skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole "open data" and "Freedom of information" thing is really falling short on me these days. As I keep going further in attempting to get Chicago's office of the mayor's communication records, I keep getting more and more push back. 4/5 times it's essentially, "We don't have the infrastructure to make your request possible." The remainder is either incompetence or "malice".

Why does it take an extreme amount of effort, a year and a half (and counting!) to receive government communications (which is considered within the public domain) when these guys have such amazing ease doing the same towards the general public? It's unbelievable.

Here's part of a response I got today after requesting communications - including email - for six of the numbers's communications, derived from [0]:

The email system’s tool set cannot identify the department where an email user works, and therefore, a search cannot be based on a department. Parameters that would assist the Mayor’s Office in conducting an email search include: (1) the e-mail address of the account you wish searched; and (2) the e-mail address of each individual’s mailbox, if you seek e-mail correspondence to and from two individuals.

After dozens of these, the only way I read responses like that is, "We're not clever enough, or willing enough to work with other departments to help you out. You're probably going to give up after this rejection, but if you don't, you'll give up eventually."

To get around that, I submitted a FOIA request to their IT FOIA group requesting the domain names/sent times for all emails sent out of the mayor's office. Just so that I can get the the timeframes for the Mayor's office to search through.

And.. just to add to the fun in attempting to prevent more rejections, another request to their IT department to send me their DNS resolution logs for the timeframe in [0]. Oddly, I don't think they can claim unduly burdensome on this one, either, since it's just pulling log files with maybe some awk commands and some nslookups on a machine outside their network to check if it's in "public domain".

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTR...
Yeah, someone else posted in another discussion here on HN as well. They weren't ready for the barrage, understandably so.
The really big, really difficult one will be enabling dynamic focal depth. The lack of focal planes makes it difficult to imagine VR providing a lifelike experience.

Some volumetric/panoptic displays are getting closer, along with eye tracking, but this seems like one of those things you cannot fix in software. Just adding higher pixel resolution, improving "physics", or creating a more beautiful environment will not solve this. So, 20 years is probably right.
BI means that BI is the major form of monetary welfare assistance, but it doesn't mean it's the only safety net. Providing emergency shelter and food assistance for those who might otherwise starve or be homeless is actually pretty nearly dirt cheap, and there's no good reason to simply discontinue doing things like that (both privately and publicly run) even with BI.

Also, who cares about fraud? You can't solve the free rider problem so don't worry about it. It's an equivalent problem to letting the guilty go away because we're so concerned about avoiding incarcerated people or protecting people's rights. Yes, murderers absolutely do go free sometimes because we have a robust (sometimes) system of civil rights and legal protections, but that doesn't make the system worthless. Similarly, there will always be free riders who take advantage of any system of welfare more than they should. But realistically those people are not a serious drain on the resources of a rich, industrialized nation, and the benefit to the public at large from providing robust welfare support is more than enough to offset that problem.
Not an expert (nor even an amateur), but their FAQ claims this won't be an issue. https://blueseed.com/faq/#seasickness
Agreed. I was very VR skeptical until I tried the Vive last month. Now I'm convinced this is around the corner.
RunSwiftLang.com's Swift interpreter component runs on OS X to make use of the native Foundation libraries. Not a huge app (Ruby/Sinatra) in of itself but fits the bill.
Firebase is broken for React Native
Despite the what effort? It was obvious this is coming. Turkish financial system has lots of regulations after 2001 economic crisis. Paypal should get the banking licence to operate. This includes physical servers located in Turkey, accessing data by authorities, taxing on transaction and etc.

Paypal didn't apply any of these items. Maybe Turkish market is not big enough for them to invest on these regulations.

I have started a fintech startup in Turkey (similar to Stripe) but before we launch, regulation changed and to run a payment gateway, you should have at least 5M TRY invested in the business. So yes regulation exists and bad for startups and small businesses but for business like Paypal it's not about "effort".
It looks to me like this is for getting started quickly at hackathons.
There's overlap, and the papers that cite that one are a good place to start running things down. There's plenty of recently published stuff about ssd specific database engine approaches, and I'd specifically suggest the "don't stack your log on my log" paper for a really basic intro [1].

Andrew can speak for himself but I'll say I've not found anything substantial that is similar to the marketing claims of SpaceCurve in open published work. Some of the comments about memory sharding cut against the grain of what I see as the trend in high performance published work, which generally obeys single writer via CoW and or log structure but leverages shared reading of memory heavily.

