skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current trend in the UK is towards removing the green/red signal from the opposite pole and sticking them on the switch box. This is supposed to help people like me who have a severe visual impairment. Unfortunately, whoever came up with this idea allowed their good intentions to override a bunch of other design problems, viz:

1) They used a light with basically the same brightness as they were using for the poles on the opposite side of the road and stuck it at head height. Thanks, now that's all I can see at night. Many people with a VI suffer some form of photophobia, so this is not helpful.

2) It completely disregards decades of unconscious habit/muscle memory formation. We are trained pretty much from birth to look across the road for a visual signal while waiting to cross and it's not there anymore because the new signalling method was used as a substitute instead of a complement.

3) The ergonomics of standing looking sideways at a box which blocks your view of the traffic vs standing facing the road being able to scan traffic in both directions and the signal.

4) Since there are no signals on the opposite pole and most complex crossings have no audible signal, there is no longer any way for pedestrians to know that the state of the system has changed or is about to change once they have stepped into the road.

5) With RE to point 3, it is universal that the new boxes are mounted at 90 degrees to the kerb. This means they are facing oncoming traffic (albeit usually on the opposite side of the road). This means they are in driver's eyeline. What happens when a zombie driver sees a light in their eyeline change from red to green? Three times in the last year I have nearly been run down outside my flat due to this particularly stupid human factors error.

6) For extra stupid, newer installs come with a pedestrian detecting PIR sensor mounted on the top of the pole. Not - as one might imagine - to detect a pedestrian and automatically trigger a request but to detect if a pedestrian has pushed the button and then walked away. These are universally either so badly installed or so poorly designed in the first place that the false positive rate is insane. There is no audible or tactile indication that the system has cancelled your request because you're not standing in the particular 30 cm spot its PIR can see.

So the UK gets A for effort but F for implementation.

Edit : rogue punctuation.
that I will succeed in making a spreadsheet editor that is better then excel (not hard) and will be widely use by the majority of people (hard). I want to destroy excel after the all the time I've had to endure vba or deal with its stupid intricacies . im bitter. and I hate excel
Ubuntu Keyring includes 1024D keys
What's the sequel to Indie Game?
Have you read the decision[0] though? It specifically addresses this.

> it is to be determined whether those links are provided without the pursuit of financial gain by a person who did not know or could not reasonably have known the illegal nature of the publication of those works on that other website or whether, on the contrary, those links are provided for such a purpose, a situation in which that knowledge must be presumed.

[0]http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...
I read your post when it was around here in HN and a few more. I think you are part of - what I think is a minority - of women that don't agree with everything that carries the flag of feminism and actually discern if a particular thing is good or bad for the sake of women.

Focus on the topic, I don't know if that grey area can be solved any time. Whereas there are feelings there will be people incapable of control them. And I'm not talking only about romantic feelings, I'm talking also about fears, insecurities, pride... we aren't taught to manage them if it is not done by our parents and that's something that doesn't seem to be changed any close in the future. So, for example, there always be guys that will misinterpret women that are just simply being nice to them and women fearing or feeling being left out of the group when there is just the common behaviour between guys.
You may be right, that price might have been for a Sony 2k projector.
In many places (in Europe at least, I don't know much about the rest of the world), cars are prioritised on roads with larger amounts of traffic (pedestrians have to "ask premission to cross" or wait) and pedestrians are prioritised on roads with less traffic (they can just cross, and the cars have to stop). This is a reasonable compromise in my opinion.

There are some places where you as a pedestrian feel like a second-class citizen though. Lack of pedestrian crossings, heavy traffic in city centers, police who think jaywalking when there is no traffic is a problem etc.
The traffic lights are optimised for throughput during peak times and optimised for travel time during non-peak times.

Throughput optimisation has the lights cycling at a constant rate, 60 seconds in one direction, 60 seconds in the next direction and so on. It's easy to tack the pedestrian cycle on to that (pedestrians walk in parallel with the traffic, though I've also seen lights which give the pedestrians their own cycle, and pedestrians can also walk diagonally across the intersection). The cycle might also be synchronized with other lights.

The Travel time optimisation for off-peak is completely different. Lights are always stuck onto a single direction (the direction with the most traffic). When a car triggers the sensor in the perpendicular direction, the traffic light quickly cycles and gives them a green light within 10 seconds. The green light only lasts about 5 seconds, barely enough time for a second car to get through the light. It's impossible to get a third though. But in typical night time traffic, this mode makes the traffic light only slightly slower than a stop sign.

Even if a pedestrian did arrive at the traffic light at the same time as a car, there is nowhere near enough time for the pedestrian to get across the road. You can't even run across the road in the allocated time.

