skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BD is the continuation of 20 years of MIT's research into working legs.

I can see how dropping that might stick in their craw.
I think the personal attacks are rather uncalled for. It is extremely common for people to call oriental rugs as 'persian' rugs. Even wiki disagrees with your very limited view of what is a Persian rug [1]. To quote:

A Persian carpet (Middle Persian: bōb, Persian: فرش‎‎ farsh, meaning "to spread"; sometimes قالی qālī) is a heavy textile, made for a wide variety of utilitarian and symbolic purpose, produced in Iran and surrounding areas which once belonged to the Persian Empire, for home use, local sale, and export

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_carpet
SFO BART is, in my opinion, a shockingly poorly operated line, at least for people who live on the peninsula.

Suppose I want to go from Palo Alto to SFO. I can take the Caltrain and get to Millbrae very quickly. Check. Then I can fantasize that someone would dig a very expensive tunnel from the Millbrae station to SFO and either run a train every 5-10 minutes to SFO or run one train to SFO for each Caltrain that stops at Millbrae.

Amazingly, my fantasy is half realized. That tunnel exists, is electrified, is well-maintained, and it's called the BART. For reasons that probably make sense in the minds of the mess of uncooperative local transit agencies, the train doesn't run before 9 pm on weekdays, and they steadfastly refuse to make the timing work well for Caltrain riders.

On weekdays before 9, I can still use the train, but there's an extra pointless transfer, and they still refuse to make the schedule workable.

So building the thing is only part of the battle. The transit agencies still need to make sure that the schedules and, in particular, time spent sitting around waiting for transfers, doesn't slow it down to the point of unusability.
Big, but certainly not 100ft. As a surfer it's really annoying how headlines throw around 100ft claims without any sort of verification. A 100ft breaking wave has yet to be surfed, let alone proven to exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Well no, if you want to start nuklear war over the baltics the ballistic missiles can get there in a few minutes. But air power is the only thing that can get there fast, and the russians have actual anti air systems... And anyway, an airforce can't stop a ground invasion, only an army can do that.

The us does have som forces in place, but not enought to matter against a determined invasion, and since russia attacking the baltics pretty much is open war with the us, any plausible scenario involves a determined invasion.
> Manning released information that was not criminal by any definition, like diplomatic cables.

Which was intermixed with all the evidence of warcrimes. It's not the whistleblower's job to clean up the criminal's papers before reporting them.

And who's to say (are you a judge?) what's relevant to the crimes? You'd have to read every document, in the context of all the others, to begin to know. It'd be wrong to try to pare the archive down, even if it was remotely possible.

Also, we learned a lot of other things that didn't rise to the level of warcrimes themselves but are a lot better exposed.

> I'm all for blowing the whistle on warcrimes.

Obviously not all for it. More like, mostly, or kinda, for it. Well, like, not totally against. Like, you're for it, but only if it's done in ways you approve of. Otherwise, fuck the victims...

> Snowden's responsible disclosure method was more effective, too.

Oh I see, you are totally for whistleblowers, you're even offering advice to Manning on how to make a bigger splash. Well why didn't you say so?

> in a way that did not hurt US and allied interests without benefit.

Yeah, you're clearly just upset that Manning leaked our shit but you've got to realize that nobody cares what the criminals want. We lost the right to complain when we let our soldiers murder people and covered it up.

> Your username seems appropriate. You deliberately misconstrued my post.

No Ad Hominem needed. (Do you even know what that is?) Your point was stupid on it own.
In Rochester, NY we are fortunate to have a local company competing with Time Warner by offering gigabit fiber to the home[1]. The local company is hugely popular, and based on their rate of expansion, very successful.

When my house was built in 1890 it did not have electricity, and all rooms were illuminated by gas lights. As of last year, it has gigabit fiber. Infrastructure can change. It helps to have locals take action, and citizens have to be vocal.

1. https://greenlightnetworks.com/
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Well, if we would just put ethics aside and go down the road of reproductive cloning, we could have a clone army. And by the logic of Star Wars - Clones > Droids.
this came from nowhere. it is way better then our atlas. russian did it again like before they did unmanned satellite race.
The author is missing the point of tolerance, which at it's core is "don't bother other people". Evangelical christians, by definition, bother other people.
So your motto is "Fuck you. Got mine." right?
Should get a bumpersticker printed up!
Hah, funny considering the current system is mostly based on bribe, lots of bribes. Putin plays cynical power games, but he mostly does it more openly than others, compare it with republicans inviting bibi to he senate in a hope to get the iran deal spolied.
Problem is the greatest system in the world is useless unless a quorum of people in your circle are using it. I've been trying to get my friends to use Wire for a year but still have to run skype
I miss it
They didn't kill it, they sold it. They might have harmed it by causing internal conflict and altering the company vision, but it's still doing fairly well.
A welfare state, is a system defined and dictated by a huge monolithic institution(a government). The welfare such institution provides, is not without prices. You surrender many aspects of freedom, and the ability of proper risk management. The hatred among different classes and political groups grows more intense, there are less and less probabilities they would collaborate. Each group has a feeling of being robbed by the opposing groups.
There have been lots in Germany:

