skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is surveillance with the naked eye from the air illegal?

What objection do you have with the FBI tracking criminal suspects from the air?

Do you also object to the FBI staking out suspects from their cars?

(I'm not referring to Stingrays here, just surveillance from the air with cameras/eyeballs).
Send an email to the whole gang with this, and tell them how it's not their fucking problem, and that you'll going to the HR next.

They'll shut up in no time.
I found people who wear Apple watch are solely the reviewers on Youtube. One time I found someone has one in front of me while ordering coffee. Turns out he is working at Genuis bar.
I would recommend going to HR, but not recording the conversation. The laws in your jurisdiction may make such recording illegal.
𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒇𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔

on a side note, attempted triforce is attempted
I gave myself a nasty concussion during a mistimed flip turn when my goggles had filled with water.

I suspect I'm in the extreme minority though.
I suspect because the author says he "loves Google" and presumably wants to work there.
Some of the points you made I was aware of but not precise enough in my comments, of others I wasn't aware and that are great pointers for what I should look into in the future. Thanks a lot for the effort you put into your replies.
Because in their death bed one often says "I wish I worked on more worthwhile projects"?
The difference is that we don't allow websites to install third party software on your OS just by convincing the user to click yes on a dialog box - not anymore, not after what happened with ActiveX. Also, it's probably not obvious to most users that giving a website access to an innocent-looking USB device is in fact equivalent to giving it full access to their PC.
If you call 'buying ideas' an 'innovation' rather than just a way to try and retain relevance.
That does not play well with my concept of orders of magnitude.
Ironically, this has already been done.

See https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140929/08500728662/new-c..., https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-apocalypse-trolls-attack-....

Sadly it appears to have died but can still be viewed at https://web.archive.org/web/20150109080014/http://www.qentis... and https://archive.is/w6wLc
Ahh yeah, this is from Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks post [0], and way before Tim discovered and wrote his awesome posts about the AI Revolution [1] and cryonics.... I guess he knows now that 90 might actually be quite short sighted.

So, I'm forking and adding the estimated date where we trascend from humans to cloud-beings (around 2045, Kurzweil's™ prediction) [2]...

[0] http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

[1] http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...

[2] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299...
When I see Unicode-hacks like this (is it a hack? is Unicode supposed to do this?), my instinct reaction is that maybe Unicode is bloated beyond a reasonable mission scope. Maybe it tried to do too much, or maybe it just made some mistakes along the way.

But I don't really know much about it, and I'm suspicious of said instinct. HN what are your thoughts -- what are some controversial ideas around Unicode, and would there have been any simpler alternative that could make sense?
The philosopher Slavoj Zizek often re-tells this joke:

> There is an (apocryphal, for sure) anecdote about the exchange of telegrams between German and Austrian army headquarters in the middle of the First World War: the Germans sent the message "Here, on our part of the front, the situation is serious, but not catastrophic," to which the Austrians replied "Here, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious."

His point is that this is the situation we find ourselves in today: ecologically and socially, the world is falling apart. We can see the catastrophe coming but we don't take it seriously.
> world

emacs, GCC, gdb, earlier GNU software were written by RMS.

He gave meaning to the term free software and propagated use of free software and free hardware. His ideas on using non-free Java, Flash, TiVo and DRM put those issues on centerstage.

If we see GPL being used so widely his dedication cannot be ignored at all.

Just like Steve Jobs didn't write all code of Apple or Next (FYI: He wrote none) but still he is "creator" it current Apple, similarly RMS is a chief figure of free and copyleft software.
Very good; I can't tell whether it's parody or not.
Using FLIR for drug growing detection requires a warrant.
Is this a form of appropriating other peoples' content? Google 's already borderlining, I think, with the instant answer stuff. This seems like it's definitely crossing copyright lines.
Is any intel of appreciable worth actually being gathered, or is this just a colossal waste of money and a massive invasion of privacy? What are these planes really achieving that you don't get from, say, a police helicopter that is tailing a suspect?
I thought that each sentence comprises the equivalent of a patent.
Said it before, and I'll say it again. Much more interested in the intranet of things, than the internet of things.
How to solve the world's biggest problems
Thanks for the questions!

We will sell backyard system kits, as well as one-time and recurring peripherals such as fish, fish food, plants and mushroom media inserts (if we get it to work), including inserts with food growing in it already.

