skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been involved in San Francisco transit planning in various capacities for 11 years now. I'm here to tell you, in my opinion, these plans will never happen for our generation.

San Francisco suffers from too many small town self-inflicted political wounds. While the Central Subway will open in a couple of years with it's new subway and light rail cars, it'll likely be the last one for us, perhaps even for our children. Political power brokers, such Willie Brown and the late-Rose Pak, only rolled in their power to give Chinatown a replacement for the Central Freeway that was torn down after the 89 quake.

Existing SFCTA members, which are also the Board of Supervisors, constantly squander transportation funds. Millions have been poured into funding pet political projects, such as free muni rides for youth and seniors, making Muni a system of handouts instead of pulling free ride funding from the Feds or the general fund. The latest axe swing was to delay the DTX, the Caltrain subway to the Transbay Tower, which the voters prioritized in 1999.

The existing anti-transit, anti-growth cabal of Kim, Peskin, Campos, Yee, Mar, and Avalos have been able to grab too much power, and will always vote to side with NIMBYs (Not in My Back Yard) over modern urban growth and planning. Even the next cohort of supervisors will hold the same values, because the voters will put similar people into power once they term out, cutting more into the city's progress as a metropolitan powerhouse.

My educated predictions on this chart are: We'll see Geary BRT, Geneva BRT, 19th Ave Rapid, and the M extension to Park Merced. Maybe some new signals and bike lanes. That's it.

The SFMTA's 20 year vision does not include any subway or rail extensions otherwise. I have asked Nick Josefowitz, who's district would include a theoretical BART extension under Geary, and he says BART is too far behind on maintenance to even consider such an idea.
> graphical fidelity can add to the immersion and experience

Does it? Do you think people playing Doom this year have a more immersive experience than I had playing Doom on my 486? A better experience?
https://pinboard.in/

Is a bookmark manager I highly recommend. It has lots of extensions/apps written for it and is a barebones but powerful bookmark manager with tags. I have about 4k bookmarks on it right now.
I guess it might be because of the free domain(.tk) and its bad reputation.
> Compatibility with Nintendo's older wireless controllers

Well, it looks like it uses bluetooth. If it uses a standard bluetooth stack, they might let other BT controllers (such as the PS4, Wii U Pro and Xbone) work with the system.

I really have a lot of high hopes for this, but I don't wanna get super excited without knowing any of the specs.
>SF is the second highest density city in the US.

This isn't even close to being true.

It's likely only true if you only count cities with populations over a certain amount. Please see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12754395
The thing about B-vN probes is that it just takes one.
For all we know Mozilla is complicit in the black market sale of this vuln by the mystery security researcher.

Given Angular 1's popularity, Mozilla has a moral obligation to responsibly disclose this bug to the Angular team and let them determine if its unsolvable or not. Hinting at its existence is one of the worst things they could have done since it will simply give other blackhats motivation to find this vuln while Angular team is not aware of it.
Good starting point: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-...
"we were not able to report them to angular as the security researcher who found them asked us to not share them."

Nice.
A few years ago, there were conspiracy theories that Hollywood was to develop that technology to close the analog gap. There was general outrage at the idea, articles about all the possible abuses and how it would restrict fundamental rights and pave the way to widespread censorship.

Now the exact same technology is employed in the name of privacy.

The times, they are a-changing...
> That's getting a little dodgy. I just want a browser, not a social movement.

I kind of want a social movement.
> If I'm to understand that Trump doesn't conflict with my values than you have really not understood my position.

I suppose that would be one interpretation, and I apologize for phrasing my query so poorly as to encourage such a perception, but the question could be generalized to any number of situations, agents, and agencies, no? In my defense, I did pose a question about Ayers and Wright illustrating how it might apply in another case where actors and agencies were different.

I was actually interested in whether or not the position you've taken on this matter is influenced by your own political values. It seems that would create a bit of a paradox. Those people taking issue with Thiel for political reasons and voicing an opinion on the matter thus pushing, shaming, and even blackmailing YC are "worse" presumably for acting on their political values. Yet you seem to see no issue with engaging in similar behavior against those people for doing so, which seems rooted in your own political values, if I understood your argument correctly. That is a lot of assumption and presumption, though.

I suppose I should just come out and ask. Why are people voicing their opinions, or "trying to push/shame/blackmail YC" worse, here? What exactly makes them worse? Worse how, exactly? Is this a categorical estimation of people's overall value as human beings? As tools of the economy? As social actors?
There is proof to the contrary that "startups work" and that working for equity is a good use of someone's time. I still believe it. It's kind of irrational and outlandish.

When I work on startups with others, this isn't a scam.

