skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I lock the back door? - I worry, therefore I am.
People using phones
Stack is great, but the public beta only started on June 9th. Stick with it, and I think it will solve many of the package management problems.
Good catch! But I think the jagged edges there result from an arbitrary clipping of the brightness values, done to remove the "noise" pixels, i.e. to make the space look darker. If that's the case, it isn't the resolution that's to blame - just a post-processing (for public release) issue.
Thank God!

It feels like weeks since the last gender in tech hashtag has trended. I've been waiting desperately for something to steal the internet's vitriol and outrage from this whole Cecil the lion thing.

OK - yes - I'm being entirely facetious there. This might take off it might not, but I am personally tired of the seemingly endless new thing to be outraged by.

Tim Hunt, Gamergate, Doglegate, Meritocracy Carpet, Beach Body Ready, Cancel Colbert ... then if you start googling around for "gender hashtags" you'll see articles extoling the "social change hashtags" of the year - but if you look at them http://www.forbes.com/sites/karenhua/2015/06/03/tweeting-to-... ... http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2014/12/29/top-social-...

What has actually changed? How is the world a better place?

I'm honestly appalled that this poor young woman had to suffer shitty troll comments in the internet, but a hashtag isn't going to actually do anything.

Do we really think those idiots are the same ones reading the social justice pages of the huffington post?

Holding on to outrage or fanning the flames of outrage are NOT the right way to effect positive social change.

Shame and fear may be effective methods of effecting change, but they're dark and hurtful. Love, patience, forgiveness and kindness is better for everyone.

http://www.futurity.org/shame-942522/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creative-synthesis/2015...
https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/research/wor...

There's a reason this stuff is in the 2000 year old wisdom of Jesus (turn the other cheek) and the 2500 year old wisdom of Buddha.

Love is the answer.
> The current wave is brought up by these trying to grab a piece of the Web and keep others at bay, the game is ruled by investors. This bunch only understands walled gardens, no hope to talk them into open thinking. At all.

Sadly, my experience has been that this is true. Walled gardens allow the companies that control them to capture all of the value created within them, which is far more attractive to a VC firm than a company that's looking to create an open standard/platform that others will be able to use.
On the contrary, the first line of the abstract reads "Machine learning offers a fantastically powerful toolkit for building complex systems
quickly."
Choose readability over speed unless speed is a problem.
Why do we care so much about the Fed?
My only disagreement is with the "gloves" idea. I thought we learned from the Wii that motion controls without force feedback is anti-immersion. Imagine "firing" a 12 gauge shotgun and seeing considerable recoil in VR while your hands stay still. Without haptic feedback I'll have to rely on imagination for the full experience, which I thought video games were supposed to skip.
Borders was never a book-SHOP, it was a book-SUPERMARKET. Barnes and Noble was slightly better but not much.
Admittedly true.

I do spend a great deal of time on our rifts. I've done some dev work for it, along with using it as my virtual desktop. I didn't think that people would be interested in my personal use case, because I am rather an outlier.

Airflow is one concern. I am hot, and stay hot. Along with that, it tends to fog up the lenses and get somewhat sweaty. Demos aren't a concern because condensation doesn't have a chance to form.

I also have issues of depth perfection after about 4 hours, which is around lunchtime. This goes away in perhaps 5 minutes, but is still a problem.

There is also the screen door effect still in DK2. I've heard the CV1 doesn't have this, but that shall be seen.

There is also the mention of input issue. Using keyboard is still hard. I still resort to looking down the nose-hole to see the keyboard (others with Rift will know what I mean). I've been playing around using a wiimote and nunchuck for input along with a sensor bar, and it works well.

Sound is also another problem area, but CV1 has builtin speakers. It's to be seen if they're good or not.
What about the NSA, CIA, Russia, China or drug cartels. Do you think they will want to "risk" killing anyone like this?
What I’ve learned by doing the Gilded Rose Kata (4 refactoring tips)
I think design wise the site looks great but I am still confused about what it is you do. Don't get me wrong, the website does its job. I want to know more. But the constant stream of "cutting edge technologies" jargon is vague and even the features pages don't really go into detail.

Who do you perceive as your primary user base? Perhaps it would help to have sample screenshots or a demo of the data available.
DK2 owner here. To me the roller coaster demos are the worst to me. Your brain thinks you're moving in one direction, but your body is there sitting still, and it causes a horrible feeling. I can't stay more than 2-3 minutes without feeling terribly nauseated.

Still scenes and static games are not as bad, but I still can't handle it more than 15-20 minutes.

