skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A side note but something that this article relates to. Here in Pacific Beach California, the traffic engineers have created a perfect storm of pedestrian danger. See, they've installed these lighted flashing crosswalk signs activated by a button on a pole. Awesome idea, as a pedestrian I can hit a button and think that drivers are alerted to my crossing.. as a driver I no longer have to search the shadows on sidewalks for pedestrians because of the lights. Now as a pedestrian and a driver I'm conditioned to depend on the lights.. but now that they've been in place for months the lights are failing and public works doesn't replace them regularly. We now depend on the lights to keep peds safe, and their unreliability is an accedent waiting to happen.
> she said she would only interview willing participants

They selected themselves. Remorseful ones, if any, may have chosen not to participate.
Likely because it isn't actually costing them much in lost sales?
How’s that working out for cities that have ineffective (but hey they feel good ‘cause we gotta do something!) gun buyback programs like Chicago (with super-strict gun control laws to boot)?
Looks a little bit like OData, at least the querying parts.
Mr Robot is created by Universal, which is owned by Comcast, who helped destroy net neutrality. Besides the fact that Mozilla abused my trust in "user studies" to show me advertising -- when Mozilla's lack of connection to advertising is precisely why I use Firefox -- support for this show funds the very people Mozilla has been fighting! On top of that, Jascha Kaykas-Wolff's non-apology is a whole other level of disdain for users. How am I supposed to explain to people who trusted my knowledge of tech that they should install Firefox because of Mozilla's ideals, but to be sure to say no to user studies because Mozilla uses it for advertising?
3A Body Armor vs. 5.56 Nato and 7.62 x 39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JwlzR5nPFw

3A Body Armor vs.12ga. Buckshot and Slugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qSVOZfp3R4

3A Body Armor vs. Pistol Caliber Carbines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia1k1Zg4l2A
Protecting Trivia Apps from Cheaters
You could make video tracker like this yourself for ~8 years now using free software, running in real time on cheap laptop/phone. Machine learning source code from 2010: https://github.com/evilsantabot/motld

example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2qR60hrD2w
> Fourth, they claim Ubuntu runs on it, but they took the typical Shenzhen approach of putting a modified binary on Mega -- in this case an Ubuntu ISO -- rather than upstreaming their changes or publishing source code.

Well, that makes this a no-go for me. Thanks for the info, seriously!

> No way in hell am I installing a binary download like that as my OS

Um, if you run windows 10 and install drivers from them, then you're running binary crap. (not to mention windows 10 is binary crap, but I digress)
"Google Thinks I'm Dead"

"A search for “Rachel Abrams” revealed that Google had mashed my picture from The New York Times’s website with the Wikipedia entry for a better-known writer with the same name, who died in 2013."

I don't know what Google thinks of you, but I think less of you because of your click-bait. You lie purposefully on your headline, and admit it in the first paragraph, to get more attention.
Here's an simple / cheap example from my small hometown - https://goo.gl/maps/e6N42cBBH582 (Google Street View is out of date, there are mid-rises on both sides of the freeway now).

It's green, it's safe, it's pedestrian / bike friendly and they are always at grade, so it's accessible. Cars only go 10mph (the distance is so short, they couldn't go much faster anyway). The freeway takes up almost no land -- it's just a single 1 minute walk to either side. Plant bollards at both ends to block the cars, and it's now 100% safety for everyone at all times.

Here's a really creative example from Seattle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_Park

> Any big grade change and long distance between buildings suppresses non-car use

I don't think that's inherently true, it's just the cheap way to do it. Freeways can be high density and pedestrian friendly too. They just usually aren't, for the same reasons buildings aren't -- it costs money.

Additionally, there doesn't need to be any distance between buildings to have a freeway. See Cobo Center in Detroit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-10_(Michigan_highway) or Washington State Convention Center in Seattle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Convention_Ce...
Sorry, I realize I was heavy handed in my reply and I've edited it slightly.

I feel I should rephrase - I personally believe the arguments as stated are largely tools of propaganda by pro-gun lobbies and it baffles me that this isn't obvious. (And again I'd be eager to see evidence that this is not the case and there is justification for conflating freedom with gun ownership).

I appreciate you taking the time to engage in this discussion.
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Acoustic delay line memory (2014)
> I would even like to see a few thousand anarchists start their own society and try to put their theories into practice

There have already been many experiments in anarchy. They are usually not widely known, probably because the powers that be don't want people to be getting too many ideas. Most experiments get crushed by state power and don't last long.

Some famous examples include:

- Rojava Kurdistan in Northern Syria. This is a region of several autonomous communities, together comprising several million people, all self-determined but federated together with common values. Technically not anarchist but "Democratic Confederalist" - a new ideology proposed by former Marxist leader of Kurdish Worker's Party, Ocalan, who was inspired by anarchist Murray Bookchin. These are the guys with the female YPJ military that were kicking ISIS ass. This region is under heavy threat from Turkey and others and the international community refuses to recognise it, making trade difficult.

