skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One drawback of this is that some populations are less likely to contribute (eg: immigrants with poor English, poorer communities that don't trust civil authorities, short-term residents in an area filled with rentals) so you end up prioritizing by citizen engagement level and not just by actual pothole level.
You can also report potholes on Waze. Some city governments actively follow Waze [0], so it would be easy for people to report potholes, and the government to watch and see where they need to be filled.

[0] http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Kentucky-Transportation-C...
i remember it being akebono.stanford.edu
> You can locate such "interesting" flights right now, using your browser. Just open up ADSB Exchange Virtual Radar [1]

This is really neat. However, it's only showing 10 flights in the Southwest (USA) area. O_o How come it shows nothing in the El Paso area? I find that hard to believe (also: There are none flying in OR, ID, UT, CO or NM?)
Same thing with the music scene in the Bay Area. There are tons of underground parties happening behind plain doors and in warehouses all over if you're part of the announcement groups on Facebook / group chat programs / info lines. Breaking into it isn't too hard but can take a few weeks of effort. The best way is, of course, to talk to someone already part of that scene and have them show you around :)
Thanks for the response.

> My story is about what happened when Google revealed PageRank scores for pages across the web.

And I'd assert that people already knew if they were number one in the search results, or not. And that metric continues to be the main thing they pay attention to. Well, that and their traffic numbers from Google. My point being, we all knew Google was using links to rank, and the search result rank was visible just by doing a search on a few of your synonyms and adjacent terms, market, brands, trademarks, etc. The battle over spamming links was inevitible, whether they revealed PageRank numbers or not.

> I'm sure we'd have had some of this even without PageRank scores ever having been revealed. Perhaps it would have been as much, even. After all, it was well-known that Google was leveraging links as part of its ranking algorithm. The market would have been there. But I do think that releasing the PageRank scores accelerated market faster than it would have done otherwise.

I can agree with that, but that's not the tone that I get from your article, at all.

The tone I get is that Google created this monster, visible PageRank score, and those crappy emails, link drops, and need to use nofollow, are uniquely Google's fault, and it all could have been prevented if they hadn't ruined the web in 2000 by making it visible.

> Google initially thought it was immune.

Your quote from Sergey doesn't imply to me that he thought they were immune. It tells me that they mechanism they intended to use to fight spam would be to reduce its rank so low that "...they may almost never appear on the search results page..."

You may think that's a pedantic difference, but I see it as a meaningful difference. You can't claim that we're all immune to measles, mumps, polio... But we've reduced the incidence to an incredibly low level, here in the Western world.
Agreed. Still sucky though, it is easy to manage if you want to run a blog without knowing how to build websites.
Yes, for neural networks usually training them takes many orders of magnitude more resources than just using them.

For this particular example, training a system involves (1) analysis of every single game of professional go that has been digitally recorded; and (2) playing probably millions of games "against itself", both of which require far more computing power than just playing a single game.
Paul Graham gave the example of members of the Manhattan Project having lock-picking and safe-cracking as hobbies; that almost certainly wouldn't have been a thing on the NAZI side, and nicely illustrates the difference between the two.
Shit... doesn't surprise me. Except that's not a total loss. We don't know why it lost in the market. I'm guessing it's because a niche player tried to differentiate against Intel's silicon on performance and something they optimize for. That's fail for sure.

However, differentiating on acceptable performance with better reliability, analysis, security, and so on might work. The embedded stuff does this with success in terms of Java CPU's and high-security VM's. An old trick that might help is to implement the CPU at microcode on top of ultra-optimized stuff like Intel's while hiding the ugliness. Basically, the semi-custom stuff again. A lot of potential there.
https://git-annex.branchable.com/upgrades/#index1h2

I haven't tried this yet myself.
No, that's not a caricature at all, that's an extremely accurate description of our political process.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=content%2Carti...
Uber got busted for allowing general access to a "god mode" that let employees tail passengers. Musk may have brought more appropriate practices from PayPal though.

http://nypost.com/2016/01/06/uber-will-no-longer-allow-creep...
Just out of curiosity, can you give examples of people who have done so-called deep software engineering but stumble at the basic CS concepts?
Current generation particle accelerators aren't commodity machines. They're custom hot rods, operating at the limits of stability in a high radiation environment. I never understood why people are surprised that they have to be rebooted from time to time. (And the reboot process is a doozy. It takes about a month to get everything properly tuned.)

