skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a solution in search of a problem, just with the budget and resources of an entire government. It sounds like someone made a contract for some new surveillance devices and are now looking for ways to deploy them.

Yet the government also says it isn’t certain what kinds of applications might be possible once the system is built, and hasn’t decided where all the sensors will be located

So they're building something and then they're going to find a use for it.
I wouldn't be surprised. This is where a huge amount of real-world automation ends up; it ends up being much more practical to only automate the 90% of the job that can be done by a simple automaton, and mechanical-Turk the rest. Then you save 90% of the labour costs AND 90% of the R&D costs for the automation.
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I use getflix and it still works. The ZA selection is a joke.
One usecase of RSS is, ahem, porn (yes that's part of life, especially Tumblr). That's a non-trivial usecase which is the reason why I donated to TheOldReader but refuse to pay a subscription; and RSS readers stubbornly trying to share my RSS reading on a social network was a risk for me.
No, but if a driver falls asleep it's clearly their fault, if they survive the accident they will be charged with manslaughter.
If a driverless truck rear ends a car because of a glitch or a mechanical fault where it didn't see the car in front for some reason, then I can only imagine the corporation recalling all of them at huge cost, and possibly paying millions of dollars in damages. I think the point is that when humans crash the responsibility is easy to establish, but we have no framework to work with once computers crash(and they will). And no, "they are still safer than humans" is not a valid defense when someone dies.
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> It is coneviable that circumstances could exist where the use of torture would prevent some greater evil.

Sure, but this is just a thought experiment.

In real life, these kind of tactics simply don't work.
> If you are a white male remember all the privilege you have enjoyed since birth just because you were born that way. It is your responsibility to change the industry and its bias towards more inclusion.

I've heard this assertion made many times in recent years, but I don't recall any reasoned arguments for why the listener should accept it as a moral imperative.

Since the assertion clearly isn't something we'll all automatically accept, the author may wish to offer a reasoned argument for it.

And if he's unable to offer a good one, he should probably reconsider making the assertion.
I too miss Google Reader.

Feedly does OK, but is expensive. Of all I tried, however, it consistently was the least worst.

Most of the replacements suffer from bad apps on at least one mobile platform I use, poor web experience, lack of speed (esp. search), and even lack of features (esp. search)...

...and all suffer from lack of leveraging modern text analytics. If I have overlapping stories in my feed, perhaps a winning service would merge duplicates or cluster similar stories? Akin to threading, but more implicit. This is esp. a problem in my "apple" feeds, where any mention of anything from apple shows up verbatim in every feed. A Techmeme style (pick one, nest the rest) would be really interesting.
It's not false advertising; it's a bug. Rust is not perfect. It's also not undefined behavior. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/16012

(Basically, stack probes are only implemented on Windows, and we need them on the other platforms, but it hasn't been implemented yet, for various reasons.)
I found other article on this website, pretty entertaining: "Fiverr: my worst experience and why i still like it" https://www.lazypreneur.pw/2016/fiverr-worst-experience-stil...
My car budget is always around $3k max

Model 3 is ten times that.

Hence 4th or 5th hand used.

I expect I'll have to rebuild the battery pack myself.

By then there should be really good documentation and cheap chinese knockoffs of the cells (that last half as long as oem).
The reason I agree with you OP is because, as you, I am also from Eastern Europe and I can recognize the same traits in the current "white privilege" arguments to those that plagued Europe mid-century. Like now, during those times there were people arguing that the Jews are taking all the jobs, the good jobs (doctors, engineers, bankers, etc - basically every profession). And the solution was not to advocate for equality but for reverse discrimination, which basically translates into: now you guys leave everything behind, profession, property and translocate somewhere of our choosing.

Today is the same path: you guys should feel guilty for being in a white collar job. You are in this job not because of your work but because of your race/skin. The implication is that you should step back and get out.

For all the talk about white privilege, I never hear the solutions to it. What is OP supposed to do: not get the job? Not feed his family? How is he supposed to prove that he is aware of his "white privilege"?
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The newsoutlet linked to above is owned by Mediacorp which is in-turn owned by Temasek Holdings, an investment arm of the Singaporean government.

Almost all media in Singapore is owned/part-owned by the government.

They exert editorial influence on all their holdings.
My laptop running i3 is often moved between a dock on my desk and used as a regular laptop, I have to say I've been looking to write something like this but it fell by the wayside. Very useful IMO
And if you read the article, that is the case. You can get crashes without using blocks marked as unsafe.
I'm 36 and really want to develop (c). I have decent social skills but I have no idea how to find non-coders to mingle with. Where does one start? Meetup groups? Cycling groups? Creating art and showing it?
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> I was able to go into technology with confidence and social support that many other groups will not have.

