skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite the same thing though. These systems are active. They have sound being produces most likely at a very specific frequency and then listened for so that depth information can be gathered. This instead images the sound that's already out there in the light. It's the difference between lidar and a camera
Congrats, beautiful history and nice hacking.
I hope you get a really big bag of money one of these days so you can keep doing this kind of things!!! kudos!
Can you help me understand what you mean by vendor lock-in and how it is different from say, developing a plugin for Wordpress vs a plugin for Ghost? Aren't you still choosing a platform?

Or do you mean technology lock-in, because we built our API server in golang?

For the Store, we provide a reference implementation that is open source in AngularJS 1.x, but the store could be implemented in any JS framework. We have contemplated building a competing reference implementation in ReactJS, for example.
I think the change here is they're learning the embeddings alongside the feature weights (eg they're part of the same loss function).
Seems like they plan to stop making 32bit ISOs allready from 16.10 and release 32bit as netboot installers only. Then by 18.10 no more 32bit?!
Facepalm. Yep, somehow it got stuck in my memory as Duga-3. Something about the third prototype/iteration of the project? No idea by now...
Who's that
That's all opinion, I'm sure their opinion is just as important to them as yours is to you... I still don't think I would unfriend someone because their opinion differs from mine. Unless it was illegal or harmful to others in a real way... live and let live.
This is super cool. If you want to benefit from this info in your workflow now, we have analyzed some of this same data at Sourcegraph, and you can see (e.g.) all the repos that call http.NewRequest in Go (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag...) or lots of usages of Joda-Time DataTime in Java (https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/JodaOrg/joda-time/-/info/...). You can search for functions/types/etc. on Sourcegraph to cross-reference them globally. We're working on an API to provide this information to anyone else who wants it; email me at sqs@sourcegraph.com if you are interested in using it.
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> Someone built an experiment in minimalistic UI design. "Technical people" started a massive pile-on, declaring "this is stupid, this doesn't have a minimalistic codebase at all."

Yeah, we're criticizing the fourth word of the very first sentence of their webpage, explaining what this is:

"Ōryōki is a small web browser with a thin interface."

There's nothing small about Chromium, and adding layers onto something doesn't make it smaller. Unless they're talking about how small you can make the browser window, it's a false claim that should have been excluded from the description.
You know, I'm still basically using stock Vim. I am not too hot on the idea of installing some huge mod back and having 200 plugins that I don't know how to use, when I am still learning something new about stock Vim pretty much daily.
They have 4 city blocks on Westlake Avenue, around 6th and 7th Ave. That's right on the edge of what people would call Downtown.
HTC Announces VR Venture Capital Alliance, $10B in “deployable Capital”
I have two theories of why open-plan offices are popular.

The first is simply that it's cheaper to have an open office. Modern office buildings tend to have large spaces -- nearly whole floors -- that are open, but can be subdivided. But subdivision costs money. Paying carpenters to put up walls isn't cheap, and even cube systems can be surprisingly expensive. Plus managers are accountable for costs. So they choose the cheap option.

The second is that open office plans are good for communication and collaboration, though less good for individual silent work. Managers are essentially all about communication and collaboration, which is why they love these open offices. Unfortunately while programmers need to both communicate and work alone, they need to communicate and collaborate much less than managers do, which is why office plans that are selected by managers make things difficult for the programmers.
> My hypothesis is that people without significant real assets are all worse off since the money supply has been debased.

"Debased" in this context doesn't make any sense; it really only makes sense in commodity or representational currencies, not fiat money.

If you mean "devalued", then you really should say that.

But I'm not sure how the logic works, anyway, unless you assume that those without "real" assets also tend to have a constant and positive wealth of fiat currency, such that decline in fiat currency value has the same effect on their net wealth.

I really think there is, at most, a coincidence or possibly common cause here rather than the causal link you suggeset, which I don't see any clear rationale or evidence for.
Audible has a sample from the audiobook http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Chaos-Monkeys-Audiobook/B...
Interesting that the main algorithm mentioned -- SmartThumbnail -- is supposed to center the picture around detected faces but their example output is clearly not centered.
> I have no dogma about where you implement your typechecker; all I assert is that it's better to have one.

You seem to be suggesting that types are absent from lisp, that's not the case.

Common Lisp, Scheme, and Emacs Lisp all make use of types. They are, to a first approximation [0], all strongly typed and dynamically typed languages.

Since you're not dogmatic about the where of it, try computing:

(+ 2 'atom)

In your favorite common lisp. It will result in an error, specifically a `SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR`.