The shutdown is in winter because CERN's budget is limited, and electricity is cheaper in the summer.
> That's a false dilemma

It's not, and that's coming from someone who does devops for thousands of virtual machines in production. I don't have an hour to burn sometimes to update a repo, build new AMIs, roll them into production, roll the old ones out, watch logs to ensure canaries pass acceptance tests and that production traffic to new instances aren't erring out, all for minor changes (example: nginx mime type change).
I'm sure Apple could figure out a way to allow repairing this problem while still hardening the Secure Enclave against this attack. They just haven't, because it seems that their threat model didn't previously include themselves an a potential attacker. I'm sure that's changing now.

Submitting passcodes electronically doesn't really make that much of a difference. It takes at least 80ms to try a passcode that way. Require touchscreen input and you've bumped that up to, what, a second or two? Without the escalating delays and potential wipe, a (very bored) person could crack a four-digit passcode by hand in a day.

Also, did they remove this functionality? The "IP Box" brute forcer submits passcodes over USB. Apple may have removed that when they patched the vulnerability that allowed bypassing the escalating delays, of course, but it did exist.

I don't know why the FBI requested this ability, but it's presumably just something like, while we're here we might as well make things a little easier.
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Python3 compatible with 17062 of 72853 projects
They are the stuff you should understand anyway if you build software and are easy enough to figure out in an interview session if you have any analytical skill.

On the other hand, many so-called real world questions measure only how well you are able to recite from API documentation of interviewer's favourite framework or at best the language specification.
"They punished him by remotely downgrading his firmware" is a frankly absurd claim... and incorrect, too.

The guy's own post [1] said it was "pending" (e.g. downloaded and ready for an automatic update), not installed. Given that someone else in the same thread notes that the update when installed on their car didn't actually fix the important charging bug it was supposed to, it's much more likely that it was "somebody in engineering decided to cancel a bad update" than his paranoid claims.

[1]: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/63905-Tesla-s-...
Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8DQlqemkcQ
I think it is a hyperbolic statement to say they're responsible for ruining people's days.

Let's think this through and ask ourselves a few question.

1. Did they go out there way to do damage?
2. Are they responsible for deciding the infrastructure and how well it can handle with load?
3. Did they force said people to work at GitHub?
4. Is the open source culture and hosting a major part of GitHub business plan?
5. Are they responsible for staffing to ensure people are scheduled to work when work needs some?
> Presumably this was a result of the LHC's power upgrade to 13 TeV

Eh... despite what the other guy is saying, you can't really say this for sure. These bumps appear in a region that was accessible during Run 1 at 7 and 8 TeV.

See figure 3: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.05511

If it is something real, and not just a statistical fluctuation (that's a big if), then it would have to be e.g. some decay product of a much heavier particle to account for why it wasn't seen during Run 1.

> If so, should they now be able to repeatedly get these results again and again?

Again, depends if it's a real effect or a fluctuation.
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Without the filter, it shows all aircraft broadcasting ADS-B [0]. The filter procedure I outlined restricts the aircraft shown on the map only to those that have been flagged as "interesting", usually because they're related to law enforcement, government agencies, or celebrities.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillan...
I take it the diaper wasn't worth it.
Hey speedyapoc, our approach is to target local independent bands first and partnering with small local venues. Essentially we're giving musicians more control over their music over ticket prices, the number of tickets needed to be sold to play a show in another city and to show them where their fans are coming from etc. We are working on demo walkthrough which we'll be posting up later this week. We'd love to get more of your thoughts and feedback!
Throughput. The BSD networking stack has been very carefully engineered over time. Linux is OK, but nowhere near as robust. FreeBSD is legendary for load tolerance and network throughput, that on equal machines would choke a Linux server. Seen it, work(ed) with it. When we do something serious that requires heavy load and awesome throughput, we always lean on FreeBSD, never anything else. Everything else has always let us down.
Look at other countries and you can see that decriminalising it has no positive impact on the actual addicts.

That's not true though, they're not in prison. Though I've heard prison in Austria isn't as draconian as American prison.

But decriminalization is a half-assed solution. I think it is better than prohibition, because it doesn't result in treating the ill like criminals and doesn't criminalize responsible experimentation, but it only addresses a few of the deficiencies of prohibition.

We need legalization. This will help to combat the illegal distribution chains, which is where most of the real malice is found. It will also give the public a direct means toward helping addicts by regulating the drugs themselves. Regulation can combat overdose by having standard dose sizes so that users know exactly how much they are consuming. It can also guarantee purity — most of the damage to health that a lot of drugs cause, especially meth, are due to toxic impurities.

