skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried Oculus, expecting to be amazed. I found it annoying and not immersive at all. I can see every single pixel. Doesn't feel real at all. Possibly because I"ve been using high-resolution 3D displays for point cloud editing for the science I do for years. (Nvidia 3D Vision 2 -- probably the 3rd major attempt at consumer 3D that never really caught on)
In this case "staff" appears to mean "hourly shift-based workers", eg restaurant staff. I agree it's a strange use of the term.
No security is better than false security imho.
Currently only have a 1.2M connection at home. Reveals how bandwidth intensive many website are that simply do not need to be.

Ad Blocker is a must.
They charged him personally (not his car) with a crime he did not commit. And, he spent twice the cost of the ticket to get his appeal heard, and has not gotten that money returned.
I remember 300 baud connections! :) because the "fast" 2400 ones were all in use.

Nothing quite like watching characters being drawn at typing speed :) least on IRC it wasn't too bad unless it was a busy channel
I think you're missing the point. IANAL, but some law students explained this to me once (I hope to be accurate).

If you drive your vehicle, then park, and leave your vehicle without the hand brake, the vehicle moves and kills somebody, then it's your fault, and it's a crime, because your action - or inaction - killed somebody. From a criminal standpoint, the last driver - and only the driver - will be liable.

OTOH in this case it was somebody else committing the infringement, be it civil or criminal. For each, there's a procedure. Here, it should have been the driver - not the owner of the car! - the one who got a fine. It's a personal responsibility of the driver, not an "objective one" for the vehicle.

There's simply no mean, in most laws of any state of the world, for which such a responsibility could be transferred from who does the act to the one who owns something which is employed to commit such act.

Imagine you've got a knife, you lend it to somebody for some legit use, and that person commits an homicide using it. Are you a killer?

Speeding is an infringement committed by whoever speeds; the vehicle's owner has nothing to do with it. The whole "automated traffic control" systems were started with the wrong foot, without a proper legal basis.
Can someone tell me why SVGs are gigantic while first loading? I often see this even at modern connection speeds.
They probably spent a lot of time creating this website. Yet it completely fails to explain what the product does.
There's a traditional of using Latin names for species classification, so maybe H. P. Lovecraftus
I'm guessing it's basically fancy timesheets?
You've not really made the case that those are life and death examples though. It's more likely the person who's not an anti semite is the one who's going to get heated in any discussion about it.
The question people aren't asking is why this actually matters

Oh that's an easy one. Literally no-one cared about this while the IT department was at the bottom of the corporate pecking order and sometimes literally at the bottom of the company in a windowless basement. But now it's important and well-paid and people sit in nice offices on Herman Miller chairs, and suddenly out of nowhere a bunch of people who weren't geeks at school, who hated the geeks, have appeared and started demanding that they get some of this money and prestige too. Brogrammers are another symptom of this exact same phenomenon.

I support women, but I support men too

I'm an engineer. I care about what's between your ears, not your legs! :-)
Google Data Compression on Chrome helps a lot. At least on HTTP connections. Too bad this does not work for HTTPS sites were the web designers do not test and optimize enough for low bandwidth.
Ask HN: What does it take to organize a successful bootcamp?
I'm currently planning to organize a 5-day coding bootcamp in Mumbai next month on game development. What does it take to organize a successful coding bootcamp? I have hired a good trainer and have a space that can be used to accommodate at least 15 students. I'm planning to provide free lunch on all five days to everyone involved, along with certifications. Have also developed a website with a form which can be used to take registrations. I'm planning to use Facebook as a medium to publicize my scheduled bootcamp. That being said, are there any mistakes I should avoid making in my first try at organizing a coding bootcamp?
Fair point, I was going for magnitude.
It's absolutely hilarious that obvious lies and propaganda are creating this much tension.
Dynamic scoping and typing is what makes Emacs easier to extend, rather than harder. It's not unusual for users to fix bugs and performance problems in Emacs packages with some choice redefinitions, global or scoped.

