skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bad, there was an explanation of the way the law worked in this case and for some reason I thought it was in our thread (and I was talking under the assumption that you had seen it too).

> He should be allowed to voice his protests and discuss the matter without being hailed to jail

"while according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, you are not legally required to carry ID, they say "Lastly, an officer cannot write you a summons if you do not provide i.d; instead he must arrest you. That means that if you are stopped for a violation such as loitering and do not provide i.d., you will be arrested"

He wasn't arrested as punishment, but as policy (they can't just write you a ticket if there's no way to identify you on a bike). There are cases of polices taking people at their word that they give the correct name, but for obvious reasons that's a courtesy. This re-casts the story from "police spitefully violate the law in response to shit-talking" to "police (spitefully) refuse to extend voluntary courtesy and instead go by the book, in response to shit-talking".

Now obviously the way he was treated _after_ arrest was an abuse of the system, and there are no arguments here about that. But 'debt' is correct in that you shouldn't expect to be rude to someone and then turn around and demand that they violate by-the-book law to do you a favor.

As far as the rest of your comment, I really feel pretty much the exact same way; I just don't think it contradicts the advice given by 'debt'.
But why do we need to judge ai by our language? if were dealing with data and images, machine learning does do impressive things,including things that if were done by researchers would have certainly gotten them a place inside respectable academic journals.

For example ,a machine learning algorithm devised a new internet protocol that doubles the network capacity over best known methods.Another famous machine learning system understood own it's own how to classify images what belongs to the bucket of "cat" and many other object types.

Why isn't this enough to be considered intelligent?
There are entire walk-ups in New York dedicated to short-term leasing through Airbnb. Entire walk-ups. A friend of mine has a landlord that does this. I only appreciated on an academic level the effects that Airbnb would have on the rental market until I learned about this practice. Now, it's very real to me.

Entire walk-ups.
>He did the same for OCaml and got faster code

No he didn't. He took the time to learn ocaml.

>Obviously you can write fast code in Haskell, but that is not the same as it being easy.

The closest thing to evidence I can find suggests that it is no more difficult to write fast code in haskell:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
I found it useful. Makes me more likely to click the actual link when I can see what it might be (an image in this case). Seeing the real domain and path is also nice.

I gotta say, "homage to the guy who produced their best beats" seems very inaccurate, you sure that's the right link?
It totally depends on the department and position you're applying for, and the people who'll be interviewing you.
There's so many different things - I'll send you an email and we can chat over the weekend if you want?
They say that this will limit competition and choice, but the only two cities that I see TW and Comcast compete in (according to the chart in the article) are Louisville and Kansas City.
Ask HN: Too much good stuff online. How do you select?
I don't have enough time to read/watch/play at all the interesting stuff online, even if I were to restrict it to HN only... so how do I select wisely? Any hacks/tips/recommendations welcome.
Show HN: CUVE, online test prep service
Fresh URL: Clean URLs at Last
This is actually pretty nice, thanks for showing it off
I think he was getting at the licensing fees that Android manufacturers and Google pay to Microsoft on a per-phone basis.
Tagging this chain to pick one of those books later.
"No 24h time limit. No pain. Yes, with $18,000 in prizes.."

A bitcoin hackathon with prizes in dollar? Even if the winners are rewarded in bitcoin, it's still weird.
Boy that Slate article is just bad. So one sided. Airbnb is absolutely disrupting the home ownership/rental and hotel markets. Like any market there might be winners and losers. It will sort itself out though and we'll settle at a new balance.
Well then, the administrators of roads and ambulances should probably lobby to have the police taxes be separable, before too many people decide to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I'd love to see this. Any way you can put me on a mailing list? (My username) at gmail.com.
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It doesn't seem like you actually read the article, but are just commenting on the title. They're not saying any of these innovations are true intelligence. What they're saying is that computers (and robots) are starting to do things that until recently were thought to be solely the domain of humans. They're saying that we're at the start of a new industrial revolution (a second machine age) which will lead to enormous increases in productivity.

This article focuses on the positive effects. In their book they actually spend quite a lot of time discussing potential negative effects as well, such as unemployment. You'll be glad to hear that they agree with you that jobs like programming and engineering will be ever more important in that world.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: He chose Russia and China because priority #1 when you're running FROM someone, is to not get caught by them. Those were large nations he could (relatively) easily get into, that are not friends with the US and would not immediately turn him over to the US.

I'm sure he would have preferred to run and hide in Switzerland or Canada, or Japan, or any one of a hundred other countries, except that they would have hauled him in and stuck him on a plane/boat/truck back to the US as soon as he was identified.

