skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that Waze misses (perhaps in the interest of simplicity?) is nudges. As in, "I prefer highways" and "I prefer no speedbumps". I don't know a clean way to map it against time (Don't go residential unless you save me 10 mins) but this could be a start.

I like Waze for helping me survive Bay Area traffic. If there's an accident, I do like the roundabout directions.
That american idea can only hold ground in the US, a country that has not experienced an external threat or revolution since its inception. The world's revolutions started from relatively unarmed people. Once the flame is ignited, and the socioeconomic conditions fan the flame, there is little chance a government can stop it.
It's really more accurate to say that Google is a company whose goal is, and I quote, "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" -- and to do so while being revenue-positive so they can keep operating. This interpretation leads to better predictive value about Google's likely behavior. They probably wouldn't sell chickens. They might well offer subscription / ad free versions of their products (see YouTube red, contributor) to keep the revenue flowing via a different monetization strategy.

(They're paying my bills this year but this is purely my opinion from watching the company for a while).
Agreed, I think he was quoted as saying that anybody who'd want to try the Flyboard Air would need 10,000 hours or so on the water version. A lot of time.
Well, I love those gated check-ins, specially when working in offshoring projects.
Another thin layer over a word2vec model.
I thought the typical weighing was made based on whether there was potential for substantial non-infringing use.

Half the inventions of modern society wouldn't be legal if the criteria were instead "can be used for illegal purposes."
I routinely use the Pirate Bay to find torrents of Linux distros that are not even approximately "pirated material." It does have legitimate use cases.
How do you know?
And even if it is - complain to those users. TPB does and can not control the contents that users use to calculate hashes.

100% of hashsums on TPB are legal. These are genuine numbers. They don't even uniquely identify the (supposedly illegitimate) contents on users' computers since different sources can produce identical hashsums.
I'm sure the BBC would love to be able to sell subscriptions around the world. The trouble is its only worth doing that if they can make more money from it than they can from licensing their content to local broadcasters. They're probably not there now, but even if they were, there are years of deals in place everywhere.
On the other hand I appreciate its advice, but don't always take it. I like knowing there could be a way around it, but I use my judgement on what shortcuts to take.
Creating a site that alleges you are a rapist is an amazingly stressful process for the presumed innocent person, requiring him to respond to a torrent of media and social hate and shunning, being tried in the public eye, open to claims of being a "monster", etc.

You could argue you're "helping" more people by believing rape claims, but that's both mob rule(the rights of the many trample the rights of the few) and not necessarily stable in the long run. If people do not need to produce any evidence and feel no fear of reprisal, it's likely the rate of false accusations will climb as people learn to use them as a tool to bludgeon their adversaries.
If the metadata in question is used specifically for the purpose of distributing copyrighted material then how should it not be?
If everyone who wants to own (to keep using this one example) an AR-15 had to buy a CNC, that would be quite the commitment. If the current model of people buying many milling machines and selling their services is the only viable way to avoid that, then you've already seen the feds start to take notice. After all, if you can get word of mouth around enough to make money, you're making enough noise to be heard.

3D printing is presumably going to become ubiquitous, and require no skill or experience to operate and maintain.
Google's smart contacts analyze your tears and augment your reality
But the (((echo))) is being used to target harassment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826647
I'm saying the exact opposite.
I agree that you don't get to claim sovereignty over your local streets. At the same time, there's an expectation that the character of a neighborhood won't change radically and I don't think that expectation is entirely unreasonable. It's a matter of balancing competing interests. The answer is definitely not to let the local homeowners determine everything about how their street is used, but at the same time the answer is also not to destroy the quality of life of residents for the convenience of through drivers.
It seems not any more?:

"Resolution. In order to prevent a man in the middle from making KeePass display incorrect version information (even though this does not imply a successful attack, see above), the version information file is now digitally signed (using RSA-2048 and SHA-512). KeePass 2.34 and higher only accept such a digitally signed version information file. Furthermore, the version information file is now downloaded over HTTPS."
Nope. I read it and laughed. I love the New Yorker. It just got me thinking about if my father owned a rubber empire in South America and I did have a trust fund, how long could I really travel, and where would I go. Then it got me thinking about my own travels.

One thing from my travels is this: I hardly have any decent stories about fancy places we stayed. All the memorable stories happened in hostels, sketchy hotels, or plain resorts. We met interesting people and workers and they tended to be in interesting neighborhoods. All the fancy stuff is good for R&R, but it is mostly boring and forgettable.
thanks for flagging, I'll look into it!
Err... the movie shows what happens when the government forces people to shoot the bad guys. When there are two governments (The Korean War), brothers end up shooting at each other.
This is Loyal3's thing - it's an affinity program that pays off in stock shares.

