skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my area I find that the cross-traffic ones are poorly implemented. I'll drive up, come to a complete stop, the light will change for me and will already be back to yellow before I clear the intersection. This forces me to always stop when there was no traffic on the preferred route. It also means that if there is a car more than a few car lengths ahead of me it will change for them and force me to wait a full cycle even when there isn't traffic on the preferred route.

This shouldn't be a hard problem to fix. Sensors just need to be installed farther from the light to detect approaching vehicles earlier.
I don't have numbers but imagine that Uber's got a lot more traction.
If you're on OSX, there's Lime Text, which is Open Source http://limetext.org . Linux cross compile is apparently working and a Windows version is in the works as well.

https://github.com/limetext/lime/wiki/Goals
Show HN: Master iOS Design Course
Yeah, when looking at core.async transformers and the reducer library, it seemed clear that there was some generality in there that could be factored out. Glad someone smarter than me figured out what it was.
I created an iOS design course because I noticed that a lot of iOS tutorials simply do not do a decent job of covering the actual design of an iOS app or design at all. Instead of just writing a book I wanted to do something that would be more interactive and could include videos, animated gifs, and eventually section discussions.

I also hate info products where I pay upfront only to find out I didn’t get the value that I thought I would so I made this course pay what you value. You can go through the course without any restrictions and if you find any value in it, you can pay. Pretty simple.

Anyways, I still have a lot of work to do on it, but it was time to finally get it out in the open. I hope you enjoy it and find some value in it and if you have any feedback I would love to hear it (new videos are being made since I say “um” way too much).
Security Researchers Access Cryptolocker Decryption Key Database
It's kind of a hobby project I made. I get lots of e-mail from clients and using todos and pins to remember to follow up became a pain. So I created mailreminder.net, which let me forward any email to a mailreminder.net address, which will trigger a reminder at the approriate time.

I built mailreminder.net with privacy in mind, and mailreminder.net's servers will never read or store the contents of you emails.
politics is the primary mechanism by which society regulates its emotion. people get emotional when you say that you don't follow politics because that is how the 'politics' mechanism operates. people express anger outwards - at the out groups who are seen as 'not helping' - and upwards, where it is packaged and managed by people who are capable of handling intensely powerful emotions - many of them are sociopaths, who simply don't care.

try watching house of cards with the 'politics as emotional transfer mechanism' model running. see how many decisions are made on the basis of creating or moving jobs. having a job makes people calm. not having a job makes them worried.

you can start to view the capital building as the 'central emotional processor' of the nation, where emotions are packed up in intense chunks and moved around between people who believe they are just trying to get more power, but are effectively reducing emotional tension.
Show HN: Version Control OmniGraffle Files
Pet peeve: I want to zoom out with my browser, but all the images are set to width:100% in a taller aspect-ratio...
This seems to me as a "standard" intelectual-elitist paper which tries to insinuate that democracy, where people really decide the issues, cannot work. I haven't read it very deeply but the fact that he quotes Walter Lippmann says that lot.

Also, I think he misrepresents Arrow's theorem. First of all, it applies only to ordering of preferences; if you allow preferences to be number from interval, such as range voting does, there is no problem. Second, the non-dictatorship criterion is a bit disingenuous, because who is dictator depends on their own preferences - just like majority vote is not "dictatorship of the majority".
Yeah, I saw this technique, but it requires violating the warranty (opening the case), and we'd really like kids to be able to get their laptops fixed for free if something goes wrong. Still great that it's possible to do, and can make a fun project for kids with our laptops.
There are many people who still use @aol.com as their email including many small businesses. I'm assuming those are the majority of their paying customers.
Dossier: Database meets Wiki
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I made no such claim. I was making the claim that overall production maybe affected differently than individual production for both scenarios. And offering a middle-ground option which may be more beneficial, but is often not discussed.
Show HN: My GitHub code repertoire
Most Americans are going to get an education in cards with chip next year - the majority of cards should be chipped by end of 2015. Looks like they're leaning towards chip + signature for most issuers, though, so will probably be another couple of years before they give up that to and go chip and pin, given that they're increasingly becoming the prime target for fraud as pretty much every other developed country is going or have gone chip and pin.
MongoHQ (YC S11) changes name to Compose, launches Elasticsearch
Your typical definition of map, filter etc includes concrete usage of e.g. lists. These don't. Transducers are not just currying or partial application of the map function over lists, they isolate the logic of map, filter etc from lists or any particular context, allowing them to be used in very different (e.g. non-collection) contexts.
Yet the man could do all the same creative stuff, giving the camera to a child instead, and the copyright wouldn't be his.
Not for the core. I'm trying to fight for performance even on CSS side
But it's optional — you could to write your own widgets, with libraries of your choice.
Great post! I'll definitely take you up on the offer, thanks!
The Making of OnMetal
did they act in your interest?

you threw out the CIA torture thing above

let make a not-necessarily-called-for leap, lets say you voted for Obama

did telling Obama that he did enough to earn your vote help or hurt those affected by CIA torture?

