skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
APRS and packet radio existed since the '90s. They handle routing and multiple participants, and are rather resilient to interference.

There is no encryption and no frequency hopping not because it's difficult to do, but because the goal is to be heard and understood by anyone who listens.
I've worked in crunch mode for an extended period in the games industry and at a startup, and the startup was much worse to me but to be fair at the startup I was the only programmer, and during the gaming crunch period (I forget, but think it was somewhere between 6-12 months) I was on a core team of about a half dozen programmers and a dozen artists and I was almost never the choke point for progress.
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I just wish they would bring back the old patron system, where I didn't see ads and some small amount of money went to the sites I visited, without a subscription. Because I want to support good journalism, wherever it is found, but there's no way I'm ever going to sign up for $3/mo for the Miami Herald to read three articles a year.
But, ideally, the machinery should be much, much faster at becoming less clueless than the human driver; as the parent said, the ideal is that it should successfully identify, and fail to resolve, the impossible situation.

It should not have no awareness it's in an impossible situation (because that implies it will have no awareness is similar, possible, situations)
I think I might have a unpopular perspective but when I was incarcerated for 2 years 11 days it gave me a chance to get away from drugs for that period. Although the environment hardly supported addiction recovery, the high cost and irregular supply made drug use unsustainable. If I had made parole and gotten out after a year, I would have been right back into hard drugs. Allow me to add that I had a pretty much uninterrupted 30 or so year addiction to opiates.
Can you link to somewhere we can add ourselves to the list so you aren't inundated? Not to add to your work load, but this kind of organization is, IMHO, exactly the kind that could benefit from a general purpose newsletter for people who want to follow your progress, but aren't actually involved.
Thanks for this, I actually didn't know about that. Might be a product I'll like once I put a bit of effort into cleaning it up.

I'm worried I'll share kolpa's problem, where sources I use for certain like CNN are also full of absolute dreck I don't want to see. But with a bit of luck I can put together a "news of the day" feed, and I'll just go to those touchier sources directly when I expect a specific piece to be usable.
Drawing trite parallels is very ha-ha, but we have to remember that while Japan only has half the population of the US, China’s population is much more. It’s a little suspicious arguing that one Japanese person is somehow destined to be more productive and inventive than two American people; it is even more suspicious arguing the same for one American and five Chinese.
‘can’t be trusted to do’ != ‘does not do’
Brazil would benefit from this greatly.

Right now in some cities in the South of Brazil the police have to let the arrested criminals go because there is no room for them in the cells.
I think it's very strange that it isn't actively developed anymore. It had some really gushing reviews. What's keeping people from taking over the implementation?
This is pretty much the case for any monarchy in europe these days.

In Belgium for instance, the monarch has to sign all legislation into law. For personal reasons, could not sign a abortion bill drafted by the belgium parlement.

Because denying to sign the bill directly would results in basically the end of the monarchy, he decided to "resign" for a day, the cabinet assumed his powers, the bill got signed, and he was reinstated again.[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/world/belgian-king-unable...
That said, I'm hoping they can. I too am skeptical that a for-profit model can work here, but as long as the incentives are appropriately aligned (they profit when incarceration rates drop and recidivism rates decline), there's a possibility it can work.
If the US congress are allowed to summon Tony Hayward (then CEO of BP) over the Deep Water Horizon catastrophe then it is a fairly straight line to see how UK House of Commons can do the same for Facebook's CEO.
I think you and solotronics are in agreement.

> one of them moved to Dallas from S.V. [emphasis added]
> Do driverless cars have (or will have) a black box like that of aeroplane?

I believe most modern cars already have this.
It's not a contradiction. People rarely get fired when they screw up in most white collared jobs. They usually "voluntarily" leave. The Atlantic article focuses on criminal consequences, not leadership changes. My argument is that the board of directors and colleagues would know a lot more than you or me about who to blame and deserved to be asked to leave, and it's in their best interests to make the right decision.
How Tech Companies Design Their Products to Be Habit Forming
Steve Jobs the manager went through several iterations. The terminal model was an opinionated manager who listened, respected and promoted those who could argue against him.

Yes, was probably horrible in many ways. It's sad his asshole image clouds everything that was good in his management side and people thinj they need to act like assholes to emulate him. The asshole part was a pathology, not a feature, but perhaps an inseparable part of him as a person.
> If following the license is too much to ask for, what exactly does "not heavy handed" mean?

The "enforcement" that Torvalds wants is what you see with Android today: Everyone ships blobs of kernel builds, with the source never released.
That's the entire point. Anything other than random chance means that someone has "priority". Priority which is typically decided by spending resources. Either time by waiting in queue. Or money by buying at higher than face value from a scalper -- who probably waited in queue, thereby exchanging their time for money.