And instead of shoving addicts into rehab, we should accept that not everyone wants sobriety and you simply can't force it on them because they'll go right back to doing what they want. If you want to address the drug problem you have to accept that. Don't make people do things they don't want, instead, offer them the opportunity to do something they do want. Addicts want to have jobs, or at least some of them do, in order to pay for their drugs. So offer a program to help addicts manage their addiction so that they can be effective employees, and then just give them a job, without the pretense of helping them stop their usage. If you can get addicts back into society, and put them in a healthy environment where they have stability and a purpose, eventually some of them will want to expand on that positive part of their life and might even decide to go to quit completely. Even the ones who don't choose to quit, at least they're being productive, and they're in the care of experts on drug addiction. And the addicts who have no interest in a job will be affected indirectly as well, because addicts associate with other addicts, and if you can get a lot of addicts off the street, it will change the dynamics on the street as well. You can curtail the camaraderie between addicts, who's reciprocity enables them to have a stable source of dope without a stable source of income.

These programs would be expensive, but they can be funded by the money not going into enforcement of ridiculous laws and the taxes from selling drugs.
What Google Learned from the Borg About Container Management
One thing I would add is that you don't need a large list to make good lookalikes off of - some of the best lookalikes were generated from only 5,000 emails.

Lookalikes almost always outperform interest targeting.
As history has proven it almost always does.
Hint: Click "Show in viewer" in the first message. Zoom out a bit. Press play.
I misread it, he had only the usual first move advantage handicap.
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When this happens (not if) it wont be a citizen, he will be declared enemy combatant.
That is very cool, thanks for sharing.
Because tfs is dying. Why port over tooling for a source management system that is on it's deathbed? Even Microsoft themselves are moving over to Git for many products/teams and have added native Git support to both Visual Studio and VS Online.

PS - Although Microsoft still use Perforce internally also.
Saw how you went from "no time and money" to "no significant work"? My point is that he signaled explicitly that he was willing to invest time and work. He literally writes so:

> I.e. I’d like us to continue this discussion, at first, from the notion of us maintaining the existing architecture. Where things are absolutely impossible, it would be great if you can include more links to docs/source that explain why things are impossible.

Notice the "at first", notice also the following proposed action of working with a snapshot.

You made clear you were expecting another reaction. And I see why. Still, I think you miss how much good faith was contained in this response. It is a bit sad this gets overlooked. People forget text is not that easy to interpret.
Nothing. You can go and get beta driver from AMD page. I works, i managed to run some demos.
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Just on the off chance you're not just trolling and actually believe what you're saying about tariffs. There's a strong reason why the only people arguing for them are populist candidates without any economical backing. I'd suggesting reading on the history, and effects of the Smoot Hawley Tariff in the 1930s.

The general accepted wisdom is you don't want your economy regressing back to being built on low skill manufacturing jobs. Nor do you want your trading partners to inact retaliatory tariffs. Im sure the Americans buying the 10 dollar shirts will tend to be more upset at price increase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Ac...
Not in Apple's best interest. Were I Apple, I would tie this up in court until there is a better political climate. They have the money to kick the can down the road.
The EU gave Turkey an extra €3bn the same week their police - seized - a newspaper for criticizing the government.

All is well again under the editor the government put in place.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/seized-turkish-...
> I bet the car would be remotely driven into a brick wall at 100mph+ with the driver inside.

That sounds like something the government would do to your car if they suspected you were a terrorist.
Wouldn't that be worse security wise? Say if there is an exploit in the wild. The customer upgrades it to the latest version. Now all the bad guy has to do is to mess around with the firmware enough to trick the system into downgrading to the exploitable version.
I've been tinkering with the idea of improving the agriculture situation in India. Though my idea was from a production side (large-scale hydroponics to lower cost via economies of scale and reduced transport cost). It didn't seem as feasible in the near future, but I love your idea! I'd be happy to talk with you as I'm curious about a few things and even see how I can help out!

PS: Born and raised from India now living in SF.
I really wish they would get the camera and gyro APIs on par with iOS so Instagram could port Hyperlapse
I think the concern is that the homework task could be too large and because people have an incentive to appear competent, they might lie about that to make themselves look bad. That means that we're giving too hard a task but we'll never find out.

As to how likely it is that people will lie, given that we've hired several people who did this homework and they've proven to be as competent as we believed, there's at least some anecdotal evidence that some people have not lied.
When people disappear
This is the most important distinction that libertarians make: government and society are not the same thing. Most everyone else simply conflates the two. "What, as a society, should we do?"

Individuals are in society with one another; there is no such thing as "Society," in the collectivist sense.
Past some point yes. I've seen a list of 5k work. I've also seen a list of 5k fail miserably and get outperformed by interest audiences. I don't think its accurate to say that interest audiences never outperform lookalikes. At some small scales they do.

Also there is a huge difference between a list of 5k emails that signed up and 5k emails that purchased in terms of performance.
I've said it before when caddy was last mentioned, but this is how I want Let's Encrypt to work with all web servers. Yes. That includes the big ones like nginx, apache and even IIS.