We did build a smaller prototype, the AutoNanoFarm (http://blog.automicrofarm.com/tagged/autonanofarm), but ultimately decided not to develop it. We realized that it didn't help us move forward with our backyard-sized systems. There are plenty of smaller versions available (from http://www.theaquaponicsource.com/product-category/full-syst... to https://grovelabs.io/).
A conspiracy to (partially) hide their identity from the suspects they're tracking? Would you suggest they put FBI on the register instead?
\r too. I just don't get it. I think the error message is telling me the limit is 2000 but really the limit is like 1500 or something much lower.
I'm a hetero guy so I've never been in your situation. Consequently, take this advice (and the question that precedes it) with several grains of salt.

Who do you have to talk to? Do you have a solid support network of people who know you're bi and support you unconditionally??

I ask because the next steps are potentially hard, especially if you're surrounded by the type of prep school types who tend to stick together in groups.

I need to edit this in response to an excellent comment by mtviewdave, who suggested that depending on where you live, surreptitiously recording a conversation may be illegal. Look into the law first!!(Source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11468484)

That said, the next time that you hear them talking about you, try to record the conversation. This prevents a you versus them situation where their own best witnesses are the co-accused. Their defense could (and likely will) be that you misheard them...

Once you have it recorded, I wouldn't bother trying to tell them to grow up and knock it off. Simply walk into HR and make a formal complaint.

I understand that you've never been the type to go to the teacher, but seriously dude, someone sitting two seats down from you may be in a deep closet and their closet could be deepening (and get more lonely) with each of their barbs.

I'm sorry that you're going through this and I wish I could do more. Best of luck and good on you for coming here to talk about this.
>Well, the latter is simply not true

Assuming it is, though, how would one know whether they are or not?

>I hardly see how it would pose a problem

Being unable to feel a variety of emotions and feeling the same each day can indeed be problem -- an indication of incomplete emotional development / functioning -- which can affect many parts of life, most importantly decision making, relationships, etc.

Of course the web can't make the diagnosis, but an expert can, given an examination.

Of course you might also be saying it lightly, e.g. feel "more or less" the same everyday, as opposed to always exactly the same, and given that nothing especially nice or bad has happened to you and those you know all this time.
What about non-land based wealth? Say an empire of digital services running on virtual servers in a data center owned by a service provider?
agree. The a380 is tremendous, especially when combined with Qantas service.
Notice any other trends while messing with the data?
Yeah, that's a good point. I'll edit my response.

Thanks!!
Why not ask them for advice?
I'm not American... so that's a yes. I'm not arguing about the desire for lifetime employment, I'm criticizing the previously quoted nonsense generalization.
The main angle this article seems to take is that this surveillance is unfair because it may target Muslims. I see no problem with surveilling the mosque of two people who just committed a terrorist attack, in fact it would be risky not to do so.
Isn't this reaction exactly why one would want to rename the "investigative branch" to something else entirely?
The 2013 "NSA collecting everything you do" entry claims 611 comments and 1,689 points, but the thread linked to only has 1 point and is [dead]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6133321
Next up: ransomeware that replaces your cloud files with encrypted version
Some languages must naturally be composed of predictable, combinable marks to form glyphs. There are many separated diacritic codepoints, like "\u0061\u0301" = à.

I don't think this "hack" points to Unicode doing too much.

For questionable technical design decisions, look at UTF16, surrogate pairs, etc.
Poverty is profitable to other people. People who are in poverty often have to depend on services that are overpriced and predatory. From check cashing services, and payday lenders, to not being able to go to a grocery store where prices are better, but instead depending on smaller stores of convenience where the prices are often higher. The lottery depends on those in poverty. Sometimes I think even the police and city governments depend on people in poverty to pay a large portion of fines.
It should be working now
Also you could show print out this thread from HN which would surely have some cultural capital.
Almoat all malware is installed by mistake, or by exploiting a bug.
> I'm not seeing any remote access (it's all client-side)

Anything that can be accessed client-side can be easily uploaded via XmlHttpRequest or whatever people use for that now. This is not a new concept.

> Granted, like I already mentioned, once access is granted you could use something like web sockets to make it accessible remotely but that's a very explicit thing a developer or malicious app has to do.

Hardly- user data is incredibly valuable and you can be sure that for many sites, if a page has access to USB info they will upload and track it. Presumably any foreign JS code imported (e.g. Google Analytics) can also access this data and include it in the information it tracks.
More info on the Hacker News BigQuery dataset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440502
>Why is this done? Tradition? Certainly it's an extra expense that releasing in pure digital format would not include -- and it's not like all the music is not mastered digitally now anyway -- nobody is mastering on tape and cutting and splicing....

Actually lots of artists master on tape.

What most don't do is track and mix on tape -- but there are some that do that too.

(and mastering doesn't involve "cutting" and "splicing" much -- that would be mixing).
The point of California v. Ciraolo was that surveillence with the naked eye was lawful, and did not require a warrant.

