skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote my home automation software because none of the prebuilt applications I could find did exactly what I wanted or let me customize them in the way that I wanted to. It's not good software, but it works.
I think it was a reference to David and Goliath.
Very cool.
Similar to
https://airflow.apache.org
https://Composable.ai
...
You "exercise some intelligence and common sense in how [you put your phone in your pocket]"? What? What does that look like?

My Samsungs, HTC's, and older iPhones did just fine with me exercising exactly no intelligence when I put them in my pocket.
We have both an an air force and a navy. But given the high cost of maintaining fighters/strike aircraft, it's not a very potent air force in a fight - but it's a very potent air force when it comes to humanitarian assistance and monitoring our EEZ.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/352785/rnzaf-orion-j...
Elon Musk’s Silly War with the Media
of course I do slow down, there's a whole load of possibilities between slamming the brakes and get rear ended and driving at the posted limit trough a dangerous situation, you know? car can slow down gently.

it's a 60 zone and rain or smoke impairs the visibility? slow down.

it's a 45mph zone and something that's not a motor vehicle is in a lane that's supposed to only have motor vehicles on it? you slow down until you make sense of the situation.

you're near a playground and a mother is walking a children on the other side of the road and you can't see if she's holding his hand? you slow down.

a person walks near the kerb and it's not looking in your direction? you slow down. a bike is loaded with groceries? a car acting erratically? a person being pulled by his dog? a bus stopped unloading people? you don't drive past them at 30mph.

driving safely: super simple stuff.
Probably the cheapest thing (per IQ point per child) is to remove lead from the environment, and feed the kids something healthy (doesn't have to be too expensive) or just educate their parents about what is proper food. This would allow the kids to reach their genetic potential.

Reducing poverty kinds correlates with this, but it depends on how exactly the money is spent. A relatively rich person can still feed their child junk food.

(I am suspicious about the claim about early-educational programs. I mean, better educational results are a nice thing, but it is not the same as intelligence.)
Every month it gets harder to buy a non-smart TV. They still exist, but mostly one ends up buying a smart TV and just never logging into it.
What google wants to do is to make their complement cheap.

ie, they want to make Kubernetes an open-source de-facto solution so that people can spend more money on cloud providers.
Lock doesn't have to be swipe-to-open. I'd be amazed if he could buttprint-unlock ;)
Do you happen to have a link to said research?
I’d be curious to fiddle around with that.. for educational purposes of course..
As a new zealander this is my favourite map projection anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection#...
Says who?

Says anyone with common sense. What percentage of sites do you think employ data scientists or would even know where to go to sell your data? Most sites do nothing more than throw GA on their website, and maybe some Adsense. You people decided to paint that as something evil.

That’s your decision to make, but just understand that most of the rest of the world wants no part of $20M potential fines and will simply take their ball and go home. This law will have the net effect of creating two Internets - one for the EU and one for the rest of us.
Shutting down while still holding the data is still breaking the law.
I'm fine with it when there's one or two. Every paragraph does not need an emphasized sentence.
Sprint is also the worst carrier to partner with. People buying flagship phones aren't upgrading their on Sprint, they're switching to other networks.
> I don't promote a central authority ran by me that ranks people and rewards people based on their worth.

I'm not talking about the system. I'm talking about your morality. If you say "A stupid person that contributes nothing deserves nothing." then you are making a moral statement that deems that person less worthy.

My premise is that all people are equally worthy of a good life. If distributing resources unequally helps everyone to have better lives through greater productivity then that is a justified utilitarian decision. But calling that pragmatic decision morality, and saying that people are "worth" more or less as a result, is what I object to.

And to address your points about "wife beaters", since you seem to think they are more obviously "less worthy" than others: No, I still think they are equally worthy of living good lives. They should be prevented from harming people, and if that requires a worse quality of life (i.e. as a result of imprisonment) then that is justified. But punishment for punishment's sake is just turning harm into even more harm.
Downvoted for stating the obvious? $100 bazillion needs to be put in perspective.
> All I could think was that he put on that intervention for us few foreigners

Nah. In Japanese culture, it's simply considered rude to be loud in trains.
"I have nothing to hide."

Response: "Cool. What's your e-mail password?"
I don't think this post is especially productive and is clearly written out of (understandable) frustration. The author mentions multiple times that he's not resorting to hyperbole but he absolutely is.

Just like with most things, there are benefits that come with the downsides. With any tool, we must decide for ourselves if the benefits outweigh the downsides.

