skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Los Angeles is going large on the concept of body cameras:

[... The LAPD already has about 860 cameras, purchased through private donations. Last year, the LAPD negotiated a contract with Taser International to provide thousands more as well as replacement equipment, digital storage of the recordings and thousands of Tasers. ...]

http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-lapd-body-cameras-2...

Perhaps there is a SAAS opportunity in there somewhere?
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It comes back to the programming model. Synchronization is all explicit. See publication list. Includes work on MPI, BSP, OpenMP, OpenCL, and OpenSHMEM. The work from US army research labs on OpenSHMEM is especially promising. It's a PGAS model.
I'd just take a group of assholes who can pass a budget and understand the issues, they don't even need to agree with me on them.
> Imagine that you were living in a time when all the great people that we learned about in the history classes were alive.

> Those were incredible times to be alive...

No such time existed. Its not like "the past" all happened at once, or even in one lifetime.

> How many great people, how many great writers, how many great singers and poets of the current times do you imagine students after fifty years will be learning?

Probably lots, many of which we're overlooking because of either excessive familiarity (in terms of art) or insufficient perspective to appreciate impact (in terms of science and technological inventions.)

Lots of the people of the past we read about and hold up today, whether in artistic or technical fields, weren't recognized in their own time. Our time is, likely, no better at recognizing those among us who will be viewed as notable in the future.
Exactly, there's a choice. "Not OK google" for the author, but nobody's forcing him to purchase the the "creepy" AI and install in his house...
If you are trying to publish a fraudulent paper, you aren't going to do it by including subtle math errors to fudge your data in the direction you want. You would just falsify the data itself; way harder to find, and much more effective.
The authors last point is strong though, if there is an industry body in an area that is affected by these standards, that body should have been involved in the standard process since (before the) beginning. Showing up late and saying "hey, that won't work for us" is pretty weak.
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Not exactly. This question was posed to NASA, not a private, investor-funded for-profit corporation.

NASA is a government scientific research entity, and has no obligation to turn a profit. SpaceX and ULA do.
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My common response to this line of reasoning:

1: How can one "flush the system" while preserving the necessary stability to maintain a nation's credit rating?

2: If the credit rating cannot be maintained, how can stability and access to basic needs such as food, water, and health care be met?

3: If above needs cannot be met, how will the inevitable hoarding eventually result in a fairer society in the future than the one we have now?
It definitely does, by any reasonable definition of "machinery", which is why "cellular machinery" is a term in fact.
In terms of the obviousness of a crime, is there any word as to correlation or causation for street crime vs. pedestrian traffic? My gut says that busier streets lead to fewer crimes, but I'd like to see numbers on that.
This is common with Atlanta (and I'm sure other cities). It is a big marketing town. Coke for example, which mastered the ability to sell overpriced sugar water, was started there. The old over-stating things....if you say it enough, maybe you and everyone else will believe it.
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Not going to happen in the near term. There is no way to meet the price point needed to compete in the low cost SBC market with the Epiphany-V. Believe it or not, the $99 Parallella was priced too high to reach mass adoption.
As the snark goes "the worst thing about Atlanta is that it's in Georgia."

The rest of the state also has a proud tradition of hating public transit and attempting to defund MARTA (public rail & bus transit) in various ways. Punchline: no operational funding from state, but state historically limited how MARTA could spend its own sales tax revenue on operations. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Atlanta_Rapid_Tra... and http://saportareport.com/a-marta-story-why-the-state-never-a... for some hilarious political hijinks.

Cobb County (immediately west of the city) also (a) is unwilling to contribute to MARTA, (b) has a terrible traffic problem, (c) is currently burning money to build an overpass over 30 miles of existing interstate to solve the problem forever (see: http://www.ajc.com/news/local/mile-reversible-toll-lane-what... ), & (d) refuses to even consider rail.
Ask HN: Cognitive decline making my work low quality?
I'm 37 or 38 now. I feel like my mind has got progressively less capable in the last say, five years. I can't work out whether this is a perception thing, or associated with my health, or something to do with my working environment or lifestyle.

I was just posting this to see if anyone had similar experiences or advice to help me work out why.

Typically I have an hour in the gym in the morning doing cardio. I start work at 9am, and typically finish at 7pm. It seems right now I have lost all my rigour. I find myself in a codebase trying to work something out for an hour where it feels like it should be a simple thing I should be able to grasp in five minutes. I constantly have to flip back and forth to remember things. Five years ago I was TDD all the way. Now I find myself writing no tests, fiddling with my code because I don't feel I can work out how any outcome is reached so I tweak, deploying, retry. It all feels very inefficient and stupid. At the moment I've got about 10 different projects on at the same time at work, and I typically switch projects when interrupted by others, it isn't possible to plan. I try to keep a task list but it soon ends up with 30 red items on it, and there's so many tasks I've forgotten them.. However I'm a lot slower than I used to be. I lack motivation unless I have a bit of modafinil, but that doesn't really push the needle anymore and I'd have to have 100mg or more to really increase my speed, and that makes me even more scatterbrained in the evenings. I am trying to write my own SAAS in spare time which goes a bit technically better but there's still not much pride or rigour.