This is a perfectly reasonable 'not a spy' reason to run to those countries, in case you lacked the imagination to go any further than 'he only went there because he was a spy.'
Any chance you'll open source the products?
Hey guys, here are some "Oh crap it's Valentine's Day" gift ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

Once you understand the algorithm, suddenly it doesn't seem mysterious and then it can't be "true" AI. I'll agree that advancements in machine learning aren't necessarily leading to strong AI, but they are still incredible advancements. Many problems in the field of AI have been solved, and then suddenly dismissed as not being "AI".
Here's an example:

> "More intelligent people get higher level jobs (and better employment (and higher salary) may lead to higher self-esteem, and encourage personal control beliefs."

This plays into society's implicit assumption that beliefs are subjective, and that objective truths cannot be known for certain. It's taking advantage of something that most people think, but don't realize they think, and therefore don't realize is an invalid assumption to make.
From the rules:

> Coinbase must be the sole bitcoin payment method included in the app.

So, is it a hackathon to make something cool with bitcoin, or to make something cool with Coinbase?

Anything anyone does to make bitcoin bigger, better, and more mainstream, will benefit Coinbase in the long run. So it might be a bit short-sighted to restrict this unless there is a really good reason.
...bores me to no end. There's never any use for that stuff. The opposite direction is more interesting, when the far end of the cpu connection uses /mnt/term, especially for the like of /mnt/term/mnt/plumb.

I've never really understood why 'import /proc' is better than 'cpu acid'. Yeah, there's cases where the remote host won't have acid installed.

More interesting, I think, would be stuff like getting /net in a VM from the host OS [surely 9vx or inferno's /net could be separated out], getting /dev/sd* from a 9P server that knows QCOW, etc.

Not mattering whether it's in the kernel or userspace, without using $LD_*, is also far more interesting that not mattering whether it's local or remote.
Doesn't support IPv6 :)
The effects of AI are an extension of human will. We will succeed or fall with or without AI. AI will only be a factor or artifact in this process, not its determinant.
This is highly intriguing, but I must ask why the JS community has this fascination with obscure identifiers like "_". It decreases readability when what should be a logically-chosen descriptive identifier for your class is replaced with a single character that visually recedes into the language syntax. Edit: I've grudgingly given jquery a pass on this because of its ubiquity, but come on, a stream library? Not to mention the fact that a reasonably popular lib already seems to have squatted on underscore.
That's not actually what he said, but good job taking offense.
The authors of the article actually wrote a book on this very subject (mentioned at the bottom of the article). They actually devote a lot of attention to exactly that problem, which they refer to as the bounty (gains because of new technology) and the spread (the inequality you mention).
I'm 30, and spend hundreds of dollars a year on concerts (Rev Horton Heat, Nine Inch Nails, Lolla, Coachella, etc). I'm debating paying $400 for 3 days in Miami for the Ultra music fest (EDM festival) at the end of March. It's not just 16-20 year olds paying for live shows.

EDIT: I also go to Lakes Of Fire, Burning Man, etc. I may not be representative of larger groups.
Apple describes disposable email solution to combat spam in patent application
It uses one of the free databases that are available.

Ip address 200.7.52.1 is a good way to check these services. This should position to the island of Sint Maarten. A serious offering would know that. The free ones always set the position to Curacao. Just about 900 NM away...
You need bait traps. Spraying won't work. The best information I found (for a carpenter ant problem) was from the University of Kentucky.

http://www2.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef619.asp

Although for the big jobs I get the real poison from epestsupply.com, I've had luck with the stuff at the local home hardware store also. It might be a place to start while you wait for your 'Special reserve' to come in.
Why would they drop Mir? Dropping Upstart makes sense because systemd has momentum and they both do basically the same job. With Mir vs. Wayland they already evaluated Wayland and decided it wasn't going to be suitable for their needs, unless Canonical change their target markets this isn't something that'd make sense to change (unless a later version of Wayland supports what they want).
it's a strange thing to contemplate how a startup like this could directly contribute to housing cost inflation in your own backyard. and to think you might be right - the answer could be you might need to give up some privacy (let strangers have run of your home) to live where you want - wow - that's a bright future we're working with.

i'm an apartment dweller myself - i'm going to check with the building management today to see if they ban this kind of short term rental in my building. at least protect myself on my own turf.
Free will is probably just an illusion anyway,according to neuroscientists.Tech could create a new illusion for us.
I think this move is about recognizing that they're not going to make any more money on the old catalog, so they're using it as a way to connect directly with their fans - via collected email addresses. Next, I would expect they'll release new material and target it directly at these people. They can charge a minimal amount of money and make more than if they went through any label or, say iTunes.

