skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After reading all the stuff from 37signals and starting to read things from Amy Hoy, I have a bit of a feeling, HN is the wrong audience for this ;)

Anyway, congrats :)
Pretty sure most companies would aspire to the model where 94% of the rent accrues to you...
Fear of One (What if you had just ONE shot?)
I am a proponent of the Slow Internet Movement. It has actually helped me a lot with unwinding and refocusing after work. So I have a 28.8 kilobaud connection in a token ring ethernet LAN configuration. No wifi.
Elon Musk is that you? @DragonWriter I see you. I feel like he's said this before. Some kind of strange Deja Vu.
tptacek is kind of a turd sandwich that holds a lot of idiotic opinions. Karma is more of a function of longevity than anything else.
I'm sorry, I just don't trust Google hardware efforts anymore. Nothing they've done indicates that they won't completely abandon this in a year and a half. It would probably end up in my Google Graveyard sooner rather than later, right next to my Google TV and Galaxy Nexus with Google Voice.
Nitpick: Onsager died in 1976 [1]. Also, his Nobel citation credits his work on reciprocity relations [2] and, I suppose, by extension regression hypothesis and what we would now call fluctuation-dissipation theorem. His solution of the 2d Ising model was not mentioned (though to be sure a tour de force).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Onsager

[2] http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1...
> The question is whether science can do it now, not whether science is an appropriate avenue of inquiry.

I agree but it still does not make the title 'Can science....' a good title to like. A good title/question should be readable at any day and age. This form titles/questions can cause such arguments as we are having, not very productive ones.
After Roe, antiabortion strategies had to change. You can say that this was a weakness of Roe, but I think it's complex enough of a situation not to attribute it to a root cause. I prefer to think of this in terms of the Red Queen Syndrome[1]: solving problems reveals new ones.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis
There are when you give different sets of questions to large numbers of people.

If you give very similar questions to a single subject, they try to be consistent with previous decisions so that order becomes significant, which confounds the results.
I think swell paper is physics, not chemistry. The paper expands when heated.
Galaxy Nexus had a bit of VZW bloat, but that was the only one I can remember having any.
.. and how easy to frame someone... just keep sending them some messages until they block you.

in the eyes of LE... they have metadata that you spoke with suspected individual :)
I've been suspicious as well about that at first, but after having tried Google Cardboard myself on a OnePlus 3, I was surprised by how accurate accelerometer powered head tracking worked.
I'm sure there are specific cases that aren't covered by this level of accuracy, but overall, it works perfectly fine.
There are many different cancers we lump under the phrase "prostate cancer". Most of them are benign, and will not affect anyone's life before they die of another cause.

The effects of treating prostate cancer are awful 100% of the time, though. From incontinence to impotence, and a lengthy recovery at a time when your body struggles to keep up with the normal demands of life.
You might enjoy reading John C. Wright's "Count to a Trillion" series, which does some thinking about how starfaring alien races, governed by game theory, might actually operate.

I don't think there's ever going to be a point when a race has "enough" and doesn't want to explore or build any more. Our ambition should grow with our capabilities. Once you can control a star, why not work on a galaxy?
That role isn't covered by the business person?

/s ;P
In the past they did. Now they're staging releases for effect and political gain.
> A trap for what exactly?

For aliens. Just like we make traps for birds, so we can tag and study them.
I wonder if there's statistics somewhere listing schools vs how many tech spinoffs they've created, and where the various tech schools rank on that.
Agreed, and I personally like Cyanogenmod and OxygenOS a lot, too. In fact, I think Touchwiz is the only (major) Android iteration that I haven't enjoyed using.

Frankly, I don't get all the hype about iOS' user experience - every time I've had to use an Apple device, I've found just about every task much more cumbersome.
Curious to know what's the diff of using HTC and partnership with Huawei, LG for past Nexus. It appears to be the same arrangement as Nexus, except this time Google is able to place only their logo on the phone. If it is all deigned by Google, wouldn't it be cheaper for Google to get lower tier manufacturer such as Foxconn to produce?
Except it's not an emotionally driven discussion, it's an issue that has been studied for decades. Saying "it's an issue of class not race" is not a hot take on the issue, it's a distraction that had been quantitatively disproven over and over again.

Believe it or not people have done quantitative studies on the interaction of race and class. You can go read pretty much any study on intergenerational income mobility and find what you want to know: At every single income level blacks are less likely than whites to transition from their parents income bracket to a higher one [0]

And by the way it's not just police shootings that are the issue. Minorities are overrepresented at literally every stage of the criminal justice system. They're more likely to be searched following a traffic stop [1]. More likely to be charged with a more serious crime [2]. More likely to receive worse bail terms [3]. And more likely to receive longer sentences [4].