Where I grew up (in 1980s US), white males were almost universally derided for being into technology. It wasn't until the 2000s that it became "cool". There was no privilege associated with being a geek. It was something many of us did despite the social stigma. That's why it's humorous to see people claim there was some sort of privilege associated with those who where early in tech. Yes it turned out to be economically viable but there was huge social pressure against participating.
So, you mean, pretty much every server produced in the last ~8 years?

Not much impact to desktop users, but a huge impact for servers.
While Amazon offers you a lot of DVDs for less than that price, it also offers you a substantial amount of rentals via Instant Video at well above that price.

I'm going to assume - not least because we've paid for those rentals more than once - that they have a good idea about how to set the prices.

Movies that are interchangeable light entertainment will go cheap. Movies people seek out or decide they really want will cost more.
Most recent reference is 1991 with many from 1990. I think it is safe to say (1991).

Edit: includes an internal reference to "late 1991", so maybe (1992) or (1993) is more accurate.

Edit2: and you were right (1993). Citation: Boelie Elzen and Donald MacKenzie, "From Megaflops to Total Solutions: The Changing Dynamics of Competitiveness in Supercomputing," in Technological Competitiveness: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Industries (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1993), 119-151.
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>allows the government to monitor ... the precise movement of every locally registered vehicle.

Okay, wow. But..

>The project appears to be popular in Singapore, where faith in the government is high and citizens have accepted limits on behavior, including restrictions on public speech and the press, in return for a more efficient state.

Now it is clear that this article is deeply biased, or maybe just ignorant. I lived in Singapore for several years and am still closely in touch with my community there. I have never heard a single Singaporean show strong confidence or trust in their government, and the lack of free speech is not insignificant to many.

I'm sure several Singaporeans will show up here to tell me I'm mistaken, but the reality is that there is strong suspicion among many as to the motives of the government, but most can't say too much about it publicly because of the punishment imposed.
I think the worry also is that at some point, hundred years into the future someone somewhere might write the code where the truck will go "I'm carrying 1 million dollars worth of cargo which would be destroyed if I drive into the ditch, but the cost of litigation for smashing into this small car that clearly broke the law and will be at fault in this situation is smaller - continue program;".
You ever been to Singapore?
I'm waiting for the Google algorithm update that smacks down 400 word blog posts with lots of headers, thin analysis and a "subscribe to my email updates" callout at the end.
A robot trucker will never do (B). The car put itself there and can presumably get itself out again. More importantly, swerving will lead your truck to jackknife and roll in unpredictable ways and cause who knows how much extra damage.

As I've said before about smaller autonomous vehicles, they'll be programmed to always choose the option which is most defensible in court. I will be amazed if we ever see an autonomous vehicle on public roads which does something more complicated than "come to a complete halt as fast as possible while steering for the clearest area of asphalt."
True but, all the same, drunk/stoned people equipped with phones are very dangerous for your privacy. They are actually dangerous whether they are drunk or sober, especially if they are clueless about Facebook's privacy settings.

Mine are set in such a way that you can't add me as a friend if you're not already friends with a friend of mine. If we then are friends, you can't post anything to my wall nor can you tag me in any way without my consent. Granted, the picture will still be there (and possibly visible by anyone if it was posted by one such clueless individual), but then again deleting your Facebook account won't magically erase all the pictures you appear in either.

The actual problem is that any idiot has a smartphone and a Facebook or Instagram account. And they take pictures. And post them.

There doesn't need to be any aunt following your friends. A cousin is more than enough. And there are countries where related families tend to be scattered over a relatively small area, so having friends in common between you and your relatives is but a rare occurrence.
Granted, but a human guard nevertheless presents a problem for robbers.

Do you take the guard hostage? Do you kill them? Will they themselves be armed? Will they put up a fight, training or no training? If you try aggressively to bring their vehicle to a halt, will they concede immediately (as an autonomous vehicle likely would), or will they try ramming your vehicle?

A human guard is an unknown quantity, and any crimes you commit against their person are in a different league to the theft of the cargo.
One small update to that thread: hitting the guard page no longer sends SIGSEV, but SIGILL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/31333
IRCCloud or – if you set it up for them – Quassel for IRC then?

I’m sure for email we could find an equivalent solution.
Yea no price = buzz off. There's nothing more annoying than call for quote.
We need to create a new highway system for driverless cars/vans/trucks/etc. The current road infrastructure with its potholes, tolls, traffic congestion is not ideal. They need to conceive something similar to HOV lanes in order for this to move forward.
You can get a house for $12k?
I think you confuse many things here. For canadians US is the better choice but for people from the EU who are not top 5% of the engineers, Switzerland is the best choice.

