skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judges asking questions like this don't give previews of their thinking necessarily. Often it's because they want a lawyer to make a particular argument in open court, so that they can take that argument into consideration. They are asking questions to attempt to get all arguments stated precisely.
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> From what I gather, only about 10% of the population can stand being in a VR environment between 15-30 minutes, and even then have to break.

I get intense motion sickness normally but can spend an hour or two in VR just fine. 90fps and teleport mechanics go a long way towards comfort. Considering there are almost 1m owners of Vives, PSVR's and Rifts combined I seriously doubt there was a 90% return rate here.
Wouldn't he still have to pay the income tax if he repatriates the money?
Yeah, I read articles calling it sophisticated. This is a super simple and straight forward worm. Disguise yourself as a known app and ask for more permission than you should. IDN exploits [0] and attachment faking [1] are more sophisticated if anything.

[0] https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/chrome-firefox-unicod...

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/01/18/google-gmail-scam-phishing/
3 steps to determine the key activation event
53% of US jobs look automatable within 20 years.[1] There will be a much larger underclass in a decade.

But they'll have legal pot to keep them quiet and passive.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/the-par...
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I may get lambasted for this, but reality is that PR is simply the canary in the coal mine of a Liberal mentality regarding government finance and government benefits without realizing their finance drug dealers on Wall Street don't have their best interest in mind. This is clearly a self imposed problem caused by and perpetrated by Puerto Ricans against Puerto Ricans. I don't get what people who want to make excuses and rationalize this or similar consequences to Liberal policies are expecting.

You overspend and blow money on credit cards, what do you think will happen when you then just keep on taking on debt with ever less savory entities.

It's never going to change until a means for holding people to account who had the fiduciary responsibility to serve PR. All the politicians who kept on voting for ever more debt should be rounded up, all their assets seized, and throw them in jail for 20 or so years. We don't have any real consequences for those in charge of our government and politics, therefore there is zero incentive to do the right thing.

To quote one of many throughout history who have noted similar: Alexander Tytler on Democracy
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship."

Now PR has the USA to leech off of as all the rats jump ship to the USA, where they will inevitably only add to the mentality that led them to the self-imposed disaster they fled, but eventually all the pieces will start falling eventually.
There are other models other than two extremes. For example, in (at least some) European countries there is not such thing as private person going bankrupt. However, of course that that person won't be sold to slavery. Simply, if you can not repay the loan, your property will be confiscated and sold to repay it. You can dodge that by not having any property on your name, of course, and most such people do that, but that also means having no flow on your bank account (everything over a small life-sustaining minimum would be taken every month).

That is at least in theory. Since a considerable part of the economy is in the gray zone, there are ways of dodging that. Large part of the law system is corrupt, so well connected people always find a way to be untouchable. The system is also inefficient so lots of those debts exist just on paper.
Basically, you can't go bankrupt as a person, and you wont be sold to slavery, but you will effectively still own the debt and the only way to not repay it is to work in the black zone outside of the system, or wait so long that the lenders write it off themselves (after a few decades or so?).
If Levandowski downloaded 14,000 documents I'm sure Google believes he stole from them and is using those docs at Uber, whether it's true or not.

He might be using those docs from his personal laptop to help build Uber's product, or he might just been doing a build at home for Google in his last days there. I don't trust that Googles lawyers descriptions (or Ubers lawyers descriptions), so it will take until the full evidence is out before we can know for sure.
SoCal down. Also, neat website: http://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp
Oh man they aren't even comparable. The tracking on the Vive is for all intents and purposes, perfect. It is truly room-scale and the headset and controllers have sub-millimeter tracking resolution in a space up to 15x15'.

The Oculus on the other hand uses image sensors with a limited field of view, so it is much easier to lose tracking on your hands when you move quickly, bend over, or turn around. They will sell you a third sensor to expand tracking to 360 degrees, but at that point you are basically buying a shitty Vive.
Yes down in Bay Area, California too.
> Not a lawyer, but it's my understanding there is no 5th amendment protections in a civil suit/trial.

It was weirder than that. Levandowski was claiming that Uber couldn't turn information over to Google because it might incriminate Levandowski, when Levandowski wasn't one of the parties in the lawsuit. Unsurprisingly, that didn't fly.
A little bit, yeah. The leaders of those businesses made promises to people, and they failed to uphold them.
Just dropping by to thank you guys. This extension will be amazingly useful to me.