I don't think the author did a good job of presenting a balanced case here in either direction.
This company was founded on the myth that the original Android OS was an important part of the history of smartphones. And that Andy Rubin was somehow an important innovator. His arrogant rant on the Essential homepage explains why they failed better than anything else could.

The version of Android that Google bought was just another crappy blackberry clone that would have likely gone no where.

It became Google's cover story for their effort to clone the iPhone because its in their legal interest to claim that Android was an independent effort that just happened to become an iOS-like operating system over time.

But history proves otherwise. The original Android was a crappy Blackberry clone: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/HT...

And the Android phone they released over a year after the iPhone was was a half-Blackberry half-iPhone clone monstrosity: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/HT...

From Wikipedia:

An early prototype had a close resemblance to a BlackBerry phone, with no touchscreen and a physical QWERTY keyboard, but the arrival of 2007's Apple iPhone meant that Android "had to go back to the drawing board". Google later changed its Android specification documents to state that "Touchscreens will be supported", although "the Product was designed with the presence of discrete physical buttons as an assumption, therefore a touchscreen cannot completely replace physical buttons". By 2008, both Nokia and BlackBerry announced touch-based smartphones to rival the iPhone 3G, and Android's focus eventually switched to just touchscreens. The first commercially available smartphone running Android was the HTC Dream, also known as T-Mobile G1, announced on September 23, 2008.
Online shopping sites do it all the time, which I do find unfair, unethical I'm not sure.

But if we go there, you might as-well ask "is it unethical to run sales and discount promotions?" Users might not be happy to hear they missed out but I'd say no it's not.
Microsoft failed because they wanted their own OS, I bet they could ship a rocking Android phone (but that's strategically opposed to their perceived best interest).
>I also noticed how they haven't left once the scandal came to light.

You and I must read different news sources.

From what I've read, Facebook is down over a billion visits in the last quarter.
My friend does this fairly often. He'll finish a call, and turn off his screen, but he has a tendency to to hit the fingerprint scanner as he's putting it into his pocket due to the design of the case and the way he holds it.
Somebody murdered somebody else in cold blood, at the home of the latter.

The fact that the former had an anonymous, unauthenticated report is not rightly even a part of this.

This is insane.

Yes, it sucks for the officer, because he was improperly trained to give a great deal more credence to the 911 report, which in retrospect, was downright trivial to fill with false information.

I don't think that the officer is 100% culpable, even though his person was enlisted to commit this murder.

This is an obvious, huge vulnerability in society. Do we have a CVE for this?
That just sounds like an Asian in parental mode to me. Sounds just like my mom or dad when they've had enough. (Seriously, there was always a part of me thinking, "Why does Mom/Dad sound like they're in a Samurai drama?" I'm not even Japanese!)
Yes, because if a small company can't successfully make one product, they should instead make 3.
More about Ken Lam: https://globalnews.ca/video/4168807/const-ken-lam-toronto-po...

1st generation Canadian who retired from being an engineer of 14 years because he wanted to do more for his community directly.

I know this is just one example but I think this contrasts just so strongly from all the police officers who join up for very different reasons.

He reminds me of the officer in this story who quit the CIA to become a beat cop because he believed it allowed him to make a far greater difference: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/07/the-spy-who-ca... (This is a must read, by the way)

How do we get more officers like these?
You hit an arrow key. This page has weird scripting that tries to let you navigate with arrow keys, but I noticed it ends up skipping most of the text that way.
You fell for the “Google knows everything” mantra…
If you had continued to read on: "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."

Anyway, I was not 100% correct, I didn't know about the workaround requirement.
I see what you are saying it definitely could be the market share or maybe even just the overall volume (QA at scale).

I guess I just don’t have a long enough track record with them to see them in that grouping of great customer service. They’ve pretty much fought me tooth and nail over price matching and prime shipping that doesnt meet the two guarantee over the last couple of years which is probably biasing my view.
You forgot Puerto Rico, Guam, etc...
His byline accompanied many of my early adventures in Linux and Open Source.
I will need to look up the bookmark at home; it was posted here maybe a month ago? Basically, rated reporting outfits like Reuters high on credibility and low on partisanship, while Breitbart or Daily Kos rate low on credibility and high on partisanship. American Conservative (to my surprise, really) rated quite highly on credibility.
Damn you, humourless down-voting Philistines.
They aren't being charged with murder.

