skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soo I thought I had seen this somewhere, just with WiFi used to measure users, turns out it comes straight from the past![0]

In the interests of science, why did you switch from WiFi signals to infra-red door counters? Was it that you picked up passersby? (See [1] for previous pitch, which explains it more than the archive.org website)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140605031145/http://www.densit...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGa9-QUDWo
I hate this user hostile trend among hardware startups, that is requiring/involving third party "cloud" infrastructure for no particular reason other than to extort money out of customers.
>In general, comparing frameworks in terms of features seems inferior to examining the model it imposes on the programmer. The latter will inform you about how well the code will fare over time as the product matures and the team grows, but the former won’t.

I feel like this is a much more semantic interpretation of frameworks than trying to compare the likes of Angular, React, or JsBlocks on speed, data-binding, and whether they support x,y,z use cases. Kudos rauchg.
>I think mentioning race makes the topic unnecessarily politicized. There are much simpler cases where we don't want to use machine learning algorithms for maximum efficiency gains.

I think the point is so that it can bludgeon home that our work as technologists has serious social implications, and that we can't dodge them, even though this stuff is ridiculously difficult.
OK. I'll buy that. I don't necessarily agree, however. It's so trivial to get small programs onto a remote machine that relying on `sh` only because it's there seems like a premature optimization.
Foreign students will be banned from working in the UK and forced to leave
I'm not really sure why there should be tsunami walls etc built, since the howevermany scores of nukes it takes probably will leave large parts of the pacific northwest uninhabitable (either de facto or by choice) for a while.

So, it would be easier, cheaper and safer (but equally infeasible) to simply force resettlement of the population somewhere without a crack in the crust.
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I think you guys should read Schumpeter. There is no economist sane (or honest) in his mind proposing to do more random public spending when things go south. Think of it this way - if an economic downturn hits US, would you rather leave more money to ycombinator to invest in promising startups, or tax them more and use that money to "grow" the economy through public spending?

And let's be realistic, Greece is like Italy. An enormous proportion of the public spending goes to pay privileges (pensions that are too high, useless public jobs, useless buildings, etc.), do you really think that money will grow the economy? Don't you think it creates much more value if left to the private sector? Of course, you need a real private sector, with clear rules for everybody, and that's exactly what they don't want to do! You see the problem here?
The Project Gutenberg e-text is here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2055/2055-h/2055-h.htm
you can try http://zocdoc.com . It's like Yelp for doctors, we have it in NYC and it's quite good. It's the only resource I've found to find doctors in this city.
I should have also mentioned that I was forced into shipping a personal project at one point because I almost went broke. So perhaps finding a friend that can push (i.e. nicely force) you to finish something would be helpful? It may also add unnecessary stress to the situation so take that advice with a grain of salt.

I'm also guessing you edited your post several times (or maybe that's just me) just to make sure it was perfect, right? So you've figured out how to "ship" your words, now you just have to figure out how to do that with projects. ;)
I would say it's extremely useful -- most establishments have a general idea of foot traffic (ie: POS transactions or qualitative visual assessment) whereas with density.io you have a detailed history of when and where there's foot traffic.

Why would someone want to know this information? Ideas abound! I don't think we've had such easy measurement and monitoring at the fingertips of the general populace.

Having detailed logs of user growth is invaluable (the much-vaunted hockey stick), however this level of granularity is unavailable in the physical world.

Now we can show interested parties that, for example, our storefronts are hockey-sticking, growth is high and projected to grow higher, etc. You get the idea.
One of the purposes of Jigsaw is offering a way to define a public API based on multiple jar files, similar to what
OSGi does.

Similar in concept how Assembly Modules work in .NET, with friendly internals, which incidentally not many devs know about.

In Java's case a linker will be part of the SDK, so that only the Java code required for a given application will be deployed.

Since Oracle needed to clean up dependencies to implement Jigsaw, they are taking the opportunity to also remove most internal APIs, Unsafe being one of them.

They are also in the process of replacing JNI with something more programming friendly, P/Invoke style, but it will only come in Java 10.

There is also the reason that in a memory safe language every use of JNI and Unsafe is another security bug waiting to happen. If the compiler/runtime are able to offer safe APIs with similar performance, then those exploits can be avoided.
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I spoke with Andrew over at density.io.

His answers regarding can it see the traffic direction (answer - yes for each individual) and how it is powered (custom length power cable, cut at install time for both sensor and base) are inline in this thread.

Also Andrew explained the base gathers info from all the sensors for counts.

