skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your Right to Privacy and How to Protect Yourself
That's comparable to (and probably more precise than) cheap ultrasonic sensors or traditional optical distance sensors, so probably as a different choice or optimization everywhere those are used.
Damn, things have been so nice around here this week...
It's almost 2017 and vi and EMACS are still the only two editors that matter. Who could have expected that when they were both first released just over 40 years ago?
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They are in Germany. What happens with perks is that there's a (reasonable) fixed value assigned to them which is accounted for in income taxes.
Interesting, even if you give them the lunches it would be a huge stretch to say a fitness center and massages benefit the company.

Sounds like a rule that is hard to impossible for the IRS to enforce. I hate rules like that, we ought to create a better rule or get rid of it altogether. Because I'm guessing if a factory lowered their wages while providing the same perks as google the IRS would probably say something.
I'd like to read the downvoters arguments agains what I wrote.
I love sci-fi, I think that eventually humanity could colonize other planets, do terraforming, build an intergalactic civilizations, etcetera...
I just said that that's not a priority now. Right now we are polluting and depleting the planet, and we have to fix that before thinking about expanding to other planets. If we destroy the Earth we won't be able to do that.
Glad that SDES internally are upset but the damage has already been done. Amazon is becoming a place where serious tech talent will not work. No senior or serious talent in their right mind would go through this, so you are going to end up with just junior or desperate devs applying.

Not to mention the turn over. What is that like in most tech depts?

I suppose however, Amazon can simply use the excuse of: we can't find qualified devs so we need more H-1B workers. Heck I am starting to think that this is the plan all along.

I apologize if I am coming off as negative but this kind of stuff really has to stop. I don't understand how it got to this point and how anyone would be willing to give up their privacy or self-respect like this. How did we get here?
Here's voice input for emacs: [1], [2]

And for vim (inspired by [2]): [3]

I'm sure gesture tracking would probably not be too hard, using any of a number of VR input devices now on the market. Eye tracking would be harder, as I'm not aware of any consumer-level eye-tracking technologies out there. You could certainly have head-tracking pretty easily, though.

Now integrating this in a way that would actually be fluid, natural, and useful is another story, though. Also, I'm personally not sure how many big body movements I want to be doing while using my computer (unless I'm trying to exercise, play a game, draw, conduct music, or lose weight).

Ideally, I'd want to be as motionless as possible while being as comfortable as possible and while having maximum flexibility and efficiency of input. Keyboards are pretty good for that.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zPOyMmMPQ

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBMlXRjhZY
Juggling Patterns and Programs
however Moxie Marlinspike (the founder of Open Whisper Systems) ordered them to cease and desist

Would you be kind enough to provide links? I can't find any information about this claim via Google, and Signal is distributed under the GPLv3, which grants rights to fork and modify it: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android
The purpose of the phrase is to be a reminder that the results are mostly likely experimental error. It doesn't block anything, it just reminds everyone what the most likely explanation is.

If you want to see a good example of this in action, look at the folks who thought they showed neutrinos went faster than light. They constantly kept in mind that the most likely explanation for the data was experimental error, and eventually showed that their experiment had an error. Nothing was "buried", nothing was "blocked", and good science was eventually done.
It gets worse -- when he wanted to leave the interview, the proctor couldn't disconnect those systems and kept making him wait until he finally gave up, cut off the call, and tried to purge it all himself.

That the electronic equivalent of preventing someone from leaving the building.
I've also had the annoyance of being 'interviewed' using this ProctorU method. They have this 'feature' where you are not allowed to navigate away from the webpage that has the test, and if you do, it 'blocks' you from doing anything until you message the proctor and have them reset it for you.

Except, in my case, this damn thing kept blocking up every few minutes, and I had no idea why. Contacting the proctor, having them diagnose it, and getting them to reset it, wasted a few minutes every time.

I finally realized what the 'problem' was. It was firing the 'navigate away' event every time the mouse went outside the boundary of the page. Since I often play with my mouse, moving it around the screen, it would block me any time the pointer left the page. I eventually figured it out, but it took me 3–4 block-contact-reset cycles.

All in all, a pretty annoying experience.
yeah. I also found seeing the moons of jupiter around jupiter pretty amazing. can kind of see how galileo came to the conclusions he did.
That article mentions FPGAs, but doesn't discuss any of the issues with taping out an ASIC design. Specifically, the use of a proprietary and highly commercially sensitive process design kit, and the likely need for other IP to make a realistic chip (e.g. PLLs). I'm not at all against copyleft, but for lowRISC we felt that traversing uncharted territory in licensing would just be too ambitious. Additionally, one of the key components our design is derived from (Rocket) was already under a permissive BSD license.

