skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're thinking clearly that's easy to see. But when you're living a hard life, my observation is that people generally take what solace they can in more basic elements of their humanity and don't think much about the future, if they're capable of thinking about it at all. 'Auburn is a pit stop,' according to her mother. That seems a silly belief, but if you take that as the context in which her choices are made you notice they become more reasonable?

Your options for dealing with the consequences of those choices are limited by both the lack of preferable alternatives and the need to act with humanity in enforcing them. If you throw the kids into the care system, it's not clear they're going to do any better.

As for stopping people making those choices in the first place, I don't think people who view it as not the parent's fault really disagree with you there. But how?

Making a good choice with respect to employment and the law and so on, and sticking to it, requires that you be a certain kind of person. You need the ability to draw motivation from distant goals, the abstract knowledge to see the path to the goal in the first place, it requires - to a certain extent - that others around you share those qualities, it requires self-control to deny yourself short-term rewards.

And if you don't have those things, you can't make those choices - at least not to start off with. The choices we make are made within the context of our lives, and our beliefs about those lives and where they can be going. What sort of choices would you make if you had their capabilities and their beliefs?

You have to make smaller choices, that make you more the kind of person for who those choices would make sense and be practically achievable. And you have to see those smaller choices making you happier, having a positive effect on your life - to try and develop some sort of self-confidence and motivation.

That latter part is a very complex problem that impacts areas of life beyond just homelessness. It's no particular surprise that unemployment, teen pregnancy, low educational outcomes and so on tend to group together. They're all influenced, to lesser and greater extents, of to be somewhat pithy for a moment, 'Not having your shit together.'

Well get your shit together then.

Yeah, okay, how do we create an environment where that's gonna happen? Given that choices determine the sort of person you'll become and that determines your later choices, early intervention seems likely to be a part of it - perhaps through improving education to the poor. Maybe breaking up communities of homeless people and rehousing them into richer communities so they have better chances of falling within catchment areas of good schools - and aren't subject to a culture of generational poverty.

I don't know, those are just a couple of things. But, however it's done the basic act of assigning blame seems largely immaterial. The world is what it is, people make the choices they make. What matters is that people are suffering - and what's important is what can be done about it within the bounds of compassion and practicality.
Between BBC and The Guardian both open sourcing components on the Hacker News homepage, this seems like a good trend. Thank you BBC.
Microsoft Research took the ambient background idea a little further with some cool IllumiRoom demos. [0]

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2w-XqW7bF4
Carbon credits today, water credits tomorrow.
CheapAir accepts Bitcoin
Well, for me I've found value (so far) in:

* Determining time on-site for billing purposes when I was freelancing.

* Providing a pretty good indication of my whereabouts to the police (voluntarily) to clear myself as a suspect in a crime.

Plus having the data available should I ever want to do any sort of analysis on my own life is a really cool benefit to me. I've got about 3 years of history in there to look at.
Gmail Strips Email Marketers of Data with Image Caching
They were running it for a good 7.5 minutes. I would say that $10 does sound a lot cheaper for the amount of resources utilized (200 n1-standard-1’s).I think it basically stems from the fact that GCE charges compute resources (analogous to an EC2) per 10 minutes instead of an hour (as EC2 does).
To my knowledge, the camera is only recording when the sirens are on, not 100% sure if this is true so take it with a grain of salt but I don't think there will be footage.

Speculation: The dash-cam might have some type of buffer that allows for it to save the moments leading up to an officer turning on the sirens though so maybe it is saved.
How does that compare to RabbitMQ's disk backed store?
You probably had a choice to opt out. I must pay $50/month to Comcast for TV service in my apartment in the DC suburbs, whether I use it or not (and I don't). I then pay them $80 more for Internet. The only other option is wireless.
>("in and of itself", whatever that means)

It means that "debt is bad" is a ridiculous proposition. Again, debt cannot exist without an equal and off-setting asset, by definition. So, saying "there's too much debt!" is functionally equivalent to saying "there's too many assets!"

