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Tom Wheeler overreached with opt-in privacy regulations. The telecom industry and Republicans seized the opportunity and swiftly moved forward with their policy narrative before a protracted dispute could arise.

But make no mistake, this is all about net neutrality. The new FCC chair already effectively killed the new privacy regulations. The real issue is that Republicans would have both political and legal difficulty, within the context of the net neutrality dispute, shifting regulation of ISPs back to the FTC. However, from the privacy regulation angle, the FCC's classification of ISPs as common carriers seem more like an unlawful power grab.

The optics are better for Democrats on the privacy issue, but nobody is going to vote in the 2018 or 2020 cycle based on that issue. Nor will any candidate's election turn on net neutrality, for that matter. But net neutrality has many, very well-heeled corporate supporters. There's plenty of muscle to defend net neutrality at the national level. Whereas nobody is going to expend much capital (monetary or political) defending opt-in privacy regulations.

Remember, all Republicans need is an excuse to give Google, Netflix, etc, corporate lobbyists for why they returned regulation back to the status quo. The privacy regulation issue is that excuse. It's just an unfortunate coincidence that by returning to the status quo ante (that is, before Wheeler's common carrier classification), there's no significant authority to enforce net neutrality.
more like here's another list of algorithms I need to know that's been featured here on hacker news a gazillion times
FNU – First Name Unknown
Over the last couple months, I noticed a few times that my Uber driver's name shows up as FNU.

Recently, I asked my Uber driver his name and he introduced himself as 'fanu'. When I asked him what it meant - he said 'First Name Unknown'. I was a bit shocked. He said that he served as an interpreter for the U.S. Armed Forces and felt glad that the U.S. accepted his visa. However, during his visa registration process - since he had only one name (moniker) - the government used it as his last name, and entered FNU as his first name.

I checked 2 more times, and I realized that this is a common situation with Immigrants from places with complex names (hard spellings / pronunciations) or single names. The name is hence directly carried forward from Visa to Drivers License and then to the Uber profile.

Do you think Uber and other service companies (where such names are entered) can take an effort to start with correcting the name in their Uber profile?

I would be really upset moving to another country and changing my identity to First Name Unknown. Especially at workplace as an Uber driver.
Hard to reconcile this with Luke 23:43

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Luke%2023:43
To save people time, it was Spinoza. Excellent read though.
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who fact checks the facts checkers?
I did mean area. And I thought the number of photons was proportional to the square of the area because the probability amplitude is proportional to the area. Therefore the probability should be proportional to the square of the area, shoudn't it?

It also seemed to make sense to me otherwise we would not need to build large telescopes, we could just build lots of small ones and fuse the images.
I'm with you. HN eternal september'd at least 6 years ago. You'll note pg doesn't participate at all anymore. He used to be a regular.
yes, i use them extensively. They're a godsend for the homepages of all my college classes.
I should hope that they subtract off the dark current, astronomers have been doing that since the first time they used a CCD. Dark current is a big limitation to seeing dim things.

That's a much higher QE than the good old days, wow.
> Our systems aren't perfect, but it's rare we have to put up with shit like that.

I'd love to see a breakdown of the US economy, sketching which rules apply where. Including gray and black markets.

When a couple of Boston-NYC gray bus operators went legit, incumbent Greyhound fought them in various ways, including leveraging corruption in federal law enforcement. The sole battered survivor had to hire a DC lobbyist.

SpaceX is massively disrupting a large mature industry, while doing no defensive patenting at all. Apparently relying entirely on something like "you don't piss off US Senators and DoD".

There's a lot of fascinating texture to how the US economy is structured, but I've never seen a broadly scoped and roughly quantitative sketch.
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Calexit scares me because it's effectively abandoning the country; California can survive much more than the rest of the country can. It might be unfair to place that burden on California, sure, but it seem indisputable that leaving would destabilize the remaining United States in many ways - which won't be good for either Californians or anyone else. What's to stop New York, for instance, from also leaving once it realizes that the 50/50 red/blue balance is permanently gone? And what is a US without California and New York, on the world stage? Is it still treated like the US?