So your terms "irrational", "outlandish", "without a shred of proof" or with "proof to the contrary" is insufficient. You need to come up with a more polarizing differential that can differentiate between a dyed-in-the-wool scam and love amidst sketchy-ass finances.
AnthonyMouse, I can't seem to reply to your comment directly, so I'll have to comment to mine.

>They don't have to be, for the same reason that you don't have to understand Maxwell's equations to understand that it's possible to cause a fire with bad wiring. The concept of "the user modifications caused the problem" is not beyond the public understanding. Anyone who cares about more details than that can take the time to understand them but those are not the people you have to worry about.

You try convincing the public of that. Every time a Tesla has caught on fire, it's been reported on in numerous news outlets. Despite the fact that thousands of gasoline cars catch on fire every year, people are worried about much rarer, milder lithium-ion battery fires. It's a new thing, so it gets way more scrutiny. People aren't always reasonable, and regulations are often made based on perceptions of danger, not actual risks. I think Tesla is not being unreasonable in thinking that "well, it's the owner's fault for messing with it!" is going to come off as anything but mealy-mouthed blame deflection. Even if they're in the right.

>Your arguments either apply or they don't. Their competitors are not in a different situation. They'll all make the same choice.

So whatever choice Tesla makes, all their competitors will also make? Or, in the case of Uber's in-development car, probably already have made? I think you're according them more influence than they really have. The point stands that whatever Tesla's choice on this matter, it does not apply a legal obligation on their competitors to do the same. So it is not "no improvement".

>That's the point. You don't want a black box in control of life or death situations. You want something the user can understand when they're capable of it, so that the 2% of users who are can identify and fix problems that will affect the other 98% before it turns into deaths and liability.
Opening up the car could reduce their liability, because it gives them somewhere else to point the finger sometimes, and a large population of people willing to find and fix problems. If they control the car entirely then all the liability is always on them and no one can help them when they make a mistake.

But that's the thing - they don't want to be pointing the finger anywhere because that's almost always bad press for them. Throwing blame just looks bad. While helpful users are certainly an asset, it's mostly as a resource for identifying problems, not attempting to solve them on their own cars. Trying to aggregate, understand, vet, and integrate users' solutions is a huge and difficult undertaking, and not something that I think they want to attempt while trying to roll out a reasonably consistent product.
The PS4 doesn't run on a battery though, so if they can get roughly the same power with a much lower power consumption it's already really good.
> We need strong laws and leaders to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the first place.

The government has been benefiting for a long time from surveillance brought to you by Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Co.

Our leaders won't prevent anything.

And the People have been electing these leaders for a long time and continue to do so.
I can only say nice things about Django REST framework, super simple to use and comes with lot of extras. Very interesting the shift towards schemas and RAML; I am quite curious to see how usable that is.
At the end of the day it's not about the console, but the games running on it. Not going to buy this if the only thing I can play on it is Mario or Zelda. I wish Nintendo a lot of success though.
> I just don't see how this is not ownership [...] you're paying a standard purchase price for a good which has some restrictions on its use.

You described exactly the problem people have with this idea :)

> Do you think that Tesla should have to make sure that its self-driving software is compatible with every ridesharing app that any random person comes up with? How will that work with liability if somebody sends their self-driving Tesla out to work under a ridesharing app that feeds bad inputs to it?

Then they should prohibit interfacing the car with 3rd party software quoting relevant regulations (or at least a generic "for safety reasons"), not put a blanket ban on commercial use of the self-driving functionality.

For now it seems that they don't even want me to physically sit there in the driver's seat and do something else while the car is driving, which puts your whole speculation about Tesla's motives into question.

And BTW, what if somebody breaks this rule and hacks his car into an autonomous Uber slave? By your logic, if something bad happens Tesla will still get blamed. All they accomplished is CYA and for that a warning about dangers of interfacing with unauthorized software would be sufficient. Even better in fact, because not all unauthorized software must be commercial.
>Tesla probably benefit from the data gathered by that hardware anyway.

In a big way. They are using data gathered by the self-driving ready hardware to develop the software that will use it.

Thousands of cars out there collecting data is a huge advantage over groups working with a handful of prototypes.
Linux started as a hobby project, but you can't look at Linux today and think "a hobbyist wrote that". A hobbyist started that. He got a lot of people to help him by choosing the right license. In the process, he learned an insane amount more than he knew when he started.

How much did he know when he started? A university CS degree, basically. Enough to write a bare-bones working OS kernel that only ran on i386.
>To be fair, being enthusiastic and positive about the future isn't that useful of a comment. .... but there are countless, interesting, ways to point out how it might fail

Sure, but there is more than one way to say it:

"I live in the mountains of Virginia and this will never work here with the snow, therefore it's crap, therefore it will fail!!!!"

OR

"It's going to be really hard for them to solve the problem of heavy snow. I wonder if they'll use <something interesting we can all learn about> or <something else>. I wonder if they've teamed up with <who knows> to research <something interesting>. I think the best approach would be x,y,z and I read the Google are using a,b,c".

etc.

