skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I'm a native Spanish speaker and Google Now works great with bilingual queries for me, that has been improving in recent years.

I always select English as my default language in my phones, some years ago if I wanted to call someone with a Spanish name saying something like "Call Ramon Hernandez" or asking for directions "Take me to Periférico de la Juventud" I used to had to fake an American accent. Today I don't have to do that anymore, I can speak natural Spanish and then it can understand my Mexican accent when I speak English. So it's not just improving in bilingual queries, they have focused in accents and mispronunciations.
The average age of cars on the road in the US is something like 11 years [0]

Even if CarPlay/Android Auto last more than five years, I expect new versions will come out which render old vehicles incompatible.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-average-c...
The email problem may be solved separately by a yet unknown solution - maybe encryption will be part of the next Iteration.

"Personal assistants" that listen in on conversation, waiting for a keyword - that's a completely different dimension than "just" reading email.
There's no ambiguity only because nobody has bothered to mount conventional weapons on ICBMs. There's nothing preventing that, and indeed the US has seriously considered it as a way to implement Prompt Global Strike. Those plans have been held back by the fear that launching such a weapon could be mistaken for a nuclear launch, of course.

Is the problem with hypersonic weapons just that it looks like the players won't make that same choice?
It's only copyright material you aren't licensed to use that is potentially tortuous.

"Big Buck Bunny" out whatever is copyright but the free and open license allows you to download it and consume it.

Seems pedantic but IMO it's an important point.

Copyright is automatic, restrictive licensing isn't.
in any case, it's probably best to assume police and other government agencies can access your social network data.

the ACLU may well win a million court cases, but the data is out there.

i don't see an effective way to stop police, as individuals, or as small independently organized groups, from accessing this sort of data, whether legally or illegally. someone will find a way to get that information to the police if the police want it.
Exactly :)
Thanks for putting it out there
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End-to-end encryption is politics, not security
Great company to work with as well - good luck!
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Nah. Entitlement is the belief that one is due something unconditionally. Its ego at heart; an entitled person probably has no opinion on what is due others.
I have the exact same car and problem. I think her laughing is making it even harder for the voice recognition but it's hard to prove.
(In the USA)
> Drop an English image on this page to OCR it!

This looks great, and I'd really love to but

> Uncaught ReferenceError: progress is not defined

EDIT: works now!
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indian middle class == american poor. More true in 80-90's when the current crop grew up. Also, its kind of funny to be called 'middle class' in the third poorest country in the world.
It seems reasonable at time when "protesting" means shutting down infrastructure.
Except it's really hard to provide treatment for those illnesses if you can't find them regularly, so giving them a home, first, and then bringing services to that home is the only policy that makes sense. Seems to be working in Utah.
The names were shortened becuause the terminals had keyboards very similar to a typewriter, and stdout / stderr was a built-in printer, so mistakes were costly, and time consuming:

http://www.tpsoft.com/museum_images/Teletype%20ASR-33%201.JP...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson#/media/File:Ken_T...

the ergonomy came first and foremost, not the slow links, and the ergonomy still plays an extremely important role on UNIX and UNIX-like systems, even today, because more typing and mistakes are still time consuming; those factors haven't gone away, and no link, however fast, can help with that.

Ergonomy is extremely important on UNIX. It's one of the major reasons for preferring the command line as opposed to a graphical user interface.

To test this: run non-customized /bin/ksh and see how fast you're able to type long command names without [TAB] completion and command history, and what your input error rate will be.

You can even use a modern shell, like tcsh or zsh which have extremely powerful command history and autocompletion facilities, and see how well you fare with the shell completion of --some-long-option=/path/to/somewhere. You can even use bash and see how well it will complete --some-option for you.

The message here is: if you're developing a command line application, please do not use --long-options, and please consider ergonomy very carefully. Save your users typing, and think about how you can reduce their error rates. --long-option isn't the way to do either of those things, it actually makes things more strenuous and slows one down.
Ask HN: Auto 'web' link for paywall?
Comments on how to access article behind paywalls seem to becoming more frequent. Inevitable multi comment response on 'use web link'.

For WSJ etc, might it be worth replacing the submission URL with the 'web' link?
ES6 has very little to do with keeping up with Web APIs. See https://platform-status.mozilla.org/

Notably Fetch API and WebRTC for my use-cases.
What is the problem with the MIT license and patents?

The MIT license grants explicit rights to deal in the software without restriction.
Yeah, I tend to agree. Pure mazes are great for Pacman and the like but perhaps not much else (and, of course, Bomberman): as you say, just too dense to be very playable.

Even this is debatable because in many variants, destructible walls aside, the layout is substantially similar between levels.
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What sort of machine are you running to get 150000 USD?

