skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent plenty of time waiting for my Uber as well: lots of "your car is 5 minutes away for 15 minutes".

Uber isn't as brilliant as they want us to believe they are.
Yes, but it's been around for years.

If corporations are persons, and they can commit felonies, why not give them punishments that are analogous to what you'd give a person who committed a felony?
English speaking equivalent:

_"Wealthy people with quirks are called eccentric. Poor people are called crazy"_
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That's the often cited paper on fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation.

The differences in this paper were the face specific features
Remember moving your cursor through menu options in an NES game? (or using a 8-bit word processor?) Computers should be like that. Consumers shouldn't accept anything else.

Responsive interfaces allow users to develop muscle memory.

I used to type in complicated sequences of commands into my commodore 64 to perform common actions. (wow, I didn't know I wanted a $HOME with some scripts in it. Now I know!)

When I'd make a typo in one of those sequences, it would commonly be quicker for me to reset the machine and start from the top.

If I performed the same action twice (with a reset inbetween) and got a different result, I could logically conclude that I had a hardware problem. (Not every HW problem is permanent. Heat and grounding problems can both be fixed, unless some threshold is crossed...)

Anyway, I figure that Wintel denied grandma that kind of computer because they learned from the hobbyists that neophyte users with quality hardware+software will exceed the creators in skill in less time than it takes to design the next gen rig--and a couple genius users will start building their own out of impatience!

There's no profit in quality hardware+software combinations.
It's from http://www.annapurnalabs.com/ so it's probably a custom(ized) ARM SoC. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/416446 for more details.
Google Maps introduces HD satellite imagery from Landsat 8
Seems like a sad day for buffer.
How so? They're prohibited from possessing firearms, so they're not suited for armed security, but there's nothing structural preventing them from earning a living. Plenty of companies will hire felons, just not all of them.
Probably the most off the wall choice in this thread, but I say HP Scan and Capture:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/hp-scan-and-captu...

It's a Metro app for Windows 8.1 and up to scan with HP scanners. I love it because it just works, which has never been my experience with scanning[0]. You press a button, it scans whatever's on the tray. You can tweak resolution if you want. And at the end you save it as a PDF. Simplicity is something that I think tends to be forgotten when it comes to GUI software.

[0] Except for a commercial scanner I used once where you put in your email address at the beginning and for every scanned page it sent you an email with an attached PDF. Although that has its own issues.
assuming you have the funds for the hiring of said editor. otherwise remixing of existing stories will be lonely and frustrating and soul-killing. issues, luckily, that often lead to being famous.
Firefox. And it has been for years, I remember when I downloaded a zip file with the Phoenix browser, you had to manually enable flash, and even with such an early version, it was magic. If I remember correctly, it even had tabs.

Then the add-ons and extensions, which enabled you to do something entirelly different or bring back an old behaviour. I still use oldbar since the «awesome bar» might be too awesome for me.
Also, the tabs groups, if you are like me, a hoarder of to-read articles, and leaving things for later, you can have a clean slate without losing those tabs.

And if you want to look behind the scenes, you have about:config in which you can bring behind some of the old features.

And it's everything open source! I know Firefox has suffered a lot because it's seen as slow, but I open Firefox once a day and never have complained about it.
No, being close to Starbucks does not count. Job, family, friends, school, church. Those count.
You put it in balloons in science class, and not in a test tube?
I'm remotely involved there and my reply would be that TCS is research level while CS is not. There seems to be significant overlap in the questions, regardless.
Fair enough. The larger point, however, is that this stuff was supposed to be encrypted. The adversary shouldn't be able to learn even one bit about the plaintext.

After all, nobody would buy a new encryption module that advertised it could protect you 40% of the time.
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Unfortunately that only works if the other APs are using the exact same channel, rather than an adjacent-but-overlapping one. It'd be great if consumer routers would only allow use of channel 1, 6, or 11, to avoid the usual situation where there is APs on every single channel interfering with each other rather than co-operating.
> That is assuming that the third party candidate takes more from one party.

Which, pretty much invariably, they do.

> Libertarians for instance can appeal to both Democrat and Republican voters.

The U.S. Libertarian Party is basically right-libertarian, and most of its supporters are closer to the Republican Party than the Democratic Party (there are left-libertarians in the US, but they mostly aren't in the Libertarian Party.)

> Tea Party

Isn't actually a political party, its a mostly republican grassroots (optimistically) or astroturf (cynically) organization.

> or Green Party on the other hand...

I've personally encountered more people who were on the fence between the Green Party and the Republican Party than between the Democratic and Libertarian Parties; I'm not saying that's representative, but, I think the Green Party isn't substantially more exclusive in which major party it effects than the Libertarian Party.

