skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Least you (NYC) have some big projects going on (long island rr to grand central).

http://gothamist.com/2015/11/04/east_side_access_photos.php#...

All we have in Boston is a couple of new trolley stops in Somerville and even that is in question. They stopped building mass transit here in the 80s. The North Station South Station connector was killed because the big dig cost two much, and despite lobbying from 2 former governors hasn't got off the ground.

Infrastructure is not popular. Though with more and more of us living/working in Cities, critically important.

I always thought a heat map around cities with commute times to downtown would be an interesting project.
> One of the few things keeping the U.S. military from being even more interventionist than it already is

The US military is not interventionist - the US politicians are.

The military has little-to-zero say in what military actions they participate in, rather the politicians decide what is politically advantageous for themselves, the country, or the world - and give the orders. The military must then carry out those orders - and I'd still rather they have the option to send a robot instead of humans.

> they will be even more gung-ho about sending in firepower to places where it is going to end up causing a lot of civilian "collateral damage"

Part of the goal of robotics is to reduce "collateral damage". Humans make mistakes all the time in the field, which can and does result in friendly fire, civilian casualties, and more.
Untangled: A ClojureScript-Based Webapp Framework
His wikipedia article says that his first job was as a robotics engineer at Carl Zeiss for three years.
If that was the real reason, then facebook wouldn't revert from 'chronological' to 'best' every time I visit the site.

The sorting algorithm is for the benefit of facebook and advertisers - and not necessarily by making me spend more time on facebook.
The companies that give away proprietary libraries that developers come to depend on essentially do act as an "enemy within" - you never know when they'll decide that their original reason to give away the library didn't give them enough profits and they are going start charging for future licenses, change the interface, drop support or whatever. Didn't Twitter pull the plug on a company using one of its private interfaces just a few days ago (slightly different but not entirely different).

Cuda looks several orders of magnitude easier than OpenCl but Cuda versus opencl is just not simply a "best tool" question for an ongoing project. There's every reason to wish to remove proprietary libraries whether that's possible or not.
I live off the 1st Ave L stop (Stuy town). Take the L during rush hour and you'll see exactly what I deal with every day.

I'm all for the 2nd Ave expansion, however I think that something needs to be done about over-ridership with our existing infrastructure. As Brooklyn becomes more gentrified, the L (and others) will only get worse. Queens, I'm looking at you Astoria, is only going to get worse.
Making it 'earned' is missing a major point of basic income: that just giving the money away can ultimately be much cheaper and more efficient than verifying if people 'deserve' it.
Productive workers are better, period. The fact that there are hours where productivity doesn't affect your bottom line doesn't really matter. Managers have been scheduling around these hours since the dawn of time.

Source: I worked fast food with both lazy and productive workers before I decided making $8.00/HR wasn't good enough.
I find this implausible. I don't see Google spending that kind of money with out something sort-of resembling a plan[1], and didn't that purchase have to go through SEC approval? The DoD does have some pull with the SEC.

[1] Project Azorian not withstanding. Plus, it was funded by the government.
Kurzweil gives updates? I thought he always took the same spiel and changed the timestamps whenever he felt he wasn't getting enough attention.

P.S.: Although probably not as aggressively self-promoting as the occasional Wolfram Noun Wolfram Verb Wolfram Wolfram.
Anonymous claims it published Donald Trumps social security number and phone #
The law is never clear. Just look at how unclear our legal system makes a very straightforward statement like "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Think of all the exceptions it has made to a very clear decree[1]. And think of the ways that this statement has been hijacked for use in topics like corporate personhood. No, the law is not clear. Not on this issue. Not on any issue, really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
The moral hazard is that it contributes to stagnation, something like the spaceship in "Wall-E". Social activity isn't much of a substitute for knowledge progress. I'd argue that improvements in the quality of life would be more significant by giving purpose and drive to the population as a whole (young and elder), something more akin to the spaceships in Star Trek, where menial tasks are handled auto-magically and problem solving is handled by the crew.
If they decided to hand out flying ponies…

• blocks are pretty spiffy.

• nested functions, by which I mean I don't need access to the parent's variables, I just want to tuck this little function inside the namespace of my existing function because darn it, it's two lines long and I can give it a tiny name, and I don't have to stick it above my giant function comment header where I can't see it while I'm in the code that is using it. I just want to abstract these two lines that I need to do three times in this function. gcc has these, clang thinks it's hard in their world.
Neither does an encryption standard that allows for the unlocking of a device in one's physical possession.
I'm referring to this part of OP's comment: "Where by searching your phone should be tantamount to thought policing."
> If he consumes your bandwidth, he is the devil. But when you consume his bandwidth without offering anything in return, it is justified?