If the principle being striven for is fair, then most fair to me would be to allow all potential attendees to participate in the sale. If there are more participants than tickets, then the most fair mechanism which does not reward time-rich participants is random lottery, not a queue. A queue rewards those who happen to be available for registration the moment it opens.
If you hand it an URL, the URL remains an URL.

E.g. https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/#?src=https%3A%2F%2Fu...
Anyone know what their thinking is with the alternative declaration syntax? Everything else made sense and I could immediately see the problem they were solving, but the alternative declaration syntax does not.
Is there a page that actually explains what this is? The linked to page seems to be devoid of any actual content. Is Google going to be covering the crazy costs involved in sending journalists all over the world, keeping them safe, doing investigative journalism (very little of which is happening now anyway), etc. My cynicism aside, its nice to see a tech company atleast try to help find a way to fund journalism in the future.
A huge consequence of the prioritization of clicks is the loss of quality reporting. Those shuttered newspapers who went the way of the dinosaurs carried with them hundreds of years of journalistic experience. A lot of it didn't transfer to modern news sites. Now we're paying the price with young, inexperienced "journalists" pumping out junk articles with poor sourcing, missing or wrong facts, etc. I can't find it now but one of the better modern journalists (Glenn Greenwald or Bob Woodward maybe?) had a great piece on this. He lamented how mainstream media is failing to maintain their journalistic standards because they're too biased and they haven't been taught how to be good journalists.

I think Google should focus heavily on this, but their PR doesn't mention it much. Quality journalists first, then quality tools.
"The future of journalism depends on all of us working together."

Actually the future of journalism depends on media companies to stop working like tabloids trying to attract eyeballs to shiny controversial crap.

Seriously, I've had to turn off every Breaking News alert and e-mail that I have because 9 times out of 10 it's something stupid or scandalous relating to Trump. Scandal or "shocking political developments" are not breaking news, especially when they happen every day. It's not world news, it's not national news, it's not local news. It's gossip about a reality TV star.

This isn't journalism, this is the slow eroding of my sanity during time which I should be getting to know what the weather will be like tomorrow, whether an important referendum is coming up, actually important world events that impact real people, or significant changes to a local, national or global economic center, not to mention important scientific advances, and of course, sports news.

Real breaking news would be "a 7.5 earthquake leveled Mexico City today", "ethnic minorities in east asia continue to be massacred by their government who is denying the charges", "new tax laws will provide cuts to the richest", "the federal government is cracking down on states' push back to their anti-immigration and drug laws", etc. These are important things that are happening today that might affect me, my loved ones, my livelihood, etc. I don't give a shit what the special counsel has recently said about a person tangentially related to a controversy surrounding a political figure.

How about Google start an initiative to relay important, substantive, fact-based information to people that need it? Was that too much to put in their mission statement? I mean, they're only one of the most powerful technology companies on the planet employing the smartest engineers on the planet. Maybe they could get Google X to take a look at it.
We will not use bounty hunters like bail bond companies. We will have a plan with the local jurisdiction that we are in. That will be county specific but will involve us trying to get them back on calendar if they miss a court date, but ultimately the Sheriff or local law enforcement picking them up if they have an outstanding warrant.
There is such a thing as for profit for good. Perhaps they believe they can be both better and cheaper than prisons at the same time. That allows them to provide a compelling pitch to governments and convince them to direct funds to Promise instead of prisons. The government wins because it's cheaper, their users win because they are not incarcerated, and they win because they have cash flow. These types of businesses are not impossible to create.
Empowering users to become more and more power users is literally the reason humanity bothers with science and technology. It was the reason shared by many people who started now successful software companies. It's sad to see profit motive distract people away from that core reason.
It'll almost certainly be a fee for service model.

(municipalities simply won't write contracts with big rewards tied to incarceration or recidivism rates)
A lot of people don't know their rights, or know their rights but think they'll need a lawyer to deal with it and don't have that sort of money.

In reality a call to the Department of Labor or whatever the local equivalent is will get the money, though usually with a pretty big lag time (a threat to call the DoL can be faster).
Chicago is typically in the top 10 in the country in terms of crime according to the numbers / population

> Bay Area as being exactly an epicenter of culture either

It depends on what you want. The SF Bay Area is not NYC in terms of fashion or theater. If you want that, you go to NYC. If you want a good clubbing scene, it's either LA or NYC. However it has a bit of everything. If you like the city, there's SF and Oakland. There's also a lot of suburbs and quaint downtowns like Palo Alto if you like that. There's always something going on regardless of whether you're in the city or out. The food scene is good. Wine country is next door. Tahoe isn't too far, and there's a lot of places to hike nearby. There's also fishing and sailing on the Pacific, or canoing in the rivers. Yosemite is doable. Also the weather is almost always temperate year round, hovering around the 60s-70's. These are a few reasons as to why housing is so expensive here. I didn't even go over the professional reasons.

