skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a commonplace that motorists are very rarely charged in these situations, because they "didn't see the cyclist" and also "why was the victim riding a bicycle on the street?" I guess we've established that the eggshell rule is yet another legal instrument to increase the "discretion" of LEOs, prosecutors, and judges, as if they really needed more of that.
agreed it is by any other form, mental racism. People are people and they are all individuals, just sadly collected up in group definitions imposed by others. Still in a society that labels politicians in negative ways in general, it is a trait that prevails across many aspects of life and people do like to categorise and label things.
Hopefully companies will actually use their lobbying/bribery power for good this time, since it happens to benefit everyone, including them.
Blockchain will usher in the era of decentralised computing
>insecure

I'm not the one with ~50 firearms in the immediate family...
First off, I'm a huge fan of the lighthouse tracking system, and I'm looking forward to them opening it so I can use it in other projects. I do think it has some elegance to it.

That being said, it's not necessarily "superior in design". Because it uses a sweeping laser, it can't know where every tracking point is at the same time. It can't even measure each axis at the same time. The laser sweeps top to bottom and then side to side. For each tracking point, it records it's position in one axis at one point in time and the next axis at another point in time. If the tracking point has moved in between sweeps (which is likely), then you have two separate position measurements from two separate times that have to be combined with data from the IMUS to determine exact location. The Rift doesn't have this issue. The Rift records the location of all visible tracking points at the same time using an infrared camera.

It's important to keep in mind that Vive's lighthouse tracking system and Rift's constellation system only use the lasers and cameras to do drift correction. Most of the tracking is done by their IMUs (accelerators and gyroscopes), so the actual results you perceive will be very similar.
If you think it's one of the best possible investments, besides the article I poseted above I'd also recommend checking out - http://affordanything.com/2015/11/24/is-renting-better-than-...

You mention cities that are booming. What about if you bought property in an area that got worse?
Saw that dependency management was going to be a pain from the get go. Suggested a fix, was rejected. I decided not to use Julia b/c of this deficiency even though overall I like everything else about the language.
It's very ironic that you talk about naiveté.

You think legislators do not understand the subject because of what they said?

You believe what the politicians say?
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I think of BuzzFeed as the company built on stolen content that sends cease & desist notices to other people that use their stolen content.
"Pork is roughly twice as efficient as beef to produce"

Citation needed.

Beef can live on range-lands that aren't good for much else and requires very low inputs. If we didn't have a taste for grain fed finished animals it would almost certainly be many times as efficient as pork.
Any weapon analogy is bad for our side of the argument, because weapons sound to many people like things that bad people use to do bad things. Yes, I realize that knives are used in kitchens to cut vegetables, but with the way this discussion is rightly framed as a security thing, people are not thinking about kitchens.

I would prefer to see lock analogies. Here's a half baked example: This is like a law requiring all builders of buildings to install locks that can be opened by any person who gets access to a copy of a law enforcement key.
Why does wanting more power have to be a "massive conspiracy"?

It seems like pretty common sense wisdom that being in power usually leads to wanting more power, and also that power often corrupts. One does not need to be a "conspiracy theorist" to come to this conclusion.

The real conspiracy is the apparently concerted effort to call anyone that believes the government is busy grabbing power a "conspiracy theorists".
Pure guess (no affiliation to npm) but they're probably running it within a container to normalize the environment. If you read the docs it says they support both RHEL and Debian based distros (specifically Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, and CentOS). By running in a container, all you need to set up on the host VM is docker. After that, the app itself is the same within containers on each of them.
That statement of "no restrictions" is meant to mislead a non-technical person to make the bill palatable. The reality of the bill is in the part that requires companies to NOT build a system that they themselves can't break into.
It has been technically feasible to get humans to Mars for decades already. It has only recently become economically feasible. And we likely have a few more years to go before it becomes politically feasible.

The sticking point has never been the tech. It has always been the people. And in my opinion, Mars One does not have the right people to produce a successful mission.
I'm not saying owning a house is a bad thing - as long as you crunched the numbers and made sure beforehand, it can be the right decision.

Helpful calculator: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calc...
Not all of them and not on all issues. There are many statist Democrats in Congress, Feinstein is one of them.
Yeah... Like google's current emoji set could be called... "PC Emoji" and if people liked them they could just keep using them. The new one could be "Material Design Emoji".
There's a famous Kobe quote on his philosophy on failing. During a conversation at some game:

"Deron Williams went like 0-9. I was like, 'Can you believe Deron Williams went 0-9?' Kobe was like, 'I would go 0-30 before I would go 0-9. 0-9 means you beat yourself, you psyched yourself out of the game, because Deron Williams can get more shots in the game. The only reason is because you've just now lost confidence in yourself.'"
I know people in the government too. They're all passionate and loyal workers, often taking a job because they believe in the greater good as opposed to making money.

