skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been traveling the world living out of my backpack for 10 years now. Once every 5 years an article like this pops up. There is nothing new or novel about quitting your job and traveling the world.

When I see articles like this, I think 3 things:

1. Newspapers / Blogs / etc., are running out of things to report on.

2. Wait 5 years and another will pop up.

3. You are either very well connected with tons of money or know people in high places. There are many of us out there who travel the world with nothing but our backpacks - we don't need articles in the NewYorker.
You can try out Striim for streaming data integration (full disclosure, I work there):

http://www.striim.com/download-striim/
Indeed. I have the same issue. I want to avoid major traffic and construction, not _all_ traffic in construction.

In Boston, where I live, the side streets are often narrow, one way, and labyrinthine. A lot of times, I'd rather just drive the extra minute through the traffic light rather than zig-zag around it.
If we wanted that to be a neighborhood playground, we wouldn't have made it out of cement and we wouldn't have allowed any cars, not even residents'.
Surely the big lesson from the middle East is that guns can deliver violent chaos or despotic centralism but not peaceful stability?

Guns, in and of themselves, don't deliver anything. They're tools, that's it. Whether or not the people of the Middle Eastern countries like Afghanistan find peaceful stability or not depends on a whole laundry list of variables.
Google bans plug-in that picks out Jews
Spark's written in Scala, so Scala will presumably always be the best-supported language. On the inside Spark's also pretty intimately tied to some Java implementation details (e.g., it uses Java serialization to push code around), so any non-JVM language is always going to have to deal with a bit of friction.

That said, from my experience the Python integration is still first-class. I think it might lag the Scala APIs a bit, but that isn't a huge deal unless you really need to be on the bleeding edge at all times. The only really big downside in my book is that there's a small performance hit you take by choosing to use the Python API instead of the Scala one, and that might compound into something of practical significance if you're using it for really big data tasks.

I assume you'd have similar problems using it with R or a .NET language.
It's time to take Chrome OS seriously if only because it's substantially more secure than desktop/mobile operating systems we use instead.

I feel like desktops are on the brink of a devops moment, manually taking care of every detail of your computer and the software on it, when we know we don't need to do that for servers, phones and tablets anymore and in many situations we benefit when the work just doesn't exist.
those roads typically have higher speed limits and will be faster routes -- until they are clogged with traffic. Which is when Waze (and, for that matter, Google Maps, and any other traffic-aware routing system) will use alternative routes which are slower in the ideal case, but faster with the actual current traffic loads.

There's ways to avoid this:

(1) Design residential districts so that through traffic is impossible. (Lots of places do this, by having branching patterns rather than grids; this, of course, also makes it more possible for accidents, etc., to prevent ingress/egress.)

(2) Provide capacity on arterial roads so that they don't jam up and leave residential roads as faster through routes.

(3) Improve public transport capacity so that the existing capacity of arterial roads is sufficient.

Long before Waze and similar systems, people who frequently drove in an area would learn over time the alternate routes (including those through residential neighborhoods) that provided better times when main routes clogged up and use them freely. Technology just makes it so that information is more rapidly acquired by commuters. Its irrational, however, to expect commuters that have that information, whether through trial-and-error born of frustration (and then spread through word of mouth) or through modern technology to not use it.
The whole scenario is predicated on some horrible tyrant taking control of the US. Why wouldn't the gloves come off in that case?
Show HN: Chrome Extension to add code nav features to Dart projects on GitHub
The problem is that it seems that the judge made the legally correct determination, and that the majority of judges understand that this type of suit is ridiculous, but they have no tools to stop it.
Can you find me Toyota's bug bounty or responsible disclosure page? BMW? Mercedes? Ford? Any other major OEM?

I know that GM has done many bad things and done many things badly in the past, but it does seem that an old dog can learn new tricks.
I used to do GPU programming. Brief foray into it for game programming plus a then-new field called "GPGPU" pushing its limits. Think I implemented some crypto or physics stuff on one. I've followed some of the recent efforts.

My points of comparison are what they're doing vs what it's designed to do with what vs what other people do with that and other hardware. It looks great with lots of efficiency. I'll give them that. It's just way less impressive to me given they're using a powerful graphics card to mostly do what it's designed to do plus their innovation.
Send him home.
FPGA to an ASIC is sort of like a breadboard to a PCB. A direct translation does not make much sense for the latter as well.
At the municipal level, plenty of governments are still using papyrus or cuneiform tablets. Not going to happen.
This.

I was going to sign the petition and was perfectly happy until I read the fine print for who was going to get a license.

The general public was not going to be able to commercially grow, only 22 (if I remember) growers were going to be able to sell it.

