skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that's different from saying "something usually only seen in expensive commercial installations".

No, its not. The fact that there are inexpensive alternative means by which it can be deployed, and by which certain segments of the population can and do deploy it, doesn't make it any less true that it is usually only seen in expensive commercial installations.

> And it is still misleading if it tends to mislead one group of people more than another group.

I don't think it tends to mislead any group at all. I think that the group to whom the exceptions to the "usual" case accurately described here is relevant will be well aware of it and so not misled, and the group who is not interested will also not be misled by the accurate statement, even though they are likely to be less aware of the nature of the alternative.
Unless the person sitting next to you is hot, why would you care about virtually being in the stands?
The 2.4 going out was probably whenever one of your roommates or neighbors used the microwave. :)
You think it's straightforward for Apple to emulate x86 on their own chips with enough performance to rival Intel's own chips? That's a bold claim!
The way I see Google assistant is that it's a combination of many apps (or maybe interface to many). Now I can have Google Assistant Icon on my homescreen and use it to do many things like:

* Set up an alarm

* See the Distance

* Search nearby places/restaurants/gas stations

* Play some song

* Look up facts

* Look up news

* See my agenda for the day

* Search for my personal photos
and maybe much more....

I rarely use the voice input. The thing I liked about allo is that I can chat with it. Even when i'm in a crowded bus, I can use my assistant instead of saying "OK Google".
Seems to me this should be verified as legit data before we start disseminating this info, no? In this guy's screenshots there is literally a directory titled "Pay to Play." A little on the nose isn't it?
Here (Oregon) was the first place to legalize it. So it's possible in the US too.
Here's a great "wat" talk for Angular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Wp-2XA9ZU
I wholeheartedly agree with you, pragmatically. But you also have to take into account why there are special protections on the USPS.

Privacy is a quality people generally expect to have. The USPS protections were created after the long social feedback cycle it took for people to realize what they were missing. We're going through another one of those cycles now, where people are finally realizing how surveilled-by-design modern technology is.

I'm unsure what will be quicker - groupwise societal understanding leading to legal privacy protection, or individual adoption of specific better technology. Given that social protections only work for those in "average" society, I personally hope it's the latter. But the two viewpoints are not conflicting, and are actually complementary - privacy preserving tools educate society as to what is possible, and a person has to value privacy before they can seek out tools to preserve it,
I made a 2001-era emoji font That you can use
"Wow this is amazing!" doesn't make particularly interesting discussion.
> mopeds are probably going to be safe

:) mopeds (or rather "scooters" and "vespas" in Italy) get stolen left right and centre. They are used more than bikes simply because they require less effort - they are the closest modern equivalent to horses, the transportation method for which old European cities were actually built.
You need a faster processor to hide the emulation overhead. Good luck beating Intel by a big enough margin.
Not really.

HTC10: 145.9 x 71.9

iPhone7: 138.3 x 67.1 (-7.6, -4.7 vs HTC10)

iPhone7+: 158.2 x 77.9 (+12.7, +6 vs HTC10)
Yeah, I think parent is confused. This is a $1,000 lens--definitely not a kit lens.

[EDIT: Apparently it was available as a bundle at one point.]
Thanks, this is all quite useful! I faced crashes with REngine + rJava, too, and thought of a DB as a intermediary, but your in-memory DB idea adds an interesting twist that adds performance, too.
I could be lighting a fire by saying this, but I've been using AirPorts for 5 years and haven't had a single issue.

Is the issue just that the non-Apple-customer market didn't have a good analogue?
The closest thing to collaborative music I've found is https://www.audiotool.com/

Why? You can edit other people's music. Watch this magic: https://www.audiotool.com/app/soundlab/
Actually that shows a big opportunity exists for startups in Android space. Clearly the startup world is not where the customers are due to various reasons.

Go where the customers are, observe what they are doing and make something they can use.

I truly see a big opportunity. Launching at startup events is wrong unless your customers are them.
I love my Nexus phones, i also have already ordered a Pixel XL. With that said, i hate the look of this phone compared to the Nexus 5 and 5X. I really felt the 5 and 5X were a good, unique and fitting feel for Nexus. The Pixel doesn't seem to have any identity of it's own.

Frankly, with Apple already having sued over phone designs.. i'm shocked this is so blatantly similar to the iPhone.

Only thing that feels unique is that weird glass bit on the back.. and that's ugly as hell imo.
> If you want to get rid of cars, you have to provide some alternative (preferably better) mode of transportation for the people and stuff within them.

Are we participating in the same conversations?

