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>it never has -- benefits go to the people who have the power to decide where the benefits go tautologically, i.e. capitalists

so it is a tautology by choice. they could decide to send the benefits of faster and increased production to the masses.
Yet another case of ego clashes dominating science.
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Not just big-box stores, I've seen a number of gas stations selling all manner of firearms.
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The idea is great. The cheapest option available is $199 for a slider, two buttons and a dial ... I'm wondering how much it would cost to build something similar out of an arduino and a few electrical components, then connect it up as a USB HID or something. 3D-printed casing too of course. Less than $100?
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)

> Ceres was the first asteroid discovered, by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo on 1 January 1801. It was originally considered a planet, but was reclassified as an asteroid in the 1850s when many other objects in similar orbits were discovered.

> [...]

> Ceres was assigned a planetary symbol, and remained listed as a planet in astronomy books and tables (along with 2 Pallas, 3 Juno, and 4 Vesta) for half a century.
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OpenFace can optionally use a CUDA-enabled GPU, but it's not a requirement. The performance is almost real-time on a CPU. After detection (which varies depending on the input image size), the recognition takes less than a second. We have a few performance results on the FAQ at http://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/faq/

I'm surprised (and skeptical) uWho can do detection+recognition at 15fps.
I would expect face detection alone in 1280x720 images to be much slower than 15fps. On my 3.7GHz CPU with a 1050x1400px image, dlib's face detector takes about a second to run. This is also my experience with OpenCV's face detector, which I noticed your code is using. Also OpenCV's face detector returns many false positives, especially in videos. See this YouTube video for an experimental comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsK0hzcEyHI

Also, I think it's a strong claim that faces can't be generated from a perceptual hash. One property of perceptual hashes is that hashes that have a close hamming distance to each other are more similar (of the same person). I wouldn't be surprised if a model could successfully map perceptual hashes to faces given enough training data. I read a good paper about doing this (not specific to faces) but can't remember the reference now.

Edit: I just added some simple timing code to this sample OpenCV face detection project on my 3.60GHz machine: https://github.com/shantnu/FaceDetect
On the John Lennon image from the OpenFace FAQ sized 1050x1400px, it takes 0.32 seconds, which is about 3fps. This is slightly quicker that dlib's detector on the same image, but it also returned a false positive.
A similar example regarding quality is Dr Deming's famous Red Bead Experiment. It is a fascinating insight into how dysfunctional management systems operate and perpetuate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckBfbvOXDvU
Regularly improving regulatory requirements protect the average person on the street from the majority of material risks. Cryptocurrencies have no such protection.

Banking systems were not forced on the world; they evolved to solve real problems, and continue to evolve. It's is unreasonable to dismiss the structure of these institutions without a deeper discussion considering the reasons for complexity and where the industry is headed.

I believe that cryptocurrencies may present some improvement in the status quo at some point in the future, but not until there is more regulation (through government and/or through private contracts enforceable by civil law).
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Generally it's due to the battery.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/is-the-cold-weather...

https://www.google.com/search?q=cold+phone+shutdown
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I'm more interested in the built in atomic clock and gps synchronization. Could this make one of Googles data clusters a more broadly available commodity?
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> I would love to see micropayments replace ads.

I don't know much about the technical reality of it, but I've thought that an effective micropayments system could be revolutionary, one of thhe most important innovations in tech:

1) It could be a way of financing an incredible amount of essential work that current funding models fail, because the payments are one-off and not worth the high trasaction costs (in fees and user time). Think of art (how do you pay for an amazing digital image) to music (pay for one song) to journalism (how do you pay for one article) to games to FOSS code to expert Q&A to much more. Financing these endeavors could lead to much more and much better.

2) It can solve much of the privacy problem, assuming the micropayments are cash-like and not tracked. I hope anonymity, which you mention in your comment, and all aspects of confidentiality are being designed and built in as core functions.

3) It could enable automated rights clearinghouses in many fields. Do you want to use part of that code/song/etc. in your work? No need to contact the rights holder and negotiate a contract, an impossibly high transaction cost for most, just use the micropayment system. Much of art in the digital age is, or should be, collage. As they say, 'good artists borrow, great artists steal'.

In my mind, it could be the most important IT innovation for culture, code, and many other aspects of society.
Good point. You can say that the progress to each of those things is increasing, and that they are.

But when we look at access to medicine, it is abysmal in this country. And when we had a decent reform (PPACA), the Republicans shit a brick. And in many states, they still are obstructing by forcing the federal exchanges to handle the burden, or they do stunts like what Kentucky did when they elected a Tea Partier.

Science: Again, access if you're rich. There's a few things poorer people get access to, only because lower science good would be too expensive to produce.