A typed API on the other hand will prescribe interactions between extensions. It's still possible with the right design to make things flexible - eg getting extensions to describe their logic in the form of data that can be modified by other extensions - but I think the axis will be between Emacs style flexibility vs rigidity of extension.
>If they try to get him to the US for a public trial

He'll likely get convicted. The US would be happy to put him on trial.

>If they bring him home for a secret trial, the risk rioting or a martyr

Secret trial? Rioting? I think you're overestimating general support for Snowden and have some odd ideas about the way the justice system works.
Facebook's payments to use the Signal protocol pay the bills. Same reason why Moxie was fine with Google disabling E2E by default so they could use chat for ad targeting, after attacking other software for doing this, and with them tying enabling it to inconvenient behaviour like disabling the chat log that discourages all but the most paranoid from using it.
Shared bargaining power.
Except, it's a much deeper cost. Have you ever gotten a ticket? There's the points on your license, the increase in insurance rates, the risk that another 2 or so infractions at this level will cause your license to automatically get pulled, and I'm sure there's more.
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The "24 GFLOPS" in RP come from the GPU (Videocore IV, 32-bit precision) [1].

The PS3 does more than 230 GFLOPS, just with the Cell processor (1 dual threaded CPU and 7 vector units -CPUs with wide SIMD, working in 256KB local scratchpad RAM-) [2]. In addition to that, the PS3 GPU does 400 GFLOPS [3]. So the PS3 is "600 GFLOPS" (32-bit precision).

[1] https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_technical_specif...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSX_'Reality_Synthesizer'#cite...
Two reasons come to mind: It's likely that the designer providing the SVG logo scales the logo completely arbitrarily, which might be 1000 pixels wide. The CSS `width:10px` in another file hasn't loaded yet, so the <img> tag holding the SVG uses the absolute size of the SVG file. Another possibility is that a flexbox or similar grid system is used, and the container holding the <img> tag is told to stretch its contents to the full width of the flex item. If the content in the following flex item is very large, the SVG will be compressed to the proper small size, but if there is no content loaded yet in the following flex item, the flexbox will stretch just the first item.
Speculation (if it's clearly marked as such) - is just an "entertainment" piece - for example, you could write in your blog what are the next features for iOS without any clear sources - that would be just speculating about.

Fake news - news that has wrong info as facts or provide something as sourced when the original source never said that.

I think that's rather huge difference (speculation from some outsider can still by chance be true, fake is by definition false)
Yea, good luck with that.
No. They're asking foreign companies operating in Russian to store their data within the borders of the country, where the Russian gov has control + sovereignty. When a douchebag agency like NSA/CIA have direct back access (and sometimes provided by the company), it's possible that LinkedIn is involved and is therefor spying on citizens of other countries for the benefit of the US gov.
Snowden was not in the military and the secrets he lifted were from a civilian organization.
Reminds me of a friend who travelled to both the US and Cuba, and got a kick out of each saying how evil the other was!
Everyone aware of how cyber security works is aware that it is next to impossible to prove with absolute certainty about being hacked by someone, but yes, if I claim bob hacked my servers, I'd have to conclude that based on some data, I'd love to see that some data :-D (Sometimes I watch RT and you won't believe how differently they represent all the news :-D) (p.s. I am not a US or Russian citizen)
> if only because it offers less emotion and more citations

This is such a weird metric. "More citations" sounds like "more lines of code", and the problem with an emotional plea is not that it is emotional but that it often replaces logical ones.

> the smidgen of his revelations about possibly unlawful domestic surveillance or collection against U.S. persons

If you think that's an accurate characterization then you really didn't need this article to push you over the edge.
Super interesting for Microsoft to be releasing this narrow of a product. Don't get me wrong, there's probably a market, but Salesforce would never do this, for a big company it's a platform play, let a partner build the tiny time tracking app.
Not sure why this is downvoted.