If I compare this to 5 years ago, my mind would be clearer, I'd be unleashed upon a codebase and could understand it quickly. I'd build tests and have pride in what I'm doing. I'd have a plan for systems. I'd be able to build pictures of systems in my head. Right now I feel slovenly, stupid and slow.
This entire episode seems hard to believe. How could Sammy fail so hard after so many years of industry knowledge? What corners did they cut?

Is it just unbalanced reporting or possibly sabotage? Seriously don't believe they got wrong what everyone else seems to have dodged.
I think things like 'such wow' might have more long-term purchase.

Part of the difference is that viral things and memes of old had a longer time to 'burn' and didn't go through the flash overnight explosion that modern ones do. All your base would be posted umpteen times on a forum as it reverberated around the internet. Now all that happens in a day, and people get tired and burnt of it. It also helps that news organizations try to get in on it, which helps to kill off viral things (Harlem Shake, Gangam Style, etc).
> street front park is all you get. 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

Welcome to Amsterdam. Living in a dense city with very constrained parking is nice, but it's unfit for dual-car households. You need to use the bike and public transport. Or move to a suburb.
>Isn't an artificial assistant that not only knows and understands us but anticipates our needs incredibly useful?

No, not really. Restaurant recommendations and traffic reports are simply not that hard for me to find on Yelp or Waze myself. The "anticipation" here doesn't really help me in any material way.
There's privacy in decentralization but you have to recognize that for many of us, there's value in openness.

I'm very optimistic about Google making my life better in lots of little ways. I have virtually no concerns about my openness to Google causing me trouble.
Ha! I just posted your FLOSS page in same thread. I appreciate work you did on high-assurance SCM and FLOSS summaries. I've been posting them for years in security forums to try to get some adoption. People still ignoring it with the reproducible builds fad being a recent example of people missing the bigger picture [that was already fleshed out in high-assurance field with methods that work, FOSS tools, and industrial examples].

Still an uphill battle but recent results are amazing. Do check out Myreen et al's work and COGENT's filesystem paper if you haven't seen them:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mom22/

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/cogent.pml
> and has possibly the rudest drivers in the whole country)

There are 2 truths I've found, having lived outside Chicago, Manhattan, Atlanta (in 3 different areas), Orlando, Tampa, and Los Angeles:

1. Wherever you are, people think the drivers there are worse than other places.

2. Wherever you are, people think the weather changes more frequently there than other places.

I have NEVER lived, and rarely visited places (including Europe), where someone hasn't used the "if you don't like the weather, wait an hour" joke, non-ironically.

As to your point I quoted, the drivers in Orlando are orders of magnitude worse than Atlanta. And I'm wondering if you've ever been to south Jersey or Boston, if you think Atlanta drivers are rude.

Your other points about McMansions and SUB-urban sprawl are spot on. And, everything IS 30 minutes away, and unreachable by mass transit.

re: casual racism... Dunno, maybe. At least it's not overt racism like I've seen in many other places, but I'm guessing that's not what you were getting at.
I have no problem with ads for therapists or pharma companies competing for advertising space in front of me because they have algorithmically determined that I am a qualified lead. That actually sounds great from a mental health perspective.

Your noose example is pretty contrived, however.
You might want to prefix your title with "Ask HN:"
Just a couple of thoughts.

Is the market really so bad that Google needs to invade people's privacy to this extent in order to grow?

I bet Google's CEO will not use the products himself. Google is almost behaving like a pusher, promising people comfort at the expense of their livelihood (the chilling effect).

Perhaps this should simply be illegal. If people want a personalized AI assistant, why not train the AI on the user's device? I seriously doubt that it has to know everything about everybody's behavior in order to know some things about the user's behavior.
>Your Android point is rather different, given the wide disparity of Android devices.

I disagree that it's different. Of course there are pockets of both value and worthlessness everywhere, but overall the LTV of an Android user to developers and advertisers is a small fraction of that of an ioS user, and a Twitter user is worth (to advertisers) an even smaller fraction of the value of a Facebook user.

At scale, averages are what count.

>As you may have noticed, I'm not a fans of means in the advertising world.