You can also specify types in function declarations in Common Lisp:

(defun double-integer (x)
(declare (type integer x))
(* 2 x))

This will only accept integers now. Other types passed in as a parameter to `double-integer` will result in an error.

You can apply this at any level once you start building up your own types as well (structs, classes, etc.). The benefit here is that you can leave your code wide-open to allow for many cases at some stages, while optimizing or constraining it in others. This malleability is fantastic in lisps.

While I'm certainly a great fan and proponent of static type checking, the benefits of lisp's concepts (the malleability of its semantics and syntax), make it a great force-multiplier for component users. A great number of concepts become practically trivial when given the level of abstraction that lisps permit.

A good type system can give you something akin to a calculus of types.

A good functional language (here I'll include lisps even though many these days seem to discard them as such) give you a sort of calculus over computation.

But the structure of lisp (particularly its homoiconic nature) gives you a calculus over your programs syntax and semantics.

[0] The places where they may be considered weakly typed are places where it's somewhat "natural". Such as in Common Lisp where there's the numeric tower. Technically your number does stay a number, but it moves from an integer to, say, a rational when you perform a division by a non-divisor integer. It maintains the highest level of precision/accuracy possible. So `(/ 1 3)` doesn't become some 32-bit float version like `0.3333334`, but rather `1/3`, nor does it do the C thing and turn it into 0.
Move Loot, a YC-backed furniture resale marketplace, shuts down
This is actually pretty impressive, and is one of those why didn't I think of this products. Good work!
Can someone explain what sorts of factors would influence the value of this trust and why an investor would want to participate in it?
It's weird for me in way, because I feel like the biggest impact of his work on my life was second hand, hanging out on the SL4 mailing list back in the day. I have no doubt that many of the denizens of that mailing list will go on to shape large parts of our civilisation's technological future, hopefully in ways that aren't completely insensitive to the sociological forces described by Toffler.
We may have different definitions of walking distance from downtown because I think that both Volunteer and Washington Park fall in that range, although I understand that they are farther than a hypothetical South Lake Union park. On the other hand, I would note that neither Golden Gate Park nor Central Park are near their respective downtowns.
Apparently Trump is right.
I think this is made for rich people who don't understand computers let along technicals of bitcoins, who want to own hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions worth, but don't want to worry their computer getting hacked or just even stop working, everyone has had that happen before.
I had never heard about this game, until I heard another story about its suppression in Iran. If they want to increase awareness of this game, this is exactly how to do it!
I quit, I'm going nomad
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I am in no position to dispute this, but I have a friend who has lived on a sailboat in the Bay Area for many years now, and for him it was a way to get out of the apartment-renting game much, much earlier than he ever could have afforded to buy a place on land.

If he had done the same thing in a saner real-estate market then maybe by now his sailboat habit would have cost him as much as a flat would have, only later. But in the SF Bay I'm pretty sure he never would have caught up, and this way he's the lord & master & captain of his own tiny domain.
If you think I'm satisfied with HN, I wonder what other areas your model may be off base in, because that is far from true.

What I said is that because there's a single front page and set of threads, people reading comments on a divisive topic inevitably encounter comments they strongly dislike, and this affects their impressions of HN.

I know it's counterintuitive; that's why I brought it up. I find it interesting and far from obvious, something I only realized slowly over several years.
About a year ago. He invited me in after seeing the "How do you make batteries that work on Venus" article ( http://orbides.org/page.php?id=1005 ) i wrote on my own semi-dead site.
“Over the past two years we’ve been focused on growth, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction with a primary focus on profitability,” AptDeco’s co-founder Kalam Dennis told TechCrunch. “We have spoken with Move Loot regarding their interest in an acquisition. Ultimately we’re only interested in opportunities that align with the previously mentioned strategic goals.”

Ouch. Add it to the list of on-demand services that don't scale very well.
> So they are using the exchange they founded to price their bitcoin trust.............hmmmm

It's the other way around: they wanted an ETF, so they needed to create a regulated exchange that has all the required licenses
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>Unfortunately, we are still talking about a total of 64 Mbps of data. That needs a USB 2.0 sampling board that would pull the data out of the cells over the bulk interface

you mean a $10 EZ-USB FX2LP dongle?

You might be interested in this https://sourceforge.net/p/manyears/wiki/Main_Page/

Im sure you know about SeeSV-S205, its basically the same thing, but polished and packaged neatly for FAT commercial customers ($30K).

posted on slashdot in 2013 about the same thing https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3742015&cid=437167...
I wonder if the similarity of the domain to "Carrot Top" is intentional or not :-)
I still think it is nice to know what you have agreed to. But I hear you.
> Having said that, the stickers themselves aren't illegal. They fall under a backwards legal principle that adversaries can purposely mislead you without consequence.