http://gpl-violations.org/news/
Since when does the window manager have to use the gpu to be considered a compositing window manager?
>> would like to see it on a more industrial scale so that it can go into existing large cities

This will not happen in our lifetimes. Large cities with millions of people will never be self-sustainable. "Industrial scale" and "sustainable" are mutually exclusive concepts.
That's where bridging with other services comes in, e.g. using Matrix on your side to talk to contacts on IRC or whatever else without the people on the other side having to change what system or software they use.
> Yeah, it'd be nice if IM just settled on some interoperable basis.

And critically: that standard needs to not be XMPP. It's a mess of a protocol that's difficult to implement, and which fails to adequately support many common use cases (e.g, mobile clients, file transfer, and group chats).
Matrix looks interesting. But, damn, that animation on the homepage slows my browser to a crawl!
That's because they're not actually liberals. They're leftists. Would it be too much to ask that we use the word "liberal" the way the rest of the Anglosphere does?
When I play TF2 in 2D, I guess it's far enough away from reality that I don't try to understand what I'm seeing. When I play it in the Rift, I see a bunch of stuff that isn't quite right. I don't think it's the uncanny valley, because the game is still a cartoon. I really can't explain it any better than the author: after I play for a while, I need a nap.
> Some see even higher stakes for contemporary works, as they can be whisked off, their paint hardly dry, before ever entering the public’s consciousness.

I guess we know what people will be doing for money when jobs are gone due to automation.
For anyone else reading, it's worth noting that these issues are with Synapse, the "reference implementation" homeserver built by the team developing the Matrix spec. Performance issues are a focus for its development now. There are also other projects (like my project Ruma) that provide alternative implementations that won't necessarily have these performance issues (hopefully!) The nice part about having a spec is that anyone has the opportunity to provide a superior implementation.
Consider - what are we doing now that future generations will look back on and express the same sentiment?
When this topic comes up, I feel "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup"[1] should be mandatory reading. Tolerance isn't about allowing dissent or including marginal groups. Tolerance is difficult, unpleasant, and uncomfortable. If you don't feel those particular traits for any given groups opinions, then it isn't tolerance.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything...
I think that numbering convention for airport buses is fairly common. Leeds Bradford Airport near me has the 737, 747 and 757. (And for some reason, the 967.) And I'm sure I've seen similar elsewhere.
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Time Warner. 100MBPs both advertised and actual.

For another $10 I could go to 200.
For another $20 I could go to 300.
That's interesting, I'll check it out!
In a similar boat but at the same time I haven't pulled my VIVE out in almost a week now - when I think about why it's because 1) the hassle of getting the headset on comfortably 2) lack of new and interesting software/games to try. Will come with time, comfortable lightweight HMD + good telepresence apps will be the breaking point for this tech imo
I thought this Sam Altman tweet is relevant: "not enough of us are willing to pay for news, so we get the click-bait ad-driven news we deserve." (https://twitter.com/sama/status/736579483923156992).

It comes off (in tone) as a bit entitled when I see people complaining about how they aren't able to view free (free!) ad-supported content for free because they are using an adblocker. I use ad block. I recognize that I am a freeloader. I don't pretend I'm not. I know the usual rebuttal is something like "I'd pay for it if they offered" - but this is a non sequitur because it doesn't really change the fact that publications have no obligation to cater to our every content-gorging whim.
It is not a blind spot. Intolerance against intolerance is intentional.

> Surveys show that Americans have negative views of Muslims when they don’t know any; I suspect many liberals disdain evangelicals in part because they don’t have any evangelical friends.

If a liberal perceives Muslims and evangelicals to be intolerant (or at least less tolerant than themselves), their intolerance against them will be intentional and it may serve a purpose.
You misspelled "Koran".
I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else.

You do standby while millions are enslaved.

The United Nations estimates that roughly 27 to 30 million individuals are currently caught in the slave trade industry.

For context there were 3,950,528 slaves in the US in 1860.
>>Someday killer robots will be a thing, but thankfully that day isn't today.

