skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More significantly, NY state prohibits driving through the occupied half of a crosswalk. This is rarely observed.
That's not a bad idea, but it definitely harms discoverability, and makes it easier to impersonate known subreddits.

(It also could mean that a person deleting their account, or being banned, takes down the subreddit; it means transferring ownership becomes complicated.)
Is it weird that all of their methods start with SC? I guess we do that a little bit for the product I work on but it's also just one product in a much larger company and part of an entire platform. Snap is just snap.
I've almost completely given up on 35mm, going with the Hasselblad or the Fuji 690 most of the time. Or my 4x5, in which case I'm feeling lucky if I get 3 or 4 shots done in a day. I do have a digital camera, and even with that, I still can't get past the habit of only shooting when I like what I see. I don't understand at all the urge to take huge numbers of shots and sort them out later, when I can do it in my head before I press the shutter.
Society is a groupthink censor. If your beliefs are too extreme in any number of directions, society will eventually shun you. Whether you think this behavior is wrong or not usually depends on how closely your beliefs match the beliefs that are currently being shunned.
So, we’re talking about the digital version of a ledger here. Store whatever you want, have a verified reference in the next entry.

Continuing from your example about certificates for each part of a food production process: that is already possible today, and you do not even need Blockchain tech for it as you can just use a run of the mill TLS infrastructure which could certify each step and part. In case of trouble, it’s even easier than Blockchain. Food rotten? Invalidate the certificate, fridge starts alarm.

What I miss here is the answer to the question in what way the application of Blockchain technology would in any way change what you can currently do?
> When US imposes tariffs it creates low-tech jobs in the US.

I can kind of follow your argument. I can see how it might be true for, say, the recent US steel tariffs (although I don't know enough to say that steel production is 'low tech' these days).

But, in general, doesn't your argument depend upon which mix of goods the US includes in the tariff?

I mean, I wouldn't call car engines, cell phones, memory chips, television sets, game consoles, etc 'low tech' but the US imports a good deal of them.

I also wonder how countries like Germany and Japan manage the blend of tariffs. They certainly produce a lot of high tech goods.
At some point I came to the realization that most things just aren't very important. The outcomes of events really don't have as much impact as you think they do.

I try to keep my mind focused on immediate tasks and work through them in logcial steps. I try not to second guess myself once i've decided something unless it becomes apparent it was a poor decision, otherwise I try and roll with things and work out the best for whatever happens.

Because in the end, we only have so much control over things and i've wasted a lot of time overthinking and worrying about things that happened or might happen that I can't change or have no control over. I eventually realized it was pointless and making me miserable. I find by focusing on the things you can affect and, I don't really know how to word this, listen to your gut feeling or instinct about things.

Oh and mushrooms, magic mushrooms help with that.
If someone doesen't understand your written message, the problem is not with the reader.

Someone could ask a question about computational fluid dynamics and regardless of good their writing is I wouldn't ever be able to understand it because I lack the necessary domain knowledge. The problem would definitely lie with me.

This is part of the problem with SO - there's an assumption that any developer should be able to answer any question. When you ask a moderately complicated JavaScript question and get a series of answers saying "Use jQuery!" that isn't because you worded the question poorly. It's because SO points incentivizes people to guess at answering questions they don't have the knowledge to answer. You can't always blame the question writer.
There's a silly tendency in discussion of US issues to prefer examples from European countries over the almost-always more applicable examples from US states. This isn't to say European or other international examples aren't extremely useful, but when there are multiple possible equivalent examples, the ones from places that are most closely related to the place under discussion are likely to be more informative. (For instance, people love to cite Sweden when discussing the US educational system, but it's usually more illuminating to look at similarly wealthy states like Massachusetts for information about what could actually be ported to the US.) </rant>

Anyways, in a minority of US states cars are required to stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk, while they are required to yield to them in all states.

> Nine states and the District of Columbia require motorists to stop when approaching a pedestrian in an uncontrolled crosswalk. Minnesota mandates that a motorist stop when a pedestrian is in any portion of the roadway. Six states and D.C. require a motorist to stop when a pedestrian is upon the same half of the roadway or within one lane of the lane that the motorist is traveling upon, and two states require a motorist to stop when a pedestrian is upon the same half of the roadway or approaching closely enough from the opposite side of the roadway to constitute a danger...The majority of states, however, only require motorists to yield to, rather than stop for, pedestrians crossing at uncontrolled crosswalks. Nineteen states require a motorist to yield when a pedestrian is upon any portion of the roadway.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-cross...
Looks like there is no privacy. They either get everything and you get the service, or you disable it.

