skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How true is this though ?

Which part?

Honestly, I don't know how effective monitoring affect is per se but as a wild guess I'd say it's at least as accurate as a polygraph/coin flip.

However, I think there is more weight in the idea that a story that is repeated verbatim like that is more likely to be fabricated or at least neglecting some of the truth (which is the takeaway I got from the article).

Sleep deprivation appears to be a pretty popular "enhanced interrogation technique": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Interrogatio...

But just like every other form of torture its efficacy is highly questionable (e.g. the inherent possibility of false confessions). I think sleep deprivation is particularly problematic because while it does seem to almost universally deplete the victim's willpower/resistance, it also causes a profound detriment to memory and other cognitive function-- meaning it is completely useless in cases where the victim isn't talking because they don't remember the information rather than because they just don't want to cooperate.

See "Educing Information, Interrogation: Science and Art, Foundations for the Future": https://fas.org/irp/dni/educing.pdf
Inspite of being completely superfluous I kind of like the entertainment on the Weather Channel and their website. They have done a good job making an otherwise boring topic entertaining.
Nevertheless, they do exist and are constituents whether you like it or not.
There's nothing wrong with showcase female workers, as long as you aren't doing so BECAUSE they are female.

Since you are constantly accusing everyone here of the Straw Man fallacy, let me provide you an example of an actual Straw Man argument:

>So what? What harm is there in showcasing female workers? There's nothing about being a 'token' that precludes competence.
Looks like the list Santa uses to give gifts on christmas
Little bit of machine learning and here you go.

The biggest deal is to collect the data. After data arrives, they can then look for any patterns they need.
Filter anything that seems wrong.
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> address bar reads [$x], where $x is search term, on copy you get a url.

Yikes.
That's definitely not a dumb question, it's actually quite nuanced. First I will stress that it's not necessary to know if the phone is inside or outside, because the trends in pressure will be the same. Over a period of 6 hours, the pressure will drop inside if it is dropping outside, and knowing the rate of that drop and the timing of it is key for the weather forecasts.

In the work I've done on this problem we've never been too concerned about inside vs. outside. A much bigger problem is small altitude changes that mess with the exact readings by huge margins, but again, if we're focusing on trends instead of the immediate exact value, we can smooth out the noise relatively easily.

However, to actually answer your question, an app can make a very good guess about whether it is inside or outside. Key sensors and metric for this are: ambient light sensor, humidity sensor, GPS location / barometer. During the day it is normally brighter outside than inside, and during the night is normally brighter inside than outside. So that's clue #1. Clue #2 is to check GPS to see if the user is moving - if you are moving rapidly then you are probably not inside. And if the barometer is rapidly going up and down, but GPS is not changing, then the user is probably inside (elevator, stairs, etc) and that's clue #3.

Again, none of that is necessary to solve for this particular problem, but it's interesting.
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Got my 8th rejection after 4 years of constantly applying. I'll admit, for this application I got tired of remaking a video with my cofounder so I used the same as the last application.

This is what I'm currently working on: https://www.stay22.com/
That's true, the artists that do the photo to painting aren't necessarily ecstatic about signing their names on it.
Perhaps homeaglow is just a prelaunch version of flymaids? Line maybe they were creating the brand around homeaglow, then switched at some point to flymaids and just never wound down the first site?
Ask HN: Why actual rockstar programmers do not say anything?
Programming and computers are huuuuuuuge area, if we look at from bottom to the top,

- hardware level - they sit and work, they do not call themselves rockstars

- low level, fpga - they sit and work, no rockstars

- os level - sit and work, no rockstars

- algorithm developers - sit and work, no rockstars

- application/db developers - sit and work, no rockstars

- web devs, js - THEY ARE ROCKSTARS,

if we look at above areas, probably easiest one maybe web devs, who knows maybe they have smaller salary than other areas too, but when it comes to PR, they are always rockstars, they are cool, why the heck this is always the case, who works hard don't get attention, attention will be given who uses that product or sales.
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That doesn't look free, unless you want to scrape.

http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/pricing.html
It avoided a bad driver. But let's not forget that that the driver who turned without a glance is a real piece of garbage. It's unfortunate that they get the benefit of Tesla's autopilot, no consequences for them. Even when their selfish dissonance could have killed or maimed fellow citizens.
A cycle is a full charge and discharge. If you use 50% of the battery and charge it twice, that counts as one full cycle.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201585
CarMax will buy your old junky trade-in for cash today. So we already have somebody filling that role.
http://www.carmax.com/enus/we-buy-cars/default.html
Radar blimps are useful. One gave the first warning of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. It wasn't even in service yet; the contractor saw columns of tanks approaching on radar and called it in. It makes good sense to have a good aerial view of the Washington DC area.

