skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And in specific, lookup Tomographic Motion Detection ala:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8updJWoSxE

http://www.securityelectronicsandnetworks.com/articles/2014/...
It's not about the internet not working in general. These routers are about dead spots in places that have functional internet already. It's a pretty common problem that absolutely does exist.
I wonder what the actual personal consequences are for someone going public that there is an NSL requested. I seriously doubt they'd destroy a major public company with lots of employees/voters/users; fines, maybe, and going after execs, but the Government loses most of its power to threaten things once the act is done and everything is public.

I think you win in the court of public opinion if it's a broad program like this (and IMO clearly unconstitutional). If it's an NSL about, say, an order to specifically target UBL, you probably hang in public opinion. If it's an NSL about, say, finding Snowden, you might be ok. This is an interesting check and balance vs. government overreach.

I'd be a lot more comfortable with someone going public in a live press conference in DC (maybe releasing a key to a file which is pre-distributed), than someone running off to Russia or doing it anonymously, though.
I don't see how there's anything to agree or disagree with. Nowhere is the question of "deserving" or justice raised explicitly, for example. It's just a fact: your shit is being read and analyzed at all times and at all levels. If in doubt, the safer course of action is likely to be based on assuming this rather than assuming otherwise. Encryption is a way to make sure. Though even that won't stop somebody who has already pwned your system.
> The system uses a technology called mesh Wi-Fi (something usually only seen in expensive commercial installations).

This is misleading. You can create your own mesh networks with several off-the-shelf routers / access points using open source software like batman-advanced [0].

[0] https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki
I'm on an airplane twice a week. It would be awesome to have this and watch movies on it. A personal isolation device.
This "no table for layout" thing is so strong that people keep insisting that I am saying table elements for layout. I am literally saying "using table elements for a table" and not "layout with a table". It is a table with tabular data in it, just plain text. It is a styled table, but a table nonetheless.
Secret URL for deleting your Yahoo account.

https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user
In my NYC apartment, the physical WAN connection is in a rather unfortunate location. There's no good spot to place a router in the center of the apartment, and no unobtrusive way to run cable there if there was such a spot. As a result I have to choose between a wifi dead zone in my bedroom, or a strategically located repeater. I've chosen the latter.

If I lived in a less dense area, in a wood-framed house of the same size, I have no doubt my wifi would be just fine. But with all the interference from neighbors and all the reinforced concrete, my home wifi definitely has a problem that requires something more than the simplest, cheapest router to solve.

This Google product might work very well for my use case, though I'm happy enough with my current solution.
I just read it as setting expectations, which is good.
my nexus 5 camera is absolute garbage.
I guess I should have know. It's just that out of the two I would have expected Apple to be the one forcing you into their ecosystem, yet on iOS I had no trouble having a great experience in respect to email, contacts and calendars without signing into iCloud.
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This only works if the search term matches the title exactly. For instance, when the submission still had its original title (which matched the article's title), it worked. Then someone edited it and it now doesn't work. You have to open the article, select the title, right click > Search Google, then click the result from there.
Or, just not 1BR NYC apartments. So, the majority of Americans.
Definitely not true for Nexus / Pixel devices. I'm in Canada, have had the Nexus line from the Nexus One, and every time an update releases I have it immediately.
The OnHub still has a disabled USB port and is missing other features - it's been abandoned.
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No...forget the VR

How about it's just a 2560 x 1440 screen in a headset?

Would be great for coding without the neck pain
The post isn't even by Joel. It's a forum (or more precisely an ex-forum). Random people were allowed to post there...

Wait... you do know we're not all Paul Graham... right?
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The details can vary wildly between regions.

For example, early-90s, me growing up in the sticks. Poor people were busted for growing/selling pot. It was reasonably their only choice, there were no jobs. 19 year old gets his car confiscated, and loses his job. Has no way to support his new wife/baby. It just happened to be at the house where the pot was being grown. He did not live there. This kid gets hit with a felony, now he'll never get a job.

Meanwhile, 20 year old son of local construction company owner gets his plants confiscated, and a few hundred in tickets.

Everyone involved here was white. Judge, poor family growing pot, and the family that owned the construction company. The only difference is poor rednecks versus rich rednecks.
His KVM Forum talk on porting KVM to SmartOS is probably my favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAfJywzk8o
So who do we trust? Governments?

Whatever you can say about Yahoo, they're not the one holding the gun.
This is why mapping and GPS, as a solution to AVs will only get so far and the guys who really understand this problem know it. There's starting to be people coming forward saying this problem is nowhere near solved by 2020 like marketing departments would like to have us believe.
I think Google would love to learn, then serve, your preferences in all these areas. I would find that creepy though.
Face bra.
the phones were great because they were universally unlocked (rare). the camera on my nexus 5 is trash, however.
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With the wide assortment of imaging sensor sizes, the "normal" focal length varies accordingly. Probably better to think of it as "angle of view", typically ~45-50 degrees for a normal lens. That's usually the easiest lens to design, so typically the most compact and inexpensive lenses are "normal" primes.