While I love the VR and have been dreaming of a Snow Crash-world for the past 20+ years, I'm not so optimistic about its mainstream adoption as I was when DK1 was launched.
Nice. Definitely looking forward to checking this out :)

SIFT is patented[1] and not free for commercial use. This puts people who want to use the amazing alternative to play around finding alternatives, which are usually either half-baked functionally or simply not as good.[2]

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US6711293
[2] http://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/1288/what-are-some-fr...
You could make a "drive by" (in the literal sense) gizmo that bricks vulnerable cars, maybe even causes expensive physical damage. Can you start a car fire by controlling fuel pressure pumps and injectors, or destroy a turbocharger? Stick a ten minute delay in your injected code and you're long gone.

GM (or really, virtually any car manufacturer with the possible exception of Tesla) would be caught flat-footed.

Firmware in consumer products (especially where radio or network access is present) needs to have a security model. Car makers have been betting they didn't need to spend much money worrying about security; it doesn't look like that bet is going to pay off.

If this becomes a thing that any kid with $30 of electronics can do, dinosaur makers are toast.
I get that. But how much forward thinking does it take?
Back in the 80's or early 90's when "Drive by wire" was the buzzword and old timers were saying they'd never drive a car that didn't have physical linkages, how much forward thinking would it have taken for regulators to say controls system circuitry needs to be completely isolated from other systems in the car? Something like this would still apply today and maybe we wouldn't be seeing these issues.
It's true, and it's the whole basis for CAN networks. The whole car runs without a central computer, but rather, a set of microcontrollers for all of the different functions of the car. Every single microcontroller, more or less, broadcasts messages to all of the other ones along the bus. I'd say you'd probably have to go back even further than 10 years as the latest CAN spec, 2.0, was published in 1991.
Intel’s Skylake Core i7-6700K reviewed: Modest gains from a full Tick-Tock cycle
Is there any sort of hardware network "OFF" switch in these bad-ideas-on-wheels?
> if there are rules that prevent an Uber-like service from starting up then there was probably a bloody good reason they were put in place

That's quite an assumption. Care to back that up somehow?

Consider that free(er) competition results in quality increasing and prices decreasing. That's how it works when providers have to please their customers more than their competitors. It's extremely simple, and axiomatic.

So when you see that Uber is just one service provider in the market for paid transportation, how do you think it could possibly be better for us that "regulations" prevent Uber from operating, i.e. competing with government-approved taxi services?

> This one's easy - people who live in a residential block who didn't sign up to live in a hotel.

It's like, you could have some.. rules about how to behave in rental apartments, and they could even be included in the contracts!

"Dear Customer. Because lots of ordinary people live in this building and have to wake up early, it's important that you behave nicely and don't make noise after 22:00. If you find this unacceptable, we can't rent this apartment to you".

Is that so difficult? Or do we genuinely need some distant, nebulous organization to prevent people from being able to voluntarily accept terms and trades like that?
Imagine this: smart kid creates app that let horns of multiple cars in parking lot honk like in a symphony. Even more fun: someone walks over that parking lot, and you follow them with honks from different cars. Man, I would love to see that!
This was an interesting read on a company trying to combat credit card theft. The solution seems to be similar to what some banks in the UK currently use for bank transfers.
Which can of help are you looking for?
>> Changing this fundamental assumption would be a major breakage, and much much more effort.

That's non of the concern of the unlicensed spectrum.The LTE-LAA guys should do their work and come prepared for what is common in the unlicensed world. Not the other way around.

And open competitiveness is key in the unlicensed band.
This.

Also, the precipitation since the late sixties in the area surrounding the Saharan desert has been below average, leading to desertification (http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-book/desert...):

> Years of above average rainfall from the 1950s to the 1970s, were followed by drought in the sahel starting in the late 1960s. The drought has had a devastating impact on this ecologically vulnerable region and was a major impetus in the establishment of the United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification and Drought.

So, during the 1960:s North Africa probably looked extra lush because it had experienced over a decade of above-average precipitation.
I am a recent graduate with 1 year of Intern experience am I good for you ?
The sci-fi movie version of hackers in the future, who can bend everything around them to their will, is perhaps not so far fetched. Instead of future hackers being really good at it, maybe the vendors that build everything are just incompetent.
I really have to wonder what happened to all the people who used to reverse-engineer chat protocols.

Did they all just give up?
The worst thing is that "looking like an engineer" is a pejorative description. People expect some kind of nerdy appearance from an engineer no matter what gender the person is.
What will the cops do? Shoot at cybercriminals?
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Jeff is speaking from a position of not having tried the good stuff that delivers a sense of 'presence' in the virtual world. That is the game changer, the thing that is making people believe something special is on the way. When he says "I have experienced modern VR. A lot. I've tried both the Oculus DK1, the Oculus DK2." he's just flatly wrong, he hasn't. Those headsets at not modern VR and using them as the reference for where VR is at is pretty crazy.

But you'll get a chance to try to presence-inducing stuff in the next ~6 months with the consumer release of the Vive and Oculus CV1.
Lessons Learned Building a Git-Based Knowledge Base for My SaaS Product
I was not aware of G'MIC. We could try to implement a G'MIC process which gives access to this filters.

