skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one will talk about it, but it's discrimination.

This will make a few segments of people cringe because much like the topic of racism, there's a school of thought that it only counts when things are exhibited in severe forms like water cannons, attack dogs or restrictive housing covenants or otherwise people being directly being told 'no' because of superficial topics like race, gender or sexual orientation.

But as a tech guy who's slowly pivoting towards law, I've long held the belief that technology will become the next battle ground for civil rights-and has the potential to even change (in the sense of expanding the definition of) how we talk about civil rights. Think along the lines of people being left behind when it comes to accessing information they need to request public resources as more and more cities move towards online only forms, or even utilization of "entitlement programs" to pay for internet access (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-31/fcc-expands-o...).

Now it may not be active discrimination in the sense that one will be outright told 'no', but disparate impact deserves to be at the table of discussing this sort of thing.
What's certain to happen is all vendors setting all of their drivers to the highest priority possible, all the time.
Look up Comma.ai. They got a cease and desist letter from the NHTSA.
Are you willing to pay his rent for it to be free software?
Because there's no commonly used word in English to represent "not American"?

UPD: there is

Then you'll run into the new problem, that in context of kinda-international HN it will sound a bit off.
At 00:49, shouldn't the car have yielded to the car coming from the opposite side of the street?
Don't you trust yourself and your fellow citizens to vote properly? If you do trust yourself and your fellow citizens then why cant each and every person in a country be paid like politicians do, to have a say in the way their country works based on the facts and have a Direct Democracy, or is voting TV voting the best you aspire too?

You can never trust a Govt that operates in secret!

Divide and Conquer its been around since Roman times.
Maybe the real question is "do they?" - maybe they don't? Or maybe it's a problem being worked on. I can't say I've heard of anything in this domain; it might be one of those problems/challenges which could be worked on, a paper written up, and some kind of solution presented that might net a win for whomever tried.
Making an open-source smartphone: what about apps?
It is hard to trust Blackberry anymore. I had their phone and loved it until they started selling crappy phones for iphone's cost.

No matter how awesome this service might be I am worried if BB would actually last long enough to provide it.
I think you've missed my point. Yes, that was slow, but if it was literally the best, then it was awesome. The same thing goes today for everybody out there with access to gigabit. There's no reason to complain about it even if downloading takes some time still, because it's not like there's anything better.
This is great, really looking forward to the next part!
I'm reminded of how I was watching a friend play a game recently (can't remember the name, sadly) with a really clever and unique way of accomplishing line-of-sight lighting effects. It's a top-down 2D game, but the engine is 3D, and all level geometry that would block LOS simply projects upward an infinitely tall black tower (with a slight gap between the bottom of the tower and the ground plane, so that you can see enough of the geometry sprites to determine that there's a wall there). Combined with a fisheye lens effect on the camera to exaggerate the towers, it's a very convincing and artistic effect.

EDIT: Found it, it's called Teleglitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEnS4wPRETw
Possibly. I've had the thing for close to 20 years, I think. It came with a bundle that had a sound card and a DVD (or maybe even CD) drive. It's USB, though, so it can't be that old!
I was surprised that the NYT article did not have a map of the route. Luckily, WikiPedia has it covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa–Djibouti_Railway
Yup. We have a 2800-person community Slack for an open source project. Slack Archive set us up for free, and it works well.

But we still direct people to Stack Overflow since the Q&A is more discoverable there.
Yes, and yes.

It has some real advantages (it's nice being able to vote for someone that actually agrees with you AND not have your vote be wasted), but my experience in New Zealand is that:

1. It enhances the power of parties and thus increases partisanship

2. It allows small parties to play kingmaker. In the NZ case, the perennial kingmaker party is corrupt and virulently nativist.

If, hypothetically, you were concerned about the partisanship, corruption, and nativist policies of current American politics, PR may not be the panacea you hope. I think it was quite unlikely for the American system to yield Trump as president (we just got very unlucky) but it would be quite likely for a PR system to yield Trump as a kingmaker with a vastly outsize influence on the policy of the resultant government. That's not obviously better, on balance.
It depends a little bit on how much of their economy they can afford to spend on transit projects though. Home buyers can usually devote a significant portion of their annual income towards housing.
People in the software industry find it hard to comprehend the fact that many old-school companies actually don't require all their employees working at 150% thrust to remain super-profitable. Slow product life-cycles, manufacturing prowess, regulated markets, etc. mean that in many companies, you can have a fruitful career and not burn yourself out with 80 hour weeks. This is usually more true with non-software/non-service companies where white-collar labor isn't the most critical asset. In the same companies, employees in manufacturing, sales, etc. have it significantly harder than developers, R&D, etc.

