skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The color filter is much more closely integrated with the camera sensor than the IR filter was. I don't know for sure, but I suspect it can't be removed without risking damage to the sensor.
Taking this further. If you do own a smart phone, FB is the one connection you can get free over the mobile networks.

When I walk into a bar here, I pay 45 pesos (approx $1 USD) and the waitress who hands me my beer might make 140 pesos for a 12 hour work day. She should make more in tips, but not always. Down the road, the major grocery store also pays its workers about the same. Minimum wage is supposed to be something like 350 pesos per day depending on industry (domestic helpers may not even make the 140 pesos because they are live-in and get food. But they work like slaves). Businesses get around minimum wage by employing for six month contracts, which is a probationary period.

Internet cafes charge around 15 - 20 pesos per hour. An all day mobile data connection (700MB cap) costs 50 pesos. The locals will get an SMS promo for around 20 pesos per day. Getting to work and back in my city costs 20 pesos minimum. We haven't got to rent and food yet. The math is grim.

You carry a cell phone as a shiny object to show off. You dress remarkably well with this small budget (probably a good reason to sell cheap but fashionable clothing). Somehow you may even be able to buy a scooter.

That's it. That's the economy.

NOTE: The big exception is the occasional splurge for those lucky enough to have relatives sending remittances.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Good question! We actually took that in to consideration when designing them. In our datacenter the floors can handle it, but it's definitely something that should be considered if you're thinking about building these out. Check with your datacenter about what their "floor spec" is :)
I just cancelled a membership at a gym which utilises these cancellation practices. When I found out that I'd have to mail a physical letter, I called my bank instead.

If you use your credit card, you can wiggle your way out of it if you explain that these cancellation processes are absurd. Call the gym and ask if they'll cancel your membership over the phone first. After they refuse, tell your credit card company about it and ask them to try calling the gym with you on the line to get your membership cancelled. If the gym persists in its refusal you should be able to dispute and block the charge.

For me though this happened to be linked to my debit card (and I never ever put monthly billables on my debit card so I'm not sure what I was thinking when I signed up). However, because I had no other services linked to my debit card, I was able to have my bank just send me a new card and that was that.
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Scraping a classified site's RSS feed to find out which cars are hot in my town
That's only about a third of the point, it's also criticizing not being aware of the flip side "But that too is our culture: everyone else’s dream is a delusion. Mine is a tale of noble perseverance. Everybody else should be practical." And then the author goes on to mention how extending the same generosity we give ourself with regards to pursuing higher purposes would probably be helpful in the long run.
> It's an entirely Western colonist idea that poor people in developing countries can't handle democracy and therefore have to accept dictatorships (which just happen to align with Western interests).

Look, no one is able to "handle democracy" before being prepared for this. Isn't this obvious? Even the Tsar Peter the Great, who wanted to modernize Russia, went and for a couple of years studied technical skills in Holland (IIRC - I may be wrong on all the details here...) instead of simply saying "let's make our shipyards modern! now!".

I never said that the societies in the Middle East can't ever do democracy. I just said that if they tried right now the results wouldn't be pretty. Give them another two or three decades of successive education and liberalization and they will be able to build a modern, well-functioning democracy overnight!
At an estimated 8.6 trillion yen as of March, the BOJ’s holdings amount to about 1.6 percent of the total capitalization of all companies listed in Japan. That compares with about 5 percent held by the nation’s Government Pension Investment Fund. The central bank’s use of large-cap ETFs means its positions are concentrated, with less impact on the thousands of Japanese companies outside benchmark indexes.

Some additional context, from the article. This is not really a big deal. Unusual, but not crazy.
Completely agree... nicely worded. They should have that on slide 1!
Yeap. Looks like a new Hooli venture, or something made by these two "Start-up Guys": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4
Would be nice though if they weren't trying so hard to avoid saying...well anything
Straight off the bat you can split machine learning algorithms into whether or not you need to be able to see how a decision has been made. For example, Neural Networks are probably really good at diagnosing patients, however due to them being blackbox, they require a great deal of trust (in real life). Whereas decision trees could show the path taken to make a disagnosis.
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Thanks, interesting
>I suspect there is a religious/mythological aspect to K/Q's reputation for speed

It depends what you're doing, but the vast superiority of kdb+ versus its competitors has been demonstrated:

http://kparc.com/q4/readme.txt
I think https://plot.ly/ might have the right idea which is (as I see it), do your analysis in python, R, Julia, Mathematica etc., plot using the tool you're familiar with, when you're done, capture it in plotly, which also serves as sort of an Imgur for charts.

that being said, YMMV, horses for courses, there'a a LOT of different ways to chart and different tastes, but that's my take.
Fun, I can't sign up with my email since it ends with '.email'

