skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you encode information with Shamir Secret Sharing, each share is actually bigger than the original secret. The computation requirements also don't scale very well. What you want is called Erasure Coding. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_code)
In Europe, consuming radios via Internet is not such a big deal (fair use is usually at 50gb/month). But if you have the chance to have great local stations, listening to them via FM is draining almost no battery. And THAT is a big deal !
That one's way more awesome!
> Today even with a Nexus phone from Google (no TM software installed) you still have to jump through hoops to tether.

Hi, I turned on my direct-from-Google Nexus 5's hotspot, connected my laptop, and posted this comment. T-Mobile's my provider, and I don't have any of their software on my phone. I also haven't taken any special steps to enable it (just the usual change in the settings menu). I'm curious which "hoops" you're referring to.
Try signing up in a T-Mobile store without a credit check. My experience is that they will lie to you about it not existing until you go sign up on their website. Then they suddenly had always known about it. Then they will fail to automatically bill your credit card. They will disable your device each month requiring you to call them to straighten things out until you cancel. If the device is a hotspot that you use occasionally, this results in you never having it working until you need it. He when you cancel, they will send you a ~$6 refund on a gift card and then a bill for the ~$6. Then they will refuse to process payment over the phone should you fail to remember some number for a cancelled account because they think you might be trying to fradulently pay a bill. That was my experience with t-mobile in a nutshell.

Also, their employees will lie about their credit check not being a hard pull on your credit report that harms your credit. The Internet has plenty of reports to the contrary. Having your credit run for a hotspot like they want to do is ridiculous. No MNVO ever required once from me.

That said, T-Mobile's network is fairly good here in NY. Their customer service and sales are horrible though. I am not sure if the others are much better as I have not interacted with them much. My first cell phone was on Virgin Mobile USA, which spared me from experiencing this nonsense until later in life.
I think it's entirely possible for a new advertising company to take hold... Google and Facebook haven't done the greatest job here, and are simply the largest because of their vertical market.. that doesn't mean there isn't room for competition and sites that are better than the linkbait sites currently used.
Agree 100%. Good speaker-dependent voice recognition ought to be doable locally now. Training would be needed so it would be less plug-and-play than Echo, but that's a price I'd be willing to pay for privacy.
For those that are not familiar with the 6502 it's a chip that powered a lot of peoples first computer experiences in the 80s. The Atari 2600, Commodore 64, BBC micro etc all ran 6502 or at least slightly modified versions of that chip.

In those days if you were really interested in computers you tended to go lower level and learn assembler.
Porting nothing is better.
Not sure if we're saying the same thing here, but my policy is to stock a large quantity of things we actually use, and keep topping up our supplies as we use them.

Saves us both time and money to have a bunch of staple goods at home that get restocked every six months or so. And in an emergency, hey, we've got a bunch of the same kind of food that we eat anyway, and have more than enough to share with our neighbors.

Outside of a supply of bottled water that gets rotated, we don't really have anything purchased purely for emergencies. Plenty of backpacking gear, but that gets used on the weekends, and we know that all of it works well.

One thing I did start doing was leaving my backpack loaded and ready-to-go near the door. Our biggest threat in Japan is earthquakes, and if we have to evacuate, having the same kit that I would carry for a three-day backpacking trip would make things a lot more pleasant.
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Altavista was terrible, and definitely not a 'go to' for search. Yes, it was a search engine, but it wasn't exactly sitting on a throne.
Not very different from the US.

"For 2012, the US Department of Justice reported a 93% conviction rate." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate

In the US you can have your cake and eat it too: get shot by cops and have to plead guilty to avoid spending a huge chunk of your life in jail in favor of spending a slightly smaller chunk of your life in jail. America's the greatest country in the world (when it comes to injustice by the numbers).
I used to think I needed deep focus and concentration to program. Then I started pair programming. I never got that deep focus, and I became very much more productive!!

Wound not have guessed that!

Now I think that if you need to focus very hard to program, you code and/or design is way to complicated.
Why are you still a customer of Sirius XM?
"The 30 years of systematic disenfranchisement of poor people never really bothered me," Ms. Cooper said, "But as soon as those disgusting people made me personally uncomfortable, I knew we had to do something."

Wow. Golf clap for bravery there. Great work.
Vault uses this technique https://www.vaultproject.io/
No. Every bit of research on this issue discounts this theory. I'm sure it makes you feel good to say it, but you're wrong.
> Want to get an mobile notification when someone rings the door?

