skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Education for one. A properly scanned museum would be interesting to walk through.

Able to walk around construction projects before they start. Able to walk around construction projects as they are built.

Main deal I could expect out of a cheap version of VR technology with decent enough data connection is telepresence. One could attend any event, large or small, around the world as if you were there.
Ask HN:Round off Decimal at application level in C#
Radio tubes – Manufacturing a triode [video 2007]
Awesome! I have been looking for something like this for a while.
Or maybe "you deserved your postcard along with millions of other postcards to get systemically OCR'd and entered into a government database" ?

Concepts of scale and intent are rather central to this discussion.

This isn't about a postal employee glancing at your postcard and thinking you must be having a nice vacation.
Some people seem to think the difference between POST and GET is that POST "doesn't show the parameters". That's wrong. POST has a body, and GET does not. The "parameters" go into the body of the message (after the header and \r\n\r\n)
> I wish I could easily add new hotspots that just seamlessly worked so that I could eliminate the dead spots on the edges of my house and in my yard over time.

Ubiquiti has wifi APs and you can add them whenever youd like. They automatically detect the existing APs and download their config.
> Second, the reason cancer wasn't "on the radar" is because we didn't know much.

Plus, we often didn't live long enough for cancer to set in. It's hard to die of cancer if you drop dead of typhus or TB first. Cancer is the end stage of life; it's what kills you if nothing else does. We've finally reached the point where a very large percentage of the population is making it far enough to get there.
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Send a paper plane
This misses the point of the Nacchio story. There is nothing to suggest that Qwest's refusal to cave in to NSA demands was motivated by Nacchio's desire for personal enrichment instead of a principled stance. At worst, Qwest was motivated by the risk of fines of up to $130,000 per violation per day for breaching Section 222 of the Communications Act, according to Qwest legal [1]. We would do well to stop focusing on Nacchio and more on the response of Qwest as a whole. The NSA retaliated at Qwest for their non-cooperation by cancelling secret government contracts [2].

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-ns...
[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/more_on_the_n...
They wouldn't need to outlaw or ban all cryptography, only the particular communication systems that don't have "lawful intercept" capability. There are already laws for this on the books, although they've generally been interpreted in such a way so as not to apply to non-telephony products so far.

TBH it probably wouldn't require that much Orwellian apparatus; you just make the software slightly harder to use than it already is today, and network effects basically ensure that only people who are really interested in communications without government interception (who the government is presumably interested in) are using it. Then you can start doing endpoint attacks, deanonymization via compromised downloads, etc.

The government's -- and I don't mean just the U.S.'s, but most large governments', I think -- ideal for Internet communications is something similar to the telephone network circa 1975. They're fine with privacy between one individual and another (i.e. keeping your conversations private from your neighbors), but they aren't going to be satisfied with any technology that prevents wiretaps by state-controlled apparatus.

I am not exactly bullish on the ability of technology or technologists to resist this, over the long run. Unless there is a widespread and overwhelming realization on the part of individuals that governments shouldn't have this ability, and I don't think that consensus exists even in the liberal West if you frame the question even moderately advantageously to the government, then they will get it. There will always be pockets of noncompliance, and an ensuing cat-and-mouse game, but the steady state will likely be one that deters mainstream usage.

And if we really are seeing the end of Anglo-American geopolitical dominance in favor of countries whose political systems emphasize stability and harmony over individual rights and dissent, then it becomes very difficult to see that consensus ever manifesting itself at a meaningful global level.
The lesson from this is to not trust corporations with out privacy.

I'm as upset about this as anybody, but realistically speaking... they had a gun to their heads. The real problem here isn't Yahoo! (or the other corporations), it's the government.
The only metric in which the A9 is really better than the 820 is single core performance. Multi-core and GPU metrics are about the same.
Besides "using iOS apps" what exactly is the iPad's use case? Certainly the Surface line as a whole has seen a really big uptake from the art community. So while the pen specs are slightly better on the iPad side it doesn't seem to influence consumer behavior.
It's an experiment that I would personally be willing to try were I a high-visibility C-level exec. Been to jail, not that bad, mostly just boring; and certainly the jail that CEO me goes to would likely be better than the jail the real me has been a guest of. But the kind of person willing to tweak the nose of the government doesn't usually get to be C-anything.

As you point out, best to wisely pick your battle as you'll want public opinion behind you. And remember that as popular as she is, Martha Stewart still went to jail.
"It is of extremely limited use at the moment as you require a text to be already available to you or pay high fees for conversion"

I'm not sure this adds much; for text, there already are mechanical printers that. Yes, they are bulky and noisy, but they do the job. Advenateg of this could be that one can also emboss graphics and, possibly, that the printer and the paper can be a lot cheaper. If the latter is true, we might see printing get more use.

