skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how any of these solutions help. At the US border agents routinely ask you to log into your email account and search your emails. If you refuse to comply it is much more likely they will not let you into the country.

So they don't just search your laptop they try and search online accounts also.
My opinion of him plunged and never recovered after seeing him present at a YC demo day some years ago. He threw up this slide of a heroically ascending curve and proclaimed 'This is what exponential growth looks like!' to huge applause from the packed house, while I wondered why there were no numbers on the Y axis. OK, that wasn't the only thing that bothered me, but if someone insults my intelligence then I see no reason to put any trust in them.
It wasn't useful because you couldn't play it back. The title of this article is awful; it encourages all these comments fixating on the "no one cared" aspect while if you read the article, it's quite obvious why no one cared. When we think of "recorded sound", being able to listen to those sounds is implicit in our minds. This invention is only recording sound in the technical sense, not the colloquial sense.
So it's a LIDAR + galvanometer scanner in a box? This is nothing particularly novel in itself, except they seem to have solved the scanning-speed problem. If you look at the videos of the scan, you can see that rather than the ring-like scans you'd get from a Velodyne system, you get a kind of snake-path. They're scanning (extremely quickly, by the looks of it) with a mirror and doing a kind of raster pattern.

From a skim of their patent it's a multiplexed system - http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2017/0131388.html

Seems like they're using a galvo to scan the LIDAR and they're beamsplitting the laser to get multiple returns.
What's surprising, and admirable, to me is that he worked his way up with those traits vs founding the company.

As he says in the article, it's a lot to do with picking the right people to support you. Though the cynic in me suspects by eschewing detail and email, he had a lot more time for corporate politicking.
Put up with what? I go through Houston Customs almost every month and they rarely search anyone. It's like a river of people walking right out the airport doors after a cursory glance at the customs declaration. I have never once seen a person with an open laptop in the search areas. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen but good grief, what's the actual percentage? I am willing to bet a minuscule percentage gets their devices searched.
> It is extremely disappointing that Uber is considered a crown jewel of Silicon Valley.

To be honest, I'm not sure many hold them up as the crown jewel of Silicon Valley. All I hear with regard to Uber is derision.
Right. And there is absolutely no legal justification for requesting you go fetch those bits from a data center hundreds of miles away and show them to the CBP employee.

However, they are hoping that people don't know that and do it anyway, even though they don't have to. Also, a lot of CBP employees probably don't understand that distinction anyway. It feels like it's all "on the phone".

Of course that distinction between data in your possession on your device and data that's hundreds or thousands of miles away might not matter if enough precedent accumulates to support forcing people to go fetch things when they're at the border. So we need to stand up for freedom from government intrusion now!
Nonsense. The state protects land for the wealthy using taxes from labourers.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COQgS0MUcAA7-RK.png
Actually you should count all Adults not just "eligible" for a few reasons

1. No one once reaching the age of majority should have their voting rights taken, for any reason including criminality

2. The figures also do not include people of age who are ineligible to vote or have not registered. The "Have not registered" is a key part because many stated in the last 2 election cycles have been passing a number of laws to disenfranchises segments of the populations making it harder and harder to register

3. The concept of our nation is "Consent of the people", that is all people, not just those voting. the majority of PEOPLE reject the 2 candidates put forth buy the corrupted and unethical political parties then the government can not claim to have the consent of THE PEOPLE...

Many many many Americans feel complete disenfranchised by the political systems that gives them 2 Choices that are equally terrible and corrupt. Forcing a defensive vote that is mainly against the person you do not want to win instead of voting for a qualified person you actually want to be in office.

As a life long Libertarian, I have no interest in voting for either a Republican or Democrat
Many signs are written both in English and Spanish all over. Even in rural-ish North Carolina.
So I went back and read the entire article and I think I agree with what you're saying (after initially disagreeing). His comment did not extend the natural discussion that would follow from reading the article and did play into the common narratives that are too often unproductively rehashed.

I still believe that silent down votes do not contribute to intelligent discussions either. If someone can take a minute to read an article, its comments, and down vote, they should also be able to politely explain to the commenter in question how and why that comment may be detracting from the discussion. That way the commenter may defend his position or adapt his behavior to better contribute within the community.
Plug for Dhalgren ( https://www.amazon.com/Dhalgren-Samuel-R-Delany/dp/037570668... ).

I won't claim it's a great work of English literature, because that's not what my training is in.

But it sure as hell makes my Top 5 "Books I finished a different man than I started."

Disclaimer: I recommend reading it while traveling in a country where you don't speak the native language for full effect.
Tangentially relevant, I made a pam authentication module for Linux a while ago, that addresses this issue. It allows for the creation of duress passwords. Here is the repository: https://github.com/rafket/pam_duress
New Samsung's Galaxy S8 Smartphone Security Tricked
Is there a link available to this extension where it can be downloaded?