I understand how GPLv3 and secure boot works with software, I was unclear as to how those clauses might apply to a hardware design. I fully agree that 'restricted boot' is a terrible situation for consumers.
Words are allowed to have more than one contextual meaning in conversation? Get outta here....

/s
Under Trump, I think "net neutrality" is the least of our worries.

From the team mates he is gathering together to form his cabinet, I can only surmise that we are going to have a hell of a rocky ride. We all need to be actively active and make our voices heard, unlike the current & so far passively active attitude we have been leading.
I was looking at the page earlier today, wondering when it's being launched. Great timing as my days at work are over for the rest of the year.

I'm working on a public-transport chatbot in South Africa, planning on making it available on Twitter, Facebook, and Allo (though less users here). Going to be a fun December and January!
I'd recommend suggesting it. You might be pleasantly surprised.

(I'm not quit-my-job-level supportive, but I'd like to join such an effort (as long as it wasn't michaelochurch) - so what's the way forward? Joining a general union until there's a critical mass that can spin off as a software-specific one?)
It was, back when WikiLeaks seemed to be politically independent. Now it's hard to tell whether I'd be supporting worthy efforts to promote free dissent, or whether I'd be supporting one man's (or a small group of people's) interest in influencing U.S. politics in ways I find objectionable.

I'm also not sure I see the connection between 'dissent' and the dissemination of stolen private emails.

I think I'll give to the ACLU instead.
I had this issue as well until I cleared the data/cache for my Google Play services app.
is the author really just comparing single-core to multi-core? I didn't read any specs on the machine that ran the benchmarks, but assuming its multi-core, are the Haskell tests using all the cores, while node is only using 1?

node is probably not the best choice for truly CPU bound operations, but you can sometimes get by using the native cluster module to spread work over multiple cores.
TOTP doesn't use Push.
They'd lose me the moment they wanted full access to my system. My computer, my rules. You want to take control, mail me a computer and take control of that.
You can't make that mistake in production. They were right to fail you.

Considering these kinds of mistakes happen all the time in production: what exactly do you mean?

If such a mistake actually can't be tolerated, there is no way sysadmins would be allowed to log into a production system and run the risk of mucking it up in the first place. They'd be forced to do the responsible thing and implement changes in a test environment, and use configuration management to replicate the change into production. Possibly in a maintenance window, certainly with a rollback strategy.

Paradoxically, the no-mistakes-ever environment makes the parent poster's fuckup as even less of a red mark than it otherwise would be. In a more flexible shop, there is some level of chance he made the mistake on a live box, in a controlled shop there is none (excluding some phases of disaster recovery ofc).
> In 2003 Earth-based astronomers caught glimpses of methane in the Martian atmosphere.

Intrigued to hear about those astronomer bases not on Earth, in 2016.
The position of the home button, the speaker, the diameter of the corners, the use of a particular bezel, these were all considerations in the design of the iconic iPhone.

Prior to that style phones came in a dizzying multitude of shapes, sizes, and styles. If there was a consideration for fitting into jeans surely Motorola or Nokia or Palm or RIM would have taken it into consideration.

The Blackberry device is another iconic design. It had rounded corners, but it also had other distinctive design features that made it obviously not an iPhone, such as the somewhat unique bottom curve on the device.

Samsung went out of their way to copy. I can't believe people are defending Samsung here. It's an insult to actual innovators.
Reminds me of Valve's no manager management style: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-04-27/why-there...

When you have a lot of money, a lot of things work because you have a lot of money. You often see the same thing with people trying to emulate pro-athletes training methods. A genetically gifted pro-athlete can often succeed in spite of their training, and not necessarily because of their training.
For the stuff that IS good, and adding a lot of value, are the creators / maintainers recognized (other than through twitter followers, etc.)

What are we doing to keep the good projects afloat?
> Google's dominance in advertising couldn't occur without the product mix.

This is absolutely accurate.

Google is what it is because google.com is the best search engine in the world and because GMail is the best web-based mail client -- free or otherwise.
I feel like Google is still stuck in 2005. Not much has changed from top of my head.

All of their products are still based on their end-user being the product since everything is free and people expect it to be that way.

I don't see anything changing because they are literally printing money from their monopoly on online advertising. They have no serious competition and no, Facebook is not really great for targeted advertising unless you are a big brand.

Without any real external pressure as a result of their own success, it's beginning to look a lot like Microsoft of 2005.

Even from a developer's point of view, Amazon has usurped the cloud space with Azure now playing catchup and winning.

Much as Satella realized that Microsoft needs to stop being like Google and more B2B like Oracle, Google needs to find it's new place.

