skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of this stunt by Gov. Schwarzenegger:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Did-Schwarzenegger-drop-4...
Why pay you? Who needs weather info so much - nobody.
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Ah, so they don't facilitate the spying of U.S. citizens, they're just facilitating the rain of death from U.S. drones overseas.

Carry on then.
So, you want to force Congress to behave by...killing thousands of people?
Just bear in mind for your calculations that in Switzerland a cup of coffee often costs $6 as does a can of coke. Cost of living is extremely high. But still, this does look like a decent deal. Zurich is like San Francisco in terms of expenses.
-O3 inlines functions and unrolls loops more aggressively, so the increased code size might not fit in the CPU cache.
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Ugh,autoplay.
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Before anyone gets too excited, let's remember that this is also the country where the people voted against raising the required paid holidays (2012), for substantial cuts in unemployment allowances (2010), and for increasing the VAT (2009), just to give some recent examples. Regardless of its merits, it is going to be nearly impossible to gather popular support for an idea such as basic income. But hey, at least we'll talk about it.
Fortune asks 'Why does America hate Silicon Valley?'
Never to fart
Ah, yes, hyperbole, the key to useful discourse.
What does this mean exactly?

I'm currently running an MSI 660 PE Ti with 3 screens in TwinView mode with driver version 319.49. This gives a total desktop of 4960x1920 in landscape-portrait-landscape layout.

I would like to get another 660 Ti and add another 3 screens in TwinView. Is that even possible?
It is common knowledge among GCC users. In the past using -O3 was rare because it often generated downright broken code. There used to be an official warning about that.

The situation is better nowadays but still, as far as I know, no major Linux distro uses -O3 as the default for binary packages.

-O3 can generate slower code because of the aggressive inlining and loop unrolling enabled. These optimizations are very tricky because of their effect on cache use. Basically all that extra code can push other needed code/data out of the cache, which can cause a noticeable decrease in performance.
Plus I bet it is near impossible to text-while-driving in a roundabout, well at least not and stay alive.

Might make people actually pay attention to their driving if there were more in the USA.

Do other countries have a similar text-while-driving problem?
Corruption is "dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery." Corruption is possible because people making laws are known entities. Corruption would be quite difficult if the wealthy could not contact the Decision Makers.

Logically, Decision Makers must become anonymous. I have started a project that describes how policy creation can be completely anonymous, thereby eliminating (or greatly impeding) corruption. The project is public:

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/

Take a look at the system mock-ups. Better yet, join the project and contribute your thoughts.

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Interests%...

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Policy%20P...

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Debate%20P...

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Supporting...

The idea hinges on using randomly selected moderators to act as guardians for contributor content. The key is that moderators are only allowed to be guardians for a limited, and also random, amount of time. Think of it as a cross between StackOverflow and randomly selected voluntary jury duty with temporally random privileges.
Thanks, interesting initiative.
For reference, I currently live in Berkeley. While not quite as expensive as SF, it's pretty close. I also live in one of the somewhat less cheap parts of the city (northside)--my rent is much higher than it could be. On the other hand, I do have a roommate--it all comes back to being young and single (but, again, not frugal).
New England has a lot of the old, non-modern roundabout (which this article is talking about but doesn't really distinguish from traditional roundabouts/traffic circles/rotaries).

Boston may have a few that aren't completely Euclidian.
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I've often suspected that the extensive use of stop signs instead of yields or traffic circles in the US on suburban or low traffic streets and roads is a conspiracy run by the brake pad and oil industries.
Nexus isn't a downmarket brand. And it's available through carriers.
Rockabye Baby - it's time for a change
Really impressive automatically generated summaries.

Of course, there are some funny parts as well. One of the bullet points for "Russia halts adoptions to Sweden over gay nuptials" is just

• "It's terrible.

Very frank :D.

I certainly agree, but I imagine a person summarizing the article would not have used this phrasing.
I'm just gonna throw this out there as a fellow Bay Area person. I like bragging about how bad I have it as much as the next social network self-flaggelator.

But our costs aren't even remotely comparable to Zurich's. You need a lot more money to live there, especially if you even semi-regularly go out to eat. It's bad enough that when Swiss people come back through customs from other countries, their trunks are searched for groceries, not drugs.
Maybe I am too obtuse to understand how such things could work.

What happens if nobody has a job?

OK, that's a little extreme. Let's see, a family of five would get 12500 F per month unconditionally. That's probably a pretty good chunk of money for doing nothing.

I see images of five to ten people living together to collectively earn 25000 F per month.

In the same story they talk about limiting executive pay to 12x the salary of the lowest paid employee. Again, I just don't see it. In a global market I just don't see intelligent and capable people not looking past their borders seeking better compensation for what they have to offer.