Loyal3 also does small IPOs. This was supposed to be a service for startups, sort of the next step after Kickstarter. But nobody seems to be using it. Loyal3's IPO sales have been small pieces of big IPOs, such as GoPro and Square. The problem is getting enough attention that people buy stock in your unknown company.
I don't really think Waze can be blamed here though... it's not as though it's going out of its way to choose more dangerous routes. It has no notion of how well-lit a street is, or the incline, or how many cars are parked along the curb. No GPS app has all this data. As drivers, it's our responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and make wise choices, not to rely on an app for that. If you don't feel comfortable taking a road, don't take it. How do you know Google Maps is choosing "safer" roads for you?

That said, one thing I've noticed is to actually save time on these empty side streets, you have to disregard the speed limit and stop signs. I suspect you have enough people blasting through at high speed, rolling through stop signs, that Waze learns time can be saved. Because in my experience, if you stay under 25, and do full stops, you're losing time not saving it. Waze probably knows this, and chooses not to fix it. IMO, that's the real moral dilemma at hand: you've got an app recommending routes that can save time, but only if you choose to drive recklessly.
Good find! And a search for his name in Google Patents gives 59 results!

https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Daniel+S.+Goldin
4KB using directx/opengl, very different from old time writing stuff directly in the video card.
I love new ways to express data. But, as I see animations like this I become a little anxious as I'd like to absorb the information, but if I look too closely in one area then I risk missing a bigger pattern or trend.

After watching, I'm convinced that a good old line chart would have been a better representation of the data. Perhaps with some added dynamic behaviour.
This isn't about forcing them to sell to Europe. It's about forcing them, if they want to sell to the Europe, to sell to the whole of the EU as a single market, because that's what it's supposed to be.
Why should the locals have to pay? What we need is a system of license-plate-reading cameras with automated ticketing to bring up the enforcement of No Thru Traffic signs to near 100%. Then, if Waze routed a hundred cars through a neighbourhood they'd all end up paying $100 fines, bringing in a big stream of revenue to the city and discouraging the use of the app.

Perhaps even more practical would be a law to allow the residents themselves to set up and maintain the system in exchange for a cut of the ticket revenue for their neighbourhood!
This isn't about private people it's about businesses. Those haven't been allowed to discriminate based on many things for a long time. This proposal merely pushes that further.

This isn't the huge change you want to make it out to be.
Thanks for those links. Fantastic!
Fiat currencies not as Centralized, Bitcoin not as Decentralized, as you think
I don't know why, but the flyboard has a waaay much cooler "air" to it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNKRxsNyOho
You don't need to understand the point, you just need to comprehend and obey.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that a law which is frequently broken may be a bad law, but "reading and obeying traffic signs" is not a particularly high bar to clear. If such signs get ignored, it's because the average driver is horrendous at driving. The only solutions to that are vastly better driver training and testing than we have now, or autonomous cars.

I'm not sure there is a high rate of disobedience here, though. The article seems to be talking about places where such laws don't exist, although the residents may try to change that.
Richard Epworth
I honestly thought it was a bit overdone and should have been more subtle. Meh.
Speaking for myself, my logic doesn't consider the neighborhood roads owned by the neighborhood. I consider it public, and as such I don't think cutting through the neighborhood is illegal. I just consider it something almost like pissing in a swimming pool. They aren't asking for this extra traffic and it is after all their neighborhood. I wouldn't like it happening in mine either.

What we should have is better infrastructure on the main roads. The whole point is that they go faster than neighborhood side streets; and if that's not working then something isn't right. More or better public transit, more or better bike friendly roads, homes closer to work or telecommute. Or maybe the cauliflower neighborhood design, where basically the neighborhood is a maze, there's a mandatory 90 degree right or left turn ever 3 blocks, so it's totally pointless to use such a neighborhood for rat running. And it's not super expensive to retrofit a neighborhood this way; certainly it's more pedestrian and cyclist friendly. Plus it also slows people down automatically, no one is going to rip a 90 degree right going 20mph.

