skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That just generates hard edges for tracking, allowing the building of a 3D model. Requires motion tracking type software rather than regular facial recognition, but is quite do-able.
What I want to see is a video compilation of all of the cool things it does when it encounters accidents and near-misses.
I was referring to Philo Farnsworth's work in 1927:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth
HN has a completely crazy idea of SF density.

http://www.sfindicatorproject.org/indicators/view/183

There's a density map. The Geary corridor is quite dense, certainly as dense as any area not already well served by BART.
Look at computer science. They have invented so many different algorithms that work! This is a sign that computer science lacks a decent unifying theoretical framework.

Having different algorithms for different purposes is fine. For instance, autoencoders can do unsupervised learning, GANs can learn generative models that sample from the entire distribution, recurrent neural networks can handle time series, etc. Also while there are many different types of networks, research has shown which ones work and which ones don't. Few people pretrain autoencoders or bother with RBMs anymore, for instance. And I think we have good theoretical reasons why they aren't as good.

But to continue the analogy to computer science, imagine all the different kinds of sorting algorithms. They will each work better or worse based on how the data you are sorting is arranged. If it's already sorted in reverse, that's a lot different than if it's sorted completely randomly, or if it was sorted and then big chunks were randomly rearranged.

There's no way to prove that one sorting algorithm will always do better than another, because there's always special cases where they do do better. The same is true of neural networks, it's impossible to formally prove they will work, because it depends on how real world problems are distributed.
As I get older, I find more value in choosing the most energy-efficient (mentally speaking) solution. Sure, I can simply use willpower to avoid distraction, but if I put the phone out of reach, then I get to use that willpower on other things instead.
City-to-city comparisons suffer from all sorts of problems, not the least of which is that cities are defined according to their own historical, arbitrary borders that are practically meaningless when talking about actual issues.

Consider that NYC covers 302.6 sq/mi to SF's 46.69, which means that NYC isn't merely double the density, it's double the density over a much, much larger area.

This is why most serious comparisons are conducted at the level of the MSA (which would fold every one of the cities you're putting ahead of SF in density into a larger metro). Often, when laypeople compare cities, they're thinking about the MSA while quoting numbers they've found for cities-proper. That's why nobody in this conversation is thinking about Guttenberg, NY (and why mentioning it is almost a non sequitur).
The manufacturer provides a guarantee. That guarantee is based on expected uses. If the buyer uses the product well outside the expected use should they be covered by the same guarantee?
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I guess you've never downvoted anyone who disagrees with your opinion?
My pleasure, it's an interesting, practical application of multiple disciplines.

I imagine new models will emerge as you accumulate data. Are there any current applications or diagnoses that are revealed simply by wearing it long enough? Or put another way are there any conditions that are knowable just based on having enough data?
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I guess business news = hacker news now.
I recall talking to some DEC guys about the time it was acquired by Compaq. In the High Performance Computing world DECs UNIX based OS (Tru64)for Alpha workstations was very highly regarded.

We got talking about Linux which was still pretty early, though certainly moving out of its hobbyist days. This guy said that the OS guys at DEC used to project portions of the Linux source code up on a screen and sit around making jokes at some of the coding.

Isn't it interesting that in the end the open source collaborative model outlasted and kept improving while the closed source commercial model got bogged down in acquisitions and disinterest from Compaq and then HP and eventually mostly faded away.
Funny you mention Australia as I wanted to mention the use of the land value tax on Sydney's north shore to fund the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, but ended up leaving it off my post.

Letting this value flow from taxpayers to landowners freely is nothing short of injustice.
Hey, yeah sure. Should be no problem, i haven't tried this yet but just create 2 scripts and enter your username and password in the InstaPy(username="", password="") constructor.
Then just use 2 Terminal windows/tabs to run both of them separately.

Have fun
> And in every one of those stories there are ten people asking why this is a story because battery fires are less common than gasoline fires. System working as intended.

It's still FUD that they could rightfully perceive as hurting them. They're taking enough risks as it is, I can imagine that they don't need more criticism of their safety.

> But suppose they don't. You can't have it both ways. Either someone allows modifications and whatever hypothetical bad reactionary laws that causes will come to pass, or nobody does and the laws are never passed but the result is the same.

I'm not just saying it's about the laws (Tesla has had a hard enough time tangling with these, and has been specifically singled out by regulators on occasion, such as in Germany right now), but also about their brand. They're sensitive to criticism, and, therefore, to the possible sources of criticism - whether justified or not.

> Uber is going to make a self-driving car and then sell them to the public so that members of the public can lease it back to Uber and Lyft?