No.
Those things all happened, it's just been going on subtly over a period of years. A search for Gnome and systemd on HN should turn up some of the earlier complaints. The *BSD developers certainly made some noise.
The law that says disobeying officially posted traffic-control signage is a prohibited?
My understanding is that MikroTik isn't a fan of OpenVPN (for whatever reason), and doesn't want to spend any more development time on the feature. Which is a shame, because it really is a poor choice without UDP support.

On the plus side, you can use the VM ("Metarouter") feature to host a real OpenVPN client inside an OpenWRT instance. But you don't get the nice admin console if you do that.
Kids are natural travelers! Especially lacking any alternatives :) They'll follow you everywhere - you basically pack them and off you go.
You may be interested in the Korean movie, "Tae Guk Gi," which illustrates exactly what you're talking about and occurred during your parents' or grandparents' lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taegukgi_(film)
https://www.google.com/webhp?authuser=1#authuser=1&q=america...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/16/...
Have some stats that aren't from mrmoneymoustache.com? You may want to give this a read in the meantime: http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decision...
>[Conrad] promised a working prototype of the cancer early-detection device within six months. That was three years ago.

>Conrad rolled out the Tricorder to tech reporters in 2014, describing its scientific basis as proven. He predicted that high-risk patients would begin wearing the device within a few years, followed by widespread adoption.

What to take huge risks? Fine, but don't promise results are around the corner when they're not. Headlines with the words "arrogance" are completely appropriate here.
I doubt it. It won't fix the fundamental problem of moving lots of people to where they want to go in the city. You can only do that by making the area undesirable to go to for whatever reason (probably not a good option), or by providing some alternate means of getting places. Unfortunately, due to the sprawling way LA is laid out, all of the other options are even worse than driving there.

In a dense area like Manhattan, transport is not so bad because walking, cabs, or the subway are all viable alternatives in many cases.

In a lower density sprawl area like Los Angeles, cabs are prohibitively expensive for most trips, the subway usually doesn't go anywhere near where you are or where you want to go, the buses are stuck in traffic like any other vehicle, and walking is dangerous (due to the lack of pedestrian-friendly sidewalks in many areas) and would take many hours for each trip.

I think the best way to fix LA traffic would be to greatly increase the density and start building upwards so that walking and public transport become viable options for many more cases, but that seems very unlikely to happen anytime soon. It'd take decades to do anyway. So for now, it looks like LA is just stuck with its insane traffic status quo.
It's interesting to contrast Paul Wouters' dismissal of source port randomization with the conversation on the Ubuntu mailing list with Martin Pitt, the systemd developer and Ubuntu systemd maintainer whose announcement precipitated M. Wouters' critique.

> > source port randomization is enabled by default to further protect against DNS spoofing attacks.

> [...] source port randomization is pretty useless [...]

-- Paul Wouters, https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2016-Jun...

> ATM resolved uses randomized ID fields [...]. It does not use source port randomization though,

-- Martin Pitt, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-May/0393...

> I'm concerned what this says about the maturity of the project: djbdns introduced source port randomization back in 1999.

-- Seth Arnold, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-May/0393...
Sounds like an opportunity for a disruptive startup deploying the latest in OCR (Optical Cuneiform Recognition) technology.
> I'm sure they do, somewhere that nobody actually driving on one of the streets in question will ever see it.

Improperly posted signage is generally a defense against an offense of disobeying a sign.
I haven't actually booked anywhere yet as I'm largely going to wing it. It's likely that my first stop will be Las Palmas (https://nomadlist.com/las-palmas-gran-canaria-spain/scores). It's not too culturally different to where I live now, so it should be a more gentle introduction to the nomadic lifestyle, but the cost of living is also relatively cheap.
"How sure are you that the converse is not also true? Will you at least admit this is an interesting question? Or even the question of how to ask this question in such a way that it is provable/disprovable. I think this is worthwile."

It's an interesting question, but one which has a sad answer:
integer linear programming (and other restricted forms, such as 0-1 programming) are NP-Hard.

If you could use dijkstra's algorithm to solve them, in less than exponential time, you will have proved P=NP.

So i would go with "pretty sure".

(now, could you do it in exponential number of dijkstra invocations? Maybe? But that is, to me, not an interesting question :P
Same with could you expand the linear programming problem into an exponential size graph that was then solvable by dijkstra's algorithm - we already know that expspace is a superset of p, etc)
I un-friended like 20 people back in the day for some burger king on facebook.
>How much harder would it be if on a simple GPU from the late 90's

It would be impossible since pixel shaders didn't exist until the 2000's ;-)

As for software rendering: Since a pixel shader is essentially a program executed for every pixel, it's trivially portable to the CPU: Just turn it into a function and call it for every pixel on the screen. Making it fast is another matter altogether though.
It should but it doesn't obviously. Perhaps a video recording of delivery and asking for a signature should be required. Obviously some defendants could just start running away and refuse to sign, thus delaying the lawsuit forever. But also throwing the packet of paper in a mail with a stamp or dropping it on the front porch while yelling "you've been served" is also not quite cutting it. Something in the middle is needed.
This really discredits people who opened credit cards with a $2,000 limit and went off to work on a farm in Australia