But 18f is a relatively small project (~100 employees), and overall USDS is relatively new. Veteran's Affairs for example STILL isn't digitized and is almost entirely a paper-run system. USDS is likely going to focus on that as opposed to building out a new website for the IRS.

Just realistically speaking, the kind of project you are proposing will take years to deliver version 1.0, and there's no guarantee that the USDS team will even handle it as there are definitely higher-priority tasks.

You are grossly overestimating the US Government's capabilities. I'm not lying when I say that the US Government needs to

1. Create a budget (we're still under continuing resolutions here. A budget hasn't been passed since like 2012)

2. Raise wages for once to attract talent (it has almost been a decade without wage growth, very bad for morale). FYI: the government shutdown threats (ie: federal employees / contractors don't get paid randomly) aren't helping.

3. Build up the IT teams, and I mean more than just a single 100-man team at 18F. The entirety of 18F, as good as they are, are way too small to handle a project on the scale of "Recreate Turbotax for All Americans... for free".

4. Build up project managers in the meantime who can handle contractors.

5. Hire competent contractors to build things out.

6. Execute all the above while Congress continues to refuse to pass a budget and the Republican half of America seems like they're going to lynch "greedy" Federal Workers who don't actually have great pension plans anymore (only the older Federal Workers have the crazy-good pension plan. Any millenial / college age kid who gets hired by the Feds don't really see as many benefits)

There are some fundamental problems here that need to be fixed before the US Government can tackle a project like you say successfully.

EDIT: one of the leading Presidential Candidates (Ted Cruz) is on the record for wanting to "Abolish" the IRS. People in general don't like Federal Workers, and that harms recruitment efforts. Which harms the kinds of project you want to start up. Its partially a self-fulfilling prophecy at this point.
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> Slight digression, but does that mean owning assault weapons is a ok again in the US? Just curious.

It depends what is meant by "assault weapon". If you mean fully automatic weapons, then no, but those were essentially banned (with minor exceptions) for private ownership in 1986[0]. Ownership of those had been regulated since 1934[1]. The 1994–2004 "assault weapons" ban covered specific features[2] on guns. Since 2004, purchase of guns with (2 or more of) those features is once again legal. Note that some opposed to the 1994 assault weapons ban claim many of the features are cosmetic, rather than functional.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act#...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Cr...
The point of generics is so that you can use the same code with many different types. With dynamic typing, you can use the same code with anything, it just complains at runtime if you call an operation that isn't supported on a particular type. It's like every operation is implicitly generic.

You could look at generics as a way to bring some of the flexibility of dynamic languages to a static type system, so you get the expressivity benefits without sacrificing type-safety.
It's not even always about finding how bad your security is. Sometimes you might know exactly how they got in, but that doesn't affect whether you've successfully cleaned them out at all. Once someone is on your system, being absolutely sure you've cleaned the systems out of security issues is something you'll never quite be sure of, without booting trusted third party media and comparing the disk to a known good backup. Most sysadmins I know don't bother, it's easier to just restore from a known good backup and selectively copy anything over that was changed more recently. Restoring a live system from backup and making sure it's fit for production duty is quite a bit more involved than changing a password, or patching a program. It's not a huge burden, but extend it across tens of servers, and costs start piling up quick.

If you find out that someone's been coming into your house when you're not there for a few weeks, but you're not entirely sure how, you don't just change your key, you also check all your windows, possibly fix the latch or replace the window on any that are broken, etc.
Only because most US cities do a piss poor job of providing housing support for the poor. That's a failure of policy, not gentrification itself.
I know you're being sarcastic but if you own your home wouldn't you want as many people as possible to move in? It'll drive up your property price.
I love it, that in your world, that's a reasonable retort rather than further confirmation of my point.
I completely disagree.

1. Visual cues are littered throughout the entire game. Sometimes it'a camera flash, sometimes it's the opponent blinking, to give you a warning.

2. The game play design is pretty consistent. Each fight gets progressively more difficult, but there is almost always a critical weakness of each opponent. Exploiting (or even finding) the critical weakness gets harder and harder as you progress.

The most obvious example of this design was King Hippo. Using traditional fighting style made it seem like he was impossible to beat. The only way to beat him was to stun him and punch him in the stomach. If you punched left, right, left, right, repeatedly, you could knock him out in one stun cycle. Learning this as a 10 year kid was great fun and made you feel like a genius/gaming god.
Depending on your definition of 'assault', yet. In the US is was essentially defined by the number of features your rifle was allowed to have, and indeed there is no longer a limit. It's hard (>$20k to buy a used one) to get a fully automatic rifle.
It would outlaw Google and Microsoft from using PGP when designing mail apps.
Oculus from the beginning was fairly big into locking down its ecosystem. I think its clear that it wants an Apple-like level of control where PC gaming turns into a console-like experience. This lock-in benefits them as their store would become the premier outlet for VR sales and Oculus would receive a juicy cut of every VR game sold. Also this would connect to Facebook's social VR ideals of a VR social network and all the privacy issues that come with that.