The process of figuring that out, and perhaps of Canada becoming the world's great superpower (with California and with the bordering state of New York) and essentially needing to disarm a terrified and well-armed US, seems like it cannot possibly be a better plan than California just getting the US to do what it wants in approximately any other way. No one will win except Raytheon and Palantir.

And even if it doesn't get that bad, I would expect a US without California to leave both NATO and NAFTA, either out of spite, out of a clear dominance of the political voices that are currently NATO-skeptic and NAFTA-skeptic (but are being held in check by California's votes), or out of simply not having enough of an economy left where either of them make sense.
You are missing something though: Using entangled detectors you can surpass the diffraction limit. Googling "quantum internet and diffraction limit" would bring up some more information. Either way, this would apply to resolution, not to sensitivity (which is what you seem to be covering)
No "About" link on the page, nothing describing what it does or how. It just collects URLs.

Nope.
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I do, but only for frequent things, and I'll clean that out periodically.

For longer term bookmarks I use pinboard.

I use a middle-ground for a few things: I may bookmark, say, news sites in pinboard under the "news" category. Every tag and combination of tags on pinboard has an RSS feed; I bookmark the "news" tag's RSS feed in Firefox, and everything tagged shows up.

The RSS is not for the content of the target sites, it's for what goes in and out of the news tag. So I might add another news site to my pinboard news tag, and vi-ola, it shows up in my Firefox RSS bookmark. Delete something from the pinboard tag and it's gone in Firefox.
I mean, at some point you're going to have to make SOME compromise. It's not like you have to have the base with you at ALL times, but you are going to have to charge the thing at some point. Even with just the tablet portion you can get through a meeting or a good portion of a workday for just general browsing/non power-user functions.
Direct link to manufacturer or supplier:

https://www.x20.org/color-night-vision/
Well, if current evolutionary theories are correct, it's not quite mimicry. It's not like one snake see the other poisonous snake scaring off predator and decides it too wants to look like that.
Rather, its convergence [0] [1]. This helps with reproductive success so its numbers goes up.

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[0] the tendency of unrelated animals and plants to evolve superficially similar characteristics under similar environmental conditions.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/convergent_evolution.htm
Hey all,

Head of engineering at Foursquare here. Thanks for all the enthusiasm around our story. I’ve been at Foursquare since 2010 and can share some additional insight.

If you're an engineer building out a location-based product, and you’re curious how you can play around with our location data, we do have one of the world's most robust place databases. Twitter, Microsoft, Samsung, Snapchat, Apple, Uber, Pinterest —some of the world’s biggest tech companies— are building products on top of our Places database and API. We have a good-size free tier, and it's easy to get started: https://developer.foursquare.com/

The fact that it’s considered to be one of the most accurate databases, and that it’s widely trusted (used by more than 100K developers), didn’t come easily. The accuracy of our our place search API has been steadily improving over the past seven years. To do it well is a really challenging engineering problem. The sensor signals available from iOS/Android location services in today’s phones are often only accurate to tens of meters—especially when indoors. And this is an improvement! So we've taken the billions of check-ins we've collected since 2009 to basically create a model of what physical places look like from the perspective of a mobile device.

We continue to capture training label data from Foursquare City Guide and Foursquare Swarm usage, which allows us to continuously improve our place search model. A lot of complex machine learning and infrastructure goes into solving this problem. And by the way, Place search is just one of Foursquare’s many engineering challenges. We've been innovating and building new products over the past eight years. In March, we launched our Pilgrim SDK. There are even bigger challenges and opportunities ahead...

I know this because I've been here almost since the beginning: Right now is the most exciting time in the company's evolution.

It's important to mention that we take our user data privacy extremely seriously. Some of the products we're currently working on, including the ones that are mentioned by the Entrepreneur article, are built on anonymized and aggregated visit data. The products that we're building don't expose any individual visitation data at any point. We are forthcoming with our community about how we use our data, and we work hard to create engaging apps that make cities easier to use through search & discovery and checking in.

As we continue to rapidly scale and grow we are hiring in both SF and NYC for almost every area of engineering. We're especially interested in experienced iOS, Android, data pipeline (kafka, hadoop, spark, scalding), and ML engineers.

You can check out our jobs page here: https://foursquare.com/jobs

We pride ourselves on having a very transparent, inclusive and respectful company culture.