It's possible that, instead of ordering a remote deflation or shooting it down, the operators decided to let it float until it reached an unpopulated area before bringing it down. It's bad that it dragged its steel tether across power lines, though.
All browser vendors IMHO should do exactly this. The CAs want them to entrust them with their customers secrets, they should make sure the CAs they accept work properly.
Search for "open the door to better days" and you'll find dozens of these Handy knock-offs.
Something something EDI something something kill me.

I too worked in that space. Super not fun. You're absolutely right that there is tons of money to be made by interconnecting interested parties with incompatible systems. It is a massive industry but yet still there is room for new competition.

I agree with you and above, nobody is going to replace their warehouse system's automatically generated requests with this Uber clone, they want deep integration and this doesn't get them closer to that.

Companies are already competing with this but not by copying Uber but by acting as a data intermediary making it easy to connect logistics companies with their end users. Data compatibility is the "hard problem" not connecting two companies together.
Oncolytics Biotech is studying a virus that hitch-hikes through the body on certain blood cells, camouflaged from the immune system.

Is it just me, or does this sound kinda dangerous? That is, engineering a virus specifically to evade the immune system. As long as it stays un-mutated, fine. But what if a mutation occurs that results in it becoming a deadly disease, with the bonus of being "camouflaged from the immune system"?
Do it for free then.
Absolutely agree on this. This right now is more of a Minimum Viable Product, but I'm already working on a new application (or rather social experiment) for decentralized decision making. Exciting times ahead with new technologies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and IPFS :D
I think the downvotes are coming from the following interpretation of your comment: No true Artsman buys art internationally.
I believe there were also regulatory changes that made the "dramatically underfunding pensions thing more difficult. (There may have been tax changes as well which drive many things.) Pensions survived in older tech companies for a long time; the company I worked for starting in 1986 had one until its acquisition in the late 1990s. But the pension was fairly modest and it also had the various other 401(k) and stock option plans.
It looks like iOS with all the Gaussian blur... but it is made by Microsoft... and it runs on Android.
But this argument rests on the case that Bryana was solely chosen because she's a women, when in reality she was chosen because she had the qualifications (much like some of her other colleagues) and is also a woman who had to overcome more challenges to make it to where she is now. That's a pretty interesting and under-represented vantage point to hear a speech from.

This all relates to the same debate about affirmative action that's been happening since the 60's.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/5/19/bernard-davis-an...
This guy (happens to be my grandfather) argued essentially the same point as you: that black students would be accepted to the medical school based on a lowered standard, and end up graduating as less qualified doctors as their white counterparts. This in turn would lead people to have a general mistrust of black doctors, because they would be seen as only being in their place through affirmative action, and not through merit. That is definitely a scenario to avoid, and also definitely one worth considering in debate.

However, this has proven not to be the case, and Harvard is still viewed as ranking among the greatest institutions in the world, even though they have been admitting minorities to their program since the 70's! In fact, here is a more recent Crimson article highlighting some points in defense of promoting people in minority groups: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/11/7/affirmative-acti...

If we want to decrease the gender inequality in STEM, we need to take concrete action and promote the hard work of women and other underrepresented groups in order to slowly shift the male-dominated culture to one that's more diverse.
>#notyourshield is also a misguided movement, IMO.

How so? It's a direct response to this scenario: http://40.media.tumblr.com/73df4acf6fc05fcdca641f417a7d247a/...

There's a bunch of mostly privileged and mostly white people speaking on behalf of all POC, all trans, all women, etc.

There are two issues with the above, depending on where one stands. One can be seen as "forgetting to include us" ala #WhiteFeminism and the other can be "speaking wrongly on our behalf" ala #NotYourShield

>I see a single narrative that makes sense based on the data

Please cite the data then.

I've gone out of my way to provide actual data that shows the exact opposite, with abuse being <1% while you have yet to provide any data whatsoever other than saying "my position is based on data".
Tried to click on Early US Presidential and Bernie Sanders, but got a websocket 400 error. I'm on the latest Chrome on Ubuntu.
These folks are legit, creative and dedicated to the mission of providing learners and guides around the world with tools that are free, open, and not tied to an internet that has yet to reach that last mile.
Apart from everything else in the OP; from the email he received:

> I wanted to reach out personally [...]

So personally is going the way of literally, which literally does or does not mean literally [1].

