skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A burning building is both an immediate threat to folks inside the building, and can be a threat to life to folks outside the building. That would be silly, however there should be accountability paperwork outside. In addition, many fires are reported by alarm systems or folks calling for emergency help - they asked for such a thing. There should be accountability paperwork, signed off by a court, before they start investigating - and the investigator should be a trained public official, not an insurance investigator.

In home murder? Assuming they got an emergency call or the cop happened to hear screaming, etc - yes, they should go in. Once folks are safe, however, everything else should require a warrant and paperwork should be filled out regardless for accountability reasons.

The whole point with the courts being involved is that even if it is after the incident, it brings a certain amount of accountability. We can change things so that different folks rotate the resopnsibility, include folks like prosecutors and public defenders and other private lawyers, and some things will basically be rubber-stamped (like investigating a fire or after they stopped the murder in progress).

In some cases, it is better to pass a law stating that a specific thing is allowed without a warrant, however, so that the courts don't have to get involved. A breathalyzer, for example, isn't invasive and good for public safety. Drawing blood should require a warrant and a trained professional in a clean environment, however. That could change if we have tests that are the equivalent of a finger prick for blood sugar as the risks are lower - we just aren't there yet.
Very often you will only end up with a penalty fee on the first year.
Replace any top CEO with any top founder CEO and you may be more correct- however I doubt that all CEOs, founders of their own vision or not, do not do what they do for the money. Greed perhaps is not a great motivator, but money alone is.
> imagery from my favorite games

How is that not artwork?
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See, patents can be used as a barrier to entry in any market. This is what happening with Xaiomi. In the past, when it entered into South Korea, it was sued withing 2 days.
Greed may be the wrong word to use. Certainly many successful CEOs view money as the metric for success, and those people obviously are in it for the money (success).
And the US don't benefit from having the largest pharma companies?
Band nerds aren't retards.
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It doesn't have to come from income tax. It could come from unearned sources of income, such as a tax on land, or on interest.
You wouldn't even be arguing that. You'd be arguing that money corrupts people, and because there's lots of international money managed by the UK, the UK is therefore "corrupting".

So what? Money corrupts, this is not news. In any economy where you have regions of the world that specialise, there will be regions with lots of banks.
No dating scene whatsoever haha. Restaurants all segregated family / single males. No movie theatres. Entire country dry no alcohol.

The most amusing of all would be safe ways and grocery stores would turn into night club entrances as all the women would be shopping so guys would drive by the entrance and hold up signs with their phone numbers on them. So front of Safeway on a weekend night would be all these sports cars, benz's Etc. Too funny.

Jeddah a lot more lax than Riyadh.

Can't get into Mecca unless you're Muslim. We took a wrong turn on a road trip one time and were stopped and made to turn around.

Check points outside every city. If you were a female and didn't have written consent from your husband you weren't allowed to leave the city.
It's the threat of violence. Like I said, you either comply or die. Just try resisting your eventual imprisonment and find out. Of course people are well aware of what the threat ultimately entails and as such choose to comply, but this makes it no less immoral.
It's not soluble, even with mind reading, because people change their minds.

The correct solution is just to move on. Too much of the media coverage of elections is about the horse race aspect, almost none of which is actually of positive benefit. Rather than spending so much time trying to guess winners, the media could spend more time and effort actually covering the actual issues of the election in a mature fashion, but it's been decades since they even tried.
I was very surprised to read how little Swiss labor (14%) was used in its construction. Most of the labor was Italian (29%):

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-30/swiss-made...
Really interesting idea!
VR is much more difficult that one might expect. We are really just slightly more advanced then blue and red glasses atm.

But instead of trying to adjust for how our brain works, we could give an enhanced experience, so that IRL will feel "clunky" in comparison.
very clearly people want what they are providing

It's not clear they want it for any price, though

to expect that it be given to you for nothing

That's not what the GP said, he said he wanted to see these artists go under, which is another matter. I feel the much the same way about artists who lobby for insane surveillance and trivially abusable laws because they feel they aren't paid what they're entitled to.
Very interesting project.
It would represent a turning point.
german livestream from the opening today (swiss national television): http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/srf/embed?urn=urn:srf:ais:video:c49c1e...
Is there any good documentation out there on how the Linux Kernel does git?
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So, part of the work i'm doing at the moment (mainly devops for a pre-revenue startup) involves doing an ETL sub-project (scrape data from websites, ingest into a database) which i'm implementing with Django, Django Rest Framework, Scrapy, Celery, Haystack (with ElasticSearch) and Postgres, with the Django Admin configured for data curation/high level job monitoring. It basically took me half a sprint (1 week plus a couple of days) to get a large part of the work done (Scrapy spider work was mosly done by a previous developer), including unit tests for the API/DRF code base, CI integration (Codeship) and a local dev Vagrant setup.

