skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just sick and tired of the herd mentality quick to say "but I have nothing to hide therefore they can spy on me."

This is extremely short sighted response and one which the government well expect. This is why they are able to get away with this gross violation of civil right to freedom and privacy, pillars of the free world which is attacked.

The terrorists have simply one. To cause this kind of paranoia and overreaction from the government which attacks every one of our rights as human beings, is clearly a win for the terrorists and also for those in power, and keep their power.
there is a concern -- that unchecked the virus could affect children not yet vaccinated, or the elderly in an outbreak.

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>I'm amazed by Amazon

I, on the other hand, am underwhelmed.

Their AWS services is a pretty cool tech and business.

But as for their other stuff:

1) Their core business (the store) barely makes any profit. Their profit margins are razor-thin, and until recently operated at a loss IIRC.

2) Their ebooks and music store are ho-hum.

3) Their hardwares, Kindles (Fire and plain) are simply loss leaders for content sales. Which (1) is not that profitable in itself anyway. Not that difficult to sell stuff like readers and tablets at a cost or slight loss.

Anything else I forget about?
Not really an illusion, but a case of pareidolia. Our brain is wired to recognize patterns in chaos, even the more so when prompted in advance. Another example is 'seeing faces' in everything that vaguely resembles a face.

There's a skeptoid episode about this phenomenon: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4105, 'When People Talk Backwards'. Is has more audio examples, from the same researchers. They were using "three-tone sinusoidal replica", or a complicated sine wave sound. They found that people were able to perceive speech, when in fact there were no traditional speech sounds present in the signal. (from the skeptoid podcast transcription).
I think the way cabs actually operate in NYC makes this practically impossible unless you already have some details such as the lat/Lon of dropoff and pickup and time of the stops.

I'm assuming the data is for yellow cabs and the new lime green "boro cabs" you hail on the street, not "car service" cars where you schedule a pickup and dropoff to specific addresses.

Most bars in Manhattan are storefronts in 3-4 story residential buildings. There are apartments above and they are surrounded by other buildings with apartments and businesses. I don't think you could identify a bar. Now strip clubs on the other hand are required by law to be tucked away in isolated locations. Might be possible to identify a strip club.

When you hail a cab, and many times when you get dropped off, it happens on a corner, perhaps over a block away, where it is easier to find a free cab.

Most cabs are in Manhattan, not a lot of single family homes. Single family homes in the outer boroughs will have almost no yellow cab coverage for pickup and finding a cab that will take you out of Manhattan can be dicey, although I guess those lime green cabs are meant to address that. SI, the Bronx and huge swaths of Brooklyn and Queens pickups will be almost non existant, people going from the outer boroughs will most likely use a car service.

I will certainly be checking to see if I can identify any of my rides.
Ah yes I remember his speech. I guess its still too early for me to say. I want to experience a bit of everything. I'm sure i'll eventually find what I love to do.
Ah, freshmeat.net, one of those essential sites back in the day, when Slashdot.org was still relevant, when Slackware Linux was something cool to use and when compiling source by hand was a fun thing to do.

I used to scroll down the front page every day, looking at some cool new projects to test out.

Uploaded my first Open Source project, umix.sf.net, there too. Was really fun to see people downloading my software and see the statistics for how many clicks it had gotten.

Good time to kill it already, didn't even remember it still existing.
A Kalman Filter[1] keeps an internal model of the thing it is measuring to maximize the information it can extract from noisy sensory input.

Our brain likely does something similar for the same reason.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
The author's approach doesn't actually make use of a rainbow table; he just generates a flat hash -> plaintext map. A rainbow table is a specific way of representing such a map that is more compact but takes more computation time to "access" (and also may be incomplete).
>Imagine a railroad had just completed the first trans-continental route and was very busy making money on that. Now imagine that they were also putting most of that money into building more track to service ever larger parts of the US directly instead of just NY<->SF. Should they be reporting huge profits? No because that money is going directly into more right-of-way and steel.