That's the foundation of the web and with his javascript on a webpage the producer is certainly consuming unnecessary CPU cycles on my computer and I have the right not to allow that. The problem definitely doesn't lie with me. If he doesn't agree he has the right to block me no question. But as long as I can access the content legally I will never feel bad about that and there is nothing to feel bad about.
Yeah, I am always shocked when I see people logged in to services and stuff at work. I use my phone, never on work wifi, to check e-mail, and if something comes up that needs a real interface, I use my laptop (on work wifi, but with a VPN to my home router). Doing anything else seems like madness to me.
Eric Schmidt participating in an advisory panel on technology trends is not evidence that Google/Alphabet wants to do business with the DOD.
oh, the joys of full-swing populism, the beauty of the United Socialist Party
Just so people know, the team that developed Libretto is here and happy to answer any questions you might have on the project. =)
Perhaps you should submit this to a real journal rather than hacker news? Real experts might be the right people to refute you. May I suggest the Journal of Complexity (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-complexity/) or perhaps the Journal of Systems Science and Complexity (http://www.springer.com/mathematics/applications/journal/114...)
The reason it's built for Github organizations is we can access-control your private infrastructure based on the permissions set in Github.

We don't have access to the same APIs with just a personal accout
> The point is about what the law should be to be useful.

The law creates a perfectly useful distinction. What's in your mind is in your mind. What's on inanimate objects, whether they be desk drawers or iPhones, is subject to search.
It is not a natural disaster, this is self-inflicted
Well yes, coercion is what the police do when they have a search warrant.
Interesting. I'm almost certain there also used to be an "Explore" link at the top of the page you see when signed in (which is sort of a news feed and list of repositories). Now the link to "Explore" is in an almost-hidden menu (click on your profile icon). Or was it always like that?
Related anecdote: a friend of mine is an engineer that builds and operates glass factories all around the world, mostly producing bottles for beer, wine, and liquor. One of his company's factories was in Venezuela, and while he was there working, Chavez et co decided to nationalize that industry because they were "forcing unfair labor conditions."

The company rushed to get every American out of the country before the military showed up and seized control of the factory.

But as it turns out, making glass is hard and requires constant tuning and adjustment. None of the new Venezuelan managers had the expertise needed to continue glass production at anywhere close to the same levels of efficiency and quality. Thus the factory started to lose its ability to produce glass bottles at all.

I can imagine a similar lead-up to this in Venezuela's power industry. Nationalization -> loss of expertise -> loss of efficiency -> national crisis.
Unbreakable cryptography is real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

"If the key is truly random, is at least as long as the plaintext, is never reused in whole or in part, and is kept completely secret, then the resulting ciphertext will be impossible to decrypt or break"
Saying there is no difference between a tax and raising the minimum wage might be going a bit far. Depending on what you're taxing the incentives and results of a tax and a minimum wage increase can be very different. For instance, a tax on profits doesn't change which activities are profitable it reduces the extent to which they are profitable, while a minimum wage increase can actually change what activities are profitable in edge cases.

Personally, I think guaranteed basic income + no minimum wage puts the incentives in the right places, but I'll settle for increased minimum wage in the face of the unlikelihood of a basic income being put in place.
Just to be clear, in this case "getting shit done" meant recklessly creating a massive security breach at the highest levels of the government.
Probably not, unfortunately. This type of problem isn't really due to a lack of resources and so more resources are unlikely to help much.
Eatsa just looks like an Automat without the coins, or am I missing something?
Disclaimer: I am Brazilian, I know how Latin America & 3rd world "works".

No, it wouldn't help. This crisis is not caused by lack of resources. It is caused by corruption, cronyism, patronage and, above anything else, gigantic incompetence.

If "first world countries" give some help it will probably only benefit the corrupt officials.
Someone pointed out he already worked in a company making robots for three years.

Well, maybe that's even why Android is called "Android".
I remember back when parts of California would shut down for an afternoon to deal with an electricity crisis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis

Strange times.
> Someone should find who denied Clinton access to a secure BB, then they should be removed from any security related work.

What you are saying is that they should be removed from security related work because they don't understand people.

OK, but that also means Clinton should be removed from security related work because she doesn't understand security.

