skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On there link list they have belong.io listed described as:

"Hey, I made a new thing: It’s a Twitter-fueled link aggregator that favors new projects/sites over n…"

So I'm guessing they are grabbing sites from twitter, but no clue if there is any method to the madness. I wouldn't be surprised if it was manual or if it was just pulling from one persons twitter.
I'll just leave this here -https://medium.com/@_seantaylor/how-foursquare-bought-my-dom...

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> The brand that goes along with a suit is, "I want to impress you by doing things excellently in the traditional way."

The brand that goes along with a suit is: "I respect your time enough to have gotten dressed this morning before our meeting."
No, I mean any distance, if it put out 10 watts at 1 inch, it would be 2.5 watts at 2 inches and .625 watts at 3 inches. You would be wasting huge amounts of power just to not have a few inches of wire. At 15ft you would need like 5000W to to get .001W at your device.

This is not even thinking about the efficiency of converting electricity into sound and back again.

You could focus the sound beam to improve things but then you lose the convenience of putting the device anywhere.
> Another way to look at this has nothing to do with conformism. Whereas a suit says "I feel the need to dress to impress you", casual wear says "I don't need to dress to impress you, that's not why you're going to hire me".

Except that, in any community where the maxim you state is broadly known to be applied, the actual meaning is reversed, since anyone who is aware of the maxim and wishes to dress to impress will wear casual clothes, wherease anyone aware of the maxim who continues to wear business clothes will be doing flying in the face of the maxim in the same way that someone wearing casual clothes to an interview in a more traditional environment would be.
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> Those arguments don't seem very compelling. The internet is driven by ads.

So what? If your business model depends on breaking the law, you really need to revisit that business model. Or are you suggesting that the "right to profit from advertising" trumps the individual's right to privacy?

There are plenty of ways to do effective marketing and analytics that provide the desired insights, connect customers with the right brands, and don't violate any data protection laws. If Facebook is failing to do that then they just need to work at it harder.
My hometown had one of those "cross-traffic" lights a few blocks from my house at an intersection that I had to cross to reach one of the major bike paths.

Naturally, it didn't register bikes. So if you wanted the light to ever change, you had to cross over to the left side of the street, go up on the sidewalk, and push the pedestrian button (no crosswalk on the right side of the intersection). Not much of a fan.

I'm not saying they're always bad, but they're not always good either. Maybe newer ones have improved on detection, but my understanding was that the sensor was induction based and required a big chunk of metal in order to spot you.
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Sure, but BrowserChannel is only relevant on the client. What about the server? Using XMPP would allow for external clients to connect for example.
here's what bothers me about this

as a voter I such a microscopically small degree of contol of any of those questions (functionally 0), that they don't seem productive to even care about

if I care about them, then I have to get upset when things don't go my way, I have to either get into arguments with people I know or actively try to avoid arguments

where is the net positive?
Focused ultrasound (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultraso...) can be used to destroy tissue, too. If it's not focused, the vast majority of its output is wasted energy.
There's plenty of use cases for devices with low power requirements that would benefit from wireless charging. Wearables, for example: watches and other little bits of technology that you wouldn't want to think twice about carrying into the shower or through the rain and requiring metallic connectors for charging them would reduce lifespan and convenience and impact the form factor.
Considering that Uber is going open beta on the 15th per their blog announcement (11 days away), I would imagine that there is more there than just a blog post.
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Yes, I suspect major cities already have complex and optimized traffic routing, along with full-time traffic engineers. The mid and small cities are what I experience most, but I suppose these also have less traffic, so less need to be fully optimized.
For diagnostics, yes.

High energy focused ultrasound like you'd probably need to charge, less so. It's used to destroy tissue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultraso...
They didn't do their homework in this case. Companies like Ranorex (and also my company) accesses Windows Metro controls.

For the first step, you can read "Injecting a DLL in a Modern UI Metro Application" [1]

[1] http://blog.nektra.com/main/2013/02/25/injecting-a-dll-in-mo...
What does dressing up in a suit have anything to do with respecting someone's time?

I'd say that respecting someone's time is actually about, you know, their time. Not being late to the meeting, not letting it run late, and so on. How much time I spend getting dressed in fancy clothing is utterly irrelevant - or at least should be.
Our datacenter provider was great about it, we got approval in a matter of hours. We never photograph anything that doesn't belong to imgix or provide details that would identify the building, so that makes the approval process much simpler.

