skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often suggested a form of "humble-bundle"-like funding model for government functions. An application of a bit of free-market capitalism to an otherwise involuntary system. So if you wished to punish or scale-back or defund the police because they were preventing protesting using means that are too-violent for your liking, then you can simply reduce the funding that you allocate to policing in the next cycle. You vote with your tax money.

Sure, this raises issues in that it disproportionately lets people that pay more tax have a larger say in issues. But I'm sure you could allocate tax-funding in terms of vote-dollars. So (TOTAL_TAX_COLLECTED / POPULATION_COUNT = YOUR_ALLOCATABLE_FUNDING). Also, we would probably have to have a solid discussion regarding the granularity of the system. Heck, employ some sort of hierarchical ideas, too. This is, after all, 2017 so why not use more algorithmic/tech-based solutions to an institution that is still stuck in archaic times.

Oddly, I suggest this as a Libertarian/anarcho-capitalist. Because I think it could potentially strike a good balance between the state's arguable necessary functions, the involuntary nature of taxation and the problems with democratic representation.
I'd love to pay taxes for universal healthcare.
Don't think that is epaper which means it doesn't have the persistence of image even when power is cut.
>General public has probably been sold on the potential & novelty of the device, without realizing how little there is to it (feature wise).

There is an outrageous amount to it, feature wise. Voice is the holy grail for a pretty large amount of the public, and it is finally there.

The setup is surprisingly unintuitive (even the simple step to connect to a specific wifi network is beyond many users, and it is notable that Google Home on the same device just does it by itself), but I'm sure the techie niece will do it for most.
but that time off cost me about $60,000

How did that compare with the costs you’d imagined beforehand? Were there any big-ticket costs associated with taking a sabbatical which you hadn’t expected?
I live in apartment complex. I’d like to buy my own washer and dryer and be able to rent out a place with water/dryer hookups and pay a monthly and usage fees as to not use the gross common laundry machines. To my knowledge no such service exists.
5-10 minutes a day?
Password manager!
Apple needs to get their sh*t together. I have been experiencing +10 individual bugs while migrating from my old rMBP and I'm still not using it.

- Time Machine backup fails.

- Migration Assistant fails.

- Restoring from Disk Image fails.

- Internet Recovery defaults to Sierra making borked High Sierra installation not working due to no APFS support in said Internet Recovery.

I should send Apple an invoice for all the QA I've had to do for them.

tl;dr: Don't install High Sierra. Don't use APFS.
NYC pays far more in both state and federal taxes than it receives in services. NY State pays far more in federal taxes than it receives in services. Rural parts of the US receive far more in services than they pay in taxes.

The rest of the country isn't paying for a thing in NYC - it's the other way around. Just leave us more of our own tax money and we could do all sorts of things that aren't currently considered possible.
If you’re interested in the Intel ME there’s another presentation about it:

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/events/8782.htm...
I use a free tool called Dexpot. It's basically Windows 10 virtual desktops on steroids but also works with older versions of Windows too.

I did a whole write up about it here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/see-how-virtual-desktops-let-...

You may also be interested in some of my development environment related blog posts which covers things like WSL and more: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/tag/dev-environment
I think protesting is a largely useless endeavor. It's nothing but a "show of force" in meat-space, that allows the possibility of violent encounters between individuals that have opposing world-views/opinions. Rather, allow people to vote directly on issues that they are passionate about. This leads into direct democracy and is arguably a whole lot more ethical than what we have now.
I'm unclear about lawful differentiation between both sentences that makes one hate speech and other not. Or is it the manner of delivery?
No, that’s about right. They must have a spouse/grandparents pulling most of the child care duties...or the kids are taking care of themselves.
I'd be very careful of looking at it given the author's ...unusual... views on copyright/licensing. In particular the author claims that releasing derivative works of Shen under the GPL is copyright infringement; Shen's license is a standard license that is widely agreed to grant the right to release derivative works under the GPL, but few people would want to have that fight, or the unknown other fights you might get into with an author with a wildly different interpretation of their license from the common consensus.
A phone that will last for 10+ years. Easy change of battery, glass, display, connectors, etc without specialist tools. Doesn't matter if it's a bit bigger than a nice form factor phone, I'm just sick and tired of phones dying on me and not being able to service them.
Pay someone a small fraction of my salary to show up at work and pretend to be me.
Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#Project_Th...
> Once upon a time (like, three [thirteen] months ago), "fake news" had a precise meaning. It referred to total fabrications — made-up stories about Donald Trump suffering a heart attack or earning the pope's endorsement — and the phrase burst into the political lexicon as Facebook and Google vowed to clean up some of the garbage that had polluted the Internet during the presidential election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/09/fa...
I'm still on the move, but I'll answer eventually. Your previous post did not contain any questions.
Yep, it's great, but they just 'invented' sports clubs. I've swum with a club my whole life, it's not 'group fitness' it's just training for a sport.
How is this use case not covered by apartments with in suite laundry?
> "Why do you think millions of people bought an Echo Dot or a Google Home? Not from YOUR perspective, but from the perspective of millions of people that seem to see value in this product?"