> Also, a third-party capturing a large portion of the vote would be a signal in future elections potentially prompting even more third party votes in later elections

We've seen unusually strong and noteworthy independent or third-party results in major elections in the US (usually around strong personalities, e.g., H. Ross Perot as an independent in 1992, and still unusually strong, but weaker, as the Reform Party candidate in 1996); they nearly invariably are not signals that prompt even more third-party votes in later elections, either for third parties generally or for the particular third-party with the one-time strong showing.

> Likewise a strong third party vote sends a strong signal to whomever is elected as to what the voters want.

They send a strong signal as to which voters you can safely alienate without increasing your major opponents vote total. The cost to a major candidate of losing someone who is willing to vote third-party rather than for the major opponent is 1/2 what it is to lose them to the major opponent.
wither buffer?

> Schedule Tweets
Ted Conover did not pose as a corrections officer, he worked as one. Any of his colleagues identifiable through his book are protected by a very strong union. I have not read Barbara Ehrenreich's book, but I have to imagine that it would be hard and not really profitable for someone objecting to its contents to identify those she worked with. Ms. Kim's class rosters are at the disposal of the North Korean government.

It does not surprise me at all to learn that those who raise their hands at her readings are often white and male: that describes a good part of the US population.
I'm not sure what you mean, isn't this exactly what bounties on SE currently do?
There most certainly is: < http://www.earwolf.com/show/hollywood-handbook/ >.
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Fighter jets feel like something that could be effectively tackled using genetic algorithms. Algorithms that get shot down are weeded out. Algorithms that shoot down enemies are promoted. Yeah?
What a silly reason to be bearish on Netflix. If anything you should be bearish on Netflix because they're highly leveraged and if their growth slows down they're SOL.

As far as the specific "HR policy" outlined in the NYT article... I find it extremist. It seems to me that you would turn off certain kinds of people from ever applying to Netflix, people that might be highly skilled and would contribute but don't ascribe to such a dispassionate view of hiring and firing.
Cool! Please post a Show HN with a link to your ePrint when it's done.
Possibly also relevant: http://www.ponylang.org/
I'm probably wrong but doesn't seeing traffic require monitor mode on whatever chipset? I've never looked into whether the the Nexus 4, 5 or 7 (2013) can do monitor mode but it'd be interesting to find out.
"Doesn't matter what filetype it is...it just runs them all, instantly, like magic."

Does it play DVD ISO files ?

Can you use the menus, etc. ?

Just curious ... XBMC back in 2004 could do this (navigate and use DVD menus in a DVD ISO) but then that feature actually went away in the following years, never to return ...
In practice "plenty" translates to "almost none" and those that do tend to abuse their employees since there's very few repercussions.

Simply being unemployed for an extended period of time is enough to exclude you from many jobs. Being a felon and having done jail time excludes you even more severely.
Any one given input can be losslessly compressed down to 1 bit with the exact right compression algorithm. I think everyone here understands that. The argument is just that that's not really useful in the real world.
Chrome bug lets you download full Netflix movies for free
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Interesting how the interplay of payroll tax and stock options creates a capital issue like that! On a sidenote, do you know why payroll taxes are charged to the employer, rather than showing up on the employee's paycheque?
Considering his text files, I'd think he went through the exchanges by hand. Typically faster and more accurate if you're just looking for test numbers.

http://oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/phreak/ex_scan.txt
http://oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/phreak/espt2.txt
What problem is this trying to solve? Having a single webpage with full control of the device, but limiting how many resources the ads on it can take? I guess that could be useful on the mobile web. However, the proposed solution is still way too low-level for web developers.

If the problem you're trying to solve is that web pages take up way too many resources (they do), control must be exerted by the browser, on the user's behalf. The only input the web developer should be able to provide is what to prioritize when resources are curtailed. Ideally, all web pages should be stopped completely when they are not the active tab, with background processing allowed for specific purposes, such as receiving notifications for messaging, or playing music. But then the specification should allow the developer to indicate what they need the resources for, instead of just saying "I want some CPU just because". And the primary concern should be how to keep developers from just saying "I want ALL the resources ALL the time" by default until the whole scheme is useless.
I love VLC, but I had to switch to MPC-HC. It performs a lot better, it can play full HD MP4 videos on my weak laptop without any issues, whereas VLC struggles, skips frames, and is basically unusable.
Free tutorial for photo editing from the start to the end
Can someone recommend a solid competitor where you can buy a lifetime membership? Or a self hosted option that rivals it in features?
> The decision to announce her technology imperatives outside of Silicon Valley may seem strange,

Given the response from Silicon Valley to the "Manhattan-like Project" on compromising digital privacy, the most political salient piece of those "imperatives" -- which has been announced previously, though some of the other elements may not have been -- its not at all surprising that she chose to announce the "tech platform" somewhere else.
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This sounds a lot like "Thank you for using our product. Unfortunately, when we made the deal we were unable to do math to figure out how much running a piece of our infrastructure costs per user, so if you'd like to keep the stuff we gave you for free, you're going to have to pay up. We have altered the deal. Pray we do not alter it again."
I was a member of dollar shave club then realized it took me half a year to use just 1 box.