It's approximately 3-4 k per core using standard.
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My hometown is Anaheim, CA. I recently visited to go biking along the Santa Ana river, and I was shocked at the large numbers of homeless people throughout the stretch between the Angel Stadium and Santa Ana. Even more shocking was the fact that most of them seemed to be under 30. Every freeway overpass had encampments beneath and around it -- at least 30-40 tents total in the smaller encampments, and 60+ in the larger ones.

The river and the county seat (which also has encampments surrounding it) have become the only place where homeless encampments are allowed any sort of permanence, since police departments in cities throughout Southern California have adopted increasingly aggressive policies towards them. From what I understand, the river and county seat fall under the County Sheriff's jurisdiction, so city police can't evict them or seize possessions, and the Sheriff has realized that there is literally no where else for these people to go, and is currently allowing them to stay.

This year's ACLU report on homeless in Orange County is interesting:

https://www.aclusocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Nowhere...

I honestly had no idea how bad things are. I feel horrible about it.
My only problem with that is that you have not only paid for the content, but you've paid for the service as well. If you have to provide the service (in the form of finding a equivalent quality of work, receivable in a not inconvenient amount of time, and take the risk of potentially being flagged as a pirate on your ISP or sued by a rights holder), then it gets more complicated. The content creator certainly isn't getting 100% of the fee you've paid - so ultimately you are rewarding both the content creator and the shitty-service provider.

You may be OK losing the provider's portion to assure the creator is paid.
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Interesting question. No such option is exposed, and I don't think it's doing anything clever with seat occupancy sensors. I'm not sure how aware it is of HOV restrictions in the first place. I think that for routes which are only restricted at certain times of day, it will freely use them, and for routes which are always HOV it will never use them.

There are also some HOT lanes around here (where you can either drive for free with 3+ people, or pay a toll with less) and it never routes me onto those, even though it happily routes me onto other toll roads. Not sure what's up with that.
I just checked. The only presence of this feature in the Bash man page is under REDIRECTION with the following, as the fifth and sixth elements of the list:

/dev/tcp/host/port
If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer
port number or service name, bash attempts to open the corresponding
TCP socket.
/dev/udp/host/port
If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer
port number or service name, bash attempts to open the corresponding
UDP socket.

It's not a feature with a large documentation footprint. I've known about it for a while, but mostly only in the context of security too. I have wondered whether the majority use of this feature is to provide hacked network shells before. It's probably a feature that never should have been added, though I understand the initial appeal.
People may spend more time binge watching TV than watching films on Netflix. But they should be concentrating on customer satisfaction, not racking up viewers.

My girlfriend already jokes that if you search for a film on Netflix they realise and immediately remove it. Then you get the dreaded "Films related to X" search result.

It's really really bad if Netflix gets a reputation for having a small catalogue, even if most of it is rarely watched.

It's kind of like Linux vs Windows. Linux has 90% of the apps you need. But when you need Solidworks or Altium or GTA 5 or whatever you think "pff screw this I will use windows". With Netflix it has lots of stuff but when you search for Die Hard or 12 Angry Men or whatever... well let's just say I treat Netflix as a moral way of paying for Bittorrent.
I'm more likely to get in trouble for creating a VPN than I would be for accidentally sending a DNS request to YouPorn. Our IT department is insane about data security, and running traffic through another VPN will cause them to drop everything to harass you for as long as it takes you to prove that you weren't leaking sensitive information.
I live on one side of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES), work on the other side, and walk through it twice a day. DTES is the centre of gravity for at-risk populations in the lower mainland, and it's basically where you see the homeless, the crazy, and the addicted hanging out, shooting up, and pitching tents.

It's never bothered me, and I've never been bothered. My property value is still amongst the highest in Canada. Various agencies have wisely decided to colocate services in the DTES to help the at-risk groups, and a touch of gentrification keeps police and city services involved.

So basically, I don't give a shit about a "homeless colony" (what, they're an infestation?) right next to my current house, and I'm glad that the attention it receives is focused on helping the people there rather than trying move them somewhere out of sight and out of mind.
What browser / OS are you on?

Edit: this affected every browser because it was a typo. Fixed!
> even software developers lack reading skills

A little condescending, no? Do you read (or expect everyone to) the EULA in full when you install Windows, and understand the implications of _all_ clauses? Or for that matter, the Privacy and User Agreements of any website you visit, e.g. Spotify, Facebook, HN (this very website), Netflix, Hulu, Google, etc., or software you might install, e.g. WhatsApp, Signal, iTunes, macOS, all the licenses visible and distributed with Android? What about your banks, and the actions they sneak in that give them the most freedom to do with your money/data under the law?