They actually put in their own email regex........
I'm currently at my first job, working at a budding unicorn company in silicon valley. I've been here 1.75 years and am already in the midst of a 3rd rewrite - although not my decision (from higher ups)

The last paragraph really hits home for me and i've 100% gotten very jaded and very very bitter.
We totally can change the rules. We made them up. Most modern modern value systems are rooted in the scarcity mindset - the idea that there isn't enough (of whatever) to go around. The people that created those systems weren't bad, their ideas are just outdated. Now that technology has changed the calculus, and there IS enough to go around, it's just a matter of overcoming the momentum of the old value systems. You're right, basic income is a bridge measure. It demonstrates abundance for the skeptics, and shows us what pretty much full autonomy for every member of a society could look like. I'm not sure what comes after that, but if you've read Manna, the Australia Project as described at the end seems to have a lot of desirable qualities. It's a short read, and well worth reading (and has been on HN a few times, I think). Obviously we're not quite there, but it's not hard to envision if enough smart people were free to work on the various elements of that future, unrestricted by manufactured pressure to pursue more immediately-profitable endeavors.
> giant money laundering scheme for the rich father.

How does this do that?
> As far as I know, git-remote-dropbox is the only safe way to host a Git repository on Dropbox.

I've another hackish method that's good enough for a single developer, plus it's encrypted.

I've got a truecrypt file container that resides in Dropbox. I mount it as read-write when I want to push. On the rest of my machines, its mounted as read-only. Even if the container is 100GB, it takes 10 seconds to sync daily commits - because of block encryption & syncing. This won't work with Google / MS / Amazon drive etc. because they upload the entire container on each incremental change.
What they are going to do during the recall is different for the various generations of cars.

Some of the VWs are getting bigger DEF tanks. For the cars that this isn't an option, I don't think VW has said exactly what they are going to do. They could just disable the cheating mode on the software. Fuel economy and performance would suck, but the emissions would be at acceptable levels.
How much money was used in lobbying for this? I'd be shocked if the number was all that high.

It's a pet complaint within Magic circles that Magic should be treated like an art form, but I wouldn't expect anyone to actually throw a large sum behind it.
>>>> To me, that is priceless.

Honest request: Could you elaborate this idea a bit ? I find it very intriguing; investing so much time of your limited time on earth so that random people will be able to find your name and read your work.

I have restricted the impact I want to leave to my very close circle (especially my kids), and not in tangible things, but in how they behave, think and act.
Are you still in a single DC? I'd love to suggest you to clients.
Brian from Backblaze here. Just to be absolutely clear, you cannot "buy" one of these from Backblaze. We don't sell them. You are free to take these instructions and assemble one yourself though! And so yes, you could simply drop the 6.0 controllers into an older chassis and it will work fine.

Also, the 6.0 housing will fit in most racks. If somebody can either measure their racks or include a link where the 33" chassis will no longer fit, we really want to hear about it!
We changed the title to that of the article, which is what you should use unless it is misleading or linkbait. That's in
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Another guideline in there that applies here is the one about not repeating the name of the company when it's already mentioned in the domain to the right of the title. That's a minor point, of course, but one that has had surprisingly good effects.
> You continue to fallaciously claim that absent a public police force businesses would do nothing to stop theft.

They will do something to stop theft, and this something will cost money. It will cost insurance, it will cost security cameras, or security guards.

And these costs will be passed onto the consumer by the store raising prices.

IE: Consumer loses. Business lose. Thieves win.

Market failure in a nutshell.

> Furthermore you fallaciously claim that a public police force would stop thefts

On the contrary. I suggest the police force as a deterrence. They help fix the problem, but the costs of a perfect police force are too great (both in civil liberties and in monetary costs).

So in practice, we settle for a medium were enough thieves get caught to deter crime, but not all thieves are caught.
> [R]ecognizing the sickness within capitalist “success” is necessary to inspire broad rejection of a cruel, embittering, inhumane system [...] Once you are among those lucky enough to pay for your basic material needs, the fear of being a loser keeps you motivated to work those 60 hour weeks that people are so proud of in American achievement culture.

The "sickness" the article speaks of -- fear of being a loser -- isn't a sickness at all, in my mind.