I'm quite lazy and the razors are incredibly frustrating to open so I end up just using 1 as long as possible. So I just quit my subscription and when I need new razors I sign up again. Funny thing is the first month they always give you a free shaver with the razors so it works out well for me. I want my money's worth, damn it.
This is crazy. What is not crazy is the new site that just started, that offers lessons of the English language via Skype. For more information go to https://adapt.nd.edu/members/3044/blog/2015/12/learn-english...
I thought this was interesting, and I was curious if anyone has created similar instruments and could share them here.

Other references:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin#cite_note-67
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What people talk about category theory w/r/t Clojure? Since it has almost no type system to speak of, I'd be very curious to know what in the world they're on about.

Macros and the repl were, to me, the best part of clojure.
Same with Hong Kong, Uber have started up there but I think they will struggle.
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The problem is finding both the host (dongle/chipset/card) and client (headphone/speakerphone/headset) that support the correct versions. Most of the time the information isn't listed anywhere, and Windows certainly doesn't expose it by default.
I imagine the harm would come from it becoming commonplace, not from any one employee doing it.
Seconded. Fantastic.

And I'd also recommend "On Writing" by Stephen King.
I think it's pretty common outside the Anglosphere.
Far is also very good.

http://www.farmanager.com/index.php?l=en
Yeah, I was a CompuServe guy, but it was pretty innovative and looked great at the time.
I signed mine with my new hire paperwork. I had just flown across the country to take the job. Am I supposed to say no when my family had just spent a ton of money to move?

Shady when companies do this, IMO
Not actually hand-crafted. If you read the actual paper, they're training their fuzzy system with some kind of genetic algorithm. The theory behind it isn't in this paper, and it seems to be home-grown DIY type stuff - pretty standard for heavily military work like this - but it is still doing some optimization and learning. No idea what it's doing, whether it's just tuning weights or whether it's actually altering the tree itself, but I'd guess that they've basically reinvented decision trees.
I'm not sure that an open source AI for air combat would get you very far...depending on the licensing terms.
> If corporations are persons, and they can commit felonies, why not give them punishments that are analogous to what you'd give a person who committed a felony?

Because corporate personhood is a legal fiction, and a corporate death penalty doesn't really hurt the people who a corporation stands in for very much, and hurts lots of other people a lot.
Growing Up with Computers at NSA
You're aware that the city doesn't build the units, right? And developers only build where it's profitable.

If you think it's a good idea then start a development company, petition the city for permission, and raise money.
A much simpler solution might look like a whitelisted set of domains/domain patterns that are given priority for network and CPU usage. For example, a meta tag on every page that lists your domain and CDN domain as "primary", and every other domain is then aggressively rate-limited by the browser.
CIA torture has made me a mean son of a bitch. Paybacks a bitch, nigger.
Good example, I see your point. Whoever takes the picture owns it and it is not up to him to decide that it can't be posted on Facebook.
They're not cypherpunks; almost the opposite.
What is wrong with people — why would you ever use BCf instead of kg? Same with barrels (oil) and kWh per day (power? energy? I get confused with all the different time units in there).

Use SI units FFS.
The older I get the more I realize execution is simply all that matters.

A zillion people had the same basic idea for Uber. They made it a reality, and made it Not Suck(tm).

The user experience prior to Uber for ordering a car via phone was absolutely horrific.
Yes, but only if your simulations are very close to the real world. Usually that means they are very slow.

I feel like swarms of cheap, fast, unmanned aircraft that communicate efficiently and orchestrate their behavior with AI will prevail in the end.
Hm -- can you drop me a note? (patrick@stripe.com.) I'd like to dig into why. It's still invite-only but you shouldn't have been turned down because you're in the US.
That reads more like Haskell than like SQL. (Doesn't have any bearing on the rest of your point one way or another.)
Below are the things for me that "just work" day in, day out:
IM - Telegram(all),WhatsApp(all)
PhoneOS - BB10 Hub
Web - Safari(mac)
Find Files - AgentRansack(Win), powershell(Win), Alfred(mac),Win-S(Win8/10),'find'(*nix)
VPN - ExpressVPN(mac,iOS)
OS - Linux Mint
H/W - Mac,iPAd,iPhone
RF - XBee, NXP, Nordic
WiFi- Realtek chips
IDE - PyCharm, Lazarus
It is close. Really nice effect and visual feedback while it is hitting each location.
This overall article made me realize that since modern browsers can use one process per webpage, maybe we should try and run such process in cgroups in order to limit their resource usage.