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literally
Great attitude! I was rejected as well and plan to learn from the experience and move on. Ironically I think a company that focuses too much on getting into YC would probably not be viewed as a good candidate by the partners.
No, but if my security guards keep turning away actual elephants at the border and I find no actual elephants nearby then I can conclude that my anti-elephant security works.
I think four months (give or take one or two) is pretty much standard manufacturing times for new cars from most manufacturers. The difference in customizing new cars is absolutely astonishing. Let's take a look at a VW Jetta, sold both in the EU and the US. The "regular" one seems to be the Jetta SE so lets look at that.

In the US configurator (https://www.vw.com/builder/) for a new Jetta SE you choose between 1, engine, 1 transmission, 1 type of wheels, 7 colors, 1 interior color, and have 0 optional extras I'm not sure why the damn configurator takes me through page after page with no choices. That gives you SEVEN different models of Jetta SE. A dealer has to have SEVEN Jetta SE in his lot to be able to sell a customer ANY car he could have built on the site. Under those circumstances, I too would find it pretty shocking to wait several months because I wanted the red Jetta and the dealer had only one blue and two silver.

But now look a the UK page: http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/jetta-gp/configure

We have

7 engines to choose from (cheating, non-cheating etc)

5 wheel options

10 exterior colors

9 interior colors/trims

50 optional extras

So even if we can probably guess that a lot of the extras will be packaged in nearly every car, and some of the options like wheels could be switched by the dealer himself, a dealer couldn't reasonably have less than at least a few thousand Jetta SE's if he wanted to be certain to have the car I want. He isn't going to. So what I do is a configure my car from the several hundred thousand different configurations of Jetta SE I want, then I go to a delaer, haggle a few percent off the price, sign a piece of paper, and wait a couple of months for it to be built. Or I buy a used one in his lot, which is cheaper, but isn't exactly what I want.

As for horror stories: I just learned about "delivery fees" in the US.
I'm not entirely sure why they don't mention it here, but Netflix is also a major contributor to FreeBSD.
Everywhere I've worked, anything with the letters "G", "P", and "L" was to be avoided like toxic waste. Just too much concern about running afoul of it and having to open source the whole product.
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The explanations for why they are doing it that I've seen so far covers that Google is involved in all parts of the problem. Embedded devices, servers, network stacks, now ISP, carrier, laptops (chromebook), web apps, etc...

They need all parts to work optimally and securely, and they get to feel the heat themselves for everything that's suboptimal. So they're working on fixing all of it.
I was an analyst at the time and an IBM acquisition of Sun never made sense to me. The Oracle acquisition did--even if I didn't personally like it for a variety of reasons.
Phobias may be memories passed down in genes from ancestors
European countries are enforcing electronic surveillance state
Rejected as well. Got a question from PB for which we had more hope. But right, keep moving!
You should still be able to vote. AFAIK, this is caused due to not having an SSL certificate.
Just my knee-jerk opinion, but absolutely not acceptable. I can't see any way in which this could be construed as "expected behavior."
s/homejoy/flymaids.com

FAIL...
Strange, I had an account with Homejoy, yet I just tried to log into Fly Maids and it failed with no account. Furthermore, I tried using forgot password, and it leaked that no account exists with my e-mail.
They're all pretty much the same - just who is controlling it. Domains by Proxy is GoDaddy's version.
This is how the public certificate authority system is set up. The client vendors (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla) choose what the rules are for trusting a Certificate Authority and which ones meet the requirements. These "root programs" are the only thing that prevents rogue/incompetent CAs from mis-issuing certificates on a regular basis.

Since the CA business model is based on selling digital signatures that meet specific requirements, the threat of those certificates not working as advertised is compelling.

On the other hand, the client vendors can't go overboard with requirements on existing "too big too fail" CAs because the alternative is having large portions of the Internet stop working in their products due to untrusted certificates.

Edited to add: Google doesn't run its own root program, they use the OS root store, which will be from Apple, Microsoft, or Mozilla (most Linux distros use the Mozilla list). This means that the requirements from Google are in addition to those of the OS that is being used.
Judging by the Olark (site chat) account being used, Flymaids.com is run by Homeaglow.com.

Edit: Which is also the same account used on cleanerconnect.com.
That's not true. One of the points of TOR services is that they can't be (easily) blocked by governments and/or ISPs. There's a huge HUGE difference between a TLD and .onion.
Authentication. You're talking to foo.onion, not a man in the middle - either at the start, or the end of the Tor pipeline.
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Competition. Because all startups need a frontend to get users, there are many independent firms hiring in that market, and because demand is high, there are many developers as well. Because the market is both liquid and very competitive, devs need to SCREAM VERY LOUDLY to be heard (minus a few folks who get snapped up early by highly desirable employers like Google, Facebook, AirBnB, or Uber and then quietly sit and work, often moving more toward backend as their careers progress).