It may perhaps be unfair but given several years and tens of millions of funding I'd expect they'd be able to present something more convincing or at least some benchmarks. I suspect the approach is something smart people have found promising when doing diligence on it, but that is proving difficult to turn into a product due to drawbacks not covered in the marketing materials, blog posts, and comments here.

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/inflow14/infl...
>I do not think I am unique.

When those that agree with you start affecting said companies' bottom line, we'll call it a movement. Until then you appear to be in the severe minority.

The Internet is not governed, it is bought and sold; if you have any intention of affecting change, you do better to acknowledge that, at least as a start.

Realize, too, that the ability to "leave" these services is something of a privilege. Every job I've ever applied to in the tech world asks for a LinkedIn and, I've observed for programming positions, at least a presence on GitHub. It's hard to explain your free speech objections on your intro letter.
It's not decentralized if there's a trusted oracle.
It seems apparent to me that the strengths of desktop chip manufacturers don't translate well to mobile. Both Intel and Nvidia have had tremendous problems to compete against ARM / PowerVR. While Nvidia has done a better job, I imagine they are still loosing money on that front. Maybe this is the time for them to acknowledge that and instead concentrate on markets where local data parallel computations are actually useful and currently feasible (due to power requirements). Maybe mobile might get there as well (real time on-chip image recognition), but it's still years off I think.
I can imagine someone running a horse-and-cart shop saying the same thing 20 years before cars. But who'll clean up the horse shit?
I don't see how you reach that conclusion. If your detection is the same, it's easy to see which treatments or lifestyles work better or worse. This seems to me to be a problem unique to measuring the value of different kinds of detection.
Because...you know...SOA and N-tier systems didn't exist before Node. So what's the name of the anti-pattern where a recent grad stumbles into an enterprise codebase for the first time and has a panic attack because the system architecture doesn't rely on whatever's hot that month in Silicon Valley tech blogs?
But 'all' you have to do is track the pupil, and push focus on the object they're looking at. We're already rendering the focal length live in most games, there's no reason we couldn't shift the focal length affording to what the viewer's pupils are pointed at.

Alternatively, they could use a modified biology, where the direction the head is pointing chooses the relative DOF, basically you render a fairly wide depth of field around whatever the head is pointed at.

Anyway, you can get a pretty lifelike experience with just some basic atmospheric perspective. Look at photography with very wide depth of field [1], so everything is in focus simultaneously. You sorta just get used to it, and accept it.

[1] http://cdn.shutterbug.com/images/0814picture03.jpg
This seems ridiculous, it's pretty clear that the government had enough evidence to justify a warrant to for the location data- they had already obtained one to search the phones. The difference here is purely procedural, of course the court is going to refuse to overturn a guilty verdict just because they asked for a court order instead of a second warrant. And now we have this shitty law.
Actually, you'd only need to classify the money from BI as not being subject to garnishment or collections. This is how Social Security is handled.

With this, they could loan the money to people and people would owe it, but they couldn't collect.
Basic income has a whole host of pretty interesting self-reinforcing feedback loops that seemingly would improve things overall.

For example, people would be more likely to leave jobs that were unsafe, treated people poorly, etc. Including situations where employers weren't following labor laws and regulations (which is a huge problem today). Meaning that maybe it'd be more likely that the fire code, sanitary regulations, etc. were followed consistently. Additionally, people would be more able to have the flexability to be able to train for new careers (whether on their own or through a school or program). Shifting the balance of power in the job market to labor would also generally improve the wage situation, which has stagnated for the last several decades due to the growing power of employers.
Locate the Hate: Detecting Tweets Against Blacks
Citation please? (I couldn't find any.)
Windows.exe has crashed, again
On the meta level, I came to think of the relationship between OO and FP as similar to being and doing.

Does a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck, because it is a duck (being) ?

OR

Is a duck, a duck because it walks like a duck and talks like a duck (doing) ?
Thanks! I didn't know that.
Ask HN: My first programming job, no college degree, need advice
I've taken some CS classes at a community college (Java & C++). Dabbled in different programming languages through Udacity, Team Treehouse, Codecademy, etc (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Swift, PHP). Read a couple books on making websites. I don't have any projects I can claim as my own. Everything I've made have been slight changes from course projects. In general, I can figure out the tools needed to make something and morph existing code to build stuff.

I got a big break working as a Salesforce developer. Lots of new stuff, learning every day. Been working there 3 months. I'm pretty much getting paid to study and learn new tech for 4-6 hours of my shift.