However, for the hard-core reader, I guess a computer, a screen reader (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader), and a refreshable braille display (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display) will remain the optimal solution for most use cases. They form a very powerful combination for the blind, provided they persevere in mastering it.
Assange is not in the U.K., he's in Ecuador. Specifically, the Ecuadoran embassy in London.

Now the U.S. and Ecuador also have a treaty but I don't read lawyer well enough, especially not old-timey lawyer, to know whether it would apply to anything Assange might be charged with. It does say it "shall not be applicable to crimes or offences of a political character" and I'm sure that's how Assange would characterize it (and I think that's at least partially why Ecuador has been housing him).

But the U.S. hasn't charged him with anything so there's nothing for Ecuador to extradite him for yet. In any case, the claim is a nice excuse to avoid jail in Sweden.
CloudABI for 32-bit architectures
What happens is people have to spend more of their free time in transit (and be much less comfortable in transit), or more of their money for housing that is closer to their destinations. This is time and money that is no longer available for the other things people want. The businesses don't close. People cope. Their quality of life just declines.

This is sort of necessarily true - people wouldn't be choosing to drive unless they felt it was better than alternatives. Taking away that option is necessarily forcing them into worse alternatives.
I like this one because it's a good reality check:
Opening Keynote: Greg Young - Stop Over-Engenering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRr4xeMn1uU
What's especially neat about that talk is the fact that it's from CUSEC: a student-run conference out of Montreal. So many great talks I've seen online were from that conference.

Never went to it as a student (it was only 3 hours away, how did I miss this?) but lots of my friends did, one even ran the thing for a year I think.
Do multiple SSIDs from a single AP create more interference?
Write Better Code
I very much enjoyed the talk John Graham-Cumming gave "The Great Railway Caper: Big Data in 1955": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcBJfkE5UwU

Any of Jason Scott's talks given at various hacker cons are usually historically informative and always a lot of laughs (but they're decidedly not "technical").
I wonder if big cities eventually incorporate more of these superblocks, whether the need for rapid transit through some of these areas - as well as accommodating transit for the elderly - will spawn more use of "vehicles" like the Segway [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_PT]? Maybe not the single-rider segway, but i mean some smaller-scale, non-gas-powered vehicles which allow comfy and safer travel for a few people?
The system you are referring to is called Behavioral Retargeting, with the only difference being that retargeting is for profit not policing.
For most people the best use for these googles is being able to a watch 60 inch TV when other wise you couldn't. Headphones have a similar use of letting you play a stereo when other wise you couldn't.
IBM Quantum Experience: Quantum Cloud Computing
Google's software is rapidly outclassing Apple's
I haven't seen that much written about this either. My only explanation is that it isn't generally seen as a problem worth solving, for two definition of "worth": either it's too difficult or even impossible; a solution to it isn't needed. I tend to disagree with both.

Btw, thanks for the discussion!

About System.gc(): at least in the Oracle JVM, I think so. But then look at what it says in the JavaDoc: "When control returns from the method call, the Java Virtual Machine has made a best effort to reclaim space from all discarded objects." A no-op interpretation can indeed be a best effort (as in, "there's nothing to be done!") :) But since it's the only place in the JDK that gives at least some kind of a GC-related guarantee, it's the best there is.

These pastures may be greener in other JVMs, though!
Yeah, I think it's probably sensible advice to say that if you want to stay away from Google apps and services, you're better off with iOS.
Everything still needs RSS! There is no better way of getting notifications. I don't have to create an account, I don't have to give out my email and I don't have to re-search through everything I've already read or decided not to read. I canceled my YouTube account a while ago, realized I sort of missed a few channels and found myself just trying to remember to check their pages every now and then. Then I realized YouTube channels actually have hidden RSS feeds. The experience is better than what you get with a YouTube account. The number you see next to the channel actually indicates the number of videos uploaded to that channel that you haven't seen yet. I still have no clue what the numbers next to subscribed channels meant when I had an account.
Yeah, I thought they were only using that internally. Well, there used to be an April Fool's page at elgoog.google which was just a mirror-image of the homepage, but that's gone now.
>Between his apathy

Apathy? What if this other company has no interest or capacity to deal in a strict supply contract?

And then you complain about negotiating the price in a bidding system? "OK, we accept your bid at this price. Now let's talk about reducing the price."

Come on, if you're going to use a personal anecdote to convince people at least have a good one.
PDF Documents Processing in Java Applications
There is also the difference of the scale of the problem, coupled with the polarisation in the media which has led to knee-jerk reactions when it comes to reporting on the issues - think of the way Dagens Nyheter (one of the bigger daily newspapers in Sweden) handled - or should I say covered up - the sexual abuse going on at the 'We are Sthlm' festivals. They sat on this news for 5 months until it was no longer tenable to do so due to the same kind of abuse happening in Cologne and elsewhere.