The rest of our stack (the main backend API), which was poorly implemented by a non-proficient developer (which i wouldn't consider a bad developer, merely non-experienced; he eventually moved jobs), is currently done in NodeJS/Express/Sequelize and IMHO should be scrapped and rewritten.

Recently, during a conversation with a new hire frontend developer, he mentioned the ETL sub-project should be done in NodeJS as well, for same language consistency across the stack and i basically replied that if he was willing to rewrite it (with the same features i get from solid, highly featured mature community libraries) in NodeJS himself, he'd be free to do it :-)

Unfortunately, the CTO <rant>which IMHO is pretty null at managing people/software projects and sole aspiration seems to be becoming the CTO of the next Trello</rant>keeps throwing out buzzwords as "Kafka based event data driven application", "snappy websockets driven UI" and "microservices", while in the last year was hardly able to get a buggy over engineered MVP up and doesn't seem to have taken a Q, which means i'm looking for a new job. In the middle of all this NodeJS madness, i'm hopeing i have not become a dungeon Master myself :-)
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The question here is: does he want to revolutionize his factories, which makes a lot of sense? Or does he mean in general?

I mean, when I see his production, I see a lot of cars, which are moved around on a robot to get in position to be able to work on them. That takes time. That is not a series production. https://youtu.be/TuC8drQmXjg?t=5m33s

Versus a real series production: https://youtu.be/dy3R4K5jHYc?t=7m59s or here: https://youtu.be/tNQmXw_vX-g?t=3m4s
> There being many examples of 538 "predicting" a 99% probability of a certain victory
I think there is only one example of this kind: democratic Michigan primary
Cool project! I've been following it.

Out of curiosity, do you still feel that voxels are worthwhile? Compared to the amazing stuff that you can achieve with polygons, e.g. http://www.orsispanyol.com/art/.
It's not that surprising, it is? I would expect Italian wages to be considerably lower.
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The quote about a "100% success rate" is meaningless. It comes from here:

According to our whistleblowing source, who has been asked to give evidence to the new Parliamentary Committee on Banking Standards, set up in the wake of the Libor scandal in June, banks tend to take a very dim view of employees who break ranks.

"No risk manager wants to admit that he didn't do his job. So an unholy alliance of mutual self-interest kicks in," the source, who asked to remain anonymous, said. "So they'll do anything to bad-mouth a whistleblower as an underperformer. They have a 100% success record."

This is literally a figure of speech from a single guy who considers himself to have been "bad-mouthed as an underperformer", yet in the Independent article it became:

Powerful financial firms will destroy the lives and reputations of whistleblowers. Newsnight found they have a 100 per cent success rate

... which not only mis-attributes the quote but makes it sound like an actual statistic related to "destroying lives".

This is the worst piece of journalism I've seen for a while.
"they serve those reasonably well."

I think anyone who had RBS shares before the bailout might disagree with you on that point!

Also, I wonder who the single largest shareholder of UK banks might be?
That is the consequence of focusing on solving problems for the world, instead of connecting with the people next to us.
I know, I live there ;)
Why is that a dealbreaker? If you don't want your data held hostage to fortune you back it up.
Engineering is the process of modelling reality mathematically to save time and money while building useful things.

If you skip the modelling part and just build things you hope are going to work - and you can't be precise about when, if, or why they might not work, or how long it's going to take to build them - you're not doing engineering.
This is a chip that gets soldered directly on the board. While it is possible to solder this specific chip to a detachable interface that can be removed, I highly doubt anyone will ever do it.

This form factor has a huge advantage for OEMs - they can just slap on a single chip that has everything built in - controller, memory management and the actual storage. Less parts = less convoluted assembly process and that is cheaper. While theoretically you can put a BGA fully integrated SSD SOC like this on a PCI-E card or M2 etc., it kinda beats the purpose.
Castells ideas are indeed presented in a very readable manner, most of the times complemented with figures and data. In my "academic" tradition (communication/media sciences meets IT, in continental Europe), Castells is essentially a mandatory reference (even more than McLuhan).

Thinking about it, from a practical perspective, I'd eventually suggest "The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society" instead of the trilogy. It should be more readable, definitely smaller, while still addressing most important concepts (for me, it was the spatial configuration in the information society: the space of flows).
I would guess around 1 Billion dollars ... worth of patents given away by Microsoft as an 'investment' in Xiaomi. Just like Intel was forced to a 1.5B 'deal' last year.

