skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=openbazaar%20points%3E15&sort=...
That's the same as the headline on the article itself.
Why bruteforce when you can just passively listen for a working code (once someone else uses their card)?

40 bits of bruteforce at 125khz, with every code being 40 bits long, results in 3125 codes/sec at best, thus it will take roughly 11 years.
reads like isis recruitment.
OK let's use that above.
This made me wonder if iOS 11's CoreNFC API can be used in similar ways. It would be cool to consolidate my tags (building and office) if they speak NFC.
"Great, just what I need.. another D in programming." -- Segfault
> Another panelist shut them down immediately: doctors and scientists aren’t even close to solving the phantom pain and limited mobility that most amputees face, let alone building something uniformly better than a human limb.

To repost a slightly tounge-incheek description of features your "standard model" has:

1. Supports a very large number of individual movements and articulations

2. Meets certain weight-restrictions (overall system must be near-buoyant in water)

3 Supports a wide variety of automatic self-repair techniques, many of which can occur without ceasing operation

4. Is entirely produced and usually maintained by unskilled (unconscious?) labor from common raw materials

5. Contains a comprehensive suite of sensors

6. Not too brittle, flexes to store and release mechanical energy from certain impacts

7. Selectively reinforces itself when strain is detected

8. Has areas for the storage of long-term energy reserves, which double as an impact cushion

9. Houses small fabricators to replenish some of its own operating fluids

10. Subsystems for thermal management (evaporative cooling, automatic micro-activation)
Don't wanna be the partypooper but Blockmarket wins the dex marketplace niche ;-)

http://syscoin.org/
Respectfully disagree that GC is limited to the 1-D continuum noted. This is only the story of store model of memory management.

The cache model with its various flavors of eviction policy -- LRU, LFU, etc. -- represents another dimension in the space of memory management.
It seems it does, as of this year: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/pull/342
I set Xft.dpi: 192 in ~/.Xresources (gnome-settings-daemon and others will perform the equivalent setting).

Chromium respects this (for many major versions by now) and shouldn’t need a separate flag. Are you certain the flag is necessary in your setup? Can you check what Xft.dpi is on your system? xrdb -q | grep '^Xft.dpi'
I moved to a lake house with a forest, like many Scandinavians people do when they can afford it, and it's been absolutely worth the extra commute.

The trick is to spend your time smart, which means I watch a lot less Netflix than I did before I added 30 minutes to my commute.

I'm not an extreme commuter by American standards though, I only do 2-2 and a half hour a day in total. We also work 37 hour weeks, so there is that.

I wouldn't trade actual quit and spectacular nature for anything in the world though.
You think the AR was well done? Serious question, not trying to flame or anything, but I disagree. For me, the AR is pretty much just overlaying a Pokemon graphic on top of camera footage, there's very little interaction to the camera input.

In fact, after playing for a bit, I turned off the AR because of loading times.
You have to be aware that Japan government took a very unprofessional approach to this disaster.

Attributing the damage of this to general nuclear accident is inappropriate.
Even at big music festivals, mobile networks are usually totally overloaded just by the sheer amount of people logged in at the same time, without even doing anything. Even recieving an SMS can take minutes. I don't assume they would do an event like this without letting providers know in advance to upgrade capacity, but it seems like this.
It seems to me that bitcoin proponents will change between saying that it's useful for transactions and useful for storing value depending on what's convenient for the argument. If the point of Bitcoin is to be the cyberpunk version of gold where the founder gets 5% of the total global value it seems a niche technology at best. And if it's that, let's stop calling it a cryptocurrency and just call it cryptogold.
the majority of nazis were reasonable people. why treat nazis as a whole so poorly?

the issue isn't 'percentage' of active agents, or 'supportive' agents. it's about ideologies with structural support for violence and oppression.

> That's not remotely true

how do you think islam spread historically? peaceful dialog over tea?

a rather significant contribution was conquest and the 'education' of other people's children in the 'islamic worldview'.
You might also enjoy Hamish Todd's (highly interactive) documentation on virus geometry: http://viruspatterns.com
And they're also targeting kazakhs according to this article I posted 5 days ago but got no comments:

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-orders-xinjiangs....
Because ingress was an enormous success and a cultural phenomenon in Japan.
This is huge!
The incredible shitness of Solidity, the Ethereum progamming language
Agree. All currencies are based on one unifying thing. Trust.

There are currencies with far less trust than Bitcoin yet somehow Bitcoin is seen as some alien idea.

It's not. It's just a non-fiat currency. It will live and die by the trust of the network.
This must be their endgame. I doubt they would have released ARKit in the first place otherwise. If any company in the world can finally pull off consumer AR it's Apple, so here's hoping.
> If, however, the world learns that you made $37.2 million last year doing this, then this signal might be enough for your income to drop to $0 and for you never to make another penny again.