Think also of the infamous 'Code 291' used by the police for crimes where migrants are involved and the orders to keep these events out of the news 'because it might favour SD [1]'. This polarisation has led to an large reduction in trust in police and the justice department, as well as an all-time low trust level for journalists. The police should be politically neutral, just like the state media. Coloured reporting by the media is one thing, but a police force which acts out of political intent is an order of magnitude worse and something which is normally associated with failed states. Seen in that light the current police chief's clearly political stance is not just unfortunate but a real destabilising factor in Swedish society.

[1] SD or Sweden Democrats is a political party which wants to change the Swedish stance on migration, this party is shunned by all other parties and by most of the media while it averages around 20% of all votes.
Yeah, I've tried and paid for a couple of the google reader alternatives... the nail in the coffin for me was iGoogle going away. The pair of them together was just such a great thing, since it was my homepage, the aggregates tracked in reader with other sources was so great. I miss them as a set.
It blows my mind that there's not a single positive top level comment yet. Seriously, guys, what's up with the culture of entitlement and complaining?

We're hackers, let's get fucking excited about the new cool gadgets! This phone is awesome.

How about, before nitpicking and criticizing, we take a moment to appreciate and celebrate the new technology developed by our colleagues?
I do like the notion of comfort the fabric provides. Seems portable.

I used to commute by bus, approx 45 minutes each way. I don't think I would've used this on that trip. Extending that, I don't think I'd be particularly interested in using this at home, as infrequently as I genuinely plop down for an immersive HDTV (or 3D) experience (ex. football games & films are my draw, not very often). I just giggle a bit to myself thinking what I'd look like wearing one and bobbing my head around in public or at home. Heh.
Do you have a link to this message?
Yep, people (I) do. Or try to.
Yeah I fail to see why I would get this over a Galaxy or iPhone (if OS doesn't matter). They claim the best phone camera yet it doesn't have OIS so it isn't going to be the best for video I doubt.
My background is distributed computing/grid computing. How can I contribute?
Click the "web" link.
Out of curiosity what sort of data and data visualization strategies would VR be particularly well suited for over more traditional visualization methods?
Not quite as low-level as some of the other talks, but I love watching LazyGameReviews "Tech Tales" series when ever a new one comes out

It's fairly high level, but he really burrows into computer history and it's simply fascinating to watch, helped by the fact the person is extremely passionate about what he does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB1vrRFJI1Q&list=PLbBZM9aUMs...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12629921
This is a nice piece of recent research: Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals

[0]: https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/papers/p90-aliA.pdf
Windows 10 Without the Cruft: Windows 10 LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch)
Signal Protocol Documentation
Apple actually had a good case that what the FBI was asking for was beyond the scope of the law. And if the court ended up siding against them, they would have done it.
All Google cloud documentation is 404
UC cannot restrict speech, so the fact that something is its property is merely the formality of the public's ownership.
> Including a smoking camera but no optical image stabilization? Make up your mind - is it a digital camera competitor or not?

Why does it need OIS if its EIS produces a stabilized image better than anyone else's image stabilization?

The feature is image stabilization - whether or not it's done optically or electronically is irrelevant, all that matters is how good the end product is. And DXO's review claims that the image stabilization in Pixel is superb.

https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-revi...
> 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.

OTOH, for lots of people the cost of a new router is a small fraction of even a years ISP service, so if it significantly improves performance of the internet service you are paying for monthly, and is usable for several years, its worth it.
I'm really hoping the 'tock' for the iphone 7 will include an SE version of it
iphones are expensive for most people
Lots of vendors already offer this. It's pretty standard for commercial WiFi units. It's just slightly more expensive than dumb routers.

* Eero: https://eero.com/

* Ubuquiti: https://www.ubnt.com

* Cisco: http://www.cisco.com (sized for larger buildings)

Does this new Google device come with the Google Fi feature which backhauls all your traffic to Google via a VPN?
Moxie Marlinspike at Blackhat 2010 on how we lost the war for privacy in spite of winning the Crypto Wars of the 1990's-early 2000's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unZZCykRa5w
We Really Don't Know How To Compute! [0] is probably my top... next to the christmas tree lectures.

[0] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-...
I had wireless issues in an urban area (Downtown Oakland) where every router I tried had 10% packet loss in the 2.4Ghz band (5Ghz band was fine, but less coverage).