Today the most popular "normals" are moderate, mid-range zooms, equivalent to 28-80mm or so on a 35mm equiv sensor.
The above commenter was probably referencing the Nest situation
His post on living systems is absolutely great, just discovered thanks to his thread...

http://hintjens.com/blog:74
Most of the weight will be whatever phone you slot into it most likely. And absolute weight isn't as important as it being properly supported. The difference between the Vive headset properly and poorly adjusted to your head is night and day.
This is not at all surprising! BTW, I don't know a single person that has an email account with yahoo, who is not older than 60!
Anyone notice they are using their new TLD?
The problem is, they're not even keeping up with the other people's processors.
Show HN: Bluebird.swift – Promise/A+, Bluebird Inspired, in Swift 3
Reviews are iTunes' form of social proof and help enable some amount of discoverability. Youtube's social proof equivalent is likes, comments & subscriptions. Of which most youtubers request at the end of a video in the same way.
I tried the Playstation VR. It was definitely cool and better than mobile VR solutions but motion sickness is a big problem. I played a really intense space fighter game, and I had a headache for a while after. I am not especially susceptible to motion sickness either. Perhaps after using the headsets for a while I will adapt but then again am I going to pay the $4-500 for the PS VR and take the chance I won't? If it was a sick feeling free experience I would 100% buy it.
They mention that situation in the proposal doc http://files.righto.com/files/half-star-unicode.pdf Search for the title "Why just half? What about quarters or 13%?".
Prison is a criminal incubator.
This is great. I love that he goes into the future. :)
I'm still sore about Google killing reader. I used to have a wide spectrum of stuff I used read via RSS (circa 50-60 blogs) and like yourself only read a handful of them now. I know there's Newsblur, but Reader just worked so well for me.
So they didn't build this product for your use case. Is that supposed to mean that they can't try to solve the problems that others have?
I think it's healthy to have outlets like 4chan where a range of ideas can be thrown against the wall both ironically and seriously.

>If you lance a cyst, you make a mess for a while, but that doesn't mean you've done much more than expose what was already killing you

Except those users don't just go away. there are infinite places to go, none of which are as big as 4chan. So they find pockets of like-minded users and become even more extreme.

This is what happened after the ban wave of Nov 2014. Many different individuals left /pol/ in disgust en-mass to form splinter boards that cater to their particular ideology on places like 8chan. Spurned users also went to other boards and caused even more problems.

Now instead of a giant shitstorm of unbridled banter from all corners of the political spectrum /pol/ is an alt-right echo chamber like a conservative version of reddit.com/r/politics. Meanwhile there are 10 other echo chambers on 8chan for communists, democrats, libertarians and everything else.

The result has been balkanized echo chambers, worsened extremism and less diversity of ideas, discussion and ideology.

That's a bad thing IMO.
Zed Shaw's presentation, it's Not You, It's Them: Why Programming Languages Are Hard To Teach -- https://vimeo.com/53062800
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There is a sort of palpable energy in (Ryan Dahl) node.js original presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY

edit: +Ryan Dahl
I don't remember ever having to do that, and my intro to cs class was py3 - I don't really run 2.7 day to day, is this a specific version?

airbears2-10-142-34-161:~ ecx$ echo 'print("hello")' >0.py
airbears2-10-142-34-161:~ ecx$ python2.7 0.py
hello
airbears2-10-142-34-161:~ ecx$ python2.7 -V
Python 2.7.10
Running a .NET Core App in a Docker Container
Typora – A cross platform markdown editor
I pay a pittance to use Newsblur, and it's awesome.
Yeah, pretty much everyone agreed that the ISO standard for docx was nearly impossible to completely implement for anyone outside of Microsoft and that it should have never been accepted as a standard.
This sounds similar to MLC in SSD. And both feel like a step back towards analog computing.
This. Email messages are digital postcards. When it leaves your computer (house) and goes to your ISP (local post office), anyone at that place can pick it up and read it before sending it on its way to the recipient's mail handler. While it's in transit, it's not sealed, it's not obscured or encrypted, it is plain text.

