skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I think if you have all the parts already (i.e. RPi, webcams), this makes a lot of sense. Creating a Frankenstein system out of existing components would be interesting, and cost would be zero.
My theory is that it got announced / leaked way too early. Although, the driver files have been in the Preview builds for a while now.
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Why do you think those aren't ads?

> Advertising (or advertizing) is a form of marketing communication used to promote or sell something, usually a business's product or service.

It sounds like it fits the bill to me.
Glad to see this. I've criticized EFF before. Not because I disagree with them but because they haven't done a good enough job clearly communicating why they're relevant.

This article shows that they're improving in that direction. Netflix is something that average people really get and the idea that future Netflixes could be stillborn is a good way to communicate the importance of these issues.

Good job, EFF.
We bail them out the same way we do the rich?

I'm curious how this is of any real value or concern outside the usual "Well because it's MY tax dollars so I should have a say."

Why focus on poor people spending their social welfare when the result will be far less harmful to humanity as a whole than how the rich spend their social welfare?

The superfluous resource consumption by the wealthy, and I include not just the uber wealthy, but also those that can afford to fly around fairly regularly, buy new iPhones every 12-24 months, lease new vehicles ad naseum, is a much more dangerous situation.

If anyone is about to say well they earned their money and the right to spend it how they see fit, come on. It's social welfare that allows their wealth in the first place. It's government subsidized hand me downs from generation to generation. It's not at all acquired by the creation of novel goods and services.

But hey, let's focus on the cost of giving away money to people that will spend it on liquor.

Not on how giving away money to support our wholesale destruction of the environment is going to wreck the species as a whole. There are more immediate impacts to my own pocket book to consider, vis-à-vis the negligible increase to my tax bill!
how about insurance and charities?

If we have a transferrable health savings accounts for everyone, a parent can insure their child incase of worst case scenarios and the savings transfer from parent to children.

If we have a productivity savings accounts for the days where you cant be productive that would handle individual level failures.

Govt works best when it does less and is a last resort system instead of the first.
I don't like this at all, but I think you've got the calculus wrong. If you truly believe in IoT, then the percentage of future Alphabet customers who will ever hear about this scandal is tiny.s
I don't think it's healthy to have engineers who are actually willing to sneak in invisible and unreviewed changes, and deployment shouldn't be so painful that they're even tempted to do such a reckless thing.
Lets not assume that the definition of an alcoholic is well defined.

To most americans, Danes would be considered raging alcoholics , yet nothing make them less rational than their american counterparts.
1: Some people are helpless victims, especially poor and minorities. Much bigger chances of arrest and fewer starting opportunities significantly limits where they can go and what debts they are chained to for how long.

2: Lazy people have and will always exist. Better in general for them to collect their check and not bother anybody. Otherwise you end up with more criminals, homeless, bad employees who can tarnish your brand, and so on.

3: Great point about children! I do believe that maintaining the replacement rate is of paramount importance (if you don't believe me, look at China by 2050), but excessive offspring should be discouraged, and even taxed at certain rates.
> The major computing platforms now have gatekeepers (Google Play, iOS App Store)

So true. You can sideload on Android though. So all is not lost.
I feel like this is partially correct. OB's peer-to-peer nature gives it the spirit of 'uncensorable,' in that no central authority can keep someone from making whatever listings they want. Though, individually, the shops are certainly censorship-prone since everything is clearnet.

A lot of people seem to think this is Bitcoin's 'killer app', which I don't agree with. I really can't see it pulling many legitimate users from established centralized companies. But I do think it's an interesting piece of work.
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> Personal computers with attached storage are disappearing and giving way to thin clients attached to the mainframe - without computing power, individuals have less choice.

Only for those who don't use more than a smart phone. Everybody who takes photos, does engineering, develops software, works with media, plays games, or has a laptop, will at least have external local storage of some kind.

> What's the next step?

Something else produced on IBM compatible PCs or Macs, naturally.

All of this sounds like this: everybody goes to a fast food chain to get food, what will happen to kitchens now?
"makes me realize that the design doesn't even fully utilize the almost EOLd Spartan-6 (a low end one, even in its heyday)"

Yeah, it's impressively efficient. Adds more evidence to our argument that SPARC implementations can be technologically competitive in efficiency with ARM, etc.

"AFAIUI this would smell like Soft Machines VISC, only better, because FREE!"

It could happen. Achronix's FPGA's are badass, too, hitting up to 1.5GHz. Their dev boards are actually cheaper than Oracle's SPARC servers, too, with added benefit of putting custom logic for accelerators in there w/ SPARC I.P.. I haven't studied much of VISC, though, so I have little comment there.

