skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been working on a linearly constrained minimum variance beamformer with decorrelation filtration available any given sample data matrix from acquisition sensors[0] that I'll probably merge into a fork of the OpenEphys project I created to add neurofeedback functionality (only temporal filtering implemented now)[1].

[0]: https://github.com/cinquemb/LCMVBeamformer

[1]: https://github.com/cinquemb/OpenEphysGUI
There are many open source flight controllers. My best advice would be to research and decide on one, then build a small fixed wing, helicopter, or multirotor. You'll learn a lot in the process of building vs. just buying something and while a longer project, it's certainly within the realm of hobbyist and there are huge communities to support you.

Most of open source flight controllers support MavLink, a communications protocol that you can use to send path commands and receive telemetry info over a WiFi link. There are wrappers for many languages, including node.

It's good to have a project in mind of what you want it to actually do in the end before you start that will help guide you through the process.
That is one explanation. I've worked in avionics telemetry & remote sensor fusion and there is actually a push to go from synchronous archs (using PCM on I2C buses) towards modular and networked archs (using some variant of IP/etc. protocols).

Problem is you need a reference time clock. On monolithic arch, is easy : the backbone bus timestamp the paquets it sees. On networked arch you need a time server a la NTP, otherwise you have time skew and loopbacks.

Even with a accurate time clock, you may also need to correct for timing issues due to cable length.
Can't we build our own propensity for imperfect decision making into a calculation of safety? Can I not realize that while I consider myself more rational and cautious than my neighbors, they likely feel the same, and X% of them die when they try to fly?

I would consider this "second derivative caution". It got cemented into me when I was taking hang gliding lessons and saw one of the most stone cold cautious members of my class become exuberant and act rashly on a landing, and break his arm quite badly.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -- H.P. Lovecraft
I wish there were more bike lanes in Brooklyn. They are still pretty rare.
Certainly I am not the first to describe the behavior of a non-trivial number of outspoken members of the community as "cultish." In large part my complaints stem from:

1. Dogmatic adulation of Yudkowski as a "savior" figure.

2. An almost immune response resistance to "practical" approaches to the Friendly AI problem. For example, laying out even a basic path to the structure of one - given that's their mission.

3. In light of #2, the community's serious consideration of un-testable scenarios like Roko's Basilisk

4. A flavor of authoritarianism, racism and sexism from former founder as Michael Anissimov.

5. Critical lack of diversity in backgrounds and approaches to ML/AI, which keeps the thought process fairly insular. For example you never see these people talking/attending AI conferences, and I'm not sure I have ever seen them at the AGI conference. AFAIK also they only publish in-house with liberal internal reference.

Those are some from the top of my head. Granted I think they have sorted some of this stuff out, like #4, but all of it together makes for a toxic and fragile community, largely built around a singular ego.

I haven't been keeping up with them as much in the last few years so some of these things might be getting better - but when I left the community in 2013 these were my main problems.
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Manuscript.
What if instead of pain-stakingly coding an API backend while having to chose the web framework, language, libraries etc, we could just describe the API and its routes as a set of operations that could be implemented by any language, any framework, using any set of libraries.

What if you could build an API free of bugs on the first try? What if instead of using a laptop or a desktop, you could build a custom API from your smartphone? What if you could just build your API once and it could get faster automatically as implementations improve performance?

I believe all of the above is possible and manuscript is my attempt to bring this dream to life.

If this sounds awesome to you, help me build manuscript and let us change how we create APIs forever.

I need help on this project so anyone interested is welcome to create some issues and have some discussions.
https://github.com/ArsalanDotMe/manuscript
It would be an interesting discussion as I know they license boats etc... Maybe a small tax... If you look at it proportionally, you wouldn't be taxing bikes for the big budgets required to repair freeways or road damage from cars. I think bikes are pretty low impact on the roads that need constant repair from the average 3,000 lb car or 10,000 lb truck.

Sadly involving a new license/tax on something involves government overhead that hopefully wouldn't be more than the tax they are collecting (or deter people from choosing a healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to driving).
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Hey that's pretty awesome have you thought about applications of this tech in agriculture? Perhaps keeping an eye out on crops and trying to predict yields or crop health?
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I love the way people can still use old connection ports (jack for instance) to find new usages.