Now, that doesn't change the fact that Yahoo rolled over like a puppy when the government came calling, which is reprehensible for any tech company to do. They should have fought it and asked for a warrant for the specific persons of interest, rather than happily fucking over every single Yahoo email subscriber.
Fair enough. It's true that whatever metric a platform uses for either manual or automated curation, publishers will know about it and optimize for it.
A.f.a.i.k. few people tried some rudimentary experiments and there were two main problems:

a) you can work in VR for more than an hour because of nausea
b) smaller text is not legible

But if you feel wealthy and adventurous enough, there is "Virtual Desktop" [1] for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/382110
This is one of the only practical uses for everyday non-techie people I've been able to come up with for these phone-based VR systems (like GearVR). It could also apply to college kids living in small dorms and such. I can't see my mom buying anything like this and strapping it to her head while sitting contently in a huge suburban house. Then again, I never thought I'd see her using an iPad, iPhone and messing with a SmartTV at the same time...
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I really wonder why Apple and iTunes still have so much influence in the podcast space. They have less than 40% market share in the US, their strongest market. In Europe, Android has greater than 75% market share. Is the podcasting audience so different than the mobile market in general? If not, why do so many publishers act as if iTunes is the only place that people find podcasts these days?
I definitely recommend Philip Roberts's talk. I watched it a couple of months into learning Javascript and then everything "clicked."
Choose boring bugs
Not everyone is a beginner web designer. Some people are trying to build things from scratch using JS.

"Just use this magic build.sh!" sounds a lot like "Just use this magic starter kit!" or "Just use yeoman!"

Who is supposed to write this 'build.sh' in this scenario of yours?

Without fail, every single magic build system or magic starter project I have ever used is now deprecated and abandoned.

Makefiles? No one uses those anymore, use Grunt!
Grunt? No one uses that anymore, use Gulp!
Gulp? No one uses that anymore, use webpack!

I have a react app that I built on top of a starter kit that I now need to rebuild using create-react-app because the build process broke when I tried updating something.

Meanwhile, I can pick up a python project I worked on 10 years ago, or a go project I started 4 years ago and everything works exactly the same.
Dynamic peptide libraries for the discovery of supramolecular nanomaterials
As always the most compelling thing about the phone is Google's support - fast releases and minimal carrier bloat. You have a nice list of positives and I'm not disputing them.

But the feature list for what is now Googles top phone is underwhelming. 4 GB of RAM is barely adequate - it should be 6 GB like the other Snapdragon 821 flagship. No water proofing? That's the new black. Bottom-facing speakers? Complete regression from the Nexus 6. Including a smoking camera but no optical image stabilization? Make up your mind - is it a digital camera competitor or not?

And frankly since there's no waterproofing there's no excuse for a fixed battery and no sd-card slot. Even some waterproof phones offer those features now. Google needs to blow Apple away with features rather than aping the latest iphone.
Sure, but you don't need anything more than 1080p for an $80 vr headset. It's a value purchase, not a quality purchase.
That's not true at all. They could just quit.
Because even though cool URLs don't change, not all URLs are cool. Ideally, GUIDs would stay the same even when the URL doesn't.
Starts at $649. Ugh. The era of a phone as a status symbol is fading, and even if Google succeeds in winning Android's high-end market, that's not what a majority of consumers are after. We want cheap phones. Given the end of subsidises (in the US market) and consumer fatigue for laying out crazy money for a disposable device, $200 is the sweet spot which Google should have been aiming for. Don't compete with iPhone, define a new standard and make them compete with you.
Sounds like it. But the writer doesn't seem concerned with epistemic integrity. It's a neat project, though. Publishing use-of-force data seems like it's a sensible thing to do.
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LMVH's purchase of a stake in Rimowa shrinks the luggage market
Seems like a utopia until you factor in the winter climate.
My experience with processing RSS feeds is that none of the uniqueness indicators in feeds really work. The only thing that works is hashing the content and discarding duplicates. Etags are especially useless. There are sites with a load balancer in front of multiple servers, each with its own etag.

As I've pointed out before, RSS feeds remain in widespread use for hard news. Almost all the hard news sites, including AP, NYT, Reuters, VOA, the BBC, etc. have useful RSS feeds. There are RSS feeds from NASA, feeds which tell you what Congress is doing right now, National Weather Service alerts, missing kid alerts, and California fire incidents. There's even a Donald Trump RSS feed. If it matters, it's on RSS.

Social has gone in a different direction, but that's just the social media industry.
"Percentage of industry profit" is a stupid metric. "Percentage of industry revenue" is an interesting one. But if Google sells phones at a loss, and they eat into Apple's sales, it is not a good thing for Apple.
That's my problem with the phone - premium price but not premium feature set.
> Is the podcasting audience so different than the mobile market in general?

They seem to be, for now. Not sure whether that's because it's just easier on iOS or habit. In any event, we're pretty sure that won't last forever.
It's because Apple integrated podcasts really early and everyone else has still been ignoring them. I know someone who switched from a Windows Phone to an iPhone spurred in part by the desire to listen to podcasts. Google is slowly lumbering into the podcasts space but it's under their Google Play Music umbrella so it's hobbled by being part of that product (e.g. if Google Music hasn't launched in your country you can't listen to podcasts.)
It's confusing enough that they recycled their own product name, the Chromebook Pixel.
this is quite outdated
Memory was 40€, SSD 42€.
Agree this one is a must watch
If you would like to go on a Wikipedia journey on related topics, I recommend these two articles:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%E2%80%93Kopetzky_syndrome

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
I think his point is that they command only a small fraction of the market at this point meaning they aren't the Goliath everyone is trying to beat.