That one already works. And yes, that was part of the motivation. :p

Now I just need to figure out how to make Chrome Android consistently play sounds...

> Want to add a morse code to unlock the door? No problem!

That one probably wouldn't work. :/

The receiver is junk, so it's rate-limited to roughly the time between presses that there was in the video. Anything in between just gets ignored by the hardware.
It's very disturbing to me that there are any qualifiers that could make that statistic acceptable. It's like explaining the FISA court's approval rate.
Chamath Palihapitiya is quoted in the article. He is about to rock Silicon Valley. He is a new voice, keep your radar up. The guy is for real.

Source: Futurist
Their estimate of the portal fees of 7-12% is wildly wrong. WeFunder[1], a YC company, is charging 3% and there are several others at 5%.
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USA has 93%. Both figures include plea bargains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
I think that they mean that you need a carrier-provided device, rather than bringing your own and popping in a SIM. As for the iPhone SoftBank thing: I'm assuming that they're the only Japanese carrier that provides the iPhone (Wikipedia's page on SoftBank says that starting with the iPhone 4S, it's available through KDDI as well, so maybe the previous commenter's information is out of date?)
The wikipedia link gets mathematical very quickly.

With Shamir's secret sharing you can take a file and split it for example into 3 parts. Only 2 parts would need to be combined to re-create the original. This would be 2 of 3 in Bitcoin parlance.
And by the way, why can't phones receive AM too? There are some good talk shows over AM...
To be fair, it was a lot more common to prevent tethering on plans where data was unlimited. Many plans now let you tether all you'd like up to your plan's standard data allowance.
Everyone else who's downvoting you and responding to this is also correct, but we do purchase bus tickets for people who came from other places and ended up homeless in SF. The program is called "Homeward Bound" and it's pretty good at getting people who have a means of support somewhere else back home. The issue is there are not that many homeless people in SF who came from very far away. Of the minority that did, most of them came from an adjacent county.
I've been buying my phones outside a subsidized plan for about a decade now... up until recently, was on a cutrate plan at $100 for 3 months (2gb/month unrestricted, throttled after)... Switched to Verizon, partly because I wanted a new phone (Nexus 6p) and partly because I wanted better coverage on my road trips... in large parts of the country outside the cities, Verizon is the only coverage.

I'm paying over twice as much, but have had no issues with setting up wifi tethering... though I really need to run updates on my laptop before road trips, as I killed 9gb in one day (I don't use my personal laptop much).

All said though, I'm much happier with the better coverage, but miss the frugal bills I've had the past 6 years.
That... is awesome. Having done a Rift demo, that's the closest I can conceive of (right now) as real-life wizardry - a terminal for (virtual) reality.
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The code style here looks really weird - for example, the 4 space hard tab is a rarity with JS: https://github.com/frend/frend.co/blob/gh-pages/_components/... . Lot of rough edges there, such as not making use of Array.from(nodeList).forEach instead of brute forcing on the prototype. There's also some nasty DOM traversal as well in some of these components.

It should also be noted that these aren't web components in the Web Components sense - the title is very misleading. These are just vanilla components.
Or it could be her son did not give an accurate account of what happened. You keep doing you as well. We'll see how this shakes out.
I'm not against GMO, but one thing that I think is a fallacy is the choice between GMO and heavily-pesticided products. In fact, GMO has made some plants more pesticide-tolerant, thereby increasing the use of pesticide. That's not to say GMO has also decreased the use of pesticides, but it's not just a it's-this-or-that comparison.
Straw man going on here. The problem is, whilst you can get numbers out without understanding the statistics underneath, you can easily misinterpret that output if you don't understand it.

Look at how p values are used in science journals for an example of poor stats knowledge affecting real life outputs.

There are some things in life that do require you to do the requisite reading. Things based on stats fall into that camp.
Lucky you, I'm the exact opposite. It's mostly quiet here, and relatively normal/plain/cheap ear phones remove the speaking around me. In that case ear phones are actually a distraction/nuisance; having to constantly take them in/out, people speaking to you having to constantly say "Sorry to interrupt", "just a quick question", because they're more aware of bothering you, etc.
I'm confused by this whole thing. Due to a political fight, they can't get the combination from the parties who have it recorded, so their solution is "hire a super-duper safecracker team" - and then "drill a hole big enough for the safecracker to access the inside". It doesn't make any sense. Vaults and safes are simply a way to delay an attacker, they're not impenetrable fortresses.

