skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Needless to say I quickly gave up on using OSM and turned back to Google Maps--and I'm their perfect use case, a skilled techie with a deep interest in using free software! I can't imagine trying to explain how to use OSM to my mom

My mom got an iPhone gifted from my dad, so there's mistake number one (I don't know of any decent OSM apps on that proprietary platform), but for what it's worth, my non-technical girlfriend has no trouble with it. Then again, that was 2014ish, not sure what time you're talking about.

> require downloading huge amounts of data and picking what maps you want ahead of time

It's not easy to find, I agree, but you can use it without downloading a single map. If being online all the time floats your boat, you can do that (at least in Osmand, the de facto app for Android).

> The UIs were universally terrible (at the time at least)

OsmAnd invested a lot of time in this. I didn't mind the old UI that much and the new one has some things I don't like (but are probably easier for newbies), but it might be worth a try again. Especially if you live in Europe, and definitely if you live in the Netherlands or west Germany, the map data is much more complete than Google's on everything but business information.
Switzerland govt. releases guidelines to use ICO's for crowdfunding of startups
If that's true, then you shouldn't read any journals that don't publish data and methods.

You've got to vote with your feet (or in this case, attention).
As the people who read the most headlines here, probably by an order of magnitude, I'm afraid we have to pull rank on that. Gratuitous "you" in titles is one of the biggest linkbait tropes. Presumably we're all wired to direct our attention to someone saying "hey you!"; headline writers figured this out and have been milking it ever since.
Raw sockets backdoor gives attackers complete control of some Linux servers
I'd be surprised if your edits would be rejected. More likely, whoever was doing QA would make a few minor alignment adjustments based on satellite data and any county data they could glean (the latter is likely where all the road data came from).

Moderation isn't the worst idea, OSM in many areas basically has large scale edit wars, wasting editors time as they fight over road and building alignment with other editors that don't realize Microsoft's satellite data is 20ft off from reality.
Good tip. I would add that maxresdefault.jpg returns a higher resolution image, e.g.: https://img.youtube.com/vi/HlxLo2sMnXg/maxresdefault.jpg
I don't find the complete code examples to be that bad. Yes, if you just copy and paste and maybe tinker a bit you will miss a lot. If you type them in blindly like a secretary typing a dictation you will miss a lot.

But if you type them in, and study each line as you go, not proceeding until you understand what that line is doing and why it's there, a working example can be very helpful.
Graphical linear algebra: from matrices to monoids
That Mueller's team would somehow want to erode the First Amendment is a pretty extreme belief bordering on conspiracy theory.

I think this is less about material truth or lies and more about the fact that these ads were meant to influence US elections and paid for by foreign interests. Many US-based organizations can and do produce baseless "fake news" but it isn't seen as much of a problem because they represent the views of some kind of voting constituency.
So they would have preferred it, possibly come to a different conclusion, if Uber would have been likely to be established as a perpetual monopoly?
"true" color support. Works in Windows 10!

Nice!
I think the service may be far more interesting if it was a hackernews dating service.
Getting a clean IP and keeping it clean is a hassle. Some networks (eg. AT&T) use some sketchy blacklists that blacklists entire B-blocks and you have to get them to whitelist your IP. The problem is that after you finally get your IP in a nice state, then you are stuck with that IP. And with many of the cheaper VPS providers, that means you are stuck with that instance because the IPs are paired with the instances.

But some VPS providers allow you to have a reserved IP that you can use as your SMTP IP, keeping it independent of your server instance. I'm about to switch to vultr.com for this feature, which means cleaning another IP but hopefully the last one for a long time.
They literally took a portion of someone's image and duplicated it wholesale. What's so ridiculous about the original copyright infringement claim?
Mapzen tried to be a less corporate version of Mapbox but the quality of their data/tools was just not there.

I had to implemented a specialized geocoder/administrative boundaries referential last year. Mapzen was really compelling, the documentation about how they handled hierarchical data was clear and interesting but execution was lacking. I am French, handling European data was important and I quickly hit several pain points:

- Their github repository organization was a mess. A lot of small ones without a clear map of which did what.
- The vagrant setup to experiment locally was unmaintained
- I found a basic unicode normalization issue in the geocoder several hours after playing with it.
- Manipulating their dataset via git-lfs was a massive pain
- Their geocoder was nicely presented but relations to administrative levels was done with neightbourhood search to administrative area centroids, instead of (even approximated) geometries.
- The data was not as comprehensive and up to date as OSM one, at least in France. For instance, France second level administrative areas (Régions) were redesigned at the beginning of 2016. They were defined in OSM but progress seemed fairly slow in Mapzen.