Jon Hoffman
You call lists of drugs and supplements "stacks", and then you post this to HackerNews?!?
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Yes, Chrome syncs my bookmarks across devices. Pretty nifty.
If you pay the yearly pinboard fee, they'll archive everything you bookmark. I doubt if they do a deep copy, but it's something.
I'm afraid this culture is now endemic in web development. Everyone expects everything to be free, so the people building most of the tools, from the libraries to the browsers themselves, are mostly either doing it for fun as an amateur or doing it professionally in order to support something that does bring in revenues. Neither of these necessarily implies writing or maintaining ideal tools to support web development more widely; any wider benefit is largely coincidental. Unfortunately, because so much of the influence is now concentrated with so few organisations or even individual people, and most of them are aligned on this, it's going to be difficult to return to a more widely supportive ecosystem now.
I'd like to see React support shadow-dom and web components. Not holding my breath however, since Facebook considers web components to be a "competing technology".

Unlike real web components, React components are brittle since React does not have the equivalent of Shadow DOM.
I'm no fan of Uber but taxis in Rome, Italy, at least, are the worst out of ~40 countries I've been to. And when you write the city to try and complain after photographing the taxi that ripped you off? They basically ask you fill out a novel. :-/
Yes and bookmark-bar enabled.

@browser developer: don't remove or hide the bookmark feature. Allow me to bookmark the same link in multiple folders. Don't nag me with your cloud sync (no thanks), but add a feature to sync to a private cloud like Owncloud/nextcloud. Don't remove advanced features, don't simplify things without fully understanding the features. RSS support in bookmark-bar is pretty useful.
Nah; I'm a Canadian in California. It'd be pretty great.
Who's 'she'? Anyway, I think you ought to rethink your claim that Chomsky is the father of cognitive science and of modern linguistics.
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> Reading this book inspired me to learn sign language, which I expected to be radically different from spoken and written language, and more powerful in many ways, as you can physically describe things in ways that has little parallel to spoken and written languages.

Was it?
Sure, as long it's made clear that DARPA's motivation has no intention of freespeech, and DARPA is the main driver behind early internet research.
Most Americans are not the sort with the knee-jerk "Think of the children!" reaction. The problem is that most sane Americans do not vote. Our political landscape is such a mess that Americans don't want to think about politics, and so their opinion is drowned out by fear-driven activism.

If I understand terrorism, I will not react to it irrationally. The rational reaction is, in fact, no reaction at all. The problem is that those who do react to terrorism react in fear. They push this agenda of security over liberty.

In order to overcome this idiotic agenda, those of us who are sane enough not to react, must actually take action. We must actually vote. We must actually talk politics, instead of going on with the things we find more immediately important, we must actually take political action. It has just been too damn hard to get that to happen, so here we are.
Nothing wrong, I'd love to use taxis. But I have a few conditions:

* I want to call a driver and know if the ride was accepted, if the car is coming, how much time it will​ take for it to arrive, all in realtime... and specially, I want feedback if the ride is cancelled;

* Not to be called names if the ride was too short;

* Be able to rate the driver and know that anything I complained about would be taken seriously;

* Pay a fair amount for a decent service.

There are a number of taxi companies that are already doing apps and such. I think this is great. I have no such options where I live, therefore... Uber.
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But it sounds cool when you call it a binary search. Poetic licence.
For whatever my anec-data is worth, I run a sports stats website as a hobby (which has a decidedly non-developer user base), and when looking at my own user breakdown I found that less than .1% of my traffic was IE10 or below.

So while there's still likely an insular group at play, it's not limited to just developers.
Firefox and Chrome both will display a local directory. In fact I exploit that for my no-software written personal wiki, github.com/a3n/miki. I bookmark the directory of the top of my wiki, and drill down into directories to get at my pages, except the pages I've bookmarked.

I see no reason why a browser couldn't do that with URLs in local directories.

EDIT: Unfortunately I don't think the first part, drag/drop from browser tab to file manager folder, works in Linux. Tried it with nemo, dolphin and nautilus. But viewing and clicking on directories and contents from the browser works fine.