Here's what the story says:

Barriss is charged with multiple counts
of making false information and hoaxes;
cyberstalking; threatening to kill another or
damage property by fire; interstate threats,
conspiracy; and wire fraud. Viner and Gaskill
were both charged with wire fraud, conspiracy
and obstruction of justice.
Huh, sure puts a lot of distance between the mainland and west island...
I'm chuckling sensibly to myself at the assertion of Time as a left wing mag.
Just another anecdote alongside the others. Maybe I got lucky but I found the amount of written and spoken English in Japan, especially in the metropolitan areas, to be perfectly adequate.

As for actually getting around, it's just a matter of having the right tools. I'm mostly sharing this for the benefit of anyone thinking of going to Japan.

- The landscape of transit cards is confusing, and while many of them are still accepted in various places, the existence of such a wide variety is mostly a legacy thing as far as I could tell. I had a Suica card and it worked virtually everywhere I went in Japan, though I didn't venture off the beaten path.

- The Japan Rail Pass, while not having any functional use, did make things cheaper.

- A rented wifi hotspot is an absolute no-brainer. If you travel to Japan, just get one. You can pick it up at the post office in the airport and drop it back at the same place in a prepaid envelope when you depart.

- The Hyperdia smartphone app is fantasic. You can pretty much get yourself between any two points in Japan with it, and once you've used it a couple times and understand some of the icons it's easy to tell when you need a separate pass or need to walk between platforms or nearby stations.
This was the original 'Google Phone' presented in 2006 (2012)
Only if he does something really bad, such as move his hand.
Mattermark Daily Shutting Down
Google trends for "swatting" - doesn't look related to 9/11 at all.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=16&date=all&geo...
U.S. bill would force tech companies to disclose foreign software probes
> This crash didn't have a single cause.

It is not the fault of the pedestrian for having been slaughtered, especially due to the immense amount of time after the car saw the pedestrian until the time that the accident occurred.
Most other companies haven't made the same decision, what's different about Instapaper?

Do they share reading habits with multiple third parties perhaps?
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This still does not answer what you mean with »time is a local phenomenon«. What feature of time is local and in which sense? And I am even more skeptical about »space is a local phenomenon«, I mean »local« means »close in space« and therefore it seems you are saying something recursive, i.e. space has some property within itself which doesn't really make sense, at least to me.

So unless you can define or at least explain in more detail what you mean with »time (or space) is a local phenomenon«, we won't really get anywhere.
Was this outside of a major metro area? The tone and conjugation of the word is surprising.
No, see footnote 2 of the NTSB report:

>2 In Uber’s self-driving system, an emergency brake maneuver refers to a deceleration greater than 6.5 meters per second squared (m/s^2).

So, Uber's self-driving system has command to brake normally, but it cannot "slam" the brakes. The other system from Volvo's is deactivated when Uber's is working and cannot brake at all. Thus, since Volvo's is deactivated and Uber's won't brake if it judges that a deceleration of >6.5 m/s^2 is needed, it turns out that in automated mode, the car actually lacks the ability to trigger emergency braking at all, hoping instead that the driver will somehow notice. But in a sadistic twist, no warning is given to the driver at any moment that they need to slam the brakes.
If you're going to "over-respond" by shooting people, you probably shouldn't be a cop. You probably shouldn't have any job that involves holding a gun, in fact. A bad day at work generally shouldn't result in a corpse.
Any sense of the profit margin they’re seeing?
Are we using reality here or whatever lives in your head?

American public transit is public (government owned and run) and it still sucks.

Additionally Japan, just like any other country, is going to build concessions and parking into/ around anything that draws enough people to merit an investment.
I was referring to the public view of police as an extension of the military, not swatting.
deja vu. I remember having to dig into this behavior 10 years ago (maybe a tad more).

Completely disagree with Teleport's fix and methodology. Sending remote SIGKILL because you got a local SIGINT? horrible for the general case. Now if Teleport performs specific functions for a specific controlled environment, then it might be fine and provide certain guarantees. But AFAICT teleport is a fronted to generic functionality.
It's also used in the factories in Japan to reduce errors (I worked in one as part of my training there)
Of course luck and any inherited privilege matter a ton when considering all factors.

I'm thinking of trajectory, some people keep on advancing in their careers, others get stuck or spin their wheels. Over time this difference adds up, though, as you say, it is not completely fair to the those who never got a shot in the first place because of circumstances.

re: "tough, persistent, high-character, talented people are poor & suffering"

This is covered in the article about how the educational system is failing the poor and points it back to an overemphasis on cognitive ability / IQ smarts.

ex: "Even if we refuse to prevent poverty or provide superb early education, we might consider one other means of addressing the average person’s plight. Some of the money pouring into educational reform might be diverted to creating more top-notch vocational-education programs"
> "That server makes decisions on if lights should be on [...]"