I completely disagree with this philosophy and don't think a simple peripheral should be a wedge into further lock-in in the PC gaming world. I just want to play games, not be a part of some weird Facebook 'trying to stay relevant' agenda or an Oculus 'trying to lock down VR' agenda.

Thankfully Valve has spoiled their plans by making a better VR system and an open-ish ecosystem. Valve doesn't pay for exclusives either.
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> I’m unsure what the potential is for large scale changes in oceanic chemistry

We are down from pre-industrial 8.25 pH to 8.08, and no sign of slowing. Major changes are certain. I don't know if this means the water will dissolve more metals like Cu, but it seems possible.

Source: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/file/Hawaii+Carbon+Dioxide+Time...
I think only Samsung allows fonts to be changed easily without root. There are some several font-changing apps that work if you do have root though.

Edit: Apparently this doesn't change emoji though, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11496788
Similarly, personal records for 50 million Turkish citizens got leaked a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11420139
Negative. Those with money will fight like hell to keep from giving it up. However if by some chance/miracle a guaranteed income is ever instituted, it will become a political football, as politicians and advocacy groups seek to continuously push it higher and higher. Instead of a money handout, I would rather support money in exchange for public works and service. I don't believe handouts without some kind of exchange will ever really work.
I think we should just call it what it is a dividend. We have crossed a point where handing off 10% of everyone's income allows for a reasonable minimum standard of living. But, because progress is always going to cost some people more than others we need to align incentives.

Sorry, I know your a world class doctor, but Auto Scan (TM) just does a better job.

The important thing to remember is that % for a given standard is dropping over time. If 1% is enough to reach the current US standard then it's going to be really hard to say no.

PS: I don't think we will take this global any time soon. But, we could. World GDP is 106 dollars per person per day. 10% of that is 10.06$ per person per day. 80% of humanity lives on less than 10$ per day.
> http://patriciogonzalezvivo.com/2015/thebookofshaders/

is also available as the more memorable:

http://thebookofshaders.com/
Does anyone know if this is the last installment or how many there will be?
Oh yeah, has been since Bush the second let the ban lapse.
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> I don't think any JS programmer wanted modules natively in JS

Seriously? Code organisation and globals are massive pain points; pre- CommonJS/AMD/UMD we needed both boilerplate + strict conventions, post- , well, they're all dependencies, they all need toolchains. Why should I not want to remove dependencies with something that is syntactically and practically extremely simple? I guess there may be a few JS programmers rubbing their hands at the thought of another bundler and another dependency to add to the toolchain (but it's better this time! promise! just install another 200 NPM modules and off we tootle into JS bliss!), I dunno?
Dr Mark Hyman, an MD who practises functional medicine, recently launched abook titled 'Eat Fat Get Thin'. Today I received an email from him titled 'The results are in...' :

Dear Marcus,

Before I launch any program, I test it.
Not just on my patients, which I have done for decades (in fact on over 20,000 patients), but on people all over the country following the program at home. We had over 1,000 people do the Eat Fat, Get Thin beta program and the results and stories were amazing.
Here are the average results from the first group to go through the program:

Weight Loss: 7.1 pounds (some lost up to 46 pounds)

Waist Reduction: 1.9 inches (some lost up to 13 inches)

Hip Reduction: 1.7 inches (some lost up to 16 inches)

Blood Pressure Reduction: systolic (top number) 9 points, diastolic (bottom number) 4.5 points

Blood Sugar Reduction: 23 points

Participants also reported an astounding 69% drop in ALL symptoms from all diseases. If you’re ready to lose extra pounds… have more energy… and start feeling amazing click here to join the Eat Fat, Get Thin Challenge.

I am following the work of Dr Hyman for a long time and already knew that a diet with good fats is healthy, but the result of 69% drop of symtoms of all diseases is astonishing and makes you think: the bad foods make you sick and the good foods make you healthy.
Exactly. Instead of a lot of plotting and planning, people just kill and die. It's very, very refreshing.
Not to mention Ian Lance Taylor, who's been on the Go team since before it was public, authored the GCC Go frontend, was de-facto leading the team when I left Google in 2014, and also happens to be the author of the proposal.
It most certainly is but... it doesn't work. At that time I had some kind of semantic combinations for passwords but it doesn't compute for that website.
It actually doesn't matter at all, as we've done away with partisan primaries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary#Ca...
Desk: standing desk

Chair: Currently borrowing a Varier kneeling chair but normally a Malmstolen ergonomic chair (don't know exact model name)

Monitor: 3x Dell monitors (again not sure of models off the top of my head, I didn't buy them)

Keyboard: Tesoro Durandal with Cherry MX Brown switches

Mouse: SteelSeries Sensei Raw Rubberized

Music: Sometimes; usually something Outrun-ish or game soundtracks

Hours: Currently working shifts so 12-20
Yes, but this server application was only introduced with the DK2 and the 0.4.x SDK which was delivered after the facebook acquisition. Whether they would have hold back the source code without facebook - who the hell knows?
Could you expand on "align incentives" a little more please?
Ya, I get the reasoning. And I agree with your analysis about the negative consequences.