In my experience, people trying to "get rid of cars" generally advocate for public transit and bike/pedestrian-friendly infrastructure. Their goal might be something like Copenhagen or Amsterdam. They're certainly not looking forward to living in a wasteland full of people wishing they had some way to travel across town. Case in point, you seem to have come away from this article thinking it's saying "ban cars for no reason!" when in fact it has a heavy focus on making life better for pedestrians. Traveling by foot is a form of transportation!
Honestly, in terms of staff UI design cred Android is in better place than iOS right now.

With the Sidekick, PalmOS, and then Material Design, Matías Duarte has been consistently at the forefront of mobile UI design.

Jony Ive is probably the most brilliant consumer electronics hardware designer in the world, but I have yet to see any indication that he has any idea how to lead a platform UI design project. I had issues with Scott Forstall's style, but he was at least leading the charge somewhere.

In my opinion, force click, Siri, 3D wallpapers, etc, have not been major coups in terms of UI finesse. At best Apple is in a holding pattern right now, I haven't seen any indication that they're pushing the state of the art outside of the hardware. The animations keep getting flashier and smoother, but that's not really UI design.

I thought Ive's strong understanding of design methodology would be enough, but I think maybe software design requires a different way of thinking. I don't know.
>refresh rate that's fast enough for your brain's ability to process it

Lol can we keep junk science out of threads like these. Nobody knows enough about the tech yet to say things like this, especially with such vehemence. Let's start with the fact that the visual system definitely doesn't have some sort of unitary processing rate. It's incredibly context dependent, just like VR.

From personal experience I have never had VR sickness, and I use my Note 4 Gear VR every week on flights to watch multiple ~2hr movies and play timepass games with no ill effects. On the contrary it's pretty fun once you get off HN and actually try it...
Actually it's worse - here we have available Google Play Music and podcasts aren't.

Meanwhile I can actually listen to them in any number of significantly better apps (e.g. PocketCasts) so having them available via RSS is pretty important to me.
I was worried about Reader's shutdown but my habits have not had to change at all. Been using Feedbin with Reeder on my phone for the past few years and it's been nothing but excellent!
Isn't that sort of the idea of splice.com? (And if it isn't, it is still a great idea!)
It should read "...Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's decision to indulge the directive..." indulge, not obey.
How is Mesh networking different from a wireless repeater? Yes, there's a nicer UI for this, but are there any technical advantages?
In a large pipelined, distributed architecture, there's probably dozens of consumers of the databases that all look rather similar: they do some queries and pack up some reports for internal consumption. Marketing, ab testing, user experience, etc. Yet another consumer sharing 99% of the same code might not stand out.
I used Aquamail & Davdroid (paid on Play,free on F-droid) for that combo (before my hosting got ActiveSync, for which I another excellent client app called Nine), was working without issues you write about.
Yeah, the 24-105 has consistently excellent reviews, e.g.:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/24-105mm.htm

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-24-105mm...
"Desktop on the Linux" by Wolfgang Draxinger (guest appearance by Lennart Poettering):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdUmlGxVo0
I would argue that ATOM is better:
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared#...

Sure, they're both automatically generated / automatically read, but ATOM seems like an improvement syntactically ...

http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/09/23/
>> But that's different from saying "something usually only seen in expensive commercial installations".

> No, its not. The fact that there are inexpensive alternative means by which it can be deployed, and by which certain segments of the population can and do deploy it, doesn't make it any less true that it is usually only seen in expensive commercial installations.

Well then they should have made that more clear. Expensive + commercial means, well, expensive, and commercial installation means proprietary and hard to access (which, by the way, is also untrue).

> I don't think it tends to mislead any group at all. I think
that the group to whom the exceptions to the "usual" case accurately described here is relevant will be well aware of it and so not misled, and the group who is not interested will also not be misled by the accurate statement, even though they are likely to be less aware of the nature of the alternative.

Sorry, I edited my comment for clarity. Anyway I don't think it's right to just say that because a certain population can't be mislead, it means that the information itself is not misleading.
It’s not hard to make IoT hardware easy
What is the 'web' link?
True; but it's not only that, I think. It simply eliminates the general problem of a GNU project being a patchwork of individual copyrights from individual contributors.

Even if those individual contributors say they are putting their piece under the GPL, in fact they might not have the right to do so. Part of the process is getting some affidavit from employers that they don't claim rights over the contributor's work on the project.

They are worried about a situation like: someone suddenly coming forward and and claims that some significant piece that was added to some GNU project five years ago (and has grown in scope since then) is actually their proprietary IP.
Just a note that Crowdstrike, the first (and most reputable) organization to attribute "Guccifer 2.0" to Russia, is run by a rabid Republican.