One possible downside is that not everything you work on makes it to the market and you have to be proactive in keeping your skills and knowledge up-to-date and to remain employable for your next job.
This is getting silly.
Just abolish the patent system.

This is almost identical to the mafia business.

There are bunch of patent-pool mafias in the world and you pays the protection money to one of the patent-pool mafias so you will be protected from other patent-pool mafias.

If it looks like a mafia and quacks like a mafia, it's mafia.
2 day weekend is not enough to do chores + have a social life.

As a contractor I never try and line something up straight after my current one finishes.

It works out about 1-3 months off a year, which gives a nice amount of time to recharge.

For permies, it should either be a 3 days weekend, or at the very least a bank holiday every month.
Driving like a moron is unsafe times 1. Driving to the letter of the law and as timid as possible is unsafe times how ever many people get fed up with your crap and do something dumb to pass you.

It's roughly analogous to doing the speed limit in the left lane.
I'll third this. I hired a guy, a really bright guy, and put him to work. He was debugging some problem, I think a windows problem, and found the file that contained the code with the problem, looked at it, and said "this code is gross, I'm gonna rewrite it".

Did I mention he was bright? He was, and he took a look at the history in bk revtool (a graphical tool, shows you the dag, you can left/right click on a pair of nodes and see diffs, double click on a node and see that version of the file).

He double clicked on the very first rev and lo and behold, there was the code he was about to type in. He said it was exactly how he imagined it.

Hmm, says he. I wonder why it changed. He started clicking around and went "ohh, so on this OS they have that problem". Some more clicks "oh, and windows has this problem with wrapping pids". Etc.

Had he not had that history (and had it not be really fast to click around and see it), he would have rewritten the file to be back where we started, losing all the bug fixes.

History matters. Being able to see it quickly and easily matters.
Sorry to hear that! We've definitely focused on stateless containers until 0.5 which introduced sticky volumes and migrations. Useful in some cases but definitely doesn't cover all persistent storage needs.

Extensible volume support will be coming in the 0.6 series via plugins.
The Future Is XaaS: What You Need to Know about Everything-As-a-Service
Show HN: Introducing our Sidekiq cluster script
In the all things considered category it's very inexpensive at $15 for all the stuff that you get. Compared to some movies (ticket, popcorn and a drink at almost twice the cost) I've had much more fun with PICO-8.

For $30 you can get a C.H.I.P computer, game pad AND a copy of Pico-8. So you can go retro on tiny hardware.
There's a whole standardization process to this, which everybody can participate in. The whole point of the proposal is to kick off the discussions and standardization process. Literally nobody expects the proposal to be standardized as-is, so I don't think there should be any concerns whatsoever about the fact that they punted on designing a new shading language. Standardization isn't a "yes or no" vote, it's a process by which the proposals are modified again and again until they come to a solution that everybody is willing to accept. It's simply not possible for Apple to force everybody to accept their Metal Shading Language.
Apple also shipped A/UX which did all that
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I'd also like to see that other things exist at that level. I didn't notice the numbers at all.
It basically acts as a federal lever of legislative control over the individual states' Depts of Ed.
According to its wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ed...), the highlights include:

- regulating how states are accountable for standardized tests (No Child Left Behind, later Every Student Succeeds)

- regulating federal student loans

- civil rights (LGBT, race, etc.)

- federal assistance for low-income students and underperforming schools

They don't dictate curriculum or anything. So basically it falls under the old argument of Federal vs State control over education. Conservatives have been trying to get rid of the Dept of Ed ever since it was made a cabinet-level position in 1979. They might now have their chance.
Hey, whaddyaknow, that's what I did with Passbase ;) [0]

Well, not the UI part. And it's probably buggy as hell* - be warned - but It Works For Me ^TM. (And issues/PRs more than welcome!)

[0] - https://github.com/OJFord/passbase

* A big part of my motivation to do it was as a toy thing to learn some Rust, so it has all the hall marks of someone kludging around trying to learn something new. Critiques/"WTH ARE YOU DOING"/PRs with style improvements also welcome :)
NuTonomy is currently testing their self driving cars in Boston.
If you are interested in this, I highly recommend 'The Great Rebalancing' by Michael Pettit. He explains the causes and implications of China's high savings rate, and the relationship with other countries' savings rates. His explanation of the causality is contrary to most of what you will have read in the popular press.
"IPSec, OpenVPN, et al., are great but I definitely think there's a need for a high-performance, high-security, easy to configure VPN"

I really like sshuttle.[1] Very simple - just point it at any host anywhere on the net that has an sshd running.

We (rsync.net) have recently sponsored some bug fixes and freebsd-specific improvements that allow --dns to work as well as generalized UDP tunneling. I'm testing it right now ...