(if you're not an Obama voter you have my apologies)
Checkout: about:permissions

You can remove HSTS cache per-site by selecting "Forget About This Site" -- HSTS is still cached in any currently opened tabs though
I got an ARM chromebook, and one of the biggest downsides is that I cannot run Sublime Text. Very disappointing there is no ARM build.
Common Date-Time Operations In Java – Formatting and Parsing Date-Time
You have an incentive to enjoy any short-term benefits the product provides. Have you been investing yourself?
"the science doesn't exist to let us improve on that 90-95% number."

I'd just like to add a note that we more or less know that, because reducing that 90-95% number would be tremendously profitable.
Do you have some service in mind, so frontendus could help?
> One thing you do not see fragmenting are command-line tools, because people tend to agree on their function(1).

Hm. top and htop do mostly the same thing. So do more, less and most, as examples of multiple tools for the same job. awk behaves slightly different on MacOS X. Bash is stuck at version 3.x there, too, for examples of different tools on different platforms. Some Linux distributions come with dash as /bin/sh, whereas others still use bash there. Which version of gcc you get in a given distribution seems mostly down to luck, as examples of fragmentation even within one operating system.

I wouldn’t say that there is no fragmentation of command-line tools, but maybe the individual fragments are smaller (as opposed to the two to four larger “fragments” GTK, Qt, MacOS X and Windows).
My biggest complaint about Yelp is the same as yours, nearly everyone is a "foodie" and trying to write reviews like they're part of the New York Times.
Has to be self-cleaning, sense outages, package up the food and bag it. Respond to disruptions (conveyor broke; ketchup dispenser leaking etc). AI could be useful.
That's not quite right - he left the camera out by accident. The monkey's taking photos was not his intention.

If he had accidentally constructed a situation where the monkey's pressing a button killed someone, we would consider it some kind of negligence or manslaughter (a much weaker claim) on his part, and the monkey would probably not be blamed.

You're also assuming that the ability to be held liable for murder and the ability to hold copyright are satisfied by the same criteria.
This was by far the best hackathon I've ever attended. It was awesome seeing the people you admire like sama and Justin Kan hacking away with you into the early morning.

The event itself was well-managed as well. Big ups to Kat and Dave for their hard work. Looking forward to next year!
All the incentives in the current scientific system are pushing scientist that way. It is sad, but I think it is a bit unfair to say that the "scientist only care about published results". That is a little like saying a musician only care about money because they copyright their songs and publish on iTunes. I think both scientists and musicians care a lot about music and science, despite how the current system works.
Looks cool, you get an upvote from me. Does it offer a way to get the 'ask' page or others?
Voting takes little time (about 15-30 minutes in my precinct) but has a lasting effect for years. Measured on a per-minute basis, there are few ways you can have as large an impact as voting.
That's still impressive! It took you two seconds while it took us 3 code iterations to get it right. It seems so obvious in retrospect but in the moment it can be hard to use the full range of your intuition about math. That knowledge could probably have saved us a day or two of coding.

OTOH it's extra difficult because when we did a first implementation we didn't we didn't have a full understanding of the shape of the problem.
Then you're lucky that your interest is represented amongst the few candidates from which we can pick from.

Don't forget all the people that voted for the opposition that lost. What do you tell them? "Too bad you didn't get enough votes to represent your interests"? This is not a sustainable system if only a few win.

My comments don't reflect the scale and complexity of the status quo because I'm arguing from first principles. Also I believe in more localized governance a la cantons, charter cities, archologies, and so on.
This is a scathing article. An open question... Is seems like the public market is not participating in the run-ups of many companies. For example, Facebook grew on private money, not public. Are these run-ups just too small to move the industry needle? Are public markets benefiting or hurting by not being involved in as many IPOs?
Crouton is pretty nice, and I experimented with that approach as well. A big reason we chose dual-boot is to give kids a playground in which they can really explore their laptops. I fondly remember the joy of installing every operating system I could get my hands on, and a full, independent install of Ubuntu demonstrates that this is possible. Thanks for the tip on XDK, I'll give that a look!
The Boosted Wait Is Over
just fyi, i upvoted you because your post looks rational, and thought out. please dont let these downvotes lead you to think all bitcoiners are nuts. we're just as full of partisans as any other group :-/
Dropbox's Carousel: Speeding up the Data Model
I would say that the majority of participants last weekend were actually students. It would be interesting to see the actual numbers.
Which is mostly the point, I guess.