I mean, we're talking about a multi-billon dollar company trying to push forward - OF COURSE there are tons of hard parts. Pointing them out it not useful - thinking about (and working on) how to solve them is what HN should be about.
I've been doing these stretches a few times a day for the past several years, since I first felt RSI coming on. It's helped significantly. Whenever I start to feel wrist/hand pain, I know I've been slacking on them.

https://youtu.be/hUyMNyrOHJQ
If there is some permutation of JavaScript statements (library or otherwise) that displays a security vulnerability for the user, isn't that the browser's fault and not the application's? And isn't library detection just a hacky substitute for an actual fix of said fault?
If you have kids that are passing the ball accurately to each other through the air, then you have a really good team.

Also, if you have kids who can accurately do bicycle kicks, then you have a really good team.
> WebRTC data on by default, no prompt or restrictions, is a mistake.

If webrtc just performed the expected behavior seems like it wouldn't be an issue.
The makeup of the city is changing and as it does, options that appear impossible today will work in the future. We can all make it go faster by simply ignoring that NIMBYs exist and shooting for small wins. A series of small wins over 10 years could probably get us in place to finally start subway construction out to sunset etc.

It will happen and NIMBYs won't stop it.
No, what's ridiculous is the Federal government using drivers licenses as a backdoor internal passport to travel.

If you look the NIST standards for identity proofing, very few things actually require higher levels of identity assurance, and those that do generally aren't met by driver's licenses anyway, REAL-ID or not.
the following comment refutes that comment and says Angular 1.x is still supported by Google.
The banned version is the 1.5.8. Could the following announce be related?

Angular 1.6 - Expression Sandbox Removal: https://angularjs.blogspot.mx/2016/09/angular-16-expression-...
> If ETs are expected to be found, where are the Bracewell-von Neumann probes?

Posing a question like "if [X] was expected, then how come we haven't found [very specific indicator of X]" does not make a lot of sense right now, neither from a logical point of view nor scientifically.

First of all, the absence of detectable vN probes does not somehow retroactively change the expectation we had for the presence of alien life, because that expectation arose from a statistical perspective on environmental and biological factors. Until invalidated, this is still the default expectation. It may well turn out that expectation was based on faulty assumptions at some point, but the deciding factor will not be the absence of your favorite arbitrary indicator.

It also makes no sense to stop looking based on the argument that we haven't found anything yet. Resolving the Fermi paradox is a higher stakes game than many people realize: Either we're just isolated from discovery for whatever reason (which would be fine as a class of explanations), or there is something fundamentally wrong about the universe.

Based on the information we have right now, ET must be out there. If it turns out he definitely isn't, we'd better find out why, because it's one of the biggest areas in modern science where prediction dramatically mismatches observed reality. We can't afford to just call off the search because we haven't found probes.
NC is also terribly gerrymandered. It's a shame, I really liked living there. But, politically, it's a mess. A great state for higher education (Duke, the various UNCs, NCSU) and working in the tech industry (and others), but absolutely pitiful handling of K-12 education, voter and civil rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/19/gerrymanderi...
Try subways in Cities:Skylines, they're REALLY useful there.
the dev team is 50/50 men and women and they have a paid parental leave policy, as well as unlimited vacation and all the other perks that most seed stage startups have!
You're right, sorry! I had mistakenly thought that the video which now appears in the main announcement article was there originally.
Google Brings Material Design to AdSense Dashboard
I hear you, but this move is >actually< super innovative and revolutionary, and has potential to catapult Tesla's self driving team way ahead of the pack.
Yeah, definitely odd.

"We banned any package containing Angular 1.x. We received a security report. One that we were asked not to share with you, one that we didn't even mention, we just went ahead and implemented the ban, didn't tell anybody."
A currency sent a probe to Mars?
I always miss DJRF when using languages other than Python
I like the XML format better too. It's also easier* to parse if you start using XPath, if for any reasons you need to quickly read/write some of the values.

* Except when a default namespace is involved, then XPath expressions get more complicated. But according to that blog, it looks like the VS team ditched the default xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" namespace in the <Project> root :)
Skyrim being there was a very powerful signal to me. I've played RPGs since the 80s, and almost exclusively done it on PCs and Xboxes. I've never had any interest in Japanese games or hardware. The fact that I could now play Skyrim on a bus is cool, but the implication here is much wider, whether or not it's a flagship launch title.
It's about gathering training data. Any benefits for the users is secondary to that.
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>"the federal government is free to mandate certain things that otherwise would hinder that freedom of movement and trade"

This logic gives the Federal Government almost unlimited power, since almost everything affects commerce. Are you proposing that commandeering of state governments by the federal government be permitted? What limits would you place on this 'right to encourage commerce'?
Yeah, never can tell how literal people are being around here.
I disagree completely with your second and third points. Look how well the New 3DS XL is doing, the Switch seems to be about the same size.

