is doing things exactly the way it was built. That's the 101 of programming - programs follow what you wrote, not what you meant.

> Why would you expect a program complex enough to simulate the human mind to act in such a predictable way, when none of the much simpler programs we already have act that way?

Exactly. We suck at making complex programs do what we want them to. This is the source of worry.
Having seen some of how the sausage of dashboards get made, you go look at the real data, not the fancy crap that is thrown on the dashboard to sell the product in demos...
It's a bit of everything.

For one, it's a website. How do they detect legitimate traffic vs scripted traffic? There would be countless ways to hide the fact that the traffic is scripted. Think about most sites -- they're barely able to keep the things running, let alone add on an additional huge workload of fraud detection...

.... Especially when the fraud benefits them!
Refugees by definition have little leverage in general. I think it's a reasonable rule of thumb that any antipathy toward them will be greater expressed by the state that administrates the territory to begin with (and has various political interests to appear tough on something) than by private individuals, who are far more heterogeneous.
It fascinates me how important they are. If battery energy density and cost improved by two orders of magnitude, it would completely change the world. We've seen that sort of improvement in integrated circuits in just 15-20 years but the significance of that is microscopic compared to what batteries would do.
After trying different email clients (Sparrow, Mailbox, Airmail, etc) just to see most of them getting abandoned, I've decided to simply stick to the native email clients provided by OS X and iOS and use fastmail.com with a custom domain name. Fastmail is about as flexible as it can get, their IMAP support for OS X mail.app is fantastic and their push notification service is actually better than Apple's (Fastmail pushes 'new/read/unread/delete' notifications, whereas Apple only pushes 'new'.
> If you use twitter, I'd recommend following a couple of Javascript groups, this will help keep you informed. Also follow a couple of JavaScript publications on Medium too.

Which ones do you recommend for starters?
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Why? Likely from a distance the cop won't be shot if it is a real gun. The police should not be so trigger happy. What is more preferable to a society? A cop getting shot? Or a child with a toy gun?
It shouldn't, the algorithm as described works for arbitrary data. The whole point of the hashing is to transform the stream of arbitrary data to a stream of uniformly distributed random integers, so that you can then apply the reasoning from that paragraph.
If you email me at [redacted] I can forward it to somebody who may be able to help.
Show HN: Review my startup project: CardPi, life in digital cards
I don't have an analogical example in mind, but I think that often-times, what happens when a revolution gets past a hurdle like automation vs maintenance, is that the hurdle gets worked around.

In this case, I think that, to a large extent, maintenance can be side-stepped by recycling and rebuilding. A bit like how the current world works: we can fix anything, but for most things, it's simpler to throw and buy a new one because the labour is more costly than the product itself.
One example is asking a computer repair shop to fix your laptop screen (particularly so if said screen is touch-sensitive).

In a world where energy is free (fully solar for example), this is awesome: oh, you just got a month old car but a better design just came out? No problem, you'll get the newest one when your turn comes.

I doubt I'll see this kind of world (if it ever comes) in my lifetime, but it doesn't seem so far-fetched, I think.
I'm the opposite. I have a 6s now and am thinking about moving to the 6s+. I use my phone more like a tablet, plug head phones in to talk and have wireless headphones for the gym.
Their skill may be mapped to specifics. It's a kind of technical debt.

Remapping those onto new gear may cost them more than they feel it's worth, or they don't see the value somehow.

Whether that makes objective sense varies a lot.
Right, it happens when a pit boss or marketing department makes an error. It's not something they do on purpose. There are lots of stories of people flying in from around the world because some casino was dumb enough to pay double odds on 00 on roulette or something.
CardPi is primarily a mobile app, currently on iOS but if you if you don’t have an iOS device please take a look at the website, I am keen to get feedback on that too.

App (iOS) download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cardpi/id941081241?mt=8 (currently on USA, UK, Canada and Australia stores). To create content you will need to register an account but it’s quick and easy to do, viewing does not require registering.

CardPi is an app to showcase collections of content in series of digital cards on mobile and web.

For example a video game publisher wants to release information about an upcoming game. They can create series for characters, locations, items and then create cards for each character, location and item. Each card can be updated as little or as often as they like, they get discussion forums automatically for every update along with other features.