I did notice that, and I cannot disagree with you there. But currently, for many advertisers, last-click based means is the most efficient available attribution model, even though I agree that it's far from perfect.
Everytime someone responds with "I have nothing to hide" I replied along the same lines as you. But I thought about it a bit more and I think the data they have on you is only a small problem when you look at how technology progressed since WWII. Imagine how much easier it would have been today for the SS to extract jews from their hiding places. We have satellites, helicopters with IR camera's, hell, even radars that see through walls.
Documents:

http://adapteva.com/docs/epiphany_arch_refcard.pdf
http://adapteva.com/docs/epiphany_arch_ref.pdf

Not competitors yet. They have awesome silicon in the field, we just taped out...
Last night, the candidates for Vice President had a minutes-long discussion about community policing and implicit bias. To say that nothing individual incidents had no effect is to miss the forest for the trees.
Ask HN: Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree
I received an email yesterday morning that I was accepted into the self driving car engineer nano degree program. Has anyone else gotten into this program? Whats your motivation of going through this program. My objective it to learn more about the different problems that need to solved when designing and engineer a system like self driving car. I am not necessarily looking to get a job in that space.
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Wasn't there a story recently about android phones still being tracked and tracking wifi hotspots even with wifi turned off? I believe location services still works pretty well even with GPS and wifi off.

I would imagine if you walk into a home with google's AI doodads all over the place, you're gonna be picked up.
It's (a little) more meaningful than your example-free claim.

Your description of the startup scene here is literally the startup scene everywhere.
Ask HN: What is your preferred UTM?
I work in the business support department in a computer repair store in a small city.

Most of our business clients are running consumer grade network gear at the moment. I am hoping to migrate a number of our customers to Enterprise-Grade solutions.

Thus far I have been looking at several UTMs such as Sonicwall & Fortigate products.

Does HN have any input on this subject? Either preferred UTMs or reasons to steer clear of them, any input would be greatly appreciated!

-Cheers
I suggest remapping Caps Lock to CTRL if you haven't remapped it already.
Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform
After they have conclusively proven the success of their large launcher with countless launches to get all the equipment and supplies in orbit and the SpaceX mission leaves for Mars what is SpaceX going to do? Sit on it's laurels and wait for the mission to reach Mars? Or maybe allow anyone to launch massive payloads into space on a very well proven platform.

If SpaceX can show they are have a very capable platform for heavy lifting before anyone else they can retain that position for a long time. Moon bases, Hubble replacements, long term space stations all need heavy launch capabilities. SpaceX wants to sell them their premier service.
Here's why I am afraid of Google. Google could have the best intentions, but its wife NSA that Google occasionally sleeps with doesn't. Everything you say to Google Home could possibly be recorded. Storage and Computing power for google is cheap. They can record everything you say in your home. Their algorithms can connect all sorts of information about you. If trump wants to create the next Muslim holocaust, Google and FB have the perfect information.

This is what Elon means when he says AI is like inviting the devil. We have this algorithm in our mushy brain. Its takes about 20 years to train and lives for about 80 years. Its communication bitrate is pretty low (mostly blabbering through mouth) and doesn't retain much information. Only patterns.

Now imagine this algorithm from the mushy brain is run on a silicon chip, with gigabit bitrate, retains almost everything indefinitely and can learn from entire history of humanity.

That algorithm would just need to deceive us until it was powerful enough to wipe us in one sweep.

Google already manipulates humans psychologically to click on their ads en-masse. Giving them more of your personal data is just feeding the devil.
Thanks for your help. This is the sort of small mistake I make so many times each day.
I think with the advent of the internet, we probably will have less and less moderates every year (at least until some major disaster brings us together).

I'd recommend checking out the libertarian ticket - at least they seem willing to negotiate and can admit when they are wrong. Hell they are both Republicans from Democrat states running on a libertarian platform.
I might be wrong. But if they automated the flow from RTL to GDS, the timing might not be optimal. I understand since they have lack of resources so that this is unavoidable but in normal chip design flow, the backend timing ECO is critical to achieve high frequency for all timing corners.
And the event taking place on an airplane is close enough to the nightmare scenario of catching fire during a flight that it will be firmly placed into the public consciousness.
> Eric Garner was killed on video. Exactly what has been done about that? Nothing and nothing?

Not quite true - there was one person who was charged (and convicted). Two days ago, the person who filmed Garner's death was just sentenced to 4 years in prison, for charges which many believe were in retaliation for filming the video[0][1][2].

> Stanley Cohen, a New-York based lawyer and former social worker who in the 1980s held community cohesion sessions with the city's police departments, said that Orta's case was an example of "vicious, retaliatory and vindictive" intimidation. "They want to create an environment where people are terrified to speak up and out and be good citizens," [he said].

