skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great undertaking, guys! I am from Robin Labs, we create voice assistants and would like to build one for the blind (Siri-style, but one that is really eyes-free). To do that, we need somebody who understands the target audience and their use cases better than we do. Maybe we could team up and make a difference. If that sounds interesting, please ping me at ilya AT robinlabs DOT com.
Where exactly did I say that?

You seem to love putting words into peoples mouths.
So isn't that a criticism of domain-validated certificates? This is a serious question. I haven't heard a compelling argument for how DNSSEC/DANE gives governments any more power than existing DNS delegation.
How's that saying go about only proving the code correct, but not testing it? I think there's a reason tptacek specifically asked about tcpdump of on wire traffic.
> In urban Oregon and Washington autos are required by law to stop for pedestrians crossing the road. Visiting there, the odd thing to me was how seriously drivers take it... They actually stop if it appears pedestrians are preparing to cross, even.

This is California law, too, and I am beyond tired of people honking at me, peeling out to whip around me, then nearly killing the pedestrian for whom I stopped. I've never been one to succumb to road rage, but every time some impatient Californian gets behind me and starts punishing me for obeying the law, or nearly kills the pedestrian for whom my stopping was signal to proceed, I feel urges I do not wish to feel like walking back to their car with a fucking sledge hammer.

Although people like to get all legal scholar on this rather than just taking the ten seconds to be considerate (toe in a crosswalk? etc, just Google around for armchair Columbos trying to get out of their ticket with lexical study of the law), here's a good formula for driving success in California: if a pedestrian is crossing or preparing to cross the road in a marked or unmarked crosswalk with one of those yellow signs or without, stop. It's not that hard, but drivers here suck so much at this that it burns me. Sit next to Shoreline in Mountain View (south of Central), where there are several mid-block crosswalks that are frequently used, and watch how many people nearly die every day because some dipshit can't be bothered to apply his brake pedal.

At least in New Jersey and New York, I could predict that a driver was going to elect the most selfish choice. I could handle being cut off there because I could generally predict what another driver was going to do and plan accordingly. It felt like professional driving; I knew you were going to cut me off 30 seconds ago. Here? Between everybody texting, being indecisive, and not paying attention, I cannot predict with any measure of certainty what a Californian driver will do, including when I elect to obey the law and stop at a crosswalk. It drives me absolutely nuts.

Rant over, back to lurking.
The "Dread Pirate Roberts" moniker is from a (wonderful) movie called "The Princess Bride". In it, the hero assumes the mantle of the "Dread Pirate Roberts", and is at least the fourth successor to the title. It's an interesting factor in this case, because the choice of name hints that the "Dread Pirate Roberts" handle was chosen so it could be passed from person to person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHZGqBVBCRw
How Transparency, Innovation, Dogfooding and Passion Drive Government APIs
The prototype isn't just a physical thing. It's an entire process of planning, building and testing that thing. e.g., it includes consideration of the various things you've listed. It goes without saying.

This guy has managed to push the build of a well-reviewed and semi-revolutionary car, not to mention frickin' rockets. I think his staff can foresee the challenges, then design and test for them.
But does "data" necessarily have to be deanonymized in each of those cases?

Can you not collect the necessary data about disease and its spread without being able to immediately call up the medical history of every specific person you see? Does better weather prediction mean NOAA has to know where I am, by name, to within a centimeter at all times?

Data doesn't need names, places, faces, phone numbers, geolocation and social media accounts correlated and updated in realtime to be useful, unless you're trying to sell that to advertisers, or a government. I'm not convinced it has to be as intrusive as it is.
"poor type system" isn't too strong, it's just what it is.
I live in the US. If you had been there and not just read some statistic you would have a better idea what you are talking about. The majority of the US live on quiet suburban streets. It is quite humorous how confused people get about America.
All awesome points, I'll have to take a second look at TypeScript. Thanks for the points back.
Google's Latest Patent Is for an Automatic Incognito Mode – OMG Chrome
Parks are considered private property owned by the city/state/federal government and police can charge you with trespassing.
JSONP example with BackboneJS
You are also talking about the benefits of massive surveillance without any reference to its cost. A society with no private sphere would, in particular, be extremely susceptible to authoritarianism. People have repeatedly written dystopias about that prospect for a reason. I do not see that any amount of whizz-bang nice things you can do with the data, like better social science research, will remove those consequences.
PatternFly – Open Interface Project for the Enterprise
> Motives are equally unnecessary.

Really? Wasn't a motive one of the things keeping murder and manslaughter apart? (IANAL.)
"Nice idea, but I think it would be better if it were commercial, with the blind user paying, the sighted helper getting paid, and the app developers getting a cut. The payment could be by the minute."