The text written in these agreements is foremost written for other lawyers, not you. Many companies have made them easier to parse, slowly prioritizing the user's ability to understand them.

Most people have fine reading skills. What you are misconstruing is an ability to understand and derive implications of legal agreements.
The problem is that it is easier to pirate than it is to do anything else because of the stranglehold that distributors are trying to place on the goods that the creatives are making. The distributors add a negative value to the product that becomes extra cost for the consumer to get his payment to the creator.
Wikipedia has a comparison list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreSSL#Security_and_vulnerab...
Any idea of why this might be?
what is happening is not legal in the US and a large porn website was sued for doing it. they were printing hidden links on the page, then checking the color with JS to see if you had visited the destination url or not. judge didn't think it was a fair business practice. maybe these companies are not fixing this because of this legal precedent and figured no one was doing it?
You're also paying for the Titan XPs 12GB of VRAM, which is overlooked by the common canned benchmarks that easily fit in the 1080s 8GB.
>Copyright is automatic, restrictive licensing isn't.

You're wrong there. The "default" state of affairs for copyright is that the author retains all rights.
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> As of now, they're losing money with that model

Indeed, just seen that they were not profitable at least in May [1]

> You might like it as a customer

That's something :) Let's wait and see how they do in the next five years.

[1] http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/05/27/spotifys-annual-rep...
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PyCaribbean organizer here. Feel free to ask us any questions.
Quickest production car currently in production (P100D), a first stage booster that reliably returns to the pad for reuse. Disappointed? Hardly. Even if Musk loses everything, he's done more than most (if not all) people who have that kind of money.
On roku there are tons of channels that can be installed that stream public domain movies. Unfortunately, the channels I've seen tend to have poor quality prints.
Binge-watching is putting on a show and leaving it on for a good chunk of the day. Think watching a whole season of a show over a weekend, so at least 4 hours per day. And you can do this with every original Netflix series from the first day the show is launched - you don't have to wait a week per episode.
You appear to be correct and my google search shows 2018 to be the date. https://www.google.com/search?q=all+new+usa+cars+require+rea...
Google has their knowledge graph, a semantic search engine for the most commonly asked questions.

The wikipedia page for Knowledge graph cites Thomas Jefferson as an example, so I asked 'what years was Thomas Jefferson in office?', and Google deferred to the first paragraph of TJ's wiki.

Then I asked 'What year was Thomas Jefferson born?', and it gave me a direct answer.

So it sorta works, but it's not super awesome.
Not this guy, by any chance? https://sites.google.com/site/markyeedesign/
Can confirm. Just took a flight yesterday and noticed the Galaxy 7 warning had become part of the official spiel read by the gate attendants when announcing flight info.

One of the more comical attendees turned it into a joke, something like '... If you would like to stow your larger carry on, please come to the counter.... If you have a Samsung Galaxy 7, please place it in the garbage prior to entering the aircraft...'.

It was a crowded flight with a long line and already delayed. He was just trying to lighten up the atmosphere, and everyone did laugh, so it was clever.

For Samsung, this is a marketing nightmare for one their most profitable brands.
Hi, Paul from the React team here. There have been lots of questions about the license+patents combo we use. Recently our legal team answered some of those questions.

https://code.facebook.com/license-faq
The first number, "33" is the pin number of the CHIP Pro, "CSID4-SDC2-CMD" are the functions, and "PE8" is the actual pin name from the GR8 module. The key on that diagram is confusing.
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Gender stereotypes have made us horrible at recognizing autism in women
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Ha! No, I did not. I will, thanks for posting!
This is just an opinion piece. The author doesn't say so explicitly, but seems to have never used another word processor or even another text editor, aside from the occasional "online HTML editor" from blogs or comment sections: Perhaps the one that had served me all through high school and college wasn’t going to cut it in the professional world, ...

It's just plain parochial to say that "Word" is the end all and be all if you haven't even used anything else. But I guess this is the kind of sub-moronic viewpoint that drives corporations to locking down Windows desktops: if you can't imagine anyone doing anything other than creating "Word" documents, or "Excel" spreadsheets, then all your "knowledge workers" are going to do is create .docx and .xlsx files. Justify it with dumbass, narrow minded rants like this, and say "Word" is a "best practice" all you want. If your company just does what every other company is doing, all those corporations are mediocre.
> I want to point out that this measure does not take effect until there is actual open housing in which to send homeless folks. They cannot be told to leave otherwise.

The text of the measure isn't that specific. [1] It just says that the city has to offer shelter. In no way does it state that shelter must be actually available or secured before removing the tent.