(Not that I am in a position to use it personally at the moment, but I would be happy to post it on my blog on the theory that someday I might use it, and, in the mean time, others might find it of interest.)
> In theory my wifi's fast enough for copying data to/from my phone

I could HotSync my Treo over Bluetooth 10 years ago and it was an effortless two-way sync with reasonably good conflict resolution.

It amazes me that nothing quite gets that right these days.
They can't even ship version of their Windows client with the ability to create/edit/delete local vaults.

I think they are focusing on money before all else. They do still make a good product, but the direction they are moving towards eliminates their support for many threat levels that they had previously.

Now you have to have a cloud account and you have to store your stuff there because their supposed "cross-platform" client cannot work on their own vault format on Windows.

They might respond saying the version 4 of the windows client supports working with these vaults, but version 4 does not support OTPs so if you want to use the modern features without relying on their cloud storage...they don't care.

If you go to their forums and read the response from the community about windows not supporting creating or editing of local vaults you will see they are by and large dismissive. So I think it's really about money and resources.
So form an 'association' or something. If you're dealing with a company that reflexively breaks rules you're under no obligation to worry about niceties like union certification requirements and procedures. there is no moral obligation to play fair with a known cheater.
How then does "big data" differ from traditional HPC and mainframe processing? Those fields have been dealing with distributed processing and data storage measured in racks for decades.
Just to add to your comment, even so that the energy in each pulse is less than 100 billion times less than the energy from bright sunlight emitted in a second, it is still significant, but the number of laser pulses per second is key to knowing if the (peak) intensity of the laser is dangerous to humans or not, as they accumulate over said second. If you only had one pulse per second at 40 mW you would be looking at 30 mJ of energy per pulse, capable of making a nice plasma in air if focused, or machining metal. However they are probably working at 100s of kHz in order to be able to measure an image fast enough, so the energy per pulse is much lower.
Key here is the fact that our eye's lens doesnt transmit 1550nm so well, so the interaction with the eye doesnt involve focused light on the retina, hence the interaction intensity is much lower as the light is spread over most of the surface of the eye. Hence they can use much more power and still be eye safe/class 1 or 2, because whatever light gets to the eyes never gets focused down to a tiny spot in the retina, unlike visible lasers.

Also, sunlight is specified in intensity (power/area), and here we only have laser power, not laser spot size, so it is hard to make a fair comparison. nevertheless, sunlight is roughly ~1kW/m^2, so if the laser had a spot size of 2 mm (required to be this big for diffraction over hundreds of meters of propagation to not reduce its intensity too much) we can calculate the power of sunlight in that area: 3 mW. So the laser would be actually ~10x more intense. (if the laser would be 7.2 mm wide then the intensity would be the same as sunlight)
But one is comparing totally different wavelengths, so the laser safety rules are different. Two intros to laser safety for whomever is interested:
https://www.rp-photonics.com/laser_safety.html
https://spie.org/Documents/Publications/00%20STEP%20Module%2...

About thermal damage - funnily enough there is lots of time in nanoseconds to transmit heat and cause thermal damage. Heat transfer is actually reasonably fast at the submicroscale. As a curiosity see https://www.semrock.com/Data/Sites/1/semrockimages/technote_... for the difference between punching a hole with a femtosecond laser (no time for thermal diffusion to happen) and a nanosecond pulsed laser. The area around the laser just completely melts in the nanosecond case. Nevertheless this was done at much higher energies per pulse than the lidar lasers (thankfully!)
That Microsoft list is missing a quite a few products and services.

Wunderlist
Sunset
Games for Windows
Silverlight
Zune
Kin
XNA
PlaysForSure
Flight Sim
Expression Suite
SteadyState
Windows RT
Windows Phone 7
Forefront
Front Page
Money

And I'm probably missing many more.
You pay less on a second home than the person next door. The "logic" is you are using less "services" but then that's not land value tax. You are occupying the land, there is an opportunity cost, you should pay full whack.

The UK is a total nightmare for this and the education level is very low especially in economics so any mention of it is met with "it's me house".
Combatting this, though, seems to be one of the fundamental problems with combatting corruption. If there is a bottleneck in value, then the controllers of that value can demand something of greater aggregate value in exchange for access to it.
I'm sure that information could be...acquired. After that it's just social engineering.
I'd love that if they were open later. 2am would work great. It makes a great place to study and work. If you've never been to the 24 hour bookstore in Taipei, someday you've gotta check it out.
>To be clear, I find this entire concept incredibly abhorrent

It's not clear to me why it's abhorrent. Doesn't every company optimize their vendors and customers separately?
You're talking about a different report, about the presence of X-agent in Ukrainian artillery. And it wasn't a full retraction, it was just a correction, which did not undermine the key points. https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/brochures/FancyBearTr... The correction had to do with mis-representing the number of troops killed, it did not dispute that an X-agent variant was found on the artillery.
That sounds exploitative and possibly illegal.
Treat everyone equally, yes. But in male-dominated areas such as engineering, the default culture tends to be male-oriented too.