>Are Mullen, Walker and Obama not "serious people"?

Politicians, all of them. Don't really care what Mullen or Obama's opinions about debt are.

As far as Mr. Walker, it appears he's appealing to populism and Republican talking points. Because I'm sure he understands that talking about "unfunded liabilities" only looks at one side of the ledger, as a scare tactic. I mean, those liabilities aren't going into the fire, they're being received by real people, spent into the economy. Where is that counted?
If he did not have an expectation that they would follow his timeline, he would be less likely to leak the docs to them, and possibly less likely to leak the docs at all. It's not like Snowden couldn't have just dumped all the docs on us if that was his intent.
The AI facebook has today is already freaky to me at times... while I love any new advancement in AI, these advancements will probably not be used in my interests.
Adafruit has a tutorial about how to build something similar using an Arduino and set of RGB LED Christmas lights: http://learn.adafruit.com/adalight-diy-ambient-tv-lighting/o...
He looks so very tired in that video.
I can't get to the site right now to see if lightpack offers anything above simple ambient lighting, but Ikea sells LED light strips for US$30:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/lig...

EDIT: Ah, it's more than simple ambient lighting. In that regard, $50 seems like a great price.
- Sharemywin, you and I are on the same page.
I beg to differ. They still publish papers and big names in academia are often consultants or receiving grants from private industry. And according to LeCun he will remain as professor at NYU and run his research lab from NYU. He will serve as director and lead researcher.
"When you guys are good, you should totally take a crack at healthcare.gov. That'd be awesome."
Skyhook absolutely relies on radio signal strengths and other observables and so do Google's location services.

This can be observed in practice as Android tablets and Apple devices with no GPS or cell radio at all can still locate themselves relatively well.

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/apps-enterprise/ has the marketing-bling diagram of Skyhook's use of multiple observables to determine location; even as of 4 or so years ago when I last used their API you sent them MAC + RSS and got back location.
Since when do you have to confirm that something is legal? Isn't the predominant law system on this planet: It's allowed unless explicitly forbidden?
Wonder if having a difficult-to-enunciate name has anything to do with their lack of success?
Yes, mobile phones are big in Africa, this I understand, but you're admitting you need a mobile phone to do this. Many people do not have one and aren't likely to get one soon for a host of reasons.

There are people that will never have the chance to own a mobile phone. They have other priorities, like fresh water, AIDS or malaria medication, or a reliable source of food.
this is basically spot on regarding my use as well... where I live, foursquare is marginally useful, but when I travel to NYC/ SF/ DC it is usually one of the first apps I open and I find it pretty valuable.
Newsflash - vast freshwater resources had been found sitting in form of ice on planetary caps. Those vast supplies of water are expected to last till 2030.

On a serious note, this could be big. Imagine oil like drilling platforms that pump water instead. Now we only need to figure out how economical this is.
Yes, it's a bit misleading to mix in US State Dept contingency plans (Northwoods) with actual false flag operations (Israeli bombings in Egypt).
Swiss parliamentary postulate: Bitcoin is a currency
Google actually does collect wifi location data via Android devices. There's a setting that allows you to toggle this data on/off. If you turn it off, it actually disables the course location API available to Android apps (I recently encountered errors with both the Lux and the UCCW Android applications due to the fact that I had this setting disabled and those apps only had course-location built-in).

Now whether Android actually uses the wifi data to determine location, as opposed to simply collecting it and manually disabling course-location if you don't send them wifi data, I have no idea. It does seem to be related though to the new Geofencing API available in the latest versions of Android.

EDIT: Sources!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-google-and-everyone...

http://developer.android.com/training/location/geofencing.ht...
I'm doing quite well in my chosen city-state. Thank you.