Advice that I need. What are things I MUST do so I don't squander this opportunity?

Also, I work Uber/Postmates at night for 3-4 hours because I'm only getting paid $35k a year. As soon as I'm profitable and have the talent I've been promised $60k-$70k a year and the flexibility to go back to college to finish my CS degree. Is there anything I can do during my downtime of Uber/Postmates drives that will help in my developer journey?
Then why do we have two different words -- syntax and language? Python is a high level language, a bytecode, a standard library, and an interpreter (or many interpreters). You might also lump into that a culture, a community, and a Zen.

When we say it's the same language, most of those aspects are the same from Python 2 to Python 3.
I think this article tries to justify cloud from a financial perspective, where margins have shrunk obviously . But the volumes will keep increasing for quite some time. The value from cloud services is just increasing and The Cloud movie has just started.
Oregon: Welfare Utopia
Serious question... By this logic have I plateaued in the middle class because I like to pay for and watch Netflix while having a few beers on the weekends instead of managing an investment portfolio for better returns or working on another startup idea?
I'll believe it when I see it. The original IRT network was built in 2 years (!). They've been working on the 2nd avenue line since 1972 and it still isn't open.
Does someone point me in the right direction for using a neural network for prediction (the input will be time series data). All the beginner's tutorials I have seen deal with classification and not prediction.
>I agree that web storage is conceptually a nicer model with a smaller attack surface.

I see the exact opposite. The attack surface provided by enabling JavaScript is far greater. Cookies work with JavaScript disabled while Web Storage does not. If one is really really paranoid, hiding behind 7 proxies, using Tor, then one has JavaScript off entirely.
I own a Vive and have not once crashed into a wall. The software knows where your physical boundaries are and warns you when you're too close by fading in a virtual wall (sort of looks like a blue mesh).

Take your uninformed nonsense elsewhere.
Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: Old, New, and Missing [pdf]
By way of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791636
And how do you prevent this money from being siphoned off by the payday loan industry? Lots of people will be willing to trade their monthly government check (plus some usurious interest rate like 30% compounded monthly) for a lump sum today.
what if they banded together and competed. i don't want to trvialize it but youtube is annoying as fuck.

* pointless comment system

* inability/difficult to just get audio, especially mobile

* horrible search experience

* weird channel/user ui

* many features/services that come and go. youtube red, other premium services, i actually saw a new one today

* mobile app

i am not saying baseline piracy should be allowed, but as other saas and consumer services become much cheaper, it becomes easier to buy than steal. finding and curating an entire music library is simple and 9.99 on apple and spotify. netflix and prime provide video media more consistently and with less of a hassle than torrenting it due to integration, speed and lack of adware. just roll out the fucking content and let people buy it. if you sue google and take it down, and it can't be immeadiately torrented, that artists music immeadiately won't exist to 60% (prob greater) of the people listening.

also, DMCA makes no fucking sense. i cant find the link but random 3rd parties just issue takedowns and get and keep advert revenue. i am against google and youtube being essentially sole purveyors of search and media, but I feel for the people running these services. how do you verify and moderate millions of request? this might even be per hour at this point. last thing this needs is to be changed. either scrap it or keep it, i'd be too scared to see what would happen if this got amnended even with good intentions
Why not just extend the G? It already is Queens<->Brooklyn.
Someone should take a look at the update services for Microsoft Office for Mac which still does chunks over HTTP as well...
Nvidia and many others are working on this problem right now and making a lot of headway. They are called light field displays. One of the biggest players in the space is magic leap, they have attracted quite a bit of funding (1.4B last I checked).

https://research.nvidia.com/publication/near-eye-light-field...
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/534971/magic-leap/
Time to ban coffee? How values dictate our use of precaution
"Take an IPhone - you find a variety of technologies - each one was created by some government grant... The collective production of wealth, which is then privately appropriated.. it's very easy to start thinking of basic income as a dividend that goes to the collective that was responsible for collectively producting the wealth."

"We need to create a system whereby society stakes a claim to the returns to aggregate capital, and this claim becomes an income stream that goes to everyone. I don't see why my children and your children have a right to a trust fund [or] why Paris Hilton has a right to a trust fund, when nobody else does, or very few people do.

Think of basic income as a trust fund for all our children - to be financed by dividends from our aggregate capital, which was after all, created collectively."
I think it's '[open-source] [hardware rendering]', not '[open-source hardware] [rendering]' - the key tidbit being the distinction between "software rendering" and "hardware rendering" - the former is shorthand for rendering purely on the CPU, while the latter uses the graphics card for faster rendering speed.
".. now imagine if Microsoft decided to build an AppStore like iOS .."