And, of course, there's this --- which I just got from The Grugq's feed:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/22/turns-out-you-cant-trust...
Do you guys know similar "show offs", where a author/business presents their internals with real world requirements (shipping, freud protection) tied to the software component? I've found it especially interesting.
Why some SaaS companies stall at $20m ARR
Especially at the level of a $300-$500 investment, I'll add.

Sure, I might upgrade for $50-100 if it's more reliable.
I don't think all of that is the result of the "ban wave", it's been a growing trend for years that people prefer echo chambers. That said, if you go to Reddit or Imgur and other sites, you can see the people from Stormfront, /pol/ and the rest are by no means sitting in those chambers without going "abroad".

The issue above all seems to be that not that many years ago, most people who got online did so with a computer, and even though that is trivially easy to anyone here any extra step from "I want online" to "I am online" cuts down the chaff. Now people overwhelmingly stab a button on their phone and bang... the world can hear you.

We're truly approaching a horizon past which everyone is online, and "everyone" includes a lot of marginal characters. The holocaust deniers who used to slip flyers into library books now huddle in their hug boxes, occasionally venturing forth to make some ridiculous claim and flip out at the "sheeple" who don't instantly see their brilliance. Tumblr is... proof that the Right has no monopoly on crazy.

I don't think shutting it down has any benefit, but I don't think that keeping it open does either. It just is.
But that's hypothetical. I'm not seeing any features that Google is uniquely placed to offer. And it's not like Android is so antithetical to third party modifications.
Very happy with my Oneplus 3.
It would be cool to see the powerline symbols to be added to Unicode. The necessary user base should be already there.

See: https://github.com/powerline/fonts/blob/master/README.rst

A zsh theme with those characters in use: https://gist.github.com/agnoster/3712874
Very interesting, thanks for the share.

One point I noticed not mentioned yet is that the images used for training are only 64x64! In the original google "grasping" research, the images were 472 × 472, 54 times bigger! I think they are looking for "minimum visual information" required to trigger the required learning. This will help in mobile applications (ie: robotics, smartphones, etc) where processing power is severely limited.
> science is the effort in understanding it.

It's just a human effort. That's all.
No, I'm claiming that they could use emulation well enough to survive a rapid transition to native ARM apps.
I'd also add Raymond Hettinger's talks on Python with my favorite one being this famous one:

Beyond PEP 8 - Best practices for beautiful intelligible code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M
Why are people more interested in what they thought it was than what it is?
Not all prisons, just the ones stuck in the 19th century... so that's all American prisons at least.
> Assange is not in the U.K., he's in Ecuador.

No, he isn't. Contrary to the ever-lasting myth, embassies have no extraterritorial status whatsoever. They are in and are a part of the host country.

But they have special protections under the Vienna Convention.
It is a kit lens in the literal sense, I purchased one with a 6D, but not in the pejorative sense like the 18-55mm.
3+3 is the lowest you can get and 3+4 (what I had) is considered very treatable. Age is important, though, I was in my early 40s when I got the 3+4 result and that was not really something the urologists wanted to just watch. I think the auther was mid 40s maybe, so still not such a great idea to wait until you get urinary tract problems and/or have the cancer metastasize.
100% to EFF because they specialize in issues important to me more than ACLU, which has a broader mandate, and because EFF's budget is about 10% of ACLU's.
Ubiquiti's Amplifi is $199 for 3 units.
Some of the biggest critics of euthanasia are the disabled.
> Seems to me this should be verified as legit data before we start disseminating this info, no?

The previous releases haven't been disputed so until proven otherwise, I'd say this is legit as well.

> In this guy's screenshots there is literally a directory titled "Pay to Play." A little on the nose isn't it?

I'm not sure if that's the original directory listing or a grouping Guccifer 2.0 put together. Even if it's not, I wouldn't be particularly surprised if there was a directory or Excel named "Pay to Play" or equivalent. It's still a ways away from naming it "Bribe List" or "Scamola Monies".
> major startup conference

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I'm only claiming that they could survive a transition to native ARM apps, not that emulation would be a long term solution.
Good point, so I checked - it's hand washable.
Given the presence of folders such as "Intern Sandbox", this seems more like the general Samba server of the foundation accessed by a wide variety of employees than quote "the private server of the Clinton clan".
I wanted to confirm a change of address for a phone order when i was moving, and got a real person on the line very quickly. American (probably) too, which is appreciated. Not knocking foreign support, but when i call Comcast, there is definitely a bit of a language barrier.
Definitely possible but as is the case with most Saas products, It's much easier and convenient to just pay someone $10 a month to do it for you rather than hosting an entire ELK stack somewhere (And having to upskill to get it all working efficiently).
Intel NUCs Vulnerable to SMM Exploit
They are not wrong in that it is bundled with the MkIII. But I feel like the demographic that purchases the MkIII aren't getting the 24-105 with it 'just cause'
I've been using a BLU R1 HD with Amazon lock screen ads and if I were Apple I'd be very worried. It's a very nice, fast phone with a solid camera.