I have no problem with the product category Echo Dot and Google Home sit in, and can see why they make interesting gifts, my only issue is with the surveillance aspects of these devices.

Why do I think people bought them regardless of this issue? I'd suggest either surveillance wasn't forefront in their minds, or it doesn't bother them that much.

What's interesting to me is to compare these devices to Google Glass. There was a huge backlash about Google Glass as it was obvious people were being recorded without their consent. You had people wearing the devices getting called glassholes, and the devices being banned from certain venues. Compare that to the Echo Dot. The level of unwarranted surveillance with Google Glass and Echo Dot is pretty much the same, but because one is less visible than the other it doesn't get the same level of backlash. Is there something about audio surveillance which makes it more socially acceptable than video surveillance? If a future version of Amazon Echo came with a camera that watched your actions, would that get people to see the downsides of these devices? I'm not sure.
a good open source comment system which works with static websites which let's me avoid vendor/one-point lock in.
Many people have already done this, such as the people who emulate DEC VTs with arduinos and suchlike for starters.

* https://github.com/mkschreder/avr-vt100

* https://hackaday.io/project/13273-diy-vt100-a-miniature-hard...

* https://hackaday.com/2010/02/24/oscilloscope-doubles-as-a-se...

* https://tech.scargill.net/vt100-terminal-for-hc2016/
I would pay for a service that gives me constant 6% return on my money. Since all financial advisors tell me that the stock market returns are muh higher they should be all over this and make a lot of money.
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Yeah! You got that right!. It's all relative. If their culture is to police facebook and dispose of people who has the "wrong opinion", you have to accept that. It's their culture. Don't be a bigot.

/s

Thank God I can be sarcastic. We're not in Vietnam, Iran, Bangladesh, etc.
This article is catnip for the HN community. Talk of algorithms and institutional bias? And a way to improve humanity using Silicon Valley machine learning technology? Many of you probably needed a change of pants.

This article is trying real hard to find victim's anywhere and everywhere. Not that long ago there were many people talking about how wonderful the future was going to be with algorithms and big data to make unbiased decisions. Now we are basically there and they still find a problem with it because of "calibration issues" which were mentioned to be due to mathematical incompatibility. You'll also note the wording about the improved algorithm being "independent" of race. Not that the results were more fair or accurate, just "independent".

Then there's the ever popular gender pronouns that were mentioned. Guess what. In nearly every country in the world doctors are majority male and nurses are majority female. Funny that we never hear these "gender biases" mentioned with things like "___ is a construction worker" or "___ is a bus driver", isn't it? Those are male dominated fields as well yet no one ever talks about gender imbalance or discrimination. It's only ever with the higher status/income jobs that you see this talk of imbalance. Many of these aren't "biases" but rather statistical probabilities.
What do you mean by "normal" techies?

Everyone who is here is a "normal" techie. Sure, skill levels and focus areas vary but there's common shared interests.

Actionable things come out of the conference when someone who listens to a talk starts thinking and discussing and forming ideas for starting or contributing to a project. There's no formula to guarantee "success" for that.
How was this downvoted, finally some good OC ?!
I'd love to see a SAAS product for watching sports. Similar to Netflix in terms of UI and pricing, but also with the support for live content. I know this probably won't happen any time soon since major US telecom providers have exclusive broadcasting rights to major sports games.
There’s a better way to ask this question if you want Good responses. Just ask for unsolved problems and listen or even better...go out and observe.
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The throttling code change happened in 10.2.1, not 11.
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You can do this with older iphones (I have a 5s made from parts). You will need about a dollars worth of tools.
Why not use a laundromat, then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlrsqGal64w

Half a bee, philosophically, Must, ipso facto, half not be. But half the bee has got to be. Vis a vis, its entity.
As much as I agree that people need to be persistent, steady and patient in their political participation. This doesn't work so long as you're importing foreign-voters en-masse that are largely voting for a specific party, or voting for politicians as a way to reward them for allowing such importation to occur.

