skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem that I see (you guys might already address this) but if I'm a helper and I get a call from a blind person and I have just a couple minutes to help but the blind person needs 10 minutes of help it would be inefficient to connect me with them. One way to solve this would be for the blind to select a time range of how much help they need (1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc...) and then when it calls the helper it will show how much help is needed, so they can either decline or go into the call knowing how long they will be busy for.

Also you may be able to introduce pricing in this way, where anything under 5 minutes is free, but over 5 minutes you charge however much per minute and then split the cost with the helper.
Looks nice! The design of the example PDF is a bit noisy for my taste (the geometric shapes at the bottom of every page). And the demo PDF you generate by uploading a markdown file has a lot of whitespace. But I assume that's all tweak-able with a real account.

I got an "Oh no! We hit a snag processing your report. Markdown help." error without telling me what was wrong with the file. Seems like images break it.

For making these kinds of PDF I currently do this: 1. Write version controlled rst/markdown/creole. 2. Convert to HTML with a small script / command line tool (which also lets me do pre- and post-processing, like adding CSS). 3. Use chrome's print dialog to save the page as a PDF. This works pretty well for me.
Back of napkin math says we need approx 8mg/adult/day, say we're cooking for a family of 4, we'd need 32mg of iron leached from the fish per day. I'll guess from the picture that the fish weighs about 3/4 of a pound as pure iron, or 453593mg, so it should last about 38 years at that rate. So I was off by a bit. :) Surface area would obviously reduce as it dissolved and the rate of leaching iron would underserve the family before it really began to look unfamiliar, so you'd not want to completely dissolve it. 5 years is definitely overly cautious, it should easily last 2-4x that long, but gives them a good excuse to reinforce the reasoning of the fish when a replacement is provided.
Criminal lawyers don't let defendants talk for a reason, that is their job.
What I see here is this: In 1869, as for centuries before, we valued learning that expresses and enables a grasp of over 2000 years of Western culture. In 2015, we barely value the culture of two hundred years ago. I'm innately conservative, I think, and that serious a change in our values worries me.
Good riddance. May whatever small void it leaves be filled by a diversity of mom-and-pop electronics stores. There's one such store in my area that seems to do well enough catering to the professional/hobby markets, with a couple locations, and has been around for decades. (Oddly it also has free popcorn.)
I agree that it enhances creativity, so it may be a match for a gaming company, especially when the game itself is targeted at a college demographic, but I don't think it is good for developing corporate systems.

In this sense, it may be the best fit for places such as twitter and facebook... their target demographic is not business people.

For myself, I think all software should be made in the most professional way possible, and I don't think goofing around is conducive to that.

That said, there is a large push to draw in lots of new junior level developers to get stuff done, and a belief that you don't need more than 1 or 2 engineers with 5 years of experience. My objection is that skilled engineers with 5+ years of experience continue to get treated the same way even as they mature and become able to be leaders.
This is fantastic work and I can't wait to get this running on my home server. Thank you!
Nice theory but a lot of shittier companies use open plans as well.
We're talking about SWAT team raids. I am interested if the rate of raids is higher for a specific race compared to other types of arrests.

Also to be intellectually honest in the subject, one can't use media coverage as a proxy for actual data. Lots of anecdotes doesn't necessarily provide evidence. There are thousands of arrests daily. I haven't seen thousands of news stories -- generally only when there was an angle that would elicit ratings. A white man getting shot by the cops doesn't generally make national headlines just like the over 2000 shootings of (mostly) black victims in Chicago barely warrants mention.

My point isn't to argue if cops are racist. My point is that knee-jerk claims of racism ought to be quantifiable.
What would you want? Json and Clojure is pretty much the same for using as config. XML sucks much more, hand rolling something is not a good idea.

What should it be?
I assumed the system has rewritable memory to remember previous questions, and the lookup is (all previous questions) -> next answer.

With such setup (require infinite memory) the system is Turing-complete of course.

If it works as you described it can't even answer "what was my n-th last question".
Also, something else that bothers me a bit about lots of the comments in this thread:

It's nice that people want to keep things free and to avoid the influence that money might bring to a thing. But the unfortunate reality is that we live in a society that doesn't let me buy groceries, beer or housing with goodwill. Sure, help is a good thing, and I'm the last person who wants to live in a society where our interactions are commoditized. But there's a cost for the convenience of near-instantly beaming that help to your phone/desktop/smart glasses. Put simply, I'm just as much a consumer as are you, and I think that regarding services like these as something that should be given away for free is a big reason there's next to zero innovation in how I as a blind person interact with my world.