The OPi chip maybe for not cone from a "respected" western company but it is in all regards a more open chip.

While the datasheet is almost as thin as that of Broadcom it is mostly because they use standard components where the full datasheet is available from arm.

There are also far less magic blobs and crazy boot gymnastics in there.
Bad, rather funky, vibes! :)
It sounds like you should go and see a doctor. Maybe you lack something neurological that prevents you from experiencing it the way people usually do.
You are fighting the good fight, freeing one of the most common single board computers! That being said, besides quantity, why focus on the Raspberry Pi instead of Allwinner H3 based boards or another board where most of the support (including uboot) is already upstreamed & can be run with a fully libre stack?
In the Netherlands, I'd assume most people make the same assumption as I would in Britain:

If I lose my home, and have no savings or sufficient income, the local government will provide accommodation. At short notice, for a single male, that's likely to be a pretty grim hostel, but it exists.

Example: https://www.richmond.gov.uk/if_you_are_homeless

Advice about this from a charity: http://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/homelessness/gu...

So, following the charity's advice, it might not be true that the local government would provide help -- but that would still be most people's assumption.
In the UK I believe the first letter goes to the "keeper" of the vehicle, called a NIP (notice of intended prosecution). The keeper of the vehicle is required by law to fill in the NIP (under pain of perjury) and return it telling the police who was driving. The police will then criminally prosecute the person on the form.

I never got a speeding ticket, but I looked this up here: http://www.nopenaltypoints.co.uk/dispute-speed-ticket-you-we...

It may well be wrong, but it sounds like what I'd expect in the UK.
Subsidies only hide the real issue.

We shifted the burden of healthcare from lower class and sick to middle class.

But the fundamental problem is high cost of healthcare. Capitalism is usually a ruthlessly effective tool, but it doesn't seem to work with healthcare due to lack of choice.

Maybe it doesn't make sense to invest so much money into health?

Is it a worthy trade-off getting 80% of our current healthcare quality for say 50% of the cost?

It's a tough call to make, but this country is in decline and we need to make tough choices.

I'm a 19-year old developer working my ass off last 4 years for silly startups. Currently I make $30/hour but paying around 30% of my income in taxes.

Baby boomers benefited from generation before them and borrowed money from gen x'ers/millenials and they run this country into ground.

Once my agegroup starts seriously voting I feel like we won't have a lot of pity for older age groups and their retirement plans.

I support raising minimum wage to livable standards, but I hope universal income comes soon.

Over the last year I've been getting burned out working 60 hour weeks trying to use latest languages and libraries, while my company is hiring $3/hour phillipino php/WordPress codemonkeys...While all I wish in life is to Haskell in peace for next 30 years and then die.

I'm still trying to work toeard American dream, but it's dead for all but the software industry.

It's disilousining to see rich stealing the fruits of my labour while I have to pay government to keep the lower class alive.

As kids we were told about wonders of globalization, democracy, and America.

In the real world we now have to deal with fucked up environment, economics and Putin flexing his geopolitical dick.

So you older folks got us into this mess, what the hell do we do now?
The OrangePi Zero is $7, same H3 SOC with the same software stack, plus it has ethernet, wifi & POE.
It's definitely one of my dreams to do as well. I just need to get the gumption to actually do it (and the luck to actually land a contract).
Yet they have the best mainline driver support, with a fully open VPU driver. Not saying they did any of that mind you, but they at least put the docs out there and eventually posted their BSP on github under GPLv2, so their changes could be updated & mainlined.
If they pardon him that doesn't mean he will or has to go back to the US. Also your ""feelings"" argument can easily be refuted:
A) There are proves that he did use the official channels first.
B) This isn't even a moral but a legal concern.
C) You can excuse participation in the Holocaust with it.