Or, have some sort of middle ground between the large gap of representative and direct democracy. Sort of what Switzerland is doing whereby any movement can force the government, by virtue of having enough votes, into having a nation-wide referendum. And it has to be binding for the politicians, to the spirit and letter of the referendum results. Unlike what we're seeing in the UK now.
Wouldn't common laundry machines that somehow don't become gross be much more efficient in terms of space and resources?
I’m reading these comments particularly for the “niche audience” reactions. It’s one of my many valued information gathering destinations on the road to forming an opinion.
Of course it isn't e-paper. I was just pointing out the difference in price. Cause its from same supplier [1]

[1] https://www.tindie.com/stores/squix78/
> There is no way to "maintain" iPhones to keep their performance over three years

Replace the battery? Free under AppleCare and $79 otherwise.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/19/paul-gascoig... is the concrete case to look at here. A tasteless, mean-spirited thing to say it may have been, but it should not have been a crime.
The word Google isn't as nice to say as Alexa. I don't have the problems you seem to have with Alexa. It works perfectly.
Potential spoiler: most people will not actually pay for something they say they will pay for when asked for an off-the-cuff idea
I guess it's only matter of time before somebody will start offering supermarket e-pricetags to hobbyist:

https://theworklife.com/graham-miln/2013/12/17/e-ink-price-t...
It's all about the manner of delivery: "Any communication which is threatening or abusive, and is intended to harass, alarm, or distress someone is forbidden"[1]

Notice the and condition, it has to be threatening and intended to harass for example. Just causing someone distress without the intend to harass or threaten is not illegal, so someone feeling upset about what you said is perfectly fine. But if you said it to threaten them, and that's clear from your delivery or manner, then yeah it's not OK.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_the_Unit...
The question of what it's like to be someone or something else is much more immediate with all the youngsters who claim they feel like the opposite sex and have done so their whole lives, despite of course not having any frame of reference for those feelings. And based on those feelings alone we're told they are to be injected with life-altering chemicals and have life-altering surgeries.
Gotta set it on your Alexa app or through alexa.amazon.co.uk / .com
They aren't poor at all, they refuse to leave one of the most expensive places in the world because "I was here first" or "I love this place" etc.
If you're cool with only using your phone as a phone + texting device you can get 5+ years out of current day non-smartphones and it only costs like $30 to fully replace it, so there's no need to swap individual components.

My current phone's battery goes 3-4 days before I need to charge it, cost around $30 and it's currently been in use for 3 years with no signs of getting worse or breaking.
Watch out for the film Lumière, which is reaching theaters worldwide. It's actually a commented compilation of 108 original reels by the Lumière brothers, but as an experience is so, so good.
Or “Randomly turn off with lots of charge as battery ages yes/no”?
Even if you do your best, you won't know if it's enough until you actually try. That's why, from
a practical standpoint, it's indistinguishable
from a gamble.
Totally agree. That's the idea of a terminal. There are times and places for other more featureful technologies as well, but these are, well, not terminals...

But still, do you have any "small" things that could be improved. There was someone suggesting that any keypresses / releases should be sent (also Shift/Ctrl etc). I like that to some extent, but I'm afraid it already breaks a lot of usecases.

Maybe the question should be more like, as a DevOp / Sysadmin / Developer, what does your ideal environment look like? And the answers will be as varied as the people asked.
Peter: "Is there any way that you could, sort of, just zonk me out so that, like, I-I don't know that I'm at work... in here? Could I come home and think that I've been fishing all day, or something?"
No one has something to tell about this?

Futurism is often about bullshit but this article is well written and it offers very interesting ideas.

Corporations must look very closely at this subject, there are more profits to expect from transhumanism than from the usual marketing soup (IoT, Cloud, etc..). This is not about rebranding old concepts, this is about new concepts!
That’s the {amazing|horrifying} nature of this: Web Standards are all descriptive. The standard is only written after the majority of browsers already shipped it, and enough major sites rely on it.

(Of course, this means by the point that you actually get to have a discussion about standards, you can’t really change anything more, and all standards committees, from WHATWG to W3C, are just rubberstamping whatever the browser vendors want)
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That's because Google didn't give its assistant a personality. People talk about Alexa because personifying the software is powerful, otherwise they'd be talking about the Echo.

Notice how, even in your post, you say "people talk about Google Home", but the equivalent to Google Home isn't Alexa, it's the Echo Dot.
Sorry, is this in the same vein as GraphQL or SOQL of SalesForce.com?
>Simple, they have hit a price range that the average person feels they can spend and not feel to bad about wasting money later if it sits on the shelf.

I would add...

'and the vast majority of americans dont understand why they should care about government surveillance and how that relates to installing an internet-connected microphone in their home'

unfortunately most of us in the hn crowd probably feel like there is tons of awareness about surveillance right now, but my guess is that feeling is the result of filter bubbles.
it wasn't a typo. hue is a phillips is a iot lighting system, and there are several packages that include a hue-enabled lightbulb.
For me, I went to the app and added my address, and it worked. I don't think it can set it through voice, though, you're right.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/16/169528579...
Not just the US -- BT paid £1.18 billion for 3 years worth of football which is just insane.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/mar/06/bt-keeps-ch...
6 MB/s is trivial for cheap servers and doable for a lot of personal connections (outside US) right now, you shouldn't even wait for Moore's law to catch up.

