skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are very sensitive to event the smallest details about human eyes. There are some aspects that are not modeled in this demo.

Probably the most important is that head models are completely static: they were "frozen in time" from the time of 3D scan, in exactly one position, one facial expression, one eyes focus.

Each of the models were captured with slightly different eyes orientation / position / focus. Black one especially doesn't look "at you", he looked "past you" when the capture was made.

Demo only changes eyeballs orientations but the rest of the head stays always the same, mesh is static. In the real world when eyes move, also eyelids and skin around moves. We use these details as additional source of information when guessing where the person is looking at.

Another aspect that's missing is a proper physiologically-correct cross-eyedness due to focus distance. When you look at the same point but at different distances, eyes will move closer/further apart, but not in a simple geometric way, there are physiological constrains.
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Pharma sales have strict compliance but guess who enforces those compliances? The pharma companies. Not the FDA.

This isn't correct. Sales reps main role is promotion and the FDA has jurisdiction over drug promotion. There are been several examples of the FDA coming down hard on companies where drug reps fall outside of regulations.

In fact, most of the non-compliant behavior is reported to the FDA by other competitors? What better way to hammer your competition than to rat them out to the authorities?
> Why Companies Won’t Learn from the T-Mobile/Experian Hack

Because they don't have to. Yet.
AWS is the new IBM
I seriously don't understand how IRC has withstood the test of time and gets relegated to the back room. 3d.tv (Twitch before there was twitch) Used IRC in a way I could just go to the IRC channel and connect to it and the people could write IRC programs. Twitch.tv IRC is a little more hidden.

http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1302780-twitc...
Maybe they include anecdotes like this one: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

>Anyway, the story is that one day Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee, who had recently transferred to Cupertino from Paris, had just parked his car and was walking toward the entrance of the main office at Apple when Steve buzzed by him in his silver Mercedes and pulled into the handicapped space near the front of the building.

>As Steve walked brusquely past him, Jean-Louis was heard to declare, to no one in particular - "Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped...".
A curated list of speech and natural language processing resources
Perfect example of exactly the phenomenon he's talking about, just from today! Read the whole thread to see the boring vs. exciting debate fleshed out.

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg17870.h...

(h/t Filippo Valsorda).

Also: if I can take a stab at reframing this: I don't think this is properly seen as a discussion between "boring" and "exciting". Curve25519, Poly1305, and Salsa20 aren't boring! Salsa20 is the first popular native stream cipher since RC4.

What this is really about is standards crypto vs soundly engineered crypto.

Virtually all of Bernstein's problems, going all the way back through his career, stem from the way standards bodies mangle cryptography.
>any two valid identifiers may be joined with a single ' to form a longer identifier

Oh no.
Fire up a Linux VM and get going in 15 minutes?
It would be nice if there was a revenue-neutral or even for-profit system that helped former prisoners, the homeless, and people on welfare transition to self-sufficiency. The U.S. has a great need for healthy, organic food, as well as manufacturing. Many of these people don't have the skills (or ability given background checks) to rent apartments or get cars. They could live onsite in a rural area and work, learn job skills and life stills, while providing a valuable and profitable service.
For Perl 5 only deployments see https://stratopan.com/

The Perl 6 `use` statement supports :auth, :api and :ver adverbs for explicit control. See http://design.perl6.org/S11.html#Versioning for some detailed discussion.
Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/1520/
An AWS version of a sneakernet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
Isn't it written in python?

weight = 1000 if "cat" in title.lower() else 0
It's unfortunately also true. We've convicted millions of people for nonviolent offsenses and locked them up away from society, away from employment, right alongside truly dangerous people. Now we're letting them out of the jails but they have little/no skills and will be locked out of numerous benefits programs and have a very hard time getting work, so yes, they're probably going to become homeless, criminals, or both.

