skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number one "family tech support" question I get these days is "why doesn't my internet work?" Usually meaning it's too slow, drops out, or doesn't work in certain parts of the house. Often they've done something like adding a cheap "wireless repeater" expecting it to fix the problem, and just making it worse.

Anything that allows me to just say "go buy this" instead of having to troubleshoot their cheap ISP-provided combo access point/router is a win in my book....
The US has a lot of land and not everyone likes to be squeezed into a dense city.
Because it's profitable.
Thank you, this is the type of data that I was seeking when I quickly read the article looking for substantive descriptions and data.
Doesn't mean the quote isn't apt and good.
So the NSA didn't demand access to Qwest computers and then didn't prosecute Nacchio when he refused.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a...
Literacy in the United States
How to design programs 2e... Freely available online.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
What happens when it gets full?
Many of the items the author claims China dwarfed Rome on seem pretty subjective. Philosophy and poetry?

I didn't read very far past this. I am under the impression that Rome was pretty technologically sophisticated, even beyond what we normally picture. Does the author go on to compare tech sophistication with examples?
Oh! I'm very glad I read that incorrectly.
Sesame Street Is Getting into Venture Capital. This Isn’t a Joke
One of the issues here is the content isn't tied directly to the pixels in the display. You have competing rasters: the raster of the input video (or desktop rendering), and the raster of the display device. They don't necessarily interact in a nice way.

That's actually the reason VR experiences seem so low-rez (well, among many others) despite having high resolution displays.
The more technical details you include the more people pick up and discuss minute technical details instead of the point of what I was trying to say, which is that my experience with a large codebase was these modern javascript tools have solved a lot of problems we had.

If you want all the gory details here they are: it was a Rails 3 app using Postgres and Elasticsearch that we migrated to React + node.js + webpack + babel, elastic search as the data store and using Keystone.js for backend data manipulation (which uses mongodb). Rails was indexing its data in Elasticsearch already so we could start serving data through node.js immediately without having to migrate all the data backend, which is being slowly moved to keystone.js.
Ask HN: What is now on the fringe?
I was watching a video of Steve Jobs the other night talking about the experience of the Homebrew Computer Club and how these guys were working on the fringe rather than mainstream. Steve Jobs was looking at the fringe for new ideas and innovation so I was wondering what do we see at the fringe these days? What are those ideas that are not mainstream today but could become the "personal computer" level of idea in a decade or two.
i think points 4 and 5 are massive ones that people aren't seeing past. The GearVR was better than cardboard because of the improved IMU + scheduling preemption. These are things people always glaze over because they're obviously too technical for consumers to care about.

Now Google is setting a standard and while before there was no reason for VR ready IMUs in phones, now phones will have the proper heardware and Anrdoid N low latency mode to hopefully make them as capable as an S7+GearVR out of the box. This integration is a massive step in the right direction. It's VR pushing manufacturers to reconsider what the "basic" phone looks like.
Humm, this looks and awful like flow charts? What am I missing (apart from the 'Insertion' of macro charts)? All the rules about not 'breaking' visual cohesiveness seem like a plus, although not groundbreaking either. Don't want to sound negative, maybe someone can correct me?
It's a pretty cool break down you do, but you should consider not including hearthstone in your demo, as most of its image, video and audio assets are placed in the "other" category. So it is a bad example of how your service can help me understand my app, since your demo doesn't help me understand this game.
The area around 'Järvafältet'. Maybe I should have mentioned Tensta/Rinkeby/Husby et al as well but I don't think HN is interested in a detailed listing of Swedish problem-areas. Vivalla in Örebro, ... the list goes on and, unfortunately, is growing. Kronogården in Trollhättan might be next given the recent developments there.
Yahoo Email Surveillance: The Next Front in the Fight Against Mass Surveillance
> As always the most compelling thing about the phone is Google's support

You mean support for the OS, not for the hardware, which is probably more of a concern for phone users.
then the resultant literacy
rate for the United States
would be at most 65-85%
depending on where in the
basic, minimal competence
quantile one sets the
cutoff.

Wait what now? 85% at best?!?!

Seems it's true, with other studies and commentaries. But how can it be true?
@CharlesW we mostly focused on the facts and running as controlled of an experiment as possible without bias or drawing conclusion on exactly why heavier apps get downloaded less. Though my personal guess from working years in the mobile app space is that users are surprisingly conscious of data & disk usage. Not everyone has unlimited data or 128GB storage iPhones.
I've been a happy iPhone user for a long time and of all the things all these so called iPhone killers have demonstrated none of them have ever touched on the one thing that would make me switch.