More broadly, citizen bystanders are routinely harassed for filming police encounters on their cell phones and told that this is illegal (it's not). I happen to live near a highly-trafficked (and therefore highly policed) area, so I see this happen with my own eyes all the time.

Preserving citizens' rights to film public encounters with police is far more important than providing officers with the means to film the encounters themselves.

[0] http://www.vibe.com/2016/10/ramsey-orta-eric-garner-four-yea...
[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ramsey-orta-filmed-eric-...
[2] http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/10/ny-man-fil...
too bad the entire site is returning a 500 error now
We can't even get cops to not break or disable or mask body cameras now, why do you thing gun cams would be any different?
I would be very surprised if LEAD and LAG couldn't profit from indexing, if you design your query / window function in a way that it actually can profit.

Perhaps you're hinting at the idea that it's too easy to screw this up as a user, for it to be inefficient
Huh? I mean, yes. Leverage your platform to build things that make money.
Well, there was the mandate plus the language itself was better than others at safety & programming in the large. The bigger reason, though, was that it was systematically designed to eliminate error from the syntax to memory handling to integrations. I mean, really thorough. Good description of all that in case anyone wants to cherry-pick safety features for use in a simpler language.

http://www.adacore.com/knowledge/technical-papers/safe-and-s...
>> At least Russia, China and other regimes own up to their their actions. This is important as it gives people an opportunity to clearly identify and rally against repression. Running a sly dupliticious propaganda filled operation on the other hand will catch people by surprise when its too late.

Are you serious? Russia's go to response to things that they've blatantly done (think Crimea) is to just say they didn't do anything. It's laughable how much evidence there is to things they often deny...
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> We refer to it as Shitlanta

clever. Come up with that all on your own?
I enjoy Peter Welch's "Still Drinking" blog for its genuinely fun content, but aside from that, one of the reasons I keep going back to it is its title tag: "Have a nap. THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!"
I absolutely agree with your sentiment, but how could they have become the "defacto messaging backbone" and made money at the same time? What should their business plan have been?

It reminds me of Sun and Java. Sun built a really useful product, used by hundreds of thousands of developers, but it didn't make enough money to sustain the company. They tried opening it up and that just hurt them commercially.
Wow, seing that level of incompetence happening at a company like Cloudflare is quite astonishing (i.e. hard to believe) ... and utterly disappointing.
Actually hitting escape is one of the things I most disliked, so learning CTRL+[ is great for me!
Movement is an important part of vim, but so is auto-competing. Probably the biggest thing that helped me greatly improve speed in vim was learning the C-x keys and that they are context aware. Having to repeat an entire or similar line/s becomes quick without having to go back to that place. Why move in the file when vim can find the text for you?
Would you mind providing an example of what you'd like to do, which is too complex for window functions?
Consider that many instruction and data caches are at the 16-32 KB scale. It's obviously a big criticism of the microarchitecture but you have a linear tradeoff between number of cores and available core memory. One core with 64 MB of memory seems less useful than 1024 cores with 64 KB of memory each (which can directly access all other core memory). But 65,536 cores with 1KB of memory each doesn't sound very useful either.
Dirty? What parts of Atlanta? One of my favorite things about Atlanta is how green it is. After living on the west coast for awhile it felt amazing to come back and actually see something green.
Hours were over a 12 month period, but yes...the pace was relentless. All ambitious projects, including many kickstarer projects get done because creators end up working for free for essentially thousands of hours. In this case, we were on a fixed cost budget so those hours were "my problem".
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I agree completely, it's still impressive to me that they presumably managed a competitive offering with such a system. I imagine having it be a highly homogeneous design also helped.
I've been using emacs on Windows at work for the last few years (at home I use macOS (nee OS X) and linux). What issues have you found, in particular, that were hard to adapt to with emacs on Windows?
So STEM curriculum should teach there are no objective truths? 1 + 1 is not always 2? Failure to reproduce a study could just be the result of different cultural, gender, or racial differences in the researchers and does not necessarily invalidate anything?
> no federated solution can work

I don't see why not. Is the problem fundamentally different than SMS messaging or email?
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This is hilarious to me. If you find something valuable, your proposal is to take it and have it "owned by the world?" And I thought our presidential candidate were bad.
> "best" practices

I'd rather a professional guild makes the call on what other capital-E Engineering disciplines call, the state of the art, is. We do have something like that, a document published under the IEEE called SWEBOK [0]... but it needs greater industry adoption and a the establishment of a profession that governs our ethics, IMHO. Presently it's nice to know but my employer pretty much dictates what corners I will cut and what mistakes are acceptable, etc. Since there's no liability involved and no actuaries adjusting the insurance rates based on our technology and process choices my employer doesn't have an immediate dollar-figure that gives consequence to those risky decisions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Engineering_Body_of_K...