skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly they write little substantial about the internal construction principle so I'm making an educated guess:

Based on the pictures one can see that relatively hard shadows are created as expected by a point-like light source (like a far away sun). Also in the movie it can be seen that the 'sun' moves with the camera when the camera moves.

The hard shadows would be created if all light emitting the 'window' are almost parallel, which would require some kind of optics. So I'm guessing that the 'skylight' is made of a slightly curved backside supporting a large number of white LEDs. Each LED then would have a small lense so that all light is emitted within a very narrow angle.
The slight curvature of the backside would then lead to the apparent movement of the light-source if the camera moves. (Because one would look into the opening angle of a different portion of the LEDs)

The blue color itself is a layer of nano-particles leading imitating Rayleigh scattering of the atmosphere.
Does anyone knows why his name doesn't appear even once in the SEC S1 filing [1] for the IPO?

He could have sold all his shares before the IPO, but thought it was weird.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288847/000119312514...
Because they grew out of the microcontroller business, rather than the micro/personal computer business.

Thus most of the companies involved has a "ship it and forget it" attitude towards their products.

The PC is a very odd duck. IBM was a late comer to the micro/personal market, and they did so using off the shelf components (except for the chip handling the initial bootup, better known as the BIOS).

Thus it was possible for other companies to clone the PC using the same components, and at the time it was possible to do a clean room reimplementation of the BIOS to get around any copyright claims (back then there were no software/code patents).

So once those BIOS reimplementations started shipping, the PC market exploded with competition. This in turn drove prices down.

Another thing is that the IBM design was in a sense a throwback to a earlier "era". While most micro computers sold were pretty much single board computers (possibly with a few expansion ports and a single edge connector for ROM cartridges) the PC was more like the Altair 8800. Except for CPU and RAM, everything lived on ISA bus expansion boards.

Thus you had a initial flexibility that very much stayed with it to this day (and was massively improved when the ISA bus got replaced by the PCI bus).
Haha... I loved his bold open. It was actually refreshing to see such a level of frank self-awareness of grandiosity.
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I think this is a fantastic case against the "if you have nothing to hide" argument.

The apologist would say "but they weren't convicted of anything, so the system worked!"

Personally, I would say they were lucky that no one was killed. None of the "probable cause" for this raid justifies pointing a loaded gun(s) at an unarmed person.
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> Once they had been cleared of any wrongdoing, the Hartes wanted to know what happened. Why had they been raided? What possible probable cause could the police have had for sending a SWAT team into their home first thing in the morning? But even that information would prove difficult to obtain. Under Kansas law, the sheriff’s department wasn’t obligated to turn over any information related to the raid — not to the Hartes, not to the media, not to anyone. The couple eventually had to hire an attorney to get a judge to order the sheriff to release the information. They spent more than $25,000 in legal fees just to learn why the sheriff had sent a SWAT team into their home. Once they finally had that information, the Hartes filed a lawsuit.

> He also ruled that the police were under no obligation to know that drug testing field kits are inaccurate, nor were they obligated to wait for the more accurate lab tests before conducting the SWAT raid.

This is bullshit.

By this standard, Marijuana Dowsing Rods can be sold to the police and used to raid people's homes!

Oh, and the police are under no obligation to disclose the fact they use dowsing rods as a primary method of "discovering" drug dens!

> Keep in mind that this was a ruling for summary judgment. This was not a trial. To dismiss the suit at this stage, Lungstrum needed to view the facts in a light most favorable to the Hartes. And yet he still found that at no point did the police violate the family’s constitutional rights.

Congratulations! We live in a police state if the most favorable interpretation of those events for the victims is "Nope, no problem here!"
If someone wants to find something bad on the person, then it’ll be very easy.

Bought fertilizer? said online that you’re indifferent to police being killed?

"We have clues the person might have planned a bomb attack on local police headquarters".

The whole issue of being able to use planted evidence, misinterpreted information, or faked witness statements to hurt some random person is real. As can be seen in the fact that a single call can lead to a SWATting.
The speed comes from doing less. :) Selections are designed so that you only modify the parts of the DOM that need to be updated, and don’t waste effort touching parts that are unchanged. The downside is that it can be more work for you, since D3 (unlike, say, React) relies on you to tell it what needs updating, rather than computing it automatically. But in my experience that trade-off is often worth it.
Also, "don't be stupid about what you install". Even intelligent programmers fall for this. Yes, I know the app says it will download files faster for you, no that doesn't make sense, don't install it.
There is nothing ridiculous in this statement. You are talking about "exceptional" workers, not about normal or even bad workers. Exceptional workers are in short supply in any profession. According to the logic of software industry, the solution should be to import workers from other nations, because then we would have access to the best of the best.