One question for the good fellas at Sourcegraph: Is it possible to run that extension in firefox? Did you try something like that? Is the code open, so I could give it a go?
> I stopped writing this kind of fancy code a long time ago when I realized it wasn't worth it

I'm not sure what you mean by "fancy code." I feel like it's the opposite. We often try to write code that is readable and maintainable, and has as few as possible "fancy" magical constants littered throughout it, but I'm happy if a compiler wants to optimize it.

If I have to specify some variable, e.g. `frameRate = 60` and then I have a whole bunch of other variables throughout the code that depend on it, then I'm going to reference framerate everywhere: `framePeriod = 1/frameRate; frameBufferSize = frameRate * 100` or whatever. This way if we change our specs, I have a single number to change, instead of dozens of numbers that all depends on each other.

Similarly, if I'm calculating the volume of a sphere, you bet I'm going to put `v = 4/3 * Math.PI * Math.pow(r, 3)`, because it's a meaningful statement that everyone will understand, without trying to get "fancy" by optimizing it.

But should a compiler optimize it? Heck yeah.
We have 3 major companies who do the work for the lenders, giving every financially active human in our society a score of how much of a default risk they are.
Yeah -- "wifi calling" (running LTE signalling/data over an IPSec tunnel over wifi) is frankly superb -- I use it all the time, it seems to reduce battery drain (I imagine there's somewhat less use of the LTE modem), it even works on my phone (iphone 6 on t-mobile in US) when it's in airplane mode with wifi enabled.
Shoutout from Canada! There are 32M of us, 88% of whom have internet. Our banks are archaic and expensive, and as a people, we have a low tolerance for that. My current bank actually believes that the telephony system is secure, compared to email :/

Our banking laws are favorable to startups; I could start my own bank, if I wanted to, for little more than the cost of a business license. Many merchants run their own little micro-banks, partly because of the aforementioned problem. Please help :)
I reported this attack vector to Google back in 2012. They awarded a modest bounty, and then a few months later I heard this:

> "We're deploying some abuse detection and reactive measures to deal with impostors that might try to abuse this sort of attack. Given this, we do not intend to perform validation that the URL matches the branding information."

That last part was in reference to one of my proposed mitigations, which they chose not to implement.

Here's the discussion on the IETF OAuth WG mailing list from that same time period: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg07625...
PR doesn't need more tourists, they need to see a chance at a strong and healthy economy without a massive guillotine hanging over its head.

Bumping tourism would help relieve just a few drops but it's a swimming pool, not just a glass of water.
"Coffeescript output" is javascript so it doesn't look much like coffeescript. Presumably GP doesn't like the specific javascript idioms to which coffeescript transpiles.
Whoops, F1 or or Ctrl+E on Windows. Just updated the post above.
Illinois has a stronger economy than PR. Illinois's problem is that pensions are underfunded and the state constitution mandates a flat tax. The utter dependence of local gov't on property taxes also doesn't help
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Security things in Linux v4.11
So Musk wants to be the Internet, too. I, for one, welcome that.
I don't think that it can be used to transmit information at all, but rather to establish a shared state. The key is that you can't influence the state in a way that transmits information.

It's like sharing the same random oracle, you could use it to encrypt stuff, but sharing the same random bits with another party doesn't actually let you send information
For those who remember the term "disintermediation", this always seemed like an obvious application of it. Years ago I experimented with shopping online directly from overseas, to cut out the middle people and get better pricing, and had little luck finding any vendors. I still don't know why it hasn't become widespread much sooner.
For the price of the Lego kit, a better expenditure to "build with your kid" (or which the kid can build himself if he has the skills) would be a model rocket kits.

There are more than a few kits out there which can be easily built and launched safely - where the total equipment needed (if all purchased) would amount to something around what this Lego kit costs.

And you get a real flying rocket in the end!

If you want to spend a bit (or a lot) less, you can build flyable model rockets from literally trash: One local model rocket club here in the Phoenix area likes to display rockets made from Pringles cans (body, fins, and nosecone!). There is plenty of free and low-cost software out there to help with designing such rockets (and more than a few books).

