skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was also a very brief mention of a "depth api" before they started talking about the actual ARKit. is that endpoint documented anywhere?
One mans enrichment is another's spam.

Facebook is the king of suggestions, and its too general at best and too annoying at worst. The only enrichment I want touching my email inbox is better spam filtering.
I take it on a project by project basis. We have a bunch of legacy 2.x stuff running at work but when I began to greenfield new projects I made them 3.0 from the start. Folks at work asked why I made our codebase mixed with Python versions and I answered because I'm creating isolated tool projects from scratch and have no real constraints to use Python 2. It's made some issues for folks having to install both versions of python but it's been a pretty minor issue thus far.
> Furthermore, is it even true that VC returns are not well correlated with the public equity markets? My guess is that they would be pretty closely correlated.

On the contrary, I would posit that they're not correlated, or perhaps only weakly so. One of my primary concerns with the venture capital industry and the private equity markets in general is that there is no mature mechanism for the market consensus to reflect short opinions.

In public markets, there can be significant dissenting voices expressed by short interest which will have a material impact on the price of an equity. In the private markets, pessimism from many parties cannot be used to directly influence the consensus price. In my view, this leads to a natural bias towards successful private companies rising in valuation over time, whereas public companies swing more easily in either direction and have a harsher regulatory climate.

While both markets are influenced by things like interest rates, I would default to assuming that they significantly diverge in aggregate returns over time. They also have significant differences in liquidity, which means unhealthy economic trends in one may take a relatively long time to manifest in the other, even if they were otherwise correlated.
The thing that I hung onto during this part of the Keynote was that I have never seen anyone use an iPad laying flat on a table like that. Not only ergonomically that's bad (for your neck) most of the time I'm using mine on one knee kicking back on the couch or in bed.

A lot of the gestures they showed for multitasking require multiple fingers on both hands, so you can't also be holding the device.

I suppose with it propped up via a kickstand it might work fine, it just looked awkward to me to be fully flat like that. I also don't draw on an iPad so maybe I'm just not the target user for that orientation.
Google home is on discount now for $109
Re: attack surface—PDF is complex because it requires a ton of interaction (you can fill PDF forms, etc.) Image decoders should just be pure functions—binary stream in, matrix of pixel structs out. Easily sandboxed—you shouldn't need access to any system calls while doing that decoding.

Re: requiring an Internet connection—you still do require an Internet connection to display an image, if it's in a format whose decoder you don't currently have installed; you just currently have to manually 1. figure out what the format even is, 2. select a library package for a decoder for that format, and 3. install that package.

Presumably such libraries would be able to register decoder-URLs they are (non-reference) implementations of—like they register MIME types today—so your system would be able to display standard formats no problem; it'd just be the weird rare or new ones that would trigger the zero-install process for a decoder.
But Google already does do this, in ways that I found surprising. After buying a long-distance bus ticket last week, which emailed a confirmation message to my Gmail address, I later went into Google Maps and found that it had highlighted the bus station on the local map and placed the time of my bus' departure beside it. I believe it does this same sort of thing with calendar events as well (both in implicitly creating calendar events based on scraping emails, and in creating map highlights based on events you've explicitly created). Convenient no doubt, but I'm not sure I want many more implicit interactions between the apps in Google's ecosystem.

EDIT: Here's another one: after taking photos using the camera app (Android phone), Google Maps later pops up a system notification asking me to upload my photos to the location page of whatever establishment I appeared to be in at the time (bar, park, nightclub, etc.). Frankly, I'm frustrated that I can't find a setting to disable these unwelcome prompts without turning off Maps notifications entirely.

EDIT 2: I suppose I should clarify that I do travel a lot, and the specific feature described in the OP--suggesting things to do based upon inferring your status as an out-of-towner--sounds very useful. But I'd definitely only want it as an opt-in feature, not opt-out.
APFS is already out in the latest versions of iOS 10.
> You're still balancing the wrong thing. The people underrepresented in this industry are from particular socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. The people with those backgrounds are not racially balanced, but that does not make balancing on race a solution.

If you actually balance on socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, you will tend to regress towards the base population distribution of your hiring locality. But that's not what we see. Indeed, by selecting for white men in America you actually will amplify classist effects in America, as wealth is disproportionately distributed to white men.

Ultimately this is the observation it feels to me like you're hoping to avoid. If we're genuinely seeking a diversity of perspective we'd expect to see ethinic, class and religious diversity as a natural outcome of this desire. That we don't suggests that in fact people are interested in the OPPOSITE a diversity of opinion.

This particular bellwether is important because it signals a concrete group of people who are excluded just because of how they look and the preconceptions that surround that. This is exactly what you say you don't want anyone to do, but exactly what you refuse to concede might be happening given the stats.