It's a boon to the world. Fear of letting down your customers, fear of letting down your employees, your cofounders, your investors -- that's a GOOD THING. That encourages people to try and make their new businesses work: to figure out what's wrong with them, to figure out how to make them better. And the point of that business is to provide customers with something valuable. And when you have lots of humans doing that across the whole world, you get a better world -- a world that turns typewriters into laptops, unused cars and houses into shared rides and shared vacations, long lost acquaintances into Facebook friends, etc etc etc.
To cancel my gym membership I need to mail them a letter. It's laughable, but this shit works. I still belong to the gym
This reminds me of Better Off Ted's Jabberwocky Project: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=spyJ5yxTfas

Which, of course, is a parody of the late '90s tech boom and some of the useless, fluffy companies that were spawned.
This news follows the recent disclosure that the BOJ is already an owner of 52%+ of all Japanese ETFs (and wants to own more). [1]

The BoJ is not the only central bank doing such purchases -- the Swiss National Bank similarly owns over $100B in equities. [2]

In addition, central banks actively trade S&P 500 futures on Globex. [3]

[1] http://asia.nikkei.com/Markets/Tokyo-Market/BOJs-stock-portf...

[2] http://www.streetinsider.com/SEC+Filings/Form+13F-HR+Swiss+N...

[3] https://www.cmegroup.com/company/membership/files/CBIPFAQ.pd...
We've actually done some work about extracting definitions from laws. But the meaning is still providing using legal language so they may not help too much for the lay person.
Dropping in to say that from keeping the business financially in good shape to innovation level to opening up the hardware.... normally I'm the critic but all I can say is GREAT WORK. Good example to set and good tech. Keep it up. :)
> And I disagree that the number of subjects doesn't matter. It matters enormously, precisely because this is a biology experiment.

It's ironic that you say this so definitively when you were the one asking for help interpreting the statistics originally.

Lisper is completely correct. Given a large enough effect size, detecting significant differences in a small population is very possible.

The statistics are sound. The assumption we should be questioning is where the subjects came from and if they are actually representative of the population that we are extrapolating this result to.
Maybe you have some sort of (wireless) client isolation feature in your router turned on. Its sometimes called "AP Isolation".
To me, this looks like they are attempting to gather people, who have a "voice" in the world, in order to speak out about issues that affect the masses. It's a company whose sole purpose is to accelerate and "change" the human race. Pretty cool if you ask me.

We're a self-destructing group of selfish individuals who, more often than not, cannot see further than the tip of our nose. I'm glad there's a group who is trying to shine light on that.
Actually, every other time after the Great Depression (which was arguably different, because there was still the gold standard), markets rebounded quite quickly after a crash; you could say that each crash was a "clean cut", while what we have now is a "botched surgery massacring the patient".
Which means that savings accounts give zero return or negative return to force you to make real investments.

The person above you wasn't wrong, and what you described is the entire point of the operation.
u'll be fine in LA. We have great public transportation here. Lots of buses and a whole new metro line to Santa Monica. I dunno about SF. Do you'all have public trans there?
I doubt a bank can just go and short stock speculatively. The Volcker rule basically banned that kind of prop trading.
Don't forget the European Central Bank! They are officially buying corporate bonds!
You personally could only write yourself an IOU not for US dollars, but for Kaonashi dollars. That's meaningless because nobody will trade you anything in exchange for those Kaonashi dollars. At least I wouldn't :-)
We translate them into English using Microsoft/Google Translate (which is what you need to do in order to compare between languages) so the meanings may not be quite so easy to compare (because it relies on the current state of the art of machine translation of language - still not at professional legal translator level).
I disagree that the correct term is 'dodge'. One argument against inflation detractors is that Inflationary growth of the money supply helps those who have debt the most. However, that doesn't end up being the working class, the rich are much more heavily leaveraged into assets that are protected against inflation.

Inflation ends up being a wealth transfer from the working class to the rich.
Brian from Backblaze here. Our corporate office in San Mateo is in an old wood building and we're on the second floor. We put a heavy rack full of experimental pods in a closet here, and I was worried it might sink through the floor BETWEEN the floor joists. :-) So I put a few layers of extra strong plywood under the rack to distribute the load. I'm happy to report no damage or sagging has happened (yet).
I use this method by myself, and even then I had conflicts where Dropbox would fail to sync for some reason and then I would have git tree conflicts. But this not a big problem, since Dropbox saves both versions of conflicting files and you can just delete the conflicting copies, and then merge changes normally using git.
In addition to the nice things you said, I've found out about lots of incredible ethnic food I never would have heard about otherwise. A ride with a Tajik driver led to an incredible Afghan restaurant (which is apparently as close as the Bay Area gets to Tajikistan's cousine).

Drivers in general are in one of those very interesting roles that interacts with a broad swatch of the population. Even aside from their own background, they are one of the stirring sticks that mixes a place's cultures together.
> A lot of us as sophomores started clubs, companies, organizations. I sincerely think this guy is trying to do something similar.

He hired fucking Rogers & Cowan, the global PR firm and division of Interpublic, to handle media relations. That's not similar.

If he wanted to mind his own business and stay out of the press (and it's attendant judgement) he certainly had that option.
Per the article, the electronics are unchanged, just 3 more backplanes and one SATA card: "When looking at what’s new in Storage Pod 6.0 it would easy to say it has 60 drives and stop there. After all, the Motherboard, CPU, memory, SATA cards, and backplanes we use didn’t change from 5.0."