Please try to not let your emotions overwhelm the mountain of evidence pointing to the fact minorities really do have a different experience than white people.

[0] https://www.chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/economic-per...

[1] https://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/TrafficStops/DrivingWhileBlack-Ba...

[2] http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/NSPI201213.pdf/$fil...

[3] https://www.pretrial.org/download/research/Testing%20for%20R...

[4] http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/summerprog/2009/nijworkshop/Steff...
I for some months now have tried to build a small test-case for a invoice app. I wish to have a good syn strategy and the use of ES sound good. However, I have find how replicate the functionality of a normal app with this: For example, what to do for avoid duplicates and in general pre-saving validations. Also, I need to anyway to use RDBMS tables for hold current-data and RDBMS have not a good history for stream back results.
Verizon Exclusive only in the US - they're selling it directly in other countries.
I recommend the book Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene, which treats this topic at book length.

https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Tribes-Emotion-Reason-Between/d...
Uber will never outlast urban public transit. Because bigger vehicles and fixed routes are simply more efficient at transporting a lot of people in dense environment.

It can easily replace inefficient minibus lines in the suburbs though, and riding your own car to real public transit (in this case, the train). That's potentially a significant market, but I doubt it's as big as the taxi market they're trying to take over.
I agree. It's also a risk for people living on very limited budgets; what do they do if Uber raises prices? How do they get to work? The grocery? The doctor?

Private enterprise relies on business failure and distribution of resources to those who can pay the most for them. Some things can't fail (police, fire, transportation, water, medical, etc.) and are needed by everyone regardless of income.

> What if their motive is to bankrupt public transport agencies and then raise prices when people have no alternative?

Uber prides itself, IME, on very aggressive business tactics, concerned only for profit and not, for example, its own workers, local laws, etc. I would be surprised if they did otherwise than what you say.
The ideal size: between 4.5" - 4.7"
Thank you for this!

we are planning to have a consultant come in a build image comparison of selfies with ID cards (for a fintech mobile app). What kind of validation and variation scores should we ask for to explicitly model the probability ?
The Implementation Square
That's crazy. $650 buy-in for what is for most people a somewhat risky wireless service proposition. Given their past track record of 86ing products this can't bode well.
My favorite line from the article:

"I need to display data on a page, not perform Sub Zero’s original MK fatality."
To be fair, Assange doesn't seem to release personally identifying information because of malice, but rather his stated fear of the leaks being thrown out in court due to WikiLeaks tampering. He purposefully releases documents in full to prevent evidence-related loopholes closed in court.
>>Another thing that drives me crazy about these "privilege" discussions is how insanely qualitative and emotion driven they are.

Asserting another person's privilege is a specific tactic for silencing speech. It is literally a method of supression if you believe in freedom of expression.

The positive side of this is that once you realize this, you can treat people who focus on "privilege" with the exact same tools you use on Mormons and Jehovas Witnesses. Race theorists behave in ways that earn them uncomfortable status in the BITE model.
Whom do you imagine it helping, to say this thing in this place and time?
Unicode doesn't just contain things that are in use now and will be in use forever. It contains characters that were in use in one computer system once, characters for dead languages, abstract symbols that the next generation will barely understand, and more.

The Bitcoin symbol is used in textual documents today. It deserves to be in Unicode, or Unicode fails its goal of being able to encode any textual document.
I have bad news for you: those cab drivers are now your local uber drivers.
No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric
Responsibility to address his errant and cruel behavior?

Get off your high horse and join us in saying goodbye to Pieter.
Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
Given that we all know headlines are made for clicking, I think it's pretty clear why this time is very different vs the previous 10 years: "He notes that the company is now managing inventory, building relationships with carriers, sourcing components, making supply chain deals and managing distribution. Google is even making accessories, including cases and cables." This article isn't about the technical approach, it's more about the business/go to market approach.

That's _very_ different to how Google went to market prior. Is this going to materially impact the iPhone? I don't know. But it is different enough that it warrants some sort of "This is a new approach by Google to taking on the iPhone" headline.
Testing over Golang Channels
> Very minimal and aesthetically beautiful, but still powerful and customizable.

None of which is helpful when the battery is dead. The iPhone still wins on battery life. Maybe the new gen Androids will fix that. I hope so.

Edit: I added some data for battery tests in a comment below. Looks like my Android experience is out of date.
WikiLeaks maintains credibility by being solely and entirely funded by individual contributions from the public.
>(which it won't be, because Apple SoCs are at least a generation ahead of everyone else)

Can anyone confirm if this is true? I thought the general advantage for i[a-zA-Z0-9]\+ is a well defined small N number of targets, which allow great optimization. Generally, the parts on apple things are a bit older than the competition but they pull off more (at least in user's eyes) compared with Android due to that optimization.
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Yeah, it's an important point. There's two primary aspects to head tracking - translational motion and rotational motion.