Being in the top 30% of engineers or even mediocre means you will make a decent or very decent living in Switzerland. I am not sure, if this is true for the US.
From the cartoons I watched as a child, (far more male villains than female), to the narrowed defined male acceptable professions, to most of role models in other professions (all female), In addition to a million other invisible punishments for not following the cultural rules. I, like most of people with my gender went to a profession that was cultural accepted for that gender, and most people of the other gender went to cultural accepted professions for their gender.

How privileged they must be!
Really, just use words that describe the concept. "White male" has a very specific inherent meaning. Don't use it to describe something completely different, like racism or sexism.
Monaco doesn't hang you for a bit of weed.
lol - like politicians give a damn about infrastructure for living human beings that suffer every day on broken roads and dangerous bridges

they'll get right on that
Anecdotally, I still wind up stopping because... I'm a lazy bastard. Feeling like you've failed on a random project that you talked about is demotivating, so I can see the point both ways. I renovated my master bathroom several years ago and had talked about it at work, but I'm lazy ;) so it took about a year to complete. Being the butt of the "so how's the bathroom going ;D" joke at work did not really help my motivation on it, having an upcoming wedding and needing to get it finished did.

I've been working on doing only one project at a time, which has helped with my success rate and self worth. I still think about several and have a hard time focusing, but I try not to talk about them until they're actually in progress if at all.
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Race in the United States has a very particular history

I know minstrel shows made it to England, but I don't think they ever made it to the Adriatic Sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show?wprov=sfla1
>We need better language.

No, 'we' don't need that. You want better language so that you can better advocate for your pet cause. There is a big difference between need and want, and also between "everyone" and "this interest group that I identify with".
How Singapore prevented the formation of racial enclaves and promote ethnic integration?

http://qz.com/436056/singapores-forced-housing-integration-f...
Can't wait to see the future of how this pans out. Would be amazing to have steam movie sales!
Is there any evidence that a technology with billions of dollars in potential would not be used if it was only 99.99% ready? I feel like lots of dangerous stuff has been deployed when it was nowhere near 99% in the past, and I'm not sure why this technology would be any different. People talk about it like it's a lot different, but how safe are regular cars? Nuclear power? Coal power? Honestly I don't even know what the state of the science is on cell phones causing brain cancer anymore because I decided that I didn't want to know.

Why does everyone think we'll be smarter on waiting to deploy driverless cars until they are safe, given our history of doing the exact opposite for the last couple hundred years?
Wonder when the first person stands up and claim this is blatant racism/ discrimination. Because it literally is. 'oh you come from this country and you have netflix? -- oops then you cannot see because you are canadian/european/ whoever'

Media copyrightrights per country, its 2016 its insane release your media globally or don't release it at all.
> A British roundabout with 6 intersections...

There's one of those in Hemel Hempstead. And surprisingly it works really well...

On a related note, if you have the chance to go to Hemel Hempstead, don't.
General accepted accounting principles.

Geez, what did they think the P was for??
I think we both know that's neither a mainstream, nor a neutral source, and it's not presenting it's argument fairly.

It puts scare quotes around "activitists" for goodness sake. That doesn't even make sense.

I don't see anything particularly shocking in your quotes, yet it's all written as if I should. For example, a "yes" from a sufficiently drunk person, may not count as consent, even if they're not literally unconcious. That doesn't sound particuarly extreme to me. In fact I'm more worried about the schools that apparently require incapacitated to mean unconscious since I've seen plenty of people unaware of what was going on due to alcohol, without being literally passed out.

So we've arrived at a solid definition of "drunk" at least, as this article makes clear that if you've not literally passed out, then they consider you capable of giving consent to sex. That's not the line I'd choose, but if you continue to argue for this, please just state that up front so overyone knows where they stand.
Doesn't detract from the FACT that their government is INCREASING opposition seats instead of repressing opposition.
I originally thought this is how Dropbox functioned years ago. Learning that you had to actually have every file on your hard disk if you wanted it in the cloud really put me off from using Dropbox for any significant amount of data.

As so many have stated before me, they better release this for everyone. It isn't a revolutionary feature, it's pretty basic, even if the behind the scenes technicals are complicated.
Well, the idea of "white male privilege" is that no matter how hard you may have had it as a white male, it was always easier than had you been a non white male.