Mind you as sad as this whole mess is, the authorities wringing their hands about this is infuriating to new levels. Akin to breaking someone's legs with a baseball bat before a race and then saying "Wow they're going to have a hard time winning this one, maybe they just should stay out of the race."
The audacity of big startup ideas
Just so I'm understanding, is this a Kafka competitor?
Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown
Like I said above:

> Something can have a value to me at free, and if the price were to rise at all, I would shift my consumption elsewhere.
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Yes, I think it makes for a surveillance state. People need the ability to use cash and coin in order to retain their freedom. A cashless economy implies that everything is done on cards and computers where accounts can be frozen or a power outage means that no one can buy food.
Well, the simplest solution is to clearly state what, if anything, they've done - saying "they gave me a review copy" clears everything up, if all they did was give you a review copy. I'm pretty sure they have a quite in-depth statement of what you can and can't do, but I would expect that clearly stating what's going on at the start of each review would be enough.
Nice to see a post that covers the various aspects of using Docker in place of some like Vagrant for local development.

The biggest pain I've run into when using Docker for local dev is waiting for pip to install dependencies on rebuilds. This offers an interesting strategy for mitigating that and I look forward to digging into this more.
I'm an entrepreneur, I want sensible laws, not laws that open up a hornets net of regulatory burden.

Almost every new breakthrough startup in recent years did so by breaking existing conventions and laws. Should Uber or AirBnB not exist because existing regulatory capture by protected industries?

Besides worrying about being sued by any jackass with a shitty patent and a lawyer, now you'll have additional regional specific worry. To me that means, if I was launching a startup today, I'd simply launch it US only.

Don't you love how when music or media services launch in the US, you don't get to watch them in every country? How Netflix or say, Spotify, are blocked for certain regions?

Get ready for a lot more of that, a balkanized internet, where a URL or IP address is no longer a uniform, universal access.
Analytics event or IoT event ingestion, for example. Then, you can hook up AWS Lambda to the Kinesis stream to actually do any processing/aggregation.

Or, if you're using the new Firehose product, you could also use Lambda and attach it to the S3 event source using the bucket that the Firehose dumps into to perform batch processing on these records.
i have a first generation roku that's still chugging along (despite some apps no longer working with it - looking at you HBO GO) and originally had no plan to upgrade, but the software on the new version looks very promising. Rather than switch between netflix, amazon, plex, etc. i can just look for a movie and select a carrier.
My god I would be thrilled if there could just be a usable S3 filesystem browser.
See also http://doc.perl6.org/language/5to6 (which is well maintained).
It would be awesome to have a website that's as easy to use as lichess for xiangqi (chinese chess) and weiqi (go). The existing internet servers for them aren't as full-featured or user friendly.
Interesting - to me 30 ms is pretty bad. I've got a ThinkPad i5 with 8GB running Win10 and can get in the 10-15ms range in Ableton Live Suite 9, and I have access to a SP3 that I might be able to test out. Granted, I don't think the design of the software is for "live" type use but I have noticed there are some 'sweet spots' for certain programs in the buffer size, e.g. Kontact doesn't like lower than 128 for some reason, whereas Traktor Pro doesn't care in the least.
Viewport aspect ratio is likely unrelated.

Those warnings mean your GPU driver doesn't support a feature that's critical for shaders used there. Sorry for that :(

Which GPU do you have?

The last time I encountered a similar issue was on my old Thinkpad with ancient ATI 3650 Mobility Radeon GPU (on Windows but only when running OpenGL rendering backend, DirectX ANGLE backend was ok, so it wasn't really hardware issue, just drivers).

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BTW to see how it looks when it works properly, here are video captures:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwLlCBbP0Cc57IQLBH_8j...
Not really, no. The "niche" that pathologic microbes play is basically entirely negative. Any supposed benefits are certainly well drowned out by massive mortality and morbidity. Nobody cries for mass murderers.