(We are talking about Singapore.)
Foursquare has measures in place to prevent people from gaming the check-in system--to keep people from faking check-ins and gaining badges and mayorships that they didn't earn. From what I've gathered, they collected this information originally to prove that someone was really at the location where they claimed to be.
Chef: The Company Formerly Known as Opscode
>No way are people in government singing hallelujah everytime innocent people are killed, look we can fund more nefarious shit!

I disagree with you on this one. I know this is a crazy conspiracy theory video, but please take the 30 minutes to watch it.

When you say nobody in "government" is excited, you need to refine the meaning of the term "government": Look at the players who have been at the center of this for the last 3 decades: GHW Bush and Carlyle group CIA drugsters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDFHd5eEzw
Introducing ads on Wikipedia would likely do more than show you ads and have ad providers pay Wikipedia; it would also introduce third party tracking.

Adding ads to Wikipedia would give ad providers the ability to trace your Wikipedia activity. This would be horrible because the average person would not understand that their wikipedia history was being revealed to third parties and this history is often highly personal. For nontechnical users who do not know about this tracking, this would be deceitful. For nontechnical users who do know of the tracking but do not know how to stop this tracking, having ads would severely compromise their ability to use Wikipedia since they must then become cautious of the way they browse.
>Were he to be 'hit by a police car' while driving in his motorcycle or compact car, and likely killed, would we be discussing the validity of his death and its relation to the traffic habits of other cars/motorcycles/Ferrari drivers? I dare you to tell us yes.

Yes. More people die every day and year in motor vehicle<>motor vehicle collisions than in vehicle<>bike collisions. On top of that, criticizing a cop's behavoir is something HN (and many other places) loves to do.
Why would you take children away from a homeless family? And put them where?
Are Samsung trying to cover up a potentially dangerous battery issue?
"re-writing for PHP"

Thank you for doing this.
> [...] under what are, universally, "small government" neoliberal regimes.

Where did you get that idea from?
The message is clear: top political donors want cheaper labor.
Have you burned all the strawmen, yet?
... and thus, we get the demagoguery in today's politics. There's no reason for a candidate to actually be good. They just have to be one iota less evil than their major-party candidate. Then they ride in on the demagoguery, ensuring that no one dares vote for a 3rd party party for fear of the (slightly more) evil opponent winning.

And so they ensure that the cycle keeps going around, without any opportunity for real change.
Apple's Foundation collection classes explained and benchmarked
That isn't at all what I'm "attempting" to say. If the GP wants to complain about the law not being "enforced" to punish the cop perhaps they should complain about the lack of enforcement on cyclists too
The site is working for me with Chrome and Adblock Plus
Where was the legality of Candy Crush confirmed?
I live in a low population density area and they seem to think i enjoy bouncing around 40-60 miles from cell tower to cell tower.
And this is why I don't ride a bicycle. Despite the health and cost savings benefits, it just isn't worth putting myself mere feet from all the crazy drivers with no concern for my safety.
It's not even at the Cuban Peso level and it's highly unlikely to eclipse the valuation of all currency for any developed country.

Canada is the 11th largest economy in the world, slightly behind Russia and India. South Africa is less than a quarter of that, but still way bigger than Bitcoin.

Cuba has a GDP of $68B. Is there that much Bitcoin being exchanged for goods yet?

I'd be impressed if Bitcoin transactions have eclipsed the economy of EVE Online.
Nicholas Negroponte: 5 predictions, from 1984 [video]
i've never came across code that has performed better with manual hints than compiler profiling.

at best, you can match the compiler, but.. i find that improbable, unless you have only a handful of branches.
How long until idiots stop bringing this up in this context, as if the rule breaking of some bicyclists magically condemns all of us?
Vet op je heupen, billen en dijken helpt tegen hart- en vaatziekten en diabetes
Indoor positioning methods are being developed, outdoor methods are in use for years now. It's how positioning works on your laptop, e.g. in Google Maps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system

"Commercial providers of this type of positioning service include Google,[1] Navizon, AlterGeo[2] and Skyhook Wireless."
Do you trust your RSS Reader?
The dashcam is always on when the lights are on, but I think it can be activated manually as well.
How Effective Is Your Social Marketing? How to Track and Capture Leads
Why? Where is the rule that says you must complain about all bad things at once?
The cool thing in the book was that you could opt out of US government protection, choosing instead to live in an enclave with services provided by some private party.