By default, all that's needed is to turn on ssl and you'll be up and running - including a let's encrypt certificate.

Following this vision is why I believe that let's encrypt limited the validity period of their certs (in addition to some security benefits and much lower OCSP load): Once the integration into clients has proceeded to this level where caddy is showing us it's going to, then even quicker expirations would become feasible - heck even as low as a week or so.

So, while I'm not planning on using caddy any time soon (I don't see a benefit to switching away from nginx right now), I applaud caddy for showing everyone how this should be done.

A huge thank you to the author. This goes to show how very important UX is even for backend-y stuff.
but you don't have to save it to view it under the command line.

> plot(rnorm(100))

is not going to give you anything different under R-Studio, than command-line R, other than redirecting the identical output into a convenience window in its IDE. Sure R-Studio will save a history for you and throw a few conveniences at you but, command-line >plot(rnorm(100)) will popup a window on all OS versions of R and you'll be able to visualize all day long. Including multiple open charts. With selectable focus for further manipulation. R-Studio (MS-VS-RStudio) is just a very thin wrapper on something which is 100% there already. However, in return for nominal initial friendliness, it has the downside of sleepwalking you into a workflow which, if you don't understand what's going on underneath, will hold back your R learning curve.

Now IDEs are useful, if you understand the tradeoffs. They're a higher-level wrapper on stuff, with all the pluses and minuses that that entails. Higher-level = lower learning curve, greater immediate productivity, vs lower-level = higher learning curve, lower immediate productivity but greater long term power.
Fair enough guys. Thanks for reminding me about webrings. I had forgotten them and confused them with common link spam we see now.

I do consider first hand memories a more reliable contribution than hearsay (reading about it), but there is some contribution in repeating received wisdom too.
Bit of a tragedy of the commons going on. Every one of the items on the list rely on other people not waiting.

And yet they are also completely correct - waiting is better.
Context: Eric Reis is the writer of "The Lean Startup" and the person who coined the term MVP.
Score in Go is captured stones plus surrounded empty territory at the end of the game. Captures are well defined when they happen, but territory is not defined until the end.

The incentive structure of the game leads to moves that firmly define territory usually being weaker, so the better the players, the more they end up playing games where territory is even harder to evaluate.
This startup says it can predict the next stock-market selloff
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The value of "ch" is a checksum you have to precalculate.
> Those social support systems will cost money. They will have to be funded by taxpayers.

Why couldn't private industry or charities provide such services?

Perhaps this is not so evident to non-drug-users, but harm reduction/prevention is a very important component to using drugs safely. Along the lines of, "always use protection," and "don't drink and drive," drug companies can make helpful use guidelines like "don't mix this cocaine with that amphetamine capsule" and "don't share your needles with your buddies" and then implement services/programs to ensure the success of these guidelines.

Ask anyone who's smoked weed for more than a decade (and outside of California) what it was like to buy weed before legalization and medical marijuana became a thing. They'll tell you that you had usually no idea what kind of weed you were getting, and you had to be happy with whatever the dealer gave you. Today? There's a fucking weed strain review startup called Leafly.com and it's helpful!

The point is that as drugs become part of the mainstream due to our ability to perpetuate good use habits, support the procurement of high-purity substances (thanks to the dark net), and the legalization efforts in many parts of the world, harm reduction and addiction support services will crop up to address the new challenges presented. Whether the government forces this upon us, or if the industry does it itself, it will happen due to the huge number of stakeholders that directly benefit from doing so.
I'm disappointed to see that it will take Android N for the Doze feature to be practical [0]. As it currently stands, Doze only activates when the device is stationary. My phone never leaves my pocket, since I'm paranoid about setting it down, so the gyrometer being engaged is enough to prevent Doze from triggering.

[0] http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/09/android-n-feature-sp...
RStudio is a fantastic IDE. It's been under development for years by some of the smartest ppl in the R community. it's currently decidedly better than RTVS. There are things here & there that RTVS might be better at, but this mvp was mostly about getting the heart-lung "IDE" features out. Some things you get w RTVS (partly courtesy of VS are):

* Multi-lingual: projects w C#, Python, SQL, etc.

* Multi-line repl: recall/edit/submit chunks of code

* Lots of add-ins: like 6,000 (hopefully a few are useful for R!)

* Upcoming integration w Excel, Azure ML, SQL, etc.

* etc.

If you are already a VS user, checking out RTVS is a no brainer.

But in summary, RStudio is better :). Hopefully we'll have some key differentiation features in upcoming releases.
> Elon Musk != Tesla

He is the CEO, he is responsible for the actions of his employees that are work related. Under the same guise, he shouldn't receive praises for anything everyone else under him does either.