Except, as the article (and the FTC official quoted therein) states, the law in question (the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act) actually does prohibits various deceptive implications which the stickers can reasonably be viewed as conveying.
They kept changing business model. Long live Craigslist. In our country olx is is Craigslist in USA.
A game you play by coding the behaviour of your character
How the heck did they blow through that much cash so quickly?? I wonder what the going rate is for such a list? I don't see much if any overlap between the two.

A post-mortem would be interesting. I'm guessing lack of discipline on the large raise. Since you don't have any direct competition, provie it out in 1 or 2 cities before expanding. Keep operations lean. Stay hungry.
Dev Bootcamp wants to "protect" students from transparency. Too complicated, they say. They prefer 'relevant program qualities, credible feedback from alumni' instead.
Sun breaks in downtown, sucker :)
It will be.
What a weird, Hacker-News specific URL. Here's a normal one: http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/imaging/bra...
Guys, here is a story of how we got the the idea of Wallarm

We started as a team of white hat hackers. Ivan (CEO) is a respected researcher known for his articles and talks at international security conferences (BlackHat, Hack In the Box, etc) on web application security.

Everything started with boutique security consulting company founded by Ivan in 2009 which with time became a synonym for the "best security audits for web applications". After each security audit had carried out we got a simple question "Good job, guys, but what's next now? We've fixed all the vulnerabilities you found. The only problem that we deploy code five times a week — and each (!) update might have new security flaws. We could be hacked again anytime!"

So "What's next?" We didn't know and were looking for the answer evaluating different products pretending to secure modern web — with orchestration by DevOps teams, continuous integration (CI) with frequent code updates right on production systems, complex Single-Page Applications and REST APIs, etc. And we failed. Every solution was broken for the same reasons.

1. They are not ready for continuous integration. Frequent code updates results in false positives when legitimate users got banned. The only way to avoid this is manual/semi-manual reconfiguration after each code release.

2. They don't scale well and are not ready for orchestration by popular DevOps tools (making themselves enemies for DevOps teams).

3. They overwhelm users with senseless notifications about thousands of attacks (that obviously has every website!) — without saying which of them are in fact dangerous and targeting security flaws of protected application.

4. Finally, none of them help to find vulnerabilities which are the real reason of data breaches.

So we ran different experiments by ourselves and step by step came to the idea of the product that we wanted to see on the market and recommend to our customers. We started working on it, released first MVP and instantly got positive feedback from all those security teams.
We're not living in the early 1970s anymore. Nowadays, if you want to dig into something, you're just a search away from deep knowledge about whatever you want.

Learning is an inherently individual process, and it requires time and effort on the part of the learner. Just think back to when you were in school - we'll never all be equal in terms of what we know.

(I shouldn't have to say this, but yes, it should be illegal to do things like sell a cake with an actual bomb inside it or something. Doing that is just plain murder, which is an entirely different phenomenon from what we're talking about here, which is whether or not a company has to honor a warranty for a device which the customer has tampered with in violation of contract.)

Why should the range of options for those that avail themselves of information be limited for the benefit of those that do not?
For #1 all I know of is that Facebook and Messenger are separate mobile apps now. There's still just one kind of Facebook account.
Meh. I think a better root solution is picking more unique names. Like, instead of Create, why don't they call it: Rustpkg? Or maybe, Rusputin? You know, a mix of (Grigori) Rasputin and Rust. It avoids all the (many) drawbacks of giving projects too generic of a name, while also making it more memorable and fun!
Software updaters need to handle the case of the app being on read-only media anyway. If your app breaks because it was launched from read-only media, that's absolutely a problem with the app and not a problem with the system.
Yeah, I agree. We've already implemented that functionality, but right now we're brainstorming ways to roll it out without clunky UI. We want to keep it extremely simple to use for now.
Is there any data out there on variations? It would be interesting to see how other strategies compare such as buying the next 100 largest market caps outside the S&P 500, also not selling stocks that are removed.
I thought the locals were joking about that, but in 18 years I can hardly remember a time when that wasn't true.

Although this year it sure looked like we started early.
Nope. Because if you are wrong once and lose 50% you need to be right by 100% to get back to even. So after a number of losses you will run out of money ever if your subsequent picks will be right. Unless you have a rich dad who gives you another chance...
So basically Omegle, but implemented on Facebook?
With all the AI buzz I feel like I'm going to be turning off a lot of annoying features real soon. Clippy 2.0?
Seriously... It seems like the twilio-style usage should be the headline feature, with global support as the side note.
It's technical people of some notoriety being vaguely clever about high-brow qualifications, and at a certain level of humorousness, involves recursion.
Move on. I have already been in this situation twice in previous startups as the engineering leader. This is a situation you cannot control nor influence.