EDIT EDIT: Dragging a tab didn't work for me. But dragging the icon from the address bar worked fine. Except in Dolphin, which gave me something weird. nemo and nautilus were good. And the "files" clicked in the file manager opened in the browser. And of course, opening them from the browser directly also works.
I'd be more harsh, I think if you believe this news story you are a fucking idiot.

Humans are strange creatures, we spend our time making up things, be it the many gods or superstitions which we often know as both true and not true.

But haven't we moved on?
I wonder what the sensor is made of. I would bet on there being a fair bit of Germanium in there.

PS: probably wrong about that, silicon's band gap is more suited to optical spectrum, even though germanium has more electron mobility. I'm speculating now that they're using avalanche photodiodes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_photodiode
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I use bookmarks in two basic ways. One is that I have Firefox customized to have two rows of header and on the right half of the top row (which has tabs on the left) I have favicon only bookmarks of sites I look at frequently (like hckrnews.com) so I can open them with one click. I have eighteen such bookmarks plus a link to browser preferences. I have seven folders of bookmarks, either just with the folder icon, one or two characters of text, or a single emojii character for identification. Three of these contain links to my favorite articles (Firefox is bad at scrolling in bookmark folders :( ). One has links I occasionally want to use but not often and one is supposed to have things I want to go back and look at somewhat quickly but not quickly enough to be worth a top level link (I need to clean it out, though, I've collected too much that I am not going to go back to). I'll sometimes create temporary folders about a particular topic.

I bookmark most pages I view as unsorted bookmarks (especially helpful for news sites that have essentially no way to ever find old articles) and then ones I am more interested in I add to another folder that I occasionally divide into smaller folders (to avoid needing to scroll) and put all of these smaller folders ordered chronologically in a folder to the right of the tabs. I usually search the bookmarks first when looking for something, but I don't tag and too often neither the title nor url contain the right keywords for me to find it.

I would really love a more unified bookmark/history system along the lines of Vivaldi's calendar history, but being able to create icons that will flag the current page (to be able to look through just the more interesting history) and other icons that would cause the current page to be saved to a particular folder as a bookmark. Then at most one click would reproduce my current system other than occasional reorganization. Since I can't predict in advance most of what I want to refer to again, I want it to take as little time as possible to bookmark things. I liked the star in Firefox better when it didn't pop up the folder selection unless you clicked it twice.
Reddit, hackernews, quora aren't censored.
The first expression I had was:
What rights do we humans have to take her back from her family(monkeys in this case) and her home (the forest)? Just because she is our kind, should we impose our culture, our values, our ways (and our governments) on her?

But then - this feels more like a creative story. From the videos it looks like she might have been in the forest only for some time and needs rehab, but I am no expert here.
All the time in Chrome. I have a fairly rigid structure in my Bookmarks folders, where I categorise all my hobby and professional interests. I like that it is synchronised across all my devices too.

I used to use Pocket a lot to do similar things, but categorising, and browsing the saved links was a little too cumbersome.

Plus I like that I can search just within my plethora of bookmarks if I want to reference something I know I saved a year ago. [0]

[0] - https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/02/quickly-search-just-ch...
I still use bookmarks, but rarely go to them.

All of my bookmarks are resources, something for me to read or use at a later time. Some are for things I want to learn, some are for things I knew but have lost to time, and others are just.. out there. Like this: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm I have no idea why I bookmarked that (or when).

Another example: This week I decided to learn Rust. I was listening to a podcast and the host mentioned rustbyexample.com and I visited the site and realized previous me had bookmarked it thinking I would decided to learn Rust at some point and it would be a nice resource.

Maybe something that would look at my recent history and say Hey X has been in your bookmarks for months and it's related to all the Y pages you've been visiting.

None of them are organized, I'd pay for something to automatically organize them.
I agree except the swift part (I don't even code in Swift). It's impossible for it to die because of iOS unless Apple kills it for something else.
Here's a list of QE numbers: http://www.sensorgen.info/

I knew it was over 60%, and I remembered (wrong) as the G15 and G16 having the same sensor. Welp, 77% QE for the G16 and 67% for the G15. There are others with higher QE, though in general those are used in smaller sensors.

DSLRs, while having lower QE numbers, have much larger sensors, and hence a better image quality.