How can you build a sustainable and competitive society this way? Again, I'll admit to not being mentally equipped to comprehend how this can work. Perhaps someone can educate me.
I've had both, non-consecutively over 6 different cards over the years. I've not had any large problems at all, and my current GTX 670 has been performing like a champ for about 15 months now, no video crashes.
That's one of the things I've found frustrating about driving in America. In England, approaching a roundabout with a good open view to your right you can see when there's no approaching traffic and maintain 20-30mph. Whereas in America, despite the fact I could see it was clear, I had to come to a complete stop.
Yeah, I don't see Apple selling as far downmarket as, say, Tracfone. But they'll capture the midrange to low end of the contract market which is downmarket from where they were before.
Nevada built America’s first in 1990

I grew up in Orinda, and for as long as I can remember there has been a roundabout in theater square[1].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=orinda&data=!1m4!1m3!...
Every adult gets 2500/month, so a family of 2 adults + 3 children would get 5000/month which is nowhere near enough in most places in Switzerland.
This doesn't seem like it will do much to advance robotics in the private sector (wheels are fine). I'm more excited to see more results from the DARPA arm program (http://www.gizmag.com/irobot-darpa-autonomous-robotic-manipu...) and the Velo gripper (https://willowgarage.com/velo2g).
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Depending on your age, previous employment, where you live and current situation, you may in fact get a similar total today in Switzerland by combining unemployment and social insurances with health insurance subsidies, and maybe even preferential housing conditions if you're lucky. Needless to say it would be a nightmare, because you continuously need to demonstrate need for each allowance separately, some come from the city, some from the state, etc.
Suits loved Blackberrys. Not normal people.
You’re right on all points. Most people seem to get some enjoyment from what they do for work, or at least can find satisfaction in it at the end of the day. With a basic income, a person can worry less about making ends meet and more about doing what they want to do. In the short term, that might mean slacking off (and inflation)—but in the long term it seems like people would start being generally productive again, and much happier for it. A sizable chunk of people will just keep doing what they’re doing.

There is little worse than creating jobs—I equate that with creating inefficiency. (Creating careers is another story.) But the more things we can automate, the more humans can live leisurely, thoughtful, happy lives. I for one would enjoy nothing more than to work full-time on my programming language projects without worrying about where my next meal will come from.

P.S. Hi Tikhon! Coming to BA Haskell User Group on the 18th? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bahaskell/W0g4J-c5Dh...
> just to give some recent examples

and the most recent (not necessarily on topic) http://idpc.net/alerts/2013/09/switzerland-decriminalises-ca...
Yes we Swiss have this weird habit of voting against things that look like they would be a benefit for us (in the short term). I voted against more paid holidays as I think 4 weeks (minimum) is enough and forcing everyone to raise it to 5 would hurt the economy. Similarly I'd vote against this proposed bill if I still lived in Switzerland as I don't see how it could work, despite it being generally an intriguing idea.
I grew up in New England where there are a fair number of 'roundabouts' (or rotorys as we called them). They were part of my driving test to get my license as a teenager.

My take on them is that they probably do make traffic flow faster, but I was always a bit scared to enter them whilst driving as almost no one seemed to understand the rules. i.e. If you're taking the first exit of the rotary, you should be in the right hand lane, if your not, you should be in the left hand lane. As a result there was a lot of awkward lane changing by people whilst at high turn angles, which was messy, mostly folks in the right hand lane of the rotary going multiple exits and ultimately cutting off someone in the left hand rotary lane on the way to a single lane exit.
Same in NZ - after living in Canada for nearly 8 years, just returned back to NZ. I love roundabouts... far quicker getting round town, you're not constantly having to do these infuriating 4 way stops everywhere.
This is not an appropriate venue for chanting political slogans.
go for it. and let's see the extrapolation to a economic juggernaut like the U.S. It's always the "norway" argument. If Norway (pop 4 million or so) can do it so can the U.S.

Yes, I guess Los Angeles could do something like that, but..
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Marc Andreessen: “The 21st century will be another American century”
People always want more, so this will allow people to live comfortably while they, for example, acquire a more profitable skill than what they currently have. Then they will earn more, and pay more taxes, and the cycle continues.