TL;DR They're doing this to build their email list to create a direct channel for marketing future material.
I was trying to figure out which database they were using as well. I've checked their results for my IP address against the results from MaxMind's GeoIP City and GeoIP2 City service and these return the closet results related to the Latitude/Longitude displayed on ipinfo.io, it also has a matching zip code. The network name differs since I'm on U-Verse but I think they are just displaying the company name from the ASN. I also checked Quova/Neustar and the results are vastly different.
I'm concerned about the effect this could have on family housing in San Francisco. If a family already owns a house and uses airbnb to rent out a downstairs bedroom now and then, sure, I could see that helping. But if a family is in a bidding war with someone without kids, the anticipated income from an airbnb rental could enable the bidder without a child who needs an extra room (to say nothing of the very high costs associated with raising a kid in SD) to go much higher. This would have the effect of making it harder for families to purchase what is currently zoned as single family housing.

Now, this is just a concern. It may not currently be happening, and it may be unlikely to happen in the future. According to this post, Ken Rosen, an economist at UC Berkeley, conducted a detailed study for airbnb and states that "...not only is there no evidence to suggest that short-term rentals are making homes less affordable, our research and analysis indicate that home sharing has the potential to make urban housing more affordable for more families."

I was unable to find a link to this study on the blog post... is this it?

http://urbanland.uli.org/news/short-term-rentals-and-the-hou...

The only reference I get to a "family" here is "...the amount of income from a rental alone is not generally sufficient to live on, but it can go a long way in providing supplemental income for a family." Sure, but is a family as able to access this supplemental income as someone without kids, and more free bedrooms? And what about the "bidding war" scenario, above? Even if it is not a big factor now, it could become a big factor once the expectation of rental income becomes the norm.

The urban land article references this study:

http://www.rosenconsulting.com/products/rentalreport.html

The roseconsulting link makes no reference to families. I recommend people who are interesting read it. The summary is that other factors have led to the rise in housing costs, including restrictive zoning laws and an employment boom, and that airbnb (and related) rentals are too small a part of the rental market to have much of an effect. Does this mean they could have a large effect if it become more widespread?
>"The more capital you have, the more capital you are able to accrue. And capital is power. The old saying, the rich get richer, is not just the superficial, flippant comment it might appear, flung around in the pub - it describes a core characteristic of capitalism."

This is an interesting idea, but has been shown to be false. One example is that the average company on the S&P 500 lasts for less than 20 years, and this is dropping.[1] Another example can be seen by simply looking at all the richest families in the USA in 1900, and seeing which of them is still a famous dynasty; there are a number of studies on this, but it seems like family wealth does not usually last more than 3-4 generations. Even the Annheiser-Busch family, who created the still-popular Budweiser brand, have lost their empire after six generations of hard work.[2] Or look at a list of the "robber barons", and see how many of the family names correspond to the list of richest people on earth.[3]

[1] http://www.innosight.com/innovation-resources/strategy-innov...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist)
I think it's to encourage adoption of their API offerings. However, there's nothing stopping a developer from abstracting their payment method so that they can implement a BitPay or bitcoind integration later.
A few years ago I had an old Thinkpad which I had not used in a few months when one day I decided to fire it up, but when I opened the lid it was an ant farm!

Not sure of the ant variety, but I'm in Hawai'i and we have little red fire ants in some areas.
If they are, they would be the furthest north sighting of them so far[0]. Notably, the ants in your video don't actually move like rasberry crazy ants but they appear more like a normal disturbed ant nest. It's hard to describe how unusual coming across them is, but take a look at this video for how they look when you encounter them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgUOufiQw6M (ignore pretty much everything the video author says =)

You're more likely dealing with something like a Pharaoh ant, which are fairly common in your area.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reported_distribution_of_t...
This database does not know my ip address. I assume then they use a free database then so you should pay nothing either...

Anyway, this 'quality' should be free anyway ;-)
The point is that people have relatively good relationship with police in many countries -- as nice as Sweden is, it doesn't appear in the top 10. The very good standard of Scandinavia is common.
Talking about sought after hip-hop, the article reminded me of this:

http://www.discogs.com/KMD-Black-Bastards/release/4762758
That could be true.

The risk is that it prices the low to mid wage workers out with AirBNB not even keeping them in an area. I'd love to see a study on the average income of AirBNB hosts outside of their AirBNB income.
What it Feels Like When Your Startup Has Massive Traction
You should probably add -> "add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;" to your nginx config.
The Way We Interview is All Wrong.
So they put 18k USD on the top 3 applicants that provide their closed source, coinbase only solution? They already got attention worth more than that by having us read the terms and coditions. Why not do something cool and respected. I have no problem with the coinbase API having to be used but the exclusiveness is so anti bitcoin spirit.
Are you also planning on addressing the numerous factual misrepresentations in the post? Because your [edit:AirBnB's (Brian is CEO is AirBNB)] already poor credibility is taking a real beating: see pretty much all of the comments on this page.
As much as I might like to deny it, I did, in fact, read the article:

Because the exponential, digital, and recombinant powers of the second machine age have made it possible for humanity to create two of the most important one-time events in our history: the emergence of real, useful artificial intelligence (AI) and the connection of most of the people on the planet via a common digital network.