"cameras/eyeballs"... you understand that those are two different things, right?

Large area digital data collection is not the same as observing an area with the naked eye.

Deployed networks of automated license plate readers are not the same as "the FBI staking out suspects from their cars".
Just print out this thread and hang it up somewhere conspicuous. I'd expect that would get the appropriate amount of attention.
I thought it was a very well-made movie. You're right it probably was marketing. I really hope the film "the Queens gambit" can be made someday. That was going to be Heath Ledger's next project before he passed away.
The biggest utility of Scheme for introductory programming is the same utility that you get from any functional language, really: referential transparency. Transparency enables what SICP calls the "substitution model" of evaluation and application. The nice thing about that, in regards to pedagogy at least, is that it permits programmers to approach evaluation as a simple algebraic term-reduction system. Sit and evaluate an expression by substitution (there's only a handful of rules), and the similarity to solving and reducing algebraic equations will be obvious. This means that students can leverage the existing intuition they've developed for elementary algebra to quickly grok evaluation.

Of course, once side-effects are introduced, that substitution model breaks down, and a new one must be picked up. But by then, the students ought to have become reasonably comfortable with the ideas of programming.

I often hear smug Lisp weenies bragging about how simple the syntax is , which allows instructors to spend little time on syntactic rules and get at the meat of programming. But I'd argue that the simplicity of the semantics in the absence of side-effects is even more important. Any student with an eighth-grade[1] understanding of elementary algebra will be able to understand program evaluation quickly and easily.

As to why Lisp specifically when any referentially transparent language or sublanguage thereof could provide the benefits of the substitution model just as well: try implementing a complete and fully-functional metacircular interpreter in something other than Lisp, as a literate program, in under 40 pages. Now do it again for a lazy version, a nondeterministic version, and a relational (a.k.a. logical, as in logic programming, e.g. Prolog) version. Some argue that a metacircular evaluator really has no business being part of an introductory course, but in my experience it's actually a good way to finally formalize the actual model of evaluation, while at the same time demonstrating that interpreters, compilers, etc. aren't magic black boxes, but actually relatively simple programs (though when I teach the material I like to point out that they can get pretty complex, depending on source/object languages and optimization... let that be a lesson to them!).

[1]: This is the name for the educational status of typical twelve-to-thirteen-year-old students in the US.
>the real way to do this

What's "real" about it? The overwhelming majority of people doing it who are not Libraries do it with a needle.
It looks like this was vapor-ware, no proof they actually generated what they claimed (I'm guessing if they did, they would still be around).
Ooh, that's a really fun visualization.

Looks like Detroit has actually been on the rebound since 2012, though still below original levels. Denver and Dallas are really taking off. You can really see the housing crash hammering Phoenix and Vegas.

My quick take is that there are some big trends that are correlated nationally, but they'll be more or less pronounced region by region, and some cities have their own special issues.
You need proof that better ideas produce better results?
The article starts off by talking about how chinese food in the US is a cuisine of its own at this point. Given that, why are we worrying about how traditionally non-chinese items are featured? It's not uncommon for chinese buffets in the northeast to have things like french fries on it.

Besides, many Americans aren't too bright and have trouble discerning their asians.
His argument for cleaner energy is that we use Methane?

Isn't methane 30x more potent as a green-house gas?
Aaron Russo, award winning film producer, argues the opposite quite convincingly in an interview conducted with a former IRS Commissioner, here:

https://youtu.be/O6ayb02bwp0?t=33m

The IRS and Federal Reserve system is corrupt to its very core. The 15 minute interview linked should establish that.
Techies can be pretty cute.
What if? That's the whole idea of it. It's what keeps highly profitable (to the employee) jobs churning...

Nobody would work in the conditions needed for diamond extraction or sweatshop clothing making for example, if it wasn't for dire poverty.
The King of Con-Men
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
The app understands a lot of things about the code you used to solve and exercise. This comes either from understanding the syntax tree or from the output of the code. Based on that it gives feedback to the user. It can tell if a exercises is solved correctly. Or it can help fix mistakes: finding typos or checking if a function is recursive and many others... The usual feedback you would give a person that's learning how to code. So basically fancy training wheels.
Another factor to consider is that people are lazy - working through the exercises without having to click "new project" 100 times is way easier.. + bonus a tiny amount of gamification.
Also not sure if its clear - the learn how to code app is already implemented and used by over 1000 people. The iOS version is in development.
> I understand why Apple marketing thought it would be cool to wedge your phone in the thing at a 90 degree angle...

Nitpick: iPod, not iPhone.