If the feds want to listen in on your calls they have several options:

1.) Use a 0day exploit in Skype client software.
2.) Use the LE backdoors on the local machine.
3.) Install a rooted version of Skype using some other Windows
0day or LE backdoor.
4.) Just record any sound the microphone hears.
5.) Capture traffic as it travels across the backbone.
6.) Capture traffic as it travels through Microsoft's
central servers.
7.) Capture traffic at the other end if the callee is using
an old version of Skype.

Saying "the feds can't spy on you if you use Metro Skype" is in one narrow sense true, and in a wider sense outrageously, mendaciously false. If they can't do #1, they'll do #2-7.
Wing Commander III is now free
Not sure its the performance as much as the paged scrolling animation which doesn't let you scroll through the pages quickly.
I think that having an exponentially increasing renewal fee seems like a good idea on the surface, but makes things more complicated than they should be.

In order to do that, you have to have a central authority that actually keeps track of copyrighted works, who owns the rights to it, if they've been extended, if the fees have been paid, etc. On top of that, you need to think about the broke independent author who can't afford to extend the copyright on that 5th year because they got a divorce, got in a car accident, and landed in the hospital. Or the high schooler who wrote a book for NANOWRIMO, self-publishes it, but doesn't know the first thing about copyright law or needing to continually do extensions. The copyright inevitably lapses, and some publisher finds it, likes it, and starts printing copies and selling them because it's in the public domain.

I really, honestly believe that we need to reform copyright, but I also think we need make sure that it doesn't favour people with money and people with access to intimate knowledge of copyright law. I think everyone probably has at least one copyrighted work to their name, so we should make it a goal that just about everyone should be able to understand copyright.
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I gotta say, I'm impressed by how you've turned "intelectual" into a pejorative.
It's hard to see developer jobs (as awesome as they are) replacing displaced jobs on a massive scale. I was listening to an NPR podcast where they estimated that only one percent of workers in the United States are employed as software developers.
By "map in a non-collection context", what would be an example? Say, mapping a boolean negation function over the bits of an integer, to produce its complement? How does that look with transducers?
I didn't even realize that the page was scrollable. And, it's broken for me too. Latest FF on Mac OSX.
Pulitzer worthy reporting (I salute the reporter's courage)
New Internet speed record blows past Google Fiber
I looked around some before I posted that. This article seems respectable enough and at least supports the idea that bikes are intended to be able to trigger some of them:

http://bikeportland.org/2010/09/27/bike-science-making-sense...
I've been using Hitch the last month or so, and Sidecar has had the functionality for some time as well. Its cool to see Lyft and Uber offering the service.

IMO, a big win for consumers, because offering more service-level options, and driving down pricing. With Hitch, it usually costs me $9 for what costs $16-22 on UberX, Lyft or Sidecar. Thats a nice savings, even if it takes me 10min more to get home. I could really see mass adoption coming from the service who nails this and provides the option that is better than Muni, but cheaper than individual car service.

Another aspect of this service I wasn't ready for was that the social dynamic can completely change the ride-sharing experience. Its different when you are just chatting with a driver, vs a 3rd or 4th stranger jumping in the car. It will be interesting to see how others react and expectations evolve as it becomes mainstream.
I just saw this morning that many functions in core.async are marked "Deprecated - this function will be removed. Use transformer instead." I guess Tranducers will provide a generic replacement for those. Looking forward to seeing some examples.
The life on other planets route has less stock options.
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> isolate the logic of map, filter etc from lists or any particular context

so Functors (fmap)? fmap still uses regular old fns, no machinery.

http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_contrib/clojure.contrib.gener...
http://learnyouahaskell.com/making-our-own-types-and-typecla...
Completely agree. Microsoft used to do this thing all the time - it would hear about a competitor offering a new feature then announce it was going to be shipped as part of the next version of Windows, killing any interest in the competitor. Then (inevitably) there were months/years of delays while they actually built the thing.

The worst example was when OS/2 looked likely to gain a foothold in the PC market and Microsoft claimed that the next windows would have essentially all the OS/2 features (then delayed the next release for an eternity and shipped without many of the core features). The goal was just to shut down a competitor, not to actually announce a new feature.
Take a look at this article's analysis on whether or not the 'Founding Fathers' would have been for or against the type of surveillance we are now seeing.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/01/29/if_george_w...
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No, I've long since given up on it.
Quick search on Indeed shows 56,332 jobs mentioning JavaScript, 4,378 jobs mentioning Angular. So <8%. Plus, the vast majority of those 4,378 jobs are merely including Angular in a list of various frameworks, as examples of technologies they'd like candidates to have experience with — few of them require Angular specifically as a "must have" skill.
Congressional Redistricting and Gerrymandering from the AMS
I think the parent was suggesting that Yelp is good enough. When you have a brand as recognizable as Yelp and viewed as "good enough" then it becomes nearly impossible for a competitor to beat them by simply being better.