The button is needed for two reasons. 1) to signal that a pedestrian is waiting. 2) to request the longer cycle that has enough time for a pedestrian to walk across the road.
Tomb Raider can copy the gameplay aspects, but it doesn't have the story and characters everyone is invested in. The climbing/jumping is secondary to that in my experience, and it's not even that great to begin with. The gunplay is another sour point in my opinion. But the world it all lives in, is the reason we're playing it.
What exactly is awful about them?
"In the loop" is a reference to the OODA loop, which is the decision cycle of observe, orient, decide, and act, developed by military strategist and United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd. "In the loop" has a specific tactical meaning, which is that you're able to do a full OODA loop cycle faster than a comparable AI/man system which gives a strategic advantage and maybe used against oppositional forces in a variety of ways; most interesting is applying it to PsychOps.

"Man in the loop" reference can be found in use by the US AirForce going back to the 80s for weapon systems design; specifically between fighter jet systems and pilots. I've heard that US AirForce used brain implants as early as the 90s in fighter pilots.

Here's an example of the US Army reads soldier's brain waves to speed up image analysis:

http://newatlas.com/us-army-eeg-brainwave-image-analysis/403...
I know it seems strange, but there may actually be women here too.
I hope that's the case, and I didn't read the legal text, but how would you protect yourself against that? Would we have to keep tamper-proof screenshots (or archive.is-like snapshots) for each external link posted?
The law says it’s only copyright infringement if you know the link contained infringing content, and if you make money with it that’s counted as "you know".

That’s all it says – this website is again blowing everything out of proportion.
>> Is profanity that frowned upon on the US (or wherever you're from)?

In reality, it's not. The way you describe profanity is exactly how everyone I know here who uses it. It's just that we also have a culture of busy-bodies who think everyone should have to adhere to their lifestyle. They are a minority, but they are this particular type of pain in the ass in most aspects of life, so it's easy for them to make a lot of noise all on their own.
>Due to size constraints, we can't shove massive sensors into smartphones.

Interestingly, though, it's not really the size of the sensor that's the issue but the focal length of the lens required to give a usably narrow field of view with a larger sensor. You could probably squeeze an APS-C sensor into a smartphone, but you couldn't use it with an 8mm focal length.

So there are two potential routes to go here. Progress in telephoto designs for very small lenses, and multi-lens cameras.
Just to add to your links: http://reprints.longform.org/bug-system-hylton

fun quotes:

But when federal limits are breached, and officials believe that a recall is necessary, their only option is to ask the producer to remove the product voluntarily. Even then, officials may only request a recall when they have proof that the meat is already making customers sick. As evidence, the F.S.I.S. typically must find a genetic match between the salmonella in a victim’s body and the salmonella in a package of meat that is still in the victim’s possession, with its label still attached.
What about the font size being too small for many people? Is there way to work around that is iOS Safari?
You got real quiet there. Anything else to add?
That's 2 syllables, but just as thoroughly nonsensical of a response.

Most young people seem to hate religion though, so saying amen to them would most likely get you tagged as a fanatic or just someone to be avoided.
Read the legal text please – the article that was submitted is basically full of lies.
It would be interesting to test the camera with normal glass lens, and test the printed lens with a normal camera. This project has two completely separate challenges (make the camera and make the optics), and these challenges are very interesting by themselves.
Kenya is planting a forest the size of Costa Rica
At least use it on the client then – it’s a lot faster than MathJax :)
The GP to which you are replying is about UK specific signalling.
I don't like this curriculum very much - I think it is way too heavy on the data engineering side and way, way too little about the actual mechanics of the data science bit.

For example, the words "validation" (as in cross validation) and "overfitting" aren't mentioned anywhere on that page, and yet things like data scraping are mentioned multiple times.

With all due respect, I can find lots of people to do scraping, but it is much harder to find someone to explain a good strategy for cross validation on time series data (for example).

And yes, "data scientist" is a vague term that can mean pretty much anything.

Having said that, if you did everything on this list you'd be a pretty good data scientist.

(I run a data science team, and I'm involved in building a data science competency framework so it's something I think about a fair bit)
Same as above...
Clicked on web link and google bring to reddit, and here is the working link from there;
https://github.com/golang/go/files/447163/GoFunctionsInAssem...
It's amazing that in 2016 people still don't know to press left and right arrows (or spacebar) in an online presentation.

