skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
re: productivity - you forgot to point out that the same problems occur with buses and trains, except people have to wait 10 minutes, 20 minutes, half an hour for them. Whereas with self-driving cars in the uber model, you wait 5 minutes, with zero warning time.

And the article fails to mention a key benefit of self-drivers: removal of human error, and lowering of accident rates because of it. This is still theoretical, but it almost certain to become reality. Imagine saving 33% of the lives lost annually in car crashes. That's 10,000 people.

Another key benefit not mentioned is the enablement of non-empowered people. Sight-impaired people, young people, older people, people who are unwell or otherwise physically limited - all of these people can benefit from door-to-door service offered by self-driving cars, and not offered by buses. Yes, today there are "Access" vans, but cmon. Those are not a viable large-scale solution. Self-drivers will set many people free.

Self-driving cars are going to happen, because they're convenient and offer privacy and utility that a bus or train cannot. Some people will be willing to pay extra for that. Some won't. As the author of the article said: We need the mix.
I'm not sure I get why they bracketed the age group so small as 18–21 vs the broader census definition.
That's not a very responsible thing to do if you believe the drive could be malicious.
Here are the current openings https://www.tocktix.com/#/careers
This page didn't, because it only profiles third party cookies - that is, your browser explicitly admitting which sites you're logged into. Privacy Badger, Disconnect, or uBlock will all handle that, as will simply disabling the browser setting.

That was pretty much my point: this is a "nice" profile. One that targets unintentionally identifying image like browser window dimensions can easily track you despite all of those precautions.
And both end up being fed to optimized-deflate-encoder-of-the-week and have negligible size differences once compressed.
My mistake -- thanks for pointing that out. I think I was in shock, and didn't take a closer look.
Then the poll creators made bad decisions. Even with transparency there's no reason why a poll can't be constructed specifically to heavily favor a particular candidate which it seems is just the case.

It's very humorous when Trump cites this poll considering what an outlier of civilized humanity he is. Matches nicely.
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This is the first presidential election for those voters.
The creator's are often paid and out of the equation. In the most common case the $5 literally does not go the creators.

You might argue that publishers and distributors will hold their portion of the $5 for the next piece of content.
Symbolics Genera is so far ahead Emacs, it's not even funny. Even though it is unmaintained since 20 years.

Xerox Interlisp-D was similar mind-blowing.
Cordova is still quite relevant.

The better question may be a question of developer balance. React Native (and similarly Xamarin) requires extra work per each platform where things don't quite overlap and native controls are different enough on the given platform.

In terms of balance for a small team, "raw" HTML5 on Cordova can still be a time saver for reaching all the platforms with the exact same UI. Admittedly, yes that's likely not a true "native" UI and will look/feel more like a "website", but for some projects that least common denominator is more important the time/developer effort of polishing the UI especially for each platform.
I have 5 countries worth of OpenStreetMap on my phone, that at least covers the "seeing a map" part. (I haven't tested routing with it)
I find all of the voice responses from both to be tediously slow. I'm a fast speaker, and I like it when people speak at a fast pace with me.

I like that Google seems to just display information for may of the responses vs. trying to cram in some overly long witty reply or verbatim reading of the text that takes too long to speak back.

Having some sort of speed/succinctness setting would be helpful in that regard.
I bet this will revolutionize online payments.
The 3 kV rating is most likely 3 kV on a human body model, which is a small capacitor (few picofarads) with a series resistor. This says nothing about what happens if you charge a large capacitor to 100v and then dump it through as low a resistance as possible into the victim port.
Check out the http://maps.me/en/home app - it gives you offline routing using OpenStreetmap data on your phone.

Google Maps also supports offline downloads, but from what I remember, they expire every 30 days, so you need to keep re-downloading.
I'm posting under a throwaway account just to say I agree with you; if that says anything.
Terrible domain name, and claims on the home page are demonstrably false; https://www.losant.com has a GUI for building your IOT-connected workflows.

There are others: http://www.postscapes.com/internet-of-things-platforms/

Also: https://io.adafruit.com is nice for hobbyist projects.
Yeah, as long as it only activates that container based on typing in facebook or going to a bookmark, not just any random site hitting that URL. Which would then probably break following links to those sites - could you trigger it based on a normal navigation to that domain, but not based on some other site trying to fetch an image from it out of the blue?
I realize this isn't a perfect counter, but Google Maps (on Android, and probably iOS) allows you to download "offline areas", and you can store just about many of them as your phone has storage for.

This means that as part of your trip preparation, you can download the maps and use them on your trip in the boonies. I don't know how well it _uses_ them, nor what amount of data connection it still wants, but it saved us a bunch of mobile data usage on our last trip.
At this point you may as well just go full rms and use wget to download pages which you then read offline.
Ok, if you can't relay it internally where is best to ask?
What about virtualization? It seems to me that something like Qubes might not at present protect against this (I don't know what information is available to guest/isolated domains on that system), but could be made to? One can easily lie to a browser about battery status and fonts from the OS too, for example.