Human rights: Yeah, we don't have lynchings any more, but black people are discriminated against. And police in many jurisdictions are now the legal mafia with Civil Forfeiture.

Rates of violence: There's been work stating that getting lead out of gasoline seems to be statistically significant in why violence is lowering.

Access of Info: True. But the way the US economy is stagnating, actual data costs are skyrocketing. And poorer people only have the library or free hotspots to count on. If they can afford mobile data, they might have that.
That was pretty much all tongue-in-cheek. I guess I have to ramp up on the sarcasm.
If naming was all about logic then 1/2 the places on earth would need to be renamed. Naming is about emotion, style, history, and personal preference. Even total mistakes (the Giant Squid) are grandfathered through. Galileo named the moons of Jupiter after his sponsors. I just hope this thing doesn't become "X, brought to you by iPhone8".
Banks are full of great lessons in system design that extend past the realm of purely technical solutions. They regularly make cost vs. risk trade-offs that make technical people nervous, for example, straight-through processing of low value payments with the expectation that material fraud can be detected through regular analysis/reconciliation/auditing and dealt with out of band.
similar things were said about America Online in the 90s. where are they now?
Why is this getting downvoted? It's clearly the right thing to do.
>rapid growth due to a shift in the popularity of your neighborhood is about the only reliable way for your "investment" to fare much better than sticking money under the mattress would

Pretty shortsighted view there, and demonstrably wrong. Historically housing prices have always risen faster than the rate of inflation - both in 'popular'neighborhoods and elsewhere. Take almost any 10 year period of time and you'd be very very hard pressed to find a region where housing prices didn't dramatically outpace inflation.
> Argosy began in 1882 ... and ceased publication ninety-six years later ... but for ten years in between it was the home of a true-crime column by Erle Stanley Gardner.

> To help investigate his cases, Gardner assembled a committee of crime experts, including a private detective, a handwriting analyst, a former prison warden, and a homicide specialist with degrees in both medicine and law. They examined dozens of cases between September of 1948 and October of 1958

So, the magazine was active from 1892 to ~1986. At some point, which appears to be between 1948 and 1958, Erle Stanley Gardner headed the feature in question.
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That's not an answer. There are too many reasons someone would need to post within 24 hours of creating an account. For example, someone creates a blog post that gets posted to HN by someone else and they enter the comments to answer some questions, while the discussion is still going on.
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Things are getting more confusing today briefly on the road to getting better.

The new `dotnet` CLI is on its way to becoming much like the `go` CLI as a one-stop-shop for a lot of your IDE needs, cross-platform and easily accessible from your favorite command line and/or code editor.

It should be the case soon that you can `yo` up a new web project (or use some other generator tool if you don't like Yeoman) and then `dotnet web` straight into a simple web server.

Also, at its face OWIN is a lot simpler than it seems. It's simply the name of the "middleware protocol" in modern .NET web applications, similar to the Connect versus Express confusion in NodeJS land in that Express uses/provides "Connect-compatible" middleware, ASP.NET uses/provides "OWIN-compatible" middleware. Maybe that helps a little.
It was an analogy, not a definition. Your entire rebuttal so far has leaned far more on a definitional objection than any of the comparisons made.
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Apple is a hardware company, basically. The 4 companies in that grouping are all internet companies.
> The problem with that though is that housing prices are tightly tied to surrounding economic factors

I really question what those economic factors are though. For SF it's clearly the availability of high paying jobs. However in Portland, OR (where I live) there are little to no high paying tech jobs available, and yet the housing prices are sky rocketing to levels never seen before.

Given my basic understanding of economics the current climate makes absolutely no sense. Wages have been stagnate for years, college grads have no career outlook (outstanding student debt is now $1.2 trillion), and prices for everything (except for oil) are higher than ever. I've seen friends empty their bank accounts just to pay rent. The concept of savings or retirement for millennial might as well not even exist.
Can someone describe their experience with using rails as a back-end JSON API for javascript apps (flux/react or with angular/ember)?
RethinkDB is still a strong possibility as an alternative, it's similar enough to MongoDb.

While there is no official core SQL support yet there are 3rd party add ons for PostgreSQL and MySQL available.
That assumes that you clear your browser cache after you view every page, or that you visit 100 separate sites every day that each weigh 4MB.
Did you even read the article? You can define tasks in package.json and use `npm run ...` instead of defining them in gruntfile and using `grunt ...`
> The environment should stabilize by 2016Q2.