1 TB of storage. I run out of space on my phone all the time and would love nothing more than unlimited (or close to it) storage on the device.

I honestly could care less about VR or home assistant.
I was merely questioning the claim that modern Chinese cannot read ancient Chinese. I made no claim whatsoever on Italian as I have no knowledge on that matter.

However, I have first hand knowledge that modern educated Chinese can read ancient Chinese text, which by definition means reading text they have not seen before.

The Chinese writing system changed very little since Han dynasty. Even with the mainland Chinese's simplified Chinese system, most mainland Chinese can still read traditional Chinese without special training. Because the simplification was mostly codifying the existent shortcuts in ordinary people's hand-writings.
Well HFT is going to fix all that ... * cricket chirps
> I'm not giving these companies a complete pass for being complicit in the erosion of individual's civil liberties but treating this as if the decision is easy is vastly unfair.

Actually you are giving them a pass because your comment contains nothing but apologetics for these companies. Whether their decision to spy on their customers and invade their privacy was easy is irrelevant and all of your apologetics are worthless speculations based on nothing whatsoever.
Have you improved your memory using that book? If yes, can you tell us about it?
Oops, sorry Andrew! Many apologies! (I watched way too much Batman as a child and "Adam West" is wired into my brain.)
Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling
Their methods are listed under the "about the data" tab, which links to http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/aboutthedata/ :

> This information has been meticulously sourced from the three largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country: FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net. We've also done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 91 percent of all victims in the database.

It also lists their definitions for "police killing", "unarmed", "vehicle", and "allegedly armed."

They also make the data available for download, so you can verify it. The columns are:

Victim's name
Victim's age
Victim's gender
Victim's race
URL of image of victim
Date of injury resulting in death (month/day/year)
Location of injury (address)
Location of death (city)
Location of death (state)
Location of death (zip code)
Location of death (county)
Agency responsible for death
Cause of death
A brief description of the circumstances surrounding the death
Official disposition of death (justified or other)
Criminal Charges?
Link to news article or photo of official document
Symptoms of mental illness?
Unarmed
Yeah, we all saw how Glass went over. Perhaps this is made out of cloth so aggressive bystanders don't cut their fists on it when they punch you in the face?
Latest AC APs can't, but previous models all supported mesh networking.
The FAQ about life by Pieter Hintjens. From his last book
Sounds like just a more varied range of vocal listening skills, than a "loss". *Multilingualism
How would it be torture go keep a dog in the hospital for three weeks?
The media is mostly controlled and distributed by private companies that collude with the government for their own benefit, Google and Yahoo are exactly such companies.
Well lots of people can barely afford a home let alone try and get a home with a garage or driveway. In addition how do home owners anticipate that some nearby development, 5 or 10 years later, is going to go in without parking? Especially since the city council on several occasions has promised to require a reasonable amount of parking for new buildings.
The fee for service model prevalent in healthcare today is certainly one reason. However there is a general mistrust of algorithms. Here's a paper that documents what hey call Algorithm Aversion: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2466040

Note that there are exceptions and this can be overcome.
I'm assuming a few people here have not studied Latin, which is fine of course, but their understanding is based on a simplification of a summary of nice and orderly definitions on what periods adhere to what types of Latin dialects. This is not how the real world worked and neither how Latin is taught at my particular institution.

Unfortunately, I do not have time to explain everything, and I am also not a Latin scholar. I studied Latin over 6 years ago so my Latin history knowledge is also a little fuzzy.

But you are right, Cicero is Classical Latin. However, we were taught a mix of Latin that is kind of like what this Wiki says:

"The Latin of the panegyrics is that of a Golden Age Latin base, derived from an education heavy on Cicero, mixed with a large number of Silver Age usages and a small number of Late and Vulgar terms."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panegyrici_Latini#Language_and...

"Silver Age" is what I probably should have said instead of strictly Late and Vulgar, which are both technically different terms, but which were also taught in my Latin courses.
Note that 'worse field of view' corresponds to 'better effective resolution' for a fixed number of pixels. There's always a tradeoff between FOV and pixel density. I think the Gear made a good compromise for more passive experiences, for what it's worth.
Is this the same John Rogers that helped write the story for the newest 'Catwoman' and 'Transformers' movies?

I'm not so sure he's in the best position to qualify as a literary critic.
Biologically Feasible Deep Learning (new paper)
Yep. And its web links, notification links, and bug reporting were all failing for me until I upgraded to iOS 10.