It's the way ANY slideshow works, on desktop and online form.
And it's a trivial thing to try, even when not told to. Not to mention by now there have been around 1000 such slideshows posted on HN.
I realize this is the EU, but if this ruling were to happen in the US, sites like cracked.com who link to copyright-encumbered content all the time (mostly Youtube clips of movies and TV shows, often produced by highly litigious houses like Disney/Marvel Studios) and make a ton of money from ads, would quickly be sued out of existence.
I see. Thanks for your advice. Are there any groups working on behalf of the visually impaired to improve the designs of these systems?
Hack for the Environment at the Disrupt SF Hackathon
Yea the option to spectate would be good for people like me who just want to see what the whole thing is about.
Yes font and voting buttons are bad on iOS.
Mens rea.
From the article:

"We've done a lot to try to understand what has led to this increase in refusals," Le wrote in the post.

From the blog post:

We’ve found that people typically refuse out of skepticism. Potential recipients find it hard to believe that a new organization like GiveDirectly would give roughly a year’s salary in cash, unconditionally. As a result, many people have created their own narratives to explain the cash, including rumors that the money is associated with cults or devil worship.

We’ve debated how much effort to expend trying to address the refusal issue. We considered leaving Homa Bay since working in an area with lower refusals would be better for efficiency targets and staff morale. However, ultimately we decided to stay because we are in the process of implementing a large scale research project in Homa Bay, and leaving the area would result in meaningful delays and cost overruns for our research partners. We also believe it’s important to try to address the issue here or else rumors could spread to other areas we’ve not yet been.
Even if it turns out to be untrue, what does it say that it sounds so plausible/believable, so many people are quoting it?

Either way, it seems people don't have a lot of faith in the government, and there are plausible examples of things the government has done to put itself in this situation.

Another example from the same era, gulf of tonkin incident. It doesn't matter what it costs the people at the bottom if the people at the top get what they want, that's the impression I think many of us are left with.
While escolar might be considered Tuna according to Wikipedia, here is a quote from the FDA's website: "FDA recommendation: Escolar should not be marketed in interstate commerce" [1] (because of the possible presense of gempylotoxin, a strong purgative oil (can cause severe diarrhea))

1. http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/HACCP/ucm078063.h...
Would that be a bad thing though? Those websites are purposefully acting in a way that doesn't respect the copyright of the owner of the content they want to show.

That they do this through a third-party host shouldn't be that important.
The article links to http://www.technoblogy.com/list?1GLV calling it the full code listing for this Tiny Lisp Computer, however, that link leads to code for a ATtiny841 "I2C Display Module" which is from the "Make your own I2C peripherals" blog post at http://www.technoblogy.com/show?1G29. Hope the author sees this so he can change the link to be the correct one.
If they actually pick a comment from HN and then verify the authenticity and expand on it by interviewing the author, then I think they are really doing their job.
Related: https://www.rt.com/usa/358870-prison-protests-work-strike/
Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are getting closer to flying tourists to space
With no investment and little revenue how is the team getting paid?
Please stop with the razors. Someone will get cut.
What is the "mt" prefix for?
The competition must have known that VW was cheating, yet not one "competitor" called them out on it.

The whole thing is a systemic failure. Regulations don't work. Regulators are generally lousy at their jobs (if they aren't working for the regulatees, they will be - I'm talking about the top regulators, mind you). The "free market" failed, because if everyone is cheating no one is cheating.

It's time we start working on a replacement, because what we've got now is busted.
Yep, I'll add it to the list. Here's a game you can view.

It will look a little broken but should be viewable.

edit: Removed link, tons of people coming from hacker news.
You mean libre or gratis?
So whether this is just the HN comment copy/pasted or if they followed up, I don't care. There are much bigger issues in tech journalism to worry about.

Even more concerning is the actual response.

Basically the comments on the earlier HN thread and then the quotes on the article show their point of view being that what they did isn't a problem, just that they got found out and it paints them in a justifiably negative light.

This is one of the exact reasons why I very much prefer to get apps from the Mac App Store: Sandbox enforced; No setuid; No privilege escalation; No futzing with the OS UI.
>I still don't understand database systems, how they work internally, and what problem they really solve.

The use a formal, mathematical abstraction (relational algebra), even if somewhat crapily implemented by particular RDBMS, to facilitate saving data, relationships between data, and queries, while at the same time assuring certain properties (e.g. ACID) and doing so in a platform/programming language neutral format and with a consistent and industry standard query interface.

NoSQLs, key-stores and the like are not newer developments -- they predate databases. They were found to be a bad fit for what we wanted in enterprise use, and RDBS caught on.

For uses with huge data (Google and such scale) a denormalised approach might be more practical for performance reasons, in which case developers and ad-hoc programs get to re-implement all the functionality and assurances of a RDBMS in an ad-hoc way on top of rawer stores. (And all this could be alleviated with a properly optimised RDBMS for such purposes the still respects relational algebra).

In a conventional enterprise setting on the other hand, a DB trumps NoSQL etc solutions any day of the week.