You have to be different and I'm not sure what needs to be different about Yelp.
> 2. We don't know any way to define 'best outcome' besides ask everyone what they think

I disagree. Here's a better way: empiricism (through federalism). Let different US states have different laws (that the Federal law cannot trump) and let's see through experimentation which set of laws is best for different sets of people. But we've long closed the federalist "democracy lab" dream.

I'm sorry if this comes across as poorly thought out and entitled. I have thought long and hard about these things and I'm a libertarian so there's very little I think I'm entitled to (especially by the government).
You can try using go-qml https://github.com/go-qml/qml
Not making any assumptions, just reading the OP. I was thinking more about employees than freelancers/contractors. In that case it's your business run it how you want and if your customers are willing to pay you're in luck!

Edit:spelling
little time, and even less impact
The domain name extension .WTF became available today
that would have bothered me not getting just shy of 5,000 points
Imo this is one of the worst business moves I've seen.
Old 4sq? Loved it. New 4sq and swarm? Won't bother.

I may sound harsh but this is how I feel as a user. Foursquare had a perfect mix of social, gamification and information. It made you want to be part of its network.

As for swarm, I don't even understand how they thought that it would make a nice name except that it is marginally better than herd. Why a human would want to be part of a swarm?
The article is an interesting read, but I feel like the author paints the ISPs as knights in shining armor. I particularly have a problem with this line, "But Netflix (NFLX, Tech30) and other bandwidth-hungry applications are forcing broadband providers' hands. Video over the Internet is cramping networks and slowing connection speeds." From my vantage point, that unfairly places the blame on the content providers.
P5.js: Processing for today’s web
It's good to see Minecraft mentioned--a friend of mine recently ran a two-day Saturday class on beginning programming in Python, using Minecraft on Raspberry pis.

Kids had a lot of fun making functions to do cool things in Minecraft. Gamedev is probably the most rewarding way to learn programming.
Google Just Rickrolled Me Via An APK Teardown, And I'm Not Even Mad
A possibly effective option would be sweeping the beam around and having the phone report when it hits. That should be easier than trying to accurately locate the phone first so that you can aim a beam at it.

If you can also make a reasonable initial guess of it's location (to within a few degrees) you could narrow down the guess and check search area considerably.
I quite like the work you've done here! Most computers in a school are ill-equipped for programming needs.

I'm a bit concerned that this laptop is designed with an experienced programmer in mind. I don't think the *nix Terminal is friendly to noobs, considering it comes with no safety nets. Additionally, a teacher who is unfamiliar with Ubuntu is likely to have a hard time helping students. I tweeted a few more thoughts here: https://twitter.com/dshankar/timelines/497091774792228864

In it's current state, perhaps this laptop would be better suited at college students who are already familiar with the basics? At middle school/high school, students & teachers need a more friendly introduction into the programming world, not the real & scary one that is modern day Linux. However at the college level, students need tools that will prepare them for the industry and Codestarter packages all the tools one will likely use.
Good for him. Once you realize that it's not worth it any more, better to hand over the reigns quickly rather than sit on it indefinitely.
Yeah it's broken. I'm on Firefox with Win8, the gray text is misaligned and missing an element / backdrop.
whenever i encounter "orders of magnitude" these days, my brain visualizes a log scale, lol.
Governments need to stop using private contractors for such sensitive projects. It exponentiates their attacks surface, and as Peter Zatko pointed out[1], they have little incentive to defend themselves; if another state steals a covert capability from a defense contractor, the government's response is to... hire a defense contractor to replace it with a new, improved capability.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBtzaRHqP2c

Edit: perhaps I should clarify that I don't actually support governments doing this.
I'm wondering, technically you're supposed to buy Sublime Text. Are you just running the (infinite) trial version of Sublime, are you purchasing a license for every laptop, or do you have some kind of sponsoring by the guy behind Sublime?

Same question goes for Minecraft.
People tend to think the things they really care about should be universal. You see it all the time here with the "everyone should learn how to program" camp.
I really didn't - I wrote "intelectual-elitist". It's their choice to have disgusting opinions. Perhaps I am too cynical, I have been reading too much Chomsky lately. :-)

Edit: Let me give you a Chomsky quote:

"Actually, I should say, the term "manufacturing consent" is not mine, I took it from Walter Lippmann, the leading public intellectual and leading media figure of the twentieth century, who thought it was a great idea. He said we should manufacture consent, that's the way democracies should work. There should be a small group of powerful people, and the rest of the population should be spectators, and you should force them to consent by controlling, regimenting their minds. That's the leading idea of democratic theorists, and the public relations industry and so on, so I'm not making it up. In fact, I'm just borrowing their conception, and telling other people what they think."

This is what the paper appears to be advocating, as well.