Alternatively, the Swiss government may have enough money to invest it all and pay for this out of dividends. Just because the US is broke doesn't mean that everyone is.
That's a beautiful answer. But it feels like since noise is less compressible than signal, a sufficiently rich life has to look more like noise than signal when looking forward in time.
I don't know about the NSA, but I've personally negotiated a deal with a CA to add whatever domains we wanted to a certificate without validation. They just "trusted us."
Income tax centennial: 100 years of income tax code
A can of coke can cost 6CHF at Zurich airport maybe, but the standard price is 2CHF, and even cheaper at some grocery stores. San Francisco is still much cheaper than Zurich in terms of expenses, only the rents are kind of comparable.
I also wonder whether the surface area that, if punctured, poses a fire risk is larger on a Tesla than on a gasoline vehicle.
Nicely presented application of textteaser. A little put off by the focus on the "ivy experience" though. Is that some sort of marketing play?
People are not used to roundabouts in America. I lived in place where a whole residential area (i.e. very light traffic, low speed limit, school zones) used roundabouts instead of stop signs. Almost every other time I've seen another car on a roundabout it's been making a left turn by driving clockwise (in America people normally drive on the right side of the road so you need to drive counterclockwise). On a more lively roundabout that was on my way to a freeway I had to be very careful as a significant number of merging cars believed they have a right of way. If there had been a way from my home that did not have a roundabout I'd rather use that because roundabouts were really scary.
This may be true, but in my experience most "emotionally intelligent" people are also -- sometimes to a fault -- prone to really feeling other people's pain as their own.

The interesting combination for me is those with such "emotional intelligence" in that they can read people and figure out their motivations and feelings, but they don't have a significant empathic response, and they appear to feel little or no guilt in utilizing these perceptions for personal gain, regardless of the pain they inevitably cause to those who trusted them.
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BBM was what people loved. Have you forgotten about Blackberry's nubs and balls that constantly broke/got stuck? People dealt because that was the state of the art at the time.
We were going for 6, actually :P
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Also, he's mostly passing by value.
These absolutely do not work in Asia - they are pretty common in the Indian subcontinent and SE asia.

However, fundamentally it is a self-regulated mechanism where you need to follow rules like allow merging from left, etc. Traffic signals have more simplistic rules and can be more strictly enforced. The problem happens in heavy traffic when you are literally fighting for your exit - there is no way that you can claim to have been following the rules.

In India, a lot of roundabouts are being converted to traffic signals to save time and safety.
One of the documents from Guardian released yesterday mentioned evercookie in one of the bulleted lists. If this is more "request" level than packet level, that could be the method they are using - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie
I was thinking of a family with five adults. No reason for the children to leave such a profitable nest.

The other scenario is a group of adult friends or relatives.
I would greatly prefer a basic income to the thousands of poorly run programs that aim to help the poor. The poor are not helpless but simply don't make enough money for some minimal standard of living (i.e. they are poor). A side effect of many existing programs is that they make the poor dependent and actually discourage self-improvement. A basic income would minimize these unfortunate but real consequences of helping them.

More info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
you wanna play that? fine.. the socialist in the whitehouse admitted to the WSJ that they don't care..."they're winning"

Bring it on. There's nothing wrong with shrinking the size of government. Government oppresses homes.
Ask HN: Is Indian Government filtering Internet?
Recently I have been frequently stamping into blue messages saying "This Url has been blocked as per DOT/HIGHT COURT guidelines". I was visiting some media sharing websites and some websites with supposedly pornographic content.
Are there others who have seen similar messages? Or is it just my internet provider trying to get smarter? Is Indian government doing the 'American thing' too?
I could type faster on my Blackberry Curve (a consumer targeted device) than my current Galaxy Nexus or any iPhone/iTouch touchscreen (plus I could literally type a full message and send by touch-typing, without any doubt as to what I was actually doing without looking at the screen).

I admit I prefer the button-less form factor in many respects, but boy do I miss that well-designed tactile keyboard.
Now I'm curious about the possibility of immigrating to Switzerland...

Ha. Sort of seriously.
> this will allow people to live comfortably while they, for example, acquire a more profitable skill than what they currently have.

Maybe some of them. If American welfare is any indications you'll have generations of people who will live within this free money system, do nothing, learn nothing and demand more and more over time. They will all have iPhones, huge flat screen TV's and never work a day in their lives.

Again, I just don't see it and admit that I don't get it. Nice, but I don't get it.
oh bullshit. this is a political forum. these leftist/socialists made it.

fight the socialists. they're scum.
Jason Cohen's blog (http://blog.asmartbear.com) has historically been very popular among the startup crowd and used to be regularly front-paged on hacker news. Also, WP Engine is popular and many of us use it. Note that they host the blogs of several well-known tech companies.
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TAILS will detect it is running inside a VM and warn you not to do it.

I know quite a few folks who are sitting on escapes for popular VM products. They are not at all uncommon.