>Database queries seem like a solution to the problem of storing data on disk when RAM was too expensive. So today it's still used as some sort of standard, but when you can have 16GB of ram, I think you better teach yourself what sort of algorithm and data structures a database use to be faster, use the ones you like and need and solve your problem case by case.

The whole idea is to free the data from being tied to a particular language, data structures and algorithms.

Back in 2000-2007 it was all about XML, and how we should store data in XML format and get them back with XQUERY, XPATH and the like. A lot of people bought into the hype and the resulting products. Then it was about JSON -- and we now have JSON stores. In 10 years, it will be something else, again ad-hoc.

Meanwhile SQL has worked for the past 3+ decades, and is based on a solid mathematical abstraction (relational algebra).

>It's like one of those things when a programmer had an idea which is based on a constraint, everyone starts using it, several products are made, but nobody really remember the original idea of the inventor of that paradigm.

You'd be surprised. Or rather you're exactly right -- few "really remember the original idea of the inventor of that paradigm", and that's why we're moving in circles with ad-hoc technologies re-implemented 30+ years after they were discarded. Or why people jumped enthusiastically to Mongo to return crying back to PostgreSQL.

Read a little around here for example:

http://www.dbdebunk.com/2015/07/the-sql-and-nosql-effects-wi...

http://www.allanalytics.com/author.asp?section_id=2386&doc_i...

http://www.dbdebunk.com/2015/11/moving-in-circles-sql-for-no...
When Microsoft was on top, Apple fans used to say "it's not about marketshare or profit" and then they would proceed to compare Microsoft to McDonald's.

So, it's hilarious to me that today the number one statistic quoted by Apple fans is about how much money Apple makes or how many units they've sold.
Around here they look like this[1]. They have about the same sound as the Australian. The entire thing vibrates with the sound.

The blue area on the front is the button (not just the small circle). When pushed the light lights up[2]. On top is a tactile arrow pointing in the direction to walk. On the side is a tactile map showing how the intersection looks (starting from the bottom, at the small arrow): Blocks are lanes/cars, the almost-ellipse is a traffic island and horizontal bars are the sidewalk.

[1] https://cdn1.cdnme.se/cdn/6-2/770231/images/2011/trafikljus_...

[2] But people are happy to push the button again anyway.
... and get rid of all those spammy sites.
My experiences of accepting free stuff is it is often followed by a salesperson trying to sell you on an iffy course, timeshare or a religion. Being wary may not be totally irrational especially given that many of the Kenyans will not have been following the basic income debate and so not know what it's about.
If innovation is motivated by competition, then the government having a monopoly in governmental services means they never need to innovate, unless they receive some competition.

Because barriers to emigration are so high, countries don't have to compete with each other for quality of governance, and so it turns out that only the private sector can do it.
I think this is actually an interesting art experiment. I wonder if anyone will try.
This way a person can link to a particular page.
Furious at traffic light buttons? Why?
I'm not saying only Liang should be punished, but the guy has no upheld is professional obligations and so he should not be allowed to work as an Engineer any longer.
What makes you think Le is imagining this?
Usually the amount taken of a work is evaluated for a fair use defense, as is its inclusion in a broader work (article, in this case). Taking a small excerpt of a movie for purposes of parody is different from publishing a photo wholesale.
Objectively, it's apples and oranges (pardon the obvious pun); the sensors and lenses are completely different, as is the software on the phones. One is not 100% better or worse than the other, they each have strengths and weaknesses that more or less balance them out.

Subjectively, it's whatever you prefer. I'm with you; some of the Nokia Lumia cameras easily outperform the best Apple has ever offered, and I say that as someone who currently uses an iPhone 6. If I wasn't so concerned about the future of Windows Phone I'd still be on that platform, since the camera is the second most important part of a smartphone for me (the most being stability/reliability, which Windows Phone 8.1 had but Windows 10 does not, hence my switch to iPhone).
Read now. The ruling acknowledges the target is mutable, but it also says that the poster of a link on a page that's for-profit must check the target content. However, I cannot find anything how one should prove it was legal at time of linking. The only sensible thing I can find is that once notified a link has to be taken down. Did I miss something?
Can someone explain? What are the usual paths? What's the third path? Am I missing something, or is this just a clickbait headline?
You're a developer and won't cough up $1.99 to support an app that people are highly recommending?

This is why most developers can't make money creating mobile apps unless they're for gambling or freemium games.
> You've essentially manufactured a belief here (parent believes humans are most important therefore all others are in the way), projected it onto the parent and then became outraged by it.

This is the definition of a "straw man".
Bride of Son of Cheap Video: The KimKlone
Perhaps it would work the other way around? The prosecutor has to positively prove that when you established that link, it was pointing directly at illegal content (and based on the context of your linking, that you knew it was illegal).
DBeaver is pretty good.