IIRC, Stephenson presented it as a bit dystopic, but it sounded quite exciting to me.
Oh, totally agree! I wasn't necessarily referring to electric cars specifically, more just comparing how much energy different things store, although it does highlight why building long-range and high-performance electric cars is a Hard Problem.

There's a lot of things that are different. The 50L of fuel in my car is going to weigh about 45kg and will get me about 800km, and the batteries in a Tesla weigh 300-500kg (not sure exactly, found a few different numbers). But like you say, the power train is considerably different, etc etc.
"When you look at the rumored Snapchat valuations of over 3 billion dollars, it’s difficult to understand how an investor can think that Snapchat is worth that much. Because the truth is, it’s not."

This is wrong. Facebook offered to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. If there is a better way to appraise market value than the fact that one of the most successful companies on earth is willing to buy you for that price, I don't know what it would be.

The notion a transaction has to occur for there to be a 'true' value set, is also false. Try telling the IRS your billion dollar company is worth a dollar, because it has never been involved in a merger / acquisition / publicly floated. That simply is not how companies are valued in accounting or finance (aka anywhere that matters when determining valuations).
Same here in Silicon Valley. Anecdotal evidence: on Steven's Canyon Road there is a monument to two cyclists who were killed by a police officer.
Reminds me of this piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to...

"We do not know of a single case of a cyclist fatality in which the driver was prosecuted, except for D.U.I. or hit-and-run,” Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, told me."

Cycling is just going to get more common, at what point will the having less rights bias end? Will it take someone of David Byrne's status getting hit to actually do anything about this?
Even worse are the audio ads.
So, it'd be on the cover of HN and we'd just all but assume 'eh, he was a driver so I have to wonder what actually happened?'
My personal guess is that this is an initiative from companies that have provided significant streams of information to the NSA.

It's my understanding that Mozilla doesn't have significant "skin in the game" compared to the services these companies are providing.

Again my opinion, not speaking for Mozilla officially.
I thought this was an interesting development after the three tabs Gmail implemented. It should be noted that marketers have already found a 'trick' to get Google to keep reloading a web pixel bug by serving no content so they can track open rates. But, IP addresses and, thus, geo-location of recipients is now invisible to marketers. And the images will load faster within Gmail for folks who choose to display them.
hopefully noodly will turn up and tell us how he/she did it.

EDIT: obviously bruteforce, but still.
Looks brilliant. I've put my email in the preorder form... I'd buy one right now if it was available. I hope they deliver to the UK.
- Great insight dbieber, but why would anyone care about whose tracking their wikipedia history? I could understand about social networks or porn but what about wikipedia? Plus people know that they get tracked on certain sites and yet they still use them. So what is the difference?
I think this is their big problem:

https://twitter.com/mrgan/status/384780273721696256

—"I'd like to, uh… "pay with clinkle."

—"Excuse me?"

—"Uh, pay with… clinkle?"

—"Do you need the key to the restroom?"

—"Pay… with… clinkle"
Let me know when a cyclist last killed a cop and lets talk about who got charged what.

Also, you still are equating Failure to Stop's (which sure, could maybe someday cause some sort of fatal whatever someday whenever)... with the actual, real, actual loss of life.

Insultingly vile.
Oh right, THIS is why it's not a good idea to use a system where a single corporation (and one predisposed to control-freakery at that) gives itself veto power over what your device can and cannot do.