It doesn't matter how hard you worked or work, your accomplishments will always have the stank of "white male privilege" in the eyes of everyone non white male.
I'm also a happy newsblur user. The free tier is more than enough for my needs, but I was so happy with the service I decided to pay the annual subscription
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I'm working on a 1920 pixels wide screen with a font of size 10. With the toolboxes on the side of my IDE, I can have around 170 characters on a single line without having to scroll horizontally.

As long as I dont have to scroll I'm happy.
Amazing how far we've come. Now you can get 10.6 TFLOPS of FP32 in only 300W (reference: GP100 in the Nvidia DGX-1).
> In that case, the assistant attorney general told the court that the Tallahassee Police Department was under a non-disclosure agreement—likely from the leading manufacturer, Harris Corporation—forbidding it from acknowledging the use of a stingray, never mind describing it in detail.

The US government has sovereign immunity to lawsuits, and a weaker right to petition the government in the constitution. I had wondered about this a bit, but here's at least a clear example of a case where you might plausibly want your government to not be bound by a civil contract.

In reality, I'm sure commercial contracts aren't actually granted immunity. It's just an example.

I wonder if it makes sense to do any of these:

* Ban the government from being able to sign an NDA for a commercial contract. Maybe some exceptions for military use.

* Require approval from the local, state, or federal legislature before the local, state, or federal executive branches can sign NDAs(since NDAs are effectively mini-laws that constrain the government).

* Allow NDAs, but have a public list of (Agency, Supplier) pairs for which NDAs exist
Aren't there SMS<->email services?
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If you look in the Dropbox install the driver is already being distributed on Mac and Windows. It's a filter driver.
He said, unless you mean...privileged. In THAT case, it's redundant.
What I want from a network-based file system is some level of control over the caching. What I've found with FUSE-based file systems (on Linux) is that often they lock up my terminal. All it takes is a "cd" or an "ls" and suddenly I can't type anything until the network responds, which is not always instantaneous -- can't even Ctrl-C, because the program is blocked in the driver.

I want to be able to tell when a command is going to block, or respond immediately with an error so that I can re-issue the command in a deferred manner. Having the command line lock-up because of filesystem latency is a bad user experience.
Stop calling it a problem. Why is it a problem that preferences differ? Is it a problem that more women aren't miners or plumbers?
One of Singapore's prominent politicians in the late 90's wrote an essay about why Singapore does not have free speech. He said that the U.S. requires free speech because the press acts as a check on a corrupt government. In Singapore, he claimed, the government must instead act as a check on a corrupt press.

How's that for logic? You can find this article in a book of many similar essays available right up front in most major bookstores of Singapore.
Within in the context of H1B it's a different game altogether.
Lol such typical HN users, lets not provide a valid argument, lets just downvote because we have no argument.
They were talking about highways exclusively. Using regular drivers to pick up trucks from highway exits and drop them off at entries. Its in the article.
I don't think this article is about how perfect Singapore is, if you try hard enough I am sure you will find ridiculous rules, laws and human rights violations any country has.
It's something that also bother me about HN. People downvote when disagree. I think that downvoting should be used for uncivil comments, not related comments, spam..
Otherwise we will finish in an echo-chamber.

When we disagree we should answer. This is what I'm going try to do.

First, you say "If given the opportunity, they would kill every single one of us". That's not true. Those terrorist acts have politic goals.

Then, you say "So if the people who are on our side feel they need.." Here you assume that those people is in your side, and that they shouldn't be under control. Two assumptions that I recommend you to give more consideration.
Give me my 2 minutes back and also stop writing blog posts. (forever )
yeah, isn't democracy grand? Its' a microcosm of the MSM.... and you thought this was a republic? Outrage-on-demand.

EVERY opinion is protected, unless it doesn't agree with the "masses"...
a nice piece on understanding self and the pursuit of a rewarding life in tech or code or whatever (with real examples from said life) diverged in a wood of political lecturing garbage.
Any idea what triggers it?
By "we" he meant "this interest group that I identify with", and you know it. No need to heat up the fire under a topic that's already so prone to flamewars.
I think the purpose of this is likely in regards to VR.

As far as I am personally aware, Steam is now the only mainstream video rental platform with first-party support for Virtual Reality. (To exclude Google Cardboard further, "all-in virtual reality" where you don't leave VR)
Take a random word, add rrrrr and buy a io domain.

result: wordrrrr.io
The Italian selection leaves much to be desired as well. What proxies do you use?
"Punishment" seems a bit of a stretch. My understanding is that you're referring to civil defamation suits brought to court by SG prime ministers, acting as individuals.

Perhaps that's a bit of legal smoke and mirrors, but it still seems far more above board than what goes on in plenty of other countries.
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