Of course it is not like that. Software engineers from India or China are on average as good as the ones in the US. If something could make a difference is education. Now, if engineers in the US are not as good the ones coming from Asia, the country should do something to fix this issues first by paying more and educating them in a superior way.
Google Glass Enterprise Edition passes through the FCC with improved hardware
I think the implication is that you're supposed to learn all of that on your own. That's at the very minimum-you're supposed to eat, breathe, and shit hacker culture and programming in your spare time.
Definitely (but not as well as this[1], which is pure gold). I left it open that I could be wrong, and I'll graciously accept the word of someone with real boat burning experience that my expectations are way off. ;)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
The last full paragraph wraps it up thus: The Hartes are also a white, financially sound couple who both happened to have worked for the CIA. Most people on the receiving end of these raids aren’t white, aren’t middle-class, didn’t once work for a federal law enforcement agency and don’t have $25,000 to fund a fight in court.

I believe it to say that even with intimate knowledge of US law enforcement, they still had trouble getting answers and results... the rest of us are equally screwed.
I'm a programmer. I had to take a drug test AFTER I was already hired, because we got bought up by another company and the new company's hiring policy (they're a major corporation) requires every single employee submit to a drug test, for some mission statement reason (you can rest easy that our employees aren't on drugs! or something).

I was tempted to quit over it, but I didn't. I thought I was done with that shit, though.
You still haven't clarified this. Are they going there to supervise the manufacturing process or to learn from their peers? Is Foxconn doing EE design for Apple?
Malware bearing Emails are still a major penetration vector to enterprises
This looks really interesting but there are a few caveats wrt Arrays:[1]

"Due to limitations of native arrays in ES5 (array.observe is only available in ES7, and arrays cannot be extend),..."

"Bear in mind that Array.isArray(observable([])) will yield false, so whenever you need to pass an observable array to an external library, it is a good idea to create a shallow copy before passing it... "

Also, now that Object.observe has been removed from the standards track[2], does anyone know the fate of Array.observe? MDN says it's not on std track either.[3]

How are we going to write any sort of observable library that includes arrays with zero support from the language? (At least Objects have getters and setters and the ability to seal etc...)

[1] http://mweststrate.github.io/mobservable/refguide/observable...
[2] https://esdiscuss.org/topic/an-update-on-object-observe
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Pfft, we're all already "on the lists", and it's too late to care about that. The government has dossiers on all of us sitting in databases somewhere, detailing our political views, grudges, radicalization potential, etc.

Sure, maybe by being a bit more edgy you get put on the next edgier list and there's more scrutiny, but let's face it, the government isn't even aggressive enough to stop the people on the no-fly list from weaponizing, so they are sure as hell not aggressive enough to bother people not associated with terrorism but who disagree with them overtly. As of now, there are not so many tangible consequences to disagreeing with the government in public.

So, in short: the "attention" of the federal part of the police state is algorithmic, and, while malicious, relatively impotent in terms of effecting armed raids. The local cops aren't empowered to hunt down their detractors or federal dissenters so long as they don't demonstrate physically en masse.
I really can't agree or disagree with what you're saying, you are talking about very specific things that I'm not sure say anything more than your biases and experiences.
Plenty of places in the US to move that have cheaper rent than either NYC or the bay area. Strange to move from one of the most expensive places in the US to another.
When I first got to college realizing that I was having a very difficult time with writing, I went to the grammar section in the school's library. After failing to work through a few of the more popular books on grammar that I tried, I discovered an small obscure grammar book. The way the book worked is to first explain a handful of grammar concepts and then have the reader parse several sentences before moving onto more complex concepts. It was so systematic and methodical.

I reviewed the book a couple years ago and out of curiosity searched for one of the concepts online. There were only a small handful of search results and I think the author made up the word, the book is obscure. One of the results linked to an article on the IBM website written by one of the Watson engineers. I wrote him an email because I would imagine their engineers were using much more complicated concepts in linguistic research that a layman like my self would ever understand.

We were interested in two very different things. He is interested in helping a machine understand semantic meaning through grammatical structure while I'm interested in helping people understand semantic meaning through grammatical structure. Sure we are both using the same grammar book to parse a sentence. But how we are doing it is completely different. He is writing a program to do it and I'm writing a program to hold a child's hand while the child does it.

A sentence is a pattern of patterns. For the same reason Mike Bostock's work in visualization helps people understand patterns whether it is about the road to the White House or the road to the Super Bowl based on team salaries, visualization helps students with pattern recognition in their own writing.
I compared 2014 to 2015.

