skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm excited about this direction! I do minor contributions and poking around my area I'm surprised by how much of it is done by very few people. How useful it is yet how lacking it is. There's a neighboring town that is absurdly well documented, it seems a group of people got together over a month and mapped the place out meticulously, including drawing all buildings etc. This town would work very well for these vector maps, my town probably not so much.

I wonder how to get more people involved, and excited, about OSM? How do we make it the Wikipedia of digital maps?

And does Strava/Mapbox give back? When Strava identifies common bike routes, or perhaps trails, and when Mapbox determines that roads have changed is that given back to OSM in some capacity?
Well I'm certainly not going to post the IP addresses of its public netblock for anyone to DDoS. Though my upstream, and its upstreams, do have DDoS mitigation services in place.

:)

edit: actually, yes, the winner would get a bottle of scotch. I have had people that I know and trust, with my permission, attempt to gain external access to it, without success. Not claiming I'm any sort of netsec wizard, just that I have a layered defense of most common security precautions for anything that has a public static IP address these days. Nobody has been successful yet. It could theoretically be brought down by:

a) social engineering the ISP it's hosted at (unlikely, they know me, I know them)

b) physical removal (its reverse DNS gives no indication of where it's physically located other than within a major metro area, could be at one of about twenty different datacenters. all of which have reasonably good physical security in place).

c) false legal claims causing some legal authority to bring it down, theoretically possible, but unlikely given the strong EFF/ACLU supporting political stance of the owners of the ISP it's hosted at. They would fight anything short of a court order that they could be held in contempt of.

d) Extensive sustained DDoS. I don't have any enemies that would be interested in wasting a DDoS on this, but its upstreams have a LOT of extra peering and transit capacity to absorb DDoS up to the 150Gbps range.

e) hardware failure, it's not perfectly 1+1 redundant in everything. but I have backups of every VM that can be brought up fairly quickly on a temporary dedicated server in a new, different, geographically diverse location fairly quickly.

f) some terrible unknown zero day exploit on one of the few daemons that listens to the public interface, through which some method of accomplishing a user and then su/sudo root shell might be possible.
Ha, I'm in a similar position - I'm a scientist and I work with two people who speak Slavic languages, and they miss out 'the' and 'a' everywhere, because they don't exist in that language family. I also work with a Chilean, and he's the opposite - he adds in 'the' and 'a' everywhere, even when it's not necessary! The Germans I've worked with have generally been the best I've found both at speaking and writing.
FYI, you can now configure Google Hangouts as what the "video chat" button does in "Organization settings".
If you and your neighbors are watching each other's kids, it's only a matter of time before you have this problem too. Lincoln is not dangerous for children. They don't need to be watched.
Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York
First strike:	Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 8:53 PM

Second strike: Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 10:36 PM

Third strike: Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 11:31 PM

The last / third strike came with a "Your YouTube account has been terminated" and any attempts to login or view any of my videos gives a page missing and the Google account associated with it doesn't even appear in any of my menus.

I don't really care that much it was a dumb joke channel I made to poke fun at how often profanity is used in rap music. The part I find pretty perplexing is that I _removed_ the profanity from the music and the channel was flagged for offensive content.
You heard that they said something though, right? Yes, you might not resolve the sound into words until after working at it but whether the brain promotes the stimulus to conscious awareness and saves it or if the activations fade should be entirely resolved within a few hundred milliseconds. The stimulus has to go superliminal to get into those circular buffers you're talking about, there aren't any buffers that big in subliminal processing.
Thought experiment, or maybe just a crazy thought: what if the European Union would prefer to stop using English after a hard Brexit and starts looking for an alternative lingua franca.

What if a EU directive was then issued, mandating Esperanto as a de jure national language in each of the member states, in addition to the existing national languages. Schools all over the EU start to offer it as the first choice for a second language to learn. Cultural works in Esperanto are subsidized.

Having established a big base of speakers and being constructed to be very easy to learn, the language then spreads virally and becomes the new global lingua franca.

Plausible?
Machine learning and marketing
There is and there isn't. Turning your Northern Alabama up to 11 might not have any impact when in Northern Alabama but sure won't do you any good in front of a SF VC. Likewise if your way of speaking is, ahem, on the "darker and more urban" side.
In Swedish as well. The fruit is apelsin. The colour is traditionally brandgul (fire yellow) but orange (pronounced like in french?) is not uncommon.
Honestly pretty pathetic that investors hadn't priced in the existence of bots into their valuation of the company. Perhaps I expect too much.
I think that Google's dominance has almost nothing to do with technology and almost everything to do with customer lock-in.
For me, duckduckgo.com is as good as Google but I still use Google because it's the default search engine for Chrome's address bar - And that's where I do all my searches from these days. If Duckduckgo made their own browser which was of the same quality as Chrome then I would definitely consider using it and switching to Duckduckgo for search as well.
https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2018/07/ek-juma-se-dusre...
I got into Rust recently and I have to say I like it. The syntax is a bit noisy to my taste (generics, lifetimes and macros) but overall I really like it.