Why would you even want such a system?

My flat uses the Button-Framework which provides a really convenient UI/UX. The edge between 2 nodes (rooms) has a button (a haptic device to switch between boolean states) at around hand-height that you can press to switch the light on or off. It works quite well (it uses a switch-system technically) and the user decides by her/himself if the light should be on or off and just presses the button after careful reasoning.

Granted, it doesn't use Docker, but it really works well and needs low-maintainance. My model is running since 23 years and I never had any issues - it's even open source.
...and maybe you should take a look at something like this https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/resources-and-support/d...
> covering the rounded corners of its phones, the rim that surrounds the front face, and the grid of icons that users view -- and two utility patents, which protect the way something works and is used.

Does anyone know the details of this? On the face, it seems disgustingly trivial. Rounded corners are patentable, really? But the devil is often in the details.
This article confuses the language, C, with C implementations.

C is a high-level language. It's just that its abstractions are sparse and the guarantees so slim that there doesn't need to be significant runtime machinery that divorces logical control flow from machine code control flow. But a C implementation is also perfectly free to implement machinery such as fat pointers and mark & sweep garbage collection[1] for compliant C code. And even though few implementations bother with such machinery the C committee still expends significant effort in an attempt to preserve the high-level character. To this day, for example, there's still debate about whether and to what extent you can legally export pointer values outside the runtime and subsequently reimport them, and in particular what that means for implementations (largely hypothetical) which carefully track objects and object lifetimes.

[1] I mean precise GC, not conservative GC.
The UK.
I don't know, and I wasn't specifically referring to this incident. I was replying to jaquesm's point, which I took to be saying that officers are worried about self-preservation going into a situation where they believe there is an armed hostage-taker. They almost certainly are worried about their own life, but that's not all they're worried about. They also are worried about the lives of the (alleged) hostages. The life of the (alleged) hostage-taker? That's a lower priority.
It does, though :) googling "people who, in the face of giants, pick up the stone" returns a bunch of results on David and Goliath.
> for table in tables: select * from table where ...

Arguably much or all of the entries with FKs to those rows as well, transitively. Unless you don't believe in normalisation :)
Yes, because they will learn from the failures of the first, and make the second better. Then learn from the failures of the second-system-syndrome and make the third genuinely better.

Which is more likely to succeed, 1 attempt or 3 attempts?
And they play it at Takadanobaba station which located in the area where Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy, had his studio. (There is also a huge mural under the railway bridge outside featuring all of his characters)
Until I can pay the bills with a surplus of "human worth," I'm going to keep hiring in a way that maximizes business worth.
Maybe something like this will be of help to you https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/resources-and-support/d... ?
lol it's cos we don't want anyone to know where it is. Why tell everyone about such a nice place? :)
"Increasingly mistakes"? In the article they correlate intelligence with wealth and success, so where's the mistake? I'm not saying that we should or should not value intelligence, just that this article undermines its own premise almost instantaneously.
In Japan, most of the rail network was privatized in the 1990s and it's still the best in the world. Nothing tanked.

Large department stores, malls, hotels, etc. are generally built into the major stations, and are often owned and operated by the rail companies. Most of them really do have drugstores, coffee shops and bakeries/donut shops. It's very convenient for commuters who need to shop on the way to/from work, and the money helps keep the trains running. If we did more of this in America, our transit companies would be better off.
i think there’s a market for non cloud home automation. i will never buy alexa
Contributing to Go has always required real names for the purpose of signing the CLA.

We have had some big problems with a contributor that wouldn't want to reveal his name in the early Go days (for anyone interested search for the atom symbol).
What is 0x (ZRX)? A comprehensive guide in 2018
"Hey Siri" has in fact been tied to the owner's voice since the iPhone 6s (2015): https://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/11/apples-hey-siri-feature...
I'm not "pretending" anything. I think the difference is illusory, except for the fact that you can actually read the comic book, so it has some marginal real utility.
> By that standard you could disqualify all of the human race.

This obviously isn't the case given that most of these incidents don't result in gunfire.
Nothing has intrinsic value.
According to the Road Runner cartoon shorts on Looney Tunes, at least one coyote has taken over the southwest American desert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_the_Road_Ru...