Maybe this could solve the "facebook makes my fan explode" problem.

It's just an idea.
git, mercurial, linux, emacs, vim, intellij, java, zsh

productivity: chrome, google docs (slow but works), dropbox, tiddlywiki, gmail.
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Just read that, and I think Sotomayor nailed it. I also thought it was too bad that Scalia wasn't part of the case---perhaps he could have turned the tide.
It still throws up the paywall for me. This article probably has the same info minus the annoyance: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160628/TECHNOLOGY/160...
All fair points. And I do agree that in the US Libertarians skew right. But with that said, I know a fair number of people on the moderate left and when I talk to them I see a lot of similarities in their views.

I think the two party system is bad for this country and I would love to see an end to it. So this is probably just me being wishful thinking.
Private Internet Access. I've been a paying customer for years and use this VPN service to watch sports and tv programming that simply aren't available where I live.

It was during the Olympics a while back that I thought "there must be a place where I can watch every contest, on demand" and it turned out that place was a website in another country.
Because you have one job offer, are almost out of money, and like having food to eat this month?

Most employment agreements I've seen are "agree or GTFO". Sure there are some HNers here who have successfully negotiated this or that out of their agreements, but the option is not available to everyone.
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Pony is really cool but does not run on the Erlang VM which is pretty battle tested at this point.
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Any study that shows present-day humans (at least those living in Western societies) to get the same amounts of exercise as any other culture is bound to be deeply flawed.
Bring it up in the interview process, particularly when talking to HR, etc. You don't have to make a stand right there but at least find out what's typically in an employment contract (a very reasonable question to ask even in an early interview). Then later on when they're trying to close the deal make it a negotiable thing just like salary, etc.
I miss my phreaking days (the early to mid 90's). Me and a couple of buddies would drive out into the middle of nowhere late at night, find a convenience store with a COCOT, beige box off of it, and use my shitty 486 laptop to dial into the telephone switch for the local telco (which we found via trashing). We eventually worked out the password for an account that had the equivalent of "root" privileges and for a while basically owned the switch. The problem was, we didn't know how to do anything fun. We tried to do the thing we'd read about in that one Kevin Mitnick book, where you turn someone's home phone into a pay phone (that is, configure it so that when they pick up the phone and dial, they get the "please deposit $4.75 for the next 5 minutes" message) but never could get the exact right commands down. Well, so far as we know anyway. If it worked, we never heard about it. I won't say who the target was, to protect the guilty.

Those were the days... a 20+ foot phone cord stretched across a parking lot, and we'd sit there nervously looking for cars that might be cop cars, and try to figure out what we'd tell the cops if they stopped and asked what we were doing. But it was a rural area in the mid 90's, so we figured most of the cops were so technology illiterate that they would have no clue about hacking/phreaking or anything. At any rate, it (surprisingly, in hindsight) never came up.

There was a BBS we spent a lot of time on back then as well, from the 303 area code. I don't remember if the board was named Voyager, or if that was the nick of the guy who ran it. Anybody remember them/him?

Edit: Found it. The board was "Hacker's Haven" and the sysop was Voyager.
But it could probably apply to other cities. I've read that Bordeaux was somewhat transformed via university. Other lively and attractive towns are often considered college/uni towns.

They attract nightlife and breakfast spots. And businesses that support those (accountants, cleaners, etc). I think interesting and lively socialising/dining would be a key consideration for me if I were to move to a smaller city.
Why would I want to work somewhere that I notice has just taken a free chance to screw me over?
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Hopefully the author only means to bring relative shares in from cgroups - absolute limits seem like they would only serve to throttle the browser for no good reason. If you do want to throttle a browser tab, let the user do this in the browser. No reason for that to come from the page markup.

Also, is it realistic that web publishers will have to intentionally deprioritize ads and tracking etc relative to the main site/application? I imagine some people (ad networks) might not be too impressed with this.

Maybe a cool PoC of this would be an "adblocker" type browser extension/feature that automatically deprioritizes known ad/tracking content, but still displays it eventually. Then again, forced "async" or "defer" might be able to achieve this too without a complicated framework.
I think the latter is what you want to select for, otherwise you might end up with jets that are too risk averse. Mass manufactured, disposable machines would work better when you don't have to worry about pilot training.
YC for novel bars and eateries...
I just logged in specifically to tell you that as a SLC resident without a car, I use lyft extensively. Similarly all my friends do as well, for the almost perfect example people use of preventing drunk driving.

I'm already pretty strapped for cash, hence why I don't have a car but I utilize Uber & Lyft when I'm unable to get to my destination in a timely manner.

I would not however get a taxi simply because I don't know the number to call, I don't know when they'll arrive at my house, and simply the entire taxi experience is just horrible.
You punish the family when you send a parent to prison.