As you move on, do so by not burning bridges and leave on a good note. Don't make it your mission to point out the obvious.
Interesting. Can it take 16 simultaneous SPI-like channels of data going at 40-ish MHz, and pack it into a USB uplink?
>Unless it was illegal

What if they strongly supported something illegal? Like illegal immigration?
> The problem with Gatekeeper Path Randomization is that copying applications to a read-only disk image will break functionality in many, if not most, existing applications.

This is extremely hyperbolic. I'd say it could break functionality in a small number of apps (that don't support running from read-only media, which is definitely a problem with the app and not a problem with the system). I doubt it's a lot, and it's sure as hell not "most".
Why is the resolution so much fixed to the number of mics?

Shouldn't 3 mics be somewhat sufficient for intermediate values as well? More mics => more redundancy => clearer image of the waves, but why do the pixels/blobs "snap" to a microphone?

edit: ah, he does not use timing (at 10fps obviously not) but needs continuous sound to see the wave pattern across the array...

edit 2: so do these gunfire locators¹ only time stamp impulses? Or do they do continuous analysis? With natural, irregular sound, it should be possible to match and measure the delay between mics, no?

edit 3: the gunfire locators would need to analyze for gunfire characteristics anyways, to weed out false positives, but that could be separated from the locating.

edit x: oh cool, if you zoom out of the final picture so it's smaller on screen, you can even see some parallax effect happening: http://206hwf3fj4w52u3br03fi242.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...

¹ http://wordpress.mrreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/boome...
I'd like to hear that d-bag I-banker's aphorisms and compare. I think he just didn't like the authorial tone, because he's used to boring-ass biz books...which is fine. But that's not how it happened. I didn't embellish. If anything, I downplayed things. Might not appeal to some i-banker in NYC who commutes on a train to Connecticut and wears a suit every day....but this is what that period of life was like, at least to me and the people around me at the time.
How has no-one here made the observation that the reason for this is due to true password strength checks, that use existing password distribution data that is prohibitive in size to send to the browser?

They're not doing the wrong thing, and the risk of side-channel attacks on this infrequent behaviour (i.e., not authentication) are trivial compared to the risks of high entropy passwords that are also highly reused, and are thus vulnerable to trivial brute force attempts.
Nothing but radio silence from DigitalOcean while 38k sites remain down
Share this dev approach with Facebook proper and MAYBE I'll come back to the site.
The well known Streisand effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
if the address space is fixed, though, then the marginal price that people are willing to pay increases as the suppli is eaten through.
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I worded that awkwardly, I meant as long as they aren't doing anything illegal. Since an opinion is impossible to classify as illegal.
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Does someone want to take on the challenge of explaining the basics of this to a lay person? For starters, I don't understand the relationship between the scatter plot and the contour plot. I would guess that the blue (?) dots relate to the darker areas of the contour and the red dots to the lighter areas.
This reminds me of the "acoustic vector sensor" developed by a Dutch acoustics firm that can pinpoint any conversation in a crowd.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929364-400-matchsti...
I realize that this idea is dead in the water because it would require landlords to "give up" a stream of income. However, if we ignore that for a second and entertain a bit of wistful "what if" ...

What if we lived in world where real estate was not an illiquid investment, with extremely high barriers to entry?

What if the monies taken in rent actually accrued equity by some schedule?

What if you could move at any point without losing your equity?

Crazy ideas, I know ... but via example:

1. developer builds a house, has 100% equity.

2. new tenant moves in and starts paying "rent", building up equity.

3. Costs for repairs and maintenance have to be paid per your equity percentage (so if I've accrued 20% equity, I have to pay 20% of the plumber's bill while I'm living there).

4. When the tenant inevitably moves, they take their 20% equity, and are paid 20% of the next tenant's rent payments, while still paying 20% of maintenance costs ... this % of course decreases as the new tenant makes more payments.

This gives you the mobility to move from city to city to follow jobs, while avoiding the money drain that is renting (ie. paying someone else's mortgage). If a tenant stays in that property long enough, they will eventually reach 100% ownership of the property, they will have purchased your "shares" in the house. So it remains an investment that you can get returns from, but those returns do not last forever.

I know, it's a crazy idea; in fact, this is the first time I've ever told anyone else about it ... but I think if it can be structured right, it could change society forever since real estate is one of the areas that is increasingly unavailable to the "have nots", thus contributing to ever-greater inequality.