I'm saying that Uber is developing self driving cars (or rather, the self-driving systems) which they appear intent on using for their own fleet, rather than selling as a kit or whole car, which they could have done. Tesla has been selling cars already, but it's going to be selling a new kind of car which has certain Uber-like properties. There are a range of ownership options and this is not an inherently illegitimate one.

> Well first of all that's false, having them fix the problem saves you the trouble of doing it. But even identifying problems doesn't work without understanding. 99% of the fix is thoroughly understanding the problem. If the system is a black box then the user doesn't know how it's supposed to work. So you simultaneously get spammed with false positive bug reports from users who think there could be a problem but aren't allowed to understand whether there really is, and lose true positive reports because weird behavior gets written off as "it's a black box" and the last three things they reported were false positives.

Sure, understanding the problem often helps more than simply reporting "there is a problem". But they could allow people to inspect the code and diagnostics without allowing any changes, the first does not necessarily imply the second. And if you really allow people to get into the code deeply enough to make the kinds of changes that fix problems in the system itself (rather than some sort of API for strictly limited input) then you've potentially given a large amount of your system to your competitors.
My fear is not that either Trump or Clinton will win, or that either person's triumph will unleash purges or counter-purges.

What I fear is that four or eight years later, the problems that made Trump (and to a lesser extent Bernie Sanders) gain so much traction with the electorate will remain, or perhaps worsen.

People might not care about experience or character by then. They'll drink the sand anyway.
This is actually my experience as well. I've stayed in Airbnb ~5 times and had 3 of them be awful. 2 of those 3 just didn't have apartments for us when we showed up and the last one had the power/water get cut for not paying bills. Airbnb's customer support is very slow and is radically different based on what agent you are talking to. In addition, Airbnb appears to have a problem keeping customer service records. I've called and had a discussion with customer service and then called back ten days later and they had no record of the first call and refused to believe it happened.

I've been a guest and a host for airbnb but I have been treated awfully by airbnb which is sad because I like the service and the past two years I have spent 80+ nights in hotels/airbnbs.
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Based on a 4 minutes long heavily edited video? :)
Right. Extensions have more privileges than normal web pages.

For the specific case here (webextensions), the extension asks for a list of permissions at install time, so which privileges it has, exactly, depends on the extension. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declare_permissions has documentation on what the various permissions you can request are.
The fundamental problem solved by React is being able to express a UI as a function from Application State to DOM, and not having to worry about manually computing the changes to the DOM that need to occur to reflect the new state of the world.

It changes the fundamental question of UI development from "How do I get from where I am to where I want to be?", but "Where do I want to be?"

The funny thing about the particular example in the article is that React was heavily inspired by event loops used in Game Development.
There's a lot of added value for the community in mass transport. It costs less per fare than car systems you can think about (even ridesharing & co), consume/pollute less, but more importantl it allows lower-class and middle-class citizen to move around the city. All the cleaning personel, food, assistance personel can afford coming to the city to provide for high-value-added workers. All high-value-added can afford to live farther away along the lines, in better appartments than the constricted downtown space. And the new density created by gathering more people in the same place during the day allow the collaboration of more people.
This is an issue with extensions that run code on webpage DOM. It's very popular for extensions to modify webpages. Chrome supports extensions like this too. I might even guess that more than half of extensions do this.

>Why would anyone run Angular on a browser page? It would probably conflict with existing application.

Adding additional widgets or tools directly within an existing webpage is a common thing for extensions to do. And if you're adding a lot of UI, you might want to use an existing UI library like you would on a normal webpage instead of doing all the DOM by hand. Not all UI libraries work out well for this apparently.
Historically the answer has been "Who cares?".
I think this would be more accurately framed as a chemistry question. Without knowing the underlying chemistry of extraterrestrial organisms, we can't really make meaningful statements about how they might interact with DNA based life.

You can certainly imagine simple, yet highly adapted, microorganisms evolving in the Martian environment where competition is scarce. In this situation, our quite robust terrestrial organisms might overwhelm native populations simply because they are much more adaptable to change and competition with foreign bodies.

This still doesn't even touch on the compatibility of the biochemistry. Perhaps life from either origin attempting to consume one another causes volatile chemical reactions, destroying one or both organisms. In this scenario it would come down to which (if any) evolves the necessary chemistry to consume and/or avoid the competition first.