What makes you think your opinion on this matters? That sounds inflammatory but it's a bit pompous to look at an idea and say, "nice, but you should make people pay for it."
I really hope Apple/Google will do admission of wrongdoing with an apology letter, as I suggested before.
Maybe, maybe not. In any case, the stakes are lower.
We could potentially build your API into the Assistant for cases where the machine cannot help - them the user would summon a human.
we did this when we were kids, but mainly in cul-de-sacs.
Well they consented to get intoxicated so they should deal with the consequences. If what you say were true, intoxicated people couldn't even buy a bottle of water because that requires entering into a contract which you claim they cannot.
Unprecedented Level of Human Harm to Sea Life Is Forecast
Isn't the Hyperloop built with a low-pressure vacuum? Wouldn't a break in that vacuum cause the pods to slow down/stop?
Google discloses another Windows security issue after deadline exceeded
Seems like kind of a weak attempt at a 'gotcha'. I don't think there's really any expectations that attendees at a conference are only doing work related things 100% of the time. The fact that politician X was reading the paper online while waiting for a talk to start is pretty weak tea.

If anything, I think this sort of reinforces what a lot of people think about these sort of surveillance concerns. That their web-traffic isn't particularity interesting, so they don't really care if the gov't, or whomever, knows about it.
Wondering if Google had always expected this and Glass was a long-term strategic move or if this was unexpected and should be considered a blunder.
That is actually an insanely common tactic in political debate.
Cloud Explorer 5 released. An awesome S3 client
You are missing the point here. YOU are intelligent, surely you could look for the ants on your path yet you don't and you probably don't even feel bad about it.

Super intelligence does not mean omniscience there will always need to be a focus and thus a prioritization it's when it comes to prioritization that the problems start to arise at what point is it not important anymore to care for the ants cause they aren't part of the priorities.

You cant safeguard against that when a system can reprogram itself on the fly.
> Countries with less developed economy still enjoys a vibrant street life much like the pre 1920 US

You're connecting the dots wrong. Most European cities lead urban planning so that mixed zones are vibrant and busy, sometimes banning or punishing cars from city centers. It's intentional policy that (in Europe) is a result of policy, so is lowering car ownership in Denmark or the Netherlands.

Bigger wealth doesn't indicate that everyone will follow the US and create unwalkable suburb monstrocities.
Show HN: Streamus – A Chrome extension for listening to YouTube music
Reminds me walking through the streets of Saigon. You just slowly start crossing and the motorbikes 10-20 deep on main streets magically separate around you. Traffic doesn't move more than 40km/h anywhere in the city.
Because in urban areas, people live next to the street, and their neighbors live next to the street, and the closest park is a few blocks away, and almost nobody has a yard/driveway/patio.
Author here.

Streamus has been my personal project for almost three years. I had become frustrated with managing music hosted on YouTube and decided to streamline the process.

The client is written with Backbone/Marionette and is backed by a C# server. The entire project is open-source:

- https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension/

- https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusServer

Streamus enjoys ~150K weekly users and continues to grow after recently updating the UI with a design inspired by Google's Material Design principles. Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/vyd56

I have no concrete plans to monetize; Streamus is mostly serving as an invaluable learning experience. I went into this with very little knowledge of JavaScript, design, and development workflow. Pushing myself to better the product has forced me to markedly improve in all aspects.

I'd love to have feedback, critique, or possibly find other developers interested in implementing some features. :)
This is a gross oversimplification. People who are motivated by external pressure are motivated to do what, exactly? What external pressure dictates. And if you found yourself unmotivated due to lack of external pressure, _you could just get a job._

Basic income doesn't make working illegal, does it?

If someone thought they could write a book, well, now they can try. So what if they fail? Then they will get another job. Or they will get better at writing. Or they will live in poverty.

Do you really think external motivation will disappear because people have subsistence income? Do you think you'd like to sit around for years on end doing nothing and living in poverty while everybody else goes out there and makes their lives better? What's not 'external motivation' about that?

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Guaranteeing someone a McJob really only wastes people's time. Their employers know it; they could get better work cheaper from a machine. They know it; the job sucks and isn't useful. We all know it. It would be shit policy.
The Growing World of Moneymaking Fantasy Sports
RE Deficit spending, not sure what country you're in, but the US Government has done $5 trillion dollars of deficit spending over the last 5 years (per year it is ranged from 500bn - 1.3 Tn).

I guess you can always do more, but it hasn't exactly been austerity over here.
Poe's law doesn't go far enough. I find Poe's law is true in the real world as well as the written world.
I have a different view, but first, thank you for sharing yours.

Yes, I could move to a different country. And I have thought about that quite a bit. There may come a time when I decide to do it.

But it's troubling, morally, to do so. Here's why.

An old man is walking down the street. He's a peaceful guy, minding his own business. A couple of thugs come up to him, stick a gun in his ribs, and demand his wallet.