(not that "everybody go buy a Nexus 5" is the answer either. The only way to keep these corporations in check is a competitive platform marketplace with considerably more than two players. Go buy a Lumia, a Jolla, a Firefox phone, a Tizen phone...support diversity, kids)
Agreed. No matter how effective you think he is, or how much you like his policies, it seems pretty clear he's under tremendous stress.
While I think more people should learn code, I think the president getting up and telling everyone to do anything that isn't applicable to... well... every-freaking-one... is stupid.

Washington is clueless in two ways. (1) It normally doesn't get new things and lags behind. (2) When it does get things, it proceeds to fail at execution or not really get them and do ham-fisted things like this. So that means that Washington is always clueless about everything.

Sometimes I think the only thing that keeps us from being invaded or otherwise run over by the rest of the world is that nearly all other governments are at least as incompetent as ours.
I'm not sure what I should think of this. What are your thoughts with regard to the amount of personal information that Facebook possesses? Regardless of whether they are good or evil, what do you think the potential implications are? I'm curious about HN's thoughts.
Candy Crush IPO Delayed by Game's Own Success
"Make no mistake, you will be able to keep that code"
The discussion has been going already. For example http://copsinbikelanes.tumblr.com/ (those are from New York city)
The tracking is bad, even when you know about it. Sometimes my friends will send me something on Amazon with ridiculous reviews or it's just a crazy item (e.g. the $5 million book on Amazon or the Nissan car). Now Amazon thinks I like that thing and want to see similar items, when all I really did was go to the page, laugh, and go on my way.

I know now to open up those links in incognito windows, but every so often I still have to go delete my "viewed items" on the site so the prediction becomes relevant again.
The pictures are interesting: they have stuff. What they lack is infrastructure and maintenance. Major items: deteriorating walls, decaying mattresses, a sink in the middle of a room, where's the bathtub? Where's anything near that sink?
Life on mars: microlife has been discovered in a lake on mars
Yep. Can't have high-paying jobs. That would empower people.

We are very rapidly moving toward a time when the labor battles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries will have to be re-fought. History is clearly showing us that the alternative to activist labor is feudalism. In "natural" markets, multiple overlapping network effects cause nearly all wealth to flow to a very tiny number of strategically positioned or connected participants. Everyone else must fight for a slice of the pie. Even in a growing-pie scenario, nearly all the growth flows to the top; a rising tide lifts only the largest boats.

The libertarian ideal of volitional culture leading to equality and general prosperity is, like nearly all other political ideals, rapidly shaping up to be false. It's becoming clear that the natural state of human affairs is feudalism, and that anything else is an unnatural state that must be maintained "artificially."
It's great to see the Philips Ambilight concept democratized (I hope Philips doesn't have any applicable patents here), but the fact that this requires the video source to be a Mac / Windows / Linux PC is going to cut the potential audience way, way down.
Wow. Looks like Youtube comments haven't improved much after all.

Seriously, it seems like half of the comments seen on Youtube (or at the bottom of any article on a news site) read as if they could have come right from a post on StormFront.
Google Street view cars collect WiFi data as they drive by your location. See here: http://epic.org/privacy/streetview/
The EU and Europe is seen as valued by Scots because of things like the European Convention on Human Rights [1] which the current Westminster government are doing their damnedest to undermine.

Also Europe is a huge trading partner for Scotland. I'm not saying the EU is without its faults, but at least an Independent Scotland would ensure Scots have a better say in European policies than the efforts being made by Cameroon and Co.

I agree that fishing in Scotland has suffered badly over the past 20 years, but the blame is squarely with Westminster and the Scottish parliament hasn't been able to do much to reverse the current situation because it's a reserved matter.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...
This is moralistic pablum. You can buy a flat screen TV for $100 at Wal-Mart. You'll spend more on subway fare going to the library.
not true. an OoO scheduler has a fixed window size with which to re-order. and as soon as you have data-dependent branches or dependencies, your compiler cannot possibly schedule instructions effectively.