There isn't really anything glamorous necessary, aside from having some resolve to do what you want, some resolve to make sacrifices, and the fortune of being born somewhere globally relevant
I was thinking along the lines of paying for an adwords campaign, similar to how people max out their dropbox referrals.
I actually decided to stop using Waze for that reason. It felt like its routing algorithm is way too aggressive and would take me on shortcuts through smaller streets, just to shave off a minute or two. This in turn would require being much more attentive, since you need to make a turn much more often. I absolutely hated it.
it's harder and harder to sympathize with the idea that firearms in the US could effectively combat governmental tyranny.

People keep trotting out this argument, and it remains just as wrong. "Regular" firearms by themselves probably aren't enough to resist the US government, but that isn't the point. Firearms are just one tool out of many that would be in play if an actual armed revolution broke out. And what people gloss over are factors like:

1. Military units that defect to the "rebellion". Now the rebellion has tanks, airplanes, drones, etc.

2. IEDs and other improvised munitions which are capable of doing more damage that just, say, an AK-47.

3. The idea that "quantity is its own quality". Enough people, armed with AR-15's or AK-47's can constitute a formidable force just through sheer numbers.

Anyway, nobody is out there pretending that they are going to overthrow a hypothetical "tyrannical US government" using nothing but light weapons. But that doesn't mean that those light weapons aren't still important.
Should get added to http://up-for-grabs.net/
At the right angle the problem completely disappears.
I feel like I've recommended it enough times I'm turning into a shill but Pentaho is an open-source and commercially supported ETL tool that will natively do what you want, or call sqoop when you discover that's kinda slow. :-) And no I definitely don't work there.
I assume that Microsoft considers the Windows EULA to let them use your computer as an Azure compute node.
I had a similar experience. I took the Odersky course and thought it was love, but soon found myself uncomfortable with the cryptic syntax of the ancillary libraries and wondered whether I wanted to be comfortable with writing or reading inscrutable code.

I am currently giving Kotlin a shot and so far I do like it. I downloaded and installed IntelliJ, then the kotlin-dropwizard github repo and imported it into IntelliJ with no problems. It runs well and the code is clean and legible.
I've done it. It works fine. You just have to keep in mind that most of the Routerboard products have limited RAM, like any other embedded device.

The only catch is that anything done inside of OpenWRT has to be configured by hand from a terminal (obviously), instead of through Mikrotik's admin console.
Are there any guess for Neanderthal gestation periods?
"So I decided to quit and travel the world, bringing only my passport, a small backpack, and my enormous trust fund."

I love that. Reminds me of all the "minimalist" ex-entrepreneurs who only have a laptop and a credit card to pay for taxis and restaurants.
I work in Santa Clara, live in rental townhouse in San Jose. I have a 20 minute commute and reliably save 15% of my take home income. I have a wife who works part time and goes to school. She saves all her money.

Its about budgeting. We each keep a budget for our hobbies of about $100 per month. We spend about $200 at restaurants (eating out less than once per week). Most important is keeping a tab on your spending. UsBank has a download spreadsheet function that keeps track of your last export so it is very easy to download one month at a time.
I think you're missing what's happening here. This is a place full of exactly the people being satire: the self-awareness-lacking privileged people, as you say. They're being defensive of their choices, and arguing that they're not privileged at all, and anyone can do it, 'as long as they have the money and a job, which anyone can have', completely missing the irony.
I have to agree with the homeowners here. This isn't a NIMBY issue.

Google in particular has the data to know what streets are primary routes and what streets are not. Road design and traffic engineering are engineering problems, and shunting high volumes of traffic at roads not engineered appropriately is a bad thing.

By doing this, Waze is creating situations where adequate flow controls (traffic lights, lane markings, crosswalks, signage) are not present and create serious safety problems.

If someone I cared about was injured in this type of situation, I would sue Google, because they have the data to know this is wrong.
Point being the structures and underlying workings of FPGA doing things vs an ASIC are really different. A person who can FPGA-prove something can't necessarily put that specific design on a 350nm node. Surely not on deep sub-micron. The FPGA won't even run by itself in the development configuration. Stand-alone FPGA boards with the stuff flashed or whatever is closer to building some hardware. It's still only a subset of skill required, though.
I found this article on that idea interesting: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2016/05/31/against-the-cult-of...
Not only can you already print a lower, you can print a bolt-together lower than can be printed on a commercial Makerbot or similar.

Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zpwpmGOvc

and another of it being test-fired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TXz9kb83yc
Can we ban paywalled sites?
It is really annoying to get intrigued by a title, read a few lines and then get readblocked.
Hi fellow soon-to-be-homeless person! Any idea where you'll go first?
facebook is rife with this kind of stuff, there are whole business' setup(that also advertise on facebook) to help you skirt this stuff.

i know a number of people that play in the space spending 6 figures a month doing this... they wouldnt be hard to catch, if you tried, but why would facebook want to get rid of that revenue until absolutely forced to? and imagine, i only know a handful of them.
>> It's not Dijkstra's algorithm in disguise
>> - it's not any kind of search.

> It's a kind of superficial statement to make:
> "this is not that". Obviously these things
> are different on the surface, but probing a
> bit deeper can sometimes bring similarities
> out.

Agreed, although I was trying to answer the question as asked, and not start writing an entire essay on how instances of one type can be encoded as instances of another. MineSweeper is NP-Complete, so we can encode Hamilton Cycle (for example) in it. MineSweeper is not an instance of Hamilton Cycle, they can each be encoded in the other, this is deeply interesting, but it doesn't help someone trying to get to grips with what the Simplex Method "is". Coming to understand what it "is" is the gateway to seeing how it might, or might not, then be used to encode, and solve, other problems.

> This is more interesting to me, although
> perhaps I am just getting old and too many
> neurons are interconnected and this is what
> makes me seek the similarities between things,
> instead of just saying "this is not that".

I'm 55, and finding deep connections is (part of) what I do. Understanding that some things are genuinely different is, to me, an important place to start.

> ... the simplex method can be used to
> implement Dijkstra. How sure are you
> that the converse is not also true?

I'm pretty sure Dijkstra can be used to solve instances of Linear Programming, although the encoding is likely to be exponential. It might then be simplified by using the specific characteristics of linearity, etc, but that's not the same as saying that it is an instance of LP.

> Will you at least admit this is an
> interesting question?

Absolutely - I'm not even forced to "admit" this sort of thing. It's what I spend much of my time trying to convince other people about.

But Dijkstra is not the Simplex Method in disguise, not vice versa. Perfectly happy to say that each could (perhaps) be encoded in the other, and that doing so might turn out to be interesting. But just as finding a Hamilton Cycle is not the same as 3-Colouring a Graph, they are not the same.

> My spider sense is telling me that
> something interesting is going on
> here, and there may be some more
> ways to link linear programming up
> with dynamic programming.

I'd love to see more detailed speculations and investigations.

In summary, I suspect we are in agreement, and that you're objecting to something I didn't actually say. I don't deny that there might be, or even probably are, deep connections. But for someone trying to understand what the Simplex Method is and does, I don't think that's particularly helpful. Maybe I'm wrong - I'm pleased to wrote what you did.
Sorry if I sounded overly harsh. It just is a little annoying having to edit a page to be able to read it.
> Another major issue is that suburban streets are simply too wide, many neighborhoods give more than the 12-foot standard width to a lane (itself a specification that is way too generous),

While I 100% agree with this, the other side is that often these streets have parking for the houses that is more utilized at night than during the day. So, while children are out in the summer, say, the streets are ~24' wide, but in the evening, with cars parked, become only 8'- 10'.
It's really interesting when I tell people that I'm in the 3D printing industry and their first reaction is to tell me someone 3D printed a gun. So many people know about it now, and I don't think it's a bad thing either. It gets people thinking about what complex things can be created with this technology. I believe the story has been an overall positive educational tool for the industry and the mainstream's understanding.
What is the best cross-platform to-do list app?
One clarification regarding "the loser pays" system (here in Canada), is that the loser paying isn't the default. The default is each party pays their own costs. Then later the judge can decide to punish the loser if it was frivolous.

I've been through the small claims process twice recently. In one, the judge had power to make a binding decision and he put an end to the case against me after 10 minutes. In the other, it was a non-binding settlement meeting where he told the other party that they had no chance in court.

My point is that if you give the judge more power, good luck trying to game him and the system.
Why do ES6 Classes exist and why now?
There are some people doing ML and data analysis in F#, mostly financial institutions, but Spark is written in Scala so it is all about the JVM eco-system.
i lurk in #opendarwin on freenode. bunches of friendly start-up orientated minds and intelligent conversation...
Most states don't allow local PDs to keep forfeiture proceeds from state-law forfeitures; the federal government allowed local jurisdictions involved in federal-law forfeitures to keep a large portion (80%) of the assets, but the standards for that program were made more restrictive a few years back, and it was suspended entirely last December (notionally, at least, as a cost saving measure), so right now there's really no way for a local PD to raise funds by way of forfeiture.
We played in the street all the time growing up. Dead-end street. Any kid calls out "car" and we know to get out of the road for a minute.