If you've got physical and local political control over the vault and a timeframe measured in weeks, you should be able to use simple standard construction techniques to drill/cut through the concrete and access it just fine - no special Hollywood techniques needed.
i was hoping to see something compiling ES to native code, not another transpiler...
The Neo900 will also have an FM transmitter/receiver:

https://neo900.org/specs
Your fist mistake is expecting anyone in America to care about your suffering. Your second mistake is not realizing that the cops don't give a shit about your money or your color once they've targeted you. Yes, they certainly do prefer to target individuals of color because that's been their primary objective in this country for its entire existence and before it was even founded as a country. But make no mistake about it; they will target you, they will beat you, they will kill you if they so like. And they will get away with it and probably with some additional vacation (paid leave) during the investigation.

This is the price we have to pay to keep oppressing blacks, latinos, Muslims, and whomever the undesirable group of the month might happen to be. Your third mistake was underestimating the cowardice of Americans especially the cowardice and fear of white America towards blacks, Hispanics, and recently Muslims. Americans have given up most of their freedoms in exchange for a brutal, oppressive police force whose sole purpose is oppression, racism, and cruelty. What happened to you is totally fucked up, but if you think paying $100k in taxes makes you immune or somehow protected from this brutal oppression machine, you simply do not understand the forces at play here in America.
For the sake of argument, let's say that "we" "agree" on standardizing on one of the world's most spoken languages: Spanish. This now means that you yourself need to master Spanish, that your kids need to master Spanish, and that all public use of English will need to disappear. Do you think that is feasible? I don't think that will ever happen, not even in a 1000 years.
> seeing as it's the dominant kernel in nearly every market.

That's disingenuous, not every market has the same weight. Microsoft owns the desktop market, and there are many countries where it also owns the enterprise/server market.

> people in HN get overly offended when people state the fact that Linux has been historically revolutionary

There is a big difference between saying "Linux was revolutionary" (considering the impact it had, absolutely true), and "Linux was revolutionary from a technical standpoint" (it wasn't).
The issue of why you came and why you stayed are inter-connected. Some examples:

> Other reasons for moving to San Francisco cited in the homeless count were that they were looking for work

So they move for work, and a part of that, at least, is benefits if/when they don't find it. "If I go to SF, I can get welfare, which means I've got an extra month to find a job. I'll get one for sure in three months".

> that they were traveling through

And the benefits encouraged them to stay vs move on? Who knows?

I'm not saying it is true that stopping welfare would SOLVE the problem. Rather, homelessness in SF is at least partly a result of the benefits and caring, and that may not be a bad thing. An extra X homeless in SF vs in a less caring city may be a net positive for the USA. To say that SF's welfare options don't affect the total homeless population is overstating the case.

The deeper problem is EVERYONE is biased here, and the truth is hidden beneath 400 layers of guilt, emotion and in-group signalling, and no one is clear on what a "solution" means.
If you have doubts about it just budget it out and do it as a kickstarter. If it's not popular enough, no worries, if it is then hey, you get paid up front.

P.S. I'd love to see a 4004 kit too.
> Rather than manipulating the AST, Bublé manipulates the source code directly, using the AST as a guide – so there's no costly code generation step at the end.

Is that really good idea when looking at the possibility of introducing bugs in the transpiler?
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Although the history of television was complicated and multi-faceted, the article makes the statement of invention so blunt that I need to call out that others were involved, not least John Logie Baird:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird

Still, great to see such a thorough tour of so many historic technology locations. Just a reminder/note that we often simplify or omit important details when we collectively create genesis stories.
"I am mildly proud that third world country telcos..."

Third world is not a politically correct phrase, developing world is a good compromise although not perfect still.
Over the course of 2000 years, the Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages have not merged into one language, for example - despite close contact...
Not if the reason there are none is because they die off each winter. Or because the climate is too harsh in general. Or because of draconian laws that force people to move on.
You can send/receive to the same zpool and still defrag. With careful thought, this can be done incrementally and with very minimal availability implications.