For example, bro culture. Not all females can navigate through this easily. Few girls choose the engineering field, and fewer still actually become engineers. This suggests that something not right is going on.

When the issue of gender equality pops up, often the assumption is that women are asking to be treated differently - which translates to special treatment. This is far from the case (and too many women do not stand up for themselves for fear of being seen this way.) Instead, the default culture needs to be more open and considerate about diversity. That obviously means it's not going to happen overnight - the minority group needs to be normalised first, and a big part of this is to have a large presence - aha, catch 22!

However, an empowered minority group can accelerate this and even encourage more to join in, thereby resulting a stronger presence and support network - hopefully leading to the normalisation of women in engineering, and greater equality.

Women mentorships can very well be the key to such empowerment.
Operation Comcastroturf
As far as I know, Uber car loans are fairly different from typical subprime car leases in that you can get out of them with little or no penalty.
If the sun exploded and everyone died, would anything still have intrinsic value?

This is a facile line of argument. There are reasonable assumptions we can make about how stable a particular context is.
Greed leads to stupidity.
It's a point cloud, but you get stripes because of the way the systems scan.

Unless you're using a flash LIDAR (mucho dinero), all LIDAR are single point sensors which have to be scanned. That is, you send out a pulse of light and a single photodiode detects the return signal.

A Velodyne LIDAR has up to 64 rx/tx pairs arranged into a grid which is rotated rapidly, so you end up imaging a series of rings around the sensor.

Specs - the best LIDAR systems scan at around 1Mpt/second over a full hemisphere. The Velodyne system gives you around 20-30k measurements in the field of view a typical car camera. Accuracy is centimeter level.

Stripes are produced by laser triangulation systems, but they're not true LIDAR. You project a line and look at how the image of it shifts compared to a known distance.
95% of cars in the US are automatics. The reason manuals are more popular in other countries is because they are cheaper, more fuel efficient, and (at least in Europe) learning how to drive a stick is (basically) a required.

There is a major price difference right now, but the switch to electric and market forces will drive those costs down. Tack on insurance discounts and the price delta will be smaller than that of automatic vs manual.
I realize it's quite irrational, but I've always been terrified of Zuckerberg. Somehow Facebook seems like the company most likely to make the future turn increasingly dystopian. It's a gut feeling I just can't shake off, and he more I learn about their practices (especially with that recent thread) the more I feel my fears are justified.

I can definitely picture augmented reality turning into a nightmare for the less wealthy (unskippable ads everywhere, etc.)
I've read a fair bit about these machines and seen various demonstrations back when they were still being deployed.

Quick examples: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/study-shows-how-easily-weapons...

A gun(!) is basically invisible in the scan. Is teflon tape enough to defeat these stupid machines?
Did anyone find info on how are user32.dll and kernel32.dll handled ?
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Would you care to open source it? I'd be happy to clean it up a bit in my free time. I often find myself obsessing over small things in communities I view highly, such as HN, and would benefit a lot from it.
My former employer Square (generally a great company) has been doing a similar thing for a while, in partnership with Facebook [1].

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/14/facebook-knows/
That sounds pretty awesome. :)

I'm just here with two NixOS machines playing with ML languages.

Have you tried NixOS & do you have an opinion regarding it? Or was it just straight to GuixSD?
Blow up Sovereign Immunity ffs. If someone gets detained they have no recourse or compensation to mitigate it being used as a threat.
The last one isn't right. You can get multiple generations out of a single tulip bulb. Thompson's book goes into more detail about how early tulip markets functioned and the role of tulip-breaking virus, but the key part is that specific tulip varieties (created by the virus) would be continually introduced and be grown and spread but each generation was weaker and eventually the variety died out entirely. So they had built-in scarcity, leading to initial high prices (as only a few bulbs existed) and then declines as they became popular and investors cultivated them, eventually disappearing and making room for new varieties.

So not quite money, but not quite individual artworks/collectibles either; maybe more like prints with limited runs? (In a similar way, woodblocks wear out so scarcity for a particular print series is enforced.)
4GB of memory for the $999 i5 model is so 2005.
I cant think of a single client that could operate with those specs.
I heard a lot of computer science departments started picking it as the introductory programming language a few years ago.
Rain is actually very little water at any one path. A drop is falling at 10 meters per second and heavy rain is ~1 cm per hour. So to ballpark it's around 1 part in 3.5 million water on average and assuming 1mm drop size you will see ~3.6km on average before you encounter a drop.