I asked also about people in a group - most doorways are a physical narrowing that automatically places people in single file. If the doorway is wider than that, they can place a sensor on either side (my assumption is that these results are then filtered so a person is not counted 2x).
It's interesting to see several articles about this recently. Ever since I was growing up in the 1970's, they've been talking about "the big one".

Here's the 1979 show "In Seach Of" discussing it:

Leonard Nimoy's narration is top notch as always:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=148UfHK6pbs

At the time of the video, they said over 15 million people live along the various fault lines.
>Less Wrong actually originated from a smaller community of people asking what did it mean for AI to be "friendly" to humans, very abstractly.

Only tangentially. It was literally the next stage of Yudkowsky's blogging on Overcoming Bias, which substantially attracted as its initial commenters people from the SL4 mailing list, which dealt with many topics of transhumanist interest, including friendly AI.
Well written!
Thank you Jessica for sharing your thoughts.

My personal note on rejections:
When I decided to step up and found, I've made a decision to stop asking for permission from others and build something by myself. I remind myself of that on every rejection.

No rejection will define what I'm going to be. Rejection only define how better I'm going to become next time, until no investor/partner/person will wanna miss-out.
Why is everyone so obsessed with bashing Flash? Is it just because a RCE exploit is found once in awhile?

Let's compare Adobe's diligence of patching to another company's. How about Mozilla?

Adobe usually patches a RCE exploit within 72 hours of discovery. Mozilla seem to take anywhere from one to three months.

Firefox RCE exploit found on January 20, 2015: https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2015/...

Firefox RCE exploit found on February 25, 2015: https://msisac.cisecurity.org/advisories/2015/2015-018.cfm

Firefox RCE exploit found on March 1, 2015: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-3...

Firefox RCE exploit found on April 22, 2015: https://msisac.cisecurity.org/advisories/2015/2015-046.cfm

Firefox RCE exploit found on May 12, 2015: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-5...

Did you hear about any of those Firefox RCE exploits? Probably not.

We only hear about Flash RCE exploits because those are the ones which happen to get exploited in the wild the most. This is not because browsers are always more secure than Flash; it is because hackers know that if they succeed in finding a RCE exploit in Flash, they will be able to target the 97% of desktop users with Flash installed rather than just the 44% who use Chrome or the 15% who use Firefox. It's the same reason Windows users have always had far more exploits actively used against them than Mac users. Should we set a kill date for Windows because of that?

As long as we are making asinine suggestions, how about browsers set a kill date for Facebook, after which no one can access the site? Facebook's rampant video piracy problem harming small publishers on YouTube [1] is orders of magnitude more financially damaging to its victims than MegaUpload ever was. At bare minimum, it would be appropriate to warn users that they are about to visit a malicious piracy hub with a red full-screen "Are you sure you want to go here?" page, and perhaps provide a list of suggestions of alternative social networks to switch to.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9854160
Try this:

https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/6194894?hl=en

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Your directions were wrong

At this time, you can’t report wrong turns from your phone or tablet, but you can report them on your computer.

Open Google Maps on your computer.
Click Directions directions button image.
Enter the starting point and destination for the route for which your directions were wrong.
In the bottom right of the map, click Report a problem.

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I'm working on getting a human contact involved.
Not bad. The syntax is still a bit funky at the end of part 2, but that's a pretty trivial gripe.
Hi, that's indeed our old sensor which is composed of two AIR sensors. The new sensor carries a slight upgrade in hardware, but the real power comes from our signal processing. See my reply to thwest here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9879671
I think the most salient point is #5.

This principle is similar to concepts in data science and medical statistics (esp patient reported outcomes). Take the answer as fact (you can worry about outliers later), and take the reasons and justifications with a grain of salt.
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You are getting downvoted because you hurt the feelings of many HNers by saying something truthful.
Its called Cultural Imperialism. I'm not saying it makes sense, but you're underestimating human ingenuity for making silly arguments.
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I'm sorry, but I have trouble feeling nostalgic for arcades. My memories involve dark and cavernous rooms where it was hard to see other people and easy to offend them, large machines with worn-out TVs and controls, and unfair gameplay that was almost always a waste of time.

What's the point of doing something if you can't do it long enough to enjoy it? The constant "coin grab" was irritating to me as a young boy, and annoying to have to constantly leave the arcade and find my parent where I could beg a few more quarters. And I always noticed that stuffed animals cost thousands of tokens, but barely tens of dollars at other stores.

For about the same price, I could rent a videogame for the home console, and I wouldn't have a parent nagging me that they were afraid of someone kidnapping me from the arcade.
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The Really Big One: earthquake wipes out the Pacific Northwest.

Really needed that?
That ... doesn't describe anything about human interaction, which has been politics all the way down for the last million years.