[1] https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
Eventually, I expect we'll have some national standard for wireless transmitters on traffic signals, so they can send a message (timestamped and cryptographically signed with the state's department of transportation's public key) to the cars to tell them unambiguously when to stop and when it's safe to go.

(This could help human drivers too; just add a red/yellow/green light to the car dashboard for those times when you can't see the actual light because there's a big truck in the way, or the sun is directly behind the traffic signal.)

I also expect that by the time this sees near-universal adoption, we'll already have the image recognition corner cases mostly worked out.
Does VS Code support highlighting for "non-regexp" cases. For example: in code i can reference a Class by it's name, but in the same time if could be a function - how you can distinct one from another by just regexp when you don't use capitalization marker for class names? Some times Class is an Object in some languages (Scala, Kotlin...), how this case is handled?
Reading through some early texts on the coal and oil industry. One notes that at then-current rates of consumption, the coal reserves of the United States would supply over one million years' consumption.[1]

The current North American coal proven reserve is less than 300 years of current utilisation rates:
http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stati...

It's amazing what a constant increase in growth rate can accomplish. Also the overwhelming tendency for lowered costs to induce an increased demand -- the Jevons paradox.

If you want people to use less of something, increase the cost, not the efficiency.

________________________________

Notes:

1. Henri Erni, Coal Oil and Petroleum: Their origin, history, geology, and chemistry, 1865. p. 15.

https://archive.org/stream/coaloilpetroleum00erni#page/14/mo...
Card counting in black jack is not illegal, and you will not be prosecuted for it or have your winnings withheld (unless you're using a device to help). As long as you and the casino are playing the same game, you are not violating any law (at least in casinos on US territory, e.g. Vegas/Atlantic City, some quick googling suggests that some Native American casinos take a bit more liberty with this and not pay you your winnings).

If a casino catches or even suspects you're card counting, they are well within their rights to refuse to let you play that game anymore.

If, on the other hand, you and the casino are playing different games, e.g. the dealer is playing black jack, but the player is playing I-know-what-the-dealer's-down-card-is-because-of-manufacturing-imperfections-in-the-card, then is it really that unreasonable for the casino to have a case that they don't owe you the money that you won, especially if they can demonstrate intent? (I'd argue that they should give you a bug bounty, but that's a different story)

To address your poker example - say I'm your guest in your hypothetical and, were we playing fair poker, your 1 in 100 odds were correct. Let's also say that I have undetectable X-ray vision contact lenses, thus changing the odds such that I will always win - would you really consider it unreasonable to use the government to get your money back in that situation? The agreement was to play poker, a game which necessarily presumes hidden information from all players. If one player has all the information, the game isn't poker anymore, it's robbery/con.

I agree that the computerized games are a different story, though I believe that consumers have some protection in the form of the various gaming commissions. If you win a jackpot and are denied the payout, contact the gaming commission! The laws are very strict on the points of fairness of those machines, forged in the fires of decades of mafia controlled casinos (at least in Vegas/Atlantic City).

Gambling is a drug. It has all the health benefits of a recreational drug, but at least in (most of) the US, it's not a scam.
> This is "most C++ written by experts"?

Boost is peer-reviewed and receives more scrutiny than most C++ in the wild. Its peer review is its major selling point, in fact.

> Oh come on, you can't be serious given your advocacy for Rust.

I think it's possible for me to be able to express opinions in favor of memory safe programming languages in general (which is what I'm doing here) while also having worked on one.

If someone were to say "this illustrates why you should use Go for untrusted regexes", I'd agree with them!
> So how would you fix this, keeping in mind you are not allowed to touch the vendor driver's binaries in any way?

I'd change the premise, since Microsoft definitely is allowed to enforce policy on vendor drivers through its WHQL/code signing program, and has wielded this power.

Not that I necessarily agree that all drivers should have to be signed, but refusing to sign drivers to solve quality problems is entirely in scope for having such a code signing program in the first place. Unsigned drivers Microsoft can simply wash their hands of: "We can't enforce policy on those, sorry." Since manufacturers want signed drivers to ease confusion, they will come in line, especially since it's a particularly low bar to set.
Most of the populated areas within 2-3 hours of San Francisco (and an even greater ratio of those within 2-3 hours of any part of the Bay Area) meet that description.
There is a proposed API for that.

https://wicg.github.io/netinfo/

And like most such APIs, it has been kicked around for a long time and it has only been adopted by Chromium on Android, ChromeOS and iOS. It'd be great if it were more widely adopted...
Right, the system baseline (255) starts well below the vendor's max priority (128). The vendor would start at 254 presumably, and overeager vendors wanting to start at 128 would only harm themselves (in terms of future flexibility).