Don't hold your breath.
As far as I'm aware the Supreme Court has not specifically considered the issue of whether inconsistent theories of prosecution in two different trials violates due process. The federal appellate courts have been pretty negative on the practice. See 653 F.3d 426 (6th Cir. 2011).[1]

That being said, criminal trials are inherently statistical and that admits some level of inconsistency. If the standard of conviction is say 95% certainty, the evidence might prove a 95% probability of guilt, while still leaving a range of facts undefined (e.g. where exactly was Halbach killed?) In fact, it's possible for the evidence to establish a 95% probability of guilt for two different people, even when only one could be guilty.

Thus, the focus of courts reviewing these sorts of cases seems to be not on whether the theories are inconsistent, but on the prosecutor's ethical duty to submit only evidence they believe to be true. In the Stumpf case, the prosecutor presented in Wesley's trial a statement from a jail-house informant that Wesley admitted to being the one to pull the trigger. He did not present that evidence at Stumpf's plea hearing, and in a subsequent proceeding with Stumpf, argued that the jail-house witness was not credible. The problem was not that the two theories were inconsistent, but that in either the trial or the later hearing, the prosecutor must have advanced evidence he thought to be false.

[1] In that case, there were two defendants accused of participating in the murder, but it was unclear who actually "pulled the trigger." One, Stumpf, pled guilty to aggravated murder, and in his plea hearing the state argued he was the primary shooter. He was sentenced to death. In the trial of the other, Wesley, the state argued that he was the primary shooter. He was sentenced to life. Stumpf filed a habeas petition in federal court. The Supreme Court held that the inconsistent theories did not require vacating Stumpf's guilty plea, because under Ohio law an accomplice who did not actually pull the trigger could be guilty of aggravated murder. However, it remanded to the Sixth Circuit to determine whether the inconsistent theories necessitated re-sentencing. On remand, the Sixth Circuit held that the inconsistent theories did violate Stumpf's due process rights and granted his habeas petition, unless Ohio granted him a re-sentencing.
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1984 doesn't predict an actual perpetual war, just the believe in one. You can see this working with terrorism quite nicely. Actual attacks are rare and overall insignificant but nevertheless both parties believe themselves to be in an important war and perform actions that help reinforce each others beliefs and recruitment efforts. In reality it's really just a blood feud and will end only once one side stops participating.
You're right, but sorry, it does NOT matter: https://youtu.be/QSIuTxnBuJk
Huge fan of Brendan, but this did not really address parent's point--which I think is valid, and unanswered. Most people don't use Greasemonkey-propelled solutions. I wonder if the answer is that highly targeted ads tend to work. When I'm on the guitar subreddit it'd be fine for me to see ads from Fender. And part of what I seek when I read a guitar magazine is ads, because they alert me to things that I sometimes don't find out about any other way.

I also like the idea of paying to block ads that aren't relevant to me. I believe in a free market and totally understand that things have to be paid for. Sometimes ads are the answer, but I find many of the interstitials to be irrelevant and sometimes they slow the site down unacceptably. Would be willing to pay for this experience not to happen.
It's the same reason I save my money: for opportunities when prices are low. This is especially relevant now that the stock market is tanking.

Most people with any kind of money think this way.
> * There is physical evidence that corroborates specific, idiosyncratic details of the story Dassey told investigators

I have zero confidence in any of the Dassey testimony. It's entirely possible and IMO quite likely that the details you're referring to were fed to Dassey by the investigators. There is nothing defensible about the investigators' handling of Dassey.
AWS has competitors to be sure, but they are definitely dominant in that space.
From: https://www.ampproject.org/docs/support/faqs.html

> The reality is that content can take several seconds to load, or, because the user abandons the slow page, never fully loads at all. Accelerated Mobile Pages are web pages designed to load instantaneously – they are a step towards a better mobile web for all.

That's kind of dishonest of Google. The "content" doesn't take longer to load. The website does, but its because of Ads, pointless JS scripts that are spying on the user and a whole host of things that are _NOT_CONTENT_.

In any case, even if creating a new standard, or reduced-HTML, or w/e made sense, I'd be less skeptical if it wasn't controlled by an advertising company.
Cross-border payments are more definitely more interesting. There's a lot of complexity that is outside the scope of the standards - research correspondent (nostro/vostro) accounts and cash management, for instance.

Basically, you need to find a path from your bank to the target bank account through the cheapest path of intermediary banks that factors into account fees charged along the path, expected daily transfers at that bank, the payment's impact on liquidity and interest rates of cash left on books in a particular account at a particular time of day vs. alternative options.
FWIW, the ratio of people:firearms in this country has a clear link to firearms crime(homicides included) and suicides, as established here: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and...