I see where you're coming from, but you can spin it either way. What I think they should to is to use the pardon to gain trust and create anonymous contact points so that whistleblowers will use the official channels first.
Yes. They could also cherry pick an outcome variable (eg diastolic blood pressure etc).

Given that they haven't applied any multiple testing correction (eg bonferroni or fdr) it's basically impossible to NOT find a significant association in this dataset.
Educational and 100% free are not the same. It's not remotely hard to imagine them having other trade-offs to make and being most concerned with getting devices in hands.

"Abomination" is ridiculous.
That’s really not true for the majority of sites, in particular nearly every document site. There’s no one blanket fits-all best practise, but in general using a SPA is hurting a significant majority of users.
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In what ways do you feel this characterization is inaccurate?
> mbasic.facebook.com

Mind blown. It even has messaging that works without having to install privacy-invading Messenger. You have just improved my facebook UX by a country mile.
Why not phase the message differently, e.g. "It looks like (user) is chatting from a new device. Is this correct?"

Warning about unusual account activity seem to be very common these days, so why not using them here.

The way the warnings are presented as part of the chat history (a very good idea) also means they could be used after-the-fact to figure out when an account was overtaken, even if the warning was initially ignore. I figure even non-technical users would like to know that, after one of their contacts tells them their account was hacked.

Additionally, why is an ignored warning worse than a warning that is suppressed to begin with? That seems to me like a landlord that decides not to install smoke alarms because "the tenants could get used to the sound" - when most of the tenants are not even aware of the concept of "fire".

Finally, I don't find the "it's important the server doesn't know" argument not convincing. If you conclude that the vast majority of people doesn't have the warnings enabled and the costs of hitting someone with warnings is low, that would make snooping still a very low-risk activity.

Summing up, I think the very least consequence Facebook should take from this is to make the warnings in-by-default instead of off-by-default.
That's awesome. Thanks for bringing back the nostalgia :)
Counterpoint: The pi runs Linux inefficiently, draws too much power and gets too hot. All of these could probably have been fixed with minimal support from broadcom (and a bit more open thinking from them during the design).

Open source is not a crazy idea by a bunch of fanatics, it had real world implications.
Sure, but Allwinner did release their BSP under GPLv2, which the community summarily ported to mainline for the chunks they hadn't rewritten already.

Broadcom has yet to do anything like that.

https://github.com/allwinner-zh/linux-3.4-sunxi
Related languages are different due to changes; but they haven't all changed in the same way. Thus it is perfectly sound to describe one language as closest to the common substrate of other related languages.

Here's an abstract example.

L1: abcxfgziqk
L2: qbcdvgxijk
L3: awcdughrjk
L4: abcdzghijk

Looking only at languages L1 through L3 we may infer a common ancestor from what is more shared. Saying that L4 is closest to this hypothetical language is not an empty concept, or artificial based on some ideology.
Threema offers that. You do a QR code scan, after which a contact is marked as verified (3 green dots). Since Threema has a fixed key per user, these verifications are persistent and most people transfer their keys when switching to a new phone.
Love it, specially the "What people are saying" part :D

* Excessively Modular! - some bald guy
* I'm glad I'm unemployed so I have time to configure it! - my mate Steve
* You should go outside one of these days. - Mother
I don't think visibly marking Homeless people is ethical. They did that to Jewish people way back when. Am I looking at the wrong photo, or is it really a visible homeless badge?

Yeah, it really is a giant homeless badge: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/01/contactless-payment-jacket-...
Blood ministration and its miraculous properties were vastly successful in Yharnam.
> you probably will be bored to death