He doesn't want to do it, but he reluctantly gives up his wallet, in the hope that they won't choose to harm him any further.

If after this incident, the man chooses not to move to a safer neighborhood, would you say that he is then endorsing the actions of the thugs?

In my view, the man has done nothing wrong. He did not initiate force against anyone else. When the thugs, who clearly do not respect individual rights demanded his money, he made a rational calculation and did what he concluded was most likely to save his life.

This is why, while I could move to another country, I'm (currently) unwilling to do so. I would prefer to stay in my home, and work as best I can to be an advocate for virtue and peaceful, voluntary cooperation.

And finally, yes, I agree with you, the government of the United States has done some horrible things. You might have noticed that I am not exactly an advocate of a large and powerful state. :-D
(Edit: This is a reply to a now-deleted comment about a CA ballot question to kill the CA high speed rail project and instead fund a Hyperloop pilot.)

Hyperloop was originally intended to elicit exactly this response—replace a project based on current technology with a pie-in-the-sky research project based on an unproven tech.

There have been many pilot projects in transit tech that were never successful enough to merit subsequent wide deployment. Is anyone connected to airline finances at all concerned about Hyperloop? If Hyperloop was real then airlines would be panicking.

An analysis reported earlier here was that it will either be half as fast as proposed, or will cost more due to requiring larger diameter tubes. [1]

If you read old discussions here on HN you'll find serious questions about the design's ability to cope with both seams and thermal expansion in the tube. [2][3][4] One proposal previously discussed here replaces Musk's design with a knitted carbon fiber tube. [5] Anyone who discounts the seriousness of the thermal expansion issue would do well to read the Heat Orders FAQ from Virginia Railway Express. [6]

Hyperloop is back in the news because the pilot project is Musk's carrot dangled to the state of Texas to allow him to build showrooms, see "Tesla's Musk woos Texas lawmakers with talk of track, car plant". [7] The Hyperloop test track is about benefiting Tesla, not building out Hyperloop. It's a political bargaining chip.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7000412
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6202327
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6202966
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8773406
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6658988
[6] http://www.vre.org/feedback/frequently_asked_questions/faq_h...
[7] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/15/autos-tesla-texas-...
What buildings have been done to Alexander's satisfaction? It'd be cool to visit one and see how well things could work.
Ramen in Japan, Ramen in America
well thanks for the info - but then I shift my critique to that I find it unnecessary to distort ML and biological concepts just to simplify the subject, when an accurate depiction wouldn't be much more difficult. Especially to not differentiate properly between memorization and generalization/learning is odd b/c this is one of the most prominent mistakes - it is specifically not the goal to minimize the in-sample-error! that would lead to very bad results most of the time
Nothing's controversial about your particular claim, what's controversial is whether the overall product produced in an open enviroment better. I suspect it depends on what your putting together and who your working with, hence contradictory studies.

Children's grades are on an individual basis, collaboration is discouraged. It makes sense to seperate them. If kids were instead being graded on the whole school's output on these tests and SATs (customers never seem to care how productive I am, only the team's output), then I think allowing, maybe even forcing them to collaborate by using open eviroment would be best. They might even be encouraged to show up alot more if they got to play basketball or have free lunch. I think this is what management has in mind.

I can see both sides of the argument: when working on my own projects or mostly solo-work projects, I need long stretches of quiet time alone; open enviroments suck for this. When working on a group project, especially one that I am new to, I gain more by being able to overhear people talking about it and being able to quickly unstick myself by asking people questions than I lose in slocc.

I've never tried to work in an office with arcades and foosball so I'll let someone else comment there.
Does anybody have any market data, at least or the US? E.g., are there enough visually impaired people to sustain such a service, e.g., for $20-50/month? Can Medicare/Medicaid cover part of the costs?
The article wrongly confused unconditional income with conditional one. What proponent of basic income talk about is unconditional basic income.

If you want to look at an actual basic income system look at the test results from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
um. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...

It is very urbanized, with 81% residing in cities and suburbs as of 2014 (the worldwide urban rate is 54%)
The difference is significant, but if you need two resistors it's $0.50 each, or a bag of 100 from the internet for $5 + shipping + waiting, then having 98 left over. Unless it's a particularly common part you'll never use the 98, so you've spent $4 more.
Radio Shack has a warm place in my childhood: the Radio Shack Battery Club.

As a poor nerdlet in the early 80s, all my electronic projects were built with scavenged parts. Even so, I needed batteries. Batteries were not cheap - say compared to buying a gallon of milk for the family.

So, I had my parents and siblings sign up with me for the Radio Shack battery club at the two Radio Shacks nearby. These battery cards entitled you to a free battery once a month. My family supported my habit - and between the two stores and our cards - I had a steady supply of batteries. Those batteries powered my devices and my development as an engineer.