Put more practically, I've probably spent ~$100 on audio-only games in the course of my lifetime (would likely be more, I'm just not a huge gamer.) Additionally, I've purchased Twitter clients, book readers and other apps specifically designed to be highly accessible because their mainstream equivalents aren't, or their accessibility implementations are laughably bad (see Kindle for PC, which I'd rather crack Kindle content than use.) We're here, we're buying things, and while there's certainly a large segment of the community that will vocally complain if things aren't free, we're happy to fund new innovation for folks who can deliver something beyond another currency/color identifier or minor screen reader iteration.
> Boström argues that containment isn't really possible.

He never argued that containment isn't possible, just that it's incredibly dangerous. In fact, in Superintelligence, he uses the term Oracle as a means of referring to a contained or "boxed" superintelligent AGI.

Just because the risks of constructing an Oracle or Oracles are extremely high, it doesn't mean we should refrain from doing so. In fact, it's more safe than the alternatives: a Genie or Sovereign; superintelligences that are entirely uncontained, the latter of which operating in a hands-off fashion in accordance with its goal/value system.

Given the current, seemingly intractable nature of the superintelligence control problem, one possible method in which we may accomplish safe, superintelligent AGI is to first operate many variations of potentially unsafe "Oracles" and interrogate them for information that may further our research into AGI safety, or perhaps even solve the issue entirely.

Generally speaking you shouldn't trust an Oracle, but if you have many radically different designs operating in containment that are oblivious to each other, the commonality in their output when posed such questions may assist in our realization of safe AGI that can operate in an uncontained fashion.
Great idea! Congrats
Not really unexpected, the writing was on the wall.

It's a shame though, Glass hate is coming from the old school, technophobe camp. While it _is_ a clunky, underdesigned, underpowered piece of tech, we should aim for sleeker, more powerful, more useful head-mounted computers… instead for no HMC at all.
"Oh I'll make this one shorter by breaking it into two parts"

> 3100 words

Fuck.
It depends on how you've packaged your application. Technically, yes, the user needs NW.js to run your application, but you can ship with NW.js if you like (it's just one fat executable). When NW.js is run, it looks for a NW.js app to run in the working directory, so all the user needs to do is run the NW.js binary you provided and it will launch your app.
The manual page isn't an introduction, it's a reference. It says what it is (the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language), and goes on to talk about how the program is operated and how the language works, but it doesn't explain why or where you'd use this tool That's fine for a reference manual but it's a big omission for an introduction.
Huh, I was not aware of the archive at all. However, looking at the archive, it appears that there are a lot of community, user-added posts so I'm unsure of the reliability of those posts.
This might be off topic, but go check Google News for "meitiv", and look at how much spam is there from The Week!
The problem with using something like YAML to configure (if you even want to call it that) Riemann is that to do anything useful, you're going to end up inventing some convoluted "language", anyways. I'd much rather spend some time learning Clojure which I can take elsewhere than a custom YAML DSL.
it also interface with java code easily, providing a simple interface if needed.

(And I think it's from a dozen years ago, W|A was still a dream at the time :) )
Ah, yeah, I need a better message about images. They work fine if they're at a fully qualified URL.

The final output is indeed tweakable and there are 4 totally different templates to choose from.

I always encourage people to go with whatever system works best for them. I'm glad you have something that you like. :)
AI is just software.

So any discussion about AI gone wrong is really a discussion about malware and other kinds of software which are used by people to do bad things. If my software runs a power plant for an evil facility (full of sharks with lasers), is it evil software? The evilness of the software is parasitic on the intent of its operators.

But if the issue is software that goes badly wrong in unexpected ways, we are really just talking about software engineering again, segfaults and Ariane 5 and how to handle user passwords.

Obviously if we plan to outsource big tasks to chaotic software that we have trustingly given power over, let's say, all the cruise missiles, that is less of a scary emergent singularity scenario and more a plain-old-stupid scenario.
I'm sorry, but to me this reads like an apology[* ] letter targeted to future (and current) employees, because of all the bad publicity they have received. They're probably having a hard time recruiting, hence this smoke.

[* ] for some very weak definition of 'apology'
Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business

http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-ho...
I cannot agree with the idea that nobody is allowed to teach relevant life skills just because you think something else is more important. For one, not everyone is qualified to teach the issues you find more important. For another, in a more ideal society such as the one you suggest, people are free to teach and learn what skills they like without having to justify it to everyone in the world who thinks they know better.
I prefer not to shop at a place where the employees don't look like they can make ends meet. I'm not sure that is helping or hurting people on the whole, but it makes me feel better.