Lastly - if you want - you can even make your own engines from easily sourced materials (sugar rocket engines are easily made using powdered sugar and tree stump remover, for instance, stuffed/poured into paper tubes or PVC pipe). You can find plenty of information on the internet too about these designs.

So - instead of building a non-flying pretend rocket - build a flying real one, strap a gopro to it, and launch!
What do you use regularly, that is open source? You'll be more motivated to participate in projects that you use on a regular basis, that might be useful to you.

Find some software that you're interested in. Do you follow their GitHub account, subscribe to the mailing list (especially dev list), keep up to date on changes that are new? Have you looked at their source? Is there anything you wish the software did better, or any bugs you wish were fixed?

Learning how everything fits together for a software project can be a great learning experience, and if you take notes as you go, you'll naturally write docs (and be the hero of the day).
But if we're assuming the accused is guilty of some crime with which the booty can be charged, can't you also assume that a man who has been declared not-guilty is guilty of some tangentially-related crime that still allows the civil asset forfeiture?

IE "John Smith is found not guilty of trafficking for the drugs we thought he had on him, but he still could have got the $5000 from some other incidence of trafficking we failed to discover and therefore we're still charging his assets with trafficking".
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I can read and understand the MIT or BSD licenses. That is an extremely valuable property of a contract to me. Both clearly state that I may modify and distribute the software.

Adding a huge pile of details about what exactly that means makes me rather nervous. I am not a lawyer, and I worry that somewhere in that huge pile of explicitness that there are consequences that I don't anticipate, and that don't match up with the broad simple language those explicit details replaced.
yeah that site is really good for a lot of things. Windowing functions help you write less procedural SQL -- I'm a huge fan.
Down in Italy.
This article reads like an advertisement and is lacking the most important part: Sample pictures that the reporter actually took with the advertised phone.
Does anyone know how much the US federal govt is on the hook for?
> I could provide...

Well I could provide a tortoise that speaks seven different languages. Saying what you could provide is fairly bad form.

> and very early childhood.

Wait, how early? Which part of childhood is the genetic part? Heck, what about the potential for non-uniform distribution of teratogens? Has that even been studied?

> but "we must hire women otherwise people think we're sexist" is not a properly regulated market

"We should prefer to choose an equally qualified woman because not only is she presently equally qualified, but she has achieved being equally qualified in an environment that in-many-small-ways-collectively-and-constantly tries to prevent it" is, though. There is no shortage of well-qualified individuals in the world. And if you don't agree, then we must first begin another conversation on what exactly you think qualifies someone to develop software.

> But my conclusions do follow from studies.

They certainly don't follow from the ones you linked, even though you said they would. I know that because I read the studies you linked. So maybe these other ones also don't support your conclusions any better?

> If you take top 2% of people by IQ from a random population sample, you expect to have more men.

Maybe. Now tell me the part of the study that says why. And further tell me the part that indicates a positive correlation with success in computer software production. And then tell me the part that indicates positive correlation with representation in the field. And then tell me the part that indicates...heck, maybe that indicates that g is even a useful measurement to begin with.

Because you said, and I quote, "[biological] differences are causing different representation in STEM fields", which is an unsupported conclusion.
When you're looking for states that might be in trouble, you're looking for places with certain attributes. For instance, high debt per capita and low per capita income. Add to that low or decreasing populations and a few other metrics and you can get a really good picture of which states will end in the most trouble.

Illinois wouldn't be terribly high on that list. Your best bets for gaming collapses would be places like Rhode Island, Mississippi and Louisiana. In the next tier would be places like Kansas and Alabama. These are the places that I'd wager will have the most trouble in the future.

But I'm not sure how you'd game any of this... because we're talking about States, so bankruptcy protections would work differently.
Is it stupid though, if the government then bails them out? In the end it's always the poor people that get screwed.
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I guess my concern isn't that these are "science fiction technologies" but that they're rather simple. AI has a history of over-promising and under-delivering and even if a few "self-driving" cars have made it on the road, how long until people begin trying to use them in scenarios they're not really ready for? All of that progress can disappear overnight if there are a few bad accidents.

I guess when I look around, I don't see a comparison between AI now and the Internet then, I see a comparison between AI now and AI then (70's).
I get a feeling that the tech job market is oversaturated right now, and there are plenty of people running around with all the "achievements" (diplomas, certifications, etc) and no actual knowledge.