There are relatively few hardware-level companies and hardware-level software engineers. There are relatively few FPGA companies and FPGA engineers. There are relatively few OSes, and relatively few OS-level software engineers. Within these fields, everyone knows who the good developers are based on their work.
North Korea's architecture
I think there are still issues with even otherwise "safe" modifications. The road tax for a specific car model is (or should) be set based on emissions. Just like you would be fined if you were pulled over and had left your catalytic converter at home, it could be considered illegal to modify the fuel maps of a car to a higher power one, for example (At least if it hadn't been inspected and its tax adjusted after the modification).
Hands-on with Facebook M
But then by restoring the ecosystem to be similar to your conception of a prior state aren't you preventing the continued maturation of that ecosystem, effectively stopping the system from evolving further?
I'm not sure. There's no real deliniation between Chrome and Google (as brands / entities) - this seems like Google exerting power over another company.

I have no love for Symantec but it doesn't feel right. I wonder if private negotiations have failed and this is Google trying to push the point?

Can you imagine if Mozilla tried the same stuff? I mean, they don't trust CACert any more after CACert wasn't able to verify itself (?) adequately, but this is on a different order of magnitude.
We're completely bootstrapped, so we don't have unrealistic investor expectations or valuation targets to achieve or else implode. I think that's probably the primary reason most of these businesses disappear.

They either invest a lot of money themselves or raise money from investors with the hope of making it back in profits that don't come (for whatever reason).

I started Instapainting with a negative bank balance, so everything we've done has been optimized to increase revenue and efficiency.
Thanks. So if I understand all this correctly, in Lisp and Scheme and so on, you can do this because the created function can maintain a reference to C's local variable that is valid after C terminates, whereas C++ can't do that. This is because in Lisp, the new function holds a reference to the value, and that value will be good until garbage collected, and it won't be garbage collected while there's a valid reference to it. Whereas in C++, the local variable is just a stack offset, and when C terminates, that is no longer valid.

That is, it seems to me that the essential feature that makes this work is garbage collection (and that all local variables are references to values that will live until garbage collection). Do I have that right?
Why is a US university launching Chinese broadcasts of its football games?
This looks very clean - but I worry at how much it takes away from users' clicking and going to the content-creator's sites. I think pure aggregators like newsbae.com will outlast sites/apps like hubii and Circa. I feel it just isn't a sustainable business model to take away visitors from the magazines that wrote the articles.
I guess we all have different views on ethics, maybe I'm just used to seeing spam and tossing it out. I find it harmless now because I'm so used to getting it...but its interesting to see how offended people get when they see unsolicited virtual mail which can be deleted with a click of a button.

I'm actually more concerned about the actual spam in my real world mailbox that USPS dumps 3 times a week, no opt-out button there.
Part 1 of an ongoing 4-part write-up. In part four he has released an alpha preview of his open source Oculus and VR framework; see http://github.com/Doc-Ok/OpticalTracking.

tl;dr; The Oculus positional tracker system uses 40 IR LEDs, each with a 10-bit cyclic code of bright or dim flashes. The tracker camera is synced to the headset and can identify each LED using these codes, elegantly simplifying the job of recovering the 3D position of the headset (the 'Perspective-n-Point' problem in Computer Vision). This gives very good absolute position and orientation tracking, however degrades when only coplanar LEDs are visible. This can be overcome by fusing the IMU data from the Oculus, which will be the contents of part four when it is written up.

This man (Oliver Kreylos) seems to do a great job of explaining computer vision problems. I really enjoyed reading these posts, and others on his blog. He's is very well qualified to write about these topics, as well (see his bio here: http://doc-ok.org/?page_id=6 - he has been researching in this area for years).
Yeah, I'm in agreement with previous posters. "Library" + "Github" equals more attention. This is somewhat of a lesson in crafting a headline here.
You're forgetting that they're trying to be the Uber of trucking. Meaning they don't give a damn about safety, because the truckers are not working for them. They're contractors.
blockchain.info also has an SSL cert on their .onion site
This is true, but I'm not sure it's only limited to IT or programming, I'd say it's present in more or less any human activity.
Mozilla runs a root program that regularly enforces similar requirements on CAs. For example, they are currently discussing whether they will require the same of Symantec as Google or even more: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...

And here is a thread about a Chinese government CA that mis-issued certificates for Google domains: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.security...
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