Why do you say "thankfully"? Isn't it better to have robot armies face each other than human armies? Wars will probably continue to happen no matter what.
QNX is a fantastic system and one of the few microkernels that's really been done properly.
That being said though the send/recv interface on QNX gives you the same side effects that Plan 9's 9P gives you. You have a simple way for everything to talk to each other. Files are really just a way to visualize communication channels. Like displays are files, but the files are just an object you reference to send messages to the driver. Same with filesystems and everything else.
The plurality opinion on HN seems to be that it's a startup bubble (or at least it's a very very common opinion) - but this is pessimism.
One last post to further emphasize my point, in the UK there are zero areas with a population of over 10k per square mile (highest[0] is ~15k per km², which is very roughly ~6k in miles²). In the US, there's >100 cities, per Wikipedia [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...
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Osti que tu l'as pas l'affaire. On s'en sac' de squi veulent dire les mots, l'important c'est d'avoir l'air en criss :)
There could also be a simpler causal link: books and lucrative jobs could both caused by higher family socio-economic status.
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Organisms named after famous people
Not counting city states and small islands, South Korea has the 2nd highest population density in the world.
I wonder why they never added drag and drop file transfer. If you understand it as a presence concept and not just "chat" I think this is a must.
If he got this far, this guy is about 2 months away from supporting Trump.

Leftism is a religion and leftists are some of the most close-minded people you will ever meet.

MAGA
This seems to be an ad for "onename.com". It's amusing to see Cato behind this.

"onename.com" is close to the limit for a site which provides no information about what it does until you sign up. What it seems to do is tie your Facebook, Github, and Twitter logins together and log them on the Bitcoin blockchain. You can then send Bitcoins to others who have signed up. (But you have to give a Bitcoin address, which seems to defeat the whole point.)

There's no email address validation. I just signed up "uce@ftc.gov", where the FTC collects spam.

If someone could figure out a way so that people could create only one digital identity, that would be quite useful. Most of the trouble with spam in all its forms comes from the ability to create unlimited identities very cheaply. But this doesn't do that.
Conservatives love liberals and are super inclusive of them. This is only a problem on the liberal side.
The Vive is open, as far as I know. Only the OR is closed.
Institutions such as governments are no fun to deal with, and I'm sure that's especially true if you are dependent on them to survive. What would you suggest as an alternative?
To be fair, this is mostly goalpost moving. Leftism is now mainstream liberalism.

I used to identify as a liberal but now mainstream liberalism (leftism) is against basic things like freedom of speech.

Feels weird to identify as a 'conservative' since I grew up associating very negative things with that term but there it is.
Exactly my thought. Stephenson's article is my all-time favourite Wired piece. Here it is, a great longform read: http://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Yes, it's more similar to a forced labor slavery, than chattel slavery. The forced labor convention (which for some reason wasn't ratified by US) specifically makes exception for civic obligations and compulsory military service because they are fitting the definition.

Children in this analogy forced to go to prison too, when they reach 18 years and refuse their taxes.
It's hard not to agree with the premise of the article, basically that we should live by the values we assert. Or as often expressed on HN, we should "eat our own dogfood".

I guess it's the familiar problem of awareness of one's own biases, and the classic example of the kind of "insight" that few people achieve. Acceptance of others feedback and interpretations of reality is usually essential for such self-development. Likely the author believes the essential components are missing: both the diversity of world views and the willingness to hear them.

Reminds me of HN discussions about diversity in tech industries, while widely divergent points of view are expressed, moderators caution us to express experiences and opinions in a civil manner. That can't be too much to ask.

Lucky for me I've not had to deal with academia in a long time. Remarks like those in the article give the impression that there is increasing bias and intolerance. Of course that couldn't be uniformly true among institutions and disciplines, but to the extent it exists it would be pernicious.

To those on HN who have current first-hand experience in academic environments, I'd love to ask how much the situation resembles that noted in the article.

Edit: keeping a good thought the thread's subject can be discussed calmly, better to be able to learn something from it.
Citation needed for the ~34k mi² estimate. Per Wikipedia it's <1/7 that number (and yet has 1/4 the population).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_metropolitan_are...
The problem starts when some people say they're bothered because of other people's actions that are performed within their rights as citizens. For example, people being bothered because of people wanting to own guns, even when those people have no plan or intention of murdering anyone with the gun.
The problem is it's not intolerance against intolerance. It's intolerance against disagreement, which weaponized accusation of intolerance as a tool to get a pass to be intolerant. You are supposed to be nice, but not to bigots - so if you paint whoever disagrees with you as a bigot, you don't have to be nice to them, and being nice is harder than not being nice, so why not take the easy road? Especially if 100% of your peer group thinks the same way?