To your second question, that can be a big problem. HIV is probably the best example. Patients receiving HAART can really hurt themselves if they skip a treatment; it gives the virus enough time to mutate and get ahead. Usually this works at the individual level because of the mutation rates in viruses - and their tendency to revert upon infection to a new host - but theoretically yes. Moral of the story? Always take all your drugs.
I don't think you'd want to try and do this with web technologies. I followed StaffPad's development pretty closely (due to it being a project of my brother). They pushed what even Windows native apps could do to the limit to make this. It's performance sensitive and benefits a lot from serious pen APIs. The web is not a reasonable platform for solving every problem and this sort of boundary-pushing productivity app would be an especially bad fit for HTML5.
Surely it's "repressed emotions" in some cases, but not always. There's strong evidence to support this assertion.

One of the "this would be funny if it weren't so morbid" truths about psychology is that much of our understanding of the brain springs from cases in which normally-functioning people have parts of their brains physically destroyed in accidents.

The most famous example is Phineas Gage, who experienced some specific personality changes (go figure, right?) after a railroad spike pierced his head but left him otherwise unharmed. His mishap provided visceral proof that the brain wasn't just an undifferentiated lump; it showed us that specific areas of the brain perform specific tasks including emotional and behavioral issues.

Alexithymia can sometimes be the result of a brain injury. A person with "normal" emotional responses can, after a brain injury, find themselves with alexithymia.

I'm not sure of a definitive source to link to; apologies for the Google search results link: https://www.google.com/search?q=traumatic+brain+injury+and+a...
They demoed one on stage at re:invent just a bit ago, it is about the size of a desktop PC with hard plastic case all around it. I think he said it is ~47 lbs.
Kinesis is basically Kafka as a service. IIUC, Kinesis Firehose is just a way to ingest data into S3 buckets/Redshift and Firehose would give you the goodies like monitoring/fault tolerance etc.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to organizations: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/organizations.h...

Awarding the prize in chemistry or physics or medicine to a country seems like it would dilute the award beyond recognition.
"This is a huge challenge for successful founders: how does one ensure that a company's culture and values don't degrade long after the original team is gone?"

More than just a founder problem. This has been a defining problem for empires throughout history: how to make sure the next guy doesn't mess it up.
Yeah, imagine an Israeli robot grabbing the arms of a suicide bomber so he can't detonate, horrible.
For one, this: "makes it easy for all employees to.." work with business insights data is usually inaccessible to everyone for a reason.
Exactly. Saying that "oh this was always the way in tech, and always will be" is turning a blind eye to the costs involved. It's gonna turn Silicon Valley into another Wall Street, never mind that the work conditions and pace that drive Wall Street shouldn't be acceptable either.
There is a story of a Buddhist student (probably Zen) who asked his master what he should do since he had finished eating. The master replied "Wash your bowl." It is the simple things that make up life and have provided meaning for people for millennia. It's not surprising that these are the things we should be doing mindfully.
That was a terrific book. I highly recommend anything from Daniel Suarez.
Yep, all I could think was "Wow, that's a good deal fancier than a station wagon full of tapes".

Cloud backup companies have had similar services for a while now, but it's nice to see AWS adopting it.
Ask HN: Do you also get a stream of domain sales inquires under fake names?
I've been getting these for months. Here is today's:
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Hello,

I think that you are the owner of a similar domain name to mine.
Would you have interest in xxxxx dot com?

Appreciate if you would let me know.
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Isn't this a bit risky? What happens if someone keeps it? 50TB is a lot more than $200.
Persistent Networking with Irmin and MirageOS [video]
Hakeem Oluseyi: What I learned from teaching physics in Africa
PoC || GTFO Episode 9 [pdf]
PASTOR MANUL LAPHROAIG'S tabernacle choir SINGS REVERENT ELEGIES of the SECOND CRYPTO WAR:

9:2 A Sermon on Newton and Turing

9:3 Globalstar Satellite Communications

9:4 Keenly Spraying the Kernel Pools

9:5 The Second Underhanded Crypto Contest

9:6 Cross VM Communications

9:7 Antivirus Tumors

9:8 A Recipe for TCP/IPA

9:9 Mischief with AX.25 and APRS

9:10 Napravi i ti Raˇcunar „Galaksija“

9:11 Root Rights are a Grrl’s Best Friend!

