skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chicago's infrastructure is falling apart as well. The L hasn't been extended in decades, and there are no plans to electrify the rest of the suburban rail lines. The city is corrupt and constantly out of money. Every time they raise revenue, it disappears, with the streets full of potholes and non-existent lines between car lanes.

The only city that's truly expanding their rail in a significant way is Seattle. With the ST3 project and the Redmond Transit corridor, hopefully they'll see some relief from the insane housing prices. But they needed that expansion two decades ago.

Don't even get me started on Caltrain.

Everybody is going crazy over self driving vehicles, but if we do get them, they won't be a reality for at least 10 ~ 15 years. It's a more difficult problem than people think, and all that money could be put into fixing and expanding our crumbling rail.

I don't understand why America hates rail so much.
That is a good analogy.

Chat bots are on a spectrum between command line and a real human assistant. If I hire an assistant, I probably don't need a manual telling me how to interact with them. A command line is pure mystery. I might be stretching a bit for the metaphor, but the difference is how well they understand human language.

A commandline requires, essentially, learning a new language in order to converse with a computer. A human only requires a small amount of learning in getting the social dynamic relationship right.

Chat bots, virtual assistants, etc. are all pretending to be much closer to the human side of language understanding than they are and they won't be all that useful until they make quite a bit of progress. (and actually I would appreciate a much more commandline-like interface with a voice assistant for now because I'd bet it would be much more likely to give me what I want)
Opinions about giving this trust matter to dedicated certificate authorities instead, like we do with HTTPS?

Edit: Found the problem with that.
Certificate authorities are supposed to actually go out and confirm that the person who requested the certificate, is the person that they say they are. This is far too much work, if you want to verify each individual person who wants to use a messenger.
Ift's fine if they like music better but their need can easily be satisfied by wearing earphones. It's harder for people who don't want music to remove it.
Oh god. Thankfully those are fairly uncommon -- I never do a repeat visit to station with that crap.
I didn't intend to be reverse-age-ist. Was just pointing out that bubbles are more obvious if you've seen a few, and I must admit that I assumed the parent to have not seen many since this one is so damn obvious.
I believe that was Waze, not Bing. Or at least, Waze did that and got accused of being racist, but it was also generating those areas based on user input.
Broadcast TV is rapidly dying, though. The very fact that they're changing codecs around to "free some frequencies" for more valuable spectrum users is the proof of that.
Were the moors deforested by humans for agricultural purposes? It doesn't seem like much is grown there.
What does a "private terminal" mean ? Or rather, in what precise way is it better ? I have a vague idea of what it can provide but I'm not sure how it can shed up to an hour of time. Does it include a dedicated secrity and immigration service (so no gigantic lines) ?
There is more than one way to use the term. Anyway, your last three responses have been gratuitously pedantic. I'm not interested in debating formal definitions, so I'll be ducking out.

EDIT: Removed snarkiness.
I don't know that I'd call it a vanity project. There are a ton of tangible benefits.
I don't get the point - are you suggesting we'd be better off without automobiles? Would we go back to horses? What about global logistics? Agriculture?
I'm curious about how it handles design changes. Will it just rewrite from scratch? or adjust the code it has already written?
In both cases they’re complying with the laws.

The data may be stored with a Chinese company but it’s still encrypted isn’t it? They can’t read it can they?
It sounds like you're talking about M suggestions, which are still going strong and have AI doing all of the work. The article is talking about a different aspect of M, the text-based virtual assistant, which you could ask anything and was backed by humans.

The verge did a better job of explaining what was actually going away: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16856654/facebook-m-shutdo...
I'm interest what is going to happen about that starting from 25 May 2018 when the GDPR from the EU becomes enforceable.

A good thing about these data regulations is that they can not only be brought to court by private individuals, but by also by dedicated officials from the nations.
Yet even with autorotation, helicopters are somewhere between 27 and 85 times more dangerous than cars (depending on your methodology) [1].

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
.. and all the cab drivers wonder why they lose to car services.
Verizon, Sprint, China Telecom Added to List of Carriers of Windows 10 on ARM
Maybe Apple has embraced one of these "Agile" methodologies where you basically eliminate your QA group in the promise that developer created unit and integration tests can cover the quality gap.

QA and dev approach software with different mindsets, and I've noticed in Agile projects where QA is mostly or entirely missing, there is a skill gap.