Yeah, exactly like that, only it's been 15 years already, and it's not like the don't already have the largest online store, or there's any magic solution for them to rise their margins in the future.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. Fewer than 1% of the people I know live in a state of active fear of our government. There are certainly nefarious goals behind many incidents of mass surveillance, but "perpetuat[ing] a culture of mass fear" is not one of them. The vast majority of people don't even know this is going on, let alone care.
But is it all going back into infrastructure and the like? What if it is allowing them to subsidise lower prices on products, killing competition?

I don't really know of any other company that has managed to not produce really any profit in 20 years of operation, most of that as a public corporation.

It doesn't seem sustainable to me. Also, to use your analogy most of the railroads ended up bankrupt/closed down because they vastly overbuilt with the assumption that more passengers and freight would come, despite going into really rural areas. It is perhaps quite apt for where Amazon could end up going.
I remember that i had freshmeat on my bookmark bar and browsed it every day once for new stuff. The old design really was MUCH better.
Not necessarily true of every library system. (I know it's true of SFPL, but I believe not everywhere else.)
I always knew the "talent borrows, genius steals" version and it being attributed to Oscar Wilde. While I couldn't find any concrete evidence online to him having said that, I still like this version the best.
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That's not just racist and rude, it's also logically unsound. What do you think the percentage of odesk programmers in India is? 80% maybe? If you avoid people from that entire country, you're getting 1/5 of odesk. For your heuristic to make any sense, programmers on odesk from India would have to be 500% worse at programming than everyone else (relative to salary). In short, I think your ideas about this are just bonkers.
Might be worth trying the email address on the page of NYC Digital:

digital@cityhall.nyc.gov
http://www.nyc.gov/html/digital/html/about/contact.shtml
I'm super curious about the limitations of information an insurance company can use to profile you. Do you have to agree to every factor explicitly? Or could Google throw in something like "...and factors based on your interaction with Google products"
Yes, I know. But the hypothetical situation is one where the majority of people in the world starve. That's certainly not what happens today.

By the way, here in Portugal supermarkets do discount some perishables when their expiration date is near. And they're not thrown away every day, at least for most vegetables and fruit.
Have you ever considered that other people's circumstances might differ from your own?

Certainly, but I haven't met many people who didn't have parents, and very few who couldn't live with them (or other relatives) while working and attending college. I have, however, met a great many people who took on significant debt (or used their parents' money) in order to attend distant colleges.

You should like one of those Paul Ryan-types who believes anyone can just stop being poor by trying harder.

Absolutely nothing I wrote indicates anything of the sort. In the future, I suggest that you form a response using something other than personal insults built on assumptions. All I did was post two examples of the (extremely affordable, imo) Oregon state university tuition.

I could go on to point out that a huge part of rising costs are related to cost of living, due to supposedly increased expectations of students, and provide a counter example of how a friend of mine (the eldest daughter of a poor, single, Mexican-American mother, who was in the ROTC program) lived very cheaply in Corvallis in a commune-style arrangement, also working part-time, but then you'd probably want to talk trash about her, too.
Those people are also not participating/planning any protests or other forms of civil disobedience. They are irrelevant, as far as the elite are concerned.
I hope you carry on with this project. If there's any search engine that can beat Google (long into the future) it's a P2P one.

Speaking of the devil, are you aware you can't install extensions from 3rd party sources anymore at all? You can thank Google for this idiotic and completely self-interested move.
Genuinely curious, let's assume this technology is created. What would audio signals would you even record?

Most drones are far from any subject (sound-producing or not). What are use cases where the drone is close to a sound source?

This got me thinking of a few examples:

- drones could get closer to waterfalls or volcanoes than any sound engineer with a boom could
- a drone could be used for video interviews, automatically panning between the interviewer & the interviewee, recording both video and pristine audio, streaming via a cellular data link back to the studio
There were computerized type-setters well before the Mac. Back in the 70's, I wrote a fair amount of page-layout software, as well as a program to convert scanned logos into fonts. (Bask in the day when there were three USA manufacterers of airliners [each airline had to get its own version, and sometimes more than one version] we did publication of maintenance manuals for Boeing, Lockheed and McDonnel-Douglas) Full screen editor with variable font size, even all the way down to birds-eye view, but using vector graphics rather than pixels.
>1993 called and wants its micro-services. That is great. At least it seems like he is describing Go's channels, Rust's tasks, and most of all Erlang's processes.