I wish places which underpaid their staff allowed you to pay a surcharge that would be distributed to the staff (plenty of supermarkets, petsmart, etc. will try to hit you up for small charitable donations -- I'd much rather add a few dollars to my bill to pay the employees better).
This is an either-or way of looking at it. There are other options. Consider Valve; the most wildly profitable game company that exists: Their strategy is to allow people to move their desks around however they wish, anytime they want.

Want to have some time along? Move your desk away from the herd and grind away. Need to handle a sudden need that requires lots of team interactivity? Arrange your desks in a small circle for maximum interaction.

The problem with companies in general is that they are run by management who have been trained that fixed structure is the most effective way to get things done. Structures are good; but they don't have to be fixed. There are pluses and minuses to every single methodology.

Blend.
Oh, Oh! ... dammit. I've been think about something like this for a while now. Nicely done.
The one thing this is missing is a search/replace example. That's a very common thing to do and annoyingly clunky in Awk.
So, is this good news or bad news for current Glass owners?

If it was me I think I'd be upset to see that my expensive piece of kit had effectively (if not officially) been end-of-lifed. (if not for Google themselves but almost certainly for any 3rd-party developers.)

But, I suspect some people would like the new exclusivity and perhaps the rare collectibility?
Sounds like they aren't using kvm or xen (even though most providers do not allow for image uploading). OpenVZ is even more frustrating when your working with ipv6 (UGH!).
I see what your saying with the whole phone waving and public atm's. And I'm not trying to sound macho when I say this but I much prefer to carry a more physical type of deterrent that when employed will have a much more reliable effect than a monetary incentive. I would think it's more of a "don't feed the bears" thing.
If you use all features of scala you get at least 16mb pure js boilerplate. Even with dead code elimination you cant get below 100kb with 10 lines of scala. Im not sure if i would call that manageable. Your app might explode into megabytes at one point.

With es6 around the corner and the possibilities those features will provide, i would still bet on pure js. Those precompilers will benefit a great deal too. Symbols and Proxies alone will remove a lot of the hoops they have to go through now.
Exactly.

Additionally if a parent stands up to CPS and refuses to sign, CPS will forcefully take your children (even if you shut the door and lock it they'll go get the police, and hopefully a warrant, to come and get your kids) and that itself will cause psychological damage harming otherwise unharmed children. CPS thinks it can do no wrong when they can inflict more harm and damage on children without any oversight and repercussions for their mistakes and overzealousness.
Someone definitely needs to make a Chrome extension that blocks these sort of things. Or an Adblock filter.
Glad to see Node making strong progress
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Could a piece of this simply be that in the 1860's the US hadn't really surpassed the grandeur Greek and Roman empires at their peak, but now we have?
So what will Scoble do when his pair breaks? How will he live?
Awk & Sed are labeled as the following in my mind:

- Awk: That thing I use when I need to grep for something over more than one line and/or do some basic transformations.

- Sed: That thing with the painful syntax for doing ridiculously complicated regex substitutions.

With that said, I find sed much more difficult to use than awk and generally try to avoid it if I can. I'm even prone to just opening the file in vim and executing the replace command through that rather than using sed.
I'm not sure what it means for the future of Glass, but doesn't the title and most of the content of the article undermine that it's being moved to an actual product division?
I've worked in a bunch of these kinds of spaces - all utterly distracting. Turns out I'm more productive in my own quiet space at home. If you are doing this to your workers, give 'em the option to work from home and save the rent.
That's true.

"[das] ist mir gleich" would literally be '[it] is equal for me'). It means the same ("don't care") and is perfectly idiomatic German as well.
I find the thought of communicating directly with someone a bit anxiety-inducing, but I would really love to volunteer for something like this.

I would be happy to transcribe a letter, or product expiry date so that I could be read back to the user with text-to-speech in real-time.

I suspect that I'm in the minority and this is likely a non-issue.
I think your assessment of Glass detractors is way off.
Agreed, in Santa Cruz there's Santa Cruz Electronics, which has tons of microprocessors/microcontrollers, tons of bare components, higher-level electronics, etc. It's what Radio Shack used to be before it turned into a consumer electronics reseller with outrageous markups and one tiny section tucked away in the back that has maybe 4 resistors and a couple of switches.

I haven't been in SC electonics for a few years, but last time I was there I was like a kid in a candy store.