Now, I appreciate Mapzen was a very ambitious project and handling cartographic data at this scope and scale is a difficult job, but as pure data consumer, it was not comparable to OSM.

I eventually used OSM data and while their documentation/tools are quite a mess too, wiki style, it is workable. Datasets are large but there are a lot of way to retrieve them efficiently. Their non-protobuf binary format hits a sweet spot between size efficiency and ease of processing. And at least in Europe, the data is fairly good, at least for my requirements.
No. Not what I'm saying. I'm asking for an option from someone with particular experience. That doesn't invalidate the options of others, snowflake.
Ketamine is available both as a veterinary medicine and is used as an emergency anesthetic (usually for setting broken bones) because it doesn't require an anesthesiologist.

Where I obtained it-- Darknet. I used veterinary needles to do an IM injection. There are also analogues that can be snorted.
You used the image without permit, you dint ask. I would do the same and go after you. Good image recognition software they have. Are they still able to read the watermark within the pic?
Ultimately we have to say that not all law is bad, surely? Then take it on a case by case basis. The Internet itself makes world legal convergence a necessity.

Pick one:

- EU citizens can have their rights violated by US companies

- US companies are not allowed to communicate with EU citizens (ie great firewall of Europe)

- Everyone gives up on the idea of law where the internet is concerned and crosses a national line (cyberpunk anarchy; sort of the status quo; everyone gets surveilled and ultimately leaked a la Equifax)

- EU gives up on having its own law and acceeds to US law (e.g. Switzerland, which is not the EU but proudly independent, eventually gave up its banking secrecy to US KYC/AML)
Not every white or every male has to be in the upper echelon for the aggregate trends in to be interesting. And let's remember we're talking, here, about a population defined by copious amounts of free time and the economic flexibility to devote that free time to serious video gaming.
Sure, sure. We should differentiate the styles of the individual players, and the style of the group; two different things. I found it depressing, that suggestion earlier in the thread that one's style is always totally suppressed by the team you're on. Maybe I misunderstood; maybe that's stretching the analogy too far.

Although... when I was about 20 I went to see a fellow musician in their day job, programming in a company, finance/accounting-type stuff. It seemed so totally depressing I decided I never wanted to do programming professionally.

I guess there is the average, rank-and-file performer in the arts, like a 3rd violin in an orchestra, or player in a musical show, singer in a choir, (or my friend) where individuality is not required, just professionalism. That's like craft[0]. And then the music-as-art thing, like classical soloists, jazz groups, singers where the important thing is to sound like yourself (and to sound good!)

[0] I'm thinking craft in the sense Collingwood uses it in Principles of Art - craft (as opposed to art) is when you know beforehand exactly what final result you're aiming for and what steps to follow to get there.
You’re making my case for me. Of course that’s not the intent of the law, and it’s a bad law precisely because of unintended consequences, ambiguity, and unequal enforcement due to everyone being out of compliance in some way.

But you keep just falling back on what they’re trying to do, which matters less than what they’re going to end up doing.

What they’re actually going to end up doing is fail to really curb much abuse, introduce lots of costs and uncertainty, drive businesses out of the EU, worsen the UX of the internet, entrench the largest players who can afford to be mostly compliant and defend themselves legally, and further erode the concepts of national sovereignty and the ideals of the web.

How about this: if EU citizens want more privacy protections than those provided by laws of my country, stop sending HTTP requests to my server in America and asking me to send information back to them. Why the hell is it on me to figure out where those requests are coming from and what bizarre set of laws that person’s country thinks I should have to care about with regard to what I do with the content that their citizen voluntarily sent me?
So you agree the US is in another Cold War with Russia then? Otherwise how is that relevant?
Even embryo selection and genomic prediction alone gets you pretty far if you’re willing to discard a lot of embryos (is it possible to read the DNA out of sperm and egg cells non-destructively? I don’t know much about the technology involved). Just fertilize a bunch of embryos and discard all of them except the top few (selected on e.g. some weighted combination of height, intelligence, and whatever else you can predict). Then your kids will be overwhelming likely to be taller and smarter (and whatever else you selected for) than if you’d just picked embryos at random.
The original artist had licensed it freely, both 2600 and the Trunk author had used that freely licensed work.
Did you not read the rest of the article? It wasn't that long...
> A single demand for quid pro quo sexual favors in exchange for professional rewards is a sexual offence, a bad one, and alone it is not harassment.