Later in the bullet list of changes:

"Added 3 more backplanes and 1 more SATA card."
No thats only a valid criticism of the US debates
That's a really interesting point about detecting lobbyists, although my first thought is that most language similarities will be due to international treaties.

I'd also be interested in seeing which jurisdictions have copied from each other. Maybe there are "leaders" in developing laws.
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As a developer who is currently in the market after the last startup I worked for started laying people off, I definitely agree that the current process can be badly broken. This is the first time I have had to go out and interview cold in six years, and I'm struck by how much it has changed. I had one company put me through seven interviews with different team members, each lasting 30-45 minutes, each appearing to go very well (including comments like "You're a shoo-in" and "I'll be very excited to work with you," only to receive a two or three sentence brush off email more than a week after the last of them. The whole process took nearly a month. I interviewed with another company, an NYC startup, and again it went well. After three weeks and no response to a polite inquiry email from me they finally reached out and asked me if I wanted to do an onsite. Three weeks without a word on how I had done or whether they wanted to proceed. I don't want to work for a company that treats candidates like that. There were other examples: a company that did two phone screens and told me I'd fit in "very well" and then asked me to drive to Boston for a f2f lunch (ten hour road trip), after which they brushed me off because they didn't think I'd be happy if I couldn't use docker and kubernetes right away. I interviewed with a large mid-western company a week ago today, second interview, spent almost an hour with two senior engineers. Felt like it went well. Have not heard a single word since, and no reply to an inquiry email. It's just disrespectful as hell in my opinion, and tells me a lot about a company's internal culture.
Rich people funnel money for their cause of the month to a shell company, which filters it around, and at the end they get a big tax write off. I would have thought the stock photos, buzzword bingo, and the clueless responses from the publicists would have tipped it off.
Social media links all go to eg "yourtwitterurl.here"

Limited information about the actual product - is this purely a local app or is there some service you haven't mentioned where all my data ends up on someomes servers without my knowledge or consent?
I'm aware of the shortcomings of the ARM-based Windows notebooks. But they mostly failed because there are no great "universal" apps.

Chromebooks have no such issue, because for one they are "browser-based" so ISA-agnostic, and two, Android apps are also ISA-agnostic for the most part. In fact the majority of native apps were optimized for ARM, not x86, last I checked, so if anything it's Intel's hardware that could cause some issues with some apps on Play Store-enabled Chromebooks.

As for performance, Apple's A9X can beat Core M on many workloads. A9X is probably no more than $35. That Core M was $280 (that's what the OEMs pay when they bundle them in their devices, possibly with some light negotiation).

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/221881-apples-a9x-goes-hea...
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Just as an example, the Swiss National Bank notoriously took a $120M+ loss on Valeant. [1]

[1] http://www.fuw.ch/article/die-angst-der-snb-vor-dem-eigenen-...
As for completeness: it relies purely on laws that are published online, which is always not the complete corpus, even for advanced countries.
You wrote "immoral", but the parent wrote "amoral". There is a difference!

...or was that intentional?
If you're ever driving in a situation where it is possible for a nun or baby carriage to jump in front of your car without any warning, you should be driving at 30km/h (20mph) or less. This gives you a stopping distance of approximately 1 car length, so stopping is always a better option than trying to steer around an obstacle. It also means that any collision with a pedestrian is highly unlikely to be fatal.

Of course, having automated cars driving at 30km/h through the suburbs is going to piss everybody off, but that's better than dead babies.
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(Hope this helps someone like me.) Here is a link I was able to find that throws some light on Tax Benefits/Implications: https://www.shrm.org/legalissues/federalresources/pages/fede...

Still looking for info on Insurance Benefits. (That seems to be a murky area....any info would be very helpful.)
Being peer-reviewed does not mean that a claim is valid; it was never intended to mean that, or to be a stamp of approval on the merits or results of research.

Peer-review is just intended to keep the obvious crap out of journals. It's an opportunity for paper authors to face objective questions from experts about things like their methodology, why did they do it this way instead of that way, are they aware of this potentially related work, why didn't they address this potential objection, etc.

It's also not unusual for scientific work originating in businesses to seek publication long after it has found application in the business. For example Google staff have published some important papers in computer science; but usually long after Google the product started using those techniques.

Now that they are under attack, Theranos' position would be greatly strengthened by having some peer-reviewed papers to wave around to show some legitimacy. But--the fact that they don't have those papers is not, by itself, proof that they are frauds.

It does seem likely that they are frauds--but that's because of direct investigation and reporting of their methods, not because of peer-review (or lack thereof).