Nobody needs to write games for it, it already runs Unreal, Unity, and the creation engine, which covers about 90% of the AAA games on the market right now.
I did not get that from your question.
This takes parts of a sentence (i think at most 5-grams) and a few operators e.g.:

If you ask for similar words to 'much' in a fragment.

'and knows ... #much ...'

=>

and knows a lot, 3.500, 65,2%
and knows a lot about, 2.100, 39,5%
and knows a great deal, 690, 12,6%
and knows much, 630, 11,5%
and knows lots, 380, 7,1%
and knows lots of, 300, 5,5%
and knows a good deal, 100, 1,9%
and knows practically, 53, 1,0%
and knows very much, 45, 0,8%
Loopholes and Flaws in the Student Privacy Pledge
I share your feelings when it comes to many games, but I don't think it generally applies to Nintendo.

The problem is that the word 'game' is too vague. Nobody would think to put 'viral videos' and 'Tarantino\'s latest film' in the same pile (except perhaps those who really dislike Tarantino), and yet that's what we do with gaming.

Some games were as good as some of the best novels I've read (Planescape Torment, Thief, System Shock). Some multiplayer games left me with friends for life (UT, Quake, Halo). Some games offered a creative outlet just as rewarding as the Lego or tin soldiers I had growing up (Minecraft, Neverwinter Nights level creation, Chip's Challenge), and some games actually tricked me into learning interesting things (Assassin's Creed 2, Civilization, etc.)

I'm not a parent, but if I had kids I'd probably limit their gaming too, but I'd put way more emphasis on controlling the kind of games they played. Cow Clickers (or most MMORPGS)? Not so much. Minecraft with coding mods? Hell yes!

All that said, if you'd be making an argument against sitting inside and media consumption in general, I'd probably agree a little more. There is still something fundamentally different about playing outside and interacting with other kids directly, and I hope I can make my kids do that instead of just staring at screens all day.
San Francisco doesn't like to hear it, but it's a very conservative city.
Customercomrad, do not question the wisdom behind cooperate control of your goods and planned obsolescence. They are more and they get your workforces worth, thus they must deliver good results.
The market can not fail, and if it does, it is your weak will to not decide for another product, that created this fail.
> For all we know Mozilla is complicit in the black market sale of this vuln by the mystery security researcher.

That's a ridiculous claim
Additionally the search is pretty bad. Just yesterday I searched for "smash bros" to buy some new characters, the actual game is deep in page 2 of the results after a bunch of developer videos and other tertiary stuff. Games, especially as popular as Smash, should be right at the top.

Also, filters for available DLC are nonexistent. You can't filter by maps, characters, or whatever applicable content types are available. All you can do is sort by "latest" and "most popular" for example.
So you find it more probable that we are the only sentient life in the vast known universe?

That would be the best proof of a(n absentee) God ever, basically. The one special planet deemed OK to magic-pixie-dust life onto!

Which makes me presume it to be false.
Thank you, we've updated the title from “Angular 1.x Ban”.
> one could say the same about akin-ness of people to find everything that Tesla does "super innovative" and "revolutionary" while the same features already existed in other cars for quite some time.

Exactly. I would go as far as saying it's simply infotainment.

Here is a test that I would use to determine the value of this. If it wasn't infotainment, it probably wouldn't need to be set to a soundtrack and would stand on it's own w/o music. The music creates an emotion and helps stave off the boredom.
So are these terms subject to change without notice? What will I be prevented from doing or where will I be prevented from going in my Tesla next? What if Tesla says I can't sleep in my car. Or I can't go visit other car dealerships? I love self driving cars, but I'm sure other competitors will have models that I can actually own. I am not interested in giving up my right to own a car just to have a car that can drive itself. Hell, can I even sell one of these used or are we just transferring software licenses now? In lieu of that, if this is just a glorified lease/rental, then I would expect Tesla to pay for 100% of the maintenance for the life of the car. That's clearly not happening. My opinion of Tesla and Musk has dropped considerably. This isn't revolutionary. It's not even desirable for consumers.
Buku is open source and free. In addition, it intends to be a private solution by design.
Would it be possible to make a completely serverless webpage? Or a website that has a server to bootstrap, but all assets are 100% distributed?
If the faith is blind, then why would one false publication destroy it? If the faith was blind, then no false publications would affect how people see it.
Agreed. They show off Skyrim which is an xbox 360 game.
"This is true for the very first expression. That's because it is downloading packages and building everything. After that, it has all that information, so it's faster." - https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-repl/issues/128#issuecomment...
Relax, I wasn't suggesting that we stop looking.