That's simply wrong -- a single egregious instance can certainly constitute harassment, both in terms of common sense and in terms of legal consequences. What matters is severity -- and though repeating the behavior makes it more likely to be judged as severe, one bad incident can easily exceed the threshold. A quid-pro-quo proposal of sex-for-promotion is a perfect example.
Will still be a few months if it's this year, no?
Right, which shows that the notion that "you're the product" is stretched so far to fit this idiotic platitude that it's more or less meaningless.
https://www.flightradar24.com/build-your-own to get the data... the visualization... I'd love to see a write-up as well!
“His neighbors hate hi- CracklezaaaaaapZorchZzzzzaaaapZapzapzapzap... him.”
This falls within fair usage rules.
> Struggle is not always a problem. Sometimes struggle is a solution. It can be the solution to the question of who you are.

I'm convinced that people derive meaning from restrictions they have to overcome. In the land of perfect convenience, everything would be instantly possible, and nothing would be valuable, so nothing would be worth doing. What would make people tick?

In this vision, convenience merges with powerlessness, leaving no options. At some point, we could observe that making things easier doesn't benefit society by freeing up time, but harms it by removing meaning.

As a believer in a transhumanist future, this possibility concerns me.
My experience with traffic rerouting is that you usually are 5% faster than just waiting. You're driving, which feels nice, but it's also stressful because you're already late and of course the country roads are now full of people routing around... Aside from major accidents, I think traffic info is quite overrated.

Not that it wouldn't be nice to have in OSM, but it's just not something that fits into what OSM is. It's a whole separate service, even if such a service could be integrated with the third party apps that use OSM data.
How to Assess Cryptocurrency’s Fundamental Value
That "someone" took the same freely licensed splatter graphic as them (it's linked from the article) and put it in their photo. That's their right, but doesn't mean they now own that splatter.
I found myself developing various rules in my head with negatives versus division, etc. to solve these quicker without having to do most of the math. Interesting game, thanks for sharing!
I am convinced that there's a (paid!) market for this, but you are also asking for feedback from the wrong crowd, that's why you are getting feedback like this

> There's zero chance I'd ever sign up for such a service.

Majority of HN users are I am guessing under 50 and most if not all have good paying jobs -- money is a factor in quite a few instances of loneliness directly or indirectly. Ex: Guy loses job, girlfriend leaves him, starts drinking and become lonely.

The loneliness epidemic is also very prevalent in the 50+ age group, esp. with rising longevity and healthcare facilities in the developed world, people are living longer and longer.

I saw in the news the other day how the mailman was sitting and reading mails to senior citizens in some french village and they were paying him for it.

You should do a quick and simple MVP, and position it positively, like "make friends anywhere in the world" or something like that, not too cheezy, but nothing "negative" sounding like "overcome your loneliness" etc cos that will just remind people how lonely they are.

I recently interviewed at https://www.keen.com and when I visited their site, it looked scammy like 1 of those online horoscope, lover gurus and tarot card readers. On site I learned that they are very highly profitable since 2004. It's a bunch of online properties where people call into a phone # and discuss their relationship, get "happiness advice" etc. Apparently quite a few of those "Advise providers" are making a fulltime income.

You could apply the same principles to penpal / email to help people combat loneliness, make news friends, and get relationship (this also causes loneliness with breakups, divorce etc) advise etc.

Email me if you wanna discuss more. Email in bio.
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Even if there were govt reports on the topic they would be too dangerous to publish and if the parliament dares to force govt to publish them there weren't any reports in the first place...
Man, I'm happy not to live in the UK.
> The US Supreme Court ruled that fake news is not illegal under the 1st Amendment

It's not illegal for foreign entities to lobby our government (or the American people). It's illegal to do it dishonestly, e.g. by "posing as U.S. persons and creating false U.S. personas" (¶ 3 of the indictment [1]) or using "without lawful authority, the social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of real U.S. persons to open accounts at PayPal" (¶ 90).

Also, from ¶ 1 of the indictment [1]: "U.S. law...bars agents of any foreign entity from engaging in political activities within the United States without first registering with the Attorney General."

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4380463-Internet-Res... via Axios [a]

[a] https://www.axios.com/mueller-indicts-13-russian-nationals-f...
I'm saying the prof is out of touch with reality when he says "But though it remains easy to get music free, no one really does it anymore".
2600 didn't mention that in their original post. Did they know that at the time they chose to use the image?

The argument they originally used seemed to be that the original work isn't actually worthy of copyright protection because it's just ink splotches.
John conger
I really don't see what's so hard to understand about this. The elections in the United States should be carried out by people who have the country's best interests in mind. Is it a stretch to imagine that Russian trolls don't have the country's best interests in mind? There are laws all over the world (not just in the US) that govern the ways that communications and advertisements involving an election must take place. Just because that technically goes against a naive definition of free speech doesn't mean anything.