After using Android for a few weeks I would be pretty happy using it instead of IOS. Among top tier apps and Google provided apps it's definitely now on par with IOS. $59 for a phone is unbelievable.

I just got my iPhone 7 and while it's a great phone and has a slightly higher build quality, it's more than 10x the price.
None of those things has anything to do with the inherent simplicity of the library itself.
Companies that play that loss leader strategy almost always fail. Apple would be over the moon if all their competitors were doing this.
You can't assume that they can build a Dyson sphere while their technology is as limited as us earthlings.

If you can imagine some alien species building a mega structure in such a short time, you should be able to imagine that they have a way to transfer and store that amount of energy.

The laws of thermodynamics, as we know it, prevents 100% efficiency in doing that, but if they have a directional heat dissipation device, and their generator is highly efficient, we will hardly have any chance to detect that.

I can imagine they could have some version of our power plant, only orders of magnitude more advanced. Instead of moving electrons, they could be generating and moving matter anti-matter stuffs.
Sourcegraph CEO here. Supporting more languages is our #1 request, and we are rolling out more language support soon. Head over to https://sourcegraph.com/beta to get early access. And email me at sqs@sourcegraph.com if you want to help us build it. It's one of the most fun and technically interesting projects you can take on.
They're both all about forcing you into their ecosystem. The difference is that Apple's business is (mostly) about their hardware ecosystem, while Google's is (mostly) about their online services ecosystem.
I've done a little looking into this after trying to read the wikipedia article on intersectionality. This paper is interesting: http://kathydavis.info/articles/Intersectionality_as_buzzwor...

If you examine this particular use of the concept though:

>... I encourage you to learn about intersectionality first. Otherwise you're bursting a straw man version of the concept, which doesn't achieve anything. Privilege exists on multiple axes, and you still have white privilege even if you're poor and don't have class privilege.

—you can see that the concept of intersectionality isn't actually used: they are just saying it was the victim's lack of class privilege (that caused them to be discriminated against) in this case, rather than something race related (and that this doesn't negate their white privilege). Intersectionality is related to issues of individuals belonging simultaneously to multiple social groupings and claims that the interactions of these groupings must be taken into account—but at least in the above quote, I'm pretty sure all the term adds is a sort of attempted intimidation factor.
I've been a long-time Apple and iOS user. However, I can recognize that this is a big move by Google.

> For going on ten years we've seen the "iPhone killers" come and go...

The headlines says Google's first "real threat" to iPhone, not that this is an iPhone "killer". Let's not be hyperbolic.

You don't need a lot of detail other than the fact that Google is designing, building and selling smartphones (and increasingly other devices) to recognize as legitimate the claim that this is merely a threat to iPhone.

> Now, Google is no Samsung, but they're a long way from Apple or even Microsoft on the UX front.

This seems biased. Everyone has their own tastes, but Google's software and UX have become pretty top notch across many of their product lines, imo. It's fine to state your personal preference or dislike of their design ethos but painting with such a broad and unequivocal brush is silly. This is not a universally shared sentiment.

> And yet not a single hard detail in the article as to why the headline might be true.

Again, you seem to be creating a strawman in taking about an "iPhone killer" claim. Certainly this represents some kind of threat. Other threats to Apple's iPhone have sprung up in the past, and some to great success. Google's new foray may or may not be successful in its own right over time and it may or may not impact the iPhone's success, but I bet Apple themselves view it as a competitive threat to monitor.

> Point is, this article does nothing to relieve my ignorance, which is why I clicked on the thing to begin with.

The tl;dr is that Google created a major new hw division that spans multiple devices including new smartphone lines and Google directly will carry the supply chain and inventory risk on their balance sheet. This is a major, major move financially and strategically and it's all that's necessary to back up the actual headline claim. On top of that, they provided some specifics on the phone offerings (eg two sizes, first phone to offer Android N, first phone with built in Google Assistant, the Pixel's design was unveiled (certainly a large part of Apple's phone unveilings, so why not count it for Google's?) including backside glass, lots of camera details (12MP, DXO Mark ratings, auto-stabilization for vid), free unlimited cloud storage, the fingerprint scanner+track pad, Daydream VR support, etc, etc).

Not sure how you came away with such a stark view of the articles headline vs content.
I'll second "Y Not" by Jim Weirich. It's just such a charming talk. My programming teacher in high school was like that, and I think it's such an excellent way to teach. From the careful way he meanders to the solution to the fact it was a live coding session really grounds the explanation of how the Y combinator works.