- Christiania in Copenhagen. This one is still going and has made deals with the state that result in some compromise but allowed them to maintain their autonomy. There are many similar squats/communes to this across Europe.

- Parts of Chiapas, Mexico. Somewhat under autonomous control by the Zapatistas

- Catalonia during the Spanish civil war. Taken advantage of by other socialists and the USSR and ultimately crushed by Franco.

- Ukraine Free Territory during the early stages of the Russian revolution. Eventually taken over by the soviets.

None of these situations needed rescuing from UN forces. It's usually the same people who make up the UN that are actually the ones that cause their experiment to fail.
Singapore then. They're still hanging people for possession...
Your comments belie a pretty strong ignorance of American gun culture. This isn't a numbers game; there is a large portion of the population that would not comply with a confiscation program, and would resist using (you guessed it) firearms. Many of the strongest supporters of the second amendment are in the military and police. It boggles my mind that the same people who denounce involving our military in middle eastern quagmires, would propose igniting such a civil war domestically.
I don't think you are willing to have a reasonable conversation on the subject.
The technology industry is under broad political attack
You're better off with Google thinking you're dead.
As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do
> The very notion of classifying hate speech differently from "regular" speech, is predicated on the idea that some speech does, in fact, cause harm.

That completely ignores many of the concepts addressed in chapter 2. If you have to discern harm from context and then use that to classify speech in such a way that it can (or could be) silenced you are violating liberty, according to Mill. Harmful speech is not the same as offensive speech. The difference is the cause of injury. Does the speech itself produce the injury or does it manifest derivative responses that are injurious, such as a fist punch?

> If J.S. Mill were here right now, he might concede that it is hard to find philosophical justification to treat the crime of yelling "FIRE" in a crowded movie theater differently than the crime of yelling "FIRE" in a crowded movie theater with the intent of killing people of a specific ethnic background...

Not relevant. The intent is to kill people either way.

> But Mill would not have trouble classifying the expression of certain opinions in certain contexts as causing harm.

Mill's writing absolutely disagrees with this. Read chapter 4. He provides specific examples.
It isn't self referential though. Lets diagram a little, as only a surface level of contemplation could arrive at that viewpoint.

Possible sets of people:
- sith
- non sith

Known attributes sith have:
- deals in absolutes

Presumption of the phrase being used is that the phrase itself is an absolute, thus meaning the person speaking has to be a sith even if they claim not to be a sith.

But that is flawed, as there are more than just those sets of individuals as we well know. There are non sith that also deal in absolutes, so thus the statement can't be taken at face value. Thus cannot be self referential.

But as with all of this, it also misses the mark by ignoring that describing a state doesn't necessarily mean your state has changed. Its also nonsensical in that if the only definition needed to be in the sith set is to deal in absolutes, the category is likely overbroad and meaningless.

Think about it, if we take the statement at face value, everyone is a sith, as everyone at some point will deal in absolutes. Even yoda uses do or do not, there is no try. So we arrive at the fundamental flaw in attributing a description of a thing or group, to the thing being described.
The article does say that she sleeps on the train sometimes. I also wondered if this is her primary commuting activity, and that it's downplayed because the story wouldn't be as compelling if she slept 4.5 hours plus another 90 mins on the train each way, which would add up to 7.5 hours.
Yes.

Right now there's next to zero incentive not to use JavaScript. And only slightly more to engineer a working fallback page.

Bifurcating the web would provide one.
Precisely. Math makes it clear to understand and settle down the discussion, thanks ;)
That's a common misconception: software that is Libre can be bought and sold. It just comes with the source code.

(Libre is not the same as Gratis.)
I don't think that that is the idea.

I think the reason is similar to what was shown for seat belts:

When you know you are protected you take more risks. If criminals can protect themselves they are probably more likely to use violence in the first place.
If voting abuse is the problem, HN should allow access to content and discussions, and disable only actions like voting and flagging.
I have my 2011 Macbook Pro running an old version of OSX and Final Cut Pro X. If you put a SSD in their and/or upgrade the RAM they can actually run quite well for video editing. You don't want to do anything over 1080p though.
A false allegation is fraud. Where these people fired? If not I would go work somewhere else, as permitting fraud is perhaps as toxic as permitting sexually aggressive behaviors.
Researchers discover how cells remember infections decades later
the 100 million meme seems like such lame propaganda. when stalin starved ukraine, were those deaths "because of communism"?
Yeah. Or the "Feedback" link below that info box area, which lets people identify bad photos. Probably don't need to email the CEO.