I know it says you can "request" info get deleted, but I'm not going to bet a quarter on that working.
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Well you put up the three bullet points making it sound like that these are the only options, sorry that I misunderstood you.

> You ask "why", well look here at the features the open source tool we use provides: https://matomo.org/features/

That's more about about why one should use Piwik instead of a different tracking tool.

> shouldn't we try to make the best website we can?

Sure. And IMHO the benefit of not having a banner / tracking outweigh the cons.
Not really? Because we don't pool the votes together into a mass pool, we can see a county by county break down of votes, if the votes are off people are going to notice in the electronic world. Not just that but as I said, you can have both a paper and digital ballot for verification. You can also have "check-in" numbers (which I believe most polling places do) to make sure the number of check-ins match the vote tally.
No, it's marketed at 2295. Hololens ia a bit more than 30% more expensive, I would not say that it is not meaningless.
Doing what on hololens for 5.5 hours?
> Have you tried not spending three decades committing petty crimes "all over the US?"

Way to be constructive bro.
> If there is one thing I wish I could beat into people's heads with a stick about online discourse, is that any place free of moderation is not going to be a free speech haven, but a cesspit where the people with the most free time will dominate and drive out others.

It depends. One forum where I spend some of my time has very hands-off moderation and it does have a) some quality conversations b) diversity of opinions. Of course it descends regularly in low-quality drivel, insults and/or shitposting, especially on controversial subjects, but it works.

Edit: But I can't say that it works everywehre, just that it can work.
It sounds like you're drawing the "extra wealthy" line at "can afford to spend $300 with a CPA"? Nobody wants to pay more taxes than they have to pay.
Reminds me a lot of StumbleUpon, which coincidentally, just shut down this year (June 30 2018).
I mean, a canary is only as good as your trust in the people putting it out.

As for the engineer/management idea,their statement revoking it was signed the same as their canary. Aside from the exceptional circumstances I described earlier, if you trusted their canary then the statement should be trusted too.

Like I said, I think we're most likely looking at incompetence.
Honestly missed / misread that last sentence!
I imagine that when you request data deleted it’s only anonymized, and the actual learning data is kept.
Sounds like a good reason to keep that kind of generation in the desert, then. That's interesting, though. I suppose they could just divert some power generation to battery storage for those heaters though, just like nuclear reactors have backup generators for cooling.
I guess that's why they took away the option to silence your phone. I'll be less engaged if it can't ring during movies and meetings.
* Teachers hate them!
That would be interesting for an approach. If you add all of the r/[this] be an aggregation of everyone's r/monksy/[this]. (That would mean that the name r/[this] couldn't be posted to)

We have seen issues where cities have had terrible moderation and that people have complained about it/split off. (r/seattle and r/seattlewa sticks out, as does r/chicago, r/realchicago, r/chicagonothinggoes, r/chicagoanythinggoes)
What Your Boss Could Learn by Reading the Whole Company’s Emails
Ah, it's an extortion attempt. Sad.
‘Discord’ could unmask identities of Charlottesville white supremacists
I’d be open to this if it was built in Firefox and let you run the models on your own machine instead of blindly trusting a third party.
The Guardian was also forced to destroy copies of the files it owned by the UK government.
Hate clicks are important for media companies, since they will generate more shares, links, discussion and controversy, which, in an ad-funded business, is good (in the short term)
Extending the time for everyone is ok, but measuring test completion time might not be a bad idea.
american high schools aren't proper schools in the sense that they educate their students for life ahead, they're day care. they encourage rote memorization and regurgitation of data instead of critical thinking and processing of the world around us. if you memorize and regurgitate to a passable standard (which is set quite low, at least in the rural public school i attended) they shake your hand and send you out on your way.

i think proper college reform needs to start lower, and make proper adults out of our high school grads instead of requiring four years of paid-for university to accomplish that. unfortunately, i'm no expert and i don't have the foggiest idea where you'd start with that.
> is a fundamental violation of constitutional rights

That's one thing I don't understand: why isn't violation of Constitutional Rights a crime in itself? I mean, speeding by 10mph on a road with noone around gets you at least a ticket; but violating someone's rights? Nothing. Of course, by definition, this can be done only by government actors, but I still feel that there should be a price to pay even for government actors when they violate the fundamental law of the land.
If you have to ask, they are
Sucks for folks like Socrates doesnt it ?
There's great irony in the New York Times talking about Twitter's "lax handling of harassment", when the NYT just hired a major racially motivated Twitter troll to their editorial board.
For context: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/sarah-jeong-shou...
For the benefit of HN readers, no serious economist supports tariffs in any form. Tariffs appeal to the naive idea that trade imbalances between two nations are a bad thing. They simply are not a bad thing.