Yeah like they would do that.. http://apps.microsoft.com/
I believe cloud adoption will also jump at the next economic recession as companies try to cut costs.
A quote from your link: "poverty is not a direct causation of hunger."

(Of course, that's referring to the United States)
> The problem is that no one else can tell what is and is not authorized. Copyright relies on permission and the copyright owner (and only the copyright owner) has any idea to whom they have and have not given permission.

It goes even further than that: there are completely legitimate uses for which the copyright owner hasn't given permission, and their permission is neither requested nor required. YouTube's "Content ID" doesn't take fair use into account at all.
I posted a video of people running into walls. And there are lots of other videos of the same.

Are you implying it doesn't happen?

Also, how do you make something like Call of Duty when you're limited in your movement by walls?
Why do you need a second job on $35k per year, are you supporting a family or something?
Well the 12 lead is more finnessed than that - essentially without a 12 lead your ability to definitively rule out an acute heart attack is completely impaired. 5 lead ECGs will still miss (some high percentage, above 10% and below 50%) of heart attacks.

A one (two?) lead ecg as you describe is not going to tell anyone what is going on with ST segments, particularly as you would be only looking at your aVR or aVL(depending on which way you sum the currents).
Looks very crisp - I wonder if they could apply HQ2X or similar on certain textures to try to improve the look of text and other sprites?
As a Staten Island resident, this sucks as usual. I lived here for 10 years, moved to Manhattan and recently moved back because I just can't get the same amount of space for the price in the other boroughs. The work on the Verrazano and SI Expressway has slowed down traffic to worse delays than before, and this island really needs some better transportation options.

Currently, I take the express bus every day to my office in the Flatiron district - this takes me on average an hour and 10 minutes door to door, but can easily hit 2 hours due to something happening on either the Verrazano or the FDR. Alternatively, I live close enough to the (there is only one) train on Staten Island that can take me to the Ferry - from there I would get off with everyone else and fight with the crowds taking the various subways up town. This commute is about an hour and 20 minutes, and is broken up in 3 parts that are mildly frustrating during each leg of the commute.

Obviously a direct subway connection to the island would be amazing, either to Brooklyn or Manhattan directly, but that plan was scrapped in the 20's and isn't likely to come back any time soon. Some transportation proposals include commuter connections to the NJ light rail via Bayonne; and there is a 20 year project ahead to improve and widen the Verrazano - I don't know how much of that time will cause more delays than there already are.

As the North Shore gets gentrified with the new luxury residential buildings like URL (Urban Ready Life - sigh - though it looks like it has now been renamed URBY...), the Wheel (the future world's tallest ferris wheel), Empire Outlets, etc - the area will become a hot new destination for those looking to escape the ever rising prices of the coveted Brooklyn and New Jersey areas like Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Jersey City, etc. Hopefully they have a lot more in store for transportation options when it comes to the island when these projects open to the public over the course of 2017.

Sorry for the rant...
Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony
It's fascinating to see what criteria they will consider hate speech.

Facebook is usually fast to act on any reports, so I've been able to test what they allow and what they have removed.

A black girl making fun of Asians and calling them stupid and "chinky ass" was left up.

A white guy calling black people "ghetto" was removed.

A white guy calling Mexicans "wet backs" was left up.

I'm not sure what they are counting as hate speech, and what they aren't, as those posts appear to have been moderated by an actual human. I guess it depends on the time of day, and the attitude of the person judging the content.
It doesn't do well on the classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
Can someone comment on lock free data structures vs lock free algorithms. My understanding is that there isn't as much of a symbiosis between the two as there are with other data structures and algorithms. Is it easier to implement a lock free data structure than a lock free algorithm?
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Information Gain Is Knowledge Loss – One Cause of Stress
Yup. Wife and two kids.
That's still immoral.

If you're worried about the public good, there are nonviolent and consensual means of cooperation that I believe would make all of us far more prosperous than today.
The voluntary act is choosing to own a cell phone.
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Maybe you can't compare it, but you can still learn from it.
So it is a system which leverages the 'threading' feature so that you can do a lot of things - bug tracking, task management, knowledge sharing, calendaring and reminding, file sharing, CRM etc. As everything is a thread, you can drag a thread into different forms so that it serves as a multi-functional tool. So this is a different approach, as opposed to integration with different tools.

Hope I'm able to explain myself.
Elm: nudging you toward good design