I guess my point is that it depends on what you view as pathological? I surmise that this is the kind of thing that needs an algorithmic countermeasure, such that systematic deception by user agents is no more difficult for the end user than browsing the web is currently.
Air mail. These were the days before good roads crossed the country, and where even an automotive trip was an Adventure which would take weeks. Horseback, you're going slow enough that you'd be able to see much smaller signs, and would be on a pretty well-trod path.

Shortly thereafter, though, a few things happened that made the arrows pretty obsolete. Mapping of course, was a big one; you could now navigate a lot more reliably through unknown territory. More importantly, a network of radio beacons was set up. Charts had lists of radio beacons, with their frequencies. Pilots could tune in to hear them repeatedly chirp their identification in morse code, and use radio direction finders to set their heading accordingly.

There's one other feature that was developed in that time period which also made pilots' navigation job a lot easier. The federal highway system meant that there were good, very visible, roads, serving as routing beacons in their own way. Pilots would, and still do for a lot of general aviation planes, route close to highways, because they're also a very obvious landmark that carves a path through the country.
Some development teams can't afford the developer effort to polish UI specifically for every platform. For some apps it doesn't matter if it "feels native" if it can access the platform features it needs.
Exactly what do you not wish to share publicly? Signing a petition is public by definition.
Let's go find the really heavily weighted members of _all_ the polls and dox them too. This way we can screw them all up. Not just one that is influenced by a potential Trump voter.
Does it matter? The point is that they published an article that is factually accurate. If they were publishing an opinion piece based on such motivations there might be an argument here. But they aren't.
I don't. My 2013 Prius has an excellent GPS and I'm not too concerned that the maps are a bit out of date. I still get accurate traffic data from XM.

There are advantages to the built-in navigation - it works when there's no GPS signal due to inertial navigation (compass and tire rotation). Mine has a head-up display so I can see navigation cues without taking my eyes off the road. The voice synth is much better than Apple Maps or Google Maps.

I've only had to pull out my phone a couple of times in 3 years.
Interesting use of the word 'civilized' that I wasn't previously aware of.
I'm posting under my own account to say I disagree. We're talking about data here. Whether or not the Times has any motivation behind publishing this article, the data and methods still speak for themselves.
The reason companies don't take security seriously: Their money isnt on the line
You can also do real Ethernet with a teensy: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_Ethernet.html
> Why would new versions cause incompatibility?

Because CarPlay in 2016 doesn't support the new hotness of 2018, because we are an industry of attention-deficit twentysomethings.

Granted, were I forced to choose between attention-deficit twentysomethings and bureaucratic, glacial fiftysomethings … well honestly, I don't know which I'd choose.
Here is simple no abstract argument:

Pirates don't deprive distributors or content producers of anything. No harm has been done.
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Framework IX and the FRED Computer Language
Now you can sale conference tickets in Bitcoin
Yeah, in the past, I've had to scale my own scans/photos to get good results. The tesseract github site mentions this:

"Tesseract works best on images which have a DPI of at least 300 dpi, so it may be beneficial to resize images."

- https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/ImproveQuali...
Adam Curtis: Hypernormalisation
Exactly. So it shouldn't be used to 'flag' any employees.
Note that's $0.0025 per unit, not 25 cents per unit. Your post is correct, but, ya know, Verizon math is a real thing.
> Can somebody get us an on disk, small, fast, in-process, low-footprint NoSQL DB?

That's LMDB, as others have noted. I have used it in production for years, never once lost data. Insanely fast, low footprint, crash-proof.

(P.s. I have seen SQLite get corrupted regularly on mobile devices, which is why I no longer use it there.)
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. The graduation rate for US students is 8 percent higher than Germany. The original article that talked about it was pretty opinionated so I opted for an unbiased source. However, that omitted the analysis.
> It's a M android device to N cars relationship, creating a lot of combinations that need to be tested

I'm certain that Android Auto compatibility is part of the Android Compatibility Test Suite that all OHA OEMs have to run for phones in order to get Google apps. The tests probably are not perfect
You're betting on the merger going through, but keep a net-neutral exposure to whether the stock goes up or down.
HERE Maps / HERE WeGo (whatever the hell it's called now) has supported offline map downloads from day one, between every Windows / iOS / Android phone I've owned I have had the entire US downloaded from day 1.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12696142 and marked it off-topic.
You are correct in that UBI alone won't magically solve the problem.

I've thought that the primary goal for UBI is an attempt to solve wealth distribution inequality.