> If a particular culture discourages its members from becoming computer scientists then the members of that culture will be underrepresented in computer science.

What even is this trying to say? What specific group is both discouraging its members to be computer scientists and also publicly demanding more opportunities in computer science?
"will definitely sound better than the HomePod" -- hard to make that statement without actually hearing it. The technology behind it looks promising.
Assuming the audio quality is on par with a Sonos Play:1, An extra $150 is a quite a bit more to pay for Siri integration. Also, will HomePod only work with Apple Music? Another must have that I would need to see before switching from Sonos is the ability to create a stereo pair with 2 speakers.
Somebody would be ambitious because they're told to be ambitious, and because they see everybody else telling everybody else to be ambitious. Primates imprint from their environment.
user friendliness is in the eye of the beholder nowadays, perhaps the adage was true a decade ago, but now it's more what you're used to.
Have you even heard the speaker yet? Pretty hard to critique the audio quality if you haven't heard the audio quality.
Maybe your coworker should try installing Little Snitch and watch the attempted connections to apple servers.
Props to them for having old school, Apollo-style consoles in the mission control room. You loose something when you have youngsters with a bunch of Dell monitors like spaceX. I've seen twitch on the second monitor in spacex control room.
I've had a couple interviews where there was an extended conversation about diversity in tech (both initiated by the interviewer). One of these was from a well-known SV tech firm that's had a lot of controversy around inclusion issues, and I could tell from the conversation that the other person just didn't get it. At another smaller tech company, the co-founders seemed deeply committed to creating an inclusive organization. So a lot of it is just having these conversations with people and making your own personal judgments (a lot of people say the right things, but the reality might be different).

(for the record I'm coming from the perspective of cisgender black male in case it matters)
They do. Breaking out of the sandbox is not trivial though over time people have found ways to do it.
Wikipedia pretends to be neutral retelling of secondary sources("Verifiability, not Truth").
If Wikipedia was truly neutral it wouldn't need to adhere to "valid/dominant viewpoints" and pretend everything else doesn't exist. Basically, they claim to be neutral and unbiased while "dominant viewpoints" determine the content.
> Another consideration: How easy is it to spoof a sim card?

Spoof? No. You can clone a card if you get physical access to it and it uses the older COMP128v1 encryption as the key is just 56-bit to bruteforce. This allows you to use their IMSI.

You'd also need to spoof the IMEI of the target device, which can only be done easily on older phones (original iPhone with early baseband is one) or with custom built solutions (think SDR, hackrf stuff)

I am fairly certain most major US carriers are not using the old-style SIM card anymore for this very reason. To support 3G and later on LTE, the cards would have to be upgraded.
10 [US] tons = ~9000 kg
Disable Nvidia Telemetry Tracking on Windows
Forbes tried something similar a while ago, by preventing ad blocker users to access their articles. How did that work for them?
You need a filter that removes the toxic people, and moves you closer to potential jobs at the same time. I agree with some commenters here that this is a problem for all sorts of people, i.e. including white dudes; given that many are entering the field that are mostly driven by money and coolness.

One suggestion: Search for events and meet-ups where people gather that are driven by a higher-goal idealism – depending on your interests this could e.g. be privacy and hacker's events, the sciences, NGOs, environment, political movements. Talk to the men and women there and find out where they are working. It is far more likely to meet people there that are intelligent and work in interesting jobs, and their idealism and progressiveness usually affects other areas of life, too (i.e. they are less likely to be racist or misogynist). Of course I am talking about probabilities here, not guarantees.
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What's the shelf life of homemade bitters? Do they need to be refrigerated?
That is interesting. I did always wonder at what point the VCs transfer the returns of post-IPO shares to their LPs, because it seems like the timing on this can make a huge difference to the VCs return. Especially if the majority of your funds return is going to be concentrated in a few companies stock. Seems like it could make a big difference on what the carry is going to be which might make some weird incentives for the VCs.

I was basing my comment on something a Sequoia partner said that they'd never sold a share of their Google stock, but that might have been their own personal investment (or frankly I have no idea how it works -- do LPs always get cash as returns or do they get shares of the post-IPO stock?).
Hello! I am a woman in the bay area. Here's what I do:

There are multiple online resources, like women's only whispernetworks. I don't feel safe posting details of these groups on a wesbite like this, but a google search/asking around will probably do. If I'm interviewing at a new place, I usually post on said whisper networks to ask if anyone has heard anything (positive or negative).
InHerSight.com <--- glass door for women
http://goodforpocin.tech/ <--- I have heard mixed reviews, but the fact that something like this exists is great.
The best way to find out about good companies is of course by word of mouth, talking to people who have worked there and getting input on pros and cons

Questions I ask:
"What percentage of women, PoC, etc is on the dev team? <---I never expect high numbers, I'm more asking this to see how they respond and if they even know the answer
"Are there women in leadership?"
*One of my mentors refuses to move forward in the interview process if there were no women on her interviewing panel, which she says is a red flag that they are pretty clueless of how important inclusivity in tech is to her.
Please tell us more about that custom PC at half price with similar specs.
I suspected it was easy in eclipse as well and should possibly have mentioned that.