And, despite your best efforts to frame me as a racist, I didn't say anything about Mexicans and wouldn't have any problem with the 1st amendment applying to them assuming other legal questions don't come into play.
If Facebook tracks me outside of Facebook's website because that other website has tracking code or a like button (which I didn't click) and I don't have an account on Facebook, I'm not ok with that.

Then your beef is not with FB but the website which _chose_ to embed FB like button. You should stop using that website if you are not ok.
This guilty plea of a California man who engaged in helping circumvent payment security features from 2014-17 in relation to the information warfare effort just came out as well.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1035547/download
FlightRadar24.com is a much better interface and shows all the planes... in the world.

I have an ADS-B receiver and I transmit my data to both FR24 and FlightAware.
As another user says above:

piracykills 1 minute ago | unvote [-]

The original artist had licensed it freely, both 2600 and the Trunk author had used that freely licensed work.
> $2k a year without strings attached is non-trivial. Tying the money to activities that may come with direct or indirect costs may make earning the money non-rational. At the granularity of paychecks, it's less than $45 a week. That's about four hours overtime at minimum wage. Or four hours of part time work at $11/hour.

Sure, but we're talking about things that most people would agree is good anyway: kids doing well in school, being healthy, etc. The goal of the CCTs isn't to make people want to do things that they vehemently disagree with: it's to shift the incentive boundary so that they're on the right side of it for things they would like to do anyway.
The Kodak project has nothing to do with gambling. It's a smart-contract based photo rights management platform.

And to be fair to Atari, only some of its cryptocurrency initiatives are gambling-based. It sounds like its Atari Token will be used for a digital entertainment content marketplace. From Google Translate:

>>The company is developing a decentralized platform giving access to any form of digital entertainment,that is to say a very wide offer ranging from video games to movies and music. This platform, under development, will operate using a cryptocurrency, the Atari Token . In exchange for these equity interests, earnings and future royalties, Atari has granted Infinity Networks, Ltd. (Gibraltar) a long-term license to use the Atari brand .
Hand wringing about perceived weak virtues of the youth. I expect an article referencing this in the new york times style section within the week.
> Even in a cheap area, nobody is going to open a deli or cornershop without a plan for paying the rent.

Sure, the question is how experimental of a plan can you attempt. In SF 2018: not very. I know people who pooled their money for an experimental space in SF several years ago at $1/sq. foot, and broke even. At 5x or 10x those rates today, this is now a lot harder.

> SV has it's issues for sure, but I wouldn't throw all cities under the bus with it.

My critique is specifically of the negative effects of overcrowding and overcapitalization in the SF Bay Area. By extension this would presumably apply to other places like Manhattan with similar conditions. I'm definitely interested in finding other cities with the networking advantages but that manage to strike a balance with livability. Austin has been mentioned already, although some folks will complain they're headed in the same direction.
Any side-effects? Bladder/urinary issues? What happens to you as it wears off?
Couldn't they "double" their revenue by doubling their prices and giving everyone a 50% discount?
The other problems you mention are structural, not strategic.
I think there must be a factor like local data quality: I stopped following Google Maps as closely because it does things like an unprotected left turn on a major arterial road to save 100 feet going to the next light.
You want to write your own routing software from scratch, or are you talking about using vector data for research purposes?
It's a huge problem for recreational use. Some individuals have trouble with it even with prescription ketamine, but it's not nearly as common. Last time I asked him, my doctor hasn't had any patients who were forced to discontinue treatment because of it.

n=1, but I've been receiving ketamine therapy for about 6 years and have not developed ketamine cystitis.
Wow that is a gross misunderstanding of United States v. Alvarez you've got there. All that did was invalidate the "Stolen Valor Act" which made lying about earned military medals a crime. Obama signed a similar law the following year which made it illegal to lie about military medals for personal gain. So far that hasn't been challenged as unconstitutional, despite both bills being about lying about military medals. It's almost like the context and intent of the lie matters more than the lie itself.... If you want to construe this as a get out of jail free card for lying in every situation (to the FBI, etc.), I'm going to need to see that held up in court, citing that case as precedent.

If you're going to drag a man through the mud with wild conspiracy theories, at least learn how to spell his name--It's Mueller, with an "e". I'm really not sure how you think this constitutes the government deciding what is true/false. They're charged with attempting to manipulate the election, committing lots of fraud, etc., but oddly enough not for daring to speak untruths.