More broadly, the introduction of any foreign chemistry at all could be destructive to native populations, let alone the introduction of new life forms. Given the complexities involved and lack of data, I wouldn't feel comfortable making a case one way or the other.
DHS should just require passports or passport cards ($30) for domestic air travel and stop pestering the states. If states want to opt in to some program that provides the same information to the Feds as a passport, but in the form of state ID including a driver's license, then DHS can additionally accept those.

Set the Federal standard, and provide Federal ID that meets the standard, publish the standard so states can conform - and just leave it at that.
For a typical setup, you can just use the built in Routers. It's a much cleaner way to handle all the verbs. You can always override functions if you need it to do something special.

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/routers/
I see digital nomadism as more as a freelancer / consultant, typically non technical though this isn't a rule, who may or may not have an addiction to traveling.

There are terms like lifestyle entrepreneur, location independent entrepreneur or micro multi-national but these are just words. Any one of them can be the founder of a tech startup or private label consumer products, manufactured in china and sell them through a combination of Amazon FBA and digital marketing. In some cases, they do both.
You're right, it is misleading to single out just Manhattan. But SF is the second densest large US city, after NYC (all boroughs combined).
That's unfair.

Schiaparelli was never a science mission. It was a technology demonstrator to see whether the landing system worked. Even if it had landed intact, it had a tiny set of science instruments and would only have lasted a few hours.

Well, we now know that there are a few bugs --- but we also know that most of the landing system works, including hibernation, terminal guidance, reentry, heatshield deployment, the parachute... all of which is hugely valuable data. Knowing that the last few stages didn't work is even more valuable, particularly as it's returned telemetry on what happened.

Focusing only on the fact that the last couple of steps failed and it crashed is doing the mission a huge disservice. Schiaparelli did precisely the job it was designed for.
finding a repeatable way to generate new business has always been the hard part.
I'm not entirely sure. One was a fancy lady with a union square office who was recommended to me by a friend. She was nice but tried directing everything towards my family which I thought was distracting.

The best therapist I ever had was an older man from upstate NY who practiced zen buddhism. He was technically a psychiatrist I suppose but we had incredible talk sessions and he helped me manage it during the worst episodes (first years of college), because we mostly just talked about poetry or writing or anything but normal therapy territory. I'm not sure where he is at now but I would like to find something similar to that. But to be honest I'm pretty burnt out on therapy and my mood swings make it hard to build a consistent rapport with most practitioners. Also therapy is INCREDIBLY expensive and many don't take insurance. It feels screwy.
My mouth says cheese makes EVERYTHING taste better. Take that, science.
Pokémon Go is just the beginning of an absurd copyright struggle in AR
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That feels very chicken and egg to me. Nintendo owners don't buy 3rd party games because there aren't very many. And there aren't very many because owners don't buy them.

The SNES had extensive 3rd party support. Obviously it's hard to compare 25 years ago to today, but the SNES and Genesis were really "even". Supporting both systems was a no brainer for most game companies. The N64 threw a curve ball with carts, and 3rd party support tanked. Anecdotally, the GameCube seemed to have better 3rd party support, as it was a very equivalent system to the Xbox and PS2.
What kind of moral reasoning is this? There's always some group of people we can see victimized without batting an eye. "What's bad is what shocks our conscience" is no philosophy of justice. It barely qualifies one to write an advice column.

Meanwhile: exactly why is it you believe it's OK to hack the personal emails of mafia members? Having committed some crime, is it your feeling that they simply deserve all the punishments we can conceive of? I agree with you: few would bat an eye were that the standard. You could probably break a few kneecaps, too, if you wanted. Fair's fair!

Who else's privacy can we simply ignore? How about Scientologists? The Ku Klux Klan? Sounds great so far. How about NARAL? CAIR? You want to take a vote and see how far we can go?
www.grammarly.com (haven't tried it though) In the demo they showed it turning a sentence into a more colloquial sentence.

I'm a native English speaker, and I'd like to know appropriate punctuation for a given combination of words. I'd like to search through a list.
Yes some natural phenomenon also seems possible.

What I'm really questioning is their ETI hypothesis. How do they explain that 100's of different civilizations would all choose the same modulation period ?
How can I make this app have potential?
I'm building an app to solve the problem of how difficult it is to meet people with similar professional interests and goals.

It may be relevant to ask y'all since my target market would be professionals in tech. ;)

How can I improve this from a product level?

https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/YX8KA9LPA#/screens
Whoever designed the original MS installation wizzard has brought so much pain to our world.
From https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes

[paraphrased] All storage classes are designed for 99.999999999% durability

As the previous replies to your comment mention, at that order of magnitude there are many other causes of data loss to worry about.