In regard to DHS, the US court system found that DHS unlawfully created the rules for OPT in 2008 in backroom deals with industry lobbyists. When the court told them so, the DHS went in to "all hands on deck" mode to come up with a work around. (So far they've failed, putting ~130k OPT guest workers at risk of having to leave the country on Feb 12th 2016). Besides the question of what is DHS doing involving itself in student training programs and guest worker visas, but the other question is why wasn't what happened at Disney an "all hands on deck" situation? Where is the support for the citizens?
It's not that risky, it's like driving down the highway. Your dad was an EE, he was in no significant danger, he was just taking precautions like the way you buckle seat belts when you get in a car. Probably just adjusting trimpots, it's rather simple.
Agreed. However I wonder if this information age will change that? For example Netflix's "Making a Murderer" MUST yield some sort of fallout against that local department. Right? At the very least, I will be avoiding Wisconsin.
Thats a really cute product.
On top of the fact that the US has one of the largest corporate tax rates in the world, free tuition won't allow the poor to get better jobs.

It will merely set a new bar that everyone will need to adhere to, to get a job. IE: a bachelor's degree will be the new requirement for most jobs.
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The actual basis of the raid was a false positive by a field test kit, which misidentified tea leaves from the target's trash as marijuana. (They claim to not need a search warrant to look at trash.)

The raid was conducted in 2012, and this article reports a test performed in 2009 which showed that the brand of test kits in question has a 70% false positive rate. It links to a video in which running the test without a sample (ie, just exposing it to air) produced a "positive" result. Notably, this was three years earlier than the raid in question, which means that they were still using the faulty test kits.

There are only two possible reasons for a police department to be using a test like that. The first is ignorance, but of a degree and nature that is quite scandalous. The second is to commit fraud upon the courts, by claiming to have evidence of drug possession where no drugs exist. In light of the FBI hair test scandal (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo...) I think the latter explanation is fairly likely.
To clarify: most Glock pistols are semi automatic including LEO side arms and will only empty the magazine if the trigger is pulled repeatedly.
I think the same about some modern art, such as Duchamp's urinal, or Craig-Martin's oak tree. Once you understand what the artist is trying to say, there is no need ever to see the work again.

Although it gets me into trouble, I tend to divide art into "craft", where skill is important, and "visual philosophy", where the message is the thing, and skill is often secondary. And I have to say that I prefer that to the Old Masters!
> marijuana dowsing rods

this is a great idea.
Ordinal scales don’t have a continuous input domain, so you can’t plug them into the zoom behavior like a linear scale. You could have the zoom behavior transform the scale’s output range instead (or equivalently, use the zoom behavior to apply a transform to the SVG). Can you elaborate on when you would want to do this? It might make a good example.
Open Whisper Systems
It seems like whenever someone checks antivirus software for exploits (Black Hat in 2008, Google Project Zero 2015), they find them in droves.

Which isn't surprising, since most of the big vendors have very old code bases on which are piled many new parsers every year for documents, archives, whatever can contain code these days. The .doc parser in your antivirus isn't better than, say, the one in Libreoffice.

You should assume that your antivirus scanner is trivially exploitable. When you need to scan incoming files sandbox that scan as tight as you can.
I think, perhaps you're giving them too much credit, especially given that they stated that once they'd found no evidence of a grow op, they switched to searching for evidence of personal use (the absurdity of which is a whole other discussion).

My guess is that they did no homework at all before performing this raid; they just built a spreadsheet of gardeners, started checking trash cans and raided the first house that had a positive field test.
Is this your only argument? Because western countries haven't figured it out no other country can? Do you imply that western countries have exclusive power over knowledge that is unavailable to other countries? Necessity drives innovation. Don't forget that! Today the fully developed Western countries have no necessity to figure out the solutions that are unique to developing countries who are poised to take over as developed countries of the future. Once upon a time, the "fully developed countries" of today were developing countries who faced problems of similar magnitude and tackled them because it was necessary to do so. Today the "fully developed countries" have no "necessity" to move to solar on a massive scale but developing countries do. Don't think even for once that all the innovation happens only in "fully developed western countries".
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It's time to start the conversation about Private Production of Defense.[1] Without competitive forces coming to bear upon the monopoly enjoyed by the law enforcement and judicial systems, we will see ever-increasing rights violations with no recourse from the citizens.

Ending the War on Drugs is a great step in the right direction and make sense any way you look at it, but it will not end the systematic abuses of power perpetrated by the State.