Which would be a win for the consumer. Information is supposed to do this to markets.
They include a video of a parking garage being opened after just a few iterations. The code used in commercial applications could often be lower bits given criminal prosecution is a larger deterrent than code security. Although, OP may have set a specific range for that demo.
This article seems quite silly, or at least, can easily lead to silly conclusions. There was a brief paragraph at the end that half-heartedly admitted that the evidence wasn't conclusive, but it seems most people didn't read it.

Further, only one paper was referenced - and it was written by the author of the article! Guess what? It has 1 (one) citation.

>Is the apparent similarity just the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns in random data (apophenia)? Remarkably enough, the answer seems to be no: Statistical analysis shows these systems do indeed present quantitative similarities.

This is not a good argument. The similarity of images is not the similarity of systems.

Also,

>In other words, it tells us how many high-frequency and low-frequency notes make the peculiar spatial melody of each image.

.. come on, man. Come on.

>Based on the latest analysis of the connectivity of the brain network, independent studies have concluded that the total memory capacity of the adult human brain should be around 2.5 petabytes, not far from the 1-10 petabyte range estimated for the cosmic web!

So if I make a 3-petabyte hard drive, it's self-aware? There are a few things wrong with this passage. The first is that no citations are given. The second is that connectivity is not the only important aspect of brain function. The third is that 2.5 petabytes falls firmly WITHIN the 1-10 pb range given. The fourth is that a 1-10 pb range hardly seems to tell us anything.

>Roughly speaking, this similarity in memory capacity means that the entire body of information that is stored in a human brain (for instance, the entire life experience of a person) can also be encoded into the distribution of galaxies in our universe.

No. Galaxies don't fire action potentials. The data points could be mapped to each other, perhaps, but this doesn't mean that the information is the same, given that the information depends on the way the data is read.

>It is truly a remarkable fact that the cosmic web is more similar to the human brain than it is to the interior of a galaxy; or that the neuronal network is more similar to the cosmic web than it is to the interior of a neuronal body

Is it really? Seems like apophenia is taking hold again. Of course we want to recognise ourselves in the universe. God made man in his image blah blah blah blah. People should be wary of this way of thinking.
Yap it was done using the logging facility with a separate rotation, log forwarding rules, and such.
Considering how much stuff we do online and the gargantuan empty voids I get on a lot of websites with my 27" 1440p, I'd say they're right.
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I believe the higher levels of CO2 are a concern and we should do what we can to reduce them. Yet, the points you make are not obvious to me. Do you have reference to literature that I could read.

This article [1] in the journal Limnology and Oceanography (and others) indicates to me that we don't understand the effect of climate change on methane emissions from the Arctic and Antarctic seabed. Are emissions going up or down?

Wildfires in the western US are increasing, but we've changed the way we manage forests and forest fires in the west. The resulting accumulation of brush in forests (for one reason because we aggressively put out even small fires to protect encroaching development) makes big fires more likely. Furthermore on the scale of centuries, as long as the forests stand they will simply recycle CO2 by absorbing it as trees grow and by releasing it when they die (either through rotting and decay or by burning).

As far as the oceans not acting as CO2, the recent literature that I've read says that they are acting as CO2 sinks. The first two sentences of the abstract from a Feb. 2017 paper in Nature[2] are:

"The ocean is the largest sink for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), having absorbed roughly 40 per cent of CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial era. Recent data show that oceanic CO2 uptake rates have been growing over the past decade reversing a trend of stagnant or declining carbon uptake during the 1990s"

[1] Limnology and Oceanography. Effects of climate change on methane emissions from seafloor sediments in the Arctic Ocean: A review, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.10307/full

[2] Nature. Recent increase in oceanic carbon uptake driven by weaker upper-ocean overturning. https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7640/abs/nature2...
Same. I stopped using bookmarks around 1999 or so because I found them to be a terrible solution to anything, really (it was a graveyard where links went to die, and this was before bookmark syncing was a thing, so you always forgot to back them up as well).

I've tried all the third-party type attempt to solve it (everything from saving the links in a textfile I always keep open to ReadItLater, OneTab, Pocket etc. All those things are where tabs go to die, never to be read again. More like ReadItNever, amirite?). That's a "solution" I guess.

Now I try to be more selective in what I "keep" to read later, and as soon as I hit 40-50 tabs, I go through and kill a bunch of them. It hurts a bit, but not as bad as when I have hundreds of tabs.
The language that scientists have used is significantly less confident than yours (from http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/calving/):

> Dr Martin O’Leary: “Although this is a natural event, and we’re not aware of any link to human-induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position. This is the furthest back that the ice front has been in recorded history."