On my last job i sat right next to the corner where we interviewed candidates, so i could hear everything and would occasionally pop in to participate. There was a scary amount of people like that - boasting a big resume but unable to tell a mutex from a semaphore.

So, i suspect you failed to pass some initial HR-level filters designed to filter out the sludge so that the actual programmers would be able to cope with the amount of candidates left to interview.
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You have to work more than a certain number of hours for ObamaCare to cover you.

Its why Googles quality raters have been put on part time working Bad employers gaming the system its one of the drivers behind trump and brexit
I see, that makes total sense and I've run into that exact problem in my React Native app. Global defines take seconds to be defined initially since they need to execute functions. Would still be interested in benchmarks tough
Some things that are not completely obviously named after places:

hamburger => Hamburg
frankfurter => Frankfurt
wiener => Vienna
pilsner => Plzeň
seltzer => Selters
1,110km to 1,325km is actually a fairly high orbit. Estimated lifetime is 1000 years.
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This is exactly why different people/companies/governments pay different rates. The rate you pay has your risk factored in.
While we're on the topic, can anyone explain to me the purpose of paying dividends? When I try to look this up, all I get is the definition of a dividend. Wouldn't that money be better going back into the company, increasing its value to the investors the same amount, but now with more capital for innovation/survival? Why do companies incentivize investors to hold their stock?
Why would Uber allow discovery if they think they are already going to win?

There is nothing wrong with Uber talking to Levandowsky while he was at Google, and nothing wrong for him to do it as long as he didn't violate his NDA. If Uber said, "hey, we really want to build a strong team for self driving, you should leave Google and come here", that's totally fine as well.

It's even fine if they say "start a separate company and recruit a team, and we'll either invest or buy it".

Google has a high bar here. They have to show their assets were "laundered" into Uber. And they have to show that Uber knew it and encouraged it. In the first case they'd only have a case against Levandowsky and a very limited one against Uber. It's only in the second where Uber's liability becomes substantial.
A couple hacks helped us. First was finding some short cuts to test the core functionality of the idea and make sure that when we pulled X string, Y things happened (in our case, adjusting air flow of vents had a material impact on temperature across the home was a critical thing to test) and measured with arduinos and raspis. Also, LOTS of nights and weekends 'moonlighting'
These days I'm afraid that my ten year future is trying to hit "ethnic minorities" with sharp objects while avoid being hit in return.
It does, but not immediately

> Ginsburg forcefully rejected Colorado’s argument that “[t]he presumption of innocence applies only at criminal trials"

So now all the judges in the land have to rely on that. So people just have to sue in every single state, and federal circuit on civil forfeiture cases, and the judges will have to lean on the new Supreme Court opinions, or get it back to the Supreme Court so that they can clarify specifically on a civil forfeiture case.
Bolivia, SA, down as well.
Hope to read the postmortem soon. ^^
You may think it's wildly inaccurate, but head over to the lego store and you'll see how closely this holds up. This is by far the highest piece count model I've seen for $119.
Bankruptcy is perfectly normal for business institutions. Limited liability is the foundation of the entire stock market. It's a basic economic tool used for navigating choppy waters. We only attach a moral value to it when individuals and governments use the tool.
You be one of those engineers
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Yes, in Colombia, Brasil and Mexico too.
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Looking forward to the post-mortem on this one.
Sorry for the dupe. I only saw the Ask HN original well after posting this one.
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You'd have to wonder though if this is perhaps scoffing at the notion of an airline industry at the time the Wright brothers are showing off their first aircraft.

Getting from "man powered craft that can stay in the air for 30 seconds and a hundred odd metres" to "jetting millions of people around the world every day" requires a leap of imagination, but unequivocally it was possible, and happened.
They don't seem to have any sort of status page nor direct contact with their ops team.
I see you are new to the community. Low effort or semantic comments like yours are typically discouraged on HN.

Also, for what it's worth the correct plural of lego is up for debate. http://www.adrants.com/2005/09/lego-gets-pissy-about-brand-n...
Pilosa actually uses Roaring internally for bitmap compression (in fact, one of the Pilosa devs did the first port of Roaring from Java to Go). One difference is that really wide bitmaps are sharded and distributed among nodes in the cluster. This allows Pilosa to parallelize the work of doing bitwise operations on high cardinality data.
I wish we could build a world where nobody had to be afraid like this.