But due to the political history of tariffs it becomes possible for politicians to claim (falsely) that tariffs will benefit the economy, when in fact they are (at best) a handout to specific industries.

What really boggles my mind about the groundswell of support for tariffs is that much of it is coming from people who would traditionally have frowned upon receiving welfare. Yet they are happy to receive it when it's called tariffs and also happy to receive bailout money when their industry is harmed by the tariffs.

Put another way, tariffs are simply a way of introducing the government into economic transactions. If a foreign government foolishly decides to tax its citizens via a tariff on US goods, this harms the foreign citizens. When the US then plays tit-for-tat and adds its own tariff, this punishes American consumers in an attempt to harm foreign exporters.

But I repeat, no serious economist (someone who studies the economy scientifically) supports tariffs. They are a political phenomenon and the rhetoric used to support them has no basis in reality. There have been countless blog posts and articles from economists since the president began talking about tariffs that have pointed out the many ways in which the president confuses the meaning of some of the big numbers he presents as justification, etc.

The understanding that tariffs are foolish is a universal among economists and is not remotely a partisan issue.

It's one thing to want to grant welfare to a specific industry for some political reason, but completely another to introduce a distorting factor like a tariff.

I have a trade deficit with my grocer, for example. Why? Because I chose to exchange money for groceries. How is this bad? The same applies to nations.
Or let any user offer moderation duties and give every user the ability to change/revoke who is moderating their feed.

/r/spez;always_good/politics, for example, could specify the politics feed minus anything spez or always_good marked as spam or off topic (rather than using whichever mods you've set for your account).
> MagicLeap definitely has been overhyped

In HN discussions of it, it's been "over-dismissed". In my recollection, the majority of the comments viewed it as smoke and mirrors. Many were basically or even outright saying it was fraudulent.

See for yourself:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=magic%20leap&sort=byPopularity...
There were a lot of hate-speech laws when Hitler came to power. He even used the fact he was prevented from speaking publicly as propaganda. And yes, a lot of legislation of Weimar to censor spoken and written word has been extended by the Nazis after they came to power.

People arguing for more moderation and more censorship generally lack perspective when they refer to fascism in the same breath. Free speech is a most effective disinfectant against fascism.
It's highly endothermic. Replacing the hydrogen with oxygen is exothermic.

So one can create some ammonia-air fuel cell. But reducing it first to push the hydrogen into a fuel cell will almost surely net a negative amount of energy because of the losses.
First you must convince yourself that becoming a genius (whatever that means) is more important to you than whatever it is that you are currently doing. Then you just act based on your worldview, as you always do.
In the wired article, it mentions that the device is closely related to your physiology, so setup can be difficult. Adding a person to help you get set up can probably make the experience a bit less frustrating.
~120k mol/m^3 and ~70k mol/m^3
Does anyone like the Unicomp line as I do? I love the faithful recreation of classic Model Ms.
The cost of JavaScript, uber's isomorphic web framework, angular 7 and more
I'm confused about a couple of things. First, the tech. So my browsing history is sent over the internet to a third party who comes up with recommendations via some magic opaque system? Can some recommendations be prioritized by how much you pay this third party? I have all sorts of questions about Laserlike's use of the data, but I guess I can dig for myself. Sure, you can say "well, don't use it" but this is more about the health of internet users in general, not just me.

Second, the reasoning. Why? Is Mozilla altruistically trying to help people find new things similar to what they're looking at on the internet? Is this really a problem begging to be solved? What is the relationship with this third party company Laserlike? Which way is money changing hands and how? How do resources get allocated to projects like this as opposed to any other (i.e. curious about prioritization)? From the outside looking in, it seems to have little value, but of course that's why you test these things. It just seems like a strange direction to put resources in.

I personally hope this experiment fails and people do not use their browsers for webpage-like things such as recommendations. This is not the browser's role and I'm becoming increasingly concerned at what larger companies think the browser's role is vs little ole me. My only reason for not wanting it to fail is I know that people put work into it.
Because a lot of those products are using American parts in addition to parts from other countries. It isn’t simply sending all of the parts to China to be assembled.
Crosswalks are present at every intersection whether painted or not.
NY has them and seems to be adding more (not fast enough in my opinion), sometimes in conjunction with chicanes. The crosswalks are also relatively massively wide (especially compared to Chicago which seem almost comically narrow).
Getting Started with Apache Kafka and Kubernetes
Step: A New Zero Trust Swiss Army Knife from Smallstep
Keep in mind this isn’t just about pedestrian fatalities - traffic fatalities across all modes decreased.