I interpret those comments as saying it's currently an open research question. Lots of popular press I've read though does leap to there being some link. I think it pays to be open minded here and consider that ocean and polar warming could have an impact on ice shelf stability.
Think about it differently. The network is a new kind of nation state. It's a way to create sparcity in an environment (digital) where none really doesen't exist.

It doesn't defy standard economics all it's done is move the trust issue to the entire network rather than the issuer (ex. nation states)
That's an outrageous statement. The majority of jewish people I know do not support Israel's policies/actions (which, by the way, not supporting its policies/actions does not equate to not supporting its right to exist), and I know many. Are they all anti-semites? I've been to Israel, and many (jewish and not) Israelis I met don't support their nation's policies.

So, can confirm, in the real world it sometimes is and sometimes isn't.
Until recently I would wring my hands and feel sad for a situation I couldn't change.

Several months ago, though, I joined the Citizen's Climate Lobby, which is building political will for a carbon tax and dividend (the only truly market-based approach to limiting green house gas emissions). I know that warming has happened and will happen due to past emissions. But at this point I feel I'm working to avoid the most disastrous scenarios by limiting future emissions.

I have been inspired by my involvement with this organization, and I encourage other concerned Hacker Newsers to consider joining.

citizensclimatelobby.org
That is uncivil and crosses into personal attack. We've had to ask you before not to do this.

Please don't take a thread further into flamewar.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14828732 and marked it off-topic.
This is an insightful documentary on this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5IwwnP5e78
Debian 9: 9.1 released
I2P: http://dc-poisk.no-ip.org
Not being a part of a hive mind unfortunately I did not have this wisdom inbuilt and apparently neither did the people designing my house with the window facing the sun that my home office lives in.

I could rotate the layout 90 degrees and only have sun glare half of the day but it's just easier to either close the curtain a bit or crank the brightness
Bookmarks are where links go to die, never to be opened again.
True. Although parts of the Canadian Atlantic region have had tough economic times over the last couple of decades with collapse of fishing and light manufacturing, it's nice to see cultural resurgence and pride. They are definitely trying to woo tourists now so now is the perfect time to visit before all the crowds come!
Sugar-sweetened drink to protein-rich meal decreased thermogenesis by 40%
My company has a non-disparagement policy (just something you can get fired for, not sued), but when people ask me what it's like to work there, I usually tell them, but with the explicit caveat that the non disparagement policy is in place, so my (or any current employee's) expressed opinion on the matter can't be trusted. Kind of a shame though because (and of course you can't trust me on this), I actually do quite like it there.
> I don't think you're being intellectually honest

Please don't cross into personal attack. I realize you said "if", but the nervous system involved in flamewars isn't palliated by "if".

HN discussions need to be civil and substantive and that requires not posting things like this.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14828732 and marked it off-topic.
I stand corrected. Wish this project the best.
Huh. He last two major cities I lived in I payed extra for parking on top of my rent as did most others I knew. How’s it work in that scenario.
It's true that the UN is absurdly obsessed with Israel, but that doesn't mean Israel is completely in the right.

It's not anti-semitic to criticize Israel.
Speed, cost, and product quality all matter. Harvesting mechanization has been a slow progression from easy crops (wheat) to medium difficulty crops (cotton) to moderately hard crops (grapes) [1]. Just about everything which can be picked by some clever combination of blades, blowers, brushes, shakers, springy tines, and vacuums has been done. The final frontier is the ones that need eye-hand coordination.

Today, you need a smartphone's worth of compute power, good vision and control software, and very good mechanical engineering. There are demos of machines picking almost everything; it's now a student project at ag schools. Here's an orange picker, built using an off-the-shelf robot arm. Too slow to be useful. [2] The electronics cost is no longer the problem; its the mechanical parts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDDVdBLHY7I
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnQ94JFqYZY
Or the mobile networks fucked up and underestimated the network load.
The end of the post alludes to part 2 ("how to adapt nd_print into something which can behave like the %e, %f, and %g formats of sprintf"), which alas I've yet to get around to writing. There'll also be at least one more part after that detailing the bag of performance tricks which can be used to turn the described algorithm into something very competitive. Alternatively, you can jump to the conclusion by just reading the implementation I wrote for LuaJIT [1], though obviously that won't give you the narrative of _why_ things are the way they are.