9:12 What If You Could Listen to This PDF?

9:13 Oona’s Puzzle Corner!
Do we have some sources on this? And aren't the proposed Tribunal for ISDS arbitration (where companies can protest/appeal laws and court rulings that treat foreign companies on an unequal footing to domestic or other special status ones)?
Another easy method to move your customers data to AWS - where I'm sure some three letter agenices feast over each newly arrived platter of data.

I'm still waiting for the big leak on how AWS cooperates with NSA at large.
A good analogy? It's batman. We're debating web batman. Cool.
Literally the same? Well shit they are probably criminals then
Great read! Take a peek too at The Hollywood Reporter's cover story today on 'Steve Jobs' movie and crazy saga to get to premiere:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/a-widows-threats-h...
I thought they already allowed you to mail in hard drives?
There's a huge difference between not having internal recruiters call up employees in a company directory to try and poach them, and preventing those same employees from choosing to apply. The former doesn't affect wages, but the latter would. The latter didn't happen.
Oh! I could have sworn it was necessary. My bad.
At Asana, we've been beta testing Kinesis Firehose. It's been quite convenient not having to manage much, and having the data end up in S3. We're also using Kinesis streams, and have a simple KCL app to pull from streams and write to Firehose. We're looking forward to when streams can be as easy to manage, or when we KCL apps can read from Firehose.
That's an interesting design decision, and I suppose it solves the Python problem of "I want to operate on any iterable, except for strings which are technically iterables but I want to treat them as atomic elements."

(Incidentally, does Python 3 have a solution to this problem?)
The NeXT cube was often faster in perceived UI speed than my 2.3GHz MacBook Pro (this was after the 68040 upgrade). And the dock was more intuitive because it could be dragged into your desired position. And application menus were more useful because they could be detached.

27 years after its original introduction--color came maybe 25 years ago--and NeXTstep is still looking pretty good.

Ah, nostalgia! I still have a NeXT cube and monitor in my home office.
Identity theft complaints per 100,000 residents
I agree, my idea for an iPad Pro app also needs to pay homage to these projects.
Hey IFTTT! Jacob from Imgur here. Do you guys think you will be trying Kubernetes soon?
Other submission, higher up on the page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346952
His MicroSD card calculations are off because it would take a month to insert an airplane-load of those cards one by one into some computer to copy them into your storage.

Which also makes me wonder why this Snowball device only does Ethernet. Seems like it should have an eSATA port.
Another is the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, built on the US/Canada border. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera... )

There's also the Hotel Arbez on the border between Switzerland and France. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Arbez )

And a bar on the border between Slovenia and Croatia: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/06/half-of-thi... .
Great point, and caches are even smaller on mobile.

I think it depends on your use case. If your page views are mostly new users (e.g. you're a content publisher), then cachability doesn't matter too much. But if you're writing a web app hoping to have high engagement with users that return to the site frequently, it's likely you can be pretty effective with caching.

Also - I kinda doubt that browser caches use a simple LRU replacement policy. I suspect they have some heuristics built in to guess what is most likely to be re-used. I don't know for sure though...it would be interesting to know.
For polio, the hypothesis is that it was very common before 1900. I quote from "From Emergence to Eradication: The Epidemiology of Poliomyelitis Deconstructed" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991634/

> In the pre-epidemic era, enteric infections were so ubiquitous that most infants were infected within 6–12 months, at a time when they had circulating antibodies passively derived from their nursing mothers. Although serum antibodies did not prevent enteric infection, they were sufficient to preclude viremia, thereby avoiding invasion of the central nervous system and paralysis. The result was the acquisition of active immunity under the cover of passive protection.