In 2016 Visa made 86 billion transactions, that is average of ~2600 per second, one magnitude less, than you expected.
I don't believe that Swastika symbol is as ancient as these. Wikipedia tells me that it appears for the first time in 3000 BCE in India.

Also, regarding "German Laws and general sentiment", I invite you to read this detailed blog post[1] on the history of Svasti symbols in Unicode[2] and the controversies around getting them in Unicode.

Edit: Typo. Links corrected.

[1]: https://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/02/when-is-swastika-not...

[2]: https://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5B%3...
Presumably those three circular things below the display are buttons? So not a touchscreen, but you could navigate menus with up/down + enter.
> Why do you think millions of people bought an Echo Dot or a Google Home?

Probably because they emulate human conversation well enough to make people feel less lonely.
What does that have to do with anything in this article? Seems like you're just complaining about trans people.
The charge seems ok to me, and he was not charged with hate speech.

At the end of the day, 12 ordinary people came to the same conclusion, and so he is guilty. It's hardly the "big evil government cracking down on this nice man's (non existent) right to be racist".

Perhaps in a one on one situation it wouldn't be a crime, but doing infront of a thousand people is clearly very bad and distressing. Perhaps it's down to poor judgement, but that's not an excuse.
Yes I'm aware of the ansinescape sequence to _set_ the termtitle. But you can't _restore_ previous termtitle without knowing them (or existing current program). In my case with IPython I want a termtitle that say "busy" when computation is in progress otherwise get back to it's initial value of before starting IPython. I can't do that, because I would have to exit my IPython shell for bash to set the previous value. So I want termtitle to technically be a stack, on which I can push a title or pop-it without having to know what the previous one was. See for example https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/9722, which is recurrent. Without a getter (which is a security issue) or introducing global state or passing the values all around you can't set a temporary value for the title. Is that clearer ?
Firefox definitely does it.
As far as I can remember the only standard command I use and that my ZSH has trouble with is `dd`. Luckily, its arguments aren't that complicated.
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I'm the same as IgorPartola, I use it for kitchen timers, music and smart home controls, but I've also written a few skills so it can play movies/shows on my Chromecast, tell me my last bank transaction, etc etc. Those are pretty useful, except the Dot fails to recognize my longer sentences way too often. Sometimes it'll even recognize the skill I want to launch but not the rest of it.
Exactly. I think the author may have misplaced the supertype.

A church is a community.
A fitness club is a community.

All communities have hierarchy and social roles.

Not every community is a church.
Not every community is a fitness club.
I have an original Echo, it's fine.

I use it to listen to the radio via TuneIn, to turn lamps on and off and to set timers. That's about it really.

Sometimes I use it to convert American imperial units to metric, which is handy when converting recipes in the kitchen (e.g. "what's 2 cups in millilitres")

I'm at my parents house at the moment, my Mum primarily uses it to set timers, and reminders (e.g. remind me tomorrow to do X). Although our pet dog absolutely hates it though, which is amusing.
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I'm convinced this is basically impossible currently.

Promising software updates alone for 10+ years is going to be a difficult sell, even if you really intend to. And it's going to cost a significant amount of money.

And 10 years is a LONG time. 10 years ago android didn't exist, iOS had JUST come out, basically every "smartphone" out there was called a "PDA" and used windows mobile with a stylus. Even getting connectivity hardware that would work on those timescales is starting to get hard.

And let's be honest, the market would be extremely small. Most people want the newest device every year, because hardware is still improving, new features are added, form factors change, and styling is important. Trying to sell a device which looks worse, costs more, is larger and has less features to the general public just isn't going to work.

I get 5 years, but 10 seems to be really pushing it.
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Which S generation was just a speed bump?
Exactly, when used that way it involves both the speaker and the listener, as in “OK Bob, let’s go to the park”.

Or, if it is used to pretend a command, it is used as a continuation of an existing conversation, like when you are at the doctor and he or she says “Go ahead and get on the scale” and then “OK, now sit here and open your mouth.”

The way google uses it is definitely not natural.

There is also the pause, after you say “Ok google” and it activates search for you.

Anyway, fanboys will continue to downvote I know but the whole interaction is undoubtedly awkward as fuck.
+ A test or a person that tests and tracks my health and body nutrients or lack thereof. Then designs a list of items or orders the food/vitamins that have all the micro nutrients that a health body would require.

+ Accurate food product reviews that test what is inside of the item and reflect if the nutrition labels are correct.
Yeah. Those would be super useful as general purpose displays.
I found something on Alibaba without much technical info about.

Hopefully someone gets the idea and mass produces it.

https://m.alibaba.com/product/60250435288/Supermarket-esl-di...