It seems like it's maybe not a good idea to get too much into it though, the language seems to move a lot, there are still a lot of things that are not here (a rand library, benchmarks) or are subject to change. I'm not sure if I should give it more of my time.
I agree with your comment.

Now the question is: Is amazon responsible and should it get the bad press? Or should we blame the local cop and his training? Or the police software implementing the technology?
Map as in the equivalent of the xcape solution? You can do these things using AutoHotKey. I use this:

https://github.com/benhansenslc/BigCtrl
I'm not sure 7 years and a mostly-acquisition counts as "fast." Quite frankly it's impressive their charade has lasted this long.
A social worker I know told me about little girls with venereal diseases, which they got from their mother's boyfriends or stepfathers.

Sometimes people make the decision to move to a place which is nice because of a homeowner association's strictness, then complain that the HOA is enforcing it's rules on them as well. Or the same really for living in a suburb with an eagle-eyed police force.

If you live in an area where people want you to watch your kids then you will have to watch your kids.

The real problem is children of very negligent parents who are not being protected, not yuppies who move to or travel to some uptight suburb and then complain the police enforce the law on them too.
Yes.

Legally entering an EU country doesn't grant you the right to visit others, and the UK is in a geographically fairly unique position to really make sure people don't slip through.
There is a funny south park episode that goes over this: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-south-park-can-teach-...
>Most of the people in the US with AIDS are gay men and drug users.

I believe you need to say "gay men or drug users". Regardless, it's better not to assume things about other people. The "stigma" jacquesm refers to isn't a matter of assessing the likelihood that someone is gay, it's a matter of the judgment these people receive as a result which has prevented people from receiving treatment, and still does.
With all due respect, madams and sirs, I beg to differ.
How true. I have many calls from head hunters based in London and their accent is hard to understand, especially via phone line.
Russian as well. It's from silk road merchants calling oranges "chinese apples".
Or even during its birth. The water breaking is the beginning of the social darwinism water-slide.
The problem isn't necessarily one of ethics, it's that employees aren't able to appropriately assess a companies business strategy.

1. What is your monetization strategy?

2. What is your plan for profitability?
There is also dtube / peer tube / ipfs as well if these things continue to get worse we'll see a rise in those technologies.
I think you mean selectively enforcing. They have yet to fine VW for cheating on emissions.
> In general for these very old systems (anything 8bit these days I'd say, and even 16bits if you're only targeting the desktop) a recompiler is probably more trouble than it's worth.

I guess that's also because modern CPUs can easily handle very old systems, which were relatively slow, and hence software written for it had to be efficient.

However, if emulating e.g. ARM on i86 (or vice versa), I guess that recompiling optimizations may be necessary to keep things efficient. Of course emulating JITted code can be a pain because of self-modifying code. Wondering: does VirtualBox use such approach?
Is the consumer being harmed? That’s the only question that matters in anti-trust. That mom and pop can’t compete isn’t a symptom of a monopoly, it’s a symptom of mom and pop not doing more to be the best choice. Mom and pop could compete if they had a better, cheaper product. If you want to compete — be better than the competition. Many startups are not — that isn’t the fault of Google.
python friendlier? just kinda different, i'd say, like algol-ier
Using a name feels even more unnatural when done incorrectly. For example, I get this all the time:

I would be happy to help you with this Mr. Nick

I have no idea why this happens — are there countries in which people call each other "Mr. [first name]"?
> I'm not only disappointed in the ACLU for misinterpreting the results...

Did they? This blog post describes some implementation choices which could make their false positive rate lower.

It reveals no information about how Rekognition is being deployed by LEAs, and there’s no meaningful regulation or oversight about how that happens.

We can’t tell what the assumptions and implementation choices of local police departments are, because that’s top secret information. Most people acting on the predictions have no idea what they are, let alone the implications.

It’s fine to ding the ACLU study on methods —- you can, because they published some.

No-one would argue that a toy model based on members of Congress is representative of the public at large. But it’s more representative that a press release from a company that are trying to normalize and monetize mass surveillance via facial recognition.
This is a bummer, and not customer friendly.

This is one* of the reasons why I never use single sign on for other services.

* other reasons include:

not wanting SSO to know where I'm going, when I'm going to it. It's none of their business!

Not wanting a cascading breach
"The main unfairness is that the way that language was chosen (assuming it is English) was through militaristic and economic domination"

These things choose language, geography, and culture for virtually everyone on the globe. The entirety of the Americas south of the US border speak the languages they do because of the rape and genocide of their ancestors on a colossal scale.