So you take all the acrimony, regulations, fines, speed bumps, dips, ugly signage away and just design the thing to be driven the way the neighborhood wants, and not designed for rat running.
There are very many good Android apps that do not cost anything, nor do they have any in-app purchases. You shouldn't write off the entire platform just because they won't let you buy apps.
But it's still easily derivable. If someone buys the LinkedIn dataset and finds that your password is "123456linkedin", the next thing he will try is "123456facebook", "123456googlemail" and "123456bankofamerica". It might help against highly automated attacks that don't look at the actual password string, but anything involving a human hacker will be as bad as the same password reused.
Surprised me how much came from Canada -- has that been a thing, or is Canada a proxy for other countries?
If you're interested in indoor farming, you'd probably be interested in aquaponics[1] -- the successful integration of hydroponics & aquaculture.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYR9s6chrI0
Oh sure. It's one approach. We have to rate the cheats or honest work somehow. I think one way is to look at both what's produced with what type and number of resources are utilized. The constraints each provide plus what's achieved with them vs some baseline might be a good example. Baseline maybe determined after first round of submissions.

Btw, I'd probably have left off Space Invaders for exact reason you mentioned. Curious to know what you find to be most impressive demo on that system, though.
>> Now, just for laughs, run stty inside your xterm or in Terminal.app and tell me why your window has a baud rate.

That gentleman just made me make my powershell terminal choke.
As a fellow landlord, I agree that checks are a giant pain. I'm actually working on making a mini-SaaS just for myself to use, using Stripe to handle ACH payments.
TPB does not contain anything like that. TPB says: There exists someone who goes by name John Smith. Ask around for him.
In other words, "American civilians with guns" makes perfect sense if you predict (1) America will become like Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria in the near future, or (2) civilians with guns can somehow stop America from becoming like Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria.

Considering that all those armed insurgents in those countries didn't stop governments (domestic or foreign) from killing them, I'm skeptical on (2). Regarding (1), well, if you want to believe that... (shrug)
As much as I appreciate the Flyboard Air, and really truly think it's impressive, my inspiration for a personal flight device is more along the lines of what Jetman has been using. Vertical take-off and landing - in my opinion - are stupidly wasteful "necessities" that only compound the problem of being able to have a decent amount of flight time.

A wing for lift is, to me, essential if a personal flight device is ever going to be compelling. I'm working on a different invention right now, but in time I do hope to return to my ParaWing concept, which combines modern scientific findings and design with composites in mind to have a lot of performance potential. Seems dangerous as all get out but that's the fun.
> It's nothing against you but is this a common opinion in the US? People in neighborhoods "own" the streets?

Yes. In many suburban neighborhoods (especially predominantly white ones) people will give you dirty looks if you are a stranger walking around. If you are black many white people will call the police.
I think the point was more along the lines of "you don't get to appropriate the road that I helped fund with tax money and that belongs to everyone". I support that, actually. If it's a public road and I drive legally and responsibly then there's no problem. Just because your house is big doesn't mean that it's a farm where all surrounding land belongs to you.
>In the US roads ARE NOT designed as a shared space between people and cars.

That's the problem. Kids cannot safely play in the street in many "safe" neighborhoods in the US. They should be able to, but they can't. Americans practically worship cars. The roads are treated like sacred land. Safety and happiness are set aside for the sake of motoring.
I think it might not even do that. From the title, looks like it just cares about words being used in the same sentence, not in similar contexts.
The best way to fix it would be to build SkyTran. It's even being developed not that far away at the NASA Ames Research Center.
Your access gate solution doesn't work because the impact on different drivers is dramatically unequal. If a cross-town commuter can't use that road then he might lose a minute or two of his time. If a resident can't use that road then he can't go home.

Of course your hypothetical driver would choose to take the shortcut when shrouded from the knowledge that it's his road. It's a classic tragedy of the commons. Much of the purpose of traffic laws like these is to avert tragedies of the commons.
Irony being that without private transportation a lot of US suburbs would be unlivable in the first place
I agree. This could be useful.
The very basis of parliamentary procedure is to create a self-changing human-organization / structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert's_Rules_of_Order

The details of parliamentary procedure change from organization-to-organization... but the goals are always the same.

1. To create decisions

2. To self-evolve the decision-making structure over time
Didn't know so much Germans came to the US back in the days.
Yes. And since those actually are city infractions, LA truly does rake in the cash on parking tickets.
That philosophy works fine for something like Google, where your information is what they make money off of. In this case, your page views are the product, as KeePass does not ask for nor use for marketing any personal information from you. Huge difference.
That's the thing, though.... If this were an arbitrarily sized demo, I (and probably most people) would agree with you about the GPU stuff. But it's not arbitrarily sized, it's all in 4K. And it's from 2009.
I was told in Sweden all yards are publically usable and if someone wants to use "yours" you have to let them.