> If a liberal perceives Muslims and evangelicals to be intolerant

You can perceive anything. If mere perception (i.e. opinion) gives you permission to be intolerant, then there's no point in the whole concept - you can always start with perceiving somebody you don't want to tolerate as bad. In fact, that's exactly the reason you don't want to tolerate them - nobody is intolerant to somebody they like! So one either has to bring something more than "I perceive so", or the whole thing is just meaningless.
Maybe the headset idea is not so great. If we created a spherical room around the user and displayed the 3D image on it, in all directions, it would be more natural. Especially if we can still walk inside the sphere in any direction.
>Are you implying here that curiosity and intellectual abilities are genetically inheritable ?

Intelligence as we can measure it (IQ) is highly related to genetics (so you can say inheritable). IQ is correlated to 0.86 in case of twins raised in the same family, or 0.76 in twins raised appart.

> If so, what stops eugenics from being morally indefensible ?

Nothing!

I myself have spinal muscular atrophy and know that my children could have a chance of having it if the mother is carrier of the bad gene.
It would be wise for me to chose someone who isn't a carrier (or even undergo a gene therapy, once it will be available).

Why do you think eugenics is indefensible? Because some people were sterilized in the name of it? That's only one approach. You could also have eugenics designed to increase the number of 'quality' people. Say, for example, giving money to people with an IQ higher than 150 to make more children. Or those with amazing athletics skills, or amazing beauty... I don't care at this point, it's only for the sake of the argument.

You could also say that eugenics increases the chances of your children finding a quality mate, because they are more numerous when the state is subsidizing them.

Anyhow, we are animals and our evolution follows the same rules as all the other species. If we don't purposefully decide where our evolution will bring us, nature will do it for us. Without any external fitness function, those who can reproduce the most will be the evolutionary winners. Ask yourself: are those taking care of establishing a good career and establishing a solid financial foundation the ones with the most children?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBqjZ0KZCa0

Again, we are animals. We are subject to the same rules. If we decide to ignore them, our children will pay the price.
You probably mean 9am, not 9pm?
It's official, /r/the_donald has now reached HN.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/07/bos-j16.html

>As early as the end of September 1997 the employment offices were given instructions to systematically withdraw the work permits for Bosnians. Thousands of Bosnians, many of whom had worked in Germany for years, received duplicated forms, in generally restrained wording, notifying them that the employment centres had to first check whether there was a German available for the job.
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For me abaco(1) is generally good enough, and I used to use vnc and esd to get video and sound to my terminal from my 'browser machine.' RDP is a bit harder, but writing a client or doing a hackjob of freerdp or whatever wouldn't be too bad.
Yes, though it's still weird as an `insurance': most adults already know whether they ever need glasses or not.
The raison d'être of leftism is literally to bother other people because it gives leftists a feeling of power.
If you use Google Voice the sms (and voice) integration is very seamless.
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But meat is flourishing. Antibiotics are meat's way of making more meat. Call it the "selfish meat" theory.
To be fair, /r/politics colonized this place about 3 years ago.

We're gonna Make HN Great Again.
> Living out in the country in a small village will enable you to stretch your welfare checks compared to living in Munich, where most things and most people around you are much more.

Of course, that also sites you away from the jobs.

But yeah, eg the student welfare benefit (Bafög) goes much further in cheap cities.
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Exactly.

Personal anecdote; I am not a religious person but I live in a Muslim country. A Facebook friend who is an atheist keeps making obnoxious posts about religion; calling religious people stupid and atheists intellectuals etc. I was really tempted to honestly tell him to zip it as all of this was cringeworthy and served only to annoy people. But as I was typing a long reply I realized that this is what "tolerance" or more likely "freedom if speech" is all about; it's not "believing people can say what they want" as much as "not pointing out how annoyed they make you feel".
Is there an app to walk on street view? That would be a compelling use case.
Like the 3D TV syndrome?
They're impressive. But, we're impressed by the technology, the potential. It's a demo.

To get usage though, it needs to get past that stage where you are putting it on to see how cool it is. It needs to get to where you don't care so much about the headset, you just want the content.

I prefer game of thrones on a shitty laptop to storage wars on a hd
Nah, lots of people who are bona-fide Germans these days had ancestors that were considered eg Polish a generation or two ago.

But you are right, Germany does a pretty bad job at integrating newcomers.
Of course intellectual abilities are genetically inheritable, I doubt this was ever an argument against eugenics. (I don't have an opinion to be honest, just thought it was a weird remark)