Can she act as president without any access to anything secret or classified? It would be hard, but that's the standard you are setting.
The FBI wants legal precedent. If they truly wanted the data they could have handed the phone over to the NSA have have it hacked before the weekend.
Related: Strava (a popular mobile app used by fitness enthusiasts, especially bicyclists) also tries to do something similar with their Metro program: http://metro.strava.com/
And I think they want to shut the L train down for a bit to fix the tunnel (Huricanne damage..). Thats not going to be good for anyone in Brooklyn.
I just bought http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AJHDZSI to use with Comcast. I've only had it for a month but haven't had any issues with it so far.
CIS 198: Rust Programming(University of Pennsylvania)
Do rich people take more taxis?
I think Reddit is not quite analogous to the other sites listed. Excepts for posts being deleted or stickied, all content is sorted democratically on a timer. You have the option (by default) to additionally sort by newest or newest post that are also popular with users. I'm sure other Reddit mobile clients have this functionality as well.
It's just getting to the point where emailing a company through the normal support channels is just a joke. Their email queue is days long, while their Twitter queue is minutes.
It's simple, sure. And it's limited, in that there are sane limits in place, because you don't want an application running in the kernel to loop for forever, but 'extremely simple and limited' I don't think is fair.

You can do a hell of a lot with BPF, and it's not like work to extend it's functionality is slowing down, either. We've had tons of features implemented in the 4.x family, stack walking is likely to be implemented in the future, etc.

When you have people like Alexei Starovoitov and Brendan Gregg saying it can do all sorts of things including "crazy stuff", I think we've moved beyond 'extremely simple and limited'
They dropped support for it several years ago, I believe.
This debate is not about the direct ask imo, but more about the precedent that it would set and what the fbi could compel a tech company to do under the AWA. While in tech we tend to turn up our noses to the 'its always been done that way' mentality, the law takes a different approach, once you comply with the first request, it makes it harder, if not impossible to stop the subsequent requests. Which is why the fbi waited until something related to 'terrorism' to make this ask. I would be willing to be every last dollar I have in the bank that there is no useful info on that phone, and that if there were useful info, the nsa would have already had access to it.

To me, the really fun mental exercise is to identify when this would be acceptable. If there was a bomb about to go off and hypothetically the location was written on the phone, and only on the phone, would we agree that apple should break in? What if the bomb was a dirty bomb, what about a nuke? Now the slippery slope is where does that stop, a backpack bomb? Bomb making materials, texts to people about a bomb, what about a gun? What about a knife....
A single person can provide vision. A really good leader, gets his followers to want to follow them. If they leave, and nobody steps up to really lead...or if that leaders vision really isn't accepted then the organization is pretty much hosed. You can have the best group of employees in the world, and get by. Perhaps keep innovating for a few years. With an awesome leader at the helm, people show up extra early, they stay late, and they "believe." I've seen it too many times, in the military and civilian tech world. The "reality distortion field" that they speak of Steve Jobs possessing is real, and it's something only some people develop. Find those people and latch on, they'll take you for a fun ride.
While Kurzweil generates predictions which are bold and falsifiable, there's an unfortunate tendency: The bold ones are not falsifiable, and the falsifiable ones are not bold.
XUL is the biggest reason why Firefox feels so much slower on Windows and Linux compared to Chrome. So it's high time for Mozilla to remove it - along with support for Flash.

And you can use self hosted webmail instead of Thunderbird.
And tcpdump already exists on every server. I frequently pipe the output of tcpdump over ssh into wireshark for analysis on my local machine.

ssh root@HOST tcpdump -U -s0 -w - 'not port 22' | wireshark -k -i -
Nobody knows what they look like as the other commenters pointed out.

However, to a question "When are we going to see the Furlings", one of the producers answers "Who says we haven't?"
How is this a classic story? It's a story on Clinton just casually dismissing the security requirements, not some security technology meme where people game the password length and character requirements and monthly expiration and the arstechnica editor is going "we feel you!".

It's the state department. The same people that invoke "but secretz!" on every lawsuit.
Don't sponsored posts tend to get stickied at the top of feeds?
The "bad for our side" stuff will always exist, and will be created by our opponents if it didn't.

We aren't talking about a real issue, where two sides of honest-intentioned people are trying to decide on a matter of fact. We're talking about an issue where one political group (President, NSA, FBI, etc) are willing to fake evidence and lie to the people.

Don't participate if you want, but...
"What if a drug dealer keeps a coded ledger, can they go to crypto experts and compel them to work on solving it?"

This is a very interesting question, because crypto experts would love to work on a challenge like this. I am fairly certain that they would refuse if they were forced to work on it though.
Someone already covered the goes with you everywhere part but it's worth noting that a diary though very personal is something you consciously populate with thoughts that you know one day could very well be read by someone else.

A lot of the things people do on a phone they may not even be aware is leaving history and other information on the device as they use it.

You could argue they they should be better informed, but should they really? Should we expect to forever limit ourselves to only our brain for storing secret information as it's the only place held sacrosanct in the eyes of the law?