Hell, English itself was borne out of repeated conquests, first the Celts, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons, then the Normans.

Trying to disentangle yourself from the brutality of history is a losing battle.
Speaking only for myself, I'm on multiple Slack channels, some related to certain SaaS companies whose products we use, and some that are personal.

Internally, we use HipChat for our group within the company.

I much prefer HipChat over Slack.

To me, Slack is bloated, slow, and disorganized. I hate, loathe, and despise the way it tries to do what it thinks of as "threading".

HipChat is simpler and faster to use. It's easy to connect plugins and administer. It's easy to add your own custom emoji, if you really need them. And it's easy to configure it to auto-hide animated GIFs, if you don't want to see them by default.

There is nothing that Slack offers that I want. And plenty that it forces me to live with that I do not want.
I'd wager a guess that the majority of Windows users use a Microsoft online login. Also, Office 365 and OneDrive are both widely used, and there's Skype, Xbox, and Hotmail/Live Mail/Outlook/whatever.
On the market end - Google got huge because they inserted themselves as a critical part of peoples' usage of a resource that got even huger.

As late as 2013, my coworkers and I would mock the Wall Street analysts who covered Google because (you could tell from their questions on the earnings call) they assumed that the Internet was no longer growing. So all the focus was on CPCs and Google's ability to monetize, when the number of queries had quadrupled over the previous 4 years. You can hold monetization absolutely constant and if usage is growing 400%, your revenue will grow 400%.

Just two days ago Google's earnings came out and people were wondering how they still managed 20% YoY growth. Some of that undoubtedly came from Cloud & other emerging businesses, but I'd bet that the Internet is still growing.

CoinBase is trying to pull off the same thing with crypto - they're a critical onramp for people wanting to get started with a new, fast-growing technology. Regulators & the press always fight the last war, though - they're focused on Google and Facebook rather than on the next wave of giant monopolies.

People always underestimate the potential size of consumer markets, because their perspective is human-centric. Before they & their friends adopt a new technology, it's a toy or a fad and will never catch on. Afterwards, everybody they know already uses it, so of course it's old news. Few people realize that "everybody they know" is less than one millionth of all of humanity, or that if you're in a developed country you will get innovations 10-20 years before the rest of the world does, or that if you're in a tech metropolis in a developed country you will get them ~5 years before the rest of the country. "The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed."
#WhyEstimates
Now is simply not a good time to bring people you care for into the world. It's a shit show on so many levels, and you're not likely to substantially improve it by raising a family in this environment.
Meh. They changed it once already in the last half century. They can change it again. I'm no expert, but it's certainly not impossible to imagine a future where all international business communication is in pinyin or a descendant.
Almost makes me wonder if legislation requiring companies to "provide details as to the reason for account closure" is a necessity.

If a company can take everything away from you at the turn of a dime, you should at least be entitled to know why it was done.
It's going to vary based on where your live. And even if there are local laws, you might be subject to just how much of a busy-body your neighbors are.

In Illinois, it's illegal it keep children ages 6 and under in a vehicle unattended for more than 10 minutes. Someone 14 years or older must either accompany or be within eyesight of them.

These laws largely exist because of advocacy groups such as Kids 'n Cars[1] whose founders often had children who died while unattended in vehicles and they want to "save" other parents.

As a parent myself, I think these rules are absolutely bonkers. Kids might be less safe these days in hot cars because windows are now automatic and not manual, but there's likely a technical solution to that problem that does not require jailing anyone or ripping families apart because they ran in to get a coffee.

[1]: https://www.kidsandcars.org/
Double negatives are grammatically correct English. Consider the sentence, "I do not think that course of action would be unwise."--that is a double negative, and I know of no one who thinks there's even a hint of problem with that sentence.

One facet of double negatives is that the English sense of negative + negative = positive isn't universal. In French, double negatives remain negative; consider "Je ne sais jamais rien." The literal translation is "I never know nothing," but the correct translation into English is "I never know anything."
The word "sinaasappel" is much more common, which sounds a lot more like the Chinese apple you're referring to than "appelsien". The latter is used in a brand name for fruit juice (used to be exclusively orange juice). Besides that it's practically not used in modern Dutch.
The way it spread with such virality in the news (NYT, etc...) makes me think it really was engineered clickbait
I don't really want to defend behaviors similar to Yelp's. Because it's indeed annoying. But let's play devil's advocate here.

Part of the reason why Google can have a clear and good user experience, is because they can afford it. On the other hand, for smaller company, not meeting user count goals could mean not getting funding and die. This will force them to nag the users to get them to install the app, even if doing that could annoy some of the users.

And this is pretty much a classic example of why monopoly is bad.
I see, by issuer do you mean "Visa", "MasterCard", etc.? Because there are only a handful of those.