I'll comment on those other links later tonight as I'm off to do some more paying work. :)
A new method to measure touch and audio latency
The US isn't really alone in this; allowing foreign entities to own a controlling interest in a domestic airline is not super common outside of the EU (where the "foreign"-ness of a company headquartered in another EU member state is kind of blurry anyway).

See, for example, Etihad's 49% stake in Alitalia, Delta's 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic, etc. -- significant investment happens, but controlling share is a lot less frequent.
The consumer expectation may be different for web sites (as those were always closer to services than products and so you never "bought" them in the first place).

For traditional desktop software and standalone apps, the expectation is not different at all. I still own a lot of old pc games that I bought at some point and play occasionally and would find it extremely irritating if they suddenly stopped to function without any acceptable reason.

Recently, things may be changing with mandatory auto-updating, subscription models and many apps just being front-ends for server-side processes. But as far as I know, most of those changes are pushed by vendors/developers and accepted by consumers as a necessary evil (if at all). It's not at all that customers would suddenly expect something different.
Lot's of people are throwing Google and alphabet in to the same bucket here. Please don't do that. The alphabet companies are free to be ran however they wish and Nest is an extreme example of NOT running a company the Google way. When the alphabet change happened, this became quite clear in just a few months time internally. What you're seeing here is further evidence of that.
This VC firm does a great job breaking down a lot of the mistakes that this guy made and provides a set of frameworks startups can use to avoid this fate: https://medium.com/@BoltVC
To give everyone in the US a basic income of $500 a month would cost ~$2 trillion dollars. Plus the cost of the inevitably humongous bureaucracy that will be necessary to administer it.
super minor but unless I'm mistaken SPA stands for "Single Page Application", so the first sentence in the post is a bit jarring:

> AlphaSights’ recruitment platform evolved from a Rails application into a _classic SPA app_.

Update 20s later: is "Wepack" in the diagram supposed to be "Webpack"?

Update 60s later: Can you explain _what_ you're actually using that runs into CORS issues? Are browsers talking to the api.* address directly? The diagram seems to imply that all api.* communication is routed through app.*, in which case CORS wouldn't be an issue, right?
https://spideroak.com/features/private-by-design - "SpiderOak uses AES256 in CFB mode and HMAC-SHA256."
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Here's hoping it's only one event as opposed to a hundred thousand, at the very least.

In jQuery, for instance, you'd do something like

$(parentOfComments).on('eventName', '.commentClass', function() {
//dostuff
});

The event propagates up to the body or whatever parent element you use.
Thats solving a very different problem.

UBI is based on the premise that there are fewer and fewer jobs to be had which gives a proper salary.

So negative income tax under this premise makes no sense.
One of the commenters, Alexander Fleming, says the headline is misleading and points out: "There's more "energy" consumed than just electricity energy - there's heating energy and transport energy and most of that is not electric, yet."
While that is true, at a certain point, more latency in a working system costs money, especially at the earlier switched systems

But yeah, they needed to do a research about it, but I would doubt "The first research project Bell labs did", since Bell Labs predates digital phone networks
> If you alone are the trustworthy entity, things work better.

That really, really depends on how trustworthy you are, doesn't it? I would argue that most computer users don't and shouldn't trust themselves to secure against low-level threats, and some of the people who do trust themselves really shouldn't.
"If this feels “so 2015” to you, we did start building the app in early 2015 and went down the centralized RESTful API route."

If the author considers that route to be "so 2016", what would the 2016 Newest Thing be?
Tyk 2.0 released (API gateway)
Ah ok right, that makes perfect sense. Thanks.
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Two of these reasons are difficult to overcome

Which two do you think are hard to overcome when considering a British national as a controlling owner? Looking at the list, the military reliance issue is the only one that seems concerning.
> extreme restrictions on credit and borrowing for people that are relying on it

Everyone relies on it. It's an equal amount of cash in pocket for every person.

If you want to talk about restrictions on borrowing- well, what idiot is lending this money to a person with minimum income without checking into their background ? I think we can leave that one up to the banks.
Love seeing more prominent Canadian startups.

I'm always impressed when I speak to people from McGill too… they have a tech-focused culture that could rival Waterloo. Miles ahead of the University of Toronto.
I use and recommend Firefox with uBlock Origin.