This particularly applies given the "reality" that we're talking about here is human interaction and questions as to which groups get what when, i.e. politics.
I'll second this. There's large parts of internet culture that exists in flash animations. DeviantArt, Newgrounds, and of course Homestar Runner...
I'm a third of the way through this at the moment. It might be of some interest to the West Coast crowd on HN to read about just how uninhabited California was at the time. The ship Dana was on, Pilgrim, spent time trading goods up and down the coast.

Dana went ashore in several places either to land goods or on liberty and the change between the pictures he paints and the present day is astonishing.
Do you think it's a good idea to write React components with APIs somewhat mimic UIKit, such as UIView? Or is that possible? I'm new to web app. Thanks in advance.
Can't stress this enough. I took a 30% pay cut from my previous employer to work at my current job, and I could not be happier. Work from home, interesting/hard problems, flexible hours, and most importantly, I could not find team members as smart or kind as I currently work with.

You spend a third of your hours alive working (roughly speaking); enjoy them.
This is obnoxious website behavior, and I equate it to sites ignorantly disabling right-clicking because they're paranoid someone will steal their photos. If your site contains any links at all, you should never, ever be breaking such basic browser functionality. The only possible legitimate use case would be a webapp which is attempting to create a desktop-style environment, and even then, co-opting the CTRL or ALT keys is likely not the best course of action.
Nearly all of these complaints about SPAs have to do with navigation. It's true, when you make a SPA, you need to factor in routing. That's part of the design decision. When you use a SPA framework like Angular, the typical go to is to use Angular UI Router (https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router) to manage your page and state transitions within those pages. By default, you get back button support, it's highly customizable and configurable and it's not difficult to manage at all.
Is this article one big troll? https://twitter.com/wesleytodd/status/620677489166123008
This ability to concretely display a component in all of its different states is one of main reasons I created devcards (ClojureScript, Figwheel). One can use it to create storyboards live as you are programming.

http://rigsomelight.com/2014/06/03/devcards-taking-interacti...

I have been putting a lot of work into devcards lately so forgive me for being so focused on it.

:)
They could have provided a different number for direct messages.
Studies (mobile browsing, I have no sources nearby, google it, sorry) says that happiness peaks around $75,000.
I do not understand what about the title is linkbait. If you are circulating any sort of file you should announce the presence of malware or remove it.
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Never got mine :(

Last time I heard from them was 11/24/13
> They elected a populist party and voted OXI to the last proposal, which was better than this one.

It was nicer and softer but not better -- with this agreement, they have three days to finally, finally!, pass some much needed reforms, many of which were already promised as part of previous relief packages. If they actually do pass them, they will be much, much better off.

Shame that the "Greuhandanstalt" will be in Athens under Greek management instead of in Northern Europe under adult control. Maybe they will fix that if Greece doesn't meet the deadline and they get a chance to renegotiate.

This is what happens when you try to play chicken with a brick wall.
How does resolve deal with asynchronous calls? The name almost suggests that you might be able to return a promise?
It is the latest torrent file. The file is still there, and still is the malware.
This is an implementation of socket.io, right?

Seems to hold up pretty well.
I'd be really interested to see how many users still use the SMS interface. I switched away from it as soon as I got my first smartphone and haven't looked back.
If a company is found to be interacting with a legally protected group in a discriminatory manner, it really doesn't matter if it's doing so because of an algorithm running on a bureaucracy made of humans, or an algorithm running entirely in a machine.
> There is absolutely no excuse for a company—particularly one that has made commitments to free expression by being a founding member of the Global Network Initiative—to regulate speech beyond that which is required.

Absolutely is a big word. Here is a technical excuse: the search index is collected and classified by algorithms. The algorithms are not perfect in their classification, and so there has to be a margin for error.

> Neither Egypt nor Lebanon, for example, block most sexual content or require intermediaries to do so.

See, weasel word: most. So they do block some sexual content? If you want a fine-grained filter to just block that particular sexual content, you have to improve the robots. That costs time and money, and creates risk. Maybe it's easier and legally safer to just block all sexual content and be done with it. In other words, over-zealous filtering, or at least some of it, could be the consequence of cool pragmatism and nothing more deeply sinister.
Why would users not care about the stop button working?
If something in the browser is not loading, I want to hit stop so I can wait a while before trying again.
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And Germany would be much better off without that.
To actually exit the vicious downward spiral, they need significant debt forgiveness (yes more), as Germany received after WWII, as well as stuctural reform of course, but one without the other will disappoint both creditors and the Greek people.