What gives?
How to take a screenshot on the iPhone 7 Apple?
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Don't know why this is down voted. Why is it so hard to learn some fact that may be contrary to your imagination?
> At some point those optimizations will need to account for conflict: humans want X but other beings want Y.

Accounting for the possibility of conflicts of interest is entirely different from a priori taking an ethically bankrupt stance based on nothing but your own superiority. If an advanced species wants to kill humans, that's obviously just as unethical as the other way around.

To a certain degree I see where you're coming from. In a world without an objective morality, an unscrupulous individual could be tempted to conclude that "might makes right" is a perfectly valid ordering principle. But it's certainly not a humanist perspective (a peculiar term in this context, but that's what we called it), I would go so far as to say it's been associated with racism, sexism and other forms of extreme in-group philosophies in the past.

> There are humans who find happiness in master/slave like relationships. Should these humans not exist?

This is not about sexual kinks or individual lifestyle choices. It's also worth noting that at no point did anyone say people with specific traits should not exist, so it seems you're intentionally distorting the subject at hand in this case.

I think it's not particularly productive to intentionally try to muddy or distort the conversation until the subject becomes diffuse and malleable enough to drive your initial conceit through. It's also somewhat of a disrespectful gesture.

> Your analogy to historical slavery is silly. Historical slaves did not want to be slaves, unlike these hypothetical AI.

Even if historical slaves did want to be slaves, and I suspect a good number were indeed fine with it, it was still wrong to exploit that. Being unable to make or even imagine the choice of not working as a slave is in fact a defining factor of slavery. It's also wrong to genetically engineer people to be happy slaves, but that's just an extension of the initial assertion that slavery is wrong in general. It doesn't matter whether you assert that your slaves have better lives than free people, or whether they would even run if you cut their chains, or whether the economy would collapse without their labour. It's still wrong.
Every time a Russian or Chinese oligarch goes to prison the headlines in Western media are about the evil dictatorial governments oppressing the poor oligarchs.
Ok, but the question is why did the government feel it was important enough to push one way instead of just letting things sort themselves out, as they've always done?

I haven't read it yet, but this book might be insightful: http://amzn.to/2dQutwR ( Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation )

Other recommendations would be welcome. I'm tremendously interested in this issue.

Edit: I'll add this book, too: "Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation" - http://amzn.to/2dHphdJ - haven't read it yet but it looks quite informative.
Or "metonym", which has almost the exact same meaning.
>If parking is truly an issue, the market can of course solve it with private parking lots.

No, it can't - it doesn't.
Avoiding error checking against a properly formatted constant is not avoiding error checking. I cannot follow your argument.
Ask HN: “What JavaScript API/Framework should I use to develop a new .net SPA?”
I have been assigned to develop a new single page application for a SAAS company. We use .Net for our server-side development and Visual Studio as our IDE.

Legacy browser support is NOT a concern.

Frankly, I think I can do a great job using regular Javascript and jQuery and .Net's MVC framework. But I wonder if it is worth trying Angular2 and Typescript. I am not sure the learning curve is worth it.

Can anyone make a recommendation? Does Microsoft (officially or unofficially) recommend one framework over another ? Thank you.
While I agree you need to know the toolchain, create-react-app is a professional tool, it works very well. I've struggled before configuring webpack/babel/etc. manually and while it may "murder" me down the road one can always eject if need be.
> Imagine forking over several hundred thousand for a house and then a few years later finding out that you cannot park in front of your own home like you have done for years.

Unless you had some kind of legal guarantee to park in front of your own home, you never should have counted on being able to do so. If you feel bad when you can't do it anymore, it's because you had unrealistic expectations from the beginning. You just happened to be lucky that nobody else parked there.

If you want to guarantee that you will always be able to park in front of your house, buy a house with a garage or a driveway.
>For me, the bigger question is why these doctors felt qualified to assess her wish: it does not sound like any of the doctors that approved her request had more than a cursory involvement in her (long-term) treatment.

Big problem. Doctor shopping is a big issue in euthanasia.
Out of the two simplicities one has an actual impact on usage.
Adding a verb to the dotnet CLI tooling
Squad own KSP ip.

The original author quit several months ago.

Squad is a marketing company, and let him start KSP as a counteroffer when he wanted to quit.
Many people might not understand just how busy physicians are, and how difficult it can be to integrate a new product into the clinical workflow.