Edit:
People - I'm not trying to be flippant. I really have seen a decrease in quality in the transition to Agile. We use Scrum or Kanban where I work, and while overall the approach to estimation and the smaller scheduling and estimating increment is better, in many projects where I work there is no _separate_ QA group. A few project do retain it (though re-branded as "Performance, Stability, Reliability" - PSR) and it does help, but generally this PSR doesn't cover everything our old QA groups used to cover.

In any case, I have no insight in to what is happening inside Apple. I'm really just suggesting that given the prevalence of Agile methodologies these day, perhaps a non-ideal transition to Agile is a contributing factor to their quality issues.
$ Play all Coldplay songs that were the most popular of their album
$ Play all Coldplay songs about love
$ Play the list of Coldplay songs for my 8 a.m. alarm

Now, how would the UI go about specifying which previously defined list you want to refer to? Sometimes you'll want to pick the most recent, sometimes the one most closely matching the definition, sometimes the one matching the "alarm clock" format most, sometimes you'll want to offer the user a choice among all objects similar enough to the description (What about if the object was built iteratively, do you offer intermediary objects as possible choices?), sometimes you'll want to ask a short question to restrict possible choices, if there's seems to be a clear criterion that probably improves understanding fast enough more relative to the time it takes to ask (this can depend on the user/environment/situation to choose between fast/precise answer).

To me the difficulty is that the choice of strategy can be built on the fly depending on context by humans, usually without building an understanding of all possible strategies but instead by just magically guessing a strategies which seems to fit well enough. This means being able to learn strategies based on previous experiences and building an evolving understanding of contexts.

Now this is probably not necessary to build a functioning interactor, but this is a reasonable description of normal human interaction, and the capacity for systems to adapt to contexts without much more outside help than humans do is going to be a good way to rate them.
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I would agree. However, most websites start out as such a design image. Getting the markup for the design, and adding onto the generated html/css template could speed things up.

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Also who is to say that it will not be able to do more in the future. More features could be added.
That looks cool. Most of the time I was running into problems, I was on a remote server with no access to a GUI, but this does look like a cool integration.
If you have a real person as an assistant, and you ask them to buy flowers for somebody, you also don't get to pick exactly what they look like ... unless you ask them to facilitate that with pictures or descriptions.

Real AI would be fully capable of doing this just as well as a person, but it would take a lot more "intelligence" than currently exists.
Your qualifier rules me then :). But my team regularly uses our own fleet of at least ten IRC bots for regular data-gathering and scheduling tasks.
Yes... as long as SNI is used and valid on the internet... it is incorrect to assume IP = domain control.. which is the assumption that the TLS-SNI-01/02 challenges are based on.

These challenges are fatally flawed in their current form, and should be discontinued.

(Your solution in the first sentence changes it to domain control = domain control. Obviously correct.)
macOS High Sierra is such a disaster. Did Apple has any quality control over software at this point? No security vending? How could they have customers' trust if they keep making such idiotic mistake?
Counterpoint: I've been to gyms when the music system broke, and the silence instantly makes it feel lonelier and more uninviting. This was late in the evening when there were few other patrons, so it might be ok during busier times.
I started picking apart the kernel and had a bunch of failed reboots because of it in my V7 installation. I'm fairly certain the LCM wouldn't be thrilled by that idea.

That said, this is the first I've heard of the LCM and I'm absolutely in love with it. Unfortunately, it seems skiddies with botnets are, too, ruining availability and ease of access for everyone[1]. I wish I could take a trip to the physical location sometime, too. The DareNET Archives have tried to do the same for IRC a while ago, but in the end, security concerns, difficulties selecting relevant historical IRC software and lack of time made it fairly infeasible.

[1] http://www.livingcomputers.org/Discover/Online-Systems/Syste...
When I want to deliver flowers I want $x worth of flowers to arrive, avoid roses - make sure this poem I wrote is on the tag. I don't care what they look like, any flower is the same (except my wife doesn't like roses much) - the important part is the flower came with a poem.

If we had a secretary (think 1950 when they were common) doing this job mine would choose something nice, yours would come back with your choices. Either way flowers would arrive. Your secretary would probably learn your preferences eventually and soon come with one picture for final approval (which would be right). Mine would remind me a week before our anniversary to start working on the poem.