So the hypothesis is that historically most people did have it and were immune, and only the improved hygiene past 1900 led to epidemics. We can indeed ask whether some individuals are worse off now because they didn't contract it in their infancy. But we're also doing pretty much the same thing with the vaccinations. Maybe we'll see a rise in allergic reactions when polio 2 vaccines are phased out. I don't think that anybody would advise infecting babies to get the benefits back though :-)
By leaving yourself unvaccinated, you are bearing the risks of contamination. The risks that someone else takes leaving themselves unvaccinated is up to them.
I personally believe it is a problem, having (mostly) been in that state and (sometimes) out of it, it is indeed quite a difference. When it happened for the first time (at age 33), it was like "oh my, so this is what all those people were talking about all along, isn't that something".

I do wish I could change states at will, but historically it has always been a result of some sort of external influence.
If you think putting HTTPS or other encryption on inter-data center traffic is sufficient to prevent NSA interception, I think you're being naive. The NSA was intercepting hard-drives from manufacturers and implanting firmware. The NSA doesn't have to lean on data centers, they just need to lean on Toshiba, Seagate, Samsung, etc al.

Besides, the European intelligence agencies have been caught snooping on the European internet and giving the data to the NSA, the Germans in particular. Basically, the surveillance is going to continue, with the threat of terrorism in Europe higher than the US, and restive waves of immigration from Muslim countries, do you really think they're going to lay down that capability?

This is just re-arranging the chairs, but changing nothing in practice. So companies that can afford it will host data in European data centers, the NSA will ring up the UK or German intelligence agencies and trade data.
You need throwable characterization tests when you don't know what the legacy code is supposed to do, but don't want to change its behaviour.
They did but you had to buy them yourself and most of the times you didn't have a use for them after. With snowball they manage the process end to end.
"The data will be 256-bit encrypted on the host and stored on the appliance in encrypted form", key is stored in KMS, according to https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-importexport-snowball-t...
Getting terabytes of data into AWS/Hotel California is great, but wish there was a way to get the data out just as quickly!
This was the premise of some sci-fi novel I read long ago: two countries at war switched to using robots, and as robo-armies became more interconnected and thus more intellectually powerful, they understood the pointlessness of destruction and refused to fight. IIRC they went to pick flowers on the battlefield instead of singing, though.

I thought it was one of Stanislaw Lem's novels, but can't find the name now; I might be wrong about that.
The closest thing I could compare it to would be services that make it easier to get data into Redshift or S3. E.g. segment.io's redshift product: https://segment.com/redshift.
Chinese Hackers Breached LoopPay, a Contributor to Samsung Pay
Potentially dumb question from a backend dev:

Is there a way to get stats about page loading from Timeline, that could be used to automatically ensure that the load times are not creeping up, and breaking NFRs?
This is apparently different and separate from Mozilla's manifest.webapp (which I guess is for Firefox OS?), but I don't know if it's a standardization of Chrome's manifest.json that I've seen elsewhere or something entirely new, but similar. Either way, the entire manifest ecosystem is really confusing right now.
Things like this interest me because I would like to see some diversity in the mobile phone design space ... in 2015, there is only one design, the design of the original iphone. It's iterated on and refined, but it's still just a monolithic touchscreen slab.

So this is interesting, but also frustrating - in the last few years there have been several successors to the MOTO FONE (or MOTO F3) which was the ultimate candybar phone.[1][2] There are the two Nokia phones (220 and 222) and Nokia 130.

And now there is this. And the question is, why are these so thick ? This (and the modern Nokia candybars) are basically phones that do nothing ... and yet they are 12, 13, and in the case of this punkt phone, 14.5 (!) mm thick.

If the F3 could do it in 9.1mm, and if modern smartphones can do everything they do in even less, then why aren't these "dumbphones" <9mm thick ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone

[2] 114x47x9 mm in size