The photography was all done by imgix's lead designer Miguel Cardona, and I helped out a bit by finding things for him to shoot. I think he did a great job -- it can be a real challenge to get visually interesting shots in a datacenter environment.
>> ...pioneered the use of psychedelics for self discovery and synthesized MDMA (commonly known as Ecstasy) in the 1970s and some 200 variations in his lifetime

>> He is credited with introducing MDMA to psychologists in the late 1970s.

Who's taking credit for the initial synthesis?
> An intelligence agency used FinFly ISP in the main national Internet Service Provider network. It was
enough for the system to only know the target’s log-in information into the ISP network to be able
to deploy a remote monitoring solution on his computer and monitor him from then onwards.

Wow. See https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/FF_SolutionBrosch%C3%BCre_... for FinISP.
Denial-of-Service in “qs” module (used by express, restify, hapi, +286 others)
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> Grassroots vs astroturf movements differ based on what's in the best self-interest of the majority of it's members.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. It sounds like you plan to calculate the "best self-interest" of members of a group, and then distinguish by whether the group's aims appear to further the result of your assessment. Is that right?
Considering cars are made by robots I always wondered why a big company like McDonalds couldn't do similar when making its cheeseburgers. Never researched it until now but looks like there is a machine capable: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-12/meet-smart-restaura...
> I don't like the trend of streetwear becoming effectively businesswear, because it gives room for a fashion-conscious person to choose more coordinated and expressive clothes to create a greater impression, which seems inappropriate for business. Streetwear is also more distracting, the lines are less clean, and so on.

My wife dislikes the trend because womens' streetwear also tends to be more form-fitting and sexier than what is appropriate for work. Grabbing a suit-skirt with white blouse and pearl earrings is easy. Grabbing streetwear that looks nice but doesn't draw too much attention to your body is harder.
HUD is a reasonable tool to augment driving information. It makes sense for maps, directions, vehicle alerts.

Using it to make texting and other non-driving related functions more accessible is a slippery slope towards driver distraction and pretty directly linkable liability for this company.
Bitbucket/Mercurial support?
They already do local package delivery in NYC. It's called Uber Rush.
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Or maybe thats the minimum amount of time they need for the service to function and they're planning on working out the kinks later.
Definitely figured they meant this American Fuzzy Lop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fuzzy_Lop
Read the article carefully and you'll see that he does in fact prescribe a "solution": take search results away from entities who have lots of them and hand them out equally to everybody, so that everybody gets a "fair" amount of users directed to their site.

...which would of course render it utterly useless to those users and destroy any value it has as a search engine.

He even states that his main objection to Google search is that it is not acting as an artificial "leveller" to change society.

This is the manifesto of a far-left government. Google doesn't do these things because it's neither far-left nor a government, and his request is both poorly thought-out and quite bizarre.
Congratulations on the Docker-in-Dockerification!
Some welcome additions, but this feature is still of limited use in most of the world without the ability to include the amount of sales tax (VAT).
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OnStar has an app:

http://www.chevrolet.com/onstar-remotelink.html

Heating/Cooling isn't discussed there, but I guess it's easy enough to leave the environment controls where you want them when the vehicle starts.
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Or if you do use Skype, use the Metro version, which
finfisher allegedly can't eavesdrop on.

What? Bullshit. Why would Microsoft remove the law enforcement backdoors in the Metro version?
Fair enough. "Completely symbolic and pointless" was a tad too far.
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I have 2.4Ghz i5, 8G Ram, SSD Macbook and the performance of the landing page is horrendous.
Docker comes to openSUSE
Then what is the function CreateWindow in User32.dll for (for all non-Windows developers: this is the WinAPI function to create a control on Windows; it returns a handle to it)?

> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms63...

The lpClassName parameter specifies the type of control to create.
Automated trucking would be cool to see in my lifetime, but to be honest the idea makes me really uncomfortable because it would put roughly two million people out of work.
We're talking about signaling, right? Dressing in a suit is a signal that you thought about and planned ahead for the meeting. It's certainly more of a signal of that than it is: "I'm trying to impress you by doing things the traditional way."
> All of them affect me

And none of them really care about you, which can be evidenced by the amount of corruption that goes on everywhere.