Note this is instantaneous, human vision deals with after images which adds blur.
You can improve the flow of congested traffic by keeping a gap in front and encouraging other drivers to merge [1]. There are some intuitive diagrams and animations in [2].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-driver-can-prevent-a-traffi...

[2] http://trafficwaves.org/
Different strokes :-)
There's a reason most desktop support still rely on the command line in the windows start menu.
Judge Orders Government to Provide Evidence About Internet Surveillance
I dunno. Is it useful to separate them?
What good is a $15/hr minimum wage for a person only capable of producing $10/hr in value? It's off to the unemployment line with them. Without a minimum wage more employers would be willing to hire completely unskilled workers and provide them with on-the-job training. The higher the minimum wage, the more like they are to demand you already have the skills and experience necessary to be highly productive on day one.
You pick the best for the role regardless or the business with suffer. Not sure why women needing a mentor to learn would alter that.

The sharp edge raises the question are women more valuable or less than men? Does this change the value.

On one hand men don't need mentors to succeed that provides more value. On the other hand women who can act as mentors to other women are more valuable than men.

In the end it doesn't matter to the business because both cases provide value in different ways. But it could make a big difference to the individual. Treat everyone differently because everyone has different needs and they learn in different ways.
If only it did not run Windows
> It makes one wonder what currently isn't being invented simply because it doesn't fit into our conceptual framework.

It's fun to think up thought exercises to try and help break out of our conceptual framework. On a smaller scale, an approach I've played around with is taking attributes of existing technologies that have certain things in common, then diagramming them in different ways and looking for holes.

As a concrete example, let's go back to 2005. You might reason that e-mails and blog posts are both kinds of written messages, however blogs have an open audience, while e-mails are sent to specific recipients, so a closed audience. Separately, you might compare e-mails to text messages, and realize that they are very similar, but one is long form while the other is short form. You can draw this as a table:

| short form | long form |
-+------------+-----------+
open | ??? | blogs |
-+------------+-----------|
closed | SMS texts | e-mail |
-+------------+-----------+

Now try to figure out what fits in the missing box (short form, open). It's Twitter! (Or even better, decentralized micro blogging.)
Single payer should be expected to cost less.

Not just because data all around the world in every industrialized country shows this.

But because it's simple economics: when buyers compete, prices go up. After all, buyers compete on one thing only: price. It's a rare buyer who offers piano lessons to the doctor's daughter in exchange for knee surgery.

Just think of patio and how he always says there will be someone paying your increased fee if yu position yourself right.

What a single payer system or public option does is eliminate competition for the basic level of product between buyers. It creates a monopsony that lowers prices similar to how a monopoly raises prices.

Compare the prices Medicare in the USA gets from doctors vs the other, smaller insurances, or average out-of-pocket costs.

Fiscal conservatives, there aint so such thing as a free lunch and that works on a societal level. Just 'cause you're not paying taxes to pay for someone's health insurance does not mean you don't need health insurance. The same goes for many other things. Single payer systems can make things cheaper for the kinds of things 95% of people want.

The real question is, do we really need single payer to be provided by the US federal government, or the EU, etc? Can't it be on a state or city basis? After all the costs of living in rural Wyoming are differet than NYC.

I mean this not just with respect to health insurance, but money for education, food, housing etc. which is all inevitable when robots and AI lower demand for human labor further and wages for many drop below the level to pay for these things.
I think we also need to consider the deeper psychological and anthropological triggers for the behavior in order to more efficiently facilitate this change. Sometimes I wonder if in order to enact change quickly we make the wrong decisions and policies. I think it's a complex problem and not a boolean flag that can be flipped.
Same. Loads quickly too!
> The same thing with vim using nonstandard way of quitting.

How do you quit man? How do you quit less?

'q' to quit is pretty standard in the TUI world.
Recently delayed by the TSA to the point of missing my turn to board. Was subjected to additional searching. Upon finding nothing, I discovered the extra searching was what they do when you fail the hand swab test. I had not had the test administered. So they administered the test. I passed. They then searched my things again and I was questioned regarding the quantity of business cards I was carrying.

Oh also I'm white.
Your example has an obvious great answer to "why not?", though, so no harm done in asking that question first.
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It still doesn't improve any on a quick-sort because quicksort is going to run in O(nlog n)=O(n64)=O(N) as well. So what's the point?
> Companies need to make clear to their employees (and the public) that sharing passwords is a terminable policy violation.

Companies cannot tell their employees to not comply with lawful request of a federal officer, and some companies specifically underline that in a company policy.
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