When MS needs to supersede the vendor driver, they can issue priority 253 (i.e. vendor + 1) graciously or 127 violently. They can also retract the 127 driver or overwrite its priority back to 255 when appropriate.
And thank you for considering my reply as "kind words". :) I would not have been so harsh if I knew you were going to read the reply! That first chapter though. So many points repeated.

For those that want to read more: http://opensourceconnections.com/about-us/doug-turnbull/ or really anything at http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/
For some reason, they just keep refilling this piñata.
>"I'm just amazed at how China is moving forward where other countries (looking at you, USA) simply cannot."

Can you explain this comment? China is not building rail networks in Africa for altruistic purposes, their primary interest in Africa's natural resources. How does that relate to the US in any way?

>"Also: environment is happier."

Have you been to a Chinese city recently? Beijing or Shanghai? They are choked with cars despite having good rail infrastructure. In fact China is the largest producer of cars the planet right now. There are times when your lungs hurt at the end of the day. People wearing air pollution masks is normal.

Also you are comparing a centrally planned economy full of SOEs(state owned enterprises) controlled by the Communist Party with a free market economy, they are nothing alike.

>"What's their secret"

There is no secret, the economy is centrally controlled by a single political party that can not be voted out of power.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_motor_veh...
There is a project called txti which provides a free hosting for a simple websites edited in Markdown: http://txti.es

The idea is to make the content available to all the web users as the fast connection is not as common as we might think.
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Dunno, I have 10 year old irc chat logs sitting on my computer.
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What in the world does all that have to do with the hunt for dark matter? No one has any reason to think dark matter might be usable as a weapon. Any indication that it might would surely become general knowledge long before we could put it to use. Just like e=mc^2
While I agree with others here that dial-up-friendly sites don't "collide" with complex web-apps (thus rendering this argument somewhat void), I sadly think the underlying problem is much more mundane:

Why are word processors not orders of magnitudes faster than two decades ago? Same reason. No one wants to pay the additional costs of achieving that.

Practically speaking, this means that either Random Local Newspaper Inc. knows their potential online reader base exactly and deemed the additional effort not to pay off, or they have no idea of their potential customers that would flock to their site if they did put in the effort, and thus don't miss them. Add on top of that the fact that much of the internet is based on (perhaps only assumed) prestige (or loss of it if your page doesn't have the most modern features A through Z or looks like its from the 90ies) or extremely short-lived (a newspaper doesn't care about yesterday's news) and this theory pretty much explains it all.

Cynical, I know, but hey... :-/

Edit: Also: We can have nice things. No one with a 56k connection will honestly try to watch Netflix. A much more interesting question would be: How could we create incentives for big corporations to optimize their pages for connections with a small bandwith? After all, much of the web is also built on ad deals - which also almost certainly don't target those people.
This is known as induced demand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Sweden. 5w is legal min, 6w is typical for large corporations or public employers. Sometimes more if you are older.

If you have any kind of agreement on "unpaid OT" you typically have 1 more (so 6 or 7).

Being on call would mean I'd want ar least another one or two.
I'm sad to say this, but I think GM is going to crush Tesla in the long run. GM knows about building cars, tech becomes cheaper and available over time. It will take Tesla longer to learn how to build and mass produce at a cheap price than for GM to have all the tech they need to match up with Tesla. Initially I was worried that Honda would be the one, but they don't seem to be taking the electric and self driving car serious. GM has their volt/bolt with decent range, I happen to work at a company that shares a lot with some of the auto manufacturing suppliers for American car companies, and I see them testing their self driving cars sometimes. Oh and they have a bunch of Teslas for inspiration I suppose. :)
This is oddly therapeutic and calming. My Macbook CPU was just fine as well. Very cool!
American primary education already is an inconsistent hodgepodge, since it is under almost exclusively local control with local funding (via property taxes, in most places). This essentially ensures that children of the wealthy get better public education than poor children, one of many, many "rich-get-richer" feedback loops in the American social and economic system.
If anything, just curious that it's right after DeVos got confirmed. Heh..
It was a massive waste of police resources. And not every misuse of hate crime laws is based on religion, this was just the most recent one.
How clear are the PDFs, have you tried any OCR?
Was playing with your other projects too. Great stuff and super fun. Sharing.
Derrida vs. the rationalists
Do you know re-natal? It is very good with a hot reload better than webpack (using figwheel).
New Tool Takes Mere Minutes to Create Dark Web Version of Any Site
Completely false. Look up gravitational lensing.
> Why are word processors not orders of magnitudes faster than two decades ago?

Because even in the 1990s, word processors weren't orders of magnitude slower than the person sitting at the keyboard, which is the ultimate limiting factor on word processing speed.