Made me think about Google Tone : http://googleresearch.blogspot.fr/2015/05/tone-experimental-...

Also made me think about the iPod nano, it only had a single jack port. It was used to charge it and also to transmit data.
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http://tinyvillages.org is a sustainable development concept that integrates a lot of ideas like tiny houses, urban farming, and net-zero construction.
Google's cloud does look extremely promising, but the one thing blocking us from migrating (which we would ultimately like, I think) is the lack of PostgreSQL support in CloudSQL. AWS's RDS is mature and pretty great.
That's sort of the debate here, I think. Given $DANGEROUS_THING with $EVENTS_BEYOND_MY_CONTROL, I want to predict and plan for $EVENTS_BEYOND_MY_CONTROL to the best of my ability.

What's more unpredictable: stupid human drivers, stupid robot drivers, complex mechanical machines, or weather? Who is John Galt?
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> Earlier we were talking about "grandma"...

Don't forget the grandson part of the metaphor, he is the one who will be making that judgement call. Do you remember how everybody would blow into the Nintendo cartridges, even after Nintendo explained why it was a bad idea? I have a feeling that helpdesk folks will continue to advise a system wipe, even if your running the latest Windows 25 with its formally proven microkernel... just to be safe.
I'm pretty bad at spending money, and this is kind of how I have gotten myself to save more -- not Digit, but the 'squirrel away money so you dont think about it' strategy. I keep an eye on my main bank account, but I have about 5 other accounts all deducting from it at various points in the month. Some goes to (autoinvested) stocks, some goes nonliquid LendingClun, some goes to a few other bank accounts.

My goal is to try to keep the main account 'floating', because while that floats, the other ships rise. In practice, I tend to keep a float for a bit, then splurge and have to bring money back in. The one thing I think that is helping me with this is YNAB. Forcing me to prebudget (and then to deduct from other budgets if I overspend) has made me much more conscious of habits.
More than half the questions I ask on there are not "How do I do something", but "How do I do something WELL"
I realize this. But bugs are sometimes worth talking about. Many people feel that a bug requiring a hard reboot mid-flight in a 5th generation fighter, a problem apparently not able to be overcome through multiple generations of fighters, is worth talking about. If you, or the original complainer, disagree, you're free to not participate in the conversation, but complaining about the rest of us talking about this bug is annoying.

Quoting from Boeing:
The F-35 has the most robust communications suite of any fighter aircraft built, to date. Components include the AESA radar, EOTS targeting system, Distributed Aperture System (DAS), Helmet Mounted Display (HMD), and the Communications, Navigation and Identification (CNI) Avionics.

If by robust they mean "you can go 8 hours instead of 4 hours between hard reboots", I think that's worth talking about.
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What does give a website the right to include adware or malware and the like into the legitimate UseCase of viwing it? Even if it is just the Ad Network isn't it neglect on the websites part?
Thanks, I couldn't quickly figure out how to link to just the Emacs videos.

They were fun to watch, thanks for making them!
It's a pretty good piece. The main thing that it does skip over is what the economic implications might be to no longer declining transistor costs. Sure, Google can add a more or less arbitrarily large number of servers but what are the implications of the likely reality that those servers aren't improving in price/performance to the degree that they once were.

At Hot Chips a couple of years back Robert Colwell, who was director of the microsystems technology office at DARPA at the time, had a very interesting presentation on where things were going. One of the things that stuck with me at the time was his contention that there are lots of ways to improve performance etc. over time but CMOS was really pretty special.

"Colwell also points out that from 1980 to 2010, clocks improved 3500X and micro architectural and other improvements contributed about another 50X performance boost. The process shrink marvel expressed by Moore’s Law (Observation) has overshadowed just about everything else."

http://bitmason.blogspot.com/2016/01/beyond-general-purpose-...
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Cars are heavier and cause more wear on the asphalt, require more road space, and generate more waste and pollution than bikes do.

"Road use tax" isn't actually a thing, nor is it exclusive to car drivers - roads are paid for via the same taxes as everything else. Sales tax, income tax and property tax, distributed according to local, state, and federal budgets.

Cyclists pay their share of the taxes that build roads via sales tax, income tax, and property tax, same as everyone else does.

Most cyclists also own cars, and have paid all the relevant fees.