But the part I actually think is weird/complex is the way it ties tax returns together from adjacent years.

For my 2015 federal return I don't deduct my state taxes on my 2015 income, I deduct state taxes I paid in 2015. Those can be two different things. I just find that a bit weird.
The answer is simple, but no one takes it seriously. It's PRT (personal rapid transit) called SkyTran:

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

Nothing else will work outside of extremely dense cities like Manhattan (even outside of Manhattan in the rest of NYC, the existing public transit doesn't work very well).

You need a system that gets people to their destination quickly, is on-demand, and uses low energy, in order to overcome the place in society that the automobile occupies today. SkyTran is the only thing that can do that.

Subways don't work: they cost an absolute fortune to build, and only work in extremely dense areas. They run on regular schedules, and stop at every stop, so they aren't very fast. And they're linear; they don't work too well in a situation where a city is laid out in a large grid, unlike Manhattan which is a narrow island.

Buses don't work: they're horribly slow, they don't maintain a consistent schedule, they take convoluted paths to try to maximize ridership at the expense of travel time. The only things they have going for them are capital cost and reconfigurability: it doesn't cost anything to deploy them because they use existing streets, and you can change the routes easily (it's more trouble to inform riders of the new route and change the signage than it is to change the route of the bus itself). Buses also are gas guzzlers and terrible polluters: it's better for the environment for all the bus riders to drive themselves in a reasonably modern car, unless it's an electric bus.

Light rail doesn't work: it costs a fortune to build (not quite as bad as subways), it puts local businesses out of business during construction, it disrupts other street traffic, it's almost as slow as buses (light rail has to stop for traffic lights just like cars).

SkyTran is the answer to all of this: it only costs $1M per mile to build (compare that to subway or light rail costs), it's electric powered, it's very low-energy (uses the equivalent of two hair dryers to go 100mph), it's on-demand (you can call a car with your smartphone), it takes you directly where you want to go with no stops, it doesn't force you to share space with strangers, and the system is fully automated.

Unfortunately, everyone dismisses it as "impossible" while simultaneously wanting to spend hundreds of billions on high-speed rail, light rail, and Hyperloop, things that are either unappealing to users or just plain sci-fi (whereas SkyTran has actually been demonstrated to work and uses existing technology, and really isn't all that complicated).
Sorry late - link is https://open.spotify.com/user/1231239981/playlist/3ka1SYnv2b... . Hope you see this post and enjoy it.

I see from the down votes that my reply must have been seen as kind of off topic to the GCE issue, however since Spotify came up as a "victim", I did feel it prudent to mention that Spotify Premium has offline playlists to allow users to weather network issues of any kind. Also for me personally, big playlists of quality music like this one is fantastic for my work.
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It's not just those with money that will fight it like hell, a lot of people without much money see working for access to resources as a fairness issue.
Thanks for the offer, actually I can't see any details on your profile. I'm on the South West coast.
I stand corrected. I actually visited https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/ and played with the search settings a little and found out that out of the 445 employees with earnings >$500k about 380 or so have "prof" in their title, so I guess you're right.

Fact is that the cost of university is still too damn high. If it's not the teachers' salaries then what might the reason be?

Mind you, I'm not directly involved in this as I live half a globe away from the States and I'm a former college dropout now in my mid-30s, I'm just thinking that there are huge opportunity costs that we might pay, as a species, for not letting the brightest people attend University based on intellectual merits alone. I know that there are countless "help-the-poor-attend-university" programs, but, as far as I can tell, in order to be part of one you need make no mistakes, as in you need to pass all the exams in order for the financial help to keep coming (I might be wrong on this). Plus, there's all the bright lower-middle-class people whose parents are "too rich" for their kids to receive any financial help but too poor to afford to pay their kids' university. You risk losing these people's minds big time.

As a solution I would impose only having access to University if you pass an entry exam, and everything to be subsidized by the State. It doesn't matter if your dad is the President of America or the CIA chief, it doesn't matter if your dad has paid $100 million to the University, it doesn't matter if you're white, black, yellow or purple-colored. Only your intellectual ability should count.