Firefox still has a few rough edges on Android, and some small number of sites exhibit pathological performance characteristics in Mobile FF, but it's certainly good enough to be your primary solution. I keep Chrome around for when sites have problems with Mobile FF, but I find myself reaching for it less and less over time.
Whoa there. Not completely drop in. Definitely thoroughly go through the documentation to see where MariaDB has diverged from MySQL over the years.
You mean this one?

http://blog.kicktraq.com/the-state-of-projections/

Don't be intellectually dishonest. You aren't naive enough to not know they had this exact same functionality as big as they are and as long as they've been around.

You copied their projection charts which use a weighted historical model too. Your charts even look EXACTLY like theirs. Their projection also takes a few days to build an accurate estimation. So why did you really release this?

If you think you can do better, or have some other piece of functionality, just say so. Don't pretend you didn't know something like this didn't already exist.
...I've read over this thread a few times, and my best guess is that you think I can't parse my own comment.
I believe that in a few years every content owner will have developed their own streaming platform. Or the opposite in Netflix's case. Customers will be forced to pay for N different providers to get access to all content.

What we need is legislation similar to radio broadcasting, which has fixed per-play rates, but for video.
Yes, and what that means in practice is instead of making a little bit of money, people whose labor is worth less than some arbitrary amount can't get work at all. You can't mandate a minimum wage, because the true minimum is always zero.
Unless you're just hiring people for the sake of employment to do things that don't need done. I've read China's housing market is in a bit of a pickle due to this. Course they also apparently have really clean streets.
JetBlue boards coach from the back of the plane to the front. On flights with first class, they still board first.
> If someone like myself, only casually acquainted with the organization, hears so many bad things about Tony, how does he still have a job?

Vivek "Vic" Gundotra did serious damage to Google's corporate image and was seriously reviled within Google, yet he stuck around for years. It's possible that Google upper management thinks that Fadell might be able to pull off a bet-the-company move. Gundotra was tasked with the same thing.

Or, it's possible that Google was contractually obligated to keep Gundotra around for a period of time, and is under the same obligation with Fadell. shrug
In one of the most flagrantly opportunistic political redefinitions I've ever seen, the UK recently raised the minimum wage and called it Living Wage: sufficiently accurate to be arguable but completely co-opting the concept without even acknowledging the intention.

Several young, intelligent people I know actually believe the fuss about a basic income they've heard is just a minimum wage increase.

I haven't run the numbers per-country but just the idea seems sufficiently interesting to be plausible. Allowing BS political branding to dilute it to "another random budget change" is a total disservice to not just the poorer part of society but also to the future of the social system.
In theory there would definitely be some tax increases even for middle class, ideally it'd be closely balanced so that the non-conditional UBI would balance out the tax increases
If crap like that allows things like Sense8, Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Orange Is The New Black to happen then that seems like a fair trade.
You probably paid a higher purchase price, because even if you couldn't take the mortgage interest deduction (for whatever reason, maybe you paid all cash), you are still competing against other buyers, most of whom could take the deduction. That deduction saves them money, meaning they're willing to pay a higher price than they would if they couldn't take a mortgage interest deduction.

That those other buyers are willing to pay a higher price affects the comparable sales, the appraisal, the "Zestimate [haha]", the willingness of the seller to select your offer, etc.

Then, assuming you did have a mortgage and qualified for the deduction (most people with one home do), you paid less (net) for the loan than you would have otherwise.
Sure, and property taxes effectively tax owning. The amount of tax a landlord pays per unit is less than a homeowner pays for his house.
"The Ranch" is a preview of CBS comedies ten years hence, when the FCC gets over its aversion to the fuckword. Netflix is just trying to show us a peek of the broadcast future.
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Same with public libraries, for that matter. Can you imagine the hue and cry that the major publishers would raise if someone were just now suggesting buying one copy of a book for the express purpose of lending it to hundreds of readers? Or worse, having the government pay for it?

They'd be burning up the telephone lines to Washington and hiring lobbyists by the trainload.
Another symptom of how rotten the javascript ecosystem is. If I'm picking a technology stack for a business, I want to pick one that will last me 10 years.
Who said anything about drugs or alcohol?
The Basic Income is the terminal phase of a democracy, wherein people are rewarded simply for existing, extracting their subsistence from the productive forces in the economy. It is the final vote-buying mechanism of the political elite to create a permanent dependent underclass.