Hmm, don't know about the others, but Go's channels seem much much more primitive and bare than the description you quoted.
> There's also not a market for things that are hard to explain like multilateral trade agreements.

Financial institutions, macro-oriented asset managers and companies with multinational supply chains and long-term assets are each affected by these dynamics. Gaining intelligence on the nature and implications of trade negotiations is huge business.

I spent a good amount of time, as a trader, trying to anticipate how sundry domestic political variables constrained international actors, thereby predicting the odds of various trade structures arising from a forum (or of a forum even materialising in the first place).
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I'll believe this is true when I hear it from a second, accountable and reputable source.
The Post Office is a private company that happens to receive a monopoly on your mail box and some mandated legislation, but otherwise is not funded by tax dollars.
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> unless you already have some details such as the lat/Lon of dropoff and pickup and time of the stops.

These are literally columns in the data set. To quote the original post:

Each file has about 14 million rows, and each row contains medallion, hack license, vendor id, rate code, store and forward flag, pickup date/time dropoff date/time, passenger count, trip time in seconds, trip distance, and latitude/longitude coordinates for the pickup and dropoff locations. [1]

You're right that a lot of cab pickups/dropoffs happen a few doors down from the actual location, and that there aren't a lot of single family homes in Manhattan. But that doesn't negate what I'm saying. Even if only 20% of rides involve the actual location, that's still an awful lot of potential privacy violations. And even if there are zero single family homes involved, that was only the first scenario of numerous ones I mentioned.

[1] http://chriswhong.com/open-data/foil_nyc_taxi/
Most good professors have more than one PhD student at a time, although I doubt many have 16. 5 is probably a reasonable number.
Are you really suggesting that brain damage can increase intelligence or just suggesting that intelligence can be raised?

It is pretty pointless talking about if intelligence can be raised or not unless we actually define what we mean by intelligence. In the absence of a tight definition all we end up doing is arguing about what each of us thinks intelligence is.
Well, someone is lying.
This experiment has already been performed. The results are complex and controversial.
> My usage is absolutely common parlance.

Maybe in your particular social or intellectual circles, but not in common parlance. This is obvious by comparing the dictionary definition with your definition: the former is general and widely understood, while the later is values-laden and requires an appreciation of a particular philosophical position.

> For instance, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence are not considered to be "regulation."

They are by definition regulations. If you read the definition of regulation, you would have to agree they are regulations.

> Your proposed terms of "good regulation" and "bad regulation" ignore my explanation of support or violation of sovereignty and are just a poor attempt to discredit my (correct) position.

They specifically acknowledge and address your points around individual sovereignty - your assertions to the contrary indicate you haven't properly read what I wrote.

I called out an example of a 'good regulation' by your definition - an environmental law - to show how regulations can support individual sovereignty.

Leaving this point unanswered is what discredits your position. However it's clear to me this contortion around the meaning of 'regulation' is something impossible to honestly defend.
Other data: https://nycopendata.socrata.com/data?cat=transportation
Not to speak of perpetual war... [1984]

And divide and conquer politics [Animal Farm]
How is that a strawman? He said that patents were introduced to allow ideas to be disseminated. That's a faulty premise.

However, to handle your own strawman, the answer is b. I'd keep the details secret. Which is not a problem, because there have been many, many occassions when someone reverse engineers the work or comes up with the idea completely independently.
It makes things much simpler and less emotional if we just substitute the word "height" for the word "intelligence" in any discussion on this topic.
I meant coupled with a goroutine. But yeah also no isolation.

OS processes though with some IPC mechanism also fit the pattern. But that is not a language anymore as a standard library and OS API
What I meant was if you already know the time and location, say you know what time the barista left work and the lat/Lon of the coffee shop. It would just be a matching it up with the data in the table to find the drop off.

What I don't think is practical is identifying everyone who may or may not have left a particular bar.
I'm going to bet you won't see Google peeking at your bathroom scale, without telling you first, and using that to give you better life insurance.