There is a LOT of talk about anticompetitive practices by Microsoft lately, this usually results in such pseudo investment/partnership with native chinese company, or $1B anti competitive fine like the one Qualcomm received. Apple is also on a short list of getting fined/kicked hard.
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There are a few options for using Docker in production. At the simplest (in terms of least infrastructure at least) you could just have a VM somewhere running Docker, and use docker-compose or similar to bring everything up as you would in development. In the middle you have Amazon Elastic Beanstalk which can take a Docker image and deploy it with minimal hassle, and at the other end of the spectrum you have Kubernetes/Mesosphere/Amazon ECS to allow distributing containers across a cluster of machines.

Except for isolation there's no particular need to run one container per server - while there is a bit of overhead to running in containers my experience is that its offset by being able to run multiple services which don't require a lot of resources alongside each other on one server.
I wonder if this move by Microsoft signals that the rumored Surface Phone will be made by Xiaomi and to be potentially co-branded with Xiaomi?
If you wish you could do that with SQLite, check GRDB.swift. It can synchronize a UITableView with an SQLite query. Demo: https://github.com/groue/GRDBDemo, documentation: https://github.com/groue/GRDB.swift/tree/v0.70.1#fetchedreco...
The shortages in the American private market is simply much more difficult to see. Folks might theoretically be able to go to the doctor, but not having the money to do so - instant shortage of healthcare. There are wait times here for doctors, but can you really tell me that the insurers in the states have no mismanagement? They had to pass a law to cover pre-existing conditions like diabetes. There is a lot of waste in the system in the states - there is truly no reason for an expensive MRI machine to sit there empty most times unless it is reserved for emergencies... yet they are such.

No system is perfect. My experience with private care has been in the US, and my experience with nationalized is in Norway. I've tried to go to doctors both places with waiting lists of weeks, and the waiting is a bit longer for specialists here than there. Give and take. I'd still prefer to actually be able to get health care when i need it regardless of having the finances to do it. I actually prefer to have a mix of the two - strong national care with an option to be private.
Hah, Spanish are the rookiest of them all, that's why you think they are the most corrupt. They simply get caught too often.

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"

Also looking at you Switzerland.
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A better metric is probably "deaths / km" instead of % of workforce.

Also, while those nine deaths are tragic, we've come a long way from the roughly 200 lives the old 15km tunnel took.
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These secret lists are a real problem. I have to hope that no one sharing my name does anything wrong (or is put on one of these lists by mistake). When will the people in charge of these programs realise that names are not a unique identifier.
What about the financial CEOs who, after the US government rescued their firms with bailout, prompty paid themselves multimillion dollar bonuses with the bailout money?

I think people change during the course of their life. While greed will not probably motivate you enough to rise to the top (you need other drivers such as ambition), if you've already made it to the top (and there's nowhere else to go, you're already #1 by your own metrics), you can slowly morph into a greedy bastard.
> Has Nvidia had any success at all in mobile?

Delivering good chips for mobile use? Yes. Tegra chips have been showing good results in benchmarks.

But making money out of them? Not so much. The whole mobile chip industry became a race to the bottom (with prices) many years ago and most companies in the business are struggling as Samsung and Apple make their own chips and the rest of the market isn't worth a lot of money.
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It's especially about expertise. These guys work in teams and move from one tunnel project to the other. You can't just hire inexperienced work force for such projects.
I think in 2-4 years, xiaomi will be a market leader. I believe this for three reasons:

1. the Chineese government got their backs. (e.g. foreign competitors have been forced to agree to not sue these guys to get their mergers approved)

2. they make long term strategic decisions. xiaomi is owned by the employees and don't have any short-sighted shareholders to please

3. their engineering and manufacturing teams have a very efficient iterative workflow. many other companies ship a product and move on to the next but xiaomi updates and improves their products every four weeks (eight ?).
Really? The Cross rail project in London cost only 2bn more than the Swiss project but does exactly that, create an entirely new line under the whole of London, which is ridiculously hard to dig under (or so I've heard). Why the hell does it cost $50bn for you?
wat???
Oh, does XMPP have trouble with spam? I guess it makes sense, since it works like email, but I have never received any.
I could only wish the same can be done for Hong Kong.
Radioactive decay.
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There's a difference between the altitude (the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level) of something and the depth below the ground under which it travels. Deepest in this case, in relation to the Gotthard tunnel, refers to how far under the surface of the mountain it is, from the article, "The Gotthard tunnel runs 2.3 km under the mountain at its deepest point" - note that this makes no reference to altitude.
American Indians didn't believe in land enclosure and didn't have banks issuing fiat money against land, they also bartered I think rather than issuing paper against future labour.

I think hacker news isn't smart at all about fiat money because it's inextricably bound up with the venture capital world where you agree to hand over your labour for paper.