The iPod Hi-Fi was released before the iPhone was even announced, and was discontinued entirely just over a month after the iPhone was released. While I believe it was technically compatible with the iPhone (as both devices used the same dock connector), this clearly wasn't an intended use case.

(And in any case, the early iPhones weren't very good music players - they had very limited storage for music, and streaming services were not available until much later.)
This sounds like a startup idea, Uber for Scams. Sign Up to Scam or Tap and Swindle.
I assume you know about the red book? I haven't read it, but it always comes up in these discussions. http://www.redbook.io/
People in poverty use services and consume goods. Someone provides those goods and services. Would they be better off if every business closed their doors to the impoverished, so as to not "make a buck off the poor"? Of course not!

The trailer park owner in the article owns 131 units and "makes" (presumably grosses) $400K a year. Those units are about $250 per month, hardly the stuff of Viking-style pillaging, IMO. The other landlord has also built herself a business in real-estate and now can afford to take a vacation? Good for her, seriously. She's providing housing and her tenants/customers are providing her income. Building such a business (and I assume running a 131 unit mobile home park) is absolutely work, the value of which is evident by the paying tenants.
And yes, I did typo/braino that. The hospital owes no money :)
There are more voice-te-text apps, but Snowy is a good example, say "Take a note" and the Nuance library in Pebble recognizes the speech https://mydogsnowy.com/commands/
Of course they do. IMO towing (especially here in SF where the price for getting your car towed is astronomical relatively speaking), lottery, all those types of gov't fines are really just a tax on the poor. If you're well off you don't really give a damn about getting your car towed a fee here and there, besides the inconvenience, but for someone who depends on their rinky-dink car to get to and from work, getting towed and having to pay a fee that is in some cases equivalent to the value of the car itself basically just fucks their entire life up.
Nobody, it seems. They committed to lifetime payouts of 75% of the average of a worker's three highest years of salary, retiring at age 55 after 30 years of service. And that's not for employees of a thriving/growing business -- but for government agencies that, over time, don't/shouldn't grow and profit.

I'd like to see the original calculations they used as a basis for these decisions.
Yes, I don't use it often, but when I do, .25mg is plenty. I don't know why they even sell the 3mg tablets.
Oh, I don't disagree; I would bet some of those devices will get owned. My only hope is that the manufacturers will set the "origin allowed" field that says what domains may access the devices.
>The point of California v. Ciraolo was that surveillence with the naked eye was lawful, and did not require a warrant.

I realise that, but you said "I hope that these flights wouldn't survive a legal challenge" so I inferred that you thought the judgement was incorrect.

>"cameras/eyeballs"... you understand that those are two different things, right?

I'm not sure if you're trolling here. The slash meant "or" in this case, which should be been patently obvious.

>Large area digital data collection is not the same as observing an area with the naked eye.

Of course, and it's not illegal AFAIK.

>Deployed networks of automated license plate readers are not the same as "the FBI staking out suspects from their cars".

The article doesn't mention "automated license plate readers".
The simple POSIX write/read works nicely enough for IO – where simple includes the loop to check the return code and then errno for cases that should be retried, ( EINTR, EAGAIN, EWOULDBLOCK, depending on what you are doing and your OS), adjust your arguments for how much data actually got sent or read, and then retry. Also be aware that depending on your file descriptor you might be making storms of tiny context switches, interrupts, and IOs.

Old Unix programmers handle that with about as much thought as breathing, but only because they were young unix programmers once.

Copying the bytes one more time isn't the worst thing that you will ever make a computer do. The stdio.h level is pretty nice from the standpoint of keeping your foot un-blown-off.
Just what we need: More conspiracy fuel for those everyday Americans who put complete confidence in default coordinates.
No, his argument for cleaner energy is that we stop using methane in the ways that we are already using it, and that if we must keep using it we do it a way that eliminates the CO2 emissions- cracking off the hydrogen and leaving behind solid carbon.
Methane is quite a potent greenhouse gas, but nothing in that article suggests releasing methane into the atmosphere.
a) Crashing by 10-30 times the sales of previous smart watches,

b) an 5-8 million in sales (estimations go from a low 3.1 million to a high 10.5 million),

c) and 60% of its buyers saying they'll buy the next model too (just one year after they bought the previous one)?
http://appadvice.com/post/most-apple-watch-owners-are-planni...

Sure, it's very "clear"...

Except if they mean "no one needs an Apple Watch" literally, in which case DUH!
Naming and synchronization in a decentralized computer system
At first, when people are getting poorer, it is probably more profitable then in the long term (if nobody can spend money, how can it be profitable).