Vast majority of the public is unlikely to give a shit about their privacy in return for free productivity and entertainment but demographics change.
It's indeed a reflex based on the new sets I saw since a few years (lots of franchise). I still feel something missing from how sets were designed in the 80s-00s era. Something of that period I miss, half nostalgia, but not only. A balance between surface and simplicity. Kinda like pixel art.
No. You're correct, causation is complicated, A-Z and all the greek letters too are part of a single cause. But the situation is worse than that.

The reason humans are superstitious is that we don't seek answers, we seek narratives. We seek to explain without disrupting what we already believe. We might see the real cause and effect and rewrite what we see to fit what we want.
It means I recognized the similarities and researched them on Google.
Google Patents is giving you the whole thing. Most design patents are just a picture and some boilerplate text. And there's little or no review before issuance. If you can draw, you can get one.
Should it matter? Rounded corners are obvious and ordinary. Does changing the diameter affect how useful it is? If you patent 0.505" diameter corners am I allowed to patent 0.515" if I can show it increases $METRIC?

If I sound argumentative it's not intentional, I know sometimes multiple questions in a row like that can be taken the wrong way.
Is that also true for projects that have a commercial presence? I'm thinking like sentry.io.
So is BOOM officially not going to be the core for the first run, then? If so, are there plans for later generations to switch to it?
So... is this broadcast/observe and trickle, or true connections? From the tree demo, it looks like trickle with a limited observe window to limit the power consumption. If it were connection I would expect the tree to light up a little less randomly.
I don't think there is a connection between OOP and autodidact developers. Do you see one?
Compared to the salary you're paying your staff, it really does come out to mere pennies.
I'm not a doctor or research biologist, but I have the same question. My default assumption is that it depends on whether this is a locally evolved bacterium. If it's a common strain found everywhere then the phage is probably pretty common too. If this is some unusual strain of Pseudomonas that's localized to his area then a phage that coevolved locally with that specific strain might be the most effective fighting it. Either way, it's a probability situation as there's no guarantee a particular phage will fight a particular bacterium until it's tried.
I loved working at Amazon so much that I'm going back to work there. I've also worked for Twitter and Uber to give you a comparison.

Happy to chat about it more, this isn't a throw away account.
So basically people who knew nothing of what had come before, despite it being a fairly widespread technology. I think that's kind of proving the video's point.
hahaha just wanted to make sure. Sounds like I know what I'm checking out this weekend. Thanks!
>Aren't you obligated to make the highest returns for shareholders?

Actually no. As recently as Burwell v Hobby Lobby, the Supreme Court said:

"Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not."

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/13-354.html
It is definitely privilege. There are plenty of life situations where people would have to just suck it and take what comes their way. For example, when you are on a visa that only gives you a couple months to find a job or gtfo.
Just because they have that information, doesn't mean they can determine what they need or do it in a scalable and computationally feasible manner.
They don't seem to play free market. They seem to play "new guy takes all".

For example, Google Voice was put in maintenance mode and Hangouts took off. Then Allo, then ... ?

They very rarely actively push two products with the same purpose.
> GIF searches are obviously going to use a 3rd party service, and nobody should expect some kind of anonymous encrypted channel for GIF searches. That's ridiculous.

GIF searches aren't being transmitted to a third party service, they're being transmitted directly to Wire in plaintext: https://github.com/wireapp/wire-android-sync-engine/blob/4d5...

There's tons of stuff like that which leaks in the app. They store your entire contact list server-side, your plaintext group membership, group info like plaintext group name and plaintext group avatar, etc etc.

> I've not seen any lying about being open source. They haven't released every piece of code, but I don't recall them ever claiming they did.

Since their launch several years ago, they've had a "feature" matrix on their website that lists Wire as being open source (and their competitors as not being open source). That was long before their recent "open source" announcement (which still isn't even fully open source). When pressed, they said it was because they used some open source libraries. That's really shady.

> I've never seen any crypto experts who have audited Wire and said there's anything wrong with their choices, and you supplied no links.

Here's one example I saw recently:

https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~cwright/oakland08.pdf

They're vulnerable:

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-audio-video-signaling/blob/c...