That said let me add that IntelliJ probably has similar systems.
If you're interested in a detailed answer, read this:

https://medium.com/@justin.schuh/securing-browsers-through-i...

Then try to work back either Edge's or Chrome's approach to security to specific Safari features and design.

The Chrome security team is probably the most sophisticated software security team in the industry (lest you think I'm in the tank for Google, I'd say the iOS platform security team is a close 2nd --- and, to be clear: Safari is a different story on iOS).
>It's more than just the browser, it's the exact, EXACT version of the browser which can be very revealing if you're not updating your browser (almost) every day

Is there a reason why you don't have auto-update enabled in your browser?

Also, auto-updaters don't apply updates right away, so as long as you're not a few versions behind the latest, you will blend into the crowd.
You don't even know how much the current system costs, how can you be happy with it? This goes back to my statement about perhaps you are the idiot. Not because you are against this move by Trump, but because you have a strong opinion on it while knowing almost nothing about the system in question.
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My Naim mu-so single speaker was over $1300 and I don't regret the purchase. I also have a Google Home (got it at IO this year) and I can tell you it sounds pretty awful - way too much bass at any volume level. So whether HomePod is worth the price or not really depends on how good it sounds.
I thought 6S+ ran A9?
For comparison with other multiroom network speakers, a Sonos Play:3 is $299. A Play:1 is $199. So depending on how much oomph the HomePod (god. terrible name) has, it may be reasonable: $299+129 = $428
I'd say its possible you could see other providers, I'd expect to see Airplay and not bluetooth from this.
As a HN moderator maybe reconsider making #notallmen type responses. Sexism on HN is prevalent and it's harmful when moderators minimize this issue by emphasizing not all comments are awful.

The barrage of sexist comments that show up every time this subject is discussed is clear evidence this community has a sexism problem.
Really? also, ask any HNWI and they'll instantly recognize hermes as the ultra luxury brand with exotic skin handbags selling for $100K. :-) can you imagine the confusion and i bet its trademarked.
If you want more information on how Linux namespaces work, there's an extensive series of articles on LWN at https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/
How about the privacy differences? They made a big deal about the privacy features of HomePod. That's significant.
So Schiller taunting Amazon and Google about their then-lack of screens was just a pump fake?
To make sure you can help the people you love. It is horrible to watch someone else suffer from something that a little bit of inconsequential money could solve.
well said, agree with you!
I'd go with !Tor.
Google does this with Google Now. In my experience it's pretty bad. Google "doesn't" do this because the problem is actually very difficult to solve across cultures, regions, peoples, socio-economic statuses, engagement with devices, and so forth.
The Echo Dot is not really usable on its own as a device to play music because of the poor audio quality. You can have a conversation with Alexa, but that's about it.
I have a Jambox and I hate the thing. I only ever want to stream audio to it from one device, and you wouldn't believe how difficult that can be at times.

But, I dunno if I can stomach $350 for its replacement, even if it is smarter.
Ideas for questions

- What % non-white male at junior, senior, management, executive and board levels?

- Are all employees bias trained?

- What is an example of an equality issue the company faced in the last year and how did they respond?

- What is the pay gap between genders, and if not equal and when will it be equal?

- How is the company contributing to addressing industry wide systematic bias? (meetups, philanthropy, education, conferences...)

- Does the office have unisex/non-binary facilities?

- What is the reporting structure for raising issues about other employees behaviour? (how are HR and executive team both accountable for addressing issues?)

- What are the company's 1-5 year priorities for improving the work environment for non-white male people?
do you want to have a discussion or do you just have an ax to grind?
This is just a dev kit. There's not really any point for Apple to get into consumer VR this generation. A dedicated VR space with room sensors and a beefy PC is still a hard sell to consumers. And mobile VR can't do high quality positional tracking yet, which is a requirement.

Once they can put high quality positional tracking in an iPhone, the whole problem is basically solved, they can throw it in a GearVR-like chassis, add VRKit to iOS and instantly be the biggest VR platform in the world. They'll simultaneously be the biggest AR platform in the world with hand-held iPhone-based AR. They're technically already there with Pokemon Go.