Does G'MIC also provide a ImagePlay like interface?
This is basically what I was going to say as well. Are you really losing out on much if you make the "Ribbon Spread Turnover" a free video just so we can actually learn somehting from the initial visit, prior to sign up?
I am using static-site-generator-webpack-plugin [0] on a client project now and it has been fantastic. I have one json file full of all the data of the site and then a bunch of components that render it in various ways. I've got translations in several languages plus the components can use React-Intl to get text, dates, etc. in the right format for the locale.

The experience has been fantastic compared to other static site generators (very limited control over display of content) or CMSes (too indirect for what is basically simple logic, especially around internationalization).

It was a bit fiddly getting everything set up so that React, React Router, React Intl, and Static Site Generator all played nicely together. But after about a day of banging my head on that, it's just worked ever since and been a dream.

If I could ask for one improvement: right now the build first runs the code through Babel and then runs that through WebPack. Problem is, if parts of the Babel build fail, there's no error reporting, and instead I get a WebPack-stage error about some file not being available. I then have to manually run the file through Babel to see that there's a simple syntax error.

[0] https://github.com/markdalgleish/static-site-generator-webpa...
> you cannot use your horn unless it's an emergency

Hahaha, you've never been downtown in a European city, have you?
Shopping Cart Abandonment – A Scary Occurrence to Prevent
Actually, that is not really a car hack.

He intercepted the communication from the app. So it is an app hack like we have seen numerous times. It my be different, but it sound like cookie stealing what was possible with the Facebook app and the Instagram app. Then with those credentials you can do all those things that you are supposed to do like if you where the legit user.

All those functions are functions supposed to be done by the app. So there is no hacking on the car side done. The interesting piece of information would be: can that be used to actually hack the car?
And we don't even have fully autonomous cars on the street yet. That's when the real fun will begin.
> I want him to be motivated intrinsically.

Have you thought that maybe leaving early is what motivates him?

Motivation is way more effective when it's something from inside (from the person) rather that from an outside stimuli (ie: a raise)

You need to understand what are his needs (what call him to action) in order to provide an environment that allows him to thrive
Is it considered a new form of discrimination and not the desire effect because it is Asians and not Caucasians who suffer the greatest penalty? If that is the case, that alone tells you all you need to know about if this process is racist or not.
Solar is not reliable without batteries and even with batteries in many parts of US, will not generate sufficient electricity to maintain our current standard of living. Nevada and parts of the south have lots of sun but most northern states will not generate enough power in the winter months. Furthermore this lack of reliability means you also have to build natural gas plants to power up when its cloudy out or at nighttime. This means twice the capital for the same end. When you see those listed prices for solar its for panels installed without batteries and usually in places with lots of sun.

There is also the mess it creates with the grid. The business model of electrical companies is that in your monthly bill you pay for both power and for the grid that delivers it to you. If everyone puts solar on their roof it destroys the business model of the electrical companies and in the occasions where you still want to use grid power (at night, cloudy days etc) your rates will inevitably be higher or someone else has to pay for maintaining the grid and your socializing grid usage.

I think most of the hype around solar is way overdone. Too much solar can really can do lasting damage to an electrical grid and cause massive economic harm. This has happened in Germany where they subsidized renewables so much that they pushed out reliable power from the grid and now they are having the subsidize gas/coal generation so the grid will remain reliable. Furthermore, electricity prices have gone up enormously causing large industrial companies to move abroad or scale back operations. Electricity is the lifeblood of an economy and arbitrarily raising prices and messing with how electricity is delivered and managed can have large unintended consequences especially when decided by politicians who know nothing about the science or business.
> ... delivers a sense of 'presence' in the virtual world

I keep re-reading your comment and it keeps getting stuck in my marketing filter.

What do you mean by a sense of presence?
One of the thing they advertised about OnStar is it detects when your car is in crash. Then they (OnStar) can remotely talk to you and dispatch help. There is a button you can push to talk to someone and get help manually.

I think it does stolen vehicle tracking too.

In this day when everyone has a cell phone (versus the late 90s when Onstar first showed up), its less useful than before but if your car goes over a cliff, you are knocked out and none sees it, it could be helpful.

Why this needs to be connected to the driving functions of your car is another issue..(they'd claim "diagnostics").

https://www.onstar.com/us/en/services/emergency.html
Same here although I wonder if any vehicles allow you to shut off the wireless radios a la "airplane mode".
In the words of Malory Archer:
"It's the government. Even if it wasn't legal, they'd enforce it."
The usual kinds of help (like any help! (-, ):

- Providing new ideas

- Bug finding

- Bug fixing (https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/issues)

- Documentation (improvements)

- Website (improvements)
GM would go after you and your dealer for a DMCA vilolation.