Tracking rotation can be done pretty cheaply & with low latency these days, and I expect the Daydream viewer will probably handle it quite well.

Translation is quite a bit more challenging, and I'm not expecting much in that department for this iteration. The issue can be addressed to some degree with a neck model that maps rotation to translation, but it can't handle real translation, such as leaning or walking around.

This is on par with Oculus/Samsung's current mobile solution, the Gear VR headset.
I'd recommend listening to this podcast: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2016/06/03/kalzumeus-podcast-episod...

It's on negotiation in general, not just salary.
I've got a GearVR with Galaxy S6 and the display is adequate. Not one of the 6 or so people I've let try it have wanted to vomit.

No one is stopping you from running with your own WebVR platform, my guess is that it's not an easy thing to make money off of (which is what Google does).
> They need a sort of Reddit gold type epiphany.

Can't you already pay for a 4chan premium account that allows you to... I can't remember, post more, ignore the captcha, etc?
2016 SAT test results confirm  – high school boys are better at math than girls
Jibo: The family robot
I'm in the same spot. I tried to give Apple another shot with iCloud Desktop and Document syncing but that feature is extremely buggy and I've already had to restore from backups because the syncing success is intermittent at best.
A Profound Animation: Avatar: The Last Airbender Almost a Decade Later
not when you can control 85% of the market and just want your software in front as many people as possible so you can sell them ads. Do you really think google cares that much about making profit on smartphone hardware?
I dunno. I suspect that the classic 70s muscle cars are objectively beautiful, or at least as close to objectively as is possible in something like this. Just look at a 69 GTO, or a 70s Charger or Challenger or Camaro.
3 Amazing Science and Trick Experiments with Ballon
The difference is that there's now a rating system for them, and because Uber's broken the protectionist medallion racket, even if they're rude and unhelpful, at least you can get a ride reasonably quickly, and they can't take kooky routes without being accountable. It's pretty clear that even if the driver pool includes all cab drivers that this is a major net positive for riders.
I don't know, if it's similar to any of the GearVR demos I've tried it'll be a neat 10 minute or so of excitement, nothing more.
Salesforce Beats Drum for Smarter, More Collaborative Sales Software
Hm, same price as iPhone7, according to Wired (will have to see). I'm interested in leaving iOS but on a more mid-tier smart phone level. Very compelling design and size though in my opinion, would definitely be in the market if budget was available. Well, pending some reviews.
This trend of proposing a blockchain to solve every problem is hilarious to me. Hammer/nail syndrome.
Whether it's a nice phone or not, I'm not tempted. I left Android due to an inability to get o/s updates. Android depends on the cell carrier (Bell Canada, in my case) for o/s updates, a model that doesn't work well, in my opinion. With Apple the o/s is always up to date.
Ask HN: Have you used nats.io in a project and what is your experience with it?
Iphones are released at pretty much the same clip as Nexus devices, so I don't understand that particular complaint.
I literally just told one of my advisors I don't think we'll apply for YC, but your post has changed my mind. Thanks!
I just assumed the author had split up with his girlfriend, she turned out to be insane (poisoned his cat, set fire to his car, accused him of all manner of unspeakable things, etc.), and he was still a bit sore about it.
Yes, there's already symbols for other dead currencies in there, for example.
Well, one could argue that rise of Trump, Bernie, backlash against mainstream media etc are partially due to the surveillance state BS.

In any case, there are still the negative economic consequence which important alone, but also affect politics.
I think this is very user-specific.

My wife has had two iphones (5, 6). Both die much faster than my androids (many many hours).
We use them about the same.
Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, but has there been any information released regarding whether the bootloader can be unlocked or not?

I guess what I'm really asking is if I will be able to flash a custom "ROM" and kernel to this. I've heard rumors of Google taking a more aggressive stance on locking down their hardware, so I'd like to know if there's been any new information regarding this.

If I can't flash custom software to this, I may get the iPhone or HTC 10 instead. The main attraction to Android phones to me was the fact that you can flash modified kernels to do things like force fast charge on USB data links, etc…
Google’s Pixel smartphones come with free storage for full-res photos and videos
I'm so sorry for your loss. I went through this 5 months ago, and it was incredibly difficult for me. I have lost many friends far too young, and the death of our pet was no less emotionally traumatic.

Time does help.
Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence
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Assange is pretty demonstrably worse than the other two you lump him in with.
I'm sorry, but what is the connection between those two?
Bill Gross warns financial markets have become 'a Vegas casino'
I just keep hoping they'll get here before November, though, so I can write in Kodos on the ballot.
I'm sure YC is great, but I don't think everyone should apply. It's a waste of time if you're seasoned and it leaks your business plans to a lot of well connected, moneyed people. The other side of the "never ask for an NDA" coin is "don't needlessly share your plans with people you don't know or trust".