Disclaimer: work for an Alphabet company but not doing anything related to this.
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> A non-partisan elections monitoring group in Virginia has documented thousands of people who identify themselves on jury duty forms as non-citizens but who have registered and voted. Thousands of voters can easily sway local and state elections.

This should tell you more about how much people want to do jury duty, then how much they want to perform voter fraud.

Also, have you considered that they may have become citizens between the time that they were called up, and the time that they voted?
I played through the two Galaxy games, the second one I think twice since you get Luigi after the first run... Maybe 8 months ago I was playing through Resident Evil 4 on the Wii to keep myself from buying the PC version, and when I finished I booted up SMG2 again to show a friend, and I was struck by how terrible it has aged... If I do play it again it'll be on the Dolphin Emulator. (4k 60hz SMG2 actually looks really nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO8H5F1tCjg)

On the other hand I have hundreds of games on Steam I need to play but sometimes when I just want some random fun for a while I'll dig out some old SNES games (or launch an emulator). No one denies you can make incredible games on weak hardware, but you can't make certain types of incredible games without powerful hardware. And in any case you can always make some really crappy games.

I can't even seriously take the "but Nintendo does good gameplay and design even if their hardware sucks" rationalization anymore. With the possible exception of Splatoon (haven't played it), the other Wii U titles I have played at a friend's (I don't own the console) have, despite raising my expectations, systematically disappointed me in some major way due precisely to the gameplay, not the graphics: Super Mario 3D World, Star Fox Zero (that one hurt the most), Pikmin 3 (actually not so bad but no replay value), Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart, and maybe a couple others I'm forgetting. The next Zelda game is their last chance for me and every gameplay demo I've seen has set my expectations real low.
https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/YX8KA9LPA#/screens
That's how I read that comment, too.

If there are ETs, I really want to know whether they're using DNA with triplet codons that map to the same 20 amino acids.
A big part of the 3DS launch was AR [1][2]. They actually used it in unique ways. They haven't yet gone to head based VR/AR but device level like mobile was part of the 3DS pitch/features.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43uSXA9qUe8
[2] http://www.nintendo.com/3ds/ar-cards
http://github.com/1

It 404'ed before it got to

http://github.com/+
3,952,841 babies born annually in the United States.. I don't know how long you need toddler seat, maybe 3 years?

so, 12M families would like to own a car for 3 years.. (approx. multiple with number of children)
The author is right that increasing the time value of one's work is an uphill battle. I entered the workforce right at the beginning of the 2008 recession. It took me 6 years of bouncing from job to job, working late nights at times, talking to armies of recruiters, negotiating small raises at each job, to finally earn a salary that would be considered average in our industry.

I am very, very careful now to guard my rate as a software developer. As crazy as it sounds, I would rather work for free than work for a low rate.
IMO, it's rational economic thinking (if perhaps a little selfish): 90% of your net worth is in a single asset (either due to poor financial planning on your part, or because one asset has ballooned in value), so you will use your municipal voting power to protect that asset.
Exactly. They have a huge VC war chest, and they deliberately set out to lose money on every sale for years, just to gain market share, in the hopes that their competitors will go out of business before they run out of money.

Of course, the competitors also mostly have huge VC war chests, so an arms race develops..
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Stallman was right
> Someone who's not willing to invest the effort in getting proper ID (or one of the other ways of voting, like an absentee ballot) is likely also not investing much in becoming educated on the issues.

Great idea. Why not bar people without a college education from voting?

Better yet, why not bar people who don't own land from voting? If you aren't willing to jump through a few hoops, why should you have a say in how the country is run?

The hoops that people need to jump through to become eligible are, by design, made more difficult for certain demographics. This is deliberate disenfranchisement.

The whole point of democracy is that everyone gets to have a say in it - not just the people you like.
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I thought it was the nice guys who can't get laid?

Don't you want nice people have a place to park?!
>Are you suggesting that Tesla is defrauding investors and regulators, as Theranos did?

I'm suggesting that there's a lack of critical analysis applied to what are, essentially, Tesla press releases. Like when it was implied that people were sexist for questioning the genius of Elizabeth Holmes, because she was changing the world and all that, according to the press releases.

Again, I have no problem with being a Tesla fan. I probably come off as a "hater" here because I like to play Devil's Advocate and it's a pretty one-sided discussion on HackerNews (expectedly). I think what they're doing is fantastic. But give some credit to other companies who are also doing good things for this space, people's safety and the planet.
That would have the opposite effect from what you want. It's hard to think of anything that would grow the ranks of the NIMBYs any faster.