Now, I would bet that they let you OPT-IN to sharing that data, in order to qualify for a discount, which is effectively changing the price curve.
I think just subtracting out the rotors would be nice...
Is it a reference to blade runner ? I've guessed that from the following comments, but otherwise i wouldn't have known ( and i have seen the movie). I don't even know what part of the movie that comment makes reference to...

Edit : ok, found it. I remember that scene but nothing from the speech... Glad to know that was a cult moment.
I don't see a problem here. If a patent is granted for the cure for cancer, then the products will most likely be very expensive because you have a monopoly on the cure. Poor people will not be able to buy the cure, so how has that helped them?
> How is this not front page New York Times???

Because it's unproven.

If no one beats me to it, I'll grab a dump of the data and look myself.

But in the abstract, I agree; there's a non-zero risk of being able to identify passengers from the logs. This makes for an interesting ethical problem: should this data have been made available? It becomes much, much less useful without those coordinates.

Which is more important? Government transparency or citizen privacy?
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Small, but relevant for history. In 2006, AWS was the first cloud. At the time, a datacenter with extremely low prices, super-massive customer base and where you could spin off/shut down instances on demand was crazy. The impact changed the way we think about computing.

I admit that, had they not been there, someone else would probably have invented it. Some dodgy website hosting service, for example.
The fact of the matter is that until our legal system and laws drastically change we cannot allow this level of surveillance. We have too many people wasting away in prisons for personal drug use, disproportionate sentences, and a increasingly alarming for profit prison industry. Until that is fixed we cannot allow this kind of power.
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It's surprising that intelligence agencies don't have a proper solution already.
I don't even get how this is government transparency. That's like saying everyone's cell phone records ("just the metadata") should be published, minus names, because telecom is regulated.
Right, same attack with a less sophisticated data structure.
I got nothing. After looping the video twice, the third time I still had no association between the sound and the sentence. As I write this, I can't even remember what the sentence was.

Interestingly, I have a horrible auditory memory and have a dreadful time deciphering accents. I would guess that it's not coincidence.
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Well, no, that phrase does not actually inherently have that meaning, but rather it's one possible use of that phrase, another valid interpretation would be the plain english one. Given that AFAICS noone was proclaiming an expectation of privacy in that specific sense, your use in that sense was rather unmotivated, which is why I went with the alternative interpretation.

Now, if I had known that you were using the phrase in that specific sense, I'd simply have asked: Where did you get the idea that anyone has an expectation of privacy (in the legal sense), and what does that have to do with the topic at hand (which is people's expectation of privacy (in the non-legal sense))?

I think you are completely confusing "what the law (possibly) is" with "what the law should be". This discussion is about what the law should be, but all you seem to be writing is "but the law is this!". This whole discussion exists because the law as it stands is defective, and people are aware of it (or maybe the law is actually fine, but then it at least tends to be mis-interpreted), so your pointing out what the law is is kinda besides the point. My actual expectation is that the postal service does not archive letter meta data and I have good reasons for that expectation. If the current law doesn't mirror that expectation, then the law needs to be changed.

Now, if you think the law is fine as it is and as it is applied, you maybe should bring forward some argument for why the law is good as it is and why a change would be bad rather than just state what the current law is.

Also, one more point: I would guess that society in general would actually not expect their letter meta data to be archived, and just as it is convention to not open a sealed envelope (a very strong convention indeed, given that it is law, but still it's just a convention in the sense that there is nothing inherent in an envelope that makes the content private - it doesn't really hinder access to the content at all, it's just that for good reasons society at some point has decided "a sealed envelope is not to be looked inside even though it's trivial to do so" when it just as well might have decided instead for a convention of "every sealed envelope is to be opened by the postal service and the content copied and archived"), it should for similar reasons be convention to not archive letter meta data even though that also is trivial to do, and if that is the convention, then all you have to do to "demonstrate that you expect privacy" is to post a letter that is not explicitly labeled "please archive!", just as you "demonstrate that you don't want to be shot" by going outside without a sign saying "please shoot me".