I only bring that up to point out a cultural difference that other cultures might see this differently

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101116164518A...
I'm using Ubuntu because it has nice Docker support
According to this, Canada was in the top 3 from 1910 to 1969 (being #1 from 1920 to 1949). Mexico has been #1 since 1960 up to present. It would be interesting to see the number of immigrants per country (at least in the top 3) as well as the proportion of immigrants wrt the total population during each decade.
They don't need to be. Search advertising is their golden goose (and i don't think they are trying to get away from it!). The question is whether these failed experiments are informative, if they have contributed a body of knowledge that is proportional to the investment taken. Their car experiments seem to have sparked a bout of incremental improvements that is probably gonna create a wave. As for the rest, i am not sure if there are lessons to be learned here.
Finally. But I wish microsoft would've done it sooner. Now a UNIX convert. Forever a convert. I'm no longer fighting my system to get shit done.
I don't really see how this is relevant.

It may be flawed, but clowning the CA model is beyond the abilities of the vast majority of attackers.
I disagree.

I bet the French government is more afraid of their people than the American government is.

The French people shut down their economy and raise holy hell when the government starts acting contrary to their interests.

The Americans mumble some crap about 2nd Amendment rights online, and then fire up steam or crack a beer.
Noted. Thank you so much. In that case, it sounds like software Q/A testing or business analyst are my best bets.

If it matters, my programming experience is a couple of Java classes in HS, an intro to algorithms and data structures (in Java) in college, the research project I mentioned (which was in Matlab), and many small Python scripts for various math/physics classes.

I'm pretty confident I could self-teach and/or learn on the job whatever programming I need to get up to speed as a professional developer, and I've heard of people who got programming jobs right out of college with an unrelated technical degree. So I guess I'm just wondering whether they are outliers or if this is actually a feasible thing to try (and if so, how I would go about doing it).

Also, as far as getting into larger or higher-tier companies, I could really care less about the size or prestige of a company as long as it meets all my other goals (esp. salary). And I actually would rather not live in Silicon Valley (or California in general) due to the high taxes and cost of living.
Absolutely rings true. I spent ~2 years being nomadic in my late 20s. Whilst I had a blast, at some point a deep mental nagging started to grow, just like you said: "I want to build something, I want to create something that impacts people beyond myself".

After some point, I guess I got tired of just being a "consumer" of experiences. Also, it starts to get pretty damn lonely. Pitching up in a new place, trying to make some friends, then moving on is a grind that started to wear me down emotionally. For other more self-socialising/individualistic people this may not ever become a problem, but it did for me.

For me it helped me realise how privileged I was just by virtue of my birthplace and (non-wealthy) parents. It directly lead to me pursuing a career in education-tech, where I can use whatever skills/upbringing I have to affect some sort of positive impact on the world. Im no philanthropist, but actively choosing positive work has certainly made me happier.
I think this is not an apt comparison.

The commenter you're responding to is being slightly coy, yes, but they're not really wrong in that there is a difference between purpose and ability, both legally and in terms of plain common sense.

Thepiratebay can be used for piracy, and personally, there is little doubt in my mind that piracy is what many users go to the site for. However, the mechanisms by which TPB operates are by no means exclusive to piracy nor do they encourage it. That is, to the best of my knowledge, there is no payout for having a popular link on TPB. The TPB folk do not actively seek any specific type of content, nor to the best of anyone's knowledge do they have agreements with actual pirates to have said pirates release their content on TPB. Their website does not encourage users to download pirated content, nor does it intentionally direct them towards it. (Recent/Top100 links are algorithmically determined, not intentionally curated by TPB staff, so I posit this is not directing users towards pirated content, even if sometimes that is the end result)

Like the above poster wrote, TPB is a search engine that is restricted exclusively to their database (the tracker). To call such a broad idea "piracy" is really poor from any legal or common sense standpoint, as the very act of searching in this manner is not in and of itself a crime.

I understand that you're frustrated that the poster is refusing to outright say people use TPB primarily to pirate, but the entire basis of the argument for TPB is the same as virtually any other aggregate site; they are not purposefully or willfully collecting pirated content, and as long as they are DCMA compliant, which according to both easyDNS and TPB is true, I see no reason why they should be removed.

If the law changes and further defines the legality of what is and is not allowed on a website, then there will be at least legal grounds for removing TPB. As it stands, the legal attempts to remove TPB are very grand and sweeping, and outside of when they were ignoring takedown notices (which early on were from jurisdictions foreign to where the operators and servers were hosted), there is very little justification to "shut down the site" like the RIAA is requesting. These organizations have a legal venue, and it is the DCMA and all of its already over-reaching power. The fact that these organizations have to do their job is not a reason to further restrict content online, be it in the name of stopping piracy or not.