Thanks to our democratically-installed public school system, liberty is a topic which cannot be discussed in polite company. Don't be discouraged when you get down-voted by the Hacker News progressive/socialist hive mind.
Past the headline, PG never claimed MSFT would actually die (or even cease to make lots of money). http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
i stand corrected :)
I'm really interested to see what happens to the price of a season pass to the community swimming pool if/when doubling the minimum wage goes through.
What to consider when launching a deep learning startup?
This is always the response to any libertarian argument of even mild government reform "If you don't like it, then go live in Somalia". As if rolling back government intervention in the economy to something like say the booming 1950's isn't a rational proposal.
Honestly I think a lot of the frustration is because Lambda is not a fully developed platform yet. I decided to use it for a new product we're building at Cronitor and it's not a travesty but I wouldn't have used Lambda if I had it to do over again.

They give you decent primitives: immutable versions, aliases, easy logging. But everything else you have to build yourself: You have to figure out a development loop, deploys, configuration management. There is nothing built-in to help coordinate lambda deploys across regions.

I expect that you'll see this built out more this year.
Empirically, no. Or at least not to the extent that many people fear. Many businesses are headquartered in NYC, despite the city's extra taxes.
Please see original thread and discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417050
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A minimum wage raises the floor for workers making below the minimum. A basic income raises the floor for all. The former results is fewer steps to climb for someone at the bottom to reach your floor, the latter results in an unchanged amount of steps but the stairs just happen to be located further from sea level.

If workers leave walmart to live off of basic income, all walmart has to do is increase prices and workers would again be forced to work for basic sustenance, as they would no longer afford walmart's monopolized goods. If they live in a left-leaning or urban area, they may be lucky to have a food co-op, but those are already unlikely to be paying bare minimum wage, and are generally located in more expensive areas.

At best, UBI will totally ineffective. At worst, few will capitalize on it early on to reach some success before the market adjusts, and the Koch/Cato ilk will use that success to further push an anti-labor agenda until the system implodes again.

I was all for UBI when I first heard of it, but more and more I realize it's just another neoliberal economic policy that fails to address the root causes of class division. Perhaps it will be our decade's "microloan" scam.
Then again -- if they can't figure out how to index their databases... then most likely they probably can't out how to do locales and character sets properly, either.
Guessing: Their justification is: You're not streaming 'Batman', you're streaming, 'JoeBob's Batman Personal Fair Use Derivative Version'.

Whether that would stand up in court, might depend on jurisdiction, judge, jury, etc.
Ok, s/energy/electricity/ it is.
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The assumption by proponents is that if more people get their most basic needs met, they won't be making as bad choices for themselves and their families.

No one is claiming 100% perfect solution but unless you are claiming people choose to be poor you are basically saying that the current situation is better which I find quite unsubstantiated.
There's this really great (paid) software that is orders of magnitude better than Sendy. https://www.mailwizz.com/

Main differences: built using a PHP framework, has extensions support, works on SES and competitors and is cheaper.
Fine, but we were discussing someone talking about how it's rational to blow your UBI on alcohol in order to deal with the stress of running a business. Drinking your entire basic income away is not a rational decision, no matter how stressed you are.
Alphabet is deliberately disabling some of its customers old smarthome devices
Would that not be any mail client?
I'm never quite sure what to think about articles (or ideas) like this. I think of my grandfather who served in the air force for 20 years. When he needed more money, what did he do? He picked up a paper route early in the morning. What did he do when the paper route + air force income still wasn't enough? He started driving a taxi during evening hours. And when those three jobs weren't enough? He opened up a service station/gas shop to serve the other taxi drivers, which eventually morphed into a full blown auto service shop which allowed him to quite all his other jobs.

As a software developer I am doing ok. I crawled my way up the ladder though from blue collar work. But I still have plenty of friends that never really went anywhere after high school. Some work fast food, some general labor, but they all make less than $8/hr. What do they do when then need money? Get a second job? No. They get on facebook and whine about it or make a gofundme account. One of my friend's even works at a warehouse 10 hours a day only 4 days a week. On those 3 days off he has does he work another job? No. He just plays video games all day, as does everyone else I mentioned.

It seems that people nowadays seem to think they only need to work one job, and if that job doesn't pay enough, it is the job's fault.

Granted, I know working 70+ hours a week at $6hr won't get you any where... But we all have to learn the climb the ladder. The complete lack of work ethic and skill sets I see today I don't think we can blame on the public schooling or government policies. I'd like to think it is the fault of the parents who never taught their own children to work. Perhaps they don't know how to work either. Yet I go back to thinking about my Grandfather. He lived out in the sticks and didn't really go to school. The family spent the money his dad made (at a brick factory) on buying supplies for gardening so they could have food. For meat they only had chickens and wild rabbits (both of which he refuses to eat to this day). So perhaps formal education isn't the magic bullet either. But something is amiss in our world today.