The funniest thing about this whole manufactured crisis is that the ECB is printing 1 trillion euros via QE at the moment to buy gov bonds and nationalised industry bonds, which completely dwarfs the sums for Greece and is essentially doing the same thing - buying government debt and making all EZ citizens slightly poorer in order to allow counter-cyclical investment.

http://www.bloombergview.com/quicktake/europes-qe-quandary
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Sounds like you are desperately reading something into the original article which just isn't there. The author is clearing saying consider all the disadvantages too. If you still think it's beneficial after that, at least it's a conscious decision. Your comment has a some major weaknesses and reading does a great job patching those holes.
Given your previous comments with regard to your knowledge of finance you know this isn't such an easy thing. Their financial system is intimately tied into the euro and remaining part of the EU.
Right. And I don't think there is any good path forward. Greece has essentially gone up a box canyon.

What annoys me about the IMF is, where the hell were they with these observations and recommendation about debt even one month ago when everything was actually working? Where were they six months ago? The debt load being untenable is not news for everyone else.

Apparently the EU has a law that makes actual debt forgiveness illegal, all that can be done is extend it or reduce the interest rate. Neither of these approximates what the IMF would recommend, has recommended, to any other country with their own currency rather than being part of a currency union: monetize the debt through inflation.

I can understand the German affinity for rules and policy adherence over politics. But self evidently the Greeks are not Germans, and do not share this preference. So how does the EU system afford a compromise that at worst means both sides are equally unhappy? Because right now, basically Germany and the creditors are getting their way to the expense of Greece.

Europe is clearly not willing to either bail out Greece (or Portugal, or Italy), nor long term subsidize their economies like what happens in the U.S. It's not willing or able to setup an EU wide tax structure that's EU administered and audited to both make compliance easy, as well as consistently punishing tax evasion across all socio-economic levels.

None of the major problems have been addressed: Greece's debt load is unchanged, as well as its affinity for patronage and tax evasion.
Hector Monsegur has commented on the files & their relevance: http://www.joshwieder.net/2015/07/hector-monsegur-formerly-s...
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That's true. I wasn't meaning to argue that this would apply anywhere else, but Happy Birthday is a place where it clearly applies. It would only be a problem if some court ruled that the song wasn't public domain or available for fair use, since it is clear that it should be.

This is somewhat related to something else about business that people often seem to forget: Many people talk about businesses as though they are machines for converting employees time to products that they can sell for profit. But companies also produce culture, and that culture will be exported whether it's paid for or not. And they have a responsibility to produce good culture.
More accurately, it appears that the dump included files from a mail server which, like most mail servers these days, received some messages with virus-laden attachments. It doesn't appear to be anything obviously malicious on the part of the creators of the dump, or Stratfor, or even Wikileaks.

http://www.joshwieder.net/2015/07/hector-monsegur-formerly-s...
particularly when the people viewing those files will be journalists and activists who very much need to protect themselves from surveillance
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Sounds normal. You probably spend 40% of your time browsing the web right? I've worked at a half dozen different companies, from small startups to large mega corps. The only thing that makes it tolerable is changing jobs every 2-3 years to keep things fresh.
The way it's worded heavily implies that this was done on purpose to hurt anyone who tries to view this stuff, and that you will get infected if you try to download it.
IANAS[1], but I believe one of the reasons why the Lituya Bay tsunami was so big was simply that the water had nowhere to go but up. In a more lowlandy situation the water would spread over much larger areas at a lower elevation. Also, considering Seattle's geographic position (away from the Pacific) I would be surprised if any big tsunami would hit Seattle directly.

A little bit of Googling found this[2]. The largest known tsunami to hit Seattle was 16ft, 1100 years ago.

That said, heading for the hills is probably a good choice anyway.

[1] Seismologist

[2] http://www.seattle.gov/emergency-management/what-if/hazards/...
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I'm not KC-based but visited often for various companies.

Check out http://www.kcitp.com/ and http://thinkbigpartners.com/ for a cheat sheet on what's going on in the area. They're not comprehensive but cover a good portion of the space.
In addition to the risk of total collapse, there's also the risk that the remaining floors would be impassable.

Debris (furniture, broken walls, etc) can be a dangerous obstacle, especially when you have to traverse several/dozens of flights of stairs, much of which will be wet, muddy/dirty, and possible destroyed in some places. This danger magnifies when you have to evacuate large amounts of people of varying mobility (young, old, sick, or otherwise infirm).

Entrances and exits will be serious obstacles if not outright impassable, due to large amounts of debris and unknown/unstable physical integrity.

Tsunami evacuation and safety policies are outlined for movement and monitoring large groups of people, not just individuals.

With regards of where you should go -- go outside and move to higher ground.
We sing the Hispanic Happy Birthday song in my house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhthj2ztSMY