Both perspectives are correct. There is no reason an AI couldn't handle both, and every reason they should - but of course it will be years (at best) before they do. The first time the AI comes with "I found these flowers, see the pictures [on whatever screen is handy]". I respond with "whatever, just pick something", and the ai decides to not bother asking again. I'm depending on the AI flower ordering algorithm to not make a bad choice - making me happy is harder than making you happy.
I hate gas station telescreens, and in my experience they never have STFU buttons. I wonder if a high-power electromagnet could damage the speakers from outside the pump housing? :)

Most of my local stations have replaced their pumps with these things. Fortunately, one station at least has the sense to TURN THE DAMN SOUND DOWN to where it's easy for me to ignore, and (even better) it's also the last station in town to raise prices when the local price mysteriously jumps 25¢/gallon because Reasons.
Here's how WhatsApp group messaging works: membership is maintained by the server. Clients of a group retrieve membership from the server, and clients encrypt all messages they send e2e to all group members.

If someone hacks the WhatsApp server, they can obviously alter the group membership. If they add themselves to the group:

1. The attacker will not see any past messages to the group; those were e2e encrypted with keys the attacker doesn't have.

2. All group members will see that the attacker has joined. There is no way to suppress this message.

Given the alternatives, I think that's a pretty reasonable design decision, and I think this headline pretty substantially mischaracterizes the situation. I think it would be better if the server didn't have metadata visibility into group membership, but that's a largely unsolved problem, and it's unrelated to confidentiality of group messages.

In contrast, Telegram does no encryption at all for group messages, even though it advertises itself as an encrypted messenger, and even though Telegram users think that group chats are somehow secure. An attacker who compromises the Telegram server can, undetected, recover every message that was sent in the past and receive all messages transmitted in the future without anyone receiving any notification at all.

There's no way to publish an academic paper about that, though, because there's no "attack" to describe, because there's no encryption to begin with. Without a paper there will be no talks at conferences, which means there will be no inflammatory headlines like this one.

To me, this article reads as a better example of the problems with the security industry and the way security research is done today, because I think the lesson to anyone watching is clear: don't build security into your products, because that makes you a target for researchers, even if you make the right decisions, and regardless of whether their research is practically important or not. It's much more effective to be Telegram: just leave cryptography out of everything, except for your marketing.
I don't know if anyone heard of Steve Maxwell, he is a well known fitness educator. He is doing what he calls eye yoga, which is some simple eye exercises.

Below you can find his morning routine which includes some eye yoga;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea0ReKfszEM&t=2s

Simply
My understanding is that much of Europe was deforested during the Bronze and Iron ages, mostly for fuel to smelt ores. Hopefully someone who knows more can comment?
Which leads to the lovely phenomenon called a lunchtime rush hour, which really belongs around the 4th circle of Hell.
They may have more square footage, pools, warmer climate during summer, more parks for children/pets, better schools in some areas as mentioned.

That's part of why I'd prefer living on the peninsula than in downtown SF. Weather is consistently better in the summer months. More space/less people (except for rush hour traffic). More parks for recreation. Pools aren't necessarily a deal breaker for me, but it's a nice extra.

A shiny high-rise is nice but unless you can afford a penthouse or similar you're probably looking at a small unit. Less space, fewer parks, more people everywhere (tourists, homeless, etc.)
On El Capitan, I don't even see a padlock on the AppStore prefpane.
No TSA security. No big-airline check-in lines.

Immigration doesn't apply on domestic flights anyway.
And connected to Europe too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
I don't trust the motives here, but in Britain it is really hard to find a place where you can go and be alone with a campfire in woodland. 'Wild camping' is usually only an option in the high mountains where there is CROW land.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countryside_and_Rights_of_Wa...
Precisely that, be great if they were moremodular to a standard, but then, that's what PC's are, just not at the lego level for the common consumer.

Then consumers wonder why due to software support obsolescence that their working TV becomes less functional after a few years.

So it is like Goodyear selling you a car with the tyres that they stop supporting way before the tyre is even close to end of working life.
And if one on one side went out, you'd immediately descend.
Introducing Teleport Subscription Plans
> awkward key exchange/setups of XMPP clients

What do you mean by that? Conversations.im establishes e2e secure session without any fingerprint approving interaction whatsoever. Of course you can manually scan barcodes for paranoid mode but that's not necessary.