Other things that also help with that issue are providing basic subsistence at a rate that the market is free to undercut; ideally also affordable with UBI.

That would allow for competition, but provides a price cap for the market as well. If you say X cannot go above Y, or else the government will find a way to address this social need that society is not, then you can encourage competition while limiting predatory impacts.
Agreed. My cynicism tells me that more often than not, this is just used to find disgruntled employees and get rid of them rather than actually fixing problems.
How about: "Can't set new route while car is in motion?"

If you ever block me from doing something on a computer that I know it can do, I will hate you forever.

You know, I might have a passenger who could work the nav system, but, oh, no, the car is moving so you can't enter a new destination.

So many people disabled this "feature" on the Prius nav system that Toyota removed the ability to disable it. I kid you not.

And then they wonder why everybody uses their phone.
I read the whole post several times before responding, and re-read over parts of it while responding. I just don't think that you provided a well-justified reason. Why is reassurance a good thing? That seems like it'd imply that you're relaxing your guard when considering their opinion.
lol you beat me to it on posting the summary :), but good story.
> The only problem with k/v stores is the serialization/deserialization cost, as most of them can only store strings.

I store Cap'n Proto objects directly into LMDB, and can read them without any memory allocation or deserialization cost. Freaking rocks.
You're comparing two vastly different things. Maps for Google (I assume people are referring to google maps) is a very important part of its business, up there with gmail.

But maps for car companies is an afterthought, a secondary luxury feature.

You can't expect car companies to drop billions on mapping and full time software devs in perfecting the navigation system.

The way I see it, the best way would be for them to use google maps in their car. There'll probably be a slew of privacy issues with that though, because you can close the maps app but it'll be more difficult to control the GPS system build into you car.
I figured "warn first, confirm the details later".
Development and support lifecycles for automotive systems are much longer than consumer electronics. They probably started speccing it out and developing hardware 10 years ago and will support it for the life of the vehicle, whereas that cheap phone may never receive an update after the day you buy it.

A lot of that comes down to the fact that people have a much higher expectation for a car than a phone: if the map in your car fails due to some weird bug, the potential downside is a product recall and lawsuits; if the maps app on that phone has the same bug, they might just point you at the you-get-nothing EULA or suggest you download the latest Google Maps app or buy a new phone instead.

This is why things like Apple's CarPlay / Android Auto make so much sense since they're basically just a remote UI for your phone: the functionality requirements are orders of magnitude simpler, you can upgrade independently, and the car manufacturer isn't on the hook if you install a navigation app with a bug.
> Larger display and physical buttons

GPS units like Garmin use touchscreen instead of physical buttons and are safe, road legal. Tesla ships cars with a huge touchscreen console - safe and road legal. That's a pretty weak excuse.

We could also debate that things that hinder concentration while handling "2 tones of steel" are :

- listening to the radio,

- talking to the passenger(s),

- singing.
A CD player's still convenient on a long road trip when one wants to listen to one's own music, not the radio or the satellite. A phone can only hold so much!
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Thanks, I was going to ask what is the back story here.
> For sure, Yahoo deserves more trust than what this article is giving it.

Based on what? Since nuking Geocities Yahoo does not deserve any trust and it has been going steadily down from there.
It's not inflation that I'm talking about. It's how much money goes to rent, or payday loans, or parking tickets, or court fees, or overdraft fees, or any other nickel-and-diming that claws wealth from the poor. There's a class of economic actors that can make life miserable for the poor unless they're given money, and if the poor have more money, the profit-maximizing price goes up and these rentiers wind up with the windfall.
Coming up next: You might not need SCSS.
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Linear is a must, especially if you are going to get into QM. I haven't read your book, but the one by David Lay is a great text.
It depends on which subset of physics you restrict to. Often times. Math is often "bent" to match physical intuition and people drop some mathematical models over others because they match intuition and experiment better. As a result, there is no consistent narrative across the whole field and even across subfields in some cases.

Often times, there are no "failed theoretical frameworks", it's not like special relativity is "right" and newtonian mechanics is "wrong", they are right in different physical regimes. If they are down right wrong, then they wouldn't be known to us anyway.

If you stick to parts where theoretical physicists live, it's easier to find mathematical consistency and coherence, like QFT. Outside of that region, what things are and what approximations you use really come down to "what matches experiment best" at best and "what people will allow me to publish with" at worst.
There's a name for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Even if it only helped out the girls it shows SOME correlation and a need for more family stability assistance.
> The only question is this: Is the dataset required to fit into RAM?

I run an LMDB dataset many times the size of RAM, works great. Most data isn't recent, so the virtual memory cache works extremely well.
I only ever log into Facebook via a VPN to a remote VPS using a private window on a browser I don't use for anything else. And also...