Comparing the Bay Area to Nebraska is disingenuous. There's no equal in the MidWest, though Chicago would be the closest.

The US MidWest is just a really hard sell to almost everyone except to the people who grew up there. There's just too many other alternatives in the US. (I used to be a consultant going here and there)
It sounds to me like this is for profit on purpose. That's not a terrible thing: it's not a prison...

The smartphone question is important. I wonder if an inexpensive device custom built can replace it.
Guns make more sense when you look at them as an insurance policy or maintenance fee. (Ugly but usable analogies.)

Guns saved us from Hitler and guns saved us from the Russians in the 50-70ies.

Cars on the other hand kills way more people and should be banned except for people who can document that they need it ;-)
Scala 2.12.5 released
Ironically, that was CNN, etc., giving Trump airtime in the mistaken belief that he'd hang himself on his own words. It wasn't due to media billionaires trying to get Trump elected.
> It sounds like cruise control is dangerous to use in Germany, based on your description. My 2012 VW GLI certainly did not stay within 3km/h of the set speed when utilizing cruise control.

You don't need to stay within 3km/h of the speed limit to follow the law. You need to stay below 3km/h over the speed limit. So if your cruise control has a variance of 5km/h, you should set your cruise control at 2km/h below the speed limit.

> If you want to be in a situation that is more dangerous than going 3mph over the limit, sure. If everyone was going 6mph under the limit this would be fine, but staying closer to the speed of traffic around you is less likely to cause accidents than going significantly slower.

Unless your cruise control has a significantly larger variance than all of the other vehicles, you should be fine because everyone else should be setting their cruise control to roughly the same thing as you.
The tool I made works with local data -- it analyzes your Google search history from a file on your disk. You can filter it by specifying a topic, which is then matched semantically against the search queries in your history using the word vectors. Given the sensitive nature of this data, I felt it important not to send these topic queries (nor any of the raw search history queries) to a remote server. I can also imagine using the word vectors to do a topic clustering of the search history.
On one hand I hope that people, especially nonviolent people who are no threat to society at large, are able to serve their time while being able to reintegrate with society so that they have a stable job and network once their sentence is up.

On the other hand, I worry this sounds a lot like private prisons. What happens if the crime rate goes way, way down, or that the only people left in prison are the dangerous who wouldn’t qualify for Promise? What does that do to your profits? Would you be willing to accept an ultimately very low revenue in exchange for a “job well done”?

Anything that combines “for-profit” and “criminal justice system” makes me uncomfortable, even if people’s hearts are in the right places and the business does do good in the world. I hope this works out, but I am uneasy about yet another business that sees criminals as a market.
Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing
What kind of gaps do you mean? As someone who studies mathematics, I feel like this is a vague criticism I've seen some make without any concrete justification.
What kind of records will you keep that will be open to the public, or for academic study? I can imagine some data that would be useful to increase our understanding of how effective your approach is would also be related to the privacy of people in the program, and so harder to release.
>"No, Americans will continue to give zero fucks."

You realize theres 2 billion people on FB but only 330 million people in the US right? That's many more people than just Americans giving "zero fucks."
Reuters is good for that. Because they resell to other newspapers they're more fact oriented and less opinion.
Healthy Aging: How Smart Home Tech and the IoT Benefit the Elderly
I'm conflicted about this for a few different reasons:

(1) I am always concerned about start ups with hugely impactful products that seem to lack rigor around their technology. This one will be part of determining who gets what care or who gets sent to jail. Where's the evidence that Promise will make this decision better?

(2) It seems like streamlining and increasing the ability of governments to monitor parolees. Is a warrant going to be automatically issued to someone breaking curfew because they're visiting their sick mother?

(3) It lowers the barrier into the criminal justice system. Promise says they are designed to help the criminal which makes it more attractive for judges to place people, especially juveniles, into the system.

It seems like the founders want to make a positive impact on society, but there's a whole lot of slippery slope and other ethical issues here.
Technically, you _can_ have a savings account, but the paperwork burden for the foreign bank is so high that it breaks that product's financial model, so, they don't make it available to Americans.

Living and working in Asia for many years, I always sympathized with the difficulties my American expat friends had in trying to open any sort of local bank account at all, even a current account. Most banks say no the minute they hear you're a US citizen.