(Biases: I work at Google, I've done the same to suggest better photos)
just because you have more chance of a heart attack or driving death at the USA, it would be very foolish to ignore the larger than zero chance of being shot in a elementary school.
Amazon is Walmart on the web.
> The military is not allowed to do it AFAIK.

Presumably the law would change under the martial law? (which is the hypothetical presented)
Too bad no one at an entire airport had a camera or took a picture.
>80% of Americans

Biased poll with leading questions. Ask them if they think the FCC should outlaw unlimited video streaming on T-Mobile Binge On. The 80% evaporates immediately.

>you can use that in future elections as evidence that they're corrupt

Assuming the wild apocalyptic predictions from Reddit turn out to be even half true. If what actually happens is a nothingburger, or more zero rating that people like, then the Dems and Tech companies pushing this lose more credibility.
You and he were probably using entirely different generations of sonar.
Your initial comment struck me as sarcasm.
A voice from on high has now commanded me. I most certainly will :)
Accessibility measures:

Netherlands:

http://www.accessibletravelnl.com/blogs/Trains-in-the-Nether...

Switzerland:

https://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/passengers-with-reduc...

Britain:

http://www.britrail.com/plan-your-trip/passengers-needing-as...

Eurostar:

https://wheelchairtravel.org/review-eurostar-train-london-to...

I especially encourage you to look at the picture of the ramp in the last article. The Eurostar may be difficult to board for normal people, but if someone in a wheelchair calls in advance, they get all the assistance they need.

The article you linked for London buses is just people being inconsiderate and needing to be told to behave. That could have happened just as well with someone blocking a parking lot reserved for disabled people.
A shader is just taking advantage of the GPU parallelism. Would still wreck C++ implementation.
Interesting answer. Your #5 would match mine exactly. I also find your position interesting. Do you work remotely or in the office? Did you arrive there after negative experiences in other places?

#2) Did you have any difficulty getting those build tools and stacks to work together? I've done a (very) small amount of work using virtualenv and Flask as part of the CKAN framework for open data portals. Haven't approached integrating more complex front-end tooling yet, so I'd love to hear about what kind of challenges you've overcome if any. I don't fully understand how the current build system works on the backend but do believe jQuery is packaged in by default.
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Not just kids, but also the poor, the disabled, the injured, the elderly (hence the ironclad requirement that elderly people move to assisted living facilities), etc.
Not sure if just trolling or willful ignoring the facts. There are so many articles about how this has happened in other countries:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38365729

Basically:

- Make it much more difficult to obtain. Those with legit reasons and determination still can get them.

- Make it very illegal to possess without the proper channels. This will compel people to give them up. Impose hefty fines for those not complying.

Somehow magically, with just those two steps, your average illegal gun price will skyrocket while the availability will plummet, making gun usage among criminals a lot lower.

No, you won't confiscate all the guns, but you don't need to. Just most of them. It won't mean 0 deaths/year, but you can expect in the mid-term that they drop dramatically.
That line of reasoning is eerily similar to "the only people who would want to use encryption are bad people who have something to hide."
That's absurb. Anarchism is a system completely without land ownership (i.e. "property is theft"). Feudalism is a system based almost entirely around land ownership (named after the word feodum meaning a grant of land in exchange for service).
I'm not sure about that. A low-res photo to illustrate a dead person seems like a good example of fair use: displaying a thumbnail in a search engine has already been ruled transformative by US courts; a low-res image does not significantly affect the original's market value; and since the person is dead (in Google's opinion), obtaining a photo under other licensing terms may well be impossible. So Google could decide to challenge the DMCA takedown.
... unless the dynamically typed language also allows type declarations, intended mainly for enhancing speed.
And again, what red blooded American soldier, commander, general is going to follow that order? There is a method to this madness. Is it ideal? Nope, but it works for us.
It's so terribly sat that there are women who think this way, too.
Citations, plural, needed. I'm not conflating the claims; I want to see evidence for both of them.
Fixed for me. Nice work
A big part of anarchist ideology is the notion of "solidarity". So if a group were to attempt to assert authority by coercive means like this, then people would ideally come together in solidarity to stop them. This is why anarchists and antifa show up to stop neo-nazis that are threatening minorities and other vulnerable groups.
Except that biologists always are seen when in the field. Now imagine a biologist traveling to view a species using a vehicle which uses more energy than humankind has ever created. How easy is that to hide, and why would they hide from their equivalent to ants?
Honestly, the 4.5 hours of sleep each day really makes me question the veracity of the story, or at least if it's somehow exaggerated.

While there are a small percentage of people who genetically require less sleep, 4.5 hours day in-day out would result in severe sleep deprivation symptoms in the vast majority of people. I know after a couple nights in a row with 6-7 hours of sleep I basically become pretty non-functional and I always get sick.
Well, I'd say I can't answer that question authoritatively since its almost by definition context-dependent, in addition to asking the practical question of why/how a police force is raised/employed and depends a bit on a subjective point of view.