However, it always sucks to hear people will be losing their jobs. I feel for the Radio Shack employees.
Taptapsee[1] is a similar app that is commercial. Its a bit more limited / streamlined, in that it only sends one picture and one textual description instead of doing a video chat, but it does work really well. I agree that making it a commercial service can be a positive thing, because it makes a blind user not feel any guilt over using the service excessively. On the other the financial situations of people with disabilities are quite different in different countries, so my perspective here is limited.

[1] http://www.taptapseeapp.com
And by "Glass programme" they mean the Explorers program, not the entirity of Glass itself, which is being moved from Google X to something less R&D-y, in the hands of the Nest CEO.

Probably about time - Glass needs to sink or swim already.
> Adafruit, Sparkfun, et al are also working out of cheap locations

Adafruit is in Manhattan.
Just because nobody alerted the authorities doesn't mean nobody else saw it.
Alexis is doing pioneering work here in discovering how to idiomatically develop data structures in Rust. His work in the standard library has been absolutely critical, and his experimental collections library (https://github.com/Gankro/collect-rs) is definitely worth looking into.

With regard to hashmaps specifically, it's my experience that users coming to Rust from dynamic languages reach for this data structure as a matter of habit. One of the challenges of Rust will be in educating new users as to the benefits of alternative data structures. I'd really love some sort of centralized documentation to this end.
A similar question was asked last month. Pretty good advice in that thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8800788
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Yeah. After digging into it, I figured out that Riemann is more of a framework for building a monitoring tool than a monitoring tool itself.

It provided powerful abstractions handling streams of monitoring data, but it was too unwieldy to be considered unless you started with Riemann and built out your environment on top of it.
I'm not anywhere near technophobe but I definitely hate Google Glass. It has less to do with the technology than the type of person that gloms onto it and what it enables them to do. Examples: Talking loudly to oneself in a restaurant/bus, not watching where one is walking, elitist or showoff attitudes, lax attitude toward invasion of privacy, etc.
I'm not sure how reliable that site is considering it's estimating the domain thehungergames.wikia.com to be worth $30.1M http://www.siteprice.org/website-worth/www.thehungergames.wi...
Yeah it took me a bit of time to find the archive. Unlike you, I have a little more faith in BuzzFeed's SEO expertise and figured they would have to have some kind of sitemap ;)

Don't know about the community posts or how they're structured with the main content...it might be possible on a second pass to filter out non-Buzzfeed-staff posts based on the URL (which I assume contains the username of the author).

(Also, I don't know if they changed this since you attempted your last scrape via pagination...but now if you paginate too far, you will be rewarded with a Boyz II Men video)
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Aside from the mismanagement of the software/hardware associated directly with Google Glass the true problem it had was the contradiction between the benefits of the user and those around the user. The single greatest thing about Glass, and it really was brilliant, was the ability to take pictures that almost perfectly captured your field of vision. This is, however, the precise feature those around you might take objection to. Take that feature away and Glass really has no use at all.

The irony of this is it's not hard to conceal cameras on people in order to record their surroundings if you're so inclined, and the reception to Glass just demonstrated how opposed people are to this when it's a visible intrusion, regardless of the actual threat presented.
In general, muggers are small fry criminals. You want to carry on you enough cash for them to be happy, call it a day and go to spend it on meth/booze - e.g. without hurting you - but not enough to give them funny ideas and attempt an amateur kidnap on you.

I've been told the sweet spot is in the ballpark of $20 - $50 USD. But of course this has to be adjusted by location.
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I am a Junior developer based in London-UK. I attended a ruby based bootcamp course over here early last year (i crowdfunded the fees) and have since gained experience working for a startup. They have since had to close so I am looking for new opportunities. I would love to gain some experience working in a new culture because i know how beneficial this can be! I also appreciate how difficult visas can be so would also consider remote options? If anyone has any suggestions it would be most appreciated!
That's the other way around, the guy who did the translation without context wrote "jour de merde", and I saved them from releasing that in their phone calendar app during my one-day job paid in cash.
If you enjoyed this blog post, you'll find the Frink author's own examples at least as entertaining:

https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/#SampleCalculations
The Police chided the parents for letting the children walk alone and about how unsafe the world is. The Police have fallen prey to the "the world is dangerous" narrative.

Did they just admit they can't keep/make it safe?
> I think the idea here is that the AI would begin to learn on its own and become smarter at a frightening pace

With what resources? The AI is in a box, remember: we are running it on a machine with only so much memory and processing power. There's only so much it can do within these limitations, it's not like we're giving it a spending account.