Also, "voting" is inherently dumb because it's just "majority wins". Shouldn't the best outcome win? Why can't we have a system where we argue things out and have some heuristics for finding out what the best decision is for a given group of people?

Are you sure voting for representatives, as we currently do, is the best possible way to run countries, states, cities? If not, where are we trying to find better ways?

Can you then see why some don't see the value in "voting"?
That's a big if. Vitalik is mostly looking at PoW ATM.
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"The options" are in actuality other citizens who have done a lot of hard work to build coalitions and support, and get themselves on the ballot.

Voting is not a service that the government offers its citizens. It's a system that the citizens run to select leaders from amongst themselves. If you don't like the options, it's worth asking what you, as a citizen, have done to improve them.
Perhaps there is net job creation but not for the people who are immediately displaced. The jobs figures are treated like some pool, and it ignores the fact that many people can't adapt their existing skill set to the jobs that were created.

For example, 100,000 truckers are put out of work by a truck that drives itself. There might be 100,000 other jobs created - we might all get to work less one day - but for those 100,000 truckers, the number of them becoming automation developers is probably pretty low.
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The designer will usually provide very high quality PNG's/PSD's. It's up to the developers to scale it down to the optimal size for each device.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streissand_effect in action
Has anyone started some work to find out the complete list of "forgotten" links? It shouldn't be hard to create a bot to parse the Wikipedia "People" categories, then run searches for each person on Google UK. If the article doesn't show up in the results, it means it's a forgotten link.

Then all these links could be listed in a website. Maybe the simple fact that each "forgotten" link is automatically listed there will prevent people from using this right to be forgotten, and make the law obsolete.
Hey, I made this. I built it for myself, have been using it privately for the last six months, and opened it up publicly for friends this morning. (Which is why it has no credits/about page/nav/etc.)

It's an automated aggregator streaming tweets from around 1,000 Twitter accounts, extracting and normalizing the links, and then ordering them with a dead-simple ranking algorithm favoring URLs that resemble new projects/sites over articles/blog posts.

That's pretty much it, no idea how it ended up here.
So the question remains: is there a copyright at all?

Was the photo really produced "solely" by the animal? No. You couldn't exactly say that a monkey with a camera lives in a natural environment.

The real talent here was preparing the camera for primate use, giving the camera to the monkey, somehow getting it back, and developing the photo. The work absolutely owes its origin to a human being. This is an unambiguous case: the man owns the copyright.
Peter Thiel also spent the better part of a decade in higher education, but tells you not to go to college.
Huh. Interesting. That'll teach me to make jokes without consulting the history books.
Agreed. I've been a super user for years, and I was happy to give foursquare all of my data because they did two great things with it:

1) they gave it back to me so I had an accessible record of my check-ins which is very helpful if you travel frequently, and very lovely if, like me, your personality combines deep nostalgia with shocking forgetfulness. It also made Timehop worth opening.

2) they used it in seemingly intelligent ways to give me surprisingly good recommendations when I needed them, and showed me where friends had checked in, even if they hadn't left tips. A check-in from a friend can be a tiny endorsement of its own in absence of anything else.

Both of those benefits are what keep me checking in. Which is what keeps me using the app. I fully recognize that there isn't enough of me to support foursquare. I get that. But I'm still sad to see it go.
You can do beamforming with ultrasound. http://www.ted.com/talks/woody_norris_invents_amazing_things The demo device was flat, like the one shown in the article.
I've seen the induction loops "presence" sensors too. One near where I used to live would never change to green unless the sensor was triggered, but wouldn't register until your car was beyond the crosswalk, nearly in the intersection. That means if someone in front of you stopped where they were supposed to, the light would never change.

I suppose there is bias though, in that people don't notice as much when traffic lights are operating efficiently.
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Reading articles like this I'm often reminded of Amara's Law:

"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."

In terms of overestimation in the short term, it seems to me that although we are trending towards automative technologies, 11 years seems like far too short a span for those technologies to have "displaced significant numbers of both blue- and white-collar workers."