"The emergence of real, useful artificial intelligence" is what I dispute; if the article chose to describe this as the "emergence of real, useful, algorithms and systems to address meaningful problems" then, fine. But of course, that isn't news, either -- it's merely the story of humanity in a sentence: it is us using our bipedalism and our oversized brains to do what we have always done to survive and thrive.
var Highland = require('highland');
VC Tom Perkins' big idea: The rich should get more votes
If we can implement following two rules of living, we can move in the direction of achieving post-scarcity economy:

1) Cap every individual at a maximum he can earn for private use – if he earns beyond this, it'll redistributed amongst the society (as basic income). The cap could be say $500000/$1000000, which is high enough to encourage a part of the population to create wealth and enjoy it. At the same time, it disincentivises individuals to create infinite wealth which causes monopoly and consequently concentration of power.
If I think about it, it actually encourages more competition as people can replicate other successes while noone has had tangible incentive to crush all its competitors. But humans have a tendancy to show that they are better. Yes, in such a system, they can satisfy it by actually teaching others to create the same businesses they've got success with thereby creating social capital in the name of popularity.

2) Remove inheritance. Inheritance is one of the reasons why people continue to accumilate more and more. In a post-scarcity society, everyone is borne equal in terms of wealth and must work to create more wealth (with a cap) starting from adulthood.
It's not. It mitigates their risk of bitcoin skyrocketing and it mitigates your risk of bitcoin crashing while you develop. But I'm glad to less and less hear this critic whenever shops offer stuff in bitcoin priced in USD.
U.S.-South Korea Communications Won't Use Huawei Gear
Fun fact: this game is much easier on my gaming mouse than using mere Dell mouse at work.
Protecting Against a Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Origin Traffic
Right, your average tech worker in their bus is what you will see everyday, while the executive is hidden from view.

And yes I know that a six-figure income probably places you in the 90%.

However these people aren't the decision makers and can't affect change the way Google's or Apple's executives can. Until the protesters start protesting rational targets it's hard for me to commiserate or take this seriously. (clarification: I absolutely commiserate with people "gentrified" out of their neighborhoods, I just think the protesting has been directed at the wrong things)

So many of the articles include a quote from a protester that the "techies" don't interact or integrate with their neighborhoods. But I've also read many quotes from techies stating that they are unhappy with the situation too, no one wants to displace people from their homes or neighborhoods and high real estate prices hurt everyone.

If I were involved in one of these protest groups I would take the first step, get the employees involved too, and make it about something bigger than these red-herring buses!
but... node? really?
I find it really ironic that we won't allow Huawei gear to be used because we are worried about them being subverted by China, when the US has in fact, done the same thing to gear in the US. Don't use that equip with the China malware, use the US equip with US malware. </buyamerican>
Because those aren't Intelligent, they are just "handy".

Sorting doesn't require intelligence. You have X number of attributes and using them you do your best to get as many things in to "Like" buckets as possible.

Discovering new attributes is the start of intelligence. Discovering new buckets could be intelligence.

If the machine gets 100k pictures and can sort them in to Cat vs No Cat, and then suggests a new set of classification "Indoors vs outdoors" using attributes the developer didn't pre-identify that would be intelligence.
Are you all alone with your company on Valentine's day?

Well have I got the group for you!
Are You Gay? Come out the closet Here's How
How is it rethoric?
Portuguese is a language that mutated a lot between the countries that use it.
For more informations check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Language_Orthographi...
>basic income

Personally I oppose the idea - kinda. To be more precise I would prefer a system that stacks the odds in their favour heavily rather than "free money". e.g. Give them their cash...but make them guide school kids across a dangerous road in return. i.e. Extract some (extra) social benefit from it.

Makes little financial sense either way, but I'd much rather have them do the school kids thing & collect cash than sleep & collect cash.
Comcast Gives $854K to Subcommittee With Jurisdiction Over FCC
Nice although I think I prefer the style to separate the htm from the js

<template id='mytemplate'>
my data is {{data}}
</template>

<script>
doit('mytemplate', 'http://api.dribbble.com/.../shots')

// or jq plugin
$('#mytemplate').render('http://...');
</script>