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 6309 packets, 599K bytes)

pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination

330 19800 REJECT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 match-set block-facebook-ips dst reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

I have an ipset that matches FB networks.
The Anatomy of Secure Code
Best feature on the Teensy IMO is usb native, so you can do stuff like emulate a USB keyboard or mouse. Many DIY keyboard projects use them as the brains. https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/projects.html has more ideas. Also works great for larger Ambilight displays than Arduino can handle.
I suspect a lot of machines still have old floppy disk drivers...
Are you asking if at this point, what difference does it make?
Nate Silver at 538 talks about the whole dissecting polls deal, or "unskewing" them. All polls must make methodological choices, and all of those choices have advantages and disadvantages. Spending a lot of time trying to dissect those choices and passing judgment on them is not as productive as:

1. Looking at aggregates of lots of polls.

2. Looking at the variance that a poll captures from one iteration of it to another.

Or at least, so he claims. Obviously, he runs a poll aggregator, using a model that heavily weights the trendline of individual polls, so he has a dog in this fight.
Because in practice, cops use this sort of data to lock down protest sites, before the protests ever actually happen. People start attempting to congregate in a given area, and are immediately escorted out by police.

That forces protest movements to organize more and more potential protest sites, and have more and more logistical organization to gather people into same location.

It becomes an escalation of logistical requirements to even get people organized enough _to_ protest. When you add in the fact that police are also using social network monitoring (and I mean that not just in the online term of social network websites, but as in social network monitoring overall), and regularly use face recognition at protest events (I'm speaking mostly about nypd here), and what you're left with is the bitter truth that if the NYPD truly doesn't want you to have a protest, you're not going to be able to do it. The sites you try to go to will be locked down before people arrive. The people you send to help route people to impromptu backup collections will be arrested on first sight. etc, etc, etc.

Sure, is this all wildly illegal and unconstitutional behavior on the part of the police? Absolutely. But anyone who has ever worked for any politicized cause knows that its also par de course. New York, Chicago, and Oakland are famous for a break-the-law-now, pay the fines later type of police enforcement, but I've watched cops plow SUVs through 50 person hippie protest marches, light their own cars on fire, or attack protestors with knives and chainsaws (seriously, chainsaws) in more places than I care to admit, just so tomorrow's papers can say "Peaceful protest goes violent", and anyone who sells this sort of data to the police is aware that that's the reality on the ground.

When the governor says jump, the police always do, regardless of legality, and this type of info just makes them that much more effective.
Image of a goldfish jumping into a sharktank saying 'much less risk'.
Does anyone have a summary of the current "safe harbor" rules effective in (different parts of?) the EU? To what extent am I responsible for user generated content if I host a forum, a blog, a link aggregation site or something like that? Do I have to weed out "racist" content as the Finns would like you to do? Would encryption affect my responsibilities? I.e. if the submission process encrypts the content on the client side and never sends the key to my server, would that have any effect?

Can copyright holders demand me to take links or content offline without a court order?
Siri's okay - Google Maps Voice is Okay but honestly whenever I have to enter an address in Google Maps I'm still plugging it in by hand.
I think it would be unlikely that the user would step away from his machine before unplugging the device. If it was discovered on the ground, I would think the likely sequence of events is: 1.) plug in, 2.) open finder, notice nothing of interest. 3.) unplug, 4.) discard
Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution
>A protest is an organized expression of dissatisfaction, not anarchy--they're obeying the law as much as everyone else.

No on is disputing this, the key part being "obeying the law."

>Critical infrastructure almost always has redundancies, and in case there isn't one (e.g. a protest in front of a hospital), the police should just clear a route with minimum force and no legal actions afterwards.

And here is the bait the switch. Now the protesters are no longer law abiding.

>Absolutely. Conservatives, reactionaries, and fascists have exactly the same rights that I do.

So you supported the Oregon protesters that occupied Federal land in protest?
Thanks for explaining.
(and thanks for agreeing that it is 'slightly' confusing)
This isn't doxxing.
What do you mean by "emscripten'd"? Is Tesseract.js using emscripten to effectively bundle the 150KLOC of C/C++ from tesseract-ocr and the upstream dependency on leptonica [0]? If so, that's amazing!

> This might have to do with the way we threshold images,
> with the age of the tesseract version we're using, or
> both. I'll look into it!

I'd be very interested to hear about what is required to make it "match" native functionality. Please do drop me a line if/when you get it figured out! (I'm @jtaylor on twitter [1])

[0] http://www.leptonica.org/

[1] https://twitter.com/jtaylor
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That's exactly what Android Auto is (can't speak for Carplay) --- it's a dumb terminal which is controlled by your phone. All the real software runs there.

I believe all the car provides is a screen, some speakers, a microphone and (possibly) a touch surface.