[1]: https://mises.org/library/private-production-defense
On the one hand, I upvoted your original comment (and tweeted my snark related to it rather than post it here). On the other hand, it isn't a respectful environment if you have to look smart according to current groupthink norms in order to ask questions here and get them taken seriously. That lack of respect really does serious harm to the ability to foster an environment of serious intellectual discussion.

Think of it this way: we kind of need to follow the rule that "The only dumb question is the one unasked."
Google has made a point of not using GPLed code (except Linux) or Sun/Oracle code in Android, for technical and legal reasons. There's even a lawsuit about it. So it's surprising to see GPLed Oracle OpenJDK code being committed anywhere near Android.
Something called "Web TuneUP" just screams crapware. It sounds like one of those browser toolbar things advertised via flashing banner ads that hijack your browser.

A company that bundles something like that is no longer credible as a security vendor.
Shortcut? It's the express lane. My wife was in the ER for 4 hours for a bad asthma attack and it cost nearly two thousand bucks, and I'm told that's relatively cheap. We're STILL paying for it.
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Orders don't come from the top?
There is no preference when it comes to hiring Top Tier engineers. Here at Google we try to hire everyone that can pass the interviews, if you are a U.S. Citizen that doesn't require Visa sponsorship then it's all the much better. I've never ever heard of anyone losing their job to foreigners in top Silicon Valley companies.

I never said foreign engineers are better, I said top ones are just as good as top ones here. Most of them work in low level positions for 70k a year but that's true for most American engineers as well. Cost would obviously play a big role for jobs of those level.

But I was replying to the comment about exceptional talent, not the overall job market.

What makes you think they WOULDN'T be as good? I've casually worked with some top tier Engineers from Baidu and Alibaba before this job and I'd say they'd have no problem landing a good position at Google or Facebook any day.
Yup, my dad fixed ship's radar at work and then did TV repairs for neighbours sometimes on the weekend. UK, 625/405 dual standard monochrome teles and early colour teles. On the back room table. Hand in back pocket when going near what we called the EHT...
What the fuck: https://twitter.com/imurdock/status/681602495068557312
you mean people in poverty regardless of ethnicity...
It requires a basic misunderstanding of the goals of bureaucracy to see this as "fighting back".
Is it happening in states where weed is legal, too? I can't understand it.

My last workspace looked literally like these illustrations: a lot of folks smoking weed right in the office (open-air balcony), without any secrecy at all. And it's not even legal, although cops don't really care to enforce.

To drug test for a legal substance... Why would you agree to work at such a place?
Read the comment I replied to, he was talking about exceptional cab drivers and exceptional accountants, thus making his statements ridiculous.
Good for you. Especially if your new stock is locally written.
This is almost as bad as the Annie Dookhan[0] incident, in which a crime lab chemist outright falsified evidence used in almost 40,000 cases. She planted drugs in some tests, or simply faked results for tests that she never actually performed.

In at least some cases, she did this explicitly to aid the prosecution in securing convictions[1][2].

Spoiler: Dookhan got only 3-5 years worth of prison time for this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan

[1] http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2012/12/20/in...

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/1...
As well as extensive property damage during the search.
A third degree of separation on LinkedIn isn't really that meaningful in my experience (e.g. according to LinkedIn, Barack Obama is a third degree connection of mine). Whilst it put stuff like the NSA's three hops rule in context, it doesn't really reveal anything notable AFAICT.
The fact that this causes poverty is simply tautological. Poverty is defined as a lack of market income + certain cash benefits. Once a person is unable to work they will become poor regardless of transfer programs or how high their consumption is.

The way to fix this is to measure poverty by consumption rather than income, but this is unpopular since it would reveal how little poverty really exists (eliminating an axe that politicians love to grind).

http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/14/whats-the-best-way-to-mea...
Yep! Trying to write my very first programming language[1]. Aiming to have a legit GC (mark/sweep), a legit VM with bytecode (possibly stack-based to start out with), and familiar data types. Oh and I'm doing it entirely in C, because I have a special love/hate relationship with C that never seems to die. It's going slow, but very fun!

[1]: https://github.com/sdegutis/Paladin
Just as a side note, the article kind of drops the ball at the end:

> The Hartes are also a white, financially sound couple who both happened to have worked for the CIA. Most people on the receiving end of these raids aren’t white, aren’t middle-class, didn’t once work for a federal law enforcement agency and don’t have $25,000 to fund a fight in court.

The CIA is not now, and has never been, a federal law enforcement agency.
I don't think that's how it works. Companies with drug testing policies are usually multi-state and they won't have a separate policy for NY and CA.
There's a thing called backup....every serious agency should do client's backups daily imho...
Yes. For fun. No serious projects though.
That's not really what I meant though. Could it be something else than a drug bust in reality?