We got an Eero to try to fix the coverage problem (I lived with several housemates), but it didn't let us choose between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, it would switch dynamically. Certain IoT devices we had were 2.4Ghz and worked intermittently. No matter what router we used, no matter how expensive, the issue there never went away. There were ways to force the 5Ghz band on the client side using some BSSID hacks, but it was cumbersome. So we had to switch back to a single router setup with two networks, one 2.4Ghz and one 5Ghz, and urge people to only use the 2.4Ghz network if absolutely necessary.

I live elsewhere now and use a cheap 802.11ac TP-Link router without any issues in a house for a 200mbps connection.
They remind me of the Allbirds shoes that are a fad right now - the same soft look and feel.
iPhone 7+ is a much better comparison considering the size of the first two devices.
But brief summary type articles are an even faster way of discovering interesting ideas, technologies, concepts, etc... You can skim them and jump around and generally expose yourself to more ideas in the same amount of time.
Perhaps we should have an escape code for SVG in Unicode, so we can describe any missing character.
Hacking with Words and Smiles by James Lyne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrNo0XpQxBk

He was a co-speaker at TEDxGlasgow with me and I thought his talk was brilliant. Cyber-crime is a really interesting area.
Specs page [1] states 2 years for OS updates and 3 for security patches, so not even close.

[1] https://store.google.com/product/pixel_phone
definitely not, just a special color
How do you slip something like this past a corporate security team? Stamos and @bcrypt never struck me as individuals that were "asleep at the wheel".

Surely there was evidence somewhere? If Stamos wasn't briefed as to the situation and a security engineer found the rootkit on their own how could they be bound by the terms of an NSL / gag order?
UniFi LRs are really great, however I found it hard to get hold of the 5GHz ones.
In Manhattan everyone delivers.
Is there an RSS reader that fetches the link and displays the article Instapaper-style?

What are the copyright issues around this?
>You want $650 for a phone with a 1080p screen? I know there's benefits to a lower resolution but then why not drop the price? It's ridiculous.

Are you serious? Did you know that the larger iPhone 6S Plus and 7 Plus are 1920x1080? Or that the iPhone 7 is 1334 x 750? And you're complaining that Google's 5 inch phone is only 1920x1080 and have the nerve to question what they're doing? Ridiculous, indeed.
Apple innovates while other companies imitate. This looks exactly like an iPhone without a home button. I'm sure the hardware is fast and it's probably a very good phone. But what does it do better than iPhone? Unless it runs iOS, there's no way Android will ever catch up to iPhone.
The name Github Audio reminds me of something I've been searching for: Version control for Musicians. A lot of music is now made over the internet. When I'm working on a track with a remote bandmate my workflow consists of recording, exporting the track, uploading it to dropbox, and then he needs to download, and import the track into his DAW. Surely there must be a better way. Is there a way for musicians to work together on songs the same way programmers can write software together?

I actually worked on building this before but nothing came of it. The main problem was a 'diff' for audio files.
It's not unreasonable for cops to be concerned by it - a lot of people were 'up in the cops' face about it - not just casual recording.

When you work in very difficult situations, and there are people filming you it can get dicey.

There are a lot of 'antagonists' out there who will do everything they can to prod cops into doing something they shouldn't, basically harassing them.

So it goes both ways.

Clearly - we should be allowed to video cops - but we also should not be allowed to harass or interfere with them unless there is something crazy happening.

But again - 'interfering' with a cop doing his job is a very risky thing because you never have the proper context, you don't know what is really going on. Physically assaulting a cop is grounds for him to fight back pretty aggressively.

Again in normal situations, it's not a problem, but there are tons of videos of cops trying to arrest someone, and then 'a mob' of friends trying to stop the cop.

Of course, they may feel their friend is being 'unjustly arrested' - but that's not up to you or I type thing. It can get pretty sketchy out there.

Check youtube. Cop tries to arrest, guy flees, cops put him down on the ground, 10 people try to harrass cop, pulling at his arms, pushing him back - very scary. Someone's going to get hurt.

It's a new dimension of civility and we all have to figure out the new social norms.
I'm using feedly.com for reading tech blogs. For long articles, I use getpocket.com to read it later instead of Feedly's 'Read it later' feature.

Both service give me the hints of popularity of the article. Pocket adds 'Best Of' label for popular articles. Feedly adds a number of 'Read it later'.

I'm currently using Feedly for subscribing podcasts. But it's not handy to use. If RadioPublic give me the same feature that feedly and pocket provide for the sake of podcast listening, I'll definitely use the service.
Have you tried a HTC Vive with a decent (GTX 970 or better) graphics card and cpu? Apparently being motion sick is all about the framerate and resolution, and I don't think the Playstation has a graphics card that can handle a framerate that won't make you sick.