One can quibble about the handful of areas where iPhone can't compete with other more specialized AR/VR hardware (head mounted AR, high performance realtime graphics, etc) but content creators are adept at overcoming limitations like that. An iPhone 8 or 9 with positional tracking will be basically Good Enough for any <1hr experience you could think up. Content creators will adapt to the device market, and the best content will run on iPhone, probably iPhone first, with lots of indie experimentation happening on PC but big brand name experiences generally starting on mobile.

I'm hard pressed to think of a seven figure audience who would need head-mounted AR or high performance realtime graphics. Airplane mechanics, gamers, etc, will stick to Windows/PlayStation, but all of the mass market stuff will be iPhone first. Even if the iPhone is mostly limited to composed prerendered light fields, I don't think that's going to hurt them. PC gamers overestimate the importance of GPU flops because current VR engines are new and unoptimized. Once we get the next generation of engines, hardware won't be nearly as big of a limitation.

As for competition, maybe Google somehow gets in their first, but I'm just not sure they can package it as slickly as Apple and get the content creators on board. We'll see, Google is trying to pick up those skills. I don't see Oculus or Valve really competing in the mass market space because allegience to gamers is in those companies DNA.
> It looks like FLIF doesn't really support lossy well

I don't know what you mean by well. As far as I'm concerned lossy FLIF beats JPEG easily. Here is a comparision:

http://flif.info/lossy-artifacts.html
Maybe the Engineers in Promethus/Alien Covenant were using CRISPR to make that black Xenomorphic goo.
Studied the market for AR development solutions recently. A few thoughts:

- Probably using a lot of Metaio tech, a leading AR dev solutions provider Apple acquired/shuttered in May 2015

- Unfortunate naming. Sounds extremely similar to ARToolkit [1], the leading open source/free AR dev solution.

- Markerless is the future of AR, so good on Apple for getting this markerless tech out to compete with Google Tango and Microsoft Hololens. The status quo is currently marker-based recognition using "tags" or QR codes. It's also much harder than marker-based, or "on body" (Snapchat, Facebook AR Studio) recognition. I'd say Google Tango has some of the most impressive SDKs out there for tracking, area learning, and depth perception, but it does require specialized smartphone hardware from Lenovo or Asus, which significantly limits its utility and mkt penetration at this point. Google was just too early with Glass and got burned, but it needs a stronger hardware platform, which is something that Apple can deliver.

- The Unreal-engine AR video demo was cool and the graphics seemed decent for real-time rendering on an iPad, but the real future of AR applications (read: $$$) will come from industrial applications on wearable devices or head mounted displays such as the Hololens, Vuzix, Daqri, or Epson Moverio devices. Examples of industrial/enterprise AR applications: Remote help, complex assembly, pick & pack, line monitoring, materials handling, systems training, etc. This is the market Microsoft and PTC (Vuforia, ThingWorx) are targeting, not the consumer gaming/advertising markets, which use more "basic" forms of AR. This is not to say Pokemon Go/Snapchat do not generate a lot of revenue, but it's very debatable if they can be considered true AR applications.

- Other vendors in the AR development solutions space include: Aurasma (HPE), Blippar, Catchoom, EON Reality, Kudan, Pikkart, Wikitude, among others.

- In conclusion, Apple is currently stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's somewhat late to market with ARKit, will have to compete with Facebook, Google, and Snapchat for consumer AR-oriented developer mindshare, and will have no play at the industrial/enterprise market if it limits its tools to development for the iOS family.

- The best way for Apple to alleviate this jam is to release its own AR glasses/headset, which it is widely rumored to be developing.

[1] https://artoolkit.org/
Yes. Hermes was our temporary name, we're going under the name WittyThumbs now.
Typical, next year for Canada.... Sill waiting for the TV app.
tl;dr; Russian hackers actually attacked voting systems, and were successful at stealing credentials at the very least. It's uncertain if they were able to actually hack voting machines or the count.
Looks like it http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4805:iye...
Is there a reason to not taint the entire CSSOM?

Alternately: why not anonymize CSSOM return values? Your browser might have access to OS fonts A+B+C, but if your JS asked the CSSOM about the size of characters on the page, the answer it would give would come from an "alternate world" where the browser only has access to the web-safe fonts, and so is using one of them.
I'm not wholly on one side of the fence or the other on the fork. But since the decisions made by the community involved can affect your holdings, it's reasonable to advise people to choose the community that has similar values to them.

Unless they're interested for purely speculative purposes, in which case it was a good bet that the non-Classic version would be more remunerative.
Really curious how the sound quality optimizations based on room acoustics work.

I'd imagine it's a lot of signal processing and such, but I'm curious how they quantified optimizations and tested to see that it actually enhanced the audio based on room acoustics.
Surprised they mentioned Sonos, but no talk of multi-room audio??
This is a very particular version of "enrich" that presumes a certain class or education level. Additionally, it also presumes that this is a trivial problem, based on a very limited example.