Legal firearm ownership isn't the real issue, yes. The problem that we just have so god damn many firearms and we continue to crank them out en masse whilst stoking fears of a tyrannical government instilling martial law and rounding people up into concentration camps(and by extension, our firearms are the only thing stopping this from happening). A sizable portion of the population all but worships firearms.

The fact that we are basically overflowing with firearms plays a huge part. Guns routinely go missing from gun stores. One of the rifles used by the Beltway snipers was amongst around 150 guns that went missing from one store in WA. Where do you think the black market guns(that bad guys will get their hands on anyways) come from in the first place? They were produced under legitimate pretenses that they were going to sell.
And its completely first world to assume that a boat maker is not a profession, but something a hobbyist would pursue.
Most apps that become successful have to be rewritten multiple times as they grow. One of Jeff Dean's rules of thumb [1, p. 11] is that a system will generally need to be completely rewritten every 1-2 orders of magnitude growth.

Yes, this sucks, as anyone who's gone through a rewrite can tell you. But the broader perspective is that this is what software engineers are paid for. If you could just build a system and let it grow with minimal tweaks, the only people the software industry would employ would be technical founders.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
I can't help but avoid but sound like an Apple marketing drone, but hardware wise quite a few the selling points for me for a MBP have been the form factor and how "it all fits together." Personally, there still isn't really a comparable windows-esque laptop from any other manufacturer that makes me not want to rip my hair out when I'm using their product. I enjoy the weight and weight distribution of the laptop, the keyboard is okay, the trackpad should be the target of corporate espionage, etc etc. And it certainly looks nice.

Admittedly, a good selling point for OS X is how well it handles the hardware -- the battery life is consistent and lasts long enough for my needs. I definitely use OS X more often when I'm traveling, and will relegate my development to that environment just to make sure the battery lasts.

The software ecosystem is definitely a selling point for some. I am not involved in multimedia production but I certainly can appreciate paying a premium amount to get the tools you want/need. Although whether this aspect can be fundamentally attributed to the OS or just a product of other things (audience, marketing, corporate deals, etc) is another conversation.
In any split-second game (and this article literally advertises "real-time twitch combat"), 200 ms is unplayable. With two players of equal skill, it comes down to "who can react quicker", and the 30 ping player will win every time.
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This are my assumptions:

1) Google can see Alice send message via Signal

2) Google can see Bob receive message via Signal

3) Google knows that Alice is in Bob's contacts, and Bob is in Alice's contacts

Those three pieces of data should be enough. I don't see why Google can't do time correlation of those messages. Both Alice's and Bob's contact lists are very finite. It might be not obvious for single message, but for series of messages (and people chat this way) it should be very obvious who is talking to whom.
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What many outside the government and corporate world do not know is that there is a storm coming(cue ominous music.) Corporations are struggling and only few people know what is going on. What we are seeing from some are just protective measures that will not work long term. The better thing to do is to invest in massive value creation.
This is a really good physics puzzler.

The key point is that Pluto does not reflect light like a mirror, it scatters light relatively uniformly, causing more light loss to an observer than, say, a mirror that points the reflection directly at an Earth observer.
That's the real reason that bank robberies don't happen, not inflation. Bank branches have gotten very good at not having much to steal.
The guidelines say to use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait. In this case it was linkbait, so a change was in order.

We've changed it to what the article says it is about in the second sentence.
Well, for example, with the most recent updates I had problems with wifi stability and thunderbolt peripherals not working properly. They've been fixed now, but it's still kind of surprising they creep up given the limited amount of hardware the OS has to target.
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The light reaching the object from the sun drops off by 1/r^2, and then the light reaching Earth from the object drops again by 1/r^2. Since the latter light is a portion of the former, you multiply them for 1/r^4.
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I am a founder of a startup and have a family & kids so I have zero time for networking. And I mean the real thing - meeting people genuinely interested in tech and entrepreneurship.
Flavors of fast (https://www.fisglobal.com/-/media/FISGlobal/Files/Report/Fla...) is a fun read.
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I think the difference in opinion between you and some of the people you're replying to mainly comes down to "bundleware". You use that word a lot but to me, "bundleware" is malware.
> The system will improve once we democratize resources more and more.

Where do you see evidence of this happening?
> If you can JS, you can SQL

Reactive SQL in the Meteor style is tricky because who has time to reverse engineer DDA, and rolling it yourself would mean guaranteeing that you ended up doing it not the Meteor way.
Very cool.

It reminds me about a book I read called "In Search of Planet Vulcan" (http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Planet-Vulcan-Clockwork/dp/0...). Before Einstein, astronomers tried to explain the motion of Mercury by suggesting there might be another planet inside Mercury's orbit.
You have to make time for it. Once a month or every couple of months is good.

I know people that network at events once/year and it's good enough.
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