The pessimistic interpretation is that the police will be able to tell a tent dweller that they need to go to a shelter and just give them directions to the nearest one, and the requirements of the law will be satisfied.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Prohibiti...
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People do learn how to use software by twiddling with sliders and clicking buttons to see what they do.

They only read the manual if the software is so unusable that it requires it. Have you ever seriously read the PowerPoint manual for example?

There's even an xkcd about this.
I agree with this. The fact is that to live in the bay area now is expensive and many people (myself included) work hard to afford to live here. I don't understand why someone who doesn't or can't work should be guaranteed a place here. If I was injured or became a drug addict/mentally ill and needed to stop working I would strongly consider moving back to where I lived for the past few years in Eastern WA, life was exponentially cheaper. Problem is these places where living is cheap probably have little to no services for the mentally ill/ addicts. This is why I agree with your statement that the state should establish services in more cost effective areas. I guess this seems like shipping them off to camps away from rich people but at least the dollars spent on services and shelters can serve more people more effectively.
> It seems reasonable at time when "protesting" means shutting down infrastructure.

---

> It seems reasonable at time when "legislating" means shutting down infrastructure.

I'm curious why you complain about one and not the other? The latter is being used to take away people's access to things like voting, etc. by shutting down polling locations, changing times, etc. to reduce access to people who vote for the "wrong" party.
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“I strongly believe that it is not compassionate to allow human beings to live on our city streets,” wrote the measure’s author, supervisor Mark Farrell, in an op-ed. “Let’s help get the homeless into housing, not tents.”

By passing a measure that bans the tents -- but doesn't actually do anything to help get these people into housing. Or for that matter, any meaningful promise of a safe place to sleep at night (because without funding -- and that's precisely where the crux of the issue lies, behind this problem -- the phrase "offer shelter for all tent residents" has precisely zero chance of seeing a viable implementation).

Now that's compassionate.
I wish Siri wouldn't ever show me web results; If I'm talking to my phone I don't want to click around or often even look at it. Everytime Siri offers to search the web for something, it's a fail.

Siri is great for setting alarms and timers -- much faster than using the UI.
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>Also, most people would be happy to pay the actors and crew a very healthy wage but baulk at paying to add DRM and several layers of executives whose function appears to be to make it as hard as possible to actually watch the content without paying again and again and who extract far more than their share of the revenue.

Sure, all of the people torrenting are really just protesting as the unjust profits made by studio executives. This is laughable.

>The family in question used a hacked Wii to watch DVDs, but the DRM prevented half of them from working.

And a perfectly functional DVD player is like $20.

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>What's your second point? That just because it only costs a week's groceries to buy a DVD player it was wrong to torrent a work that has been paid for and only can't be consumed due to DRM? Do you find that use immoral?

Copyright becomes unenforceable if you can just go buy a physical DVD with cash whenever you get sued or warned for pirating something.
But Apple are hopeless at services, which is what the Chromebooks rely on entirely. Last time I looked I couldn't even listen to Apple Music in a browser. What year is this?

As it is i've been waiting for a new Macbook to drop as it's the one bit of Apple kit I still like. But if it's disappointing i'll simply buy a reasonable Chromebook and use the SSH extension to do work elsewhere, which with the browser covers 95% of what I do with a laptop.
> Do you then have to create a separate account "from the US"?

I have not tried, as I do not actually have an account with them. But I would be curious to know the outcomes.

> I'm happy to pay for content, but if I have to hack my way around to the point that it's harder than pirating...

Well, at least using an IP that doesn't represent your legal domain isn't [considered] illegal (yet?) [1]

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/what-is-a-vpn-are-...
It's wildly off-topic ... https://github.com/adobe-webplatform/balance-text might help, or https://codepen.io/samirsr/pen/sojCi .
There should be a no fly zone around exploiting stranger things. Please leave this one alone.
I've got a little thingy I made myself with a Minimus AVR, to replace a parallel port to BBC Micro cable I bought about 12 years ago, when PCs still had parallel ports. USB cable connects PC to AVR, also providing power, and a bunch of wires connects AVR to BBC.

The AVR pretends to be the original unmodified PC software, translating things to and from the USB protocol that the modified PC software now uses (which was pretty straightforward to do using libusb).

The AVR is 5V, so it just connects directly.
Thing is, weird as it may seem, in most modern societies, even those that count as enlightened ones, proclaiming yourself as an atheist won't get you far, as the social and political life is concerned. For example, no candidate for US presidency, in their right mind, would openly admit being an atheist. And that is despite the official separation of church from state.
> Other people pay a lot of money in tax to the state to reduce their daily exposure to violence,

Just to be clear, police and courts use an extremely small fraction of tax revenue.