Not being able to open a bank account in the country in which you live has serious knock-on effects in terms of getting paid, or renting a home. I am eternally amazed that American citizens, who supposedly value personal freedom, put up with having one of the world's most aggressive tax regimes.
I've been writing Elixir at work for the last 5 months and learned in that time that Elixir has DBs built in as well. ETS is a key value store and Mnesia (lol) is a bit more like a traditional db (I haven't actually used Mnesia yet). From what I understand these things are actually a part of OTP and so they ship with the whole environment.
Newer Intel chips seem to render it fine in Chrome on Linux. i7-8550U laptop here running Ubuntu 16.04.
Multidimensional Snapshot Testing
Few more:
Dell Boomi, Segment.io, Pandium, Infomatica...
Cambridge Analytica: Undercover Secrets of Trump's Data Firm
haha. alas, paper appears to cover asexual reproduction of neural networks only
> Nor are bureaucracies all bad if they actually rely on facts and less on special interests.

That's the theory. But it never works out that way, because bureaucrats are human beings and all human beings have special interests.
Cambridge Analytica Suspends CEO Alexander Nix
> That's not a terrible thing: it's not a prison...

I think that's splitting a lot of hairs. If working with Promise is a condition of release, it's possible (and likely) that Promise now has the power to send you to prison if they deem you non-compliant with your release terms.

We have pretty clear examples of how for-profit criminal justice can go wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
I agree. Similar situation with the Google Books interface, which as far as I can tell has changed little or at all since it was launched in 2005.

Admittedly, I'm a niche within a niche segment for them (professional historian) but if Google improved the functionality of their newspapers and books services, it would translate to increased research productivity for my entire field (and for anyone else who uses archival book and newspaper scans regularly, like investigative journalists). It's a relatively intangible change but one that isn't inconsiderable, especially in terms of generating goodwill among students and researchers.

The subscription services are a complete mess at the moment, analogous to the state of for-profit academic publishers in general. Google has a golden opportunity to establish itself as an alternative to the predatory publishers who generally run digitized newspaper and article archives.
force drug addicts to get on Naloxone for lower recidivism rates and better outcomes.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/inmates-heroin_us_56966...
Glad to help :-)

Yeah I think hallucinogens activate the same areas of the brain. The only 2 times I've ever felt totally, 100% contented was while tripping on shrooms and through meditation.

I went on a Zen retreat and asked the leader about whether they do energy stuff in Zen, and he just said "It happens on its own". I think all roads lead to Rome all traditions are basically teaching the same core practices. I think optimal results come from doing the breathing practices before mindfulness meditation. In fact, that's exactly what Patanjali wrote in his famous yoga sutras:

Physical postures (asanas) -> breathing (pranayama) -> introversion to progressively deeper degrees.

And once you understand the bigger picture, all the restrictions placed on monks make sense: conservation of semen for guys has a big impact (so either celibacy or tantric sexual practices), minimal diet (difficult to compress the abdomen if it's full of waste), waking early (there seems to be a connection with the circadian rhythm), silence seems to help, etc. Either way, there's plenty to experiment with. Good luck :-)
Any search at google is N mapreduce jobs away from a keyword search.

In theory, having a really nice search engine for this news would be rather easy for Google (/any Googler with a few weeks of time and access to this data).

This is essentially what every new employee at Google has to do in the orientation week.
How far do you think a hand held battery powered radio can transmit it's signal? Unless you are talking about a HF radio using skywave propagation (to include some maths & carefully positioning an antenna that might be several meters long) it won't be very far, especially in a city or rough terrain. The benefit of having a vehicle mounted radio relay system means that it runs on vehicle power (or a generator) and can carry a lot more antennas. Radio retransmission teams who do exactly this with vehicles fitted for this exact purpose are prevalent in the military, most units will have several of these teams/trucks permanently assigned, and if not, their local signal unit can lend them.

I'm not arguing with the rest of your post, I'm sure there is way more fraud, waste and abuse then we can imagine going on. But the laws of physics still apply and if you want transmit a signal far, you need a power source bigger than what people can carry. Even a vehicle mounted and powered radio wouldn't be able to transmit 10-20 miles unless you were sitting on top of a hill in otherwise perfect conditions.
So now startups are trying to disrupt the justice system. Nice!
Then again, with a traditional analogue AM or FM radio it's trivial to triangulate the position (and possibly call in an artillery strike on said coordinates or whatever), as well as jamming it with a narrow-band jammer.

And without some hw/sw assisted crypto, communication becomes a lot slower. Or then you accept that the enemy can and will overhear what you say.

So for better or worse, complex radios based on digital technology is necessary for modern military use.
I doubt they violated anything. Most big companies have a legal approval process in place for this exact kind of accusation. Remember, non compliance can quickly devolve into a law suit, it's easier for them to have a process and comply than not