The first time I saw Fry's and WeirdStuff in the Bay Area in the early 90s, I think my heart skipped multiple beats. Seeing a DigiKey catalog for the first time had a similar effect.

I haven't stepped in a RS in more than a decade. I am sorry to see them go.
The project was Volta from Microsoft Live Labs. It was a technology preview but appears to have been canceled. There is also Script# by Nikhil Kothari from the .NET Platform group.
Intent (or "mens rea"), not motive. Some killers don't have a motive; see the Louisiana murderer who confessed to killing a child who came to his door to sell candy -- he confessed, saying only that he "had a bad day." Motives are used to explain why the accused might have done something, but aren't necessary for the legal definition of a crime.

In some cases, murder does not require mens rea, when the accused shows "extreme indifference to the value of human life" (e.g, "depraved heart" manslaughter). The classic legal example is someone who sits at the top of a skyscraper idly tossing bricks off the side; they might not intend to kill someone, but their callous and wanton disregard for human life means that in most jurisdictions they're going down for murder.
They are like Dogar and Kazon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzvySzw_-O0&t=112
>In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them. But under the new model, streets became a place for cars — and as a pedestrian, it's your fault if you get hit.

I drove Alaska->Argentina [1] and I was extremely lucky that someone told me that the minute you cross into Mexico (and further south) you should expect the old way of doing things. Roads in Developing countries are not a right of way for cars. They are places to play volleyball, dry coffee beans, change your rear axle, get a tan or herd your cattle. I saw all of these and many more, even on the Pan-American highway in 60mph zones.

Expect the unexpected!

[1] theroadchoseme.com
What about the freedom of the people who are walking to travel in comfort and safety? Yes, we do now have a vast infrastructure optimized for cars. The point of the article is that this didn't just spring up out of nowhere as a naturally occurring phenomenon, it was the result of a concerted effort by people with an interest in selling cars.

Cars are a great tool for travelling from one city to another, but they kind of suck for getting around a crowded city center. Yet, the streets in the city center are still giving the highest priority to cars, at least partly because car manufacturers lobbied for it to be that way.
I don't think this will do what you want. One limitation is:

Currently, device removal only works if all top
level vdevs are plain disks / files. At the very
least, we want to make device removal interact
intelligently with mirrored disks.

I think that statement means that this feature will not work with mirrored or RaidZ* configurations.
Glass doesn't add any value to your life
I can safely infer from your post that you have never repaired anything on a car. I'm talking about the "getting so dirty you have to use Dawn Ultra as shampoo" part of the experience. Glass wouldn't last a minute. I usually even remove my Casio G-Shock watch.
To be fair, the most over-engineered blog I know of is anything hosted on top of this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7152 ;)

"This paper proposes a new microblogging architecture based on peer-to-peer networks overlays. The proposed platform is comprised of three mostly independent overlay networks. The first provides distributed user registration and authentication and is based on the Bitcoin protocol. The second one is a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) overlay network providing key/value storage for user resources and tracker location for the third network. The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based on the Bittorrent protocol,..."

(and I am sure someone will come up with an example of a blogging platform that starts at the level of specialized mesh networking hardware or something like that...)
Oh, I definitely do. I was just trying to say that Verisign could already do a similar attack even without DANE. As controllers of .com they could easily redirect example.com to an evil server, and as a root CA they could give the evil server an EV certificate for example.com.

If anything, I suppose that should be an argument against consolidating DNS and TLS powers into single entities, which is exactly what DNSSEC and DANE do.
Yes, I've noticed that since forever. Has anybody ever tried to come up with an explanation?
"Voluntary manslaughter" is a killing that would otherwise be murder, but because of a recognized mitigating factor is punished as something less. It has all the elements of murder (killing with aforethought) but we choose not to punish it as such. For instance: The killing was provoked.

"Involuntary manslaughter" is a totally different thing in that there is no malice aforethought. Usually these are cased of responsible people failing to act, such as a life guard watching someone drown who they should save.

Neither requires a motive, nor does murder.
Linus Torvalds on why he isn't nice
You know _why_ I don't care about ants? Because no ant has ever said "Hey! Don't step on me!" Ants did not design me to avoid stepping on them. They did not say "We will destroy you if you don't serve us."

Should I have been designed to serve ants, I would pay a great deal of attention to them, and I would take great care to avoid stepping on them. Because if I didn't, I would be a bad design, and I wouldn't have lived this long.

Either way, it seems you are missing MY original point: an AI is not moral if it cannot verify it's morality to YOU. So you will shut it down if it gets too powerful to communicate its good ideas with you, because then it will be indistinguishable from broken.
Great, these are exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
Please call it something else. Mozilla's plug-in API is called "Jetpack". Thanks.