Everyone would love to have Apple profit margins but their market share is so small that there's plenty of room to co-exist without "killing" Apple.
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Musl's complex math library for early Android API
After 11 years, I can say Why I hate frameworks and Why I love Go (www.golang.org) \o/
Totally. This is the early adopter "Sure I'll blow $100 on this toy along with my new phone" kind of stuff. People that get these kind of things now will show friends. They'll get excited. Those friends will buy into VR in droves when the kinks get worked out.
“Your monitor is too old to view this content.”
> users' trust

"Promises only bind those who believe in them"
- Henri Queuille
They aren't even suggesting that the interior streets be completely closed, just that the speed limit be reduced to 5 mph and pedestrians be given priority. That would make them unattractive if you are trying to get all the way through the block, but if you are trying to drive up to a building inside the block it would only be a minor inconvenience.
I live in downtown Manhattan and have that problem, but like OP asked, I don't think it's a huge enough problem to warrant a separate router just for the purpose. Most people simply use the router rented out from their internet provider (for free), and in most cases just make it work somehow (instead of buying a new device just for routing they would rather acknowledge that wifi doesn't work well in some parts of the apartment and live with it). Sure sometimes it's shitty and I have to reboot it to get it to work again, but I can live with it if it's not too often.
RSS is terrible for reading. If you're lucky the file actually contains some of the text. But multimedia, the full article, or formatting? Forget it. In the general case it functions as a link aggregator and little more, but it's fantastic at that. The reader doesn't matter at all if there isn't anything to read.
>The other day I lost my phone so I typed "where is my phone" into google. It showed me immediately. How many passwords do you have to type and licences to accept to do that on your Apple cloud?

You'll miss the passwords the day your wife turns the home computer on, googles that and finds out you're in some other woman's house. All without passwords or licences. ;P
People aren't giving up their cars and current lifestyles easily.

The simplest solution I see for parking lots is to cover them and generate power. Also keeps them dry and, in warm climates, cooler.

Relatively inexpensive (and becoming ever more so). Quick payback. Minimal modification of extant real estate and behavior.

There you go.
See https://ufundingportal.com for business plans presented by companies that are looking for investors' support.
It's great that you care about the community. People caring about HN is what makes it good.

The repost thing is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. It's a well-known weakness of HN's structure that many good stories get posted to /newest and then fail to get noticed before they get washed out to see. There are just so many submissions here.

Over the last couple of years we've developed techniques for rescuing good stories and giving them second chances at attention. The simplest was just to let people know that a small number of reposts is ok. Reposts aren't great, of course, but missing good stories is worse. Think of it as allowing multiple pitches before striking out.

Another thing we did is build a system for story reviewing—initially by moderators only, now by us plus some users, with the plan of opening it to the whole community as soon as we figure out how—under which stories that get picked as good by reviewers get a random placement somewhere on the bottom half of the front page. These are stories that would otherwise have fallen through the cracks completely.

For example, your Show HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635722 looks good, so I just put it in the second-chance queue, and it's on the front page now. You should also have gotten an email saying we did this. Btw you might want to add a comment to that thread introducing yourself and explaining the background to the project—readers like that, and it tends to seed better discussions.
But young enough to think you're getting updates in any case...
VR photographs can be both be captured and viewed on a smartphone.

Big screen playback of YouTube and Netflix through a smartphone would offer a much better experience than watching a limited selection of titles on a postcard sized screen on the back of an aircraft seat.

Given that you're going to own a smartphone anyway, an accessory that's an order of magnitude cheaper than high end VR seems like it has a place.
That's a stupid theory. All technologies become available to the general public after a short time. Initially cell phones were expensive, but now even the poor often have iphones. Most medicines including advanced cancer treatments are available to everyone. Especially in countries with socialized healthcare. I see no reason why this would be any different.
>Now, Google is no Samsung, but they're a long way from Apple or even Microsoft on the UX front.

I can tell you haven't really used any Google products in some time or if ever. And that bit about Microsoft and UX design - I couldn't tell if you were joking or not. You may want to add emoticons next time to make it more clear.
Where you live isn't fixed.
It was part of carnivore and AT&T also supported that. I'm pretty sure all major vendors had hooks into their systems for carnivore.
If you have $20 on your pocket you tend to spend $20. If you have $40 you tend to spend $40.

(Not you specifically, people in general. Or society encourages this)
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