The idea is to have well organized nuggets of information and live blog style documents in a standardized card form with imagery/text all grouped by series and subseries keeping related content together and with appropriate hierarchy.

Apple does not allow apps mentioning ‘beta’ or ‘preview’ so if you view it on the App Store, other than being version 0.0.0, it won’t say this but really it is very early days and there is little content yet aside from sample data. Thanks for your time, all feedback is welcomed. In particular if it doesn’t make sense or you think it’s useless, say so, we want to talk to you.
Ditto. $600 is well outside of the impulse buy range for me that this would have had to be priced at ($350 would be an automatic buy, $400 I'd consider, $600 no), and I bought a DK1 (though through Oculus, not through Kickstarter) and have a pretty substantial amount of expendable spending money.

It is interesting to me that the first impulse of so many people in this thread is to try to logically justify the price in the face of people saying they won't buy it -- I'm not saying those people are wrong when comparing the price to a high end monitor or graphics cards, it just isn't relevant to whether or not I'm willing to buy this at $600.

My decision not to buy this doesn't mean I don't think the device is worth the money being asked for everyone, nor do I think Oculus/FB is wrong for pricing it thusly, it is just more than I am personally willing to pay for something that is a fairly niche novelty at this point.

At the current asking price it is very easy for me to justify waiting until gen 2 or gen 3 when things are much cheaper and there's even more support out there.
You could also apply these same skills within NLP (Natural Language Processing), replacing "Sports" with "Linguistics" and provide a lot more positive net impact on the world
I'd rather just download all of wikipedia onto an SSD and plug it into a raspberry pi or something.
Artificial Intelligence: Can Watson Save IBM?
Are you familiar with Ghost, the open-source Markdown-based blogging platform? It might suit what you're looking for.

Also, I haven't written any books, but I wonder if Markdown is the best choice for a canonical format. The syntax is lightweight but also limited. For example, it doesn't support tables, and doesn't differentiate between source code (which should be syntax highlighted) and literal text (which shouldn't). You could define your own extensions, of course, but that breaks the compatibility feature. I think reStructuredText (for example) might be a better choice, although Emacs' Org-mode is my personal favorite document format. I suppose that in the end, whichever's most comfortable for the author to write in is the best.

edit: I should mention that this is in reference to a technical book because I've been thinking about technical writing lately. It just occurred to me that you could be writing the type of book that doesn't need tables or source code, in which case Markdown is probably perfect.
Chipotle hit with federal subpoena over California norovirus outbreak
Mine includes 8Mbps internet access. I'd love to "cut the cord" but I don't want to give up regional sports and live network news.
hot wire aenometers can detect even tiny air movements
The AMD 290 is 2.5 years old. The NVidia 680 & 780 are also acceptable cards, and they're over 2.5 years old (although considerably more expensive than the 970). So you need a top-of-the-line gaming computer from 2.5 years ago, or a high-end gaming computer from 1 year ago.
So, anyone else concerned that with all the various agencies clamering for crypto they can access, and the staunch refusal for researchers to provide it (and they say it's impossible), political leaders are going to point to something like this and say "see! here it is! let's use this."

The darkest possible outcome is something like this becomes mandated, and traffic is filtered to permit that crypto.
> "Chaum wouldn’t comment on whether the project, which has yet to be fully coded and tested"

So it's currently vaporware.
Should add in http://SpotHero.com here as well. Raised $27M and in 13+ cities.
I'm pretty sure this same story has been told for each major rev of the iPhone. "s-years" tend to be stronger because it is a proven product design, etc., so more people buy them.
You are thinking about things incorrectly I think.

Lets say that ubiquitous automation reduces employment in many manufacturing and service sectors. Prices will fall in those sectors, abundance will increase. People will need to spend less of their income for these goods and services. The additional income will be used for other things. Some of the other things will be things like books, music, etc.

If you doubt what I say, think about how spending patterns changed when the economy went from 90% employment in agriculture to 2% employment in agriculture. Prior to this transition, something like 70% of wage was spent on food. Afterwards less than 10% was spent on food.

In the future, something like 10% of income might be spent on all non-digital goods and services, and 90% of income might be spent on the virtual economy (games, books, music, film, etc.)
When I'm looting supermarkets for canned food in the post-apocalyptic gloom a list of all the Pokemon or fictional ducks is not one of my priorities.