If you think you'll get in - apply - it's obviously the best out there; but don't drink the punch.
I think it is just me but I find this 'book me a concert and fancy dinner' schtick rather boring. May be well off people are so busy and book these things so often that these virtual assistant really save time if price is of no concern to them.
Galaxy Nexus support was dropped very quickly. I had to start installing cyanogenmod to get new features when they stopped supporting the phone after a very short period of time.
That seems to be an issue you've come up with on your own, because nobody is being pushed into entrepreneurship here.

In fact, the article states that without a safety net, talented people aren't taking the risks that can generate a net benefit for society.
Yes. I knew someone (about 30 years old) who had brain cancer.

When he had chemo, he looked like he was dying any second now. A week after he looked like a normal healthy person.

Last time I saw him was a few weeks before he died, we were partying like he wasn't even sick and suddendly he was dead.

But it's generally a strange feeling to lose people around you.

In the last two years I lost about 4 people. One to old age, two to cancer and one was even murdered. I still have the last moments with them in my memories. We were like "yeah lets go do XYZ together in a few weeks/months" and now they are simply gone and won't come back.
Of all of the Clinton "scandals", that seems like an odd one to pick. I can't think of one LESS compelling, frankly.

People making charitable donations before and after she has any actual political influence, with a tiny fraction of them having any contact with her whatsoever? All so that the Clintons can.. help poor people?

All I needed to know to tune out was that the anti- crowd fanned the flames by saying that 95% (IIRC) of the funds were not spent on charities. Because... they are a charity themselves, and spend the money directly on causes?
"Douchey" or not is for you to decide, but you're right that Assange's philosophy to release untampered documents causes collateral damage. It's a tough call, honestly: would you have your leaked documents' contents nullified in court due to censorship or risk collateral damage (identity theft) and maintain your leaked documents' impact as evidence in a court of law (which could potentially lead to the prosecution of a criminal)?
> zero evidence other than your own preconceived notions

Let's not forget overwhelming research and other evidence, and hundreds of years of history, of discrimination against people with black skin.

But I agree we shouldn't assume.

Nobody said it doesn't happen to other people. Factually, it happens to black people much more.
You can't buy it for someone else though. That was the key to the Reddit gold success.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634577
Really, I thought that docx abused it's specification using very rough edges to make it difficult for opensource applications to implement.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-micr...
The Company-Wide Effort That Brought Google VR Platform Daydream
The actual product announcement page https://blog.google/products/pixel/introducing-pixel-our-new...
I work near Dulles Airport and Uber sends pings to drivers throughout northern VA that a bunch of flights are about to come in, in some cases offering a bounty if they go.

This town itself may not have a ton of Uber drivers, but they can come from anywhere in the area.
Otoy gives position tracked light field to Gear VR
I agree, but I'm talking about a scale even shorter than that.

Roe v Wade was a clear and unambiguous advance for abortion rights, and the battle lines are now arrayed somewhere different than they were before Roe. The fight isn't over, but it's fairly clear who holds what.

I'm talking about even knowing when you've made progress. If a federal directive came through tomorrow expansively forbidding the NSA from collecting data on US citizens, privacy advocates wouldn't even hope that bulk surveillance of citizens would stop. They know better, because it basically happened, and the definitions of words got rearranged until the program could continue unabated.

Political issues aren't settled until they fade into consensus belief, but it's usually possible to make progress and then defend it. On surveillance and privacy, there's no law or court decision or whistleblower or even prosecution that can guarantee things aren't continuing exactly the way you didn't want them to.
HN may be an echo chamber. It is not an echo chamber around tptacek's opinions. A simple counterexample would be almost any law or proposed law (CISPA for instance) that the community gets all "omg this is the worst thing ever" about and tptacek actually bothers to read the thing and usually futilely argues about how it's not actually the worst thing ever.
Nice stab at Apple there with the 3.5 mm jack. Glad they kept it.
I'm confused. It seems you have more information than the blog post and attached documents entail.

Do you know both how long the investigation would be under for? Do you know the timing?

Stating there's no good reason is not true - it's quite possible that a gag order is issued to protect the investigation, including identification of suspects, the number of suspects (at least two in this case), change of behavior (e.g. switch from Signal to smoke signals, fax, or just lay low for a while), etc.

What happens when two days after a terrorist attack, OWS publishes a subpoena for the first time? I for one welcome that they go through the official channels to get the redacted version approved. Let's not botch investigations for the sake of pitchforking the "everything should be public" slogans.