I think sometimes these conversations get framed only as “driver convenience” vs “pedestrian and cyclist lives”. Which, admittedly it sometimes comes down to, but these programs are saving drivers lives too.
>Keep in mind that physical in-world minorities can amplify their voices vastly online. Sometimes this is something we want and sometimes it's not

Well, we can't have our cake and eat it too.
Google Shielded VMs to harden your GCP workloads
I think it's important to note a few things about your second point:

This version of Magic Leap's display has nothing to do with light fields. It is a wave guide optic, just like Epson Moverio, Hololens (the term holographic also implies nothing special in terms of optics, it's a wave guide display combined with perspective rendering), and almost all other see-through HMDs. Magic Leap made headlines when they teased their oscillating fiber display, which had potential to render light fields, but that has not been pursued with this release. That's not to say they won't pursue it in the future, it's just not relevant to this product.

Next, eye tracking actually doesn't affect what is rendered to the display. The relationship of the headset display's field of view to the user is rigidly fixed even if your eyes move; different objects should not be rendered when moving only your eyes.

Rather, eye tracking is used for contextual information and user interaction. Gaze direction could be an input to foviated rendering, or you could use your eyes to select and manipulate digital objects.

Nothing I've said is meant to detract from ML's product; it's a very exciting development and a huge accomplishment for ML and the XR industry. I just think we should keep these points in context.
Flexible working becoming the norm
For the non-SF, similarly unenlightened (like me):

Bulb out:

Curb extensions (also called bulb-outs) extend the sidewalk into the parking lane to narrow the roadway and provide additional pedestrian space at key locations; they can be used at corners and at mid-block. Curb extensions enhance pedestrian safety by increasing pedestrian visibility, shortening crossing distances, slowing turning vehicles, and visually narrowing the roadway.

https://www.sfbetterstreets.org/find-project-types/pedestria...
At least for me, the freedoms enshrined in the bill of rights and other amendments are valuable not just as restrictions on government power, but as restrictions on power. The more asymmetric the relationship between two parties, the more sensitive we become to exercises of power by the stronger party over the weaker one.

I think that we do have a reasonable expectation that our employers and service providers won't interfere with our religious lives, that all employees and customers have equal rights and responsibilities, are entitled to due process during disputes, we have the right to not self-incriminate, to face our accusers, to defend ourselves against attack, to associate with whoever we please, and so on.

When a dominant platform for communication starts to exercise its own authority over what can be communicated on their platform, I think its only natural that we consider it to be an unethical abuse of power. Property rights are not absolute. As one party becomes more and more dominant, I think it is appropriate that we recognize the asymmetry in the relationship and restrict that party's ability to exert power over others.
R vs. Python DataScience: Why I invested in learning R but still prefer Python
*Assange, sigh
The USA is a democracy, and therefore can have a president like Obama sometimes or one like Trump sometimes. Even then, the USA is hardly homogenous, many people in the country take many sides of different positions.

I suppose many other countries are like that as well. Fickle because you know...people.
I cringe when I think of how much time I spent playing games as a kid.

But at least I was playing games, solving problems, getting better at something, being challenged, and even building relationships online.

I can't imagine the disappointment of having a kid addicted to watching someone else play games or live their life, nor can I imagine something as unfulfilling. Much less obsessing over the marital status of some online personality in a chat room with fellow losers.

As I got older, I realized why my parents kicked me off the computer so much. I resented it as a kid the same way I resented having to spend a whole 30 minutes mowing the lawn, but I'm grateful and I can relate to their fear as parents even though I don't yet have kids.
And Netflix also will have the same problem. Streaming will just be a feature for a company like Disney. By the time a Marvel movie for instance gets to streaming, its already made hundreds of millions of dollars from theatrical releases, dvd sales, VOD, etc. The streaming service doesn’t have to be self sustaining.

Netflix is also struggling under a heavy debt load and is still not consistently profitable.

If any of the major record labels leave Spotify - they are toast. Especially if all four labels stay on a competing service. People are okay with getting thier movies - that they will probably only watch once from different places. No one wants to have multiple playlists from different services.

The music industry already tried that. Before the days of iTunes there were two subscription streaming services - MusicNet and PressPlay. Each had two of the major labels. That failed miserably.

If an artist is exclusively on Spotify, they’ve lost exposure to much of the more affluent users who have iPhones and are more invested in the Apple ecosystem.
Since there are a lot of more hyperbolic articles from "ghacks" and similar ilk going around, I feel compelled to point out straight away that this is explicitly opt-in.

You not only have to install the Test Pilot addon, which is not installed by default, but you then have to enable the experiment.

The sky is not falling just because they're offering something like this locked behind two separate opt-in steps.
Fashion is a 2.4 TRILLION dollar industry (according to mckinsey) people very much care about the way things they wear look.