[1] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/blob/cf2dfaf3b4eef9b2de32d3...
I've always wondered why cellular is affected by this, anyone have a link?
Huh. The last two major cities I lived in I payed extra for parking on top of my rent as did most others I knew. How’s it work in that scenario.
All that shows is people are spectacularly bad at assessing risks. Many people, for example, are terrified that what happened in today's headline will happen to them. But the reason it is a headline is it is rare. The mundane deadly things that are very likely to happen to you are not reported in the paper.
I always thought Economics as a discipline is iffy. On the first day of my Economics 101 class I was introduced to "economic man" or to make it more academic "Homo economicus." According to my professor this is a, "hypothetical person who behaves in exact accordance with their rational self-interest." Not only was he hypothetical but this is how we all behave whether we knew it or not. According to him I had this strange power to make 100% rational decisions. And I didn't even know it. I have never gotten passed that economic principle. And that economist uses it as its fundamental truth. WOW, talk about building on sandy soil. And upon that rationalize it as truth with math. The truth is that like any social science, ideas and behaviors change depending on how the person feels at that moment. There are no fundamental laws that can be found other than those that are needed to stay alive and even they vary depending on the individual's mental state at the time.

Economists would do their profession a favor if they treated it as the social science that it is rather that the hard science they profess. A perfect example of advancement in the field is the Nobel Prize given to Daniel Kahneman in 2002 for his and Amos Tversky work on cognitive basis. Their field is psychology, yet they got their prize in economics. No where do you see math as the tool they used to get to their discoveries. Yes, they might have used statistics to refine their ideas but not to find the fundamentals. Yes, you might say that they call their field behavioral economics but the reality is that human behavior is what economists study and as such they should treated it as the soft science it is.
I'm the author, and am not even the least bit bitter. I love Twilio. I wrote this because I want them to succeed.

A successful IPO has no necessary correlation to having crossed the chasm.

You've successfully crossed the chasm when you are the clear market leader in the a "mainstream market" segment.

In Twilio's case, that would be Being at the center of communications infrastructure for Fortune 500-1000 companies.

They've made some inroads (ING, etc). But most larger enterprises are still using Cisco/MSFT/Avaya and other on-premise tech for call centers, conferencing, video chat, collaboration, etc.

Also: Twilio is not profitable and it just lost one of its highest volume customers (Uber) who had been using it for "point solution" use cases, mostly around automated SMS and voice.

So if you disagree, that's fine. I'd find it much more productive to know what you disagree with and why than the ad hominem accusation that I'm a "bitter former employee" which is a. Not useful and b. False.
When U.S. politicians do crazy stuff like this its typically because they're making a concession over something (they think) is unimportant in exchange for something they really want - trading favors for favors.

What's the context here that I'm missing out on? I'd like to know what we're getting out of all this blind pro-israelism.
Except the part about spare time work, I find this advices toxic.
Turbo Pascal is, or at least until some time ago, was, also available from the Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero (hat tip to often useless or destructive M&A) Museum (along with other historical software from them, like Turbo C and so on). I had downloaded TP and TC from the Museum and tried them out a bit again some time ago, for old times' sake. Worked okay, IIRC, but I may have only used them for CLI work, not for BGI graphics. Worth a try though, for BGI, even on Windows, without installing DOSBox.

Update: Here is the link to the Museum:

http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/antiquesoftware
We're planning to bring occlusion to ARKit with Forge. The accuracy can't match a depth camera, but still plenty of use cases. Here's an example on a Pixel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CpT-sy7HE
I think it's important to remember that what Twilio offers is a commodity, and there are no switching costs, which limits their market value.

Just as it's easy to spin up comms on Twilio, it's getting easier by the day to spin up Twilio-esq infrastructure itself. They had first mover advantage, but it doesn't seem good enough (not taking into account their largest customers deciding to internalize the functionality to reduce costs).
Well, for years, uninstalling AdBlock Plus was unacceptable (at the time, now we have uBlock Origin). For many people, a browser without an ad blocker is an unusable browser.
No, it is worse in practice. A central bank prints money, gives it to blessed private banks, who then loan it to the government so they can get tax dollars in interest for nothing. If the government had printed the money directly they would have spent less on it, but then fewer billionaires would be richer on the taxpayer dollar so that obviously can't happen.
Another thing cryptocurrency people get wrong: Referring to an eventual fixed supply (e.g. 21M BTC) as "deflationary" and an eventual unlimited supply as "inflationary".

In reality, deflation means demand is increasing faster than supply and inflation means supply is increasing faster than demand. A cryptocurrency with open-loop monetary policy may be both deflationary and inflationary at different times. Bitcoin and Dogecoin are no different in this respect; they both use open-loop policies that lead to massive volatility. Real-world currencies use closed-loop monetary policy to consistently target a particular level of inlation/deflation, but this is too "boring" for cryptocurrency.