Pick whichever argument you like the best.
The bitrates I've found so far are roughly 40 kbps for cable-based transmission and ~300bps for air transmissions. It should be possible to get even better speeds with more tuning of quiet's profiles. In empirical testing, I've found the air transmissions have a range of a few meters, but it really depends on how the speaker is oriented with respect to the microphone.

As for the advantages, of course traditional radio-based transmissions have many advantages. Quiet has a few though -- for example, with its javascript bindings, you can use quiet to share data between native apps and the browser. You might do this to share what's in your clipboard, share contact info with someone, pair devices etc. Additionally, you can get quiet up and running very quickly, without the need to join any networks.
Jumpshare - https://jumpshare.com/

An incredibly fast, real-time file sharing app. You drag and drop your files to the menu bar (in Mac) / system tray (in Windows) and a link is automatically copied to your clipboard, ready to be shared. If you're looking for a more personalized way of sharing, you can send the files via email directly from the app with advanced sharing options, such as, expire link after x number of days, views or downloads, or simply disable downloading for recipients.

The app comes with a slew of built-in tools, such as, capture and annotate screenshots, record screen, bookmark, compose notes, and record audio clips. You can upload "any content" from your clipboard using a simple hotkey.

We've built the product in such a way that we can offer the most advanced enterprise level file sharing features to professionals and small businesses at a very affordable price, while also making sharing dead-simple and easy!
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tl;dr cost benefits aren't big enough. how are you going to enforce it?

Just off the top of my head:

They don't cost enough (like cars) to have a reasonable bottle neck on purchase.

A slogged DMV would never agree to add 4x the customers by adding bicycle licenses.

safety stats: 30,000 people were killed last year in the states in car related incidents. 700 people on bikes in same were killed in car related collisions. No one (as far as I find) is killed when they're hit by a bicycle.
Yes, you clearly do. If they were thinking about the cloud and what patterns might be appropriate for it, then it's being designed for the cloud. As I said before, just because it's designed for A doesn't mean it isn't also applicable to X, Y, Z, just that they weren't specifically thinking about those when they wrote the document.
> Edit: Also would it be possible for applications to enter into full screen mode?

No. If they could, then when they were told to full screen (or do so "automatically"), they could draw as convincingly as possible a Qubes-looking desktop and trick users into thinking it's their own desktop, allowing them to phish credentials and whatnot. The viability of this attack is low, but it can be avoided by not allowing full screen.

(Edit: Apparently I was wrong. It is possible to enable fullscreen manually, according to a sibling comment.)
What's the road impact of a bike? Nothing?
At least where I'm from roads aren't paid for through licensing and gas tax, it's from housing taxes, so I pay more than my fair share.
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The idea came to me after my wife (a High School teacher) told me about how her students complained that the school's election software (Voting4Schools) was hard to use. After doing more research I found that every single competitor in this space sucked (ElectionBuddy, VoteNet), so I decided to build Election Runner. It started as a fun side project, but has taken off A LOT faster than I anticipated. Next step is to hire someone to handle sales to K12 Schools and Universities, but I'm not sure how to start that process.
Why, when it's been made clear here that they're not interested in working on it?
It depends. A lot of farmers/landowners don't want random folks on their property but they'd love to have a little extra money. Just so long as the guest review system I'd say go for it.
Yeah out all the assorted packages that go with that, tidyr too.

Here's a cheat sheet
https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/data-wran...
Ally is also compounded daily, instead of monthly like most low-end savings accounts.
It really is your battle. Major Python projects not supporting Python 3 in 2016 is shameful and holds back the broader adoption of Python 3.
I saw him speak on "A Personal History of Computers" last year and wrote about it here: http://chrissvec.com/fred-brooks-talk-a-personal-history-of-...

Brooks's overview: "I fell in love with computers at age 13, in 1944 when Aiken (architect) and IBM (engineers) unveiled the Harvard Mark I, the first American automatic computer. A half-generation behind the pioneers, I have known many of them. So this abbreviated history is personal in two senses: it is primarily about the people rather than the technology, and it disproportionally emphasizes the parts I know personally."

It was a great talk covering his whole career. A video of the same talk is here: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-...
I ride a bike, and I pay taxes. I'm not sure what you mean by that. What is a fair share for bike riders? We don't have bike lanes on every street, and many of the bike lanes we do have aren't respected.