Even worse, they also apparently include plaintext RTP headers with audio level information in them.
ITT: A lot of people who have never worked for Google and don't realize how correct you are.
Algebraic.
It's likely because Sanskrit and European languages share a common ancestor language known as Proto-Indo-European.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
I've used paramiko + expect to automate distributed benchmarking + results gathering. I can say that while it ultimately worked, Curse That Thing In Particular. It was so so so fiddly to get everything working, and very fragile + output-dependent.

https://github.com/ip2k/Mad-Science?files=1

I wrote this a long time ago and it's ugly. It totally worked and let our company find more optimal hosting configs.
amazon is one of the biggest xen player but does not contribute, so sad.
In my head that's pronounced like, "Yowie!" I was just wondering how you pronounce it.
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I'm somewhat drawn to helpers like this, but what ends up being a pollutant for me is the system within a system paradigm. With emacs I have the same problem. I enjoy the UNIX philosophy where one program should do one thing and interesting things come from composing them. I'd love for similar helpers, as I've called them, to be implemented as cli tools. You would then call them from vim for example. Interactivity would be sacrificed, but I don't value it lot. This probably makes me a purist or some other -ist.
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I agree, expect is less and less useful, many vendors provides ways to automate deployment now. But "unautomatable" deployment is still happening.

In some cases you can deal with it with some "printf 'line1\nline2\n'| vendor_command", but the vendor command may ignore stdin and you have to use expect.

Having to automate that way is extremely brittle, stdout and stdin are very poor and unstable APIs. For example I remember some internationalized installers which gave stdout outputs according to your locales (lesson learned, export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 before an expect script). And if one message is added or is changed, it can break...

Personally, I tend to repackage badly shipped software (yay installanywhere crap...) in deb or rpm files, at least that way, I encounter issues before I deploy in production and I can update/remove this software easily and completely. However, it only solves part of the problem, if the configuration steps are interactive only, you've to resort to expect in production.

Expect is less and less useful, it's a last resort solution, but when you need it's extremely helpful.
> Everywhere has something that can kill you in spectacular fashion

Not true. Well, maybe in the US but there is a whole world out there :)

Sweden (just one example) is a country completely free of any large-scale natural disasters (at least the ones that are local to somewhere, not including earth split in two and others)
Why won't they release Assistant for all Android phones? Nobody uses Allo, and Pixel is a small minority of the market.
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I know. I went through the hell of trying to build one in the 1990s. I've used the huge SICK LMS line scanner. Now these things are tiny and cheap, at least for short range.
It's 44.5 visits per 100 persons (per capita means per person).

I'm sure there would be a measurable effect from diminished access to the ER and various other services. I just think it will be small. Looking through some of the links from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Blizzards_in_the_Unit...

You do get more deaths than I thought. Many of them are attributable to carbon monoxide poisoning (totally preventable). Other major causes are cardiac arrests while shoveling and traffic accidents.
I wish them the best of luck. This could be big if it works well.
Regarding fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_...

While some data is stored, no cookies are sent, plus there's heavy caching involved: "The result is that website visitors send very few requests to Google: We only see 1 CSS request per font family, per day, per browser."

All in all, those services (IIRC the JS library CDN is similar) don't seem to be designed to be a tracking data source except for some popularity stats about the data hosted there.
I changed my default search to StartPage, which uses Google under the hood.

But sometimes I can't find what I want in StartPage, so I added an extra button on StartPage to take me to the same search in Google (TamperMonkey script).
> because someone thought "outside the box".

That's "thinking for the company" which I had rarely seen during my 10 years working for a large company. "Thinking for myself / department" approach is much more common, unfortunately.
In Hindi:

0 shunya
1 ek
2 do
3 theen
4 char
5 paanch
6 che
7 saath
8 aatuh
9 nau
10 dus

Yeah, PIE (Proto-Indo-European) is very interesting—we think that we're so different but our languages are so similar.
I always wondered if Google just fired all their engineers except a few top guys, and focused on their core money making products like search / ads / etc. and tried to stay as lean as possible (lean being a relative term), how much profit they could make.
Well even the older sets (25 years ago for me) had some specific pieces for boats, castles, space craft, etc.

But you could still make your bat mobile engine something else, if you let your imagination run wild during a building process.
It will be interesting to see what end-game is for Google. Is it to provide the hardware specs to car manufacturers for cameras/components and use a Google operating/control system?

In the most recent quarter, Tesla posted a $22 million profit, which was their first profit since first quarter 2013. There have been many times in Tesla's history where things were tight and risky. Things are looking good now, so it is exciting and Tesla seems to be going in a great direction.

It all comes back to Google having tons of money and thus being able to do things Googley.
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal
Wouldn't be so certain about blizzards. Warming increases the amount of moisture in the atmosphere during the cold months, producing more blizzards. My only fear about living in the Great Lakes is that we may end up snowed under before our ready access to fresh water makes a difference in terms of climate change preparedness.

References:

http://www.cleveland.com/science/index.ssf/2013/02/global_wa...

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/future-of-epic-blizzards-...

http://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Threats-to-Wildlife/Global-Warmi...
It's even cheaper for the company to not provide them. Case in point: Amazon's paltry benefits.
See

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13128401

hint: both are possible, simultaneously. one does not contradict the other. each one is a different concern, with its own merits.