The most pressing thing to understand is that clinicians spend the VAST majority of their time gathering all of the necessary information to make a diagnosis. In other words, they aren't puzzling over how to diagnose about 85% (made that up) of their patients.

Once the necessary information is gathered, an experienced doc doesn't usually spend more than about 10-15 seconds debating different diagnoses. Therefore, if your tool takes more than 10-15 seconds to launch, enter any necessary data, and get a result, you are slowing the clinician down and they won't use it. This is why automated EKG interpretations (which are very much a real thing used at hospitals across the country) print directly on the EKG printout - it doesn't cost the clinician more than about 2 seconds to read what the machine thinks and adjust their interpretation accordingly[1].

One of the major problems limiting adoption of "expert" computer systems is the amount of (very expensive) integration it takes to get them under that 10-15 second limit. One of the big reasons radiology is seeing a lot of buzz around machine learning and automated interpretation is that integration becomes a lot easier when you can just feed in an image and maybe 5 words about the indication for the study.

I would love to go on for a while about this stuff, but I'll stop there for now :)

[1] Some people here might be interested to learn that non-cardiologists generally don't have negative views about automated EKG interpretations. But we are also very well-aware that when we make decisions about a patient, those decisions have to be anchored to something a lot more substantial than "the machine told me to do it."
I agree. I'll go further to hold the U.S. citizens responsible for the apathy in dealing with rampant deceit and abuses of power by intelligence companies. One set of those were what led up to secret courts, mass surveillances, etc. Any number of leaks showing they were full of crap wasn't enough for citizens to take action. They took action on many inconsequential matters, though.

So, if citizens continuously allow or even create (surveillance supporters) a police state, then the companies operating in it are under no ethical obligation to take risk to protect them from that police state's activities. Those companies would actually be putting in more effort and taking more risk than most of the citizens themselves. That's an unreasonable expectation.

U.S. citizens need to get their shit straight in this country. Interestingly, the vast majority are pushing for the two most corrupt candidates imaginable for this election who have each mocked the Constitution and support the police state apparatus. Trying to protect them is a lost cause. Better to invest that effort into a different democracy whose people actually give a shit vs this one.
A neat trick but it won't be as good as proper OIS. Considering the price I can't believe they were unable to put in a camera with OIS.

IMHO it is a damn shame to see the Nexus line replaced with such high end devices. I can't see them selling that all that well. They are priced way too high.
This is turning into a major tangent, but where is the guarantee documented?
Your typical American cul-de-sac is completely dead. All buildings are >30 feet from street, and no commercial anything within walking distance.
What if this is not the definition of design? A quick search of various dictionaries didn't yield what you have described.
Near the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy, Half a Londoner
This is exactly the kind of exasperating dialogue I've had with underwhelming organic assistants too. It is not a problem confined to machines. Ergo, the next step in virtual personal assistants is learning your preferences and being able to apply them. It's not hard to imagine the following exchange:

"Alexa, book me a flight to Sydney for Wednesday"

Alexa knows that I'm in Melbourne, that I always fly economy class on flights under three hours, have a strong preference for Oneworld airlines, fly direct whenever possible, and like to fly in the mornings except between 8am or 10am on weekdays.

"I found three flights on Wednesday that match your preferences. On your kitchen screen now. Which one shall I book?"

The next development after that would be intermodal transport scheduling and calendar awareness: "Alexa, book me travel for the Sydney board meeting". "Here's an itinerary that matches your diary and preferences."
I'll admit I haven't really looked into this possibility, but could there be a link between zoning regulations and segregation?
> In addition how do home owners anticipate that some nearby development, 5 or 10 years later, is going to go in without parking?

You can't anticipate it, which is why you should never view street parking as a guaranteed feature of your home. People who can't afford homes with garages or driveways just need to be realistic about the fact that the parking situation on their street might change in the future.

Similarly, all homeowners, whether they have garages and driveways or not, need to be realistic about the fact that many things in their neighborhood might change, including density and traffic. That's just life. You can't fully control what happens on land you don't own.
It looks like an interesting service, but it is difficult do judge a quality without getting actually relevant (to me) sample of freelance gigs... For example I recently specialize in creative coding on HTML5 Canvas and I kind of doubt I would get many truly relevant leads simply because of my narrow focus.

This does not mean this is not a good service, but it might work well for Angular developer (popular speciality) and not at all for somebody like me (fairly niche speciality). And without a 'test drive' I have no idea...
Part of the reason housing is so expensive is because of all the zoning meaning you can't build up, or otherwise create denser housing. Supply is not meeting demand.
Nothing against Amazon then?