> Plus, the population that is eligible for credit doesn't equal total population of the planet.

True, I'm talking about a hypothetical "maximal usage" future.
The only advantage a movie theater has is that it receives movies a few months earlier. If movie theaters close that solves that advantage.

Not sure what sort of crappy theaters you have nearby, but the 70 foot screen on my local theater absolutely dwarfs the 70 inch screeen of your TV. Highest-gamut color range, laser projection. Fully tuned Dolby Atmos surround sound speaker system. Reclining, reserved seats. Wine, beer, and heated foods.

Pretty much the only advantage of watching at home is that I can pause and not put on clothes.
English is the PHP of languages. Good enough to solve your problem, and easy to understand, but not really elegant (and not without its quirks).

And maybe due to the fact that it didn't have a "standards body" (like the Académie Française) and much less "protection" than others meant it was more free to evolve.

And not only that, I suppose languages based on the latin alphabet have an intrinsic advantage. From the time of the printing press to the earliest 8-bit computers. (Japanese systems had support for Katakana later, Cyrilic wouldn't be so complicated and Arabic probably would have been harder, Korean would be hard and Kanji would just be plainly impossible in 8-bit systems)
Community died some time in the 1980s with the rise of "loads of money", and famous politicians stating "there's no such thing as society any more".

It used to be that people would make a living then give something back in later life - either public service such as becoming a politician or joining one of the many societies like the Rotary Club that performs philanthropic acts.

Now politics is a career, philanthropy is the preserve of the astonishingly wealthy and everyone cares about nothing but self, making a buck and what they can get.

We lost a huge amount in that process. I sincerely hope we see it rise again sometime soon.
NYC Cabbies deserve the cold shoulder:

- They're frequently rude and unaccountable. They'll talk with friends on speaker (car speaker) and you can't rate them.

- Oh, sorry sir. Can't go to Brooklyn. Grumble grumble.

- Smells, garbage and other horrors on the back seat. Why bother cleaning it when you're a monopoly?

- Road rage, dangerous driving, etc. that requires a more complicated TLC complaint while Uber and Lyft let you do it over the app.

Want people to take less car services? Fix the subway and buses.

Passing new restrictions to protect medallion owners (not the drivers) is similar to the way they killed Airbnb here in that it lets the Council pander to those who paid to play, while simultaneously couching the exercise in some moralistic greater good. [edit: Friday-afternoon-inspired run-on sentence repair]
Why did Google succeed and Yahoo fail?
What if founders were personally liable for losses?
Hmm, I hadn't heard of this practice before, and so I went searching and found this article to be a decent summary (posting here if others are curious): https://smallbusiness.chron.com/employees-intangible-assets-...
Assuming you want to know this to make your own programming language...

Step one is to learn about BNF grammers.

When I was in school we used a book called Princples of Compiler Design. I felt this was an excellent bok at the time. It taught me a lot about how toprogram well.
Mea culpa: there is a crisis in the humanities
I agree that it’s hard. I justify the effort spent because my email access is essentially my single source of failure credential for the rest of my online life. Some things that are important are hard.
But a huge part of the problem is that many users of facial recognition software will not be experts on how to properly use the software. If the ACLU improperly used it, do you really trust law enforcement agencies to do a better job?
Of the books you mentioned , I am familiar only with the power of now. With this in mind, you can absolutely consider aspects of martial arts training as supplemental exercises to the book - only now exists and consideration of future and past is irrelevant and dangerous.

Good luck with your quest.

Edit: you may want to have a look at the "Unfettered Mind"
> 1. Making the language friendlier for beginners and easier to understand.

make documentation a priority! With Elixir or Golang you can access doc super easily from the command line. Some sublime text plugin shows you the doc for highlighted std functions as well. These are what make a language awesome imo.
I dont know how much money MS do with Bing, but if i were they, i would open source everything to see a lot of Google competitors pop here and there based on their tech, and later buy the most proeminent contenders.
They are locked in to the 2% position, and thats the only alternative i can see to shake things up and have a change to grab more.

They could also provide the pure search index for other companies by using their cloud infra, and charge for the cloud use instead where Bing would be only one of the clients of this open search index.

It was basically the strategy the open source world with the lead of Linux did to them, and were able to take down their dominant monopolistic position over software.
> Cab driving is a low skill job, which is why it's so important that proper competition can exist. My first ever Uber driver had water bottles and gum and even throw pillows and a blanket in the back. He was in a suit. He was really polite and all that. Because he's looking for 5 star rankings.

I see the offers of water bottles and gum as expressions of desperation in the face of precarity: a 4.6 average will get you fired from Uber (https://therideshareguy.com/10-things-that-can-get-you-deact...). I want good service, which means a driver that does his job well, not a driver that makes me cringe because he feels pressured to humiliate himself in a performative display of over-the-top customer service.