For me it's a perfect balance between convenience and security. Read more at
https://gultsch.de/trust.html
That would make me much less likely to give it a ride...
That depends a lot on where you live. I agree that a home is not an ideal investment vehicle, but where I live, even accounting for upkeep, my home has increased in value at a rate similar to my income for the last five years. It is ultimately your home and not an investment unless that is your specific goal, so it's not a good idea to put all of your eggs in that basket, but the idea that real property isn't an investment simply is not correct.
To further support your point, if you switch to a pane that does require the padlock and then switch back, the padlock is gone. Looks like someone forgot to set the padlock bar to invisible on that perf plane. It's a minor UI glitch, nothing to see here.
> Current voice-assistants work "okay" for single-sentence queries

They might work "okay" if you're native speaker. As ESL speaker with an accent, it's nowhere near close. It's a total PITA beyond "what time is it".
A couple of predator drones could probably pay for infrastructure repair. Probably a couple of overpriced Fighter Jets as well. Does America really need 10 ~ 11 active aircraft carriers? Most of our allies only have 1 or 2.

War is a machine, and it is eating away at America.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."

-Bill Hicks
On the other hand, I believe Buffett does understand currencies.

And personally, I don't really see what the "technology" brings to the party other than a specific bag of features. Kind of like Uber.
This is evidence to the contrary, as you've said...

Utah law only talks about who must yield. I use to believe that a person going strait had the right of way. Some of the confusion may come from the wording from different ways of entering the roadway. In Utah it says the following.

41-6a-903 Yield right-of-way -- Vehicle turning left -- Entering or crossing highway other
than from another roadway -- Merging lanes.
(1) The operator of a vehicle:
(a) intending to turn to the left shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle approaching from the
opposite direction which is so close to the turning vehicle as to constitute an immediate
hazard;

This doesn't actually apply to a stop sign because it says "other than a roadway". It also talks about "opposite direction" and not cross traffic.

The other part of the law that actually seems to apply is the following.

41-6a-902 Right-of-way -- Stop or yield signals -- Yield -- Collisions at intersections or
junctions of roadways -- Evidence.
(b) After having stopped at a stop sign, the operator of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to any
vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute an
immediate hazard.

https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title41/Chapter6A/C41-6a-P9_180001...
Information about performance is on the webpage, scroll down to Benchmarks section: https://nerv.aotu.io/
IMO, don't optimize too much, especially right now. You are not building things because you feel that the market is saturated and hard for someone your age to get into. I would drop that line of thought and do what you are interested in.

Take this time to learn and become the best in the world at something, it is unlikely that you will have this luxury in the future.

Note:
-Some of the largest companies were built in industries that were thought to be heavily saturated (eg. Uber, Facebook, etc..)
-Vitalik built Ethereum when he was 19 (I think)
Could this be the result of shifting quality assurance to the general public through public betas?
Jesus, $600m in funding and a valuation of $5.6b. "The largest single funding round since Groupon in 2011." All to put (presumably) pharma ads in our faces.
Google did that (actually took an even stronger stance). But if competitors don't do the same, then nothing changes and you are just ceding the market to them.

To be clear, I am not advocating that companies should bow down on their principles, just that it needs to be a more coordinated effort across companies, and might need new technical solutions to evade government firewalls etc.

While I am cynical that my wishes would come true, I do respect the companies that take a moral stance against their own business interests, which includes Google in China and Apple in the US.
I can understand why it would be there for date & time. I guess I more don't understand why it's not there for networking - you can add a proxy in (or even a whole new network adapter) for all network traffic without admin rights!?
The idea came from a client insisting on trying a WiFi marketing cancer known as "TurnStyle". Looking for an altenative to get a simple marketing message across without all the "conect w FB, Google Analytics, ad-laiden captive portal BS" that's out there now.

Fortunately for users, Yelp aquired TurnStyle so it's only uphill from here! /s
What I don't get is that the US seems to be trying to push its political system to the absolute limit. Since I came to the US there is this constant push for impeaching the sitting president, disputing election results, extreme gerrymandering and all the other nonsense going on. This is the climate that breeds a strongman dictator that "cleans up" all the mess.

Has it always been that way and will get worked out or is the US determined to destroy its institutions?
Why don't they just remove the TVs? You can watch TV at home, you don't need to do it at the gym.
Kinetic energy = 1/2 m v^2

In a typical city scenario, a car has KE of 1/2 (2000 kg) (50 kph)^2 ~= 2e5 Joules. A bicyclist has 1/2 (100 kg) (30 kph)^2 ~= 3.5e3 Joules. Almost 100x less capable of inflicting damage on a typical pedestrian. Add onto this that bikes are way more maneuverable, less collision surface area, are totally exposed to the same forces exerted on the pedestrian with which they may collide... your comparison with cars is intellectually dishonest because you are comparing a human on top of a 10-20kg machine with a human inside a 2000kg metal box with an incredible array of safety features for the driver and hardly any for pedestrians outside.