Fiat money is ex nihilo and therefore creatable in infinite amounts. Many of you won't be old enough to realise the productivity gains computers have brought. It's amazing. Yet here we are all scratching around for enough to cover our basic bills.

It will always be like this when you have land enclosure and tax labour. Create more and you can devote more to land costs. Hurry up, the rentiers are waiting.
Do you have a link to the keynote video?
How do you feel about HSBC being convicted of money laundering? Do you feel that they were wrongly convicted based on the original definition of the term?
So how much time approximately will be saved vs the existing routes?
Can you send a message directly to a specific person (who might not await it) or is it all about chat rooms?
> most software development jobs are closer to "renovate the kitchen"

And why people need different kitchens? Cannot the differences required be resolved by configuration, do they have to be resolved by programming?

I argue that everybody having different kitchen is inefficient and wrong approach to software development.

Waterfall was never in favor - IMHO programmers (or software engineers) always recognized that there software has no good analogue to reality, and there is nothing like a blueprint for software.
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I am glad it helped. I am not the creator of the article, but found it worthy to be shared :)
Great project. The idea of using internet without internet it's just brilliant. Amazing work guys.
>Most hackers doing this live in Russia/China/Ukraine they are mostly untouchable but in the same time they have limited possibilities to escape from hell they live.

In my experience this simply isn't true. The part about nationalities, yes somewhat. But these guys certainly mostly aren't living in particularly bad situations, they're just guys that figured out that the risk/reward ratio is heavily in their favor.

>It is easy to be on high moral ground when you can just get a normal job in economy with <6% unemployment and rich family to back you up, funding your overpriced college.

You can hardly compare a "normal job", even if it pays 200k a year to a part time job where you can make anything between 500k to millions of dollars a year.
And when you consider Hong Kong is the tiniest in all those places mentioned within the paper........
The top-end Xiaomi Max retails at 1999 RMB which is 303 USD.
It cuts the Zürich-Milan journey time for passenger trains by about an hour (from 173 to 111 minutes) accelerating train trips from Germany/Switzerland to Italy significantly.
"What do you mean 'we', white man?"

The problem is there's no solidarity with the newcomers, and a strong desire by incumbents to keep the place the same and not turn it into skyscraper-filled Guangzhou. For a lot of people not building housing is an important priority in their life that they will fight for. Not to mention the question of money.

You might equally ask why the tech industry feels the need to be stuck so tightly to SF when it's far more amenable to remote work than most industries.

There's also the little matter of the earthquake zone.
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Hey guys, developer of FullPaveOS here, just mentioning there is a new RC out with lots of new cool things:
https://github.com/guysoft/FullPageOS/issues/18
And, more often than not, these requirement changes are used as excuses for extending the deadline so that project ends up being done "on time". I've worked in management on multi-year waterfall projects and this is how this game is played.
It is one way to equip itself with patents for International Market. It is also worth mentioning Xiaomi, should they decide to enter US market, will cost a little more due to 4G licensing cost.

And Microsoft will get Office into the hands of million Xiaomi users.
Backups and being able to access the disk don't cover the same area. If they used the same standard connectors as everyone else ever, you could take it and stick it into another computer and be up and running again, in a total of 5 minutes. Backups are rarely that comprehensive.

Also, get real, most people don't have any backups set up at all. They still shouldn't be artificially prevented from accessing their data in case of a failure...
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> The best, brightest, smartest, pedigreed, hardest working most motivated people on earth.

Come down back to earth.

Putting your post into the context of neuroscience, Einstein's brain consisted of much smarter (or "just better" and "harder working") neurons than can be found in all other brains!

Or maybe Einstein's brilliance was an emergent property of how they are working together in their network?

You should take some time and think about the nonsense in your statement. You raise a question without much understanding. It's not in the hand of individuals, and to change system outcomes is very, very hard. Politicians and businesses have power - but they have power because they function in a system. If they go against it they lose it. Like the king on that tiny planet in "The Little Prince" who commanded the sun to rise and to set.

You understand humanity as a bunch of individuals - that will always leave you baffled why we act (or don't) the way we do. It is a very inadequate model if you try to apply it to things like the missing housing in the BA.

Also, there are risks few are talking (or thinking) about when significantly increasing the Bay Area's population: Water and earth quakes, for example (the latter can severely impact the former). http://www.bayareacouncil.org/issues-initiatives/water-polic... What will happen in "Black Swan" events? Especially since we can be pretty certain that they will come. The water situation in particular needs to be addressed for the entire Bay Area.
The top image is the new splash screen. Why not lead with a map of the proposed line above the fold, instead of a pretty but non-informative title page that leads into a page full of text?
Only in not so corrupt countries..