I agree it's not ideal to have filesystems do this, but it also simplifies a lot of engineering. And I think direct user exposure to a filesystem with a POSIX-like interface is a paradigm mostly on the way out anyway, meaning it's increasingly feasible to design systems to not exceed a safe utilization threshold.
"Technology to translate in real-time already exists"

No. It does not. I do some translation work and a lot of multilingual interaction. There is no decent translation technology even for written communication outside technical documents. Even that is only barely decent between European languages. A serious attempt at usable translation of even the simplest texts between Asian languages and others does not yet exist.

Real time translation would multiply the speech recognition problem onto that still-imaginary translation technology.

I will admit there is a lot of hype but there is no substitute for human translators nor for simply learning a new language anywhere on the horizon.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...

Great book about the way humans think.
So, let's link to the thing:

http://jsonapi.org/

How much benefit do you think you'll derive from all the extra crap that shows up? How much work is required to distill business entities back down from a conformant response?

It looks interesting, but I haven't heard much about it. Ember may use it somehow?
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Ok, we'll s/com/trans/ the title.
The SPARC architecture is open and fully documented, the only licensing encumbrance is a token administration fee of approximately $100 that helps maintain the organisation that is the steward of the SPARC ISA intellectual property and the fee only applies if you intend to implement your own hardware commercially.

I'm constantly amazed at how much work is done to reinvent the wheel as far as ISAs are concerned, SPARC is an excellent platform and has an extremely high level of "shovel ready" hardware designs that you can just ship to a manufacturer and get back hardware. There is even open VHDL to fabricate modern high power CPU designs.
What other language do you suggest we use instead? English as already de facto won. It is the modern latin.
Many homeless people have a mental illnessed caused by being homeless, not the other way round.
I regularly find myself needing to charge my phone and not having an outlet available.

Having a spare battery in a single waterproof package is just more convenient for me. It lives in my backpack, and I don't need to care when the rainy season hits.

Plus, since I use my phone as both a camera and a GPS, I can take the Novobeam with me while backpacking to keep my phone topped up.
No, they only try cases they can win.
it sounds like they're still generating an AST, but replacing AST nodes directly through the code string.

It's definitely trickier but I think it's possible to do this in a clean way if the changes are just "replace this AST node with this other AST node". You know the text boundaries, and the output is context free so...
On one occasion I checked if the network was still there when I walked back and it was.
i lived here for 15 years and slowly its catching up with me. lack of accountability can be encountered in any country. in europe, in the african countries and especially in the middle east. but i was able to keep my idealistic view of america so far and now its crumbling. the guards arresting and beating me were white, hispanic, asian and i believe at least one was black. the guards on trial for the latest murder in jail are white, hispanic and asian. i don't think its race, its more about the executive branch to be out of control and broken checks and balances when it comes to the executive branch. hard not to take it personally of course, sure feels like i overstayed my welcome here.
Doesn't everything convert to glucose? Isn't that what cells live on?
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Why would they stop working? You just use the cable shield as the antenna.
I learned this from reading the original paper [0], which is only two pages and is easily accessible to anyone with a high school level understanding of math.

[0] http://cs.jhu.edu/~sdoshi/crypto/papers/shamirturing.pdf
Nothing was removed from your account. Users aren't allowed to downvote direct replies; that's probably what you were seeing.
You mean like the sets of support libraries which make multi-versioned Android development significantly easier and less time consuming?

I don't get the first-party library cargo cult that has developed on Android. What's wrong having the community develop libraries like on any other platform? There's a huge set of very good quality 3rd party Android libraries and even a great new language (Kotlin).

As a dev I'd be rather that Google focuses on developing quality core blocks which cannot be fixed by community. Sadly it seems that Google developers simply do not know how to build good APIs, even new ones like MediaCodec, BLE APIs, updated storage APIs and permissions are an utter hard to use mess.
"I'd argue that if anything can be expressed verbally, then it can be translated."

Have you made a serious effort to translate jokes, poetry, or advertising slogans between unrelated languages before you made that assertion? Were your clients unequivocally satisfied with your work?
I have in China and it's not compared to Google. My colleagues there are missing a ton of efficiency because of it. When I switch on the VPN (which mostly does not actually work otherwise it would stay on) and use Google, we work far faster and more efficient. I can even find datasheets which are only in Chinese faster on Google than they can on Bing.
Discussion of religion is fine in a historical or sociological context, but not bickering about the truth or falsehood of religion. The latter territory is just scorched earth for this kind of internet forum: all people do is blast each other's beliefs and nothing good can come of it.
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Good that i have shares from wd :)
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