I think not. The law should change with the times. The mind/brain is expanding into the electronic world and the protections afforded to our biological brain should be extended in concert.
Automats were/are pre prepackaged to go food (read: longish shelf life, things that dont get soggy or taste blah when cold). On the other hand these can have food made to order like any fast food joint, just more streamlined ordering and little interaction if any with staffs.
If you re-read that portion of the article, the State Department rep used that phrase to paraphrase the NSA's response. That was not the actual response; nobody who wants to keep their job communicates inter-agency like that.
This looks very promising. I wonder if/how well they could handle a 500gb database.
"Must be nice to have a high enough position in life to ignore security protocols at whim. If I did that I would be fired."

Only if you get caught, usually by (losing the device and having to tell everyone|getting a virus or what-not that noticeably impacts some other system). Which is sufficiently rare that you can get away with "it won't happen to me" for an arbitrary period of time.
Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!
It's a quote, with an uncertain source. "Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made"
ProtonMail is Open Source (2015)
Because applications that don't structurally enforce low-coupling are touched by many hands over time. All it takes is the occasional blurring of the line to end up with extreme-coupling down the road.
When security breaches can kill people, you'd better be able to prove that lack of convenience kills even more people, and that there are no other options.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
Self checkout is wildly faster for me, even with computers that feel like they're running on hardware from 15 years ago. I can have my basket organized in the same order I'm going to bag it, scan it in, bag it efficiently, pay and leave. The worst part about self checkout are the other people who don't know how to use it, have huge carts(especially at a tiny checkout kiosk that should really have a max item limit) or are just slow. In the case of lines at self checkout, I'll go to an empty lane if the whole store isn't just packed.
There's always friction between covert and overt operations.

For another elucidating example (and another Hillary situation), look at the CIA vs State Department in Benghazi.
Ask HN: What are the best options to switch from Mandrill?
For some reasons Mailchimp decided to merge his Mandrill service under is main Mailchimp business.

They sent out an email yesterday for all Mandrill users to merge their accounts. Which I have done.

However, I'm not happy at all how things are right now:
- The merger was buggy and painful
- The pricing is ridiculous. I have to pay a $10 fee just to be allowed to use their service
- I now have to use 2 separates websites instead of one
- mailchimp.com is hard to use

So, I'm not happy with how things are going and I'm thinking of leaving mailchimp for another service. What do you guys recommend?
Welcome to the downside of disruption.
I'm one of the developers who worked on Libretto. A couple of things we could use help with if somebody wants to jump on this:

* Google Compute Engine support (Difficulty: moderate)
https://github.com/apcera/libretto/issues/13

* Virtualbox headless (Difficulty: easy)
https://github.com/apcera/libretto/issues/17

* vCloud Air support (Difficulty: moderate)
https://github.com/apcera/libretto/issues/18

* More unit tests

Suggestions/comments/feedback are welcome!
Founder here - We absolutely can! Just give us a heads up so we can make sure it loads up properly on your account
Eurofighter and Superhornet first flew in mid 90's. Eurofighter has been shipped with PIRATE IRST since 2007. At the same time dudes started thinking about equipping Super Hornet with short range IRST. That option will be available some time this year. Maybe, or it will be delayed by two years.

U.S. is not ignoring IR spectrum completely. But it's pretty low priority compared to other players.
Meanwhile in China:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/SHM_evol... (Shanghai Metro 1993-2015)
Can someone help me understand what's the difference from Travis CI, Circle CI, etc?
I understand everyone comments but still find it not healthy that one man vision cannot be spread so other people around him to continue it even if he is not there anymore. I guess that is because that vision wasn't shared with a lot of people.
Reddit CTO at SXSW: Stick to Boring Tech When Building Your Startup
That is the current law. I'm arguing that it should be changed . Inanimate objects got a lot more advanced in the last 20 years, the law hasn't become nuanced enough to deal with this.
every phase of an exponential curve is hockey stick shaped, thats what defines it as a thing.
A part of me is imagining an Ethiopian goat farmer much like the first to (allegedly) discover coffee visiting Starbucks, taking a sip, spitting it out and complaining "I wouldn't even give this to my goats!"
It's going to take time for these technologies to mature and for developers and companies to start using them. And even then it will be Flash like games for a while.
Software doesn't get patented. Patents apply to "ways of doing things". Incidentally software is used to describe a "way of doing things" but it's the concept that gets patented, not the software.

Also, your assertion that the software is the free speech is a false-presupposition. The private key is data, and data is speech. It's no different than a book or a newspaper, except it's written in a way that only 1 person (device) can understand it.
(a) if Feldmann really has a P solution to 3-SAT by reducing it to LP, surely he can demonstrate this empirically, there's plenty of solvers out there for both LP and 3-SAT.
(b) the reduction of 3-SAT to ILP is classical (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/s99cs170/notes/npc.pdf and http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15451-s10/www/re... are two quick examples)
(c) Just skimming, I don't immediately see any reason to believe that the solutions to Feldmann's LP formulation will be integral.
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