But empirically, i'd observe a couple of things in the Australian context:

a) Assault may be a continuum, with stabbings/shootings on one end, to the point where, as I said, almost no one reasonably believes themselves to be potentially shot/stabbed. (almost no one reasonably believes they'll be assaulted, either).

b) When people are assaulted or violently attacked, its almost infinitely more likely to be by someone intimately connected with them in their domestic or everyday environment, or in the context of drugs/alcohol. In that context, body armour appears to be to most people equally silly.

c) By far most police's time would be dealing with other matters apart from primarily preventing assault: case investigation and handling, property and vehicular theft, burglary, drug related offenses, traffic (including crashes, random drug testing, etc), crowd and pedestrian control (which COULD be stretched into preventing assault in context), suburban and domestic disturbances (which again, COULD be stretched into preventing assault in context). However, even in those cases where it could be stretched into preventing assault, the notion of appropriate use of body armour (or being exposed to stabbings or shootings in such a context) would be seen as relatively absurd.
The most compelling sightings are by people like pilots, multiple witnesses, or are radar confirmed. Radar+visual rules out a ton of illusions.

I too place little stock in random untrained people seeing lights in the sky or lenticular clouds or taking videos of such with cell phone cameras.
>I'm an anarchist because I think the principles so succinctly put are a good pole star for my personal life.

That's nice to hear, me and my friends feel that way too. BTW we're coming to take your stuff, enslave your family, and kill you of course. Isn't freedom from the oppressive state just great?
If they aren’t much more advanced they can’t Exeter the solar system without being detected. A project Orion vessel us easily detected from light years away.
And this despite the push for Firefox 57, meaning the loss was probably even higher.
You should check out Pink Pistol, a 2nd amendment group of LGBT people who believe the right to self defense is synonymous with freedom.[1]

Their argument is that it's really hard to gay-bash when the gay person is armed.

[1]http://www.pinkpistols.org
Way I see it, the economy is failing to properly employ and provide society. So either society finds another way to provide for everyone or society needs government projects to employ people. Just because the economy doesn’t need every eligible worker doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to find something for them to do.
That's some pretty faulty reasoning there. If an economy was better off because cars get stolen or property gets destroyed and must be replaced, then we should just all go around breaking everyone else's shit all the time and we would all be billionaires. But we know the real world doesn't work that way--if insurance pays for a new car, insurance rates rise for everyone and prices go up, which leads to fewer choices for those who have to buy and maintain insurance. Similarly, if someone came by and broke your windows every day, the glass guy would become rich, but you might not have any money for groceries after awhile and you certainly wouldn't have money for new renovations or other improvements to your property. You would just be treading water.

I do think that Keynsianism requires a sink for all the durable goods that are produced, be it obsolescence or outright destruction (think war materials).
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$22M could have meant a lot to Reid’s retirement plan.
Or more housing in LA? The sky's the limit for that. (OK, in practice NIMBYs are the limit.)
Hot is consistent with artificial. The second law of thermodynamics says if you are using energy you must dissipate heat. As far as we know this would still apply even with some kind of hypothetical exotic propulsion system.
Yea, you can't fault the credentials across the board. Their new private organization, To the Stars Academy, seems to have lots of interesting people on board, including a former program director at Lockheed Martin's skunkworks.

There is a lack of transparency and obviously Bigelow has way more connections than a typical person, but it seems plausible to me that they really are sincere.

And 22 million to fund this program does sound somewhat reasonable, although granted we'll probably never see an audit of how the money was spent.
You can survive on a whole lot less, though. During the last famine in North Korea, the daily ration was 700 calories.
>Have you seen the Common Lisp specification?

Yes, it is huge and gigantic, but worth it's weight in gold. The stuff "just works" and has almost no limits. I'd say that spec is a masterpiece.
I saw the lights in Phoenix, they hovered in the sky far too long to be parachute flares, but guess what, they were parachute flares.
On the contrary, it probably improves their sales to have extra positive reviews scattered around.
This is a numbers game, and a long-term game. I'm sure there are Americans who would rather shoot a police officer than give up their guns, but I believe their numbers are dwindling. Societies change. After all, gay marriage or a black president was unthinkable only a few decades ago.

Personally, I kinda see the point of having guns if you live in the middle of nowhere eighty miles from the nearest police station. So I'd say, let them keep their guns. No reason to give them more political ammunition.

For the majority of Americans (by population, not area), guns make much less sense. If American cities are infested with shootings, it's not because gun control doesn't work. It's because the American government is bought out by NRA lobbyists so they don't try hard enough.

It has proven be a tough battle for Americans to coerce the government into action. But, hey, nobody said fighting your government would be easy, did they?
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