Meanwhile, in the long term, the time frame these technologies actually need to have fully permeated, we don't know what types of jobs or how many will be brought about by their existence.
If the sensor there is an induction loop you might be able to figure out where it is and line a wheel up well enough that the metal rim triggers it.
3.2Ghz i7, 16GB Ram, SSD Windows, landing page seems ok, even with the processor on power-saving mode. Does your browser's CPU count increase significantly?
Looks like the site might be under attack or just overwhelmed by traffic. Here's the google cache for those who can't access the site:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
" the ability to charge portable
electronics, like cellphones and
laptops, wirelessly using
ultrasound." is more exciting than finding life on other planets?
uBeam's "Press Kit" is a 404. http://ubeam.com/wp-content/themes/ubeam/files/presskit.zip
You're looking for Visual Studio vs. Eclipse

Or XCode, that's Apple's (free) IDE for Mac OS X
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I see a lot of folks holding their iPhone while driving on congested freeways.

They hold the phones down low, to avoid tickets.

I feel Navdy is an improvement on those situations, but I still don't like where things are headed.
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It just approved by iTunes actually! The email came from Apple just after you posted this. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/strange-beings/id9066020...
I look forward to completely automated fast food. Drive up, wave my RFID tag near a sensor, get a menu of last 5 thinks I ordered, touch screen, plop! Bag drops out chute, clean and hot and just the way I like it.
No worries. Just wanted to mention. :)

PageRules are extremely powerful. Using "cache everything" can also make a huge difference is setup correctly.
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Wow, coordinated assaults from two of their larger backers (USV and AH).

Please, please Marissa Mayer take us out of this bad trade.
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I can't tell if you honestly are asking for answers, because all of those have fairly direct answers from people who saying voting matters.

Also, the one about war is a strawman, because it conflates war and the draft, which are related but not identical.

Ed: Typo.
If one is using the ability to procure diamond rings as an evaluation of suitability as a partner, as opposed to an evaluation of whether they can afford a diamond ring (which may well be a proxy for one of the criteria for partnership - wealth - but not sufficient), then it can and will be gamed.

If you're using a diamond ring as a proxy for whether someone truly loves you, I'd suggest you're opening yourself up to be taken advantage of.

If you're using a diamond ring as a criteria for evaluating the wealth of a potential partner, I suppose that's a bit better.

I wasn't suggesting that humans were above signalling theory. Just questioning whether it had any real utility for complex evaluations like "is this person reliable and trustworthy" or "is this person going to make a good partner".
Lyft has the product to market first. Any consumer can now use their feature. Sniping a PR release using a beta isn't the same thing as delivering a production-ready feature. Until you have a usable product in your hand, you have promises, not features.
> The comment you chose to reply to was specifically about that one particular example.

Not, it wasn't. It made the following general claim about a problem that would exist without long-term copyright:

>> That would make it so just around the time your kids are old enough for you to introduce them to the great comics, cartoons, movies, music, and books of your childhood it would enter the public domain and become widely used in advertising and low budget productions. <<

> Long copyright terms seem to be doing just fine for Bill Watterson.

Perhaps its doing fine for him, but its not preventing characters -- Calvin particularly -- from Calvin and Hobbes from being ubiquitously used in our culture in a way which shifts the context in which someone newly introduced to the source works might experience them. Sure, its not specifically "marketing toys and junk food", but rather expressing preferences, but its not fundamentally different from the perspective of the kind of cultural context concern raised generally in the post I was responding to.
Also agree, for me the mayorships are what kept me checking in to my regular places, I kinda feel like the Swarm split killed Foursquare. Their loss I guess.
> If you don't like the options, it's worth asking what you, as a citizen, have done to improve them.

I can revert that and ask you, what have you done, as a citizen, that you've made the choices so awful for everyone else?

See, that's easy to say, but I don't think we really do have an impact over who our candidates are.
You can 'optimize' encode-time by using better chroma downsampling, but really the issue is usually on the client side upsampling (a lot of libs use terrible nearest neighbor for 'speed').

As for trellis, you should play with the different metrics available (MS-SSIM etc), but I agree I have not been wowed yet.
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Great. Now hackers will have a connection to my car.

If they are using the CAN connection on ODB-II then I'm connecting my car to the internet. Sure, most cars only put non-critical stuff on that particular bus but I don't want script kiddies turning on my radio or flashing my lights while I'm driving.

Hopefully its not required and I can just make a power only cable.
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