Sadly, I'm not even being sarcastic.
It might take a good bit more power than that to keep a box clean of moisture. One reason is that the day-night cycle will expand and contract the air effectively working as a pump pulling wet air in.
AWS has hard limits, but usually can be easily overcome just by asking to their support. We increased many times the hard limits on EC2 instances and EIP.
Joel's article is barely relevant now. The main problem has been layout discrepancies, and the pages were made for IE+others back then. Nowadays it's very difficult to step on something not properly supported in your target browsers (except if your target includes old versions of IE). I develop exclusively on Chrome with a lot of fancy HTML5 stuff and very rarely I have to tweak something for Firefox, IE11, Safari, Opera...

It's a completely different scenario than when I did web dev in 2008. Also, Joel article is not fifteen years old, it's nine.
So now the Kickstarter project which has increased its costs by incorporating (though that's probably a good idea in any case) spends its remaining funds on bankruptcy lawyers and there's now nothing to return to the backers. Nothing is certain and Kickstarter projects certainly aren't. Whatever the ToS, it's probably not something you should use if you're looking for "satisfaction or your money back" sort of guarantees.
The fan is looking quite brown and sticky right now ...
Do good night vision cameras exist for the pi which would work with this? I use a number of cameras with zoneminder but will soon be replacing a few...a pi-based system would be great if night vision support was baked in.
Raw GDP is an absurd proxy for standard of living, you're comparing a country of 70 million to a country of 1.5 million. At the very least you'd need it to be per capita. Maybe PPP adjusted.
Make sure that everybody toes the line and if they don't report them to the prosecution who will then find some reason to make their lives miserable.
Very cool. I would love to be able to programmatically interact with this through python bindings, though, rather than the GUI.
You had me at locate.
no, I wouldn't. exactly because of f*uckups like these, that always come with features for lazy or stupid. if I ever, ever be forced to buy such pathetic excuse for a car, first thing I'll do is find sim card and burn it. next will be wi-fi module. heck, I'll even pay some garage to turn it off forever.

I am software engineer and that's why I don't want anybody messing up with crucial systems. It's so easy to break things, there were quite a few reports about horrible quality assurance processes in car manufacturers... just NO. I buy car, and I'll be happy with v1.0 of firmware, no updates, thank you
Yeah, having your version numbers mean something? What'll those wacky JS hipsters come up with next?!
The difference now is that the big internet players have money and information that is valuable to others, like governments.

When you start hearing about linkages between internet "security" and national defense, that's where things get changed for the worse.

If you haven't read "Netheads vs. Bellheads", you should. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.10/atm.html

The next generation "bellhead" crowd, with more security, tariffs on different transactions and control of the network are the folks with big $$$ behind them today.
Yeah, it's called being observant when you park your car. I mean, how hard is it to look around and remember a few landmarks?
>They freed and armed the Greeks who collaborated with the Nazi regime

This is not really the case. Two "groups" were to be left armed (and transformed into a national army): the 3rd Greek Mountain Brigade and the Sacred Band. Both groups were formed by the Greek government in exile, and were under the control of the Greek government. Both groups fought in battles against the Nazis. There is no question of collaboration among them.

As for the cops I'm sure there were collaborationists in their ranks, and obviously firing on the crowd was both wrong and a massive mistake. But this is no justification for anything the communists did.
am i missing a joke? the use of the word particule everywhere instead of particle?

its quite jarring... otherwise the article is quite interesting.
> What do you mean by a sense of presence?

A VR simulation where you are on top of a high tower/building, and you are physically unable to take a leap forward because your amygdala won't let you, that is VR presence.
Yes this might be a future option to open the Plug-Ins to other programming languages.

You might also look into
the from rer0tsaz proposed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10009228) G'MIC. Not sure if there are Python bindings though.

Further is there already tons of good Python Image Processing libraries around, mostly build around PIL.
Being relegated to a dumb pipe status is the nightmare of all ISPs though.
Yes, and it rules. So does using the app to start my car on a cold day when I had to park a few blocks away. Convenience always trumps security.
> source code for the programme had been dumped online by hackers

No references to online source or even the malware's name is made in the article. Does anyone have more information on this?
It's why I dropped out of grad school. It wasn't so much that I couldn't get my Masters. I had the knowledge by then to do the required project option, but when I dug into the actual research done at my university that's when I decided it wasn't worth it. It may have been a bad play to bail out but I just couldn't see myself tied to bureaucracy. When I want to build or research something I don't need some pencil pusher to tell me to do it. I just do it. If it's on my dime, fine, but it seems if you go that route then it's much harder to get it published. So, why bother?
i think you misread. it just said they were interested in not having to go around the earth when you can go through it i think... this is expected and nothing to do with opera, and i'm sure plenty of people outside of HFT have thought about it too.