As long as you have a computer (with or without internet) I could never imagine being bored.
Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality
Neat, thanks. Works identically with the slightly smaller fork called Pentadactyl (http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/).
You just have to make choices. I made a change a few years ago so this is literally the only place I read online discussions (because the signal to noise ratio is generally acceptable). I've dumped reddit, Twitter etc and the inevitable comments section at the end of every page on a news site. It gives me more time to read proper writing (books) or just stare out of the window and think. I still use instant messages but just not on my phone so they wait until I'm home. I can always phone or text someone if it's urgent (this hasn't happened yet).
Own or control? The difference is just money, and if all you care about is the control part, the Chinese state controls all the Chinese social networks. You can see what state control does to a social network: Say what you want as long as it's not about politics (or a few non-political but sensitive areas such as porn), and say what WE want if it relates to anything political.
There is no room for another "meaningful" phone IMHO. Even when it is developed by Andy Rubin himself. Phone business is hard, it's very hard. No room left for another one.
> The 11 bits of entropy refer to a dictionary of 2K words to choose from. The reason to type full ones is you're not hamstrung by the "no common prefix" limitation, which allows larger (and easier to remember) dictionaries.

Another note on this - assume an average word length of 5 - that's 11/5 or 2.5 bits per character typed (again, assuming the wordlist doesn't loose some bits for "double coding" like "at hat/a that").

At 7 bits per word - of which two characters are enough, we type 7/2 or 3.5 bits per character.

Conversely, we only memorize 7 bits per word vs 11 bits.
Broadcom released a tangentially related driver (Not targeted at the RasPi) and the person who could do the quickest, dirtiest port of that driver to kinda-sorta get Quake 3 running got $10k. I remember when this happened, it was a shitshow then, and looking back it makes the people behind the Raspberry Pi Foundation look incompetent if viewed kindly.
If you have a pool of applicants and ranked them in order of ability and drew x applicants out of the top of the pool of y individuals you would expect all things being equal to see the selected group had demographics similar to the group as a whole.

If you start with for example a group of people that is 75% male and select the top n workers. The top n will be 75% male and the only way to arrive at 50% female instead of 25% is to replace some of the more qualified males with less qualified females further down in the stack. The ones higher in the stack are by definition already taken.

This isn't saying that men are more qualified just that they make up a larger portion of the pool. Places that select a higher portion of males than the population suffer from the same deficiency.
Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1331172
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There is a pretty easy calculation, but the numbers are hard to come by.

People pay about $3000 for health care in the us, per year. people pay $750 for medicare. To be fair, half is by the employee, half is by the employer, so let's say $1500, because theoretically you would make more if the employer didn't have to pay that tax. On the flip side, high paying jobs, the employer pays the lion's share of health insurance premiums - but let's just ignore that.

Old people (medicare patients) get sick all the time. Heart attacks, cancer, whatever. Young people rarely get sick, but there are more young people - perhaps 15,000,000 70-74 year olds, and perhaps 21,000,000 20-24 year olds. If the cost of medicare for everyone is less than $3500, it's cheaper to just cover everyone at some basic level via medicare.

Very few 22 year olds get cancer. It's expensive. lots of 72 year olds get cancer. That is also expensive. Medicare pays for the expensive part of people's lives (the end of their lives). I'm pretty sure if the medicare tax rate doubled, 3% to 6%, $1500 to $3000 it'd still be cheaper than what we're doing now.

I dunno. It's late. It's a complicated topic. I have no problems with well off people paying a whole lot to get special care, extra insurance, or whatever. I think it would be a good thing for people who get in car accidents, have heart attacks, or get cancer to know they're not financially ruined.

It's nothing more than a linear programming problem. Right now people pay X. If everyone was taxed more they would pay Y. If Y < X, we should do Y. If not, what we have now is the best we can do. So be it.
You really believe that men are inferior don't you
Not sure what country you refer to. In Australia though a similar requirement has become somewhat meaningless as the market is controlled by a few massive franchises.
We're talking about a ~10x difference right now. Do your factors sizeably reduce that gap? By how much do you estimate?
Lesson: only blow whistles if you plan to become popular. Make sure they're whistles that popular opinion likes amd supports.

Politics.
That is not something they worry about. They've long assumed everything Snowden took is in the hands of hostile intelligence services. Anything else would be nuts.
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