Drivers double-park their cars on them. They also open their car doors without checking to see if bike riders are coming first. They also swerve in and out of them while texting. They also drive onto them to get around vehicles like garbage trucks, often without looking. Drivers make turns without looking both ways, often putting us at risk.

I ride my bike to work every single day in New York. Every week, I have multiple close calls because of careless drivers, and sometimes because of careless pedestrians. I don't run red lights, and I don't even ride that fast. I ride my bike on the correct side of the street. You want me to pay extra taxes for what, exactly? My bike and myself combined are a little over 200lbs. Do I create potholes in the roads? Does my bike cause pollution?

I don't think you ride a bike.
Easy. The same as why you don't tax people for sidewalk use. Car infrastructure is expensive, very expensive. And the need of having specific bike lanes have been imposed by the increment in presence of cars in our roads, not by the bike needs themselves.

As for the plates, similar explanation. We don't need a plate on humans, as usually identification can be done ín-situ if required.

On top of that, you want to reinforce the use of bikes, and not reduce it. Increasing bureaucracy for bikes will not help at all.
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The "fair share" / tax arguement is often paraded but does not reflect the actual reality. Most of the cost of roadways is paid by general tax revenue and not vehicle specific fees. This study shows an interesting breakdown of the costs associated with driving vs walking. page 13 has a good chart http://www.vtpi.org/whoserd.pdf
The really cool stuff can't be showed or discussed here unfortunately (so called 'black projects'). But I admit many of the projects posted here do seem quite interesting.
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As a Dutchman, the first two paragraphs were quite infuriating to read; a list of arguments similar to the now-classic "Schödinger's immigrant"-joke ("simultaneously too lazy to work and stealing your job").

> Well, no wonder: Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes.

Well good to see that the 1920s auto-industry propaganda[0] still has it's firm grip on American society! Roads were not made for cars, the cars claimed the roads once they got on the scene. You can choose to design them in a way that accomodates all[1].

The only reason I'd hate leaving the Netherlands is because no other country comes close in bike-friendliness at the moment (simply put: good bike infrastructure is so common it's barely noticed by the locals, because it's the norm[2]). I do hope that changes soon.

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/markenlei/videos?flow=grid&view...
When I read this, I actually came away with the impression that he was able to accurately and eloquently express certain ideas/beliefs/concepts that I agree with and can grasp in my own mind, but I would be unable to express these same ideas coherently to another human being.
I watched both days' commentary and does it have a lot of cuts and skips? Or is something wrong with my internet?
Knowing someone in a relationship where they are a significantly higher earner than their gf, I've had an interesting conversation with them about what you refer to as "financial domination."

From their standpoint, it makes sense to a degree. If they see their relationship moving forward to the point they get married, he realistically earns enough where she would not have to work and eventually be a stay at home mom. That's a huge luxury in and of itself these days for a young couple. However it would probably be more unfair if she was only given money when she asked permission for it. So agreeing on some sort of "salary" (or "allowance" as you called it) of money that she can spend on herself or save as she sees fit, no questions asked, can actually be freeing in many ways. I think many people, were they to have the option of not having to work and being given regular spending money would take it in a heartbeat.

Not saying it is right or wrong, just that it isn't a black and white issue, and at least in this case, they both are having open discussions about it.
Not sure what you mean by "road use tax". Most funding for roads in the US is from the general fund and not provided by any use tax.

The potential property damage and/or physical injury (not to mention general wear and tear upon roadways) that a bicycle can produce is minuscule in comparison to the potential destructive power of the automobile. Much of the legal justification for registration/licensing and taxation of vehicles is born from these factors.
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Scoper is awesome because instead of watching a random stream, you can request one anywhere, for whatever reason.

An example use case would be if you were going to be moving to a new city that's far away. Instead of making a deposit for an apartment based on pics you find online, you could send a request on Scoper to someone nearby the area you want to move to, get a live interactive stream, where you can talk back and forth with streamer.

Also, Scoper is launching at SXSW: http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/awards/releaseit-at-sxsw
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Bicyclists and pedestrians pay their fair share of the road. Actually, they pay far more their fair share than motorists do. By fair share, I mean the amount of taxes they pay for roads vs the amount of damage they cause to the roads.
Motorists under pay for the damage they cause to the asphalt. The gas tax needs to be increased.