I would be absolutely shocked if the NSA's little toolkit didn't detect virtualization, pop out, and backdoor the host OS.
Canadian government is up for me, yay! (I am from Canada)
I voted against 6. I probably would have voted for 5 which many companies already allow.
> ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE + CONTROL SYSTEMS
>...
> PROCESSING / NEURAL COMPUTING

Huh? Isn't this exactly what they are working on here? I guess you must think that all the control/intelligence advances will come from places outside projects like this, but that's not the clear to me at all. Certainly, you'd need to justify it for any of your criticism to hold. This seems like exactly the kind of project that DARPA could fund to advance these fields.

> ENERGY STORAGE

Nope. These are all petrol powered and will be for the foreseeable futures. We don't fuel tanks or Humvees with electricity either.
I think there's plenty of room for more robotics in the real world today. No C3-PO yet (which was technically a walking google translate), but even something like this robot making food (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv7VUqPE8AE) could be useful in the real world. There's no reason with the progress I've seen in OpenCV and point cloud tech that we couldn't make robots that could stock store shelves, serve food, lay tile, etc. The largest impediments I've seen would be the insane cost (often over $100k), and how slow they are (maybe because of processor speed?).

Universal robots has a robot that can lift 10 Kg; on par with a person.
That was not through referendum, though. The dynamics are very different. Interestingly enough, when asked, the parliament tends to be more open to change and experimentation than the people.
I do not understand your comment. This is the risk, as observed, measured with respect to a single person driving heavily. In other words, most people should expect less risk than this. You are correct that a larger population should expect more risk: there have certainly been more accidents than this overall, and a battery fire is not the only thing to worry about.

But risks must be compared to the relevant alternatives. Certainly, those who arrange their life such that they do not drive at all are removing a significant risk, as I can personally attest to having encountered several drivers who were, frankly, suicidal. I speak specifically of the person who pulled into a turning lane to pass (when I was already in it, stopped), and gunned it driving straight at me. By no means should you think that I am diminishing the very real risk we engage in every day while driving.

But most people measure risk by how easily they can imagine a scenario. As such, I offer this for you to contrast with the photos in the article: https://www.google.com/search?q=burnt+out+car&tbm=isch Such things are not uncommon and I have, personally, witnessed such. While measuring risk according to one's memory is a useful cognitive shortcut in many situations, but with the way our news sensationalizes things by highlighting unusual events and under-reporting common ones, it is not a useful metric.
The US is nowhere near broke compared even to most developed countries. The Swiss don't have a trust fund like Norway.
When I say performance, I mean throughput not latency. That's why there are no latency benchmarks.

Also, in your benchmark you do output in bluebird section with console.log. Maybe try http://jsperf.com/promise-comparisons/50.
"[redacted] mechanism that leverages GCHQ's huge passive SIGINT access to deliver CNE payloads to targets."

It doesn't sound very passive, if they are delivering content to target machines trough this. If we are discussing "evercookie", this would mean they could have capability to modify http traffic and inject "evercookie code" into it. If they do have capability todo this, it would sound more feasible than actually owning the target machines and using rootkits/malware to deliver things.
Space inefficiency is an issue that ubiquitous low-efficiency solar power does not have at all: Land is simply not a particularly scarce commodity somewhere within a few hundred kilometers of your house. Space inefficiency is only an issue for the concept of the power infrastructure being 100% distributed as some kind of local self-sufficiency element. May as well be growing your own wheat.

Even so, an average-sized residential roof will generate quite a lot of power relative to what the inhabitants use on all but apartment towers - and those are usually surrounded by enough parking, on which we can build sunshades with solar panels, to compensate.
This is super cool, great work guys!
Reminds me of spacers in Asimov novels. Hope this is a starting point from which all of humanity can benefit. If I don't have to worry about making ends meet I will focus fully on learning about and building robots.
Ah my bad, only a year ago and I already forgot (we do vote 4 times a year though, so hard to keep track of everything). 6 is even sillier in my opinion.
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Agreed, they're simple to use, even the 2 lane varieties.

I think the problem is as mentioned, often American ones are much different. It seems more like a free for all circle with a random bunch of roads exiting and entering, with no lanes marked. Also construction obscured the view to the left.

I did come across a few "normal" roundabouts at least, but they either don't exist or are terrible.
I'd have to say some of that is likely incompetence on the people in charge of developing the exchange. In Hawaii (hawaiihealthconnector.com) the whole extent of the online marketplace is a web form where you have to give up the SSNs of your entire family just to have someone call you later with quotes. Not exactly what I think of when I think of an online marketplace.

There are many problems with the form too (e.g., can't sign up if your family has more than 4 people). To make matters worse, the form is down for maintenance. Apparently they couldn't figure out how to scale a single form.

It's hard being a supporter of Obamacare when the execution is being done so badly.
> If they were ever going to do it, they would have with